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Content curation is all the rage right now. But finding all this great content is time consuming. Fortunately for content marketers, there's an incredibly powerful social media tool that doubles as...
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Agree 100% with this great share from my friend Janet Kennedy. Pinterest builds community FAST and it is a natural content curator because its so VISUAL.
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Whether you use them for reaching potential customers, interact with people, or to generate content, Social Media is a power tool for businesses. Check out some of the most popular online networks and how much of an impact they each have. Marty Note
Holly Knowles's curator insight,
May 16, 2014 1:24 AM
These figures displayed in the infographic help show just how powerful social media sites are. Unsurprisingly Facebook has one of the highest amount of users which could suggest when it comes to an IMC program and using social media, Facebook should be strongly taken into consideration alongside the other platforms shown in this infographic.
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Getting started with pinterest marketing, that has grown to over 70 million users, can be tough. Here's the beginners guide to pinterest marketing:
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I'm building community faster on Pinterest THAN ANY OTHER Social Net including Scoop.it, Twitter and G+. Pinterest stands on the vanguard of the next generation of visual marketing. I had highly successful real estate broker in Boston, my friend @Bill Gassett soon to be a CrowdFunde partner, tell me he gets more traffic from Pinterest THAN ANY OTHER social net.
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Frustrated with the inability to send traffic to my Haiku Deck "My Gallery" page I've built this page to share popular Haiku Decks.
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5 Secret & Disruptive Content Curation Tools
* Scoop.it.
* Haiku Deck.
* Paper.li.
* Pinterest.
* GooglePlus.
http://www.atlanticbt.com/blog/5-secret-content-curation-tools-and-how-to-use-them/
ScentTrail (Me) on Pinterest
http://www.pinterest.com/scenttrail/
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Learn how you can capitalize on Bing's announcement that it will now include pins from Pinterest in image searches.
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5 tips: Here's how social media sells...
Pinterest isn’t just for sharing photos of delicious recipes or crafts anymore. Check out this infographic to see how retailers are driving traffic to their brick and mortar locations using Pinterest....
When it comes to social media, there is an ongoing focus on driving traffic to your digital home bases and outposts such as websites, blogs, and social networks. But how about using these channels to drive traffic to your physical store?In a recent post on Harvard Business Review, Alexandra Samuel presents a series of data-driven Pinterest tactics that drive sales to brick and mortar retail locations.
These findings are part of larger study, From Social to Sale: 8 Questions to Ask Your Customers, that offers some great insight on the factors that impact consumer social purchasing decisions.This infographic summarizes the 5 key tactics that retailers can use to help drive in-store traffic....
I think this is great information for both beginners and experienced SEOs who are not familiar with the options Pinterest provides for marketing and building an audience.
5 tips: Here's how social media sells. Useful research for marketing pros.
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Learn how and why using Twitter can help you access tips and strategies from the leading experts in your field.
Interesting ways to use Pinterest at work.
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How Users Interact with Pins on Pinterest – infographic Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo sharing
Good actionable information on this infographic re: Pinterest for business.
How Users Interact with Pins on Pinterest – infographic /@BerriePelser
How Users Interact with Pins on Pinterest – infographic Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo sharing
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Pinterest is booming. The site grew to 26.7 million unique visitors last month. This rapid growth has drawn businesses, especially retailers, to expand their presence on the site. Pinterest has just announced Pinterest pages for business.
My, those folks over at Pinterest have been busy! In the space of a few short weeks, users have been surprised by 3 new rollouts – verification of Pinterest accounts, the introduction of secret boards and now, the ability to create business pages.
So what does this new update mean for business owners? After all, it was not too long ago that Pinterest was warning us about self-promotion and commercial usage was downright prohibited.
Nevertheless, thousands of businesses have flocked to Pinterest since its inception in 2009 to create accounts and drive brand awareness in the hope of boosting sales.
Perhaps Pinterest has finally acknowledged that it’s time to woo the business community right before the crucial holiday season? Or maybe it’s testing the water for its monetization plans?...
[This is a positive development for marketers with one caveat. Watch for the terms of reference. Pinterest owns all material posted; not always the right situation for every business. ~ Jeff]
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Queen of Pinterest
Having a great #memorialday on our Queen of Pinterest community board: https://www.pinterest.com/scenttrail/queen-of-pinterest/
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Find out how to build consumer trust with Pinterest. Written by Vincent Ng of MCNG Marketing.
Great tips here for the mystery wrapped in an enigma social network - Pinterest. Pinterest is the most asynchronous of social nets meaning its hard to map putting in 2 and taking out 3.
Love the multi-channel nature of the tips here. Pinterest is an important community builder. Here are a few tips I would add:
* Pinterest is most focused on Pinterest and pinning.
* Pinterest demographics are 6 to 4 women.
* Pinterest community boards are amazing because they take care of themselves lowering your social media costs and increasing results.
The other reason Pinterest creates trust is its is so beautifully visual. Does put pressure on your visual marketing, but get used to that as all of our visual marketing is under pressure now whether we fully realize it or not :). M
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Social Media Snob Test
The purpose of social media is to connect, to BE SOCIAL. Better to NOT be on social media than to be on social and look like an arrogant snob. Not being on social can be forgiven. Being a snob in this day an age is difficult to forgie.
You Know Your Company Is A Social Media Snob If...
* You follow less than 50% of your Twitter followers.
- Following a tiny % of your followers is the ultimate snobbery because it limits communication (you can't DM unless you follow) and you can't REWARD unless you follow.
