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CPA Pinterest Profit How To Use Pinterest To Make Money from CPA Programs! PLEASE READ DISCLAIMER http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 2 Legal: The information contained in Profit Pinning, and its several complementary guides, is meant to serve as a comprehensive collection of time-tested and proven strategies that the authors of this eBook have applied to substantially increase their monthly passive income revenue. Summaries, strategies, tips and tricks are only recommendations by the authors, and reading this eBook does not guarantee that one’s results will exactly mirror our own results. The authors of Profit Pinning have made all reasonable efforts to provide current and accurate information for the readers of this eBook. The authors will not be held liable for any unintentional errors or omissions that may be found. The material in Profit Pinning may include information, products, or services by third parties. 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You have picked up this guide because you are already aware of what Pinterest is by some extent. There is a lot of hype surrounding Pinterest right now. Imagine if you were one of the first people to join Facebook and you were able to profit from day 1. Many affiliate marketers made a lot of money in the early days of Facebook, and now you can to with Pinterest. There is a huge base of users right now, and it is set to explode exponentially. This book is created with the affiliate marketer in mind, from a fellow affiliate marketer. The focus of this report is on CPA marketing, but you can easily transfer this knowledge into any type of affiliate marketing. I want you to succeed! http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 4 Pinterest Basics Pinterest is a new social media site that is geared strictly to images. You start with a “board” and as you go around the web you can “pin” interesting images to it. Your posts will show up on your friends feeds and they will be able to see what you pin, and they themselves can re-pin your images. Think of the viral effect this will. At the time of writing this, Pinterest remains an invite only website. As the user base expands it will be no time until the membership is open for anyone to sign up. Originally launched in 2010, the site has grown by the millions in 2011 alone. There are over 12 million people using Pinterest, and many of the major brands are now signed up. Joining Pinterest At the time of writing, Pinterest is invite only. I will include some various ways to get a Pinterest invite. How to get an invite: 1. Ask for it directly from Pinterest’s website. 2. Find groups on Facebook that are dedicated to Pinterest invites. 3. Ask your friends and family. 4. Find various forums that offer Pinterest invites, or request one on other pinning forums. http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 5 Activating Your Account You will receive an invitation email from Pinterest giving you an activation link. Clicking this link will bring you to the sign up page. Unfortunately, you need to sign up using your Facebook or Twitter account at this time. The good thing is that you will be able to unlink your account once you are setup. I recommend that you keep your account linked, and you should also add the other account. I will show you later when we talk about getting your pins viral. After you have linked your account you will be brought to a page where you will set your username and password. Note that your username will form part of the URL ex: pinterest.com/username. You may want to consider a high traffic keyword here. The next screen you will be brought to is the interest’s page. Pinterest will recommend people to follow based on the interests you choose. You also will not be able to change these, so choose wisely! If you do pick some boards here you will be able to un-follow them. Account Setup Now that the account is setup you need to jump to your profile settings and make a few changes here. In the top right you will see your picture and name. Click here and go to settings. You will notice under details that some basic information was grabbed from either Facebook or Twitter when you linked the two accounts together. You can change your photo here to something more appealing if you don’t want your Facebook/Twitter photo here. It is recommended that you fill in the “about” section. Make sure you keep SEO in mind when filling this out and put relevant keywords as they relate to your business. Make sure you also put in your website URL to get a powerful backlink. http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 6 http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 7 Pinning Basics: Before we get into how to pin, there is some basic terminology that we need to get out of the way.  Boards: To give you a visual, pretend this is like a wall, fridge or corkboard that you would pin things to. You can setup different types of boards such as “Favorite Foods” “Fast Cars” etc…  Pin: The idea is to “pin” pictures to your board. Anytime you find something interesting, you can “pin” it to your board.  Re-pin: This is similar to Twitters “re-tweet”. When you like someone’s pin you can re-pin it to your boards so that everyone can see. We want to focus on this later because this is what will make your pins go viral.  