Pinterest Pays my Bills.

0:00favorite thing about making money on Pinterest is that you can do this with absolutely zero followers. So, rewind to a few years ago and I was on my mission to figure out how to make money online. If you guys have been here a little while, you know that I had a quit my secure corporate job because I was too sick to work. So, I had to figure out how to make money from my bed. I was seeing all these posts on TikTok and on across social media that Pinterest, you know, Pinterest pays my bills, Pinterest changed my life, all this stuff and I'm like, "How? How?" And there's a couple gurus

0:36out there. I'll never forget seeing seeing these videos. The gurus were saying, "Pinterest pays me $40,000 a month." And I was like, "No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. I want to see show me everything. Show me absolutely everything." Just to clarify before I get into it, Pinterest doesn't pay you directly. There's no longer a creator

0:57program on the Pinterest app. It pays you indirectly. So, you have to have some kind of an offer. You have to have either something that you're selling like a digital product, a physical product. If you don't have anything to sell, you can use affiliate links. You can drive people to your e-commerce websites, your Shopify, your Etsy stores. You can drive them even to your TikTok, your Instagram, your Substack. Wherever you want to funnel people, you can do this through Pinterest. So, I've learned and so I've experienced. Back to a few years ago, I'm down every single rabbit hole. I had started 10 different faceless accounts

1:35across niches. Nine of them bombed. Nine of them absolutely failed miserably. Looking back, I'm happy that they did because now I've perfected the craft and I know exactly what works and what doesn't. So, anyway, I had started a brand new Pinterest account because I was like, "I need to see what's going on. I want to understand." I didn't I did not have a strategy. I was posting into the void, zero strategy, and after about 4 months, it maybe was like 4 or 5 months, I don't know the exact date, so please don't come for me. I don't remember, but it was the 4 or 5-month mark,

2:08I made a sale. And I knew I made a sale because I was looking at my platform where I was hosting my products at the time. You can use Gumroad, Beacons, whatever. It at this time, it was Gumroad. And it said the sale came from Pinterest. Like, what? Pinterest, really? Let's go. So, then I went to my Pinterest analytics, and I noticed that one post was being pushed out. This post had my product linked up to it. So, this post is being pushed out to thousands and

2:39thousands of people. Somebody clicked on it, and somebody bought it. My mind was blown, and now I'm hooked. Now I'm like, okay, I did it once, I can do it again. Let's figure out the strategy. Boy, oh boy, there is a strategy, and if you follow it to a T, you will have great success. Okay, obviously, I can't guarantee results. I don't know what you're doing over there on your side of the keyboard, but I can tell you from my own personal experience,

3:09these are the things that work for me. I'll just go through it real quick. Of course, if you want to do deep dives, and you want to see my screen, you want to see my dashboard, you want to see real-time, real results, and receipts, you can come to my school community. I just dropped the price to $22 a month because if I'm being real, if I'm being honest, I want to see if I can grow my school community. And if I lower the price, it's going to help the cause. It's going to help the cause, even though it's worth so much more than that. It is

3:36worth so much more than that, but right now, we're doing an experiment. And if you're a creator, you're an entrepreneur, you're trying to make money online, you know the importance of doing these experiments. Let's go. Let's see what happens. It's definitely not going to last forever, but come to my school, and let me know if you have any questions. So, let's get into the cliff notes. The first thing you need to understand about Pinterest and I did not know this, is that think of it more like Google and less like Instagram. So, Pinterest is a search engine, not a social media platform. This isn't Pinterest of 2011 where you're pinning

4:10your wedding, you're pinning your kitchen remodel, you're you know, you are man doing your manifestation, whatever. The word This is not We're not adding our contacts. We're not doing that. We're not adding anyone. So, think of it like Google. It is a visual search engine and that is all. That is all you need to know. Don't think of it like an Instagram. It

4:35This is not social media. This is a visual search engine. How freaking cool. That being said, you don't need followers. You don't even need to use hashtags. I know this This is a controversial thing. It's a contra It's a hot take in the Pinterest world. In my experience, it doesn't matter. All that matters is keywords. You need keywords in order to pop off on Pinterest and make the sales. Other search engines like Google, Safari, Firefox, whatever it may be, whatever it may be is going to index

5:11your pins based on those keywords, okay? So, that just means it's going to take it could take anywhere from 60 to 90 days for your pins to show up out in on the internet in other places, okay? Because it is a visual search engine. And stay with me. Stay with me. It's a little bit confusing. If you need help with keywords, you just do a little research or send me a message. I'm happy to help. So, with keywords, you want to figure out what are you selling? First,

