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Looking for ideas on how to sell things on Pinterest effectively? With our tips, your store will easily win over the hearts of Pinterest shoppers. Keep reading to discover how to list products on Pinterest and start growing your sales today.

What is Pinterest?

What is Pinterest
Pinterest is a website where people share creative ideas in the form of visuals. Here all kinds of individuals and businesses can explore new trends and draw inspiration from them. Top categories on Pinterest include home decor, do-it-yourself crafts, recipes, beauty, and fashion.

Pinterest can be best described as a combination of social media and a search engine. Users of this platform, often called pinners, can create and interact with posts, as well as search for content on specific topics by keywords.

How does Pinterest work?

How Pinterest works
Posts on Pinterest are called pins. They consist of a key visual, such as an image or video, a link to a website from where it's taken, and a small description. A special subtype of pins can also have prices and availability, letting people know that they can buy the featured offer. This subtype is called product pins and is exactly how you can sell products on Pinterest.

Online stores promote their brand and sell on Pinterest using a business account. This free indispensable tool will help you show and promote your unique offers on Pinterest, as well as analyze how pinners engage with them.

In the business account, you upload and store your goods in a retail catalog. The products in your catalog are then automatically converted into product pins and shown on your profile page. You can then group relevant pins in boards to give pinners a more enjoyable experience.

Pinterest will organically display all your product pins and boards for free. But you can promote your pins as well. With Pinterest's vast advertising opportunities, you can start small and boost a few specific pins, or scale up and launch complex ad campaigns for many at once. You simply need to tell Pinterest how to show your ads, what's your goal and how much you can spend. Pinterest will then use this data during an auction to decide on the ad placement.

Pinterest auction

Benefits of using Pinterest

1. Vast audience

Nearly 537 million people actively seek inspiration on Pinterest every month, and almost half of them regularly come to the platform specifically for shopping. That's a total of up to 270 million potential new customers for your store.

2. High purchasing intent

Pinterest shoppers usually spend twice as much as shoppers of other popular social media platforms. You only need to lure these enthusiastic buyers to your store with mesmerizing images.

3. Increased brand awareness

Curious and open-minded Pinterest shoppers will help you naturally increase your reach. Many users save and share pins without tying to a specific brand, and about 96% of searches on the platform are also unbranded.

4. Effective advertising

Many engaging ad formats, such as carousels, collections, and quizzes, make selling on Pinterest and attracting ready-to-shop users even easier. And even if your campaign ends, your pins will remain and continue appearing organically.

5. Higher SEO rankings

Backlinks from Pinterest give your website more credibility. Moreover, search-optimized pins will appear in the top results not only on Pinterest but also on other big search engines, such as Google and Bing.

6. Greater content lifetime

Unlike posts on other social media sites, pins don't lose relevance as quickly. They can drive traffic well even years after creation. You can post less frequently while still getting the same value.

How to start selling on Pinterest

How to start selling on Pinterest
Shopify stores that want to sell products on Pinterest must be in a supported region and meet Pinterest's merchant guidelines.

Set up a Pinterest business account

Selling on Pinterest is impossible without creating a business account. To get one, you simply need to tell a few words about your store and goals. If you've explored the platform with a personal account before, you can change it to a business one in a single button click.

Next, you should give your new account a personal touch. Businesses with complete profiles are trusted by both pinners and Pinterest. Much like a canvas, your profile page is your way of presenting your brand's unique colorful style.

To start selling products on Pinterest, you also must claim your site. By doing so, you prove to Pinterest that you own it. You then can show this link on your profile and product pins. This lets visitors quickly go to your store and continue shopping there.

Install the Mulwi feed app to create a Pinterest feed

Instead of composing pins for each product yourself, you can let Pinterest do it for you by giving it a product feed. It's the fastest and most reliable way to get many products on Pinterest at the same time. However, making a feed manually is just as tedious and error-prone as creating pins by hand. Our product feed software will save you time and effort.

Mulwi's customizable Shopify Pinterest product feed template will give you a detailed feed in just a few minutes. It's packed with everything Pinterest needs and can also include anything you require. You have all the control over the template and can change its structure, which products it uses, and how it presents them.

You can install Mulwi from the Shopify app store and explore it for free with a 7-day trial.

Set up and connect the feed to Pinterest

Pinterest supports creativity, but not in the product feed structure. The platform has strict requirements on how you must organize the feed. If you create a Pinterest feed with Mulwi, you will quickly transform your Shopify catalog into a perfect feed that meets all these rules.

Now, you're only one step away from selling online on Pinterest. You just need to upload the feed to your Pinterest catalog. We recommend doing that via a link from Mulwi. In this case, Mulwi will regularly give Pinterest the freshest data, while Pinterest will automatically freshen up your product pins with these updates.

Great job! Now Pinterest will start organically showing your products completely for free. But you can also give some or all your pins a strong boost with paid ads.

Promote your product pins

Before you get started with ads, you should take extra time to organize your catalog with product groups. These help you pick together relevant products to promote. You can use the default groups that Pinterest offers or create new ones with your own logic.

You can launch your first ads quickly and with minimal setup using automated campaigns. In this case, Pinterest will take care of managing the hardest tasks, such as targeting and bidding. You only have to specify your goal, some basic settings and a daily budget.

If you want more control over your campaign, you can create it manually. This gives you more freedom in choosing your audience, setting your bids and picking ad formats. The best campaign types for online stores that sell with Pinterest are catalog sales and conversions. However, keep in mind that to use the latter, you must also add a Pinterest tag to your website.

What is Shopify feed for Pinterest and how to create one?

Shopify feed for Pinterest
A Shopify product feed is a regular text file containing a list of your store's offers. Marketplaces where you sell use these files to quickly get information about many items at once. It's not just any file, though. Marketplaces only accept files with a particular structure and format.

Mulwi knows what feeds are best at attracting sales from Pinterest and will help you make one. We've prepared a Shopify product feed template that you simply need to fill out. You can change it as you like if you want to include more details.

Pinterest product feed template

After that, just add the link to the feed as a data source for your Pinterest catalog. Mulwi will manage the rest. Our product feed tool will regularly give Pinterest an updated feed so that your pins are always fresh.

With Mulwi, your product feeds will make you and your pins rich.

Best practices for selling on Pinterest

Best practices for Pinterest
Eager to sell successfully on Pinterest? Pin these tips to your board and give them a try:
  • Give each product eye-catching professional images.
  • Prefer vertical images with a 2:3 aspect ratio so that they look good on mobile.
  • Make pin images memorable by showing your brand logo and short ad copy on it.
  • Organize your product pins in boards to increase engagement.
  • Add a "Pin it" button to your website to help pinners share your product pins more easily.
  • Include product categories in the feed to make your goods easier to find.
  • Use relevant keywords in your product information and content.
  • Remain socially active by regularly posting new pins and interacting with others.

Frequently asked questions

How do I sign up for Pinterest Business?

What countries and languages does Pinterest support?

Can I sell used items on Pinterest?

How do I update my Pinterest product feed?

Can I run Pinterest campaigns without a website?

What is the minimum budget for Pinterest ad campaigns?

How do I set up product groups in Pinterest?

Can I manage multiple stores in one Pinterest Business account?

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