Pinterest 8K Followers, How to Monetize?

You don't monetize social media sites.

You should have a blog or site where you are selling products or services in a specific niche, or a lead capture page to build a list of potential customers.

Your followers on Pinterest should be in that niche, if not, you just wasted your time and should start over.

The purpose of leveraging social media sites is to get your name out there to bring traffic to your "money site." You should be engaging with your followers to build relationships with them in the hopes of generating leads, which you hope to convert to loyal customers.

If you haven't done this, then start over and then do the following:

1. Decide on a niche you are passionate about.
2. Become an expert in that niche. Learn everything you can about that niche. By doing this, you increase the value of what you are offering to your potential customers.
3. Find people on your social media outlets with the same interests and likes you have in said niche. Engage with them. In this manner you will never run out of content because you are here as a marketer to solve their problems, fears, and concerns. You can only find this out by forming relationships with and asking them.
4. Write original, content that provides value to your followers by meeting their needs. You should have a call to action at the end of each post. Sweeten the deal by offering bonuses, such as free reports or an awesome audio or video.
5. Create an effective email campaign that centers on the theme of you being able to help them out no matter where they are in their businesses or what business they are in. If you can write engaging content that can convey that message, you will gain customers that will continue to buy from you over and over for life.

That's how you monetize.

Apparently pinterest is great for traffic generation, so maybe create a site about what your followers like, and promoting with pinterest.

Think integrated marketing communications, think authority sites, think multi touchpoint user engagement. Create a brand, make it strong..

Try finding out what your followers are girls or boys young or old first that way you know how to monetize that.

Well it depends upon various factors, you have total followers of 8k, or your profile followers are 8k, if your profile followers are 8k then i will suggest to go into recipes niche, recipes are the best converting and have highest Click through ratio on pinterest..
Next try to have some quotes boards, Quotes don't have good conversion on pinterest, but they they get you huge repins and eventually followers, A couple of hundred quotes pins and your followers rate will multiply,
But make sure to pin from your own sites,

In any case, always have a primary website you can link to via your Pinterest account. Even a regular blog with offers will do.

Start converting some of these Pinterest followers into real life followers and you'll quickly see your sales rise. Use a Pinterest software of some kind to scrape/watermark/repin with your website URLs back to your 8K followers.

Traffic is something that you would want to go get from Pinterest. On the other hand, if you are looking for something that will "click" on Pinterest, maybe you should begin by understanding what your 8k followers are like and what they actually like for you to come up with a more specific strategy.

Well...Good job.Tell me one thing that you have total followers of 8k, or your profile followers are 8k.
Next try to have a website and enjoy your efforts

Who is your followers young, old, girls, preteens etc. I would say once you find out who that is you can then target what products to sell.

You need to find out what the demographic of your followers are...young, old, male, female etc..once you know that you will be able to market effectively to them.