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6 Ways to Drive More Pinterest Engagement
Are you engaging your fans on Pinterest? Pinterest has been growing at an amazing pace. Recently, comScore reported that Pinterest grew by 4377% since May 2011. This is because people like to be engaged with images. The good thing about Pinterest is that every new post is an image around which a lot of engagement can be driven. So there’s great potential to drive a lot of engagement on this social media network. Here are 6 ways to drive more engagement with images on Pinterest. #1: Run Competitions People love taking part in competitions, whether it’s to win a coupon,…
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How Pinterest Could Help You Land Your Next Job
Have you exhausted the typical social networking sites in your job hunt? Try something that’s still a little outside of the box: Pinterest. The visual pinning board site gets more than 11 million unique visitors a month, according to the Internet-monitoring firm comScore, and it’s great for search engine optimization, which improves a website’s visibility. What that means for you as a job seeker is: You’ll stand out. While everyone else is submitting the usual Word doc resumes, you have the opportunity to build a dynamic, creative platform to sell yourself visually as a job candidate. Take Jeanne Hwang. She’s…
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5 Pinterest Boards for Content Marketers
Are you a content marketer? Do you love Pinterest? If you don’t, you should, because there is no better place to find relevant content for your industry, nor is there a quicker way to share that content. Not only can you find plenty of items to educate you on the latest information in today’s online market, but you can also use it to promote yourself by creating a fun and informative board for others to follow. Plenty of others have had that idea, and they have created some great boards that you should check out. Five of my personal favorites…
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What Businesses Need to Know about Pinterest
Pinterest is an online bulletin board where users upload or link to photos and videos of anything they find interesting. It’s like pinning photos to a corkboard, only you’re doing it online – and there are ways you can use this to help further your business’ traffic and sales. Here’s how. [To read up on how Pinterest's recent fluctuation in users affects Chicago businesses more specifically, check out this recent Inc. Well piece.—ed.] 1. Learn what’s popular. Pinterest’s value to your business is its network effect. When you add an image to your Pinterest board, you want that image to…
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Pinterest leaves Palo Alto for San Francisco
Pinterest, a social network that has grown faster than anyone — including its CEO and co-founder — expected, is leaving its Peninsula roots for San Francisco. The Silicon Valley startup will move from Palo Alto to San Francisco’s South of Market area, a hot location for tech firms where its neighbors will include social-gaming company Zynga. The move was announced Monday by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, who has made technology companies a focus of his tenure, including securing new offices for Twitter, and Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann. “We’re pleased to now call one of the world’s great cities home,”…
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6 Ways to Drive More Pinterest Engagement
Jul 18, 2012
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How Pinterest Could Help You Land Your Next Job
Jul 18, 2012
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5 Pinterest Boards for Content Marketers
Jul 17, 2012
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What Businesses Need to Know about Pinterest
Jul 17, 2012
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Pinterest leaves Palo Alto for San Francisco
Jul 16, 2012
6 Ways to Drive More Pinterest Engagement
Are you engaging your fans on Pinterest? Pinterest has been growing at an amazing pace. Recently, comScore reported that Pinterest grew by 4377% since May 2011. This is because people like to be engaged with images. The good thing about Pinterest is that every new post is an image around which a lot of engagement can be driven. So there’s great potential to drive a lot of engagement on this social media network. Here are 6 ways to drive more engagement with images on Pinterest. #1: Run Competitions People love taking part in competitions, whether it’s to win a coupon,…
How Pinterest Could Help You Land Your Next Job
Have you exhausted the typical social networking sites in your job hunt? Try something that’s still a little outside of the box: Pinterest. The visual pinning board site gets more than 11 million unique visitors a month, according to the Internet-monitoring firm comScore, and it’s great for search engine optimization, which improves a website’s visibility. What that means for you as a job seeker is: You’ll stand out. While everyone else is submitting the usual Word doc resumes, you have the opportunity to build a dynamic, creative platform to sell yourself visually as a job candidate. Take Jeanne Hwang. She’s…
