Category: Pinterest

20+ Ways to Use Apple Watch for Social Media to Get More Done!

Do you spend a lot of time pulling out your iPhone to check your social media channels?

Maybe you’re managing social media for clients or constantly checking your own channels for new updates.

We’re all guilty of that.

The bottomline is that social media can be time-consuming and interrupt our focus if we let it.

This can lead to a loss in productivity and if you’re a business owner, lost revenue.

What if you could improve the time you spend on social media each day?

For example, spend 60 minutes a day instead of getting lost for hours in your newsfeed?

In this article I’ll show you some ways you can use Apple Watch for social media.

This way you can begin to improve your productivity and accomplish more in your business.

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Let’s take a look at some of the ways you can use Apple Watch for social media.

This way you can stay on-top of conversations, capitalize on new content ideas, and get more done on your social media channels!

20+ Ways to Use Apple Watch for Social Media

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How to double Pinterest followers in 5 minutes – Infographic

Do you wish you could build a stronger presence on Pinterest? What if you could double Pinterest followers in just 5 minutes per day?

While Pinterest is primarily used by women (80% vs 20% for men), it can do amazing things for your business when done right!
Here are a few reasons to consider using Pinterest.

Benefits to using Pinterest

  • Drive website traffic
  • Increase sales
  • Generate leads
  • Build your brand

Brands on Pinterest

While Pinterest can help grow your website traffic and your business, just because the primary audience on Pinterest is women doesn’t mean your brand can’t benefit.

In fact, here are a few brands that do extremely well on Pinterest.

Some of these are big brands and you would expect them to have a strong presence on any social network that they join.

Fortunately, you don’t have to be a big brand to develop a large following.

You just need to be consistent with how you use Pinterest.

Growing your following on Pinterest

By performing just a few simple actions in just five minutes per day, you can start to engage with other users and help grow your businesses presence on Pinterest.

Items you can do right now to double Pinterest followers.

  • Repin others – 80% of pins are repins on Pinterest
  • Be active and comment on pins you find interesting
  • Follow other Pinterest users who share similar interests
  • Pinterest produces 4X more revenue than Twitter and 27% more than Facebook
  • Display Pinterest boards on your Facebook Page

While these are just a few of the ways you can double Pinterest followers and to make your effort on Pinterest count.

The team at Who Is Hosting has put together an infographic featuring even more actionable items to help you double Pinterest followers and develop a stronger presence on the site!

How to double Pinterest followers in 5 minutes

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The complete guide to social media dimensions – Infographic

Do you struggle with finding the right dimensions to use on your social media channels?

With  a number of social networks changing their social media dimensions, I understand how frustrating it can be to keep up.

For example, both Facebook and Twitter changed their social media dimensions in 2014.

Here is an example of their new layouts.

Facebook Page redesign
Facebook Page redesign in 2014. Source: Facebook Page redesign news

 

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Twitter redesign in 2014. Source: Twitter redesign news

While I love the new look of both channels, it can be frustrating for community managers, social media managers and businesses.

This is because when new redesigns come out, they don’t always tell you what social media dimensions you need to update to.

Fortunately, the team at  Insight180 put together an extremely helpful infographic that features the latest social media dimensions for:

This infographic shows you which social media dimensions you need to use and also includes the right sizes for images you include in your posts as well.

So what social media dimensions you should be using for 2014?

Social media dimensions (May 2014)

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5 Pinterest secret board ideas to help you get more creative

When Pinterest first launched Pinterest secret boards, you were limited to creating just three secret boards.

With their recent announcement, you can now create unlimited secret boards. This is good news for Pinterest users because you can use secret boards in lots of creative ways.

To help you get started thinking about the different ways you can use Pinterest secret boards, I put together a collection of Pinterest secret board ideas to get you started.

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The complete guide to Pinterest place pins

Do you wish you could have a resource to help you locate the best places for travel or to conduct business at? With the recent announcement from Pinterest, now you can with Pinterest place pins.

Pinterest place pins
Pinterest rolls out place pins for travel.

What are Pinterest place pins?

