Tag Archives: Pinterest

  • 5 Pinterest Marketing Tips for Businesses

    If your product or service is visual, your brand should be on Pinterest. It is an excellent way to beef up interest and spread the reach of your well designed products and/or visually stunning services. Pinterest has been changing their features for businesses, and now converts qualified businesses over to business accounts and provides analytics to measure the results of engagement on the image-focused social network. It is also important to note that a growing trend on Pinterest for businesses is to pin infographics and articles to help promote information in a visual way. Here are 5 marketing tips that businesses or brands should be using on Pinterest: Include a price tag. Pinterest users are very visual in nature and also like to recreate crafts …

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  • Social Media Tips to Create Buzz at Your Next Trade Show

    Social media marketing should already be a big part of your marketing plan for your trade show. If it is not, it is definitely time to start incorporating it into your regular trade show routine. Here are some infographic tips to help you prepare for social media at trade show with some tactics and ideas to be executed both before and during the trade show or exhibition event. Ideas for Trade Show Promotional Gifts Giving away branded gifts or promotional products is still an important strategy for trade show vendors. Tie in your promotional product giveaways into social media to help add to the marketing and tie everything together. The 5 main goals for your take away should be: Increase your brand. It has been …

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  • Pinterest Tips for Your Business

    If you think that Pinterest isn’t the social channel for your business, think again. Pinterest can work for a number of different businesses; it’s all about making your content visual. Even if your business isn’t visual, making your content visual is something that is easy to do. Here are some tips for using Pinterest to socially and visually connect with your customers or clients. Profile Set Up Your profile is important because it might determine whether or not your customers follow you, so making that first impression is important. Here are some tips for your Pinterest Profile for Businesses: Make sure that your profile picture is visual. It does not have to be your logo if your logo does not meet visual standards. The size …

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  • Celebrate World Social Media Day on 30, June 2013!

    At the end of this month, Mashable  is organising the 4th annual World Social Media Day. The day was originally designed so that people in every city across the world could have social media meetings, tweet ups, and educational events to teach others about social media. Learning about new technology and sharing ideas with others are some of the fundamentals of social channels that are enhanced when people get together to talk about it. Each year, there are new social media sites to learn about and the existing channels are ever-changing, new best practices emerge, and overall it is a fun time to meet up in person with others who share the same interests that you normally only converse with online. Social Media Day in …

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  • Social Media Benefits for Business featuring BrandMe’s Social Channels

    Social media has become an essential part of businesses today. It is not just “a good idea” to have social channels, it is necessary to be able to connect with your customers in social media. Nowadays customers look for a company’s social media channels to verify that they are a legitimate business but also to know that they will have a way to get in touch with the company easily. If you are just getting started in social media, make a plan and pick the channels you want to showcase your brand and bring your company’s personality to life. It is not necessary to have a presence in all social channels, only the ones that you can keep up with. The worst thing is to …

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  • Pinterest v. Facebook: Tale of the Tape

    A study of 50,000 Australian Internet users and the accompanying infographic has shown considerable light on how Australians view and use Facebook and its upstart rival, Pinterest. According to the study: Pinterest drives more sales than Facebook. Pinterest was said to have influenced 10 percent of sales, versus 7 percent for Facebook. But, Pinterest users are not as engaged as Facebook users, which might have something to do with the shorter time Pinterest has been around so its users have not developed as much of a habit of posting as Facebook users. But, Pinterest users spend more than Facebook users, almost twice as much at $180. This too might be a function of demographics as Facebook hits a larger percentage of the population. But, it …

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  • Pinterest Becoming a Hot Stop for Aussie Networkers

    There is a new phenomenon called “DIY Networking,” because the engines of social media engine can be used by those without much media or technical sophistication, addressing a new “social media audience” that is used to interacting on Facebook, for example. For networkers looking for a new, hip, and less intrusive avenue of networking than Facebook,  Pinterest is gaining interest in Australia and elsewhere. Pinterest has been called “electronic scrapbooking,” although with a worldwide audience. “What I think is great about Pinterest is its amazing ability to connect people in a very non-standard social network way,” said Tony Benner, a public relations consultant. “Clothing retailers, wedding planners and graphic designers are among the swelling business crowd joining the popular social-media site, which lets users ‘pin’ …

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