Pinfluence: The Complete Guide to Marketing Your Business with Pinterest
How to effectively use Pinterest to market your business,product, or service
Pinterest, the rapidly growing social networking site thatallows users to post and share images and videos on “pinboards” (acollection of “pins,” usually with a common theme), isproviding businesses and savvy entrepreneurs with a new platform tomarket their products and services. And, as with any new platform,learning what works best and what doesn’t when it comes tomarketing can be a challenge. Pinfluence is a complete guideto Pinterest marketing that will teach you how to effectively raiseawareness for your brand, product, or service, drive traffic fromPinterest to your website, and connect with current and potentialcustomers.
You will learn:
- How to create a powerful Pinterest profile, your Pinterestbrand strategy, set up boards, pin and repin images, and get intoconversations in the Pinterest user interface.
- Pinterest marketing techniques, including great contentcreation, how to optimize websites and blogs for pinning, and howto start growing your followers.
- How to integrate Pinterest with other social media tools(including Facebook, Twitter, and blogs) and how to track trendsand monitor conversation on Pinterest.
- Advanced Pinterest marketing techniques, including how to growyour audience, how to use the Pinterest iPhone app, advice forspecial types of businesses (B2B companies and nonprofits), and howto make your pins and boards “sticky” so they capturepublic attention and influence people to change theirbehavior.
- Pinterest copyright issues
Pinfluence is for anyone who wants to join the likes ofcompanies like Whole Foods, Gilt, West Elm and others, and harnessthe marketing power of Pinterest to grow their business.
From the Author: Guidelines for Great Pinning
In Pinfluence, I’ll give you the tools and tips you need to create visual content that is so compelling that you may not even need to distribute it yourself; your readers, fans, and followers will do it for you! Here are some quick guidelines for great pinning:
- Your images should be beautiful, remarkable, and interesting.
- You want to post pictures that are attractive and well lit. If you plan to upload or pin a lot of your own photography, this is good time to invest in a great quality digital SLR camera. Remember that good-quality photography will get more attention on Pinterest.
- Don’t make your images too tall and skinny, or pin anything that is over 5,000 pixels tall. This is crucial because the “Repin” and “Like” buttons are at the top of each pin. If a user has to scroll a long way just to see the entire image, then it’s very unlikely they will scroll back up to repin your image.
- Remember to caption the great images you create with keyword-rich captions so that people can easily find them when they search. Keyword-rich means that you want to use terms that are specific and meaningful to your potential customers. For example, instead of a caption saying, “Our lovely spring bouquet,” use some specific words and say something like, “Our lovely spring bouquet of white hydrangea and pink roses.”
