grandstar: I have decided to start this thread in order to open the eyes of Nigerians, especially internet marketers about the huge opportunities that can be tapped on Pinterest.
It is a shame that most Nigerian affiliate marketers aren't making substantial incomes online and many get rained abuses here that they are just glorified teaches who are after your 2,000 per ebook they want to sell to you.
I see no reason why affiliate marketers here in Nigeria can't earn $5,000 and above monthly online. Many are timid and limit themselves mainly to the Nigerian market which is regarded as a 3rd tier market online. The 1st tier markets are primarily the rich English speaking countries which are USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland. If you're selling to the English speaking market, they are most likely to buy.
Tier 3 countries consist of poor countries like India, Bangladesh, Malawi, Lesotho and so forth that are least likely to buy. Nigerians can't even buy things on Clickbank! This mentality has to change. You're selling to people who have no money!
One way fo bringing about that change is to introduce to us the Pin sharing site Pinterest. Why Pinterest?
Pinterest is the biggest Picture content sharing site in the world and it has 335m monthly users as at March 2020 and growing. It is a traffic generating monster. The majority of its users are from tier 1 countries and 8 out of 10 American mothers is a Pinner. Over 70% of its users are women.
The majority of American Pinterest users earn on average $75,000 a year. That means they most likely have disposable income. Traffic here is known to convert quite well. They are also twice as likely to have a university education. Also, a whopping 48% of Pinterest users are keen on shopping compared to just 14% on Facebook
Now, how do I make money from Pinterest? First, how does Pinterest work?
Pinterest works by you creating clickable Pins which is linked to your content. These links are usually pictures with infographics written on it. I have attached an example below. The Article writing pin can be linked to www.makehotmoney.com/article-writing-tips (I made it up).
If people see your pin and they click it, it takes them to your content. Your content can be anything. It can be an article, a video , amazon kindle book, a Youtube link, etc. It can be virtually anything. Pinterest allows direct linking so affiliate links are allowed.
Where then do you store these Pins? You store them on boards.
Let us say you are in the weight loss niche. You can create a board titled "weight loss", another "lose weight quick", another "lose belly fat", another "weight loss supplements" and so on. Any Pin you create, you store the Pin in the board you think is the most appropriate. When visitors come to your boards, they will see your pins and click.
How can Pinterest make me money? Let us say you now decide to create your own Pinterest account on weight loss. You decide to create 5 boards. Let us say even 1 board to start with. You're bound to have a problem. The problem is that your board will be empty for a while as it will take you time to create Pins. Visitors are put off by an empty board. What can you do?
You find other people's Pins and repin them on your board. By the time you repin 20 pins, your board will have a lot of content. When visitors come to your board, they see those pins and click thereby sending them traffic. You can now start building your pins.
As you start creating your pins too, they too will be repinned to other boards as well. It is this repinning that fuels traffic. There's a pin I have seen repinned 7,000 times. There's a Pin that has been repinned 105,000 times! Just imagine the volume of traffic that Pin will generate, In order to have your Pins shared, you have to share the Pins of others.
Through Pinterest, you can have 100s of thousands of monthly visitors to your website or blog in as little as 6 months. It is a traffic generating monster and because a good number of users are in a shopping mood, conversions are high. Also, while a Facebook content is most likely to generate you traffic around when you post it, you can still get lots of traffic from old Pins on Pinterest, some even 5 years old. All it needs is for someone to repin it and the traffic wakes up again.
How can I get started? First and foremost, I am no Pinterest guru. I have however read a lot and I am ready to share a lot of that knowledge here. I would advise you to follow up by watching Youtube Pinterest tutorials. You'll gain far more.
How then can you start? You start by registering with "Pinterest for Business" You need a Pinterest business account. Please note that each Pinterest account is best solely dedicated to a niche. You can't have an account doing both affiliate marketing and weight loss. It has to be committed to a niche.
How much do I need to get started? You don't need a dime to get started but money usually helps. For instance, you may need a website. A .com or paid extension like .net or .info gives you respectability but if you have no money, you can go for a free blog or website like Blogger or Weebly. If you want to be in the make money or affiliate marketing niche, you can't afford to have a free website. Your visitors will feel if you can't afford $10 for a proper domain, that means you aren't making money and therefore not fit to teach how to make money. A free blog or website will do with most niches.
Also, note that Youtube videos are also content. Many things classify as content and not just blog or website articles.
I don't have any content whatsoever? No need to kill yourself here. You can go to article directories such as ezinesarticles or articlebase to get free content. Just make sure you do not alter the signature of the author of those articles and place yours there instead. That is plagiarism. You're supposed to use those articles as they are. They are simply to be used as content for your sites. You can promote your offers just below the article or anywhere else on your sites such as a banner ad.
You can also search for "free PLR articles" on your niche. There are tons of free PLR articles online. Many are of very poor quality so be prepared to do a lot of editing. It is best you rewrite it to pass Copyscape so it will be considered as original content by Google. This will compel Google to rank the article as well. However, traffic from Pinterest should be enough but a double blessing by having Google by your side is great.
How do I design Pins like the one below? If you're good at Photoshop or any other design software, you're really fortunate.
