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16 ways to market your business on Pinterest - for Professional

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This is part of the Marketing your business on Pinterest series So, you have blitzed the beginners marketing tips , and had your eyes open in the intermediates marking tips are you are feeling like you’re a dab hand at Pinterest.  Have a look at these marketing ideas used by some professional pinners. 1.       Find out when you are getting the most repins, likes, comments and referral traffic by regularly analysing both your Pinterest account and your site traffic statistics. Test out pinning on different days of the week and times of day to maximize traffic and audience engagement.  2.       Connect your users who use Pinterest by introducing them to each other. Recognize your best pinners by emailing a weekly “Best of Pinterest” that includes spotlighted boards and pins from your users’ profiles. 3.       Create moderated boards for your users to express their support fo...

19 Ways to Market Your Business on Pinterest – for intermediate pinners

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This is part of the Marketing your business on Pinterest series Did you enjoy the 20 ways to market your business for beginners ? 1.       Search for new images to pin/trends using Pinterest’s search function. The search bar is in the top left of every Pinterest page. 2.       Use keywords in descriptions of pins, so pinners can find your images and boards easily when they do their own searches. 3.       Make sure you’ve got  a Pin It! button  added to your blog posts so your readers can quickly and easily share your content on Pinterest. 4.       Did you know that your Pinterest page has its own RSS feed! You can find your Pinterest feed by clicking on the RSS symbol under your profile photo, then use it anywhere you can normally use a feed (Facebook, LinkedIn, for syndication on other sites, etc.) Advertise your Pinterest feed to your readers an...

20 Ways to Market Your Business on Pinterest – for beginners

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This is part of the Marketing your business on Pinterest series 1.     Make sure you use your business name as your profile name for maximum exposure. 2.     Add a paragraph about who you are and what you’re interested in to the “About” section on your Pinterest profile. It will show up right under your photo, and will be one way that users can find out more about you. 3.     Connect your account with your Facebook and Twitter accounts. This will not only help you gain followers, and by making this connection it will add social media icons under your profile picture that link to your Facebook and Twitter profiles. 4.     Don’t forget to add your website URL in your profile, too! 5.     Pin lots of stuff. Pin content steadily, rather than in large bursts, this maximizes your exposure and engagement. 6.     Come up with creative and stimulating board names. They ge...

55 ways to market your business on Pinterest from Beginner to Professional

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This is part of the Marketing your business on Pinterest series Pinterest is a social networking site which allows users to create online image collages, then quickly and easily share those collages — called “pinboards” — with other Pinterest users. It’s fun, easy, and catching on like wildfire right now. Part of Pinterest’s appeal is that it’s beautiful. Due to being image-based, the core of Pinterest is awesomely positive. It has been liked to “Facebook without the whining”. Pinterest is lovely and its users love it. But don’t let all the images of beautifully photographed rooms fool you. Behind those attractive images, Pinterest is fast becoming a very powerful marketing tool for brands and businesses … just like yours. Let’s take a quick look at why this is, and then we’ll get into 55 Pinteresting tactics you can use to your own marketing advantage. What is Pinterest and why should I care? Once you’ve got a Pinterest account, you can create online “Pin boards...

9 FREE Keyword tools to replace Google’s Keyword Tool

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With Google has closing down their widely popular keyword tool for public use. (now it seems that if you want access to Google sanctioned keyword data you have to sign up for an Adwords account.) Luckily the internet is such an effervescent industry where innovation is central of most of what we do. So on that note lets take a look at the different tools available to replace Google’s Keyword tool. 1.       Bing Webmaster Toolbox : Bing has a whole collection of tools of their own, including keyword tools. The data will be taken from Bing itself, which means that you should be able to make relative assumptions about keyword popularity. 2.       SEMRush : I am not sure I can say enough about SEMRush. This tool is amazing tool in the fact that you can pretty much do any amount of research that is needed. It is great for competitive research as well as individual keywords.  It is definitely worth checki...