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5 Pinterest Mistakes To Avoid

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Pinterest is a social network on the rise. Pinterest beats Facebook in numerous statistics. The impact Pinterest can have on a business is unquestionable. However, when it comes to the newbie using Pinterest, there are a lot of things that can appear confusing. Some people who have been on Pinterest for a long time also make these mistakes. Here are the 5 mistakes that I have seen people make again and again:

  1. Only creating boards and pinning about the business. People don’t just want to see pictures of your products and workplace. They want more. If you have more boards with different categories, you will be able to satisfy the needs of a more diverse group of people. The baseball lovers and social media experts can both be happy with your boards if you have some boards about baseball and other boards about social media.
  2. Not pinning pictures of your products or your business. Like all social networks, Pinterest is a place to promote your business. People worry about making the first mistake so much that they don’t create any boards for their business or products. You should have at least 5 boards for your business and have at least 10 boards out of the business. The more diverse your boards are, the better. If you get a big following on Pinterest, your business needs to benefit from that following.
  3. Pinning only once a week. On Pinterest and every other social network, consistency is key. The only way to get noticed by people who aren’t following you and to be remembered by the people who are following you is by pinning. I recommend pinning at least 10 times a day. When you get used to that rate, bring it up to 20 pins every day. It’s better to pin 10 times every day than to send out 50 pins on one day of the week and then not sending out any pins for the other 6 days.
  4. Creating too many boards too quickly. When you create another board, that board needs to get updated. If you create too many boards, updating all of them is going to be a challenge. I make sure I get one of my boards up to at least 100 pins before I create another board. Then, I add at least 10 pins to the new board. This ensures that the new board has some pins on it, and when someone looks at your board with 100 pins, they will have a lot of pins to look at.
  5. Not following others on Pinterest. When you first create your account on Pinterest, people have no idea who you are. Your account is just another one of the millions of accounts on Pinterest. In order to get noticed, you need to follow other people. As some of those people follow you back, you will begin to get noticed on Pinterest. By following others, you will go from an unknown user to one of those power users with a lot of influence. Here are 11 additional ways to grow your following on Pinterest.

Pinterest is a social network that you should not overlook. It is a game changer that has the potential to transform your business. By subscribing to my blog, you will get free access to the How To Master Pinterest Video Tutorial. In addition, you can take a look at these 100 Pinterest tips.

 

How To Rock Pinterest

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There aren’t nearly as many Pinterest tools as there are Twitter tools. In addition, most of the Pinterest tools need to be paid for in order to show what a Twitter tool would show you for free. Tailwind is a Pinterest tool that gives you a week’s worth of statistics for free, and then by paying $29/month, you get some features including statistics for up to 90 days. TwitterCounter is free Twitter tool that gives you 6 months of statistics without any cost.

The Pinterest tools are going to catch up eventually, but for now, there needs to be a way to get a big following on Pinterest. The best way to get more followers on Pinterest is by following the followers of someone in your niche who has thousands of followers.

The follow ratio is not as essential on Pinterest as it is for other social networks. There are a lot of people on Pinterest who have over 1,000 followers who are also following 5,000 people. You may have a ratio like this if you follow this plan, but it’s better to have 1,000 followers while following 5,000 people than having 100 followers while following 0 people.

After you follow as many people as you can until you exceed Pinterest’s maximum follow rate (500 people every hour), pin at least 20 times. The more pins you pin, the more repins you get. When I stopped using Pinterest, I didn’t get as many repins. Now that I am using Pinterest again and sending out at least 20 pins every day, I am getting at least 20 repins every day.

By pinning on boards with a lot of pins, you will also boost the exposure for your past pins. Some of your followers will click on your board to see what other pins on your board are. One of my pins that went viral and then stopped getting repins got repinned 10 times in a day. Maybe it will go viral again, or maybe I send out another pin that goes viral.

The recipe to rocking Pinterest is following a lot of people and being very active on the site. When you do both of those things at the same time, you will get more followers than ever before.

 

100 Amazing Pinterest Tips

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Pinterest is the fastest growing social network of all time, and the average consumer spends more money on Pinterest than on any other social network. Unlike other social networks, the leaders on Pinterest are not as definite as they are on other social networks. That means there’s time for you to become the next leader on Pinterest with hundreds of thousand of followers.

