In our first post, we offered Five Ways to Grow Your Business with Pinterest. There are a lot of online publications offering businesses Pinterest advice, but perhaps the best source is Pinterest itself.
Pinterest has a really informative and useful blog just for businesses. They talk about their new and helpful tools for business accounts, and they post several stories a month.
Here are some of the more recent blog posts that may help you get the most out of your Pinterest boards:
• New “News” notifications. Pinterest just rolled out a News tab to help businesses attract more attention from pinners. When businesses add a pin, create a board, follow something, or like something, their followers will be notified of it. This post also features a link to Pinterest’s “Best Practice Guide” for businesses, which offers advice and tips on creating engaging Pinterest content.
• Advice from a Pinterest insider. One of Pinterest’s own offers nine suggestions on driving more traffic to your company’s website by using Pinterest search. Tips include getting the official Pin It button, using Rich Pins, focusing on link quality, and more.
• Using Pinterest Analytics. This post offers advice and links that can help you break down how your boards are performing on Pinterest, learn more about your audience, and improve your overall Pinterest strategy.
• HSN’s success story. Learn how the TV retailer HSN has used Pinterest to drive up referral traffic to HSN.com, followers, repins and more. This is just one of several posts highlighting a specific company and their successful Pinterest activity.
• Refreshing your profile image: how and why. This post talks about changes Pinterest recently made that will affect how your company logo appears, and how you can update your image.
• Talking about pins. One of the best ways to generate Pinterest interest in your business is to initiate a conversation about a pin. This pin offers some great advice on opening up a dialogue or forum, and it includes a short explanatory video.
• Tapping into fashion. Even if your business has nothing to do with fashion, there are still ways you can use this super-popular category to promote your business. This post includes some helpful hints as well as some pretty convincing data about the power of fashion on Pinterest.
• A closer look at Pinterest boards. This post offers some practical, easy-to-understand tips on how you should use your board to showcase your business.
• New business tools. Whenever Pinterest unveils a new tool for businesses, they’ll highlight and explain it on their blog, so be sure to check back often to see what’s new and how it can help your business grow on Pinterest. You can even sign up for the Pinterest business newsletter!
Pinterest has a really informative and useful blog just for businesses. They talk about their new and helpful tools for business accounts, and they post several stories a month.
Here are some of the more recent blog posts that may help you get the most out of your Pinterest boards:
• New “News” notifications. Pinterest just rolled out a News tab to help businesses attract more attention from pinners. When businesses add a pin, create a board, follow something, or like something, their followers will be notified of it. This post also features a link to Pinterest’s “Best Practice Guide” for businesses, which offers advice and tips on creating engaging Pinterest content.
• Advice from a Pinterest insider. One of Pinterest’s own offers nine suggestions on driving more traffic to your company’s website by using Pinterest search. Tips include getting the official Pin It button, using Rich Pins, focusing on link quality, and more.
• Using Pinterest Analytics. This post offers advice and links that can help you break down how your boards are performing on Pinterest, learn more about your audience, and improve your overall Pinterest strategy.
• HSN’s success story. Learn how the TV retailer HSN has used Pinterest to drive up referral traffic to HSN.com, followers, repins and more. This is just one of several posts highlighting a specific company and their successful Pinterest activity.
• Refreshing your profile image: how and why. This post talks about changes Pinterest recently made that will affect how your company logo appears, and how you can update your image.
• Talking about pins. One of the best ways to generate Pinterest interest in your business is to initiate a conversation about a pin. This pin offers some great advice on opening up a dialogue or forum, and it includes a short explanatory video.
• Tapping into fashion. Even if your business has nothing to do with fashion, there are still ways you can use this super-popular category to promote your business. This post includes some helpful hints as well as some pretty convincing data about the power of fashion on Pinterest.
• A closer look at Pinterest boards. This post offers some practical, easy-to-understand tips on how you should use your board to showcase your business.
• New business tools. Whenever Pinterest unveils a new tool for businesses, they’ll highlight and explain it on their blog, so be sure to check back often to see what’s new and how it can help your business grow on Pinterest. You can even sign up for the Pinterest business newsletter!