Why Pinterest Doesn't Work For You - Use This Traffic Strategy Instead!

[@LisaIrby]

Timestamps for The Video... 0:45 My Reach Dropped 1:00 Pinterest & RedBubble 1:41 Who is Pinterest Best For? 2:45 Pinning Tips for Success 5:11 What The Algorithm Looks For 8:47 Post These Pins Often! 12:07 Do This for 30 Days 14:02 Why I Don't Use Automation 13:21 Why My Reach Spiked Quickly 15:24 Track Your Pinterest Sales on RedBubble

[@pythonjava6228]

My personal opinion on the automation, is that I prefer to do a mix of manual and automated pinning. The manual stuff is important because Pinterest IMO likes the idea of you behaving like a regular user who's engaging with other people and not just pinning automatically

[@no-mercy3446]

Out of the review, I've seen so far, you're so smart person I think. I'll have to go back and run it a few more times. Thx Lisa~

[@11cyndee]

So glad I watched this video. Starting to take my shop more seriously and I love Pinterest and Instagram. 😊

[@LisaIrby]

👍🏽👍🏽

[@OK-qr2bx]

Thank you Lisa❤! You information was very important and fast delivered! 😂❤ I get it clear!❤

[@thequirkyhenstudiosarahdav7227]

Hey Lisa, thank you for posting this great video, I found it super informative. I’m really struggling with zazzle to Pinterest at the moment and your video has given me lots to think about. So thank you. Liked and subscribed 👍🏻❤️

[@Meloyadina]

Hey Lisa, haven't commented in a while, wanted to say HI & happy to see you posting again. Your Pinterest advice is 💯💯.... was doing all you suggested for about 3 mths in Q2, especially the quotes, & my engagement kept improving each week. BUT 2021 has come with so much that I've had to do a very big pause on POD to restart in 2022 when I'm recharged 🙌🏾.

[@LisaIrby]

Melanie! Great to see ya here again. I can totally understand. That's smart to just take a break and start fresh in the new year!

[@arteverywhere1286]

This video has helped me understand what happened to Pinterest. Also Now i understand when I started going back to my roots and posting the items in the areas I did in the beginning I started getting better traffic. Thank you; now I can focus my postings and expand my views on Pinterest, thus helping my KZbin & Red Bubble pages. 👍

[@pythonjava6228]

Question for you: when creating a board for quotes, if you're making general quotes for running, for example, where do you link the pins to? Assuming the quotes are general and not related to the products on your store?

[@LisaIrby]

I link mine to my main website just for links and branding.

[@serjmarkelov9915]

That tons of value right there! Thanks a lot!

[@InfoPathFinder]

Thank you so much for all of the information you share!

[@asireart5170]

Always a pleasure to see you and your wonderful content. Thank you, Lisa! I was thinking to post motivational quotes for 30 days. What do you think about it?

[@GusLandy]

Hi Lisa, very helpful advice! I have a POD Shopify store with 10 featured pets, Beagle, French Bulldog, Turtle, Guinea Pig, Parrot, etc. Do you recommend me to have 10 different Pinterest accounts for each of them (to maintain a clean niche for each pet), or just place the pins in the same account but in 10 different boards, one board for each pet (easier for me). Thanks!!!

[@kristiechiles]

Lisa, I've been watching your videos for a long time! Much success to you!

[@LisaIrby]

Thanks Kristie!

[@vuongtuananh6899]

Hi Lisa, thank you so much for the value you provided. I have tried to pin more idea pins for 2 weeks and my account got more impression. However, the problem is the number of impressions only focuses on the idea pin, and in the product pin impression still stays the same. Should I keep up posting new other idea pins to regain my product pin impression?

[@sglant]

Much appreciated. Thanks for sharing.

[@pythonjava6228]

Coming through with that useful content. Thank you!

[@smomslifestyle]

Great tips!!! Thanks so many many much!

[@No_Show94]

I’m not good with niches I’m to all over the place but I do promote on Pinterest here and there and sometimes it does well

[@onlyrealwork]

Thank you Lisa. I like how open minded you are to share your knowledge. I’m always sure your new video is informative. And I’m alway so right ))

[@rodgerdouglas4854]

Thank you for your amazing videos. I binge watched all of them. You share so much useful information.