On Twitter, it’s easy to tell who is dominating it. There aren’t as many people dominating Pinterest for your niche as there are people dominating Twitter for your niche. That means you have an easier chance of being the leader of your niche on Pinterest than you would on Twitter, Facebook, or any of the other social networks. Here are 100 Pinterest tips that will give you the edge you need to become a power user.

  1. Pin as much as you can. The more pins you have, the better. The power users average 2,700 pins.
  2. Have as many boards on your Pinterest account as you can. For Pinterest boards, there’s strength in numbers.
  3. Pin big, long pictures. These pictures will get noticed, and as a result, these pictures will get more repins and comments.
  4. Comment on other people’s pins. Only 1% of an average pinner’s time is spent commenting on other people’s pins. By consistently appearing as the first commenter for a lot of people’s pins, you will get more exposure.
  5. Follow back on Pinterest. You’ll be glad you did.
  6. Don’t focus on the follow ratio. Follow as many people as you can. You may be following more people than there are people following you, but take this into consideration: having 10,000 followers and following 40,000 people gives you more exposure than you having 2,000 followers and following 0 people.
  7. Create an account on Pin Alerts. You will be notified each time someone pins something from your blog.
  8. Focus on one board. You can add pins to all of your other boards, but there should be a primary board that has most of your account’s pins.
  9. Have boards of different categories. If someone doesn’t like one thing you pin about, they may follow you because you pin about another thing that they like.
  10. Like other people’s pins. The more pins you like, the better.
  11. Repinning a lot of pins at once can annoy some of your followers. You can like all of the pins you want to repin, and as you repin those pins, unlike them so you know which of those pins haven’t been repinned yet.
  12. Choose one day of the week to send out at least 50 pins. Then, pin some pictures on other days. The result will be at least 200 pins every month and at least 2,400 pins every year.
  13. Create a board with the words cool or awesome. Awesome YouTube Videos and Cool Stuff are two of my boards with those words.
  14. Create multiple Pinterest boards for subniches. Ex. Twitter–>How to get more engagement–>How to get more retweets on Twitter.
  15. You only have 160 characters for the bio. List all of the things you do, are an expert at, and your hobbies.
  16. Connect with your other social networks.
  17. Use other social networks to promote your pins and boards.
  18. Have some boards about your hobbies. On Pinterest, experts need to show their “human side”.
  19. Pin Infographics. Those get a lot of repins.
  20. Search around Pinterest to get ideas for boards. All you have to do is see an idea and find pictures for it in order to create a board.
  21. There are millions of pictures to choose from. Choose the best ones.
  22. Take your own pictures and upload them to Pinterest.
  23. Create short tutorial boards that show people how to get things done. This is my tutorial board, How To Play Chess.
  24. Choose your favorite animal and create a board about it. One of my favorite animals is the Penguin.
  25. Create a Pinterest board with pictures of your pet. Show off your dog, cat, fish, or any other pet you have.
  26. Pin pictures that are humorous. My board Pinterest Humor has many pins that will make you laugh.
  27. Create a Pinterest board about your wish list for Christmas, your birthday, any occasion, or just for fun.
  28. Add pictures to your blog so your blog posts can get pinned.
  29. Showcase your products on Pinterest. The average consumer spends more money on Pinterest than any other social network.
  30. Pinterest is all about visuals. Blurry pictures won’t help you.
  31. Pin motivational quotes by using Pinstamatic.
  32. Create a board of your favorites. This is a board about my favorite books.
  33. Have as many boards as possible with over 100 pins.
  34. When you have enough boards with over 100 pins, try to have as many boards as possible with over 1,000 pins.
  35. Repin a lot of individual people’s pins. When you repin someone’s pin, you appear in that person’s notifications. If you repin enough of that person’s repins, you may get a new follower. That new follower is also likely to either like or repin your pins.
  36. Promote your Pinterest account on your blog.
  37. Host a giveaway on Pinterest.
  38. Use a lot of hashtags in your pins, but don’t go crazy. Three hashtags is the maximum number of hashtags to use in a pin while one hashtag would be the minimum.
  39. Create a Guess Who Pinterest board where all of the people are experts of your niche.
  40. You have 500 characters to describe a pin. Either use as few or as many of those characters as you can for your pins. Don’t get stuck in the middle.
  41. Create group boards so your boards get updated even when you’re not logged in.
  42. Your group boards appear on other pinner’s account which will lead to more followers for you as well.
