Project #1 | Affiliate Marketing w/Outfit Collages | Introduction
Project idea
For the last couple of months (since about July/August) I have been making outfit collages for fun and posting them on pinterest. So I thought for my first side hustle project it would be a good idea to try to convert my hobby into something that brings in some money, through affiliate marketing. The basic premise is to make an outfit collage and then tag the products so that if someone wanted to recreate the outfit they could.
What I’ve been up to
I’ve continued to post on pinterest as before, but I added tagged products to my new posts. I joined the Amazon Affiliate Program and have been finding products similar to what’s in my collages from Amazon to tag in my pins. Before I tag the product I make sure that it has good reviews, and also has good interest (i.e. “100+ people have bought this in the last month”). I’ve also been adding hashtags to the pins with keywords to help them get more views.
My plan for this month
I want to post an outfit collage everyday or every other day since at the moment I don’t post very consistently. I also want to increase the impressions of my pins somehow, so I am going to try improving the descriptions and titles of the pins. On top of that I want to see if I can branch out a little bit onto a different platform- I’m not sure what exactly yet, maybe twitter or reddit. If I have time I might look into joining some other affiliate programs as well!
Goals for this month
I will be very happy if I make a single affiliate sale. Also I want to double my pinterest monthly views (ie from 3.1k -> 6.2k).
Stat comparisons (Month 0 vs Month 0)
I included the stats for the last 90 days, you can see I started posting in August so there was a small increase in my impressions and then I started tagging products around the middle of October which corresponds to the jump you see there.
Amazon Affiliate
Some of these clicks are just me messing around to make sure that my links work (I would say about half of them are me).
Thoughts and Recap
I just started this project so I still don’t have anything very important to say or any impressive stats to show. I will come back one month from now to give an update on how things are going, so don’t forget to subscribe to my patreon so you don’t miss the notification! See you then 😀
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