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Want to Dominate Pinterest? Follow These 6 Tips. Pinterest is the only social network your grandma understands; it’s also the one your mom jumped on before you did. A once-obscure image board platform with a mere 5,000 users, Pinterest has taken the social web by storm. In just three years, 70 million people—80 percent of whom are female—have pinned over 30 billion items. With these numbers, Pinterest has become the discovery platform that brands have always wished for. One brand that has found major success on the platform is Tiny Hands, a super-small business making big noise with its food jewelry. Founder Mei Pak has proven that she knows Pinterest, successfully using the platform to build an audience and sell her quirky creations. For those still trying to get a grasp on that perfect Pinterest strategy, Pak shares what works for her business on a platform that is just beginning to realize its earning potential. 1. While Facebook and Twitter offer brands a voice, Pinterest helps them craft the perfect image. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Related. 6 Ways to Use Pinterest to Promote Your Brand. Is Pinterest part of your marketing strategy? Have you ignored Pinterest because you think your brand isn’t a fit? Every brand has a story to tell and visual content can help you tell it. Sharing your story with Pinterest’s engaged and active audience via compelling pictures is a great place to start. In this article you’ll see how six brands got creative with Pinterest and captured new followers and interest. Why Pinterest? Visual marketing is the current trend, so it’s no wonder brands see huge potential in Pinterest. Pinterest has over 70 million users and 25 billion pins. Pinterest launched in March 2010 and has over 70 million users; 500,000 of those are business accounts.

While some brands have been quick to adopt Pinterest as a marketing tool to drive targeted engagement, there are a number of companies that can do more to harness the power of Pinterest and visual storytelling. Below are six innovative ways brands are using Pinterest. . #1: Bring Pinterest to You #5: Humanize Your Brand. Four Pinterest Best Practices for Brands.

What Happens When Guys Get on Pinterest. <br/><a href=" News</a> | <a href=" ABC News Videos</a> Copy It may have risen to fame on the shoulders of mommy bloggers, brides and fashionistas, but a growing number of guys are staking -- or pinning, as it were -- their claim in the land of Pinterest. As of January 2014, Pinterest has more than 60 million monthly active desktop users globally, according to ComScore. Of those, 30 percent are men -- and some have taken to the sugar-and-spice-dominated platform with the same obsessiveness devoted to fantasy football leagues and "March Madness" brackets. "I find amazing things on a regular basis -- tutorials, recipes and masculine design ideas that I wouldn't have thought to look up on my own," Daniel Bear Hunley, a "pinfluencer" with roughly 1.6 million followers, who currently maintains 42 different boards.

READ: Pinterest Expands to Travel Industry with 'Place Pins' Launch READ: Is Pinterest Revealing Your Secrets for You? LoveList for Pinterest - Scan to Pin. Why Pinterest Will Be The King Of Social Media In 2014 - infographic. Why Business Should Take an Interest in Pinterest. Pinterest has opened up mood-boarding to the digital masses. A tool that was once exclusive to creatives behind the scenes has gone mass-market on a platform that still doesn’t have an API.

And the masses are thrilled! The traffic-load is huge and brands are salivating about how to get involved. While there isn’t an ad platform yet there’s still a way for your brand to be active as Pinterest matures – here are a few tips: 1. Make sure you should be there Pinterest is not just about sharing. If your brand is in any way a lifestyle brand, then you should be set.

West Elm and Whole Foods have been early adopters who are doing well. Whole Foods Market Whole Foods is the world’s largest retailer of natural and organic foods, with stores throughout North America and the United Kingdom. West Elm West Elm designs clean simple products for modern living. 2. Ok so you are a lifestyle brand. Immediately populate your profile with original content. 3. 4. Aim for content to be “Repinned“, not just “Liked“. 5. How to Use Pinterest Analytics, 6 Metrics Worth Measuring. Is your business using Pinterest to reach your audience with one-of-a-kind visuals? Are you measuring your Pinterest marketing effectively? It’s crucial that any business understands whether their time spent on a social network is generating results. Why Pinterest Analytics? Consistently measuring your activity on Pinterest can also help your business identify what types of content resonate best on this channel and with your specific audience.

The number of followers your account has is important to note, but it’s certainly not the final indicator of a successful Pinterest strategy. Pinterest’s new analytics tool offers insights into how your website’s content is performing. To gain access to your Pinterest account’s analytics, verify your website and then from the Settings drop-down menu at the top right-hand corner, you’ll be able to check your stats by clicking Analytics. View stats about your Pinterest activity from any date range of your choosing. #1: Pins From Your Website Bonus Insights. Social Media 2013: User Demographics For Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest And Instagram [INFOGRAPHIC] Pinterest Introduces Analytics Platform.