  43. Create boards for all of the major holidays.
  44. Update the holiday boards daily as the holidays approach. The day after Christmas isn’t the time to start updating your Christmas board.
  45. Say yes to group board invites with a lot of contributors. This will ensure that one of the boards for your Pinterest account gets updated daily.
  46. Use PinWoot to get more followers, likes, and repins on Pinterest.
  47. Create lists like this one on Pinterest with Pinstamatic.
  48. Find people in your niche with thousands of followers on Pinterest and follow their followers.
  49. Offer coupons on Pinterest.
  50. Create a Pinterest board about Pinterest.
  51. Pin blog posts with affiliate links to sell products and make a commission.
  52. Add Pinterest “Pin It” buttons to the bottom of all of your blog posts.
  53. Add the Pinterest Follow widget to your blog.
  54. If you don’t want the widget, use a WordPress plugin to get the job done.
  55. Get a business account on Pinterest so you can get Pinterest analytics.
  56. Get the “Pin It” button on your bookmark list so you can pin anything without being on Pinterest.
  57. Use the Pinterest search feature to find boards based on your niche. Then follow those boards.
  58. Promote your blog on your Pinterest account so your blog gets more traffic.
  59. Have shopper friendly boards. This will encourage more sales.
  60. If you are considering creating a board about something, create that board as a secret board first. If you like the secret board, make it public.
  61. Use secret boards to organize your goals…unless you want everyone to see them.
  62. People love tips. Create Pinterest boards based on tips in your niche.
  63. Take a break, go to your board with the most pins, and just scroll down. Seeing what you have accomplished will make you feel great.
  64. If you want to do a bucket list of places you want to go to, use Pinterest’s new map feature to display all of your pins on a map of the world.
  65. Make sure your bio picture is a non-blurry picture of you or your company’s logo.
  66. Thank people for repinning your pins.
  67. You can mention pinners using the “@” sign.
  68. Share other people’s content.
  69. Search engines will give your Pinterest boards/account a lot of visibility as long as you keep on pinning consistently.
  70. Download the Pinterest mobile app right now if you haven’t done so already.
  71. When someone finds a link of your Pinterest account on Google, your bio becomes the description Google uses to tell people about your Pinterest account.
  72. An eye tracking study done by Mashable revealed that boards on the top and in the center get seen the most. Move and organize those boards carefully.
  73. Put all of your best boards in the top two rows.
  74. Add keywords to your bio so search engines have an easier time finding you.
  75. Be you on Pinterest.
  76. Host a Pinterest board scavenger hunt. As people search for what they are supposed to find, some of your pins about your newest blog posts may cause some to stop searching for a while. You’ll also get more repins.
  77. Pin YouTube videos. They can be played without leaving Pinterest.
  78. Create a board where you can review products.
  79. Identify which of your boards have the most followers and repins. Those are the boards you need to pay attention to the most.
  80. Give yourself goals for Pinterest (how many followers, pins, repins, or likes you want in a certain amount of time, etc).
  81. Comment on popular pins. A lot of people will see you since there aren’t many people who leave comments.
  82. Keep the followers that you already have happy.
  83. Give your boards creative names.
  84. Focus on getting more board followers for your top three boards. If only one of your boards has 1 million followers, you still show up with 1 million followers.
  85. Stuff your pin descriptions with keywords that Google can use to find your pins.
  86. Establish your niche, and then create numerous boards for sub-niches.
  87. If you have your own group board, only invite the people who won’t spam the board.
  88. Find interesting pinners so it is easier for you to find content to repin.
  89. Promote your Pinterest button on the top of your blog’s sidebar so it is easy to find.
  90. Creat boards related to individual blog posts.
  91. Make the images on your blog easy to pin. There are numerous WordPress plugins out there that do the job.
  92. Host a charity event on Pinterest (for every repin, donate $3 or something like that).
  93. Pin statistics. This can be done as an infographic or with Pinstamatic.
  94. Pin from a variety of different sources.
  95. Pin your YouTube videos on Pinterest.
  96. Create a Pinterest board of your 10 or 100 favorite blog posts depending on how many you have.
  97. Add Pinterest to your email signature. This will allow you to get more quality followers.
  98. Track your statistics, find what works, and find what doesn’t work. Continue to do the things that do work.
  99. Tell your friends on Facebook about your Pinterest boards.
  100. Don’t give up. Everyone started with 0 followers.