If however, you're not, then use www.canva.com. To know how to use canva, watch videos on how to make money on Pinterest on Youtube.
How to watch Youtube videos without burning my data. Best you download YouTube Go on your phone. The app gives you the choice of choosing the quality of the video you choose to watch which greatly slashes the MB consumed.
For instance, there's a 28 minute video I just saw. There are 3 video qualities: 1. Data saver 22MB
2. Standard Quality: 59.8MB
3. High Quality: 77MB
Which one do you think I'll go for? Yes, the data saver and the quality is good. I barely notice any difference. You can also download the video into your phone, though not the memory card. You can then be watching the video as many times for free afterwards. I also use that option at times.
How can I buy the most MB at the cheapest price When buying data plans on MTN and Airtel for example, go for the daily plans. In the daily plans for MTN and AIRTEL, you have the option of paying N300 for 1GB but must be used up within 24 hours. If however, you don't use it up within 24 hours, it is rolled over and that means you must top up to activate the rollover. Simply top up 25MB for N50 and the rollover is activated. 1GB can watch about 18 hours of content on Youtube Go. That 1GB should be able to last you for days if you're prudent.
I want to start a new Pinterest journey today and I'll keep you updated. I want others to join so we can all be learning and encouraging each other. I will be creating 5 Pins each day and repinning about 50 per day. This may be overkill but what the heck?
I already have content lined up but I will have to start adding more to my blog very soon. or else I would be out of personal content to pin on my boards. I also plan to follow 300 people daily so they can follow me back. At least half should follow back. Within 30days, I should have about 4,500 followers and in 6 months, about 50,000 as I believe many new followers naturally.
This thread is not limited to affiliate marketers alone. If you're selling anything online, you're free to join.
Exactly, it looks fishy. I applied too and got a success message. I was doing the onboarding process but had to pause when I got to the device payment stage.
It is quite unfortunate the way scammers are taking advantage of the high case of unemployment in the country. That was how one dude promised to help me the other day on this forum he requested for my number, only for him to give it out to his fraudulent team. I started receiving various calls from people trying to woo me with various scam formats.
Ikennaluke who posted the job advert here, also created a jobberman account and posted it there as well. So today they sent texts to applicants, telling them their online assessment was successful and asking them to visit Datalize Nigeria website for their on-boarding. On their website, they promise to give a free data collection device to each employee, then they ask you to enter your ATM details and pay the sum of #3,600 as delivery charge (Screenshot attached).
Honestly I got the message too and I've been making serious research on them. No specific salary range, ask us to pay for the data capturing device, no address, only a contact form. It doesn't seem right at all
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Thank you. Too much double standard from these folks always focusing on the females yet neglecting the males.
Whatever a lady chooses to do with her life which includes her sexual life is none of their business and their concerns and opinions are inconsequential.
There are males who are using their intellect for technological advances, massive beneficial projects for the world but no be these ones their brain no reach that side at all.
[quote author=Ladyhippolyta88 post=71941154]It is not anybody's business how many bodycounts is okay for a lady. OP you are a guy and you should be more concerned about your fellow guys and ask them their bodycount.It ain't your business to know or decide the number of bodycounts a lady chooses to have
This is a very emotional post for me, heard of a friend's death and it's taken the whole of my mood since morning. She was someone who referenced God so much and young, cool and upright. As sad as I am at the moment I believe God took her away to secure her from the world's evil. We usually cry over the loss of someone we know but sometimes God let's such thing happen for his own personal reason. All I can say is that continue to rest in God's Bossom "a lady after God's own heart". Till we meet again!
And you believe Pastor Chris did what she accused him off?
See let's treat every matter with the fear of God. I am not say he did not do it either but only God knows the truth. He denies it, so leave the matter to God.
Let me tell you something about myself, I was an object of scorn for years for what did not happen everyone believed the story but its all a lie. It is me and God that know I was innocent. Everyone is quick to judge in matters that is not linked to them. That is life.
The lady might be insinuating and the insinuation got fuelled up by evil news from haters.
pich4real: from what u just said it seems ur a so bias,i av come to realise that most of you girls support each other even when you know the other person is wrong, only few girls are plain and truthful
That's not being strong. It is a shame for her to grace that event. Great shame, She wouldn't have been comfortable sitting down there. I think she made the best choice for her own good.
The Church members would have scorned her. She wouldn't have felt belonged.
She wasn't the cause of the divorce, her not going to the event wasn't about being scorned or ashamed. I think it's about feeling contempt for her ex-husband or so.
Liliyann: My money is MINE and his money is OURS!!! What is the meaning of love if you can't express it financially? Did the lady beg you to ask her out or marry her? Wasn't she on her own when you came to pledge your undying love and promise of taking good care of her!! Real men don't look at a lady's money before they spend!!they cater for her needs irrespective of how financially buoyant they are!!! Only the weak and improvised ones depends on a lady's money,that's why I always advise ladies to go for rich guys that don't even care how much they earn monthly!! As for me,I dont see myself giving my money to my man when I can use it to pamper myself!!
It correlates because she will spend both her husband's money and her money wisely. Her money is to be spent not too often while her husband's money is for the general upkeep of the family. Don't write rubbish again under my post
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