Pinterest introduced a web-based analytics tool Tuesday morning, allowing site owners to track users' engagement with their sites on the social network. The free tool allows site owners to track the number of pinners and pins collecting material from their sites, and the number of repinners and repins those initial pins received. Site owners can also track total impressions and reach on the network, as welll as referral traffic, both in cilcks and unique visitors, sent back to their sites. The analytics are pretty basic, and don't pose much (if any) threat to more robust third-party Pinterest analytics systems like Pinfluencer and Curalate, which allow site owners to identify their most engaged and influential pinners, and track the popularity and reach of their own boards and pins.

Still, it could prove a powerful motivator to site owners who have never examined their site's engagement on Pinterest and want to improve it. Pinterest Strategy: Are You Pinning with Purpose? Let’s say you’re a tour guide. For the sake of this example, you’re in Rome. You take the excited group of participants on a walk and end up in a random piazza. Everyone looks around, squinting at the buildings and studying their surroundings. “Maybe this is where Michelangelo studied,” quips one. “Is this architecturally significant?” Wonders another. Since you didn’t decide what you were trying to see ahead of time, no one knows whether or not the group has successfully arrived at the destination. The same goes for social media. Drive Traffic If you have products on your website that can be pinned, it might be a good idea to aim for increasing website traffic via Pinterest.

Tools: Google Analytics, Reachli, Pinfluencer Measure by: number of referrals, increase in referral traffic visits Increase Brand Awareness Even if you don’t sell products to pin you can still use Pinterest to build your brand by sharing your content, office, employees and more. Engage Brand Loyalists. A Major College Flowchart by CollegeHumor.com on The Bazaar. Buy creative products by CollegeHumor.com online! Pinterest Image Optimization - How to optimize for Pinterest. On February 22 this year, Matt Siltala spoke on Pinterest (Growing your Brand with Pinterest Marketing) at SearchFest 2013 in Portland. The presentation was a huge success and provided the attendees with loads of executable information for their businesses. When Matt was first putting together his presentation he asked me if there was any updates to Pinterest since we first launched the PIO (Pinterest Image Optimization) graphic a year ago on Mashable.

I reached out to Pinnable Business, developer of PinAlerts.com email alerts for Pinterest, who we collaborated with us on this infograhpic. There had been a few changes since, so we updated the graphic and wanted to share it here. The infographic illustrates the proper way to optimize the images on your website for proper Pinterest Marketing. Would you like to use this infographic on your site or blog?

10 Tips for Marketing your Business on Pinterest. If you think that publishing is going through an evolution then photography is experiencing a revolution. There are happy snappers everywhere. The smart phone with the inbuilt high definition camera is turning everyone into a photgrapher. Add some software technology with Instagram filters and an ordinary photo is becoming a piece of art. Sites such as Pinterest are also allowing us to share this visual art form in glorious color, creativity and ease just by pinning images from the screen with a couple of clicks.

Competitors such as The Fancy.com are taking these concepts of visual pinning even further into the realm of social commerce and have announced that they have reached a whopping one million users already. The Rise of Social Mobile Commerce The Fancy has introduced a few new features into its mobile app offering, most notably the ability to buy products (they are reportedly making an average of $50,000 each week from users snapping up the products they fancy). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

Is Pinterest the Social Media Platform with the Most ROI? Pinterest, the social media Cinderella story of 2012, is fast positioning itself as a major tool for e-commerce. Along with the site’s growing user base, other businesses have seized the opportunity to build on top of the platform. How revolutionary is Pinterest?

Sharad Verma, CEO and co-founder of Pinterest analytics firm Pinfluencer, considers it one of the most transformational forces to impact the e-commerce space in recent years. “Pinterest is really about product collection. It's really about product curation. It's less about conversation and news, unlike Facebook and Twitter,” he says. In fact, Pinterest is part of a much larger trend toward what Verma refers to as “the visual web.” “We think that Pinterest is the Google of the visual web. Similar to Twitter, the wealth of user activity on Pinterest is spawning a growing pool of analytics tools and software for brands and marketers.

