Pinterest Benefits

Benefits of Pinerest

What is Pinterest?

Pinterest as the people who created Pinerest is,

“ Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the internet. People can use pinboards to plan their weddings, to decorate their homes and Organize their recipes. To simply put, it is a virtual board where one can attach images that tickle their lives and creative vision. It is like a scrapbook that lets the world share with itself.”

According to Pinterest Power a book written by Jason Miles and Karen Lacey; Pinterest became the third largest social media network in the world in March 2012. Pinterest has 18.7 million registered users and over 100 million vistors and this is growing as we speak.

QUESTIONS:

What is a pin? A pin is an image post added to pinterest. Users add pins to their boards by using the pin it bookmark button. Pinterest users link to images or upload them from their computer. When clicked , every pin links back to its origanl source.

What is a Board? A board is a page of pins around a certain theme or topic. You can post as many pins as you want to your boards.

What is following? Following means that you are subscribed to a users pins or boards.

What is repin? A repin is reposting another users pin onto your own boards. 

·         Repins are what make Pinterest’s viral potential possible.

Benefits of Having a Pinterest!

1.       Free Marketing! Pinterest is a GREAT display ad system but all for FREE! You can average more click throughs than normal Google display ads.

2.       It’s the new way of discovering on the internet in terms of being visually seen through everyone you know.

3.       You can connect with massive new pools of prospective clients who are visually oriented and whom you may never had the chance to do so before.

4.       The content that you put on Pinterest will keep working for you even after you posted it. Over 80% of all the pins are repins; meaning your followers, and their follwers are doing your marketing for you!

5.       There is low overhead required to maintain a pinterest presence. Do it at your own pace.

6.       The content can be spred through new communities and groups of potential clients without you ever knowing it.

7.       You turn your follwers into people who vouch for you!

Above are the reasons that you can benefit from having a Pinterest!

If you really want to learn more and take your business or career to the next level check out

Pinterest Power By Jason Miles and Karen lacey

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