I watched someone waste 3 hours yesterday on a task my team finishes before their coffee gets cold.
But they thought they were crushing it.
Let me explain.
Two people. Both run Pinterest blogs. Both publish content. Both show up every single day.
Person A sits down every morning. Opens Pinterest. Starts hunting for images. Scrolls. Saves a few. Jumps to stock photo sites.
Scrolls more. Downloads some.
Doesn't love them. Starts over. Tries another site. Finds a few that barely work. Resizes them. Formats them for the article.
Three hours gone. Burned. Just on images. One article.
Person A closes the laptop feeling accomplished. "I put in the work today."
Person B opens a workflow. Runs a prompt. Done in under 10 minutes. Moves on to article two before Person A even finishes article one.
Same exact task. Same quality output. One takes the entire morning. The other barely takes a coffee break.
Person A isn't lazy. They're not clueless. They're doing it the way everyone taught them. The manual way.
The "this is how blogging works" way. And they genuinely believe they're making progress.
They're not making progress. They're making themselves tired.
Being busy and being productive are two completely different animals.
And most Pinterest bloggers can't tell the difference until they see someone else doing the same job in a fraction of the time.
The trap that's bleeding your time dry
There's a belief in this space that more hours equals more growth. That grinding 4 to 5 hours a day on your blog means you're outpacing someone who spends 2.
Sounds right. Feels right.
It's dead wrong.
The blogger spending 5 hours doing everything manually is getting smoked by the blogger who built a system and wraps up the same work in 40 minutes.
Flat.
Not because one is more talented. Because one runs on workflows and the other runs on willpower.
Willpower fades. Workflows don't. Willpower has bad days. Workflows don't care what day it is.
I know this because I lived it. Two years ago, my team and I were doing everything by hand. Keyword research ate hours.
Content creation swallowed entire days. Image sourcing was its own beast. We were grinding. Hard.
And the output? Painfully average.
We were the hamster on the wheel. Legs moving fast. Going absolutely nowhere. Sweating for nothing.
Something had to snap. So we broke the entire process apart and rebuilt it from scratch.
What we built (and why it changed everything)
Over 18 months, we constructed workflows for every single step of our Pinterest content machine.
Keyword research. Niche selection. Board creation. Pin design. Content writing. Image sourcing. Formatting. Publishing.
Every. Single. Step.
Has a system now. A prompt. A process. A workflow that strips out the guesswork and the wasted hours.
What used to eat 3 to 4 hours per article now takes 30 to 50 minutes. Better output. Faster turnaround. And nobody on my team is burning out doing it.
That's not a small improvement. That's a completely different operation.
Let me pull back the curtain on one piece so you can feel the gap yourself.
Image sourcing: the silent time killer nobody warns you about
This one flies under the radar. But if you've ever published a content-heavy article, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Finding strong, relevant images is exhausting. Not generic stock photos that scream "I grabbed the first thing Google showed me."
Real visuals. On-brand. Scroll-stopping. The kind that make someone pause on your pin and actually click.
Most bloggers burn 1 to 3 hours sourcing images for a single article. Some even more. They dig through Google. Scroll Pinterest itself.
Jump between Unsplash, Pexels, Canva libraries. Screenshot from Instagram. Half the images don't fit.
Back to square one.
By the time images are handled, they're drained. The article itself gets whatever energy is left.
Less focus. Less creativity. Worse quality. The content suffers because the process stole everything before the real work even started.
Painful cycle. And almost nobody realizes they're stuck in it.
That was us. Until we snapped out of it and built a dedicated workflow just for image sourcing.
Where to go. What to search. How to pull high quality visuals fast. How to organize them so they slide straight into your article without messing around.
The whole process takes 5 to 10 minutes now.
Not a typo. Five to ten minutes. Full article's worth of images. The same task that used to devour half our afternoon.
The full workflow lives inside PIN POWER 2026 with video walkthroughs and templates.
But I want to give you a real taste of what this shift feels like.
Proof this hits instantly
One of our PIN POWER members messaged me a few weeks back. She'd been drowning in content creation.
Publishing one article was eating her entire day. The biggest bottleneck?
Image sourcing and formatting.
She asked if the workflow was ready. Said she needed it yesterday.
The update wasn't live yet. But I sent her an early version. Just the written steps. No video. No walkthrough. Just the raw workflow.
Her response:
That's the reaction of someone who just got 2 to 3 hours of their life back. From one workflow. For one task.
Now multiply that across every step of your content process.
I'm doing something I normally don't do
The response to these last few emails has been intense. People replying with their own stories. Sharing how much time they're losing. Asking how to fix it.
So I'm making a move.
The image sourcing workflow. The written version. Free. For the next 12 hours.
12 hours. Then the content gets pulled from that doc. Completely removed. No extension.
This is the same workflow my team runs daily across every site we manage. The same one that turned a 3 hour nightmare into a 10 minute task.
If you're serious about reclaiming your time, grab it now. Read it. Save it.
Use it on your very next article. You'll feel the difference before you finish your first image search.
One thing to know:
This is the written workflow only. Inside PIN POWER, you get the full video walkthroughs.
Every click. Every step. Every shortcut on screen. Plus all the other workflows for keyword research, board creation, pin design, content writing.
And 1:1 support if anything trips you up.
The freebie gives you the "what." The course gives you the "how."
This is one workflow. One.
Image sourcing is a single piece of the machine.
Here's what else runs on workflows inside PIN POWER 2026:
Keyword research in under 10 minutes using The Splinter Method prompts. Board clustering that maps your entire Pinterest presence in one sitting.
Pin titles and descriptions generated at scale without sounding like every other blog in your niche.
Full articles structured for Absorption Clicks so readers stay glued to your page.
Each workflow turns a multi-hour grind into something you knock out before lunch. That's not motivation talk. That's math.
Why speed is everything right now
Pinterest in 2026 is a volume game with a quality filter.
The blogs winning right now aren't just publishing good content. They're publishing good content fast. Relentlessly. Week after week after week.
If one article takes you an entire day, you're getting buried by someone publishing two or three in that same window.
Not because they're cutting corners. Because their system moves faster without sacrificing quality.
And that gap compounds. Ruthlessly. After one month, they're 15 to 25 articles ahead. After three months, they've built a content fortress you can't catch.
The longer you wait to fix your speed, the wider that gap stretches.
Speed is the new moat.
The bloggers who figure this out first will own their niches for the rest of the year. Everyone else will wonder where the traffic went.
The PIN POWER 2026 update was built around this reality.
Every workflow, every prompt, every system exists to get you producing faster at higher quality. That's the backbone of the entire update.
PIN POWER 2026
The update drops in days.
Every workflow. Every prompt. Every production system my team runs daily. All inside PIN POWER with this update.
Already a member? Free. Always.
Price goes up the moment the update is live.
What's coming next
This is the last email before the update goes live.
And I saved something for it.
There are strategies working on Pinterest right now in 2026 that I haven't talked about in any of these emails.
Methods we've been testing quietly across our accounts. Things that are pulling results we didn't expect.
Watch your inbox closely for next email.
Talk soon, BILAL
P.S. The 12-hour window on the image sourcing workflow is real. I'm not extending it. Not tomorrow. And if one single workflow saves you 2 to 3 hours on your next article, sit with that for a second. Now think about what the full system inside PIN POWER does across every step of your process. Every. Single. Step.