5 Pinterest Boards for Content Marketers
Are you a content marketer? Do you love Pinterest? If you don’t, you should, because there is no better place to find relevant content for your industry, nor is there a quicker way to share that content. Not only can you find plenty of items to educate you on the latest information in today’s online market, but you can also use it to promote yourself by creating a fun and informative board for others to follow. Plenty of others have had that idea, and they have created some great boards that you should check out. Five of my personal favorites…
What Businesses Need to Know about Pinterest
Pinterest is an online bulletin board where users upload or link to photos and videos of anything they find interesting. It’s like pinning photos to a corkboard, only you’re doing it online – and there are ways you can use this to help further your business’ traffic and sales. Here’s how. [To read up on how Pinterest's recent fluctuation in users affects Chicago businesses more specifically, check out this recent Inc. Well piece.—ed.] 1. Learn what’s popular. Pinterest’s value to your business is its network effect. When you add an image to your Pinterest board, you want that image to…
Pinterest leaves Palo Alto for San Francisco
Pinterest, a social network that has grown faster than anyone — including its CEO and co-founder — expected, is leaving its Peninsula roots for San Francisco. The Silicon Valley startup will move from Palo Alto to San Francisco’s South of Market area, a hot location for tech firms where its neighbors will include social-gaming company Zynga. The move was announced Monday by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, who has made technology companies a focus of his tenure, including securing new offices for Twitter, and Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann. “We’re pleased to now call one of the world’s great cities home,”…
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5 Pinterest Boards for Content Marketers
Are you a content marketer? Do you love Pinterest? If you don’t, you should, because there is no better place to find relevant content for your industry, nor is there a quicker way to share that content. Not only can you find plenty of items to educate you on the latest information in today’s online market, but you can also use it to promote yourself by creating a fun and informative board for others to follow. Plenty of others have had that idea, and they have created some great boards that you should check out. Five of my personal favorites…
What Businesses Need to Know about Pinterest
Pinterest is an online bulletin board where users upload or link to photos and videos of anything they find interesting. It’s like pinning photos to a corkboard, only you’re doing it online – and there are ways you can use this to help further your business’ traffic and sales. Here’s how. [To read up on how Pinterest's recent fluctuation in users affects Chicago businesses more specifically, check out this recent Inc. Well piece.—ed.] 1. Learn what’s popular. Pinterest’s value to your business is its network effect. When you add an image to your Pinterest board, you want that image to…
5 Pinterest Security Issues You Should Know About
Pinterest is one of the fastest-growing social networks of the past year, and has attracted many fans who love to share their world in visual ways. Alas, with its growing popularity, also comes its growing potential as a scam platform, where spammers supposedly make more than $1,000 a day. It’s not only scams that you have to beware of, though. Like any other growing platform, Pinterest has its threats, security holes, etc. The main difference from Facebook or Twitter seems to be the naivety of its users. This not not to say that Pinterest is populated only by a certain…
5 Pinterest Boards for Content Marketers
Are you a content marketer? Do you love Pinterest? If you don’t, you should, because there is no better place to find relevant content for your industry, nor is there a quicker way to share that content. Not only can you find plenty of items to educate you on the latest information in today’s online market, but you can also use it to promote yourself by creating a fun and informative board for others to follow. Plenty of others have had that idea, and they have created some great boards that you should check out. Five of my personal favorites…
The 10 Commandments of Using Pinterest for Business
Would you love to tap into the power of a social media site that can send you more referral traffic than Twitter? Bring you more leads than LinkedIn, Google+ and YouTube combined? Convert more fans into paying customers who will easily share your content with their friends? I know, I know. It sounds impossible, right? But, if you haven’t been living under a rock for the past few months, you would realize that I am not talking about some social media pipe-dream – especially if you have heard about the rise and rise of Pinterest. Since launching 2 years ago,…
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