Pinterest Savvy: How I Got 1 Million+ Followers (Strategies, Plans, and Tips to Grow Your Business with Pinterest)
Author: Melissa Taylor
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Date: January 29, 2013
About The Author
A mother of two girls, a freelance writer and blogger, and an award-winning
educator, Melissa Taylor holds a Master's Degree in Global Education, with
expertise in early childhood and elementary education and a focus on literacy
and play. She has taught all subjects for the elementary grades and
preschool.
Pinterest For Business and Fun
Have you considered the benefits Pinterest offers your brand, your business, your blog, or even your personal coolness factor?
Here are some facts that might impress you;
- Pinterest is the FASTEST growing social media network.
- Pinterest has 23 million users.
- The Pinterest referral traffic beats Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn combined.
Melissa Taylor uses Pinterest as an online bulletin board and filing system. She has created boards for her business and personal interests and saved links to webpages that she wants to keep.
You pin interesting photographs or graphics that represent the content you want to save.
What do you pin? Here are some of the author's favorite things to pin;
- Learning ideas for kids
- Recipes
- Crafts and DIY projects
- Children's books
- Inspirational Quotes
How do you get followers on Pinterest?
Ms. Taylor offers the following tips for getting followers.
- Connect to your Twitter and/or Facebook accounts.
- Name your boards with keywords that others might find interesting.
- Make a board dedicated to your business only. You can then repin posts from your business board to your special interest boards.
- Pinterest uses hashtags the same way Twitter does. Use hashtags in your descriptions before a category word like #education or #travel.
- Repin, Like and Comment on other user's pins.
- Follow people who pin items that interest you.
- Set up a pinning schedule for each day.
The author shares "Best Advice from Top Pinners" and "Interesting Pinners to Follow" at the end of her book.
My Thoughts
This book was a fast read and filled with color screenshots and links. I
have read several books about Pinterest but this one really has me excited about setting up boards and pinning.
I currently pin my blog posts and have noticed that I am getting traffic to my blog from the Pinterest links. My goal for the future is to use Pinterest as a virtual filing system that reflects all my interests and passions. You can designate your boards as "private" if you don't want others to see them.
Pinterest Savvy provides basic information about using Pinterest and explains exactly WHY you need to use it. The links are excellent for finding avid pinners to follow and getting a feel for how to use the site. The author shares many tips from the book on her Pinterest Savy website.
If you are looking for Pinterest "how-to" and inspiration, this is the book for you!
My Rating: 5 Stars Out Of 5
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Pinterest has been called a photo sharing site, a shared pinboard, a bookmarking site, a creative outlet and many other things. How can Pinterest help you market your product or service?
The Ultimate Guide To Marketing Your Business With Pinterest; A Practical Toolkit To Unlock The Web's Latest Social Networking Phenomenon, by Gabriela Taylor, explains how Pinterest is set to become a vital marketing platform for a wide range of businesses.
About The Author
Gabriela Taylor is an internationally educated Global Online Marketing
Strategist and Consultant who's worked with some of the world's biggest brands
in telecommunications, retail, lifestyle and advertising.
Pinterest For Business
Ms. Taylor is an online marketing professional and is very enthusiastic about the marketing opportunities that Pinterest offers. This book has 140 pages and teaches the reader how to optimize their Pinterest boards to share and promote their business products and services.
This book explains how to get started on Pinterest. There are some impressive graphs that illustrate the remarkable and rapid growth of Pinterest.
Chapter 7, "How To Cash In With Pinterest?", features different kinds of businesses that are using Pinterest to market their products and services. The author advises entrepreneurs to "pin" their products and services in a catchy way, add a description and link back to your site.
The author also lists the top 10 "most Pinteratctive and engaging brands" and the top "Power Pinners" who have made the most of Pinterest.
Chapter 9, "Advanced Pinterest Strategies", really gets into the meat of how to use Pinterest to market your business. The author instructs readers on Pinterest SEO, how to optimize your profile, how to optimize your web site to encourage "pinning", and how to optimize your pins and boards with hashtags, mentions and likes.
The author provides a step-by-step plan for using Pinterest to market your business at the end of this book.
My Thoughts
This is the second book that I have read on Pinterest and I am slowly getting into the habit of visiting the site and "pinning" each day. The site is definitely addictive and very pleasing to the eye.
The first half of this book covers the basics of getting started on Pinterest and how to use it. This is very useful information for beginners on Pinterest.
I found the sections that listed the different kinds of businesses that are using Pinterest, the most "Pinteractive brands" and the "power pinners" to be very interesting. I now have a list of people and companies that I want to follow and learn from.
I thought the step-by-step plan for using Pinterest to market your business was very, very helpful. As a matter of fact, I think this list was the highlight of the book. It is a very good summary of the book and will be a significant help as you get your feet wet on Pinterest.
I have one complaint about this book. I read the book on my Kindle and found the digital formatting to be lacking in quite a few places. One page had two words on it. Many pages just had two or three sentences. I think this problem could be corrected and the book would be much more pleasant to read.
My Rating: 4 Stars Out Of 5
FYI ~ I ordered this book from Amazon.Com when it was offered as a free download. Please check the price before ordering.
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