Pinterest for business by Brighter Directions marketing
With over 48 million users, Pinterest is one of the hottest top new online social networks. Yet, many business owners are still unsure about it. Pinterest is seen to be a scrapbook or pin board for saving images and links, but in reality for a business it’s much more than that.
Pinterest allows you to ‘pin’ websites and images that you like and want to refer back to at a later date, allowing you to create categories that organise your saved posts.
In my opinion, Pinterest is virtually built for businesses – particularly product based businesses and great for image based businesses like Hotels, Shops and Food outlets.
Here are our top tips when creating your Pinterest account:
- Before connecting with people make sure you create at least 3 or 4 boards/ categories first so that your profile has some content on
- Your boards have a ‘shelf life’ so make sure that your pins are interactive as the more popular and interactive they are the longer they stay on peoples news feed
- When uploading images you can also attach a relevant web address with it ideally to a suitable page on your website ( but avoid doing this on every picture as it will cause spamming)
- When you have set up your account start commenting and liking the most popular pins – as this helps ‘get you out there’ and shows that you are interested with the same things.
If you would like to learn more about Pinterest and how to use it for your business, call our social media team at Brighter Directions on 01246 252855
