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#2796 - Q&A: “How can Pinterest drive traffic to an e-commerce store?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode, we explore how to use Pinterest to drive traffic to your e-commerce store and boost sales. Learn to create engaging pins, optimize your profile, and leverage Pinterest’s features to attract more visitors. Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week. Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com Email: [email protected] Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions Connect on Instagram: @193countries Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.substack.com If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

How can we use Pinterest to drive traffic to an e-commerce store.

0:13.0

An e-commerce shop, something that you are selling.

0:16.0

Hey friends, hey listeners,

0:18.0

side of the school community,

0:19.0

we've been talking about Pinterest,

0:20.0

maybe once or twice a month recently. I do think it is kind of a secret

0:24.6

understudied network for side hustlers it's a little bit easier to get

0:29.4

traction and attention there and traffic The algorithm is not as brutal as

0:34.4

Instagram, Tik-Tok, some other networks and crucially Pinterest doesn't seem to mind

0:39.9

that a lot of people have this strategy of using it to drive traffic,

0:43.0

whereas these other networks are kind of like,

0:45.0

hey, we don't want you taking our users off our platform.

0:49.0

And they're very deliberate about that.

0:50.0

So for all those reasons, it can be a good network for a lot of people.

0:53.4

Today we're going to explore how to use Pinterest to drive traffic to the e-commerce shop and

0:57.4

boost sales if you've ever wondered how to do that or might be interested in a new strategy

1:01.5

to get more attention on your website or online shop.

1:05.8

We're going to hear today from Laura in San Francisco.

1:08.2

She is curious about this very idea.

1:10.3

So let's dive into some effective strategies to help Laura and anybody else out there who would like to have a little bit more traffic on their web store.

1:17.0

Detailed question and my answer coming up in just 30 seconds. I'm Hi team, I'm Laura from San Francisco. I run an e-commerce store and I've been hearing a lot about the potential of Pinterest for driving traffic and increasing sales.

1:40.0

How can I effectively use Pinterest to attract visitors to my store?

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