Pinfluence: The Complete Guide to Marketing Your Business with Pinterest - Softcover

Hayden, Beth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118393775 ISBN 13: 9781118393772

Publisher: Wiley, 2012

Synopsis

How to effectively use Pinterest to market your business, product, or service

Pinterest, the rapidly growing social networking site that allows users to post and share images and videos on "pinboards" (a collection of “pins,” usually with a common theme), is providing businesses and savvy entrepreneurs with a new platform to market their products and services. And, as with any new platform, learning what works best and what doesn’t when it comes to marketing can be a challenge. Pinfluence is a complete guide to Pinterest marketing that will teach you how to effectively raise awareness for your brand, product, or service, drive traffic from Pinterest to your website, and connect with current and potential customers.

You will learn:

• How to create a powerful Pinterest profile, your Pinterest brand strategy, set up boards, pin and repin images, and get into conversations in the Pinterest user interface.
• Pinterest marketing techniques, including great content creation, how to optimize websites and blogs for pinning, and how to start growing your followers.
• How to integrate Pinterest with other social media tools (including Facebook, Twitter, and blogs) and how to track trends and monitor conversation on Pinterest.
• Advanced Pinterest marketing techniques, including how to grow your audience, how to use the Pinterest iPhone app, advice for special types of businesses (B2B companies and nonprofits), and how to make your pins and boards “sticky” so they capture public attention and influence people to change their behavior.
• Pinterest copyright issues

Pinfluence is for anyone who wants to join the likes of companies like Whole Foods, Gilt, West Elm and others, and harness the marketing power of Pinterest to grow their business.

About this title

Review:

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."

From the Back Cover:

Connect with customers on Pinterest

Engaging with your followers and fans, listening to what they have to say, and producing consistently great content are the true markers of successful social media marketing. Pinterest gives businesses the opportunity to do all three in visually stunning ways.

Pinfluence shows marketers, entrepreneurs, retailers, bloggers, and others how to use Pinterest to drive traffic, connect with potential and current clients, and convert followers into buyers. It offers step-by-step, actionable guidance for beginners, and more advanced advice and ideas for seasoned Pinterest users, including:

• How to set up your professional Pinterest profile for maximum business exposure so that when your pins go viral, they send a flood of targeted traffic to your website or blog
• How to develop a targeted Pinterest strategy that increases your online exposure, brings in more income, and avoids timewasters that don't win you more leads or fans
• What you need to do to convert followers into buyers
• Pinterest marketing help for B2B companies and nonprofits
• And much more!

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1118393775
• ISBN 13: 9781118393772
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208