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!

Friday Facts: Why Businesses Should Consider Pinterest

While looking through Pinterest to come up with some Friday Fact posts to share - yes I use Pinterest to find some of these articles - I came across this one which actually promotes the usage of Pinterest for businesses.

Personally, I have set up one of the businesses I work with (Video Game Scoreboard) on Pinterest and have seen some stuff from that.  What's nice about Pinterest - and we will eventually cover that here too - is that they will confirm your brand if you add code to your website for any site you're creating a Pinterest page for as a brand.  So if you're the one running social media for a brand, be sure to talk to the webdevelopers and get them the code needed to verify your account.

That being said, White Glove Social Media provides 7 good reasons as to why businesses should be using Pinterest as part of their social media strategy.  Check out the article here:  http://www.whiteglovesocialmedia.com/infographic-pinterest-social-media-marketing-7-reasons-why-businesses-should-use-pinterest/

Have you seen articles you think others would like to see on our blog?  Or do you have your own social media blog and want us to share some of your posts?  If so, leave a comment with information and a link and you may find your posts featured on a Friday!