How I Work From Home as a Full-Time Pinterest Manager
If you would’ve told me just a few months ago that I’d be running a full-time, successful Pinterest Management business from home and earning almost 4 times what I earned as a teacher in under a year - I probably would’ve laughed in your face!
I honestly still can’t believe it most mornings when I wake up and am so grateful to have taken the leap. I get endless questions about how to make a living from this as well as how to successfully land clients, which I will be sharing in this post.
How Did I Get Started?
I was blogging about teaching and living abroad and came across a YouTube video about how Pinterest could help drive traffic to your website. I quickly started learning the ins and outs of how to work Pinterest and Tailwind and while on the platform came across various articles on how business owners would actually pay you to do the same for them.
I’m a researcher at heart and like planned out courses of action, so after months of learning everything I could about Pinterest Marketing I decided to start my business. I consumed everything I found on marketing, branding, website design and graphic creation. I was so determined to make this work for me and be able to leave my teaching job, that I had my website completed within the first month and started blogging weekly about everything I was learning. I also approached a friend to experiment with her account in exchange for a testimonial and the rest is history. My business snowballed from there.
As of today, eight months later, I now have ELEVEN monthly Pinterest Management clients and an assistant to help me with the workload, with new inquiries coming in weekly. Read more about the beginning of my journey here.
How To Become A Pinterest Manager
If you’ve been considering becoming a Pinterest VA for a while, or perhaps this is your first time hearing about it, I can’t recommend this career path enough. Here’s exactly how I would start the journey to becoming a Pinterest Manager if I were to do it all over again. Are you like me and want to fast track the process to success? I created an online program that teaches you absolutely everything I know about Pinterest marketing and how to start your business!
The Become a Pinterest Manager and Earn Within A Month program includes tutorials covering everything from the basics of setting up a Pinterest account to scheduling content to using Canva for pin design. It also goes into depth about how to pitch clients (with templates!), website tips and packages.
You don’t need to know anything about Pinterest Marketing or business before you start doing this as a side-hustle or full-time career. However I’d suggest checking out this post to see if you’ve got the skills to do this successfully based on my experience.
How Do I Land Clients?
Website and Blogging
I haven’t missed a single week of blogging in the eight months since I started - I actually just realized this while writing this post and can’t believe it! Many consider blogging to be “dead” and not something worth putting time and effort into, but it sure has paid off for my business. To keep it simple, I provide free information about Pinterest on my blog every week. I create pins for the posts and market it on Pinterest. Pinterest Users interested in Pinterest Marketing for their own blogs and businesses find my valuable content, see that I’m an expert in my field and continue to look into my services.
The beauty of blogging with Pinterest is that I’m attracting potential clients actively searching for information on Pinterest and gaining their trust through showing them I know what I’m talking about.
I also rank high on Google Search for several posts which get me found for searches like “Pinterest Manager” which is super helpful when potential clients are looking for one. I don’t know too much about SEO but whatever I’m doing seems to be working, so I’m continuing on with consistent content and using Pinterest keywords in my posts.
Besides blogging and clients accidentally finding my services, a few of my clients have mentioned that they actually searched for a Pinterest Marketing Expert on Pinterest itself. This makes sense as why wouldn’t an expert in Pinterest be on Pinterest? Many other Pinterest VA’s and Pinterest Manager’s don’t see the value in growing their own account but it really does help potential clients find you and see you know how to market on the platform.
Cold Emailing
When I first tried this strategy I didn’t experience a lot of success and quickly gave up thinking it wasn’t for me - mainly because I didn’t see any results. What I later learned is that with cold emailing you’ve got to get a large volume of emails out to see results. Once I started sending out 10 emails a day, I actually started getting replies. Sure, some of them were straightforward “no’s” but I eventually went on to land three clients.
Mindset Work
It seems an odd place to put this, but I’d say this is 100% the number one way I land clients. In December I went from 3 to 10 clients just like that. I focused all of my extra time on mindset journaling, affirmations and even purchased the Manifestation Babe Epically Aligned Bootcamp. It was a game-changer, and should definitely be at the top of you to-do’s before you even begin working on your business. And there you have it. These are some questions I get asked on a regular basis but if you had any others, drop them in the comments below and I’ll get back to you!
If you are seriously considering pursuing this as your side-hustle or full-time business, the course is a great place to start.
Hello, I’m Megan!
An introvert at heart, Pinterest is the perfect platform for me. Simply posting your content using the right marketing strategies gets you an abundance of website traffic? No engagement or ‘showing up’ needed?
Who wouldn’t want to use this powerhouse of a platform …
