this was an extremely useful video for me , i am new and yes i did the same mistake of throwing out some of my new etsy store pod items as pins and then waited for some sales to come, now i realized that is not how pinterest works.. thanks a million for the great vid
Your videos are of gooood quality, u introduced me to some things that if I was doing my research on those topics i would spend months. Huge thanks to you sir.
Hi Zen, thanks for the clear explanation (without being bombastic). I have appreciated this information, especially as I have just recently decided to take Pinterest seriously. Cheers and all the best Zeal.
I've recently set up a Pinterest account, but wasn't sure how to use it as a potential marketing tool for my new POD stores. This video was perfect and so helpful. I'm going to follow your advice. Cross fingers. :)
Hey Zen, Can you make some Pinterest videos on creating the pins vs creating boards? Iam kinda confused as to how to make each and what to do with with each for POD shops.
Hey @ZenWatercooler, Appreciate this tip! I also did the mistake of just pinning my own items for sale. I find your videos helpful and so relatable because I also have a full-time job but I spend a lot of time doing POD but only selling less than 50 products on Etsy as of the moment (still developing my self-hosted shop). And you are able to make hundreds of POD designs and SVGs to sell in different marketplaces plus Pinterest. I am wondering how do you divide your time and organize workloads, I've learned Etsy's algorithm favors someone who updates and add products on a daily basis, and I'm thinking maybe the same for Redbubble and others. Do you spend weekends doing bulk designs then upload them one by one every day? Any tools or platform management you use? Hope I can get your reply or maybe this could be a topic in your next video... Thanks in advance:)
Yes great questions - I can answer a few here and I a vid planned too. I make a bunch of similar designs all at once - so in 2 hours on Photoshop I can do like 40 designs. They are all “funny cat” or “vintage new york” or whatever. So then I can copy and paste tags quickly from Word (just changing a couple of words in the tags). So I don’t ever spend an hour making one design - I make funny text or picture/text designs. Quick. I don’t overthink it. People don’t want high art - they want something funny or witty or clean (like high quality graphic and proper text). Video on time saving tips coming up!
Nice video about Pinterest - it caused me to subscribe. I do have one question about your Pinterest promotion. Over a hundred click throughs for $10 is pretty good - less than 10 cents per click. My question is, did this lead to an increase in sales?
Great question - I only have done it a few times and I've only used designs that are already consistent sellers - so I can say that the views and saves on Pinterest were definitely much higher (like thousands vs a couple of hundred). I can't say for certain how many more sales it generated. But I would say that it definitely increased the visibility (a lot) on Pinterest and that increased the chances of someone thinking of buying that design.
@@zenwatercooler you can check how many sales were genrated using pinterest Search lisa erby pinterest google analytics on RU-vid If you do end up checking let me know how many sales were from pinterest
Yes that is a great point and I don' think there is a definitive way to make sure that they were clicking through and also purchasing. It's kind of a numbers game (with estimates).
Hi, please help me. Do you know why the heck my pins don't show up on Pinterest search results? I have made even unique words, but when I search them they DO NOT show up? It has been over 10 hours now and nothing. Is this normal? How long will take for them to show up on results?? Thanks in advance.
Yes it definitely takes time to follow people. Usually if I see a cool design, I save it and then follow the person. You can also look up how to automate the follow feature through Mozilla.
Thanks for your insight to Pinterest. What did you call your Pinterest account? Did you call it by the shop name you have on one of the pod shops? Or just something generic like your personal name?
You are most welcome - yes it was just my regular name - I use my Pinterest account for "me" (not my business ventures) - so I use it mostly for collecting images for lots of different reasons.
Hey There, Thank you for all your helpful videos, and thank you for this video. do you need a regular or business pintrest account for your POD business ?
I did a business account (it is free) just for the extra statistics it gives me but if you are just throwing designs up and using Pinterest as a collection board, the regular account is good too.
hello there, thank you for the actionable informations. i have one question about the ad you did. You said that design was selling like one or two times a week, so what about during and after the ad, did the sales increase ?
I have enjoyed this video. You suggest that you just open an account and use it for 3 months, without focusing on promotion. Should this account be opened as a Pinterest business account or not?
It's a good question - I personally have a business account. It's free and it gives me analytics. So I would say open a business account but then use it as a consumer for a bit. Like I use my Pinterest account to share my designs, but also to save other designs that inspire me to create new stuff. Or just stuff that I like.
@@zenwatercooler hi there. Thanks for the video. I have 2 questions. 1) what do you suggest to be our user name on Pinterest? 2) which marketplace you have linked to your Pinterest as an official website when you were creating the account? The one from your Redbubble store or you don't have any link connected to your store you just mannually add links to some of your designs published on the marketplaces and also add the appropriate link to that POD product mannualy?
@@kristinashumadieva1529 I would suggest a gender neutral name - a significant portion of Pinterest people are female and they get a bit creeped out by AWESOMEDUDE on Pinterest kind of thing. Usually something generic like your username or gmail address would work? I don't link my actual shops on Pinterest - I do what you mentioned as the second option - I manually add links to the occasional design (like 1 out of every 20 posts) and it links to my design.
hi, may I know when you following someone, is it best to follow someone that is in your niche interest, and also when creating board is it best to do it within your niche or its doesnt really matter and just do what you like
Hey there - I usually follow the person (not the board). I would say if you have lots of different interests, follow the person. If you only care about one specific niche, then follow the board only. I like being nosy and getting weird new stuff in my feed!
Hi, very helpfull video, seems we all make the mistake of promoting our own products ;-) Have a question, when you pin (daily on your boards, before you come up with your own pins), do you pin stuff from the competition, or only related things, like say yur T-shirts are about funny cats, would you then pin funny cats, or also T-shirts from the competition that use funny cats? Just wondering, am always thinking, when promoting other peoples stuff, they may stay away from mine... Keep up the good work!
Great question - I will pin anything and everything as a consumer (that I am actually interested in) and then about every 10 pins or so I will stick my own stuff in there). I typically don’t care if it is competition or not, I am trying to make a quality board. So I use it as a true consumer and then also as a promoter.
Was the design linking to red bubble (the one u advertised and got 118 click throughs on)? Did u see an increase in sales on red bubble for that shirt?
I did a couple of paid promotions on Pinterest (like $10 each time, I think I did it twice) and I can't say that it resulted in a ton of more actual engagement. Views went way up, but clickthroughs and sales weren't significantly affected. I think Pinterest is great for getting more eyeballs on designs but it doesn't automatically translate to more sales (at least not immediately).
I have a business account - for what I can see, they are both free and the business account gives more info (so I don't see a downside to having the business account).
I am currently active on about 10-20 different platforms at any one time and make enough money each year that it keeps me working. I did a video about it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9i_AmyFhk7k.html
I use a business account - they are both free and the business account has metrics which are great for tracking (there’s no down side as far as I can tell) 👍
My understanding is that ads are targeted to your home country by default, but you can change it. help.pinterest.com/en/business/article/location-language-device-and-gender-targeting
Yes I sell on multiple POD sites so if you pick a design that is already selling (which I did), chances are good that the exposure is worth the $10. I don't do it very often but it did work (I made a few more sales) than normal. But I can't say with 100% certainty that it would work every time for every design. People generally buy designs because they want it and the design is high quality - not because it is being promoted.