Like: If you see a pin that you like, but don’t think you want to re-pin it, you can always just “like” it. If you want to get more followers you should like a lot of pins as this will get your name out there more and give you more exposure. How to pin: When you first sign into Pinterest, you will be asked to create some pinboards. A few good suggestions would be to create boards such as “My Favorite Products” or “Favorite Food”. Try to create boards that would be relative the products you plan on promoting. When signed into Pinterest, there are two ways to post a pin to your pinboard. You can either post a pin from a URL or photo on your hard drive, or repost someone else’s pin. If you want to repin an already pinned item, you just hover over the item and a “repin” button will appear. You can also click on the image to have the repin button appear. Repinning is an excellent way to fill up your pinboards when you are first starting out in Pinterest. http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 8 The second way to pin using webpage content is by adding the “pin it” button to your browsers favorite bar. You can do this by going to your about section on your Pinterest page. Within this page you will find the pin it button that you click and drag your bookmarks bar. http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 9 Demographics of Pinterest To successfully market on Pinterest, you must understand the demographics. The following statistics are taken from Ignite Social Media: http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/social-networks/pinterest-demographic-data/ The majority of Pinterest users are women between the ages of 25-54 Only 25% of Pinterest users have earned a bachelors or higher degree and the majority live within an income range of $25-75K. http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 10 Based on the above statistics, it is safe to assume that marketing towards females in the above demographics will see some handsome returns. The Importance of Followers: As with every other effective Social Media marketing plan, you must treat Pinterest exactly as it is… a Social media platform. As with every social media platform you will judged and liked based on the quality of the content you post. http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 11 To gain maximum exposure in Pinterest, you need to follow others, like their posts and repin other pins. 1) Sync your Pinterest account with your Facebook and Twitter. This is extremely simple to do. Once it is setup you will have easy access to the messaging and following option that allows you to send out endless Pinterest invites to friends and family. You will also be able to see which of your friends are pinning. 2) Creativity When you are naming your boards, be as creative as possible. Pick unique names for your boards that will spark interest and encourage other users to follow you. Try to make your boards appear as if they tell a story. 3) Keep the focus on what you market and build a brand. Stick with your niche. If you plan on promoting electronics, build your boards around this. You will attract more people who are interest in your niche when they see this is all you want to pin. 4) Use #Hash #Tags. Most people are unaware that Pinterest uses hash tags. This makes it easy for people to access what they are looking from and tagging other Pinterest members with the @ symbol. This will encourage conversation hype and really attract followers. http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 12 5) Use your blog! If you have other traffic sources such as a blog, you need to grab harness this traffic into more Pinterest followers. You can easily install a Pinterest button on your blog or use various plugins. Try holding pinning contests to get more exposure! 6) What’s trending! You can see what is trending on Pinterest by visiting Pinterest’s Popular page. From here you can see what’s being pinned from you site or blog, as well as seeing what’s hot. Pin some topics on the hot trends and make sure you hash tag them for maximum exposure. 7) Follow and Comment. This is one of the most effective ways to get more followers. When you follow or comment on people’s pins, they will get a notification on their dashboard. This allows you to connect to the many users out there and gain more exposure for your brand or product. Make sure you leave witty and appreciative comment to users who leave good posts. http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 13 Affiliate Marketing on Pinterest Now that you understand the basics of how Pinterest works, it’s time to explore the lucrative possibilities Pinterest provides for affiliate marketers. This section is the core of this report as it will discuss the various options of how to use Pinterest to make money. The method is extremely simple and does not require any type of genius or technical knowledge to understand. The method is all about gaining exposure and massive traffic by doing very little work at all. If you continue to post quality content and pins you will continue to attract more followers. Every time you create a new post you have the opportunity for that post to go viral in no time. One thing you should not do is sign up for Pinterest and immediately begin posting affiliate links and products. People will immediately catch on to this and have no interest in following you. Begin by following people and re-pinning their posts. Create 6-8 boards and make sure that the first 9 images are filled in each one. You can easily do this by re-pinning other people’s content. By doing this you will gain more exposure and look like an active user that provides quality content. http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 14 The CPA Marketing Pinning Method ***Note – I have used CPA purely as an example, you can substitute any affiliate marketing offer in this strategy*** CPA marketing on Pinterest is extremely lucrative. Pinterest is so easy to market CPA offers it is not even funny. Because people will be clicking on your links solely based on the picture and caption you have provided, you have an amazing opportunity to get many conversions. Whether or not you are using email submits or selling actual products through CPA, I will show you a step by step method on how to get setup your pins. 1. Log into your CPA marketing account. For this method I will be using Peerfly. Search the various offers and try to find an offer that will meet the above mentioned demographics. Offers in the health & beauty, fashion décor or gadgets are the best offers to pick from. If you can find an iPad or iPhone offer, these ones tend to convert the most. These offers convert really well on Pinterest as they are extremely hot products that meet the demographics of Pinterest. http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 15 2. Once you have found your offer you need to grab your affiliate product link and copy it. 3. Login to your Pinterest account and start creating a new pin. On your Pinterest home screen you will see the Add + Button in the top right hand corner. 