

I don’t feel like you have to start over with new account. If I was starting my Pinterest Marketing Strategy from scratch today, this is what I would do: Clean Up Your Boards: Rather than just throw out some quick advice, I wanted to be really thoughtful and strategic about it. I’ve had a few people ask me how I recommend getting started on Pinterest.

You might actually make some money!Ħ Tips to Start Your Pinterest Marketing From Scratch: At least! Just think of what you could do if you started to attract your dream clients like that. It took a bit of trail and error, but Pinterest has given me better results in 5 months of effort than Instagram has given me in the past 2 YEARS. I started applying rules that I knew to be true for other areas of business into Pinterest, and before long Pinterest was were I put most of my marketing energies. I was eager to share more of my content and, frankly, I was frustrated with Instagram. I wanted to promote my wax seal design and I knew that Pinterest worked wonders for other bloggers. Then… I started blogging again in June of 2018. Over the past few years, I’ve listened to a few random podcasts on Pinterest, but nothing really stuck. As you might have already guessed, I burnt out pretty quickly and this technique lasted a few weeks at the most. In hind sight, she probably recommended a scheduling app, but since I didn’t get one, I probably decided that I couldn’t afford it. It created an unrealistic live style for me-I remember eating my lunches in front of Pinterest every single day, pinning while we relaxed in the evening, desperately searching for another pin (ANY PIN) that would fit within my categories. The good news is that one of my items went semi-viral and is still one of my best sources of passive income. I created a business account with Pinterest and started pinning. That seemed ridiculous to me, but I was serious about my business, so I did it.

My First Attempt At Pinterest Marketing:īack in 2015, I attended a free webinar and was shocked when I heard the instructor advise us to pin 100 pins, at a minimum. Pinterest” and now that I’m typing this… I totally should have asked HIM rather than following the bad advice that I followed back then. And this was before being a social influencer was really a thing-we nicknamed him “Mr. I had heard that it could be a valuable tool, and even had a friend in college who started getting PAID promotions to pin things. When I started my stationery business on Etsy in early 2015, I decided that I wanted to use Pinterest to help me market my business.

But it was not love at first sight (as a marketing tool… I’ve always been on board with the online inspiration boards!). It’s no secret that I love using Pinterest to market my business-even more than my first flame, Instagram.
