How I Use Pinterest to Make Over $150,000 a Year From Home on My Blog.
Copy and paste my exact strategy for growing a six-figure Pinterest account from home so you don’t have to start from square one.
Hey there new friend, I’m Taylor Stanford!
Does this sound like you?
Stuck in a never-ending cycle of clocking in at a job you hate just so you can keep getting by? Yep, that was me.
Going to nursing school while managing the fryer and mopping spills wasn't exactly the dream, but hey, it almost paid the bills (thanks inflation!).
Every shift felt like an eternity, counting down the seconds until I could ditch the stinky and stained uniform.
Even outside of work, my life felt bleak. My credit card debt was stacking up fast. I struggled to make even the minimum payments each month. I felt like there was no way out.
I put up with all of it until I literally couldn’t anymore…
My job let me know that I was being laid off during the slow season.
They said I could return in the fall if I wanted.
Suddenly, I was dropped into the deep end of life, and it was time to sink or swim. I had to figure out how to keep getting by.
I already didn’t like my life but now I felt completely hopeless.
In an effort to try and think “positively”, I started to consider maybe I could turn this crap show into a good thing. Maybe I could figure out a way to make more money, and maybe even make it from home.
I turned to the internet to try and figure out how I could make that dream a reality.
I was served pin after pin on Pinterest about ways I could make money from home:
I kept seeing things like “Start a print-on-demand business” “Take this $500 course and I’ll tell you everything about affiliate marketing” and “Sell digital products”
It all felt so overwhelming.
One day, while scrolling Pinterest and sipping my off-brand Keurig K-Cup (definitely no Starbucks for me at that time), I came across a pin about a blogger making $10,000 a month, and I nearly did a spit take. Blogging sounded fun, and $10,000 a month would be life-changing.
Motivated by the caffeine and the fact that I still had room to spend $72 on my credit card I decided to give blogging a go.
It was a complete SH*T show.
This is the part where you probably think I’m going to say something along the lines of “and it made me six figures in two months.” WRONG. It was a complete mess.
I jumped into the deep end head first and was in WAY WAY over my head. I had no clue what I was doing and no idea where to turn. I wasted so much time. Here are the mistakes I made so you don’t make them too:
I got lost in the technical nightmare of trying to make my blog look decent.
I have ZERO technical skills, so when it was time to make my blog look decent, I had no clue what to do and wasted tons of time just trying to get it to look halfway decent. It turns out there are easy-to-install free templates that you can use to make your self-hosted blog look great. No real technical knowledge is required.
I accidentally made my blog impossible for potential readers to find.
Did you know you have to set your blog to public? If you don’t, it’s basically just a digital diary that no one can find, and if no one can find it, it’s not going to earn any money. That was kind of the entire point of me starting it in the first place.
I spent weeks of time with my blog not monetized.
Did you know you don’t just set up your blog and get paid? You actually have to monetize it. I had no clue. It took me months of time and learning to finally figure out how to monetize my blog.
I spent hundreds of dollars I shouldn’t have on courses that taught me NOTHING.
Turns out not everyone on the internet is actually looking out for you. I guess I was just naive, but I thought that the people shelling these online courses actually wanted me to succeed. Turns out they just wanted my money. I took a few helpful courses but I took a lot of courses that just wasted my time.
I spent months with basically no readers and no income.
Once again something I didn’t realize is that you need people to go to your blog if you want to earn an income. I spent a good long while with basically no readers because I had no idea how to get people to my blog. I was no social media expert.
But just like every good Hallmark Movie, there was a happy ending (It just took me way too long to get there.)
How I finally went from food stamps to a six-figure online business = PINTEREST.
Now this is the part of the story I get excited to tell.
After the slump of the summer, I ended up having to go back to work (BOO!), but I wasn’t ready to give up my blogging dream.
I knew it could still be my ticket out of that dead-end job I hated. So I added some digital marketing classes to my schedule and tried to learn EVERYTHING I could about how to start a blog and digital business the right way.
One night, after a late-night cup of coffee, when I finally felt like I knew what I was doing, I put together a guide of the exact strategy I thought I should follow to start and grow my blog. The plan was that I needed to build and monetize my Pinterest account.
You see Pinterest is the best platform for bloggers, small business owners, and new content creators looking to make money online.
It was based on my experience of failing at what I had tried so far everything I had learned from school and the helpful courses I had taken.
I was hopeful that this would finally be my big break but I wasn’t sure.
I spent the next few days executing the plan I had put together, and then what felt like MAGIC happened.
Like I had done every day before I opened the platform I used to monetize my blog. I was used to it saying $0, but this time, when I opened it, it said I had made $330 dollars that day.
I think I might have screamed. I for sure ran in and got my husband to show him. That week I went on to make $ 3,190.
I thought it was a fluke at first, but then it started happening week after week. Then I added another form of blog monetization, and that worked, too.
Before I knew it I had made $158,190 that year.
Yeah, $158,190.
( It still feels crazy to say.)
The best part?
This is all because of Pinterest, and you don’t have to be a blogger to make money with this strategy.
You can build an online income quickly if you don’t waste time like I did.
I wanted to show you those screenshots so that you knew I was serious.
Pinterest transformed my life. Forget the cramped studio apartment and the double duty of slinging sandwiches and managing a food service crew while cramming for nursing school. Now, my office is anywhere with a Wi-Fi connection, and I got to build my dream home from the ground up.
Once I knew what to do it was like flipping a switch. If you are equipped with the right knowledge and help you can build a successful online income quickly.
Pinterest will help you attract visitors to your blog, online shop, affiliate links, coaching business, other social media accounts, and more. Then, through strategic monetization, you can turn those extra eyes into extra income.
I've helped over 200 aspiring creators transform their dreams into reality with the Pin It To Win It course.
by helping them avoid the confusing maze of starting an account and having to figure it out alone.
(Oh, and don’t worry it isn’t some super expensive course that’s going to break the bank )
Here’s what Jenn had to say:
THE OVERVIEW
What the Pin It To Win It will walk you through.
Starting and growing a Pinterest account capable of making your online business $10,000+ with no experience.
Module 1: Setting Up The Perfect Pinterest Account.
Gone are the days of just creating an account and posting whatever on your profile. To kick butt and take names on Pinterest, you need a profile strategy. I will walk you through exactly what you need to do during setup to make sure your Pinterest account is capable of growing.
Module 2: Pins & Strategies.
Forget crickets chirping on your empty Pinterest boards – it's time to turn up the traffic! No more aimlessly pinning and hoping for the best. This course will be your personal pinning guru, guiding you to create scroll-stopping visuals, write captivating descriptions, and pick the perfect times to unveil your pins to the world. Get ready to transform your Pinterest profile from a ghost town into a thriving hub, attracting your ideal audience and boosting your website traffic like never before!
Module 3: No biz? No problem!
Don't have a fancy online store or service to promote yet? No sweat! This course isn't just for established businesses. We'll turn you into a content creation wizard, teaching you step-by-step how to build a blog that pulls in readers and profits – even if "business" is a new word in your vocabulary. Think of your blog as your own personal online storefront, filled with captivating content that attracts your ideal audience.
Earning your first Pinterest paycheck is exciting, but what if I told you we could crank that income into high gear? Buckle up, because we're about to unlock the secret weapon that skyrocketed our own sales: Pinterest Ads! Remember when we went from $30k to $150k? Yeah, that was Pinterest Ads at work. In this lesson, we'll spill the tea on our exact strategy, showing you how to target the perfect audience, craft irresistible ad copy, and set a budget that gets results.
