How to earn money on Pinterest without a blog in 2021

Couple of months back, I think that Pinterest is a great platform to drive traffic to our blog, and that’s what I am doing for the last several months. But then, I realize that we can also earn money on Pinterest even without a blog, just by pinning on Pinterest.

Well, if you are too didn’t know about it, go through this article completely and you will definitely discover the methods as how you can earn money on Pinterest, even if you don’t have a blog.

If use properly, Pinterest can be a great way to earn some extra cash and one can even start an online business around Pinterest marketing.

There is no doubt at all that Pinterest has come a long way since it was created, initially it was started off as a platform to share ideas and inspiration.

Nowadays, it is the best place for the bloggers to drive traffic and businesses to generate sales.

Can you earn money without a Blog or a Website?

Yes, in order to earn money on Pinterest, one should not compulsory to have a blog or a website, all you need is a Pinterest account and that’s it..!!

You don’t need a blog or a website to make money.

In this post I will walk you through the methods as how you can earn money using Pinterest, since this post is all about using the platform to help you make money online.

The 4 simple methods you can earn money on Pinterest

Method 1: Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a great way to generate extra money, whether you have a blog or website or you want to make money through Pinterest. I mean you can do affiliate marketing on every platform where affiliate links are acceptable.

Affiliate Marketing is something that anybody can do, as you do not need to have any special skills or huge traffic on your website or blog to make money through affiliate marketing. Only a good strategy is must.

Since, we are here talking about Pinterest particularly, therefore in order to make money on Pinterest with affiliate marketing, You have to do the following:

• Find the products that you want to promote on Pinterest and accordingly apply for their Affiliate Programs (Partner Program or Referral Program)
• Create noticeable PINS
• Write a keyword-rich title and description for your PIN
• Disclose affiliate links (The easy way to do is to put #affiliate at the end of your PIN description)

Affiliate links are allowed on Pinterest – Though, back in 2015, Pinterest banned the use of affiliate links in order to save the platform from spammers.

But, approximately after a year, they lifted the ban and since then affiliate links are very much allowed on Pinterest.

We recommend you to disclose your affiliate links though, by putting # affiliate at the end of the description while pinning.

How to do affiliate marketing on Pinterest?

Step 1: Setup your profile

First of all, signed up for a Pinterest Business Account, and fill your name, bio, display picture and everything else in order to complete Pinterest profile.

Do stick with one niche, and don’t promote everything on Pinterest. Whatever niche you pick, make sure to fill out your profile in a way that’s look relevant to your niche.

Step 2: Join Affiliate Program according to your niche

To find out related affiliate programs according to your niche; go to Google.com and type a simple search query like “{Your Niche} Affiliate Programs” and you will land to an entire list of affiliate programs in your niche.

Though, most of affiliate program required a website or blog. But, there are lot of affiliate programs that do not require a website or blog. Some of them as below:

• ClickBank Affiliate Program
• Digistore24
• JV Zoo

You can sign up with any one or all of them in order to create your affiliate links for the products that you would like to promote on Pinterest.

Step 3: Create PINS

After you join affiliate program that do not require a website of blog, start to create / design PINS.

You can design your PINS from Canva, it is a free tool where you can design some beautiful Pinterest pins with ease.

You will have an option either to design PIN from scratch or choose from one of the readymade templates.

Make your PINS vertical, since it works better than horizontal or square pins.

Step 4: Start pinning

After you’re completed with the PINS design, go ahead and pin those into your relevant Pinterest Boards.

For example, if you have created a pin for Keto Diet, you would PIN that to Boards such as:

Diet Plan

Fitness Tips

Health Tips

Be regular on Pinterest, since it is a platform that requires you to be consistent.

So, you need to be constantly creating new PINS and keep pinning them every day to your boards.

Method 2: Become Pinterest Virtual Assistant (VA) to earn Pinterest income

After affiliate marketing, the second great opportunity to earn money on Pinterest without a blog is to become a Pinterest Virtual Assistant.

A virtual assistant is to manage and improve Pinterest accounts, so if you do not want to do affiliate marketing on Pinterest, and have more interest to designs PIN and Pinterest SEO, then this second method of becoming a Pinterest VA is for you.

There are many companies and few bloggers as well, who will ready to pay you to manage their Pinterest accounts! You can work where you want, when you want, and charge as much as you want by becoming a Pinterest VA!

Though, you must be sound in Pinterest design PINS and do SEO in order to grow your clients account on Pinterest.

Being a Pinterest VA, you can have an opportunity to grow as well, to find clients. You can find clients on social media, get in touch with some local companies if they need one. Tell your friends and relatives about your job profile and what exactly you do, so they might recommend you further to some potential client.

Method 3: Selling your own products on Pinterest

Another amazing way to earn money on Pinterest is by selling your own products.

You can sell your own products, physical or digital, and Pinterest will help in order to generate more sales. There are many helpful tools you will find on Pinterest which will be quite beneficial to make more sales.

If you are looking to sell physical products, you can shoot some good resolution pictures in order to showcase them, also you need to explain feature, and how they are useful to the customer.

For digital products, you can use mock ups with your cover photo, or a screenshot.

You can also use images along with text overlays. Always try something different and observe what works best for you.

Method 4: Make money with your email list

Last but not the least by any mean, Pinterest can helps you to grow your email list.

The people on your email list are the one who take much interest in the offer you post, and they are one who makes purchase that you promote, whether you promote others products through affiliate marketing, or trying to sell your own products and services.

You can grow your email list with Pinterest by

• Identifying your audience problems and give them a resolution how to solve it.
• Create a landing page for your freebie
• Write an SEO optimized title & description and save it to the most relevant board