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5 Ways To Get More Repins On Pinterest

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There are a lot of people who are ready to repin other people’s pins. In fact, 80% of pins are repins. The more repins you get, the more followers you will get on Pinterest. If people repin pins of your blog posts, you will get more traffic as well. On Pinterest, it is possible to spread rapidly if you get enough repins. Here are 5 ways to get more repins so your content spreads faster than the competition:

1. Pin pictures that are humorous, shocking, or inspirational. Almost all of my pins on my Inspirational Quotes board have repins. Some of the pins on that board have hundreds of repins.

2. Be active on Pinterest. People need to see your pins on their timeline in order to pin them. If someone repins one of your pins, chances are that same person will look at and repin other pins on that board. When I pin something about 3D printing, that pin gets repined, but as a result, other pins on that board get repined as well.

3. Comment on other people’s pins. Few people comment on other people’s pins. However, if you comment, you will get more exposure which will lead to more followers. If you comment on pins that are similar to what you pin, people will click on your name and repin some of your pins as well.

4. Use PinWoot to get quick repins. PinWoot is a free service that will allow you to get more repins. PinWoot is the Twiends for Pinterest, and some people have reported a doubling in blog traffic just by using PinWoot to increase the number of repins.

5. Have a group board with a lot of contributors. When you pin something to that group board, some of your contributors may repin your pin on some of their other boards. Having group boards will also allow you to systematize Pinterest.

The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle: Your Product

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The missing piece is somewhere hidden away. The consumers are looking for that missing piece in order to complete the puzzle. They look at product after product in order to find the final piece to the puzzle. Your product needs to be the missing piece to the puzzle, and you need to tell consumers that you have the missing piece of the puzzle.

There was a time when tablets were not successful. Kindle was the best, but people just saw Kindle as a way to buy books and read magazines. Then, Steve Jobs came in with the first iPad. The iPad was a new tablet, and Jobs told the consumers that the iPad was like the missing piece of the puzzle. Now, we know the iPad very well. The iPad 1, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad 4, and iPad Mini are effective tablets.

Apple took the world by storm with its iPads because tablets were not doing well. The iPad offered a solution which just happened to be the missing piece of the puzzle.

What puzzle are your consumers trying to complete, and what is the missing piece? That missing piece needs to be one of your products.

 

Be The Best By Being Different

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Do something that none of the competitors would dare to do. Offer more services than your competitors would even think of offering or do one service so well that you’re the go-to person of your niche. By doing what everyone else is doing, you won’t be able to become the best.

Many people are doing what everyone else is doing. That’s the standard, but standard is not best. Standard is mediocre at most. The only way to become the best is to break the standard in some way that makes you look brilliant. Then, you will be able to set the standard for excellence. Some people will follow your standard while others will be in doubt.

By being different, you will stand out from the crowd. It’s like wearing a green blazer. Whether you want to or not, you will stand out with the green blazer. People will pay attention to what you do and what you have to offer.

Set the standard; don’t let the standard set you.

When Free And Viral Collide

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Free products are going to encourage sign ups and build awareness of your presence as an entrepreneur and business. Going viral will do the same thing. When free is able to combine with viral, the result is magical.

Viral content spreads through social networks, word of mouth, and through all of the other possible methods of spreading. However, once content loses its virality, people don’t pay attention as much. The blog that got a spike in traffic is going to be back where it was before in a matter of days. Maybe 20% of that increase in traffic will stay for an extended period of time, but that’s probably all of the extra traffic the blog is going to get after it went viral.

Free solves the problem. People sign up for a blog or subscribe to a channel because something is free. Free can take on a variety of forms such as videos, PDF’s, books, and more. When something is offered for free, people do everything they can to get the free product. When content goes viral, and people see the free product being offered, they grasp the opportunity. Then, they get emailed each time you come out with a new blog post. These people will remember you long enough to see you frequently. As more people see you more times, their trust for you will grow. The best friends are seen more than the acquaintances. In the end, more people will see you more times, and you will get more sales.

Viral traffic comes and goes, but when free and viral collide, the traffic comes and stays.

End Of The Year Urgency

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There are a lot of people who are scrambling to get their work done. The goals that were written down all the way back in January are becoming very significant in the last 6 weeks of the year. This year is coming to a close, and people want to see this year as a good year for their businesses. These last 6 weeks are the weeks in which productivity sky rockets to uncomfortable rates.

There’s less time to kick back and relax. One hour breaks become half an hour breaks. Work keeps on piling on, and when a dim light shows up, more work piles on top of that dim light until the light goes away.

Everyone is hurrying over to Target, Toys R Us, and all of the other retail stores while others are frantically searching Amazon for products to buy. If you do that part now, you’ll be able to relax and watch everyone else going around in a frenzy during the first week of December. Most early shoppers won’t be able to watch for too long because they will have other work to do.

For many individuals, the last quarter is the most productive. The last quarter is crunch time in which progress gets measured. Did you move up from last year to this year? Was there a difference at all? Did anything incredible get accomplished? Everyone wants to be able to answer those questions with a “yes.” However, people start asking themselves these questions as the year comes to a close. This urgency is in action all around you whether you are the one feeling the urgency or one of your friends is feeling the urgency.

It is too late to fix the problem this year since there are only 6 weeks left in the year. However, you can n fix the problem on New Year’s Day. Think of quarters as years. Starting January, you will have to accomplish enough goal to say that you moved up from January to April. Then, continue the cycle. Instead of waiting for 365 days before assessing what you have accomplished, only wait for 1 quarter to do the same assessment.

There is no way around the urgency, but if you experience some kind of urgency all year, you won’t have to experience high rates of uncomfortable urgency at the end of the year.

Your Action Is Your Choice, Not The Critics’

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“That’s wrong!” “It will never work.” “What were you thinking?”

The critics have more ways to voice their opinions. Some of the critics will praise your ideas while others will do everything in the power to say how bad your idea is. The critics, no matter how good or bad they talk about you, cannot have control over your decisions.

The critics thought an airplane would not be possible. The critics thought that televisions would become a fad because no one would want to sit still and watch something. The critics thought that cars wouldn’t make it. In the end, all of the critics are just giving you suggestions.

The critics are just telling you what they think is right or wrong about your idea. You decide whether or not to implement any of the suggestions that the critics give you. You make the calls when it comes to your idea and how to implement it. The critics may say that your idea won’t make it, but if you believe in your idea and are willing to implement that idea, you can prove the naysayers wrong just like the people who came up with the televisions, cars, airplanes, and other ideas which had their naysayers as well. Those naysayers have now fallen silent, and your idea has the power to make your naysayers fall silent as well.