How should I fix the website I'm using for Pinterest?

My Pinterest business is based on an autoblog that creates posts with affiliate links every day. The posts have Pinterest sharing buttons so I can just click to share the post to Pinterest. The item photo, item title and affiliate link are automatically included in the pin. However, I noticed that my website doesn't have an item description. It only has a photo, item name and link to buy or add to a watchlist. So the user would have to click a buy link just to get details on the item. I haven't received any clicks yet and I think that's part of the reason. My blog posts need to include item descriptions.

In order to display descriptions, I'd have to use the API. I could code it myself and have to recreate the website in the process. I could also use a WordPress plugin. But all the plugins I've researched haven't been updated in two years! I'm afraid to invest in software that hasn't been updated in so long.

Or I could leave it as is and hope that quantity will beat quality.

I need to figure this out soon!

Starting the affiliate site I'm solely marketing via Pinterest

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

Aaaand another website project is done!

Today I finished an idea I had for helping women make money with their cars. The website is https://ladiesmakemoneydriving.com/ and it provides information on driving for Lyft, Uber and Instacart.

Onto the next!

There's no way around it, I have to do the work

Watched this video today: https://youtu.be/bKCQdp5sq38

When they start talking about how long an affiliate business takes to make money compared to service business models, I had to admit the truth. I've shared my affiliate links in TONS of places, and I have yet to break the $100 earnings mark. Meanwhile, my dropshipping ventures have made more than that in the first month.

I changed the nails dropshipping site to an affiliate site. Why? Because of laziness. Because of my refusal to do the work. I didn't feel like rewriting titles and descriptions for about 60 items. Even though I knew that making those updates would only improve sales. Switching to an affiliate model was a stupid move.

If I want the business I have to do the work. There's no way around it. I can't afford to pay someone to do it, so I have to do it.

The nails business is switching back to the dropship model. What will I do differently this time? A few things:

• Import and revise a small number of items at a time. I got overwhelmed because I listed almost 100 items that needed to be updated. Adding about 10 items at a time should be good.
• Implement a consistent marketing plan to generate sales.
• Once the store is profiting $40 per month, I'll upgrade to the complete order automation plan.

The nails dropshipping site is now an affiliate site!

Got it done in less time than I thought I'd need. Here's the new site: https://nailsgaloreshop.com/

One new skill I learned while doing this: you can change a WordPress footer easily when you know where to find the file. Here's the tutorial that helped me: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/remove-proudly-powered-by-wordpress-footer-link/

Almost finished an important step and other passive income stuff

I focused on getting my first downloadable product done last night and realized the install instructions were missing an important step. So I'm finishing that today and will upload to Etsy.

I've also made a few other decisions on my passive income business checklist:

• Decided to change my dropshipping nails store to an affiliate store. Mainly because I don't feel like rewriting titles and descriptions every time new products are added. I also don't feel like processing orders and doing customer service. So I'll be making the switch today as soon as I finish the Etsy upload.
• I scrapped the PLR blogs idea and am sticking with autoblogs fed by RSS feeds. The setup time is less and I'll never have to maintain it.

This is my week off from school until classes start again on Monday. I am determined to get at least two passive income streams started.

To-do list for passive income

It is August 2019 and I still haven't completed any of the steps to get an online passive income stream going. My personality is such that if I don't write something down along with a plan to get it done, it won't get done. This is true whether it is a task for church, school, business or work. When I wrote a plan for my education, I was able to earn the associates, and I'll have earned a Bachelor degree by the end of this year God willing. The same applies for my passive income streams. It isn't done because I haven't written a plan for it.

Last week I initially just wrote an outline, then I wrote out the details to get each item done. One plan I started a few years ago but never completed was a huge set of blogs. I got the idea from warrior forum. The idea was to setup a collection of blogs using free PLR articles and then activate Adsense on them. But of course now that I have a plan and start to execute, I find out that Adsense requires extra file uploads and reviews to be activated. That is extra work I don't want to do and more time waiting for income to start. So I'm pivoting and using Ebay partner network instead. No waiting required. I just have to focus on blogs that can advertise related products available on Ebay. Shouldn't be hard, and no approval or waiting necessary. Yay for progress.