Tag: Pinterest

10 Things You Need to Do When Getting Started on Pinterest

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When it comes to getting started on Pinterest, people tend to fall into one of these three categories: 1. I’ve heard of Pinterest, don’t know what it is, and would like to learn more… 2. I understand what Pinterest is, but don’t know how to get started… 3. I joined Pinterest because someone told me [...]

The One About Pinterest and Social Media in the U.K. [Speakeasy #13]

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What’s in this episode? 26 minutes of social media awesome! Special guest this week: Tamsin Fox-Davies, senior development manager at Constant Contact U.K. 1. This week’s topic: How social media use differs in the U.K. vs. the U.S. / We answer your Pinterest questions 2. Questions/topics we discuss: Who is using social media in the [...]

Ask an Expert: What’s Behind All This Pinterest Buzz?

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Do you have questions about Pinterest? It seems like a lot of people do these days. In a recent poll on our Facebook Page we asked: Which social media platform would you like to know more about for your business? The answer—Pinterest. In fact, 43% of the votes came from customers with burning questions about [...]

LinkedIn Finally Gets a Facelift … And Other Hot Topics

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Let’s be honest, LinkedIn isn’t the most exciting looking social network. If LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter all lived on the same street – we all know who would be the favorite to win an extreme home makeover. But that’s all about to change … and with a new redesign you could start rethinking how you [...]

How to Use Pinterest for Marketing [Video]

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In this interview, I talk with Keren Lerner, owner of Top Left Design, about Pinterest, and how you can use the growing network to promote your small business. Things we discuss: What is Pinterest? How would you use Pinterest to market your small business? What’s the worst example of Pinterest marketing? What’s a really great [...]

Pinterest Users Are Spending Big … And Other Hot Topics

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Having trouble turning all that social media activity into more sales? Then maybe Pinterest can help. A new study found that Pinterest users are more likely to buy than their social peers on Facebook and Twitter and they’re spending twice as much. Plus, Facebook is trying to give you a reason to smile … and [...]

[Q&A] A Pinning Perspective from a Pinterest Veteran

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Pinterest is the newest site in the growing army of social networks – in fact, it’s the third most popular network, behind the old-timers (i.e. created before 2010), Facebook and Twitter. Of course, knowing that doesn’t really help anyone looking for more information about how to use this place of personal pinning. That’s why we [...]

Facebook Finds a Number to Like for an IPO. And Other Hot Topics.

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$38. That’s the price that Facebook has set for each of the 421,233,615 shares it plans to sell as part of the company’s initial public offering today. Normally, we would have teased the number in the intro, but after a rollercoaster four months of hype and speculation, we thought you had suffered through enough. But [...]

How to Get Started Pinning on Pinterest

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Despite Pinterest’s rapid great success over the last few months, there are still many people and businesses that don’t know what it is or what it can do for them. As the site gains even more momentum, there are a lot of benefits to getting on the bandwagon early. Here’s a breakdown of Pinterest for [...]