Pinterest Could Double Your Income In One Day

bynathaniell

101.5K followers

8 years ago

I had my first taste of viral Pinterest profits last week. I was very surprised at how fast and powerful it was. Unfortunately, it the virality didn't last. It was only one pin, so the spike in income only lasted about 3-4 days.

Just looking at the dollar amount, it wasn't much. I made about $150 extra over the course of three days.

But percentage-wise, it was significant. Normally, this website earns about $40 per day from ads. Last week, it was earning nearly $100 per day!

That was just from one pin going viral. This pin being passed around Pinterest boards was able double my site's daily income from $40 to $90 overnight. Wow!

Imagine if I had a pin go viral a few times a month, or imagine if my Pinterest activities led to more significant, consistent engagement. I could be making a lot more money from this website!

You can see the traffic spike at the end of my analytics here. Things are back to normal now, but the instant traffic was real.

Unfortunately, I wish I knew what happened to make it go viral. I spent a large chunk of money last year (2017) hiring someone to manage my Pinterest boards. They grew my followers from 200 to 2,000, but it resulted in very little action on my website.

By were super active for that four month period, but since then, I haven't touched them. It looks like some "super blogger" just decided he/she liked one of my pictures, and their fanbase did the rest.

So this time, I won't be able to show you how to repeat this process. Bummer. I just wanted to give a small reminder that Pinterest can be very powerful!

Have you ever had a social media post go viral? What happened?