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7 proven ways to create viral Pinterest posts | Articles | Social Media. Pinterest has demonstrated its traffic-driving ability in a big way. As a lifestyle blogger, I have seen huge traffic from Pinterest in the past six months. I have had multiple posts go “viral,” each receiving anywhere from 1,000 to 35,000-plus pins. These posts have translated to: • new followers of my blog; • revenue from affiliate links; • higher positioning in Google search. For each viral post, I used the same strategies. If you want to see your blog posts get pinned hundreds, if not thousands, of times on Pinterest, consider these seven tips: Write your post as a list This is the easiest tip. Use text on your photos, or create a title graphic This is the single most important thing you can do to stimulate pins and repins. (It is important to note that if you are using stock photography on your blog, you should check the terms of your contract. Add a “Pin It” button beneath the photo you want to be pinned, and write a smart, searchable tag for the caption Write a post that is timely.

Svenska företag på Pinterest med olika koncept. Jag har flera gånger pratat om att jobba med bilder som en del av varumärkesbyggandet. När nu Pinterest tog rejäl fart menade jag att det är en bra tjänst att addera till sin digitala bukett, och en del företag har redan valt att utnyttja tjänsten. Det är både vin och vatten kan man lugnt säga – och alla har ganska få som följer sig. Genom att utnyttja den kraftfulla virala möjligheten som finns i Pinterest kan man öka sin närvaro och bredda varumärkets perception. Några exempel credd till @rockspindeln för länkgräv: Gröna Lund kör ”we love…”-konceptet och pinnar glatt på även andras bilder. Pinterest har boomat i Sverige bara under några få månader så det är självklart så att företag mest är lite nyvakna och funderar över hur man ska orka med ännu en plattform. Generellt handlar det också om att göra saker smart. Generellt är företag fortfarande extremt dåliga på att berätta vad man gör på sociala medier på sina vanliga webbsidor.

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10 ways to market your business on Pinterest. How does a business get creative on Pinterest? Here are some simple, easy ideas that almost any business—B2B or B2C—can apply. 1. Pin your videos. Maybe your company has machinery or products, and uses online videos to market them. Maybe you have “how-to” educational videos. Companies are starting to upload all their videos to YouTube, as well as their websites. In the past, you could only pin these videos to Pinterest from YouTube. 2. Hubspot personalized itself by revealing behind-the-scenes activities at the company. Employees can, and generally will, share photos of themselves and their friends on their boards. 3. If you run an event for your business—whether it’s an annual, regular or one-time event—create a board to highlight attendees and speakers.

I guarantee attendees will repin and share their photos, as long as you let them know about it with a follow-up email or tweet linking to the site after the event. 4. Behance is a network that promotes its members’ creative talents. 5. 6. 6 Tips for Branding with Pinterest. As anyone on this site is probably aware, Pinterest has become a power when it comes to driving traffic to retail sites. In the wake of this explosion, there’s already been a fair amount of wriitng on Pinterest as a marketing tool. We haven’t seen much (a little, not much) regarding Pinterest as a branding tool. Pinterest has some pretty sweet demographics. Everyone knows the ladies love it. It turns out, those ladies tend to make more than $100,000 per year, while 50% of them are in the coveted 25-45 year old cohort. Half of them have kids. Using Pinterest for Branding Make sure Pinterest fits into your brand and social media strategy.

Pinterest still has that “new car smell.”Right now Pinterest is an exciting new toy. Regardless of its staying power, though, the most important keys to effectively using it for branding are not that different from any other branding tool. Connect: Authored by: Kandra Churchwell See complete profile. How much sales does Pinterest really generate? Do you want the recipe for the ultimate viral piece of social media content?

Take one part statistics (of questionable accuracy). Add the most hyped social sites like Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter. Put the information in an infographic which you can then pin on Pinterest, blog, tweet etc. I am sure you will see a huge number of likes, retweets, repins by people who think your content is absolutely brilliant, or rather, people who are too lazy to examine the accuracy of the content. Because that is how most of us behave online these days, me included. We read something about a topic we find interesting and we share it instantly without reflecting much on whether the information is likely to be true or not. When blogs began to appear we got all excited over the prospect that there were now an army of watchdogs out there, just waiting to bite into any piece of twisted fact, inaccuracy or lie.

To start with, what does that mean? Pinterest Legal Concerns: What is Lawful to Pin? A serious problem seems to be emerging in regards to Pinterest and a violation of the legal rights of content creators and their intellectual property. The problem lies in the fact that you can use the work of others to build your own brand without attributing their work to them or compensating them. Just as with posting photographs on your blog without permission, using copyright images for promotional postcards, or stealing another's article and attaching your own name, new light has emerged that reveals pinning photographs as illegal. For most folks, no harm is intended - they're just pinning their favorite stuff. But there are those with a malicious intent who are happy to take advantage of this legal loophole. The problem is, well, whose problem is it? And should you and your business avoid Pinterest altogether? The Infatuation and The Truth Then, over time, I started seeing some man-made cracks and a possible seedy underside.

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