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Make Money Selling Your Photos and Marketing Your Photography Business - Photopreneur. Why Pinterest Is So Addictive. I would have written this article sooner, but I was busy on Pinterest. If you are still among the uninitiated, the social platform for collecting, sharing, and commenting on of photos of personal passions is uniquely engaging, absorbing, and addictive. The human instinct to collect things--be it baseball cards, miniature spoons, or teacups--is as old as stuff itself. But it took Pinterest to perfect this process online. So no wonder it’s having a moment: comScore found that Pinterest just hit 11.7 million unique monthly U.S. visitors, who spend an average of 98 minutes a month on the site, compared to 2.5 hours on Tumblr, and 7 hours on Facebook. But why would Pinterest, which has been around since 2008, be attracting such swarms of devotees now?

Finding Your Happy Place and Sharing Your Ideal Self Dr. It’s more than just a critical mass of users, though, that’s driving Pinterest’s growth, says Long. Perfecting the Art of Collecting The proportion of the comments is also well-designed. Pinterest: Everything You Need To Know Is In This Massive Post. Let me guess, you heard about Pinterest. Or more like, you can’t spend 15 minutes online without hearing about it… And now you’re thinking, “should I jump on the wagon too?” Or “another social network to keep up with?” And on top of that, everybody is talking about using it for marketing and getting tons of traffic and, you just don’t see it. Alright, I hear you. Let’s start with what it is… Pinterest is another way of collecting and organizing stuff (images) you find online.

This content is organized in “Boards” that work as categories you create and the images you pin in them are called… yes, “Pins”. You can follow people and they can follow you. Some Demographics Some think the majority of the users are females, they’re right. But there are other interesting numbers in this data, for example that the biggest age groups are between 25 to 44, 60% of its users have some college and largest percentage of household income is between $25 to $75k. How big is Pinterest How do you get in? Network. 26 Tips for Using Pinterest for Business. Are you wondering how your business could use Pinterest? To say there’s been a lot of buzz about Pinterest in recent months would be putting it mildly! Pinterest’s ease of use for visually bookmarking, organizing and sharing things you love has made it a hit among individuals and businesses alike.

What follows are 26 tips, an A-Z guide for creating a business presence on Pinterest. #1: Add a Pinterest “Follow” and/or “Pin It” Button One important way to let your clients and prospects know about your presence on Pinterest is to add a Pinterest button. Pinterest has several choices available on their goodies page. Find the one that works for you. Follow buttons are a great way to let users know you’re on Pinterest. . #2: Brands and Pinterest While Pinterest hasn’t yet created a distinction between a personal profile and brand page (like Facebook), early adopting brands are making good use of their Pinterest presences and the pins and boards they’re sharing. #3: Crowdsource #4: Do Follow Links.

How Pinterest Changed Website Design Forever. Even if you haven't ever visited popular visual bookmarking site Pinterest, you might recognize its design elements — which have been popping up everywhere since the startup burst onto the mainstream scene in 2011. The site doesn't use traditional web building blocks. "It's almost like a window-shopping mode," says Khoi Vinh, the former design director for NYTimes.com. "It puts the ball back in the user's court," muses Andrew Beck, a web designer at Blue Fountain Media. "It flattens the information hierarchy," describes Jeff Croft, a web designer and co-founder of ebook lending site Lendle. Pinterest puts web content into sticky-note sized blocks users can organize onto pinboards that fill the entire browser screen.

Though the hot Palo Alto startup is staying mum about its user numbers, one study found it drives more traffic to websites than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn combined. As it has gained in popularity, so too has its unusual design. Consequently, the design caught on. 7 Ways Journalists Can Use Pinterest. Five Ways Brands Can Leverage Pinterest Now. Editor’s Note: Reggie Bradford is the Founder and CEO of Vitrue, a provider of social marketing SaaS solutions. Follow Reggie on Twitter at @ReggieBradford and Vitrue @Vitrue. Pinterest is hot. White hot. The 2011 Crunchie award winner for Best New Startup has been on a roll lately, hitting almost 12 million monthly unique visitors and crossing the 10 million milestone faster than any previous independent site, according to comScore. And a new report from Shareaholic indicates Pinterest is already generating more referral traffic to websites than YouTube, Reddit, Google+, and LinkedIn combined.

The social content curation service has captured the attention of millions with a unique platform that allows users to express interests and ideas through visually appealing images on virtual bulletin boards. Vitrue has been following Pinterest closely as part of our normal vigilant assessment of the social space. Here are five ways brands can leverage Pinterest now: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 26 Tips for Using Pinterest for Business. 56 Ways to Market Your Business on Pinterest. How Pinterest Is Becoming the Next Big Thing in Social Media for Business. Move over Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Another social media site is stepping up as a valuable marketing tool for businesses.

Pinterest, an online bulletin board for your favorite images, launched in 2010 and is already experiencing wild growth. The site registered more than 7 million unique visitors in December, up from 1.6 million in September. And it's driving more traffic to company websites and blogs than YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn combined, according to a recent report from Cambridge, Mass. Why should small businesses care? Brides-to-be can pin pictures of different wedding dresses to review, and people shopping for a new car can pin images of their options. Here's a look at why some business owners -- particularly retailers -- might want to seriously consider starting a business profile on Pinterest now.

But remember that this is social media. Related: What's With All the Interest in Pinterest? But savvy social media users know not to get too promotional.