Pinterest had this to say about Place pins:

Place Pins were designed to combine the beautiful imagery of a travel magazine with the utility of a map online so you can share it with friends.

So what does all of this mean?

To sum up things, Pinterest place pins are a way to create pinboards on Pinterest and include a map, location information such as a phone number, and an address that you can share with your followers or invite others to collaborate with you on to curate great places that people should visit.

To use Pinterest place pins, follow the instructions below.

How to use Pinterest place pins

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Pinterest for ecommerce

A lot of people think that Pinterest is only good for a handful of things – saving and sharing fashion, designs, and recipes you find online. Don’t let it fool you though. You can use Pinterest for business. You can even use Pinterest for ecommerce.

In fact, there are approximately 46.9 million monthly active users on Pinterest right now. . That’s a staggering number, considering just one year ago, there were only 12.2 million monthly active users on Pinterest.

So just why is Pinterest for ecommerce so important? Here are few stats that you need to be aware of as an ecommerce business that can affect your online sales.

Important facts about using Pinterest for ecommerce

90% of the users on @Pinterest are women. .

61% of women influence consumer electronic buying decisions. . [Source]

Pinterest driving more traffic to websites than Twitter for ecommerce businesses. .

As an ecommerce business, what can you do to tap into the large number of monthly active users on Pinterest?

This infographic on Pinterest for ecommerce helps breakdown steps you can take with your business to leverage Pinterest as a marketing channel.

Tips on using Pinterest for ecommerce

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Rearrange boards on Pinterest Like the Supermarkets [video]

Rearrange boards on Pinterest to get more repins

 

Pinterest is a terrific resource to drive traffic to your website or blog. In fact, I find a lot more traffic comes from Pinterest than it does from other social media channels like Facebook. One way to leverage your Pinterest account to drive traffic back to  your website is to create great boards. Each time you add a new board though, remember to go back and rearrange boards on Pinterest.

Why rearrange boards on Pinterest?

If you’ve ever been to the grocery store, one thing you’ll notice is that the products the store wants you to buy are always at eye level. The less popular ones (and usually less expensive ones) are on the bottom shelves, out of the your line of sight. This is because they want you to focus on the products they’ve put on the middle shelves. Crazy, but true.

So why are your Pinterest boards not arranged this way?

As the number of boards on your Pinterest account grows, it is important to go back and rearrange boards on Pinterest. Everytime you create a new pin board, it is added to the bottom. This means your followers (and any new users) won’t see it if they go to your Pinterest channel because it will be below the fold and out of sight.

Because of this, you’ll want to go back and rearrange your boards so that you have the most important ones showing at the top. This way your followers won’t have to search through your boards. At the same time, this gives you the opportunity to put your best boards at the top – the ones you pin to often or want your followers to see and repin content from.

Don’t forget about your business needs

As the needs of your business change, it is important to reflect these changes on your social media channels as well.

For example, if you are known for cooking, arrange your Pinterest cooking boards at the top and the boards you use less often towards the bottom.

While you’re rearranging your boards on Pinterest, be sure to set a board cover for your boards too. This way they’re easily identifiable and stand out.

Video on how to rearrange boards on Pinterest

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6 Pinterest Changes in 2013

We’re nearly a quarter of the way through 2013 and there have already been a lot of changes on Pinterest. While change is good, this list of Pinterest changes in 2013 may impact your current social media strategy. As a result, be prepared to spend some time analyzing your current Pinterest strategy as a result of these new changes.

So what has changed on Pinterest in 2013?  The following 6 features have been removed from Pinterest.  We have also provided a recommended fix to make your Pinterest account compliant.  Be sure to update your account to reflect these changes based on our recommendations.

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5 Way’s to Contact Pinterest

Have you ever tried to contact Pinterest? In most cases, when you need help, you’ll find other people who have the same questions, but no one to answer them. We’ve compiled a list of the best way’s to contact Pinterest about any issues you are having with your account. Fortunately, Pinterest offers a lot of different way’s to contact them to resolve your issues.
 
How to contact Pinterest

How to contact Pinterest

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