[@richm34]

Very, very good information. Thank you for taking the time to share your research and knowledge!

[@angelahenryauthor]

Thank you, Lisa! This is excellent info ; ).

[@followthebreadcrumbsofficial]

New subbie! Thanks for the content 👍🏾 you have a voice for radio

[@veroniquevanheerden7897]

Thank you so much, very helpful, 🌷 2 questions, the quotes, do I link them to my website? And when you use pinterest own scheduler , will that be okay? I will really appreciate your feedback 😃

[@Joanilynaija]

Thanks Lisa, I will implement this.

[@EnElPublishingWashington]

Dope content... I appreciate you sharing!!!

[@gaillund]

Excellent advice!

[@Coollovelee]

Thank you, these are some good tips I am going to try.

[@sheilakay4138]

Wow!! This was so helpful!! Thank you so much!

[@patriciadavella6714]

Thank you very much, Lisa for this valuable video.

[@samuniverse2]

So helpful. Thank you thank you

[@fatimazahraben7881]

i have a redbubble account using my mom's email address and the rest of my shops in different platforms are used with my own email address. if i wanna advertise this redbubble shop can i include it with the other shops all in one pinterest account? or will that be considered as a suspicious action for redbubble if they can detect the link between my mom's shop and my pinterest account (which has my email) where i'll be advertising??

[@TankUni]

I see from your report (1:39), you're often selling multiple items per sale? I'm doing reasonably well, but my sales are very much one item (usually a tee) per sale, so to sell several items at a time seems next level. Any chance of a video on strategies to achieve multi-item sales?

[@LisaIrby]

That wasn't the quantity column. That was the order number column. So you were looking at the last digit of the person's order number. I purposely cut the screen there for customer privacy reasons. I don't typically get multiple items in an order. Maybe 10-20% of the time. So probably no different than your experience.

[@Waycool247]

Thank You... You still give quality information Thanks

[@petemoring67]

Used to browse Pinterest every morning, just for entertainment, not any form of business or posting .... Lately it has got Sooooooo Bland and at LEAST 50% Ads ....... AARRGGHH!!!! ..... WHY are they killing 'The Golden Goose' ?? :-(

[@LisaIrby]

Money…money…money. When companies go public things tend to change.

[@bronzyace7996]

Great video thanks!

[@aandjmom1]

Lisa, Oh My God! Good Looking out. From your other video, I made a Pinterest page and just started pinning everything. (All in ONE Day). But i dont have a Website Anymore. I guess im stuck. Good looking out.

[@LisaIrby]

Yeah that's why I wanted to make an updated video. I think that's what's changed the most since then. You really need a brand. Even if you don't have a website, at least have a niche account.

[@aandjmom1]

@@LisaIrby Hey Lisa, Since I used to have a Shopify account ( that never sold anything) I still have the name, but (please forgive me if this is stupid) My brand name and Pinterest account is Christian but MANY of my tees ( at least the ones that sell) are definitely not. How do I post them on a Board that are no where near connected ? My MANY designs are not exactly related to one another. This is the part I still dont understand. Hope this makes sense. thx in advance. (if you have a course that explains this please let me know) If i knew how to truly Market, I can do better.

[@LisaIrby]

@@aandjmom1 I wouldn't post them to your Christian account at all. I would make another account that is niche and only post related designs. Like I said in the video, some people will just find that Pinterest isn't worth their time based on not having a niche and that's OK. But I definitely wouldn't post them to your Christian account....even if you create a separate board.

[@aandjmom1]

@@LisaIrby Lisa, YOU ARE THE MIX! (that's a good thing) Thanks for all you do. Do you have a course that goes deep into how to market? I already have Placeit (which i love) Merch Informer, and Pretty Merch, But i need a course on Market ( for people that dont have a following)

[@LisaIrby]

@@aandjmom1 Unfortunately I don't. I spend so much time working on my own art and designs that I haven't had time to make any more courses.

[@bjduncan9704]

Trying to figure out how to create inspirational quotes on canva

[@sherrimclaughlin-ryan2501]

Thank you so much!!!

[@patjohnson8450]

POD used to be so much fun. With all of the changes with traffic sites these past few years like Pinterest, SEO google and social media, it's just not fun anymore. Gone are the days where POD was beginner and intermediate friendly. RIP.

