11 New Pinterest Tips For Your Business…
We will all have noticed how in the last year or so Pinterest has become a pretty powerful Social Media Marketing tool for many businesses, just like yours. What is best is perhaps the simple fact that it basically came from nowhere and the popularity has simply skyrocketed to a similar level as Facebook and Twitter. It is currently estimated that Pinterest has a market of registered users in the region of 10 Million. With that many users, can you as a business person really afford to ignore the trends and not be in there with the big boys. Now if you are anything like us, perhaps your thinking but Pinterest is a visual platform, how can we as a business benefit from it, the platform is far different from the likes of Facebook or Twitter. Well let us tell you this, with a tricks you can all benefit from Pinterest and the best is, if you configure your systems well, it does not have to be time consuming.
So, to help you understand perhaps the basics or a few advanced option, we have are going to share a few of our Top Tips For Pinterest with you. Lets get in there and get your business going on Pinterest. If you do not already have an account, you might want to get up to speed by checking this page out.


We would hope that in fact you have already completed the most obvious of tasks in Pinterest and that would be simply connect your Facebook and Twitter accounts to your Pinterest account. One thing to note at this point however is that Pinterest currently do not support the Facebook Fan Page sysytem, we would there suggest authenticating your account through your Twitter brand page.
Pop over to your Pinterest page now and check that your connections are ready to go.


You may also notice that Pinterest has an option to have your page hidden from search engine, we would advise to obviously not have this option selected. In addition, perhaps you might want to actually submit your URL for Pinterest to search engines. In order to do this you can use the Google Url submitter here, although you will need a google account first.






Another advantage to adding links and brand content to your Pinned posts, is simply the fact that if somebody else re-pins, likes or tweets your Pin, the content you created goes with it, therefore spreading the word further.


However you should note that hashtags in Pinterest, don’t work in the same way as on Twitter. Pinterest simply searches for the word after the hashtag.
If you are anything like me, the science behind hashtags never has dropped in to place within my brain cells, UNTIL we did a little research on various websites. Such as hashtag.org which provide regularly updated lists of trending hashtags. Within this site you also have the option to do searches on words/hashtags that you might think are popular, through these searches you can quickly work out which are the strongest hashtags to use in your Pins.


Additionally you are able to add the “Follow Me” button to your web site or blog. Again just like all the other Social Media sites around, the “Follow Me” button is a simple way of allowing your customers to add your Pinterest page to their list of “Following”, and enable them to receive updates when you post content to your Pinterest page.


Adding a personal touch or content to your Pinterest boards, will do your boards the world of good and help make followers feel more relaxed as well as demonstrate that your a person as well as a business. The general idea that follows here is to create a board dedicate to the fun side of your life or business, Pins of staff parties, staff games, mishaps or even just going about their normal duties etc. You never know, that follower who just popped in to see the latest fun pictures might just spot something and become a paying customer. It has also been known for some business to also include their customers in the Pins they add to their Pinterest boards, (obviously with customers permission first).


One of the smallest facts of and understated options within Pinterest is the fact that you can interact with other Pinterest users and followers. Although it may not always be as instant and as quick pace as perhaps Twitter or Facebook, your followers will appreciate your efforts more. If you receive a notification of a comment on your Pins from followers, it is considered polite to respond and keep the conversation active in order to promote your brand within the Social platform.
Interacting within Pinterest can be anything from commenting on or perhaps where appropriate sharing followers Pins or replying to comments on your Pins. It is also wise where possible to remove negative comments from followers who are perhaps simply acting as trolls, your true followers will normally understand your view of removing the comment or even the Pin.

As with all Marketing projects, you need to be able to monitor the performance of the relevant methods used. You want to know that you are not wasting or money in your efforts. With Pinterest, you need to have some reassurance that you are creating an interest in your brand and driving traffic to your web site or blog. If you notice this is not happening, it is time seriously review how you are using Pinterest as a marketing tool. At this moment, the main points that need to be monitored are fairly straight forward.
• Clicks per Pin
• Re-pins per Pin
• Average Visit Duration
Unlike many other Social Media networks, Pinterest does not have built in tools like Google Analytic or Facebook Insights, however there are various tool around that you can use to make monitoring the Pinterest activity with ease rather than guess work. Below are just a couple and we will be looking at Pinterest Metric Monitoring systems in more detail very soon.
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I’m using some of these already. Thanks for new information.
Nice post!
Learned a few new tips to use on Pinterest! Thanks Modern Marketing World!
Thanks for tips, I need to go change some settings now. 🙂
I love pinterest! Need to check out your tips!
Loving that Pinterest is going all business friendly!! 🙂
These are some great tips!
I love the way these social media site are now understanding the business concept.
Thank you. Great tips! 🙂
Fantastic, Thank you ! Greetings from Cannes & http://www.facebook.com/palacepriveproperties . Best of luck & success !
Just joined Pineterest and have yet to learn how to use it in business. Looks like this article will help. Thank you.
H Sandra Blackie, perhaps have little read of this article as it is more aimed at people that are new and sets you a little more for the above link – https://www.modernmarketingworld.com/pinterest-tips-guide-for-beginners/
Fun stuff! Thank you for sharing! 🙂
Allan thank you for asking me to join! I love to watch our family grow on Lanterns of Hope. Hi everyone, thank you ahead for the LIKEs and I will return the Love right back! Blessings Carol. https://www.facebook.com/lanternsofhopeandwingsofangels
Allan- What do you think… I am not a member of Pininterest and not sure if it will help Lanterns. C
Just going to sent you a PM Carol Cook, dont want to take over the post with chatter. 🙂
Excellent info
Thank you! Very helpful!