Pinning With A Purpose
This post contains affiliate links, which means if you make a purchase through these links, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Click here to read my full disclosure policy. Here is a great reader question, I have a second blog where I just post weekly to-do lists. Usually on Sunday nights, I update how I did the week before and what I’m focusing on going into the following it. It’s started gaining some traction, and I’m really happy with it. Given all the Continue reading
Q&A Friday Every week I tackle your burning Pinterest questions helping you maximize your Pinterest strategy. This week's question comes from Vanessa, How to get traction. If you pin consistently and are strategic about pinning on brand and what you feel to be high quality pins, how do you get a lil traction? I feel like once the ball starts rollin' and you start to get followers, you will appear more in feeds & get more opportunities to be seen. But, until then, I've been in a Continue reading
Pin Link Share Groups Here's a great question I received from Katie at LaJolla Mom. (Great travel blogger, you should totally follow her!) Here's her question: How beneficial are reciprocity threads (Facebook link share groups). You get your pin out there but then wind up having to pin a gazillion pins that might not be up to your standards. There are so, so many of them now and I can't ever tell if I'm harming my feed or if it's good to do. Are they worth it? Fantastic question! Let's talk Continue reading
Q&A FRIDAY Every Friday I answer questions about how to best use Pinterest for business. This week's question comes from Sarah, "Do I need to follow most of the people who follow me in order to get more followers? I tried this on Instagram last week and it worked really well. Seems to be a gratuitous exchange. Perhaps this is an etiquette that I missed with Pinterest?" I've heard several opinions on this matter but never anything definitive. I'll give you the Simple Pin experience and you Continue reading
Q&A FRIDAY Every Friday I answer questions about how to best use Pinterest for business. This week’s question comes from Debi Stangeland, (she teaches people how to blog): I'd like to hear about how to optimize Pinterest for small bloggers. It's such an important platform for even the smallest blogger but a lot of the info is geared toward big. Big bloggers, big accounts, big followings. Some insight into steady growth and how long it can take would be great. Continue reading
Q&A FRIDAY Every Friday I answer questions about how to best use Pinterest for business. This week’s question comes from ME! Yep, I'm writing my own question this week: How do you use the new visual search tool as a user and a business selling products? Continue reading
Hiring a Pinterest Manager If I had a dime for every time I get this question, I would be rich! How much do I pay someone to run my Pinterest account? While pay is really important, who is even more important. How much you pay someone to manage your Pinterest page depends on your budget. I'm a big believer in budgeting and making sure that you as a business owner are getting paid before you start hiring out. Here are a few things to consider before determining pay. Write down what Continue reading
Q&A FRIDAY Every Friday I answer questions about how to best use Pinterest for business. This week’s question comes from Johlene, I would like to know Pinterest stats. Where Pinterest is in terms of target market share in the social network space? We hear they up there and then recently I heard that Yummly is up there with them. I would like to know the real facts. Alright, it's time to dial up the research. Continue reading
Q&A FRIDAY Every Friday I answer questions about how to best use Pinterest for business. This week’s question comes from Sarah, I'd like to know how to decide what boards to make. And how do I show my own products? A "portfolio" board? Or sprinkled in with my other boards? Or some other strategy? I love this question! Continue reading
Q&A FRIDAY Every week I tackle burning Pinterest questions helping you maximize your Pinterest strategy. This week’s question comes from Diane, I've read that we should repin our pins that others have pinned. Can you tell me why? And to which boards would I repin them? And how do you differentiate which repins should be repinned? Good question! Repinning If you're not using a scheduling program* repinning is a great way to keep activity on a particular pin. (Scheduling programs with Continue reading
Q&A Friday Every week I tackle your burning Pinterest questions helping you maximize your Pinterest strategy. This week's question comes from Cat, Do you have a favorite, cost-effective pin scheduler? Or feel one is needed for those of us who are solo authorpreneurs? I investigated three managers that run about $10 monthly for a beginning account: Tailwind, Buffer and Board Booster. I am leaning toward Buffer b/c it offers broader Social Media functionality beyond Pinterest but read Continue reading
Pinterest Group Boards "How do you become part of a group board?" It's a question I get quite often so I figured I would answer here. But first, let's talk first about Pinterest group board 101. Then we'll dive into how to join Pinterest group boards. What are group boards? **Make sure you listen to this podcast for a full understanding of Pinterest group boards. Group boards are collaborative boards where 2 or more people pin to a board. The board is hosted on one person's account and Continue reading
