Pinterest for Writers: How to Explode Your Growth With the Tools You Already Have
Writer, you want your words to inspire, encourage, help others overcome the real problems they’re facing. But first, those words need to reach readers.
Building your author platform is a daunting task. You’re not getting much traction and you’re exhausted.
What if there was a way to explode your growth? Better yet, using tools already at your disposal?
I’ve got one word: Pinterest.
Pinterest has been a game-changer for me, bringing new readers to my website and my content up in Google searches.
Several years ago, after converting my rarely-used personal Pinterest account to a business one,
- I went from 159 monthly viewers to 1 million in 7 months
- 3 months later I hit 3 million monthly viewers
- A pin broke 100 link clicks and had 57k views at the 5-month mark
- AND I was soon getting the largest percentage of my blog traffic from Pinterest
Yes, there have been major changes to Pinterest since then, but even though my reach is far below what it was at its peak, I’ve steadily gained new followers (over 11k so far!) and still get a good percentage of my website traffic from Pinterest.
Want to know my secrets?
I put them all in this handy guide for you!
Pinterest is different from other social accounts. It’s actually a lot more of a search engine than it is a community-building tool. But the content you upload also has a much, much longer shelf life.
Writer, if you find keeping up with Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Tik Tok overwhelming, Pinterest might be your new best friend. And it doesn’t have to take much time. May I show you how?
In the Pinterest for Writers E-Guide you’ll find a stunning, landscape spread of tips, graphics, and screen shots to help you get started, gain traction, and connect with new readers. You’ll learn Pinterest basics like the difference between a regular and idea pin, and how to upload them. Lots of ways to save time and multi-purpose your content. My best tips on how to experiment for yourself, what to pay attention to, and what to NOT do.
I’m an open book, answering all the questions I remember being asked by other writers. And friend, I don’t want you to miss out!
This guide will
- Provide you with a winning strategy that doesn’t require you to keep spending dollars.
- Empower you to use tools already at your disposal to explode your growth.
- Train you to become your own master experimenter.
- Help you make the best use of your time with time-saving hacks.
- Teach you what to track so you can do more of what works.
- Boost your confidence to share your message with a larger audience.
- Show you how Pinterest is a tool for more than just blog traffic.
I cannot wait to tell you all about my winning Pinterest strategy.
But if you’re still deciding, there’s a gift I’m offering you today: a one-page Pinterest cheat sheet to get you started! I packed as many tips as I possibly could on the page.
Erase the guess-work!
Take the guesswork out of your Pinterest game plan with the monthly tracking sheet and my list of ways to experiment on Pinterest. You can grab the printables when you purchase the Pinterest for Writers E-Guide, or you can grab them separately here.
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Twyla Franz is a growing voice in the missional living niche whose words appear in publications like Relevant and Her View From Home. She founded The Uncommon Normal in 2019 to help imperfectly-ready people take baby steps into neighborhood missional living. Her 2019 word of the year, open, helped her dismantle the walls she’d built that kept her friendships shallow; she wants nothing more than to help other women find freedom and deep friendship on the other side of their own walls.
Twyla and her family live in Lexington, KY, where they host a neighborhood missional community. If she’s not writing or creating Canva graphics, she’s probably talking to a neighbor—or figuring out what she can make for dinner with the ingredients on hand.
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