Looks like the room is half full of Pinterest lovers, and some newbies, too.
Why should your business have an interest in business? Is it the right tool for you?
It hit 10 million unique users faster than any other social media platform ever.in.history! it now has 48.7 M users. It’s the 3rd largest social network, under Facebook and Twitter, respectively.
Pins (images) are links.
Pins are organized into boards.
Andi’s Pinterest – books, sayings, fun stuff.
Cynthia talks about BlogHer – a huge conference in Chicago July 2013 that mostly serves women’s interest. Pinterest ranks really high in the BlogHer study for trust factor.
Your business may already have a following and you don’t even know it yet. Check it here: Pinterest.com/source/YOURURL
Have a plan and set goals
Increase brand recognition and authority, and grow my audience by building a Pinterest following to increase sales.
Check out the big brands that are having a lot of success on business.pinterest.com like Sephora, Etsy or Coca-Cola.
Cynthia Sanchez writes and podcasts about all things Pinterest and reveals tips & techniques to use it for marketing. Find more info on her at OhSoPinteresting.com.
Andi Reis
Andi Reis has spent the last 13 illustrious years working in the marketing and advertising fields as part of client solutions, editing, copywriting, creative compliance, brand activation, content strategy, and social media marketing for corporations, writers and artists. Obsessively working the world to help bring people to the mecca of social media as part of successful digital marketing, she creates for clients the platform of understanding which basically says: Social media is more about the social than the media. In her spare time, she is Content Barista at Ralph’s Design & Deli and Chief of Awesome at Fun City Social Media.