Zappos Gets to Pinning "We got introduced to Zappos through mutual investors around last year. Pinfluencer - Marketing and Analytics for Pinterest. Top 5 Things To Know About Pinterest for Businesses. So you want to introduce Pinterest to your social media toolbox, but have no idea how to use Pinterest for business instead of pleasure? You’re not alone. There is a common misconception that this social media website is just for recipes and DIY tutorials; however, it’s entirely possible to successfully market your product or business on one of the fastest-growing social sites around. Make sure you address each of the five tips below, and you’re well on your way to gaining followers and seeing repins from all over. We also want you to get the most out of Pinterest for business! 1. Always start with beautiful images. Pinterest is an almost entirely visual platform. 2. Google with its seemingly constant algorithm updates is always looking for ways to weed out writers and “SEO experts” who are using black hat techniques to increase search traffic to their site (basically, trying to cheat to get higher rankings). 3.

This is also another way of letting users know what you’re all about. 4. 5. Pinterest Launches Holiday Site, Shares Famous People’s Seasonal Inspiration. To get help you with your seasonal planning and get you into the Christmas mood, Pinterest has launched a ‘Pinspiration’ page, where well-known personalities and brands will share their holiday inspiration. Unveiling a new guest pinner daily over 30 days, the site works like an advent calendar of holiday-related inspirational goodies. Already into its second day, pinners can view the holiday boards of daytime talk show host Katie Couric, and Dale Partridge of Sevenly.org, a charity retail website.

Filled with lovely images of Christmas home décor, delicious recipes of seasonal dishes and steaming-hot winter drinks, these boards will get you feeling all warm and happy about the upcoming holidays. Whether you are looking for decorating tips or just some visual candies, you should be bookmarking this page. [via Pinterest] Receive interesting stories like this one in your inbox. Social Media / Cool #infographic on #Pinterest on my Pinterest, how fitting! Login. Pinterest IPO: Step Aside Facebook, Why Pinterest's IPO Could Be Around the Corner. Pinterest does not communicate much about its expansion or strategic plans but with its $1.5 billion valuation earlier in the year and its recent move to new offices, worth $9 million in San Francisco, California, the social scrap booking website could be preparing itself for a possible IPO in the near future. Propelled into the social networks scene in 2010, Pinterest has seen an explosion of its audience in recent months. Indeed, between June and November 2011, the site had registered a 2,000% growth, becoming the first to cross the milestone of 10 million visitors faster than any other site.

Today with already more than 20 million users, Pinterest is certainly far from the 900 plus million Facebook or Twitter 500 million users, but is believed to have an enormous potential by analysts and investors. Its strong audience growth has been constantly attracting, despite the fact that the company is still being tested and only accessible by invitation. Polka Dots www.polkadotsstationery.com (polkadotsinc) on Pinterest. Pinterest and Instagram: Pictures speak louder than words. Instagram is as addictive as Pinterest - and is all mobile Facebook’s $1billion purchase of Instagram solidified one of the hottest social trends: Photo images have huge engagement value over text. Another photo site, Pinterest, has recently been commanding the airwaves, claiming 10 million users and “the fastest growing standalone site ever”.

Photosharing is not new. Flickr and Photobucket paved the way for people to share photos online. It was so much easier to upload pics from a family picnic and send members the link immediately following the event. What Pinterest and Instagram have done is create a “sharing ecosystem” that goes beyond sharing. Pinterest has been addictive for me since the get-go.

Hessie Jones' Pinterest interface My “Pinterests” include fashion I typically buy, nude art, infographics, funny stuff, favourite places and books I like. How Facebook, Pinterest Compare In Social Commerce. More Colleges Try Pinterest for Social Media Marketing. April 26, 2012 With Pinterest being all the rage, colleges are beginning to take notice and more are using the social networking website as part of their marketing efforts. "Our primary motivation with Pinterest is to connect with several of our audiences, including our current students, alumni and prospective students," Aaron Jaco, digital media specialist at Drake University, told U.S. News & World Report. Pinterest is the third most popular social media platform after Facebook and Twitter. Its growth from about 500,000 users in May 2011 to more than 11.7 million in January 2012 makes it one of the most rapidly expanding websites in history, Inside Higher Ed noted.

The network allows people to share and collect content by pinning images, videos and content to their pinboards. It aims "to connect everyone in the world through the 'things' they find interesting," NextGen Journal noted. "The more we can engage in a friendly, non-sales way, the better," Jaco said. Compiled by Doresa Banning. PinView Turns Your Facebook Timeline Into a Pinterest Board. Honda Wants You to Stop Using That Damn Pinterest Already. Ali Phalen / Pinterest. Did Facebook Buy Instagram to Compete with Pinterest? 9 Ways to Engage Your Employees on Pinterest. 19 Tools for Pinterest Pros.

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