This is why you see so many pins with items from. The way to make money off them is to post, or “pin”, items that would be of interest to these women and link those items with an affiliate link.
The network serves a mostly female audience that loves to shop. Pinterest is ideally suited for affiliate marketers. What matter is that it is possible to make a lot of money off Pinterest, and you don’t have to spam the network to do it. Whether Steve’s story was a hoax or not doesn’t really matter. He got so much coverage that he retracted the story and now says it was all a hoax. While that isn’t a lot of money, the spammer (who goes by the name “Steve”) got big media coverage. Yesterday, my friend Zac Johnson posted a story about a Pinterest spammer who was making over $1,000 a day off the social networking site.