[@LisaIrby]

I still enjoy it, but yes things have changed. People who already have a following/traffic or plan to build a long-term niche brand will have the best chance long term. Very glad I made the decision to focus on a single niche in 2018. Just relying on POD organic traffic income alone with random niches is a lot more challenging now for the average person just starting. Hope you find something else you enjoy in the meantime. Best of luck to ya, Pat.

[@patjohnson8450]

@@LisaIrby Thank you.

[@MbyMorganK]

What's your thought on idea pins? As they bring lots of views but we can't add links to them

[@LisaIrby]

That’s a great question. I have actually never tried these.

[@MbyMorganK]

@@LisaIrby You should try! I get from 1k to 86k views each and I'm only active on it since about 5 months. So it's a good way to upcycle your vertical videos and you can add notes for people to read like what tools you use (but no clickable links)

[@LisaIrby]

@@MbyMorganK Good to know! Looks like I've been sleeping on this!

[@MbyMorganK]

@@LisaIrby they made my followers count quadruple from July to September also (but I only had 30 in July :D ). Let me know if you try, or give it 2 months and you might want to make a video about those, then I'll see it

[@LisaIrby]

@@MbyMorganK I'm definitely gonna try it. I kept seeing these come up as suggestions and I never took the time to explore. Now I will. Thank you!

[@gocatapultar]

So I read you should have around 20 boards. If you're a running niche, how do you have at least 20 boards?

[@LisaIrby]

Great question. Niches have sub niches. So if your niche is Autism, you could have a board for Autism Moms, another for Autism Awareness, Autism Quotes, etc. I also create boards by products. There’s so many ways.

[@gocatapultar]

@@LisaIrby Awesome thanks

[@jhevoyjacas7237]

I'm new to Pinterest and I recently created a niche pinterest account around health/wellness. I hear this a lot that you should repin other people's pin but why? Because I'm thinking that won't allow the lead to view and go to my website so why should I do that? As I said I'm new so would really love some clarification. Thanks!!

[@LisaIrby]

It’s not about doing it because it’s going to help you get views. It’s just a part of the Pinterest culture. And now the algorithm expects you as a user to share other users continent. Look at it as a penalty if you don’t share other peoples constant and that can impact your exposure potential.

[@jhevoyjacas7237]

@@LisaIrby OH I see and how many times do you think I should be posting per day before I start seeing some traffic coming in

[@LisaIrby]

@@jhevoyjacas7237 There’s no way anyone could answer that for you. You just have to start pinning and wait and see. It all depends on how engaging your pins are and if the audience you are targeting is active on Pinterest. Lots of variables.

[@jhevoyjacas7237]

@@LisaIrby Okay so I don't have a blog I'm using a sales funnels to promote an affiliate offer should I be linking to that website on every pin?

[@jhevoyjacas7237]

@@LisaIrby any opinions?

[@november132]

Hello, I just made a pinterest account and posted my first pin. However when my friend tried to search for me from her account, my username or pin isn't showing up. Do you know why? She can only see my account if I send her the direct link.

[@LisaIrby]

It may take a little time for it to populate. Try again in 24 hours.

[@november132]

@@LisaIrby Thanks for the reply! My account is now searchable but not my pin. If I type in the exact title of my pin it doesn't show up even though the results are limited (there are not pages and pages). I'm still learning how pinterest works but I thought it my pin would come up in the search?

[@LisaIrby]

@@november132 I never search for my pins because the algorithm is very personalized and customized so different people see different things. So I don’t expect to ever find my pin. The algorithm is very complicated so there’s no surprise you’re not able to find it. As long as they show up on my account that’s all I care about. At first I thought you were saying you couldn’t find it on your account but I don’t worry about search because it’s so algorithmic. In order for pins to rank they need to get re-pins from other people so the more popular your pins get overtime the easier they will show up and search but don’t expect a new image to be found in search without a lot of interaction or shares from other users. Popularity drives the rank. A new pin has no popularity yet. Sometimes I’ll run across my own pins when I’m browsing and they’re usually the popular ones.

[@p.o.ddesigns8981]

Hi 😀They blocked my account, for spam, I sent five messages 🤷 can I unblock my account?

