Pinterest is becoming a hot new social network for businesses to use to drive leads.  Share your most popular boards and Pinterest strategies are working for you and your business.  

After you have done that enjoy my board:  PINfographics: Digital Marketing

So I went out and found the link.  Are these web pages the you did?   @craigdesmarais

for info about  tracking  my pinterest,  i signed up  with  pinreach…not pinerely…. i looked at pinerly and  didnt want to   do what  they required  to  join….pinreach  is pretty  neat, it shows  you  whats  going on  with your posts….and  they rate  how  you are doing…but like  google  dont tell you the  recipe  for the  results…

it reports  that  i have about  12,000 repins…,,, and  tells me    my junk pile  board is the most popular..over  1300 followers….. and tells me  what my  top  5  pins are…and also  who my  4 most popular  followers  are…. http://www.pinterest.com/annatgreenoak my top  nboards are totally  related  to what we sell at the store…

im  trying to stay organic..but  seeing my  ratings  climb  brings out  the  type A !!! and  its  tempting to   change  my  tactics   to  improve my rating.. im  trying to stay pure!!!   lol  .. lots of my  customers   follow  my  boards, i  recognize  the names…and  some  talk about it  to me in the store… ipost  some  board  on  the  stores   facebook  every   week…

ilook at it as another  connection….  with  far  flung possibilities….  i put  our  website on   all  our pictures….so its  sure  getting   our website out there…

pinreach is   going to  go  offer a paid  thing  soon i think….

@craigdesmarais Hi Craig

I love Pinterest and it has a great potential to deliver a great amount of traffic to your website/blog. Just be aware that not all traffic is quality traffic. Having said that, it is worth looking into. 

I have created a beginners guide to Pinterest on my blog and it has a number of tips in it. 

Cheers!Russell

@russellallert

Thanks for the link. I’m just not “getting” Pinterest, in part b/c I don’t have time.

I actually put on local lunch & learns, where I do 60 minutes on some subject and I find another local expert to talk on another subject. I’m currently looking for a Pinterest specialist (who lives in Maine, or has an excuse to come visit!)

Rich

@russellallert

Sounds great can’t wait to check it out.  

What I have seen using Pinterest for my business in just two months:

If I pint several of my pictures at the same time (same afternoon), just the first one has more repints, I guess just the first one has more exposure than the others. So It’s better to pint one by one, day by day on each board.

The time that works better for me to see my pints repinted at the same moment are bettwen 6 – 8 AM and 7 – 9 PM.

I have been searching on other boards, using key words to find boards that have similar items or boards of people that like or collect the style of items that I have, then I follow them, so they can see that I’m here and what I have on my boards and search more if they like my items or repint them. It’s like I’m a Panoramic just crossing over  the way of my nich.

Also I have tried to search more on who is following my business boards, if they have something similar, where are they, what else do they like, trying to understand a little more my market. And I think that we can get a very helpfull information about the consumer behavior of our own maket. It has been a nice free Marketing tool to understand the market and to work as a Panoramic

And because it was recomended to add more items and boards not just related to the business, I added some boards of general interest. And the most honest and everyday working pins have been the Popular Mascots, I don’t know who is winning right now, The Yankies, Red Sox, Ducks, every day someone repint one of them. Also the puppies have been very well accepted. But it’s just for fun, it doesn’t help on my business.

The only bad thing that I did, was that I pinted my items and I took them from my ebay page, and some of them were in auction, so the actual URL that they have on Pinterest is not working, I have to repinted them again of if they where repinted, I have to change the URL on eachone.

Pinterest has helped me on the Organic Search (if someone else repinted my items, it helps also on the organic search). I just have to watch for the time that I expend on it (an apple every day could be healtier than 30 apples once a month) .

@russellallert nice page  russell….it  will  be interesting  to see if  there ils a social media  audience for  you     on pinterest….  and  how  you   can  tap into it….