5:39you need to know what you're selling. Once you know what you're selling, you can figure out your keywords. Let's say you're selling a travel guide. You can go over to chat or go over to Google and say, "Give me the top 10 or 20 best performing keywords within the travel niche." Make a list of those keywords, save them on your phone, okay? And then every single thing that you post on this Pinterest account, you want to make sure that it is just littered. It is covered with those specific keywords. I'm talking your actual pins, if you have text on the screen on your pins, I'm talking titles, descriptions,

6:20alternative text, your bio. Quite literally anywhere you can put words, anywhere you can type in words, make sure that your keywords that you just figured out are popping off, are covering your Pinterest boards. And this this will set you apart from everyone else, and this is going to This is the thing that's going to help you make sales faster. Second big thing that I would focus on if I were you, and to be completely honest, I didn't do this for a long time because I absolutely hate doing it. I want nothing to do with this, but unfortunately for me, it works. And that is spending 5 to 10

7:01minutes a day engaging. So, what we're doing is we are training the Pinterest algorithm through our engagement on where to push out our pins, our offers, our products to, okay? So, by engagement, by intentional engagement, you are showing Pinterest where to push your stuff out to. Whatever you engage with, you're going to get back. So, you'll know that the engagement's working by the by your home screen. When you sign on to Pinterest and you see a bunch of new pins, and if those are all within your niche, if they're all within the travel niche, let's stick with travel, then you know

7:42you're doing it right, okay? And this it doesn't take that long. I need to get over it. It's probably not going to matter to you. You're probably going to love it. I don't like it, but that's okay. So, how to engage intentionally? You are going to go into the search bar and you're going to type in your niche or some of those keywords, and you are going to look at all the pins and all

8:04the boards that are presented to you. You're going to go through the ones that you think are cool or pretty or motivational, whatever it may be, and you're going to click on it. And you're going to like it, you're going to repin it, repost it, you're going to leave a nice comment, not like a heart emoji. You're going to You're going to leave a comment that says, "Oh my goodness,

8:26thank you so much." or "I love this." Whatever, okay? You can even save these pins to your phone if you're digging it, all right? So, all of these things are engagement. That is showing Pinterest what you're into, therefore, that is where your pins will be pushed out to. So, let me just give you a quick example. Let's say you're in the travel niche and you want to sell digital products on travel or physical products on travel, whatever you got going on, okay? And you are on Pinterest and you're typing in Hollywood this and 90s movies and dog training. You're typing in all this random stuff and

9:11you're engaging with all those random things just cuz you might like them. You're confusing the Pinterest algorithm, and that confusion is not going to get you sales. So, if your goal is to make money on Pinterest, you have to lock it in and keep it tight. So, for example, I have a bunch of different Pinterest accounts. I have one personal one where it is chaos. It is, you know, cute bob cuts and travel and dogs and

9:39homes and it's not for making money. It's just for my own personal inspiration. So, I and then I have another one that's just make money online, sell the products and I don't mess with all of my interests on my make money online Pinterest account. I don't do that because that's going to confuse the algorithm. So, everything I search up and engage with and like on my make money online Pinterest account has nothing to do with my personal interest because we want to keep it tight, keep it within the niche. And does this make

10:13sense? Does this make sense? If you're starting out on Pinterest, I would focus on these two things. These two things will set you apart from all the other accounts and you will pop off. One thing that will also set you apart is not giving up. If you know going into it that this can take three, four, five months to do to do correctly, and if you have patience and you don't just give up after a week, then you got this. I see so many people online. There's this There's this one video on I think it was on TikTok and she's like This girl's like, "I'm trying every side

10:51hustle and I'm testing them." I'm like, "Cool, like let's go." And she does a Pinterest one and she does it for a week and then she's like, "Pinterest is a scam. Pinterest is a scam. I did it. I tried it. I didn't make any money." I'm like, "Cuz you don't know what you're doing." You did it for a week. You need to do it

11:08for like four months if you're serious. You need to do it for four months. And let me tell you, if you're patient and you apply some of these things, especially these two things that we discussed, you can transform a business. You could transform a Substack, transform your bank account. Like, if you just do it right and you have patience and you got the grit for it, you got it. So, that's just my two

11:34cents. That's my video for the day. Okay, if you I'm going to say it one more time. Like I'm going to do a plug. I'm going to do a plug. Hot take, little plug. Come to my school. I want to see you there. I want to grow my school and I want you there. You're making money, I'm making money, everyone's winning. Let's freaking go. Let me know if you have any

11:52questions and good luck.