4. At this point you should already have some board’s setup. In this example I will use my “Wicked Products” board and post the iPad offer. When using CPA offers, you need to use the “Upload a Pin” http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 16 5. When you upload your own pin, you need to provide an image. There is a lot of controversy surrounding usage rights about pinning on Pinterest, so I like to keep it safe. I use Google image search, and filter by “usage rights, free to use or share”. You can access this from the Google images search page. Click on settings in the top right hand corner, then half way down the page you will see the “usage rights” drop down menu. Choose “free to use or share”. 6. Once you have found an image you want to use for you pin, save it to your hard drive so you can upload it to your Pin. 7. Now select the image from your hard drive for your pin. http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 17 8. Select the board you want to pin this to, you can either select an existing one, or create a new one. In this example I am going to use my “gadgets” board as it fits the niche more appropriately. http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 18 9. Write a compelling description that will convince people to click on your link. After you write your description click “Pin It”. 10. IMPORTANT – Your link is currently not activated… one more step to go here! The next thing you will see is your actual Pin. At the top you will see an “edit” button. Click here to open the properties of the pin. 11. Here is where you will insert your directly linked affiliate URL and click “save pin”. http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 19 12. At this point it is important to test your pin. After clicking the Save Pin, you will be brought to your pin page. This is how your followers will see it. Clicking on the image will bring you through to your link. Make sure you test the link! Sometimes there is an error, and you don’t want to miss out on a load of traffic. 13. Repeat and test. It is important that you track which images and pins convert the most. Make sure to use your CPA companies built in tracking tools to do this. Some pins will not work as well as others, it is up to you to find optimize these. http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 20 Maxbounty Issues MAxbounty is already known CPA network, there are times when Maxbounty links don’t work through Pinterest. There is a quick fix to this. If you own your own wordpress blog, you can add a simple plugin that will cloak your affiliate links. When doing this, you will drive traffic from Pinterest to your blog where the traffic will then be simply re-directed to the CPA offer. Other Type of Affiliate Marketing I used CPA marketing as a simple example of how to post affiliate links on Pinterest and make cash. Don’t feel that you are strictly bound by this way of marketing. There are many different types of affiliate campaigns you can do such as:  Amazon  Clickbank  Commission Junction Just insert your affiliate link and you are laughing all the way to the bank! http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 21 Building a Residual Income: Now that you have completed these easy to follow steps, you need to do them at least 10 times a day. This is extremely easy once you have figured out which posts are working for you. Just keep posting or re-pinning these posts every day. Make sure you continue to follow other users so you can get a follow back from them. Outsource Your Work: If you don’t have 20 minutes a day to do this, you can always outsource this work to someone using oDesk. Imagine if you had someone working 8 hours a day across multiple Pinterest accounts? You would see exponential growth in your affiliate profits. Once you have found a great outsourcer for these tasks, you need to setup a tracking system. oDesk has a built in system that allows you to go back and watch what the contractor did all day. You should also have them report back at the end of each day with all the posts that they did. This will allow you to verify each post, and ensure that they are accurately doing the tasks you have asked them to do. Using Fiverr to Outsource There are many different opportunities to use fiverr right now. You can find some gigs that offer pinning and re-pinning of your posts. Take a look around on fiverr. Just type “pinterest” into fiverr’s search function. http://www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/fbapps | 22 Conclusion Pinterest traffic is laser targeted, and affiliate marketers are having amazing success using Pinterest. Right now you have the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of the fastest growing social media site in the world. Using the above techniques I have shown you an amazing and easy to use technique that will grow your bottom line. Not only is using Pinterest profitable, but it is fun at the same time. If you have used Facebook in the past to market affiliate offers, you know it can be a pain to try and find different spots to advertise, plus you risk getting banned. Pinterest is on the verge of a massive user explosion. In the first few months of 2012, more and more media outlets have been covering Pinterest, and the buzz is really swarming. Pinterest is currently being searched more than every other social media site (except Facebook). I have shown you the power of Pinterest, and now it is up to you to harness it. Get out there and take this new found knowledge and grow your affiliate profits. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to get into Pinterest early. To your “pinning” success! P.S: Many did not know that you can do the “same” method in Facebook as well, but with a unique twist. We promote CPA offer through Facebook apps…