With 4,000 percent growth in just six months, and currently millions of users, Pinterest delivers an unbelievable opportunity for business owners and marketers like you . . . if you know how to effectively use its visual appeal. Karen Leland acquaints you with this vibrant visual marketing medium covering: The ins and outs of signing up and getting started Building boards that get noticed, drive traffic, and convert fans into customers Creating a Pinterest community through power connections, contests, social media outreach, and smart pinning strategies Strategies for becoming a power Pinterest user and creating an enthusiastic following Best practices for pins that promote, including image optimization, consistent branding, social media integration, and high-value content Pinterest etiquette Learn to expand your business and brand’s success — one pin at a time.

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.

Pinterest is a social media site that enables users to create online pinboards of compelling images they find online by "pinning" the images and curating them into various categories. It has exploded into American consciousness with big media attention and exponential growth-most notably reaching 10 million unique monthly visitors more quickly than any social media site in history. The vast majority of early devotees have been women of higher income between the ages of 25 and 49, and the images they pin frequently fall into the categories of clothing, crafts, food, and home décor. This represents a significant opportunity for companies and brands whose products are targeted to this market; however, Pinterest has value far beyond its initial popular use. Companies large and small are hearing the hype and hoping to get an early start with a site that shows signs of continued growth and influence. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Pinterest Marketing helps small business owners as well as marketing experts at larger companies get on the Pinterest bandwagon and learn how to use this exciting new phenomenon to increase online exposure for their products, strengthen their online presence, and connect with customers in a place where they are now flocking. In it, readers learn how to: Use the basic features of Pinterest, including setting up an account, creating boards, and pinning images. Develop a Pinterest marketing strategy and integrate it with other online and offline presences. Project a brand voice onto Pinterest through strategic pinning and writing compelling pin copy. Create pins that get repinned. Grow a following organically and understand the importance of whom a brand follows. Engage an audience through contests, collaborative boards, and more. Determine who in the organization will pin, or whether to outsource it. Gauge and quantify the success of a brand's marketing efforts on Pinterest.

Start Marketing NOW on the World's Fastest-Growing Website! You thought Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter were big? Pinterest is outpacing them all. As a marketer, you can't afford to ignore this amazing new platform. Why should you start marketing right now on Pinterest? In a word: MORE. You'll drive more traffic, get more customers, and make more money than ever! Pinterest Power provides all the tools, tips, and strategies you need to get going--right now, the right way. "Pinterest has unimaginable potential as a marketing and customer relationship building tool. In this fantastic book Jason and Karen reveal their highly effective blueprint for using it the right way. This is the guide to Pinterest that I'm having my staff read." -- JIM COCKRUM, bestselling author of Free Marketing: 101 Low and No-Cost Ways to Grow Your Business "Pinterest is one of the hottest and fastest social tools on the Internet today. It's growing faster than Facebook did, and you don't want to be left behind. Jason Miles will show you step-by-step how he uses Pinterest to make money online." -- SKIP MCGRATH, author of Three Weeks to eBay Profits

Do you want to know about Pinterest marketing with a detailed Pinterest history?Do you want to know how to use Pinterest for your business and the power of Pinterest marketing?Do you want to know how to promote your brand through Pinterest marketing?Do you want to know about Pinterest marketing compared to other social media marketing?Hopefully, this book will give you insight into all that Pinterest provides to companies and how companies can use Pinterest to extend their scope and get Pinterest users started in their sales funnel. Marketing on Pinterest can be a profitable way to boost sales and income. Still, it all begins by producing quality content that people can appreciate and concentrate on products rather than just the products themselves. Get started with Pinterest for business and see how you can grow your brand awareness in ways you've never done before.Pinterest is here to stay, and it offers you a new way to promote your brand. But it's still in beta technically, and the full power it has to promote brands is minimal. It might not be the best outlet for most brands.But there are plenty of ways to connect with the audience, experiment, and innovate with the user experience if you have the right match for the platform. Anyway, it's all about this friendship. And it provides substantial SEO benefits through its no "no follow" policy for the time being.

What Is Social Media Engagement? It is the number of shares, likes, and comments. A big following is great, but an engaged audience is better than a big one—quality over quantity. There are certain metrics used to measure social media engagement. They include: Use of branded hashtags. Mentions. Click-throughs. Audience and followers' growth. Likes. Comments. Retweets/shares. Your followers can naturally start engaging with your content. But often, you may need to encourage them a little. Here are a few tricks to help you with that. Assess your engagement: see how many followers you have, the average number of shares and comments you get on each post and any other relevant numbers. Make sure you continue monitoring these numbers. Choose your strategy: every company has different goals and strategies are, thus, different. Your strategy will depend on your goals. This could be educating the audience, collecting feedback, changing the public perception, etc. Understand your audience: it is not easy to engage people you do not know.

Guides businesses on how they can use the social media phenomenon to promote themselves, including how to create an attractive company profile, engage a target market, and develop an enthusiastic following.