Using Pinterest to Sell Art Online

Can we use Pinterest to get traffic to a brand new online art store? I intend to find out. This is the next step in my experiment to see what it takes to sell art online.

Our Pinterest profiles are below - if you follow us, I do promise I'll follow you back. If you watched the video you know why that's important:

https://www.pinterest.com/jonnigood153/
https://www.pinterest.com/jessierasche2/

Pinterest seems like a perfect fit for artists who are trying to get traffic back to a new website because it's an image-sharing site, and paintings and sculptures look nice in photographs.

However, there are some tricky problems, which I discuss in this video. Pinterest doesn't work the way it used to. Back when it was new, I threw a few images up on Pinterest for UltimatePaperMache.com and then wandered off and forgot about them. Yet my paper mache boards have 1,499 followers, and my pins get almost 150,000 views every month.

From looking at those stats, you can see why I decided to concentrate on Pinterest for my new website selling animal wall art. But things have changed rather drastically since I haphazardly created my first Pinterest profile.

Today, because the algorithm determines popularity before deciding which pins people see, we need to have a popular board or profile before anyone sees our pins at all. Many experts say you should just ask your friends to follow you, to get the ball rolling. And that's exactly what I'm doing now, because we're all friends, right? :)

By the way, I'm looking for videos or books that show us how to use Pinterest to market physical products, like art. All the training I've found so far have been specifically designed for Lifestyle bloggers, not online stores.

I know that Pinterest can be used to help sell physical goods, but what's the best way to design the images for the pins? What's the best pinning schedule? Etc., etc. If you know of a video I should be watching, please let me know. If YouTube won't let you post a link, send it me: http://www.ultimatepapermache.com/contact

If you'd like to see the two new websites that we're trying to get traffic to, using Pinterest, the links are:

My animal prints and wall art: https://jonnigood.com
Jessie's new abstract paintings: https://jessierasche.com

The new Instagram accounts that Jessie has set up for us are:
My new art prints: https://www.instagram.com/animal_wall_art
Jessie's abstract paintings: https://www.instagram.com/jessierasche/

If you love to sculpt - and especially if you enjoy sculpting with paper mache, check out my how-to books:

Make Animal Sculptures: http://amzn.to/1nMUO3a
How to Make Masks: http://amzn.to/2obUDmq
Make Tiny Paper Mache Dogs: http://amzn.to/1KXd9zg
Make Adorable Baby Animal Dolls: http://amzn.to/20GBQcg

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And come visit me at http://UltimatepaperMache.com
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