Friday Sharing: More Pinterest Tips: 11 Things brands need to consider when pinning

Pinterest is an interesting social network for brands to branch into. Not only do you have to make sure the stuff on your website is interesting and has good graphics to make it pinnable, you also have to be actively involved in Pinning and sharing stuff on your brand's Pinterest boards.

Hello Society has a great article regarding 11 tips brands need to consider when pinning on Pinterest.

Did you know you can schedule pins? (I didn't, now I need to look into this).

Remembering to audit Pinterest just like you audit your other social media networks.

Planning out Pins, sharing pins and more.

If you hire a social media manager for your brand, be sure that they understand Pinterest and branding with Pinterest as well.

Check out this article for other useful tips and information that you should consider when branding with Pinterest: http://hellosociety.com/blog/11-things-brands-need-to-consider-when-creating-their-pinterest-marketing-strategy/

Friday Sharing: How to Plan a Successful 2015 Pinterest Strategy

The year may be a little more than half over, but this blog post over at HelloSociety provides tips that can be used to create a successful Pinterest Strategy.

Tips include:

• How to gain more followers and increase engagement
• How to increase your website's traffic
• And ways to increase sales.

If your brand is on Pinterest, this article may be of help to you for your second half of the year social media planning.  If you aren't on Pinterest yet, this may give you some ideas of what to do when you do branch into Pinterest.

Check out the article here: http://hellosociety.com/blog/how-to-plan-a-successful-2015-pinterest-strategy/

Have a great weekend!

Saturday Stats: 30 Billion is a HUGE Number

Do you use Pinterest?  Don't be ashamed if you do.  Many companies and social media marketers are turning to Pinterest to gain followers and share content with Pinterest users as well.

Pinterest is interesting because it draws people to articles based on images as well as useful, shareable content on your website.

Pinterest launched in 2010 and has, in four years, had more than 30 BILLION pins created.

30 Billion.  That's a lot of pins.

If you aren't on Pinterest yet, you may want to look into it as part of your social media marketing plan.  Pinterest has a partner program for brands that you can easily become a part of.

Check out the articles below regarding the way Pinterest is making a hit in the social media sphere.

For more information: http://blogs.constantcontact.com/product-blogs/social-media-marketing/pinterest-features/

And for even further information: http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/24/pinterest-30b-pins/

Happy Saturday!

Friday Facts: How Small Businesses Can Leverage Pinterest

Today's link comes from a tip from LinkedIn which then took me to this article on Pinterest.  It has some useful tips that you can use to improve your small business' impact on Pinterest.  Produced by the Business2Community site and written by Harsh Ajmera, take a couple minutes to read the article, found here:  http://www.business2community.com/small-business/small-businesses-can-leverage-pinterest-effectively-0823034#!CKqYS

As always, if you see any good articles we can link on Fridays, please don't hesitate to leave them in replies to this thread or future posts.

Also, our First Friday post is a bit delayed.  It will be out later this afternoon.  enjoy!