Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

If your business has a web presence then you have the potential to benefit from Pinterest, whether you are active on the site or not.  This means you have the potential to make money from leads and sales.

But there are many lost opportunities on Pinterest – opportunities that often businesses are completely unaware of, yet can be easily fixed. In this post we look at 5 reasons you might be wasting good opportunities to make money from Pinterest....

Do you lie in bed at night dreaming of getting a link from some high-profile blog like ProBlogger that would send you thousands of visitors and give your blog the exposure you need to take it to the next level?

I’d rather have Pinterest.

Don’t get me wrong: I’d love to have Darren share a link with his audience to one of my photography marketing posts. However, the reality is that you’ll get far more traffic, exposure, and income from Pinterest, regardless of your niche.

I believe that blogs in any niche, not just DIY crafty blogs, are missing out on huge amounts of traffic and exposure if they are ignoring Pinterest. If you want to see your blog grow in leaps and bounds in 2013, you’ve got to pay attention to Pinterest....

While its popularity has evened out over the last few months, Pinterest is still carrying a lot of the momentum it gathered at the beginning of the year. Considering that it drives more referral traffic thanGoogle+, LinkedIn and YouTube combined and had 23 million unique visitors to the site in August, its ability to direct more traffic to your site has rightly gotten businesses and brands interested in the service. On top of that, the introduction of business pages makes it obvious that Pinterest wants them to get involved.

There’s a process to everything though and like all things, you will have to put the time and effort into it before you start seeing results. Here we will focus on the ways you can improve the content you’re posting, how you can use Pinterest to direct traffic to your site and ways you can optimise it for SEO purposes....

With 25 million members and growing, Pinterest has grown from a niche curation platform to a formidable presence among major social media networks. It may not have the massive membership of Facebook, but the network’s engagement rate is staggering: users spend more time on Pinterest than Google+, LinkedIn, or Twitter combined.

It’s a referral traffic powerhouse, and many Pinterest users view the network as a tool for discovering products to purchase. However, is the network a viable tool to promote content in the B2B realm? Sure, but it’s a bit harder. Your company can stand out on the visually-driven network where pins of products with prices reign supreme, but it requires some ingenuity and effort. We’ve curated some of the brightest ideas on how you can develop a Pinterest for business presence to be reckoned with....

We hear that Pinterest is a really only used by younger females – so let me introduce you to Dan Ashbach, who is a retired airline pilot, just to provide a different perspective. You might have read my article about how many boards should we have on Pinterest where I comment that Dan has just 38 boards (I wonder if that is a coincidence that he has been married for 38 years) that versus many accounts I see with well over 100 Pinterest boards.

Dan recently participated in a Google Plus Hangout with PinLeague and this is a recap of some of his ideas and perspectives about Pinterest as a super user with over 1.5 million followers. Yes I know you usually expect me to share tips about content marketing and social media for business, but I think you will find the ideas Dan shares provides an interesting insight into what a Pinterest super user thinks. Dan started to see his Pinterest boards grow at a fast rate in 2012, building from a few thousand followers to over a million followers....

 ... Now this wildly pinned post from ecokaren—which received over 490,000 pageviews and was pinned more than 129,000 times—is about … how to wash a washing machine.

Woah, did you read that right? 129,000 pins and 490,000 pageviews? Yup. You read that correctly.

And the post is about washing a washing machine? Yup. Again, you read that correctly.

I was shocked too when this old post started receiving crazy traffic without my trying, never mind that it was from a newly un-shrinkwrapped social media site called Pinterest. One person’s pin of the post was repinned over 1400 times and has more than 300 likes. I should buy her a drink! Or maybe send her my homemade laundry detergent....

Pinterest is really popping. It has quickly become one of the fastest growing social networks. According to a recent Pew study, 15% of American internet users are on now Pinterest—just barely trailing Twitter at 16%.

In 2012, Pinterest was the big story in social media marketing. In 2013, it will be huge in search marketing, too. 

With 104 million visits in March 2012, Pinterest became the third most-trafficked social media site, moving ahead of LinkedIn (86 million), and trailing only Facebook (7 billion) and Twitter (182 million).

With so many visitors and so much potential for sharing content and expanding your reach, Pinterest offers plenty of ways to build your brand's online visibility and boost your search engine optimization (SEO).

Here are 15 easy opportunities to take advantage of...