I've been wanting to work on affiliate marketing via Pinterest for a while. I earned some affiliate commissions last year and I wasn't even trying. So now that I've completed other projects I wanted to focus on this. Last week I starting pinning affiliate items to Pinterest, only to find out that Pinterest removed the ability for users to edit pins from websites that are not their own. (This is what happens when you put things off and don't keep up with what is happening in the industry LOL). The only two workarounds for this are to either 1) create pins from scratch with my own images, generate an affiliate link, and insert the affiliate link, OR 2) create my own affiliate website and pin from there. I was not about to create every pin from scratch so option #2 it is.
First I setup my Pinterest business account and decided on a niche. The username for the business account is related to the niche. Then I created seven boards with topics that are all related to the niche.
To create the affiliate website, I bought a cheap but keyword-relevant domain name. Had some issues setting up the SSL with my webhosting service but everything is fixed now.
The new theme and plugins are installed (all free). Now I just need to load the blog posts so I can start pinning. I created a new affiliate code for the products I'll be promoting via this new site so tracking all activity will be simple.
The plan is to pin to every board once a day. I'll do it myself at first (I don't have any other sites to promote). If the results are good I'll either start using software or hire someone to do the pinning for me. I start graduate school next month and don't want the work to stop because I have to study. I'll give the business 6 months and decide what the next step will be at that time. I'm so excited
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