- When an expert in your area with 10x the following as your company has (at the moment) follows you FOLLOW THEM BACK!!
* You company doesn't Retweet.
- When you Retweet you share someone's take. You are saying, "this is good enough to share" and that statement is a reward and and a way to "mentor" your space.
* Your company doesn't respond to @yourcompany notes.
- Not responding in a timely way to @yourcompany notes is an EPIC customer service fail.
* Your company isn't on GPlus.
- Time to come in for the big win AND Gplus is the most disruptive social net because of its proximity to high yield SEO (duy its GOOGLE) and most business verticals are nascent on GPlus because there is a learning curve.
* Your company isn't having conversations.
- If you are still using social media to push messages without listening and responding you look either clueless or a snob (and neither of those are good).
* Your Company isn't on Instagram or Pinterest.
- Marketing communication is becoming highly visual so to not be on either Instragram or Pinterest is snobby since it feels like insisting we continue to do things the old "talk about ourselves to ourselves" way.
* Your company isn't creating video.
- Video is highly widget-ized and so easy to share content. Video is also a more universal language. I may not speak english but video, done right, can be a cross cultural tool.
* Your company[s SMM is highly scripted.
- Days of scripting every interaction with customers is long gone.
Don't be a social media snob either by intention or ignorance because being a SNOB on social media is the wrong signal to send...always.
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Phil Stone Knows Pinterest
Phil has almost 18,000 followers on Pinterest. This post shares three great and easy to use Pinterest marketing tips:
* Repin.
* Make Comments.
* Follow Others.
Those are great tips for any social net including Twitter and G+. Phil's post shares how to develop community with Pinterest. BTW, recently I had a "horse race" to 4K followers between Twitter and Pinterest.
Both Twitter and Pinterest were approach 4,000 followers. Here is where we are today for ScentTrail:
@Scenttrail 3,973
Scenttrail on Pinterest 4,082
so Pinterest grew Scenttrail's community 3% faster adding 109 more followers and I spend MUCH less time curating and creating on Pinterest than Twitter. This is NOT to say Twitter should or can be eliminated from your social media marketing.
Everything works together tapestry style, but Pinterest builds community faster and with less effort than Twitter based on my numbers.
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Some great Business 2 Community analysis on Pinterest in 2014. Visual marketing is exploding and Pinterest sits in the middle of that wave. Here are my favorite predictions from the list of 9:
Men Still Wont Get Pinterest.
Pinterest API is released.
Trademark crack down as ads ramp (was inevitable and once brands are paying big bucks they will demand Pinterest police the ecosystem better).
social media has long since taken flight...and, the sky is the limit
Interesting findings about shares here.
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This infographic reveals some of the biggest recent trends in social sharing, including just how much Pinterest's popularity has grown.
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Great infographic from my friend @Phil Buckleyshowing the rise of visual marketing a MONSTER TREND for 2014.
In Europa werden 47% der Inhalte allein über Facebook geteilt, hinzu kommen noch mal 45% über Twitter. Den Rest teilen sich Google+, LinkedIn und -syurpriz (russ.: Überraschung)- VKontakt, das russische Social Network. Pinterest - obwohl es in USA bereits eine sehr große Rolle spielt - ist im Rest der Welt noch nicht so verbreitet.
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[Infographic] Ideas For Marketing Your Product or Business on Pinterest by Bill Ross of LinchpinSEO in Chicago
Great Pinterest resources from my friend Bill Ross.
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Everyday Social Media numbers are growing, and here are 45 facts in an infographic by Digital Insights.
A few of the statistics:
40% of marketers use Google+, 70% desire to learn more and 67% plan to increase Google+ activities 42% update their profile information regularly on LinkedIn Every second 8000 users like some or other photo on Instagram 80% of total Pinterest’s pins are re-pins 4.2 billion people use mobile device to access social media sites
Even more amazing facts; and these can be useful for marketers!
Interesting stats, but for the business marketer, does it convert to revenue?
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Wow, this infographic cover tons of territory fast. Great and very "ean content movement".
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It's not a dramatic new look, but if you spend some time with Pinterest's latest overhaul, you'll see it's easy to find more content you'll enjoy, quickly. And as a result, you'll probably spend more time on the social network.
The First Million Dollar Social Tool?
Agree the new look is subtle but significant. The "random" feel is maintained but there is new cairity in the interface. Add the new look together with Pinterest's new analytics and before you know it this tool is going to be ready for prime time and its ability to make money is hardly in question.
I still want a "store within" Pinterest option since half the visiting traffic is lost with each click, but the new look and feel + Pinterest analytics means someone is going to make a million bucks on this tool here very soon.
Sure Facebook, Twitter et al. are WORTH millions, but how WE make money has always been the rub. Pinterest felt like a cool store the first time I went in and only more so now.
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Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest – 2012′s Most Amazing Social Media Statistics [INFOGRAPHIC]
FIPT = Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter
FIPT or Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter have put up some amazing numbers this last year proving SMM is here to stay and here for real. Debate the ROI at your company's marketing peril.
Time to get into the social media deep in is upon Internet marketers. As I stated in Social Media Marketing The Most Important ROI, the key isn't what SMM does to the bottom line thought as this infographic proves those kinds of returns are coming.
Social media marketing's most powerful return is how it changes US as the wall between US and THEM slips silently into the past.
Social Media Marketing The Most Valuable ROI
http://www.atlanticbt.com/blog/social-media-marketing-the-most-valuable-roi/
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