For years business owners and entrepreneurs have tried to master the techniques of social media marketing in order to make money via popular websites like Facebook and Twitter. While these sites still reign supreme and should still earn your attention and effort, you should definitely consider getting involved in another social media site that can surely help you increase product—Pinterest. This digital pin board is the latest social media/ booking marking site to hit the market. The concept is pretty simple: users look through a gallery of attractive photos, and whichever ones “interest” them, they place the “pin” on their boards/profiles. So how does this make you money if you sell a product? Continue reading to find out.
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Is Pinterest The Next Goldmine?
Like mentioned before, users scour a database of photos and post them on their boards—these photos can range from anything including photos of chic outfits, hairdos, cute animals, recipes, unique gift ideas, postcards, and quotes. So what’s the big deal? The big deal is that you can actually include a link back in the photos so that users can actually purchase what they see—whether it be a blouse, products to make the hair do, or the book that the quote was retrieved from. All they need to do is click on the photo and it will lead them back to the original website—meaning your website. And naturally if they purchase the product through your site, the money goes directly to you.
Tons of Traffic
Pinterest was praised by multiple tech magazines like Tech Crunch because the website acquired more than 10 million users just in within its first couple of weeks, making it the first website to be able to do so, ever. And the numbers just keep on rising. That means you ideally can get exposure to millions of buyers. Sources say that the website is predominantly used by women, so if you manage to find a way to market to women’s wants and needs even better.
Aggregation to Other Social Media
Lastly, as of now guests must be invited by current Pinterest users to get an account, but since the website allows users to post pins on other competing social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, this means that you can potentially reach an even broader buying market. Pinterest helps you cover all grounds which means you’ll have better luck making sales and earning money.
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Mariana Ashley is a freelance writer who particularly enjoys writing about online colleges. She loves receiving reader feedback, which can be directed to mariana.ashley031 @gmail.com.
Hey Mariana, a nice article really! Tell you what, i love pinterest right at the fisrt sight and i spend time wandering around it much more than with facebook. But the more people love it, the more it will be exploited and made use by the bad guys. This morning i received a mail from a marketer, he said that he’s selling a software called “Pin Blaster”, which will, i think, do nothing other than just flood the pinterest with all the crappy things. Ben & the Pinterest Team must be very busy in the future.
Alex
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I believe that Pinterest is one of the best sites there is right now. Besides social media, it can be rich with information and good apps.
The key to the value of Pineterest (and I love the art gallery feel of this site) is the links back to the site of the photo. Think of all the ways you can drive traffic back to your sites from those links. Good stuff!
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Thank you so much for taking the time to read my article. Friv you make some relevant points and Mark I agree that it can grow into something much more!
One of my friend appreciate the Pinterest. He asked me to make a profile and join. So I made a account on it. But I never tried it because I didn’t have an insight on Pinterest. After reading your article I got what I didn’t have on Pinterest. Now I am going to use it.
Thanks for the great info.
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What I like about Pinterest as a money-making tool is that it allows for creative ways to attract potential customers in the social network. People will often visit a board for inspiration, and leave with a desire to purchase something.
People buy from those that they know, like, and trust. When you interact positively with others, you become that person. The Pinterest formula give opportunities, like no other Social Media resource for just that type of interaction.
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Basically Pinterest is all about images and pin those images. As I don’t know much about this but after reading your post I must use Pinterest it’s really gold mine. We can increase tons of traffic through it and earn more from it.
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We can count Pinterest in one of the most popular social media website because it has many users. It is good idea to use Pinterest for money making and internet marketing but still it is not as effective as Facebook or Twitter. There are many chances for Pinterest to be next platform for money making.
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Pinterest is great. I’m already getting tons of traffic and links through it. It’s especially good if you’re involved in eCommerce since people can be lead from photo to purchase in one simple step.
Pinterest is really HOT today. And who would not love this awesome social media. You get tons of traffic and links that will help your site well.
I think pinterest is not that useful or what. I do have hesitations about this but I will use to truly prove what it’s importance to the marketing arena.
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This is the time to “get in” to Pineterist, even for us mere males. Some of us didn’t think too much of Facebook initially! I’m not making the same mistake again, we are still on the ground floor relatively and it’s working well for us.
Than you for the excellently written article Mariana.
It is a pity that Pinterest is not very famous… Nice article, thanks for sharing! Elena
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