Presented to the Online Work Network for WordPress Professionals (OWNWP) on May 3, 2013 http://www.ownwp.com; Basics of Pinterest for personal and business use
3. What is it?
"Pinterest is a tool for collecting and
organizing things you love.‖
A virtual catalogue of your life
4. What is it?
"Pinterest is a tool for collecting and
organizing things you love.‖
A virtual catalogue of your life
A social scrapbook
5. What is it?
"Pinterest is a tool for collecting and
organizing things you love.‖
A virtual catalogue of your life
A social scrapbook
Your own museum exhibit, procured and
curated by YOU
6. What is it?
"Pinterest is a tool for collecting and
organizing things you love.‖
A virtual catalogue of your life
A social scrapbook
Your own museum exhibit, procured and
curated by YOU
―A picture is worth a thousand words.‖
15. What’s that mean?
•Pin – a pin is an image or video; or to pin
an image or video
•Re-pin – to find an image you like on
someone else’s Pinterest board and copy
it to your own.
•Pinner – the person doing the pinning
16. What’s that mean?
•Board – a collection of pins; like a folder
of images
•Like – to show appreciation but not
enough to pin it yourself
•Follow – a person or a board; you’ll see
new pins in your feed
•Mention – use the @pinterestname to
bring a pin to another user’s attention
17. Examples?
Let’s go look at a few boards!
http://pinterest.com/ownwp/
http://pinterest.com/bzzzsocial/
http://pinterest.com/mcfitzsatx/
http://pinterest.com/nightowlsites/
http://pinterest.com/generalelectric/
http://pinterest.com/lucindabrant/
18. What can it do for business?
Branding: logo, office, employees
19. What can it do for business?
Branding: logo, office, employees
Showcase products and services
20. What can it do for business?
Branding: logo, office, employees
Showcase products and services
Build your reputation
21. What can it do for business?
Branding: logo, office, employees
Showcase products and services
Build your reputation
Act as a portfolio
22. What can it do for business?
Branding: logo, office, employees
Showcase products and services
Build your reputation
Act as a portfolio
Add more interest for customers/clients
23. What can it do for business?
Tips:
•Optimize your Pinterest profile: add web
site, links to Twitter and Facebook,
keywords
24. What can it do for business?
Tips:
•Optimize your Pinterest profile: add web
site, links to Twitter and Facebook,
keywords
•Add the ―Follow Me‖ widget and ―Pin It‖
buttons to content on your web sites
25. What can it do for business?
Tips:
•Optimize your Pinterest profile: add web
site, links to Twitter and Facebook,
keywords
•Add the ―Follow Me‖ widget and ―Pin It‖
buttons to content on your web sites
•Use good descriptions for your pins,
including #hashtags for keywords and
26. What can it do for business?
Marketing sites for Pinterest:
Piqorahttp://www.piqora.com/
Reachlihttp://www.reachli.com/
HelloSocietyhttp://hellosociety.com/