[@SideHustleInspiration]

Bout to give you a shoutout in ym next KZbin video! :-)

[@LisaIrby]

Thank youuuuuuu!

[@SideHustleInspiration]

@@LisaIrby You're always welcome :-)

[@Wynter_Heat]

Thank you thank you thank you 🙏🏾

[@LisaIrby]

You're very welcome!

[@alinaoz6323]

Thanks thanks thanks❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@aandjmom1]

Funny Story. Every time I watch a KZbin video that talks about money or wealth, and they add one of the cash register sounds, It sounds EXACTLY like the Pretty Merch "you made a sale" sound. I feel really dumb when I check and there's nothing there. I giggle all the time cause I feel so silly. LOL.

[@LisaIrby]

This is so relatable. Because it's a royalty free sound, it shows up everywhere. I'll be in the kitchen with the TV on in the other room and I'll hear the cha-ching on a commercial and think I made a sale! LOL You are not alone. Ha ha!!

[@BuggsOp]

Damn you sold 1 mask and made 10$ I usually get around 4-5. what markup do you set it at?

[@LisaIrby]

No, I wish! That was the column for the price, not the margin. lol I have it set to whatever the default is.

[@BuggsOp]

Oh my bad lol

[@mohammedalkaff1982]

What the best way for newbie to make $1000 per month ? Please answer me

[@LisaIrby]

Are you making at least $10/month yet? I find that when people ask these questions, they aren't even making anything close to $1,000 so that's a big jump for a newbie to make. So set a goal to make $10 or $20 month and then SCALE those niches with better designs. That's what happened to me. Yes, I make well over $1,000/month now, but when I first started making a small amount.... let's say $100/month, I continued to work the same niches and improved my designs in those same keywords. But please don't think there is some magic tip that is instantly going to help you make $1,000. You have to build to that and it could take months or even years. I hate the assumption that there is one missing tip that is going to instantly help someone make $1,000 month. (I blame KZbin for that. LOL) Typically there's not. It's a process. Find lower competition niches and make the best designs you can. Be patient and don't believe the hype!

[@LisaIrby]

@@grahamnichols1416 Thank you for saying this. KZbinrs have learned that the "Make $x/month" thumbnail is what gets views but it doesn't mean they are actually making that. And they have all these people out here thinking it's easy to do in a couple of days. Nope.

[@mohammedalkaff1982]

@@LisaIrby What can I say for beautiful lady like you from( inside & outside) . Many thanks for actual plan as I'm going to start blogging business in love niche ( sub niche) with traffic from Pinterest That niche I'm passionate about and can take the chance for years to come ...so your advice as a gold and I will go for it .

[@mohammedalkaff1982]

@@grahamnichols1416 thank you very much

[@successismyMotivation8396]

Is November when pinterest picks up

[@TanyaOwens]

Ok, I'll call your bluff. Added quotes to my Positive Awe biz profile, see what happens

[@LisaIrby]

Good luck!

[@highhosilver5610]

🎠👀👍

[@ulysse21]

Internet 2.0 is becoming more and more dumb. I'm on interest for art and visual beauty, not quotes. Does it really need a visual pin to read a quote you can find written anywhere on internet or a book, magazine ? Why people are so stupid ?

[@LisaIrby]

Some people like to save quotes for inspiration and look at Pinterest like an online scrapbook. I don't always understand people's reasons, but I do my best to try when it comes to making money. It sure helps! LOL One thing I've learned in my journey is I don't always understand the demand. My goal as an entrepreneur is to meet the demand....no matter how strange it may be. LOL

[@ulysse21]

@@LisaIrby I understand your pragmatic approach. But the fact that superficial stuff always ends up taking precedence over quality really irritates me.

[@LisaIrby]

@@ulysse21 I hear ya! I've noticed people who are trained in design or have a strong interest/talent in art find that part kinda frustrating. I get it.

[@ronb4812]

What a waste of time... whats a small time seller to do?

[@LisaIrby]

If you're not interested in building a brand and using Pinterest, then focus on researching long tail, low competition keywords. That's what smaller sellers can do. Q4 is coming up so lots of demand for smaller niches. Pinterest isn't for everyone and especially if you are a smaller seller just starting.

[@HireYourSelfWithCarlos]

Do u have a Pinterest account or any social media account?