Pinterest For Business
Making the most of your Pinterest Presence
Allyson Shoshana, Project Manager, Design Spike®, Inc
Today’s Agenda
• Set up your business Pinterest account
(http://business.pinterest.com/)
• Fill out your profile
• Optimizing your Pinterest boards
• Strategies for Businesses on Pinterest
Why Use Pinterest?
• 69% of online customers found the items they bought on
• 25% of Fortune Global 100 companies are on Pinterest
• 70% of brand engagement on Pinterest is user generated
• One image can result in over a thousand webpage views
• Pinterest generates more referral traffic than YouTube,
Google+, & LinkedIn, all combined.
Who Uses Pinterest? • Women under 50, white, college educated
• Largest groups of women: 18-49
• Household income between $50,000 & $74,999 (followed
by over $75,000)
• Majority of women are rural followed by suburban
• 50% have children at home
Getting Started
Head on over to
http://business.pinterest.com/
Optimize your profile – use your business
name as your user name and fill out all profile
information
Add “Pin it” button to your
browser
Add Pinterest tab to your
FB Page
Tutorial
Add Pin It button to your
website
Use Pinterest analytics
Let’s
talk
strategy
If You Build It…. They won’t exactly come, but you can help them get
there!
Pick a specific topic & create boards focused
on that. Make your board the best on the
subject. But take your time.
Create boards your
followers/customers will
be interested in.
Mix it up with cat boards
Make boards of things they will love
Add boards for things they have a hard time finding
Make a few boards about your product
Combine inspiration, motivation, brand and products or services
Create boards with
keywords currently being
used on your site.
Web Design
Web Development
Social Media Strategy
Search Engines
SEO
Promote it…. Social Media, your website, blog post, newsletter.
Don’t be shy!
Make a list your social media accounts and create a series of
posts –
cross post when you can and when it is appropriate.
Start following…. Stalk a little. Don’t be afraid, go follow some peops.
Get out there and mingle!
Follow those you would like to have follow you.
Set a goal to follow in groups of 10 for a few days.
Like some of their pins.
Repin.
Add descriptions to your
pins And links. And hashtags.
Use these links to drive traffic to your website. So just don’t
pin from your site. Use links.
Descriptions = keywords
Hashtags = more search friendly. Perfect for campaigns.
Perfect for events.
Create boards that define
your brand. Don’t just pin your “stuff”. Pin things that define you.
If you’re in art, pin art.
If you’re in beauty, pin beauty.
If you’re in Spokane, pin Spokane.
Pin things associated with your brand.
Make your board titles
catchy. See Sephora slide =)
Be creative.
Be funny.
“Sexxy Fonts”
“Brain Art”
“Geek Code”
“My Imaginary Well Dressed Toddler”
Be social for goodness
sakes! This is an online community. That means more than
you.
Comment on Pins
Like Pins
Repin
Once you start pinning,
keep pinning. Make time.
You control your schedule for marketing, it
does not control you.
So what do I pin?
Pin product images
Pin Infographics
Pin pictures of employees
Pin workplace culture
Pin blog posts
Pin customer testimonials
Pin local images
Pin trendy topics
Pin how to…
Get more
repins and pins
Use about 200
characters in your
description
Include the price
Orange/Red toned
images are repinned
more often than blues
Multi-colored images
are repinned more
often than single tones
Taller images are way
more repinnable
Your most
pinnable and
repinnable
words.
Thanks to Dan Zarrella for this.
Thanks!
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