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16 Cool Pinterest Business Tips

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Hpinterestave you started using this HOT social site that is rating on TOP of Twitter for social sharing. PLUS Facebook and Pinterest work together! Twice the punch!! It’s so awesome. If you haven’t starting using this for Business…do it now!

Here are some great tips and pointers from Melanie Duncan expert in Pinning:

  1. There is only One kind of an account on Pinterest…not a personal and business one, unlike Facebook is set up.
  2. In Settings: Use your 1st and last name that is for YOUR business in those areas ( Not your name, unless it is your business name. And Yes you can change this easily.
  3. Most important thing is to fill our the ABOUT area. Tell them what you do and what you offer.
  4. Most common mistake is not creating proper captions! Make sure you do this. Put a description in with keywords. Look up specific search terms that people are using to look for your product or service.
  5. Add a price to your caption and pinterest automatically will make it a banner up in the left of your pin..and it programs you into the gift section!
  6. If you have a service based business,  use tutorials that you of things you do and post them. You will get tons of exposure and Likes, Comment, and Share.
  7. Create a beautiful image from your recent blog page so people can click through to your actual blog. (with the link you put on the caption and URL area)
  8. Use your boards to make a catalog product gallery…Post your products!
  9. You can pin a quote ..go to pinaquote.com and it walks you through making an image with it.
  10. Use videos as a pin! For an example…. How many ways there are to use your product?
  11. Put a link in your caption!!! Not just inside the the caption area.
  12. Make a call to action!! Put this in your caption! Or click this image to…..
  13. Use the caption under the image to post a testimonial or results from using this service or products!
  14. Get followers: Add a follow button to your website, blogs, emails. At  ww.pinterest.com they have follow buttons you can use, OR in your about area settings there is options to to this.
  15. Info-graphics are big to post!  Here’s a few links to help you create one. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/infographic-create-infographic/ and http://mashable.com/2011/07/13/visually/
  16. To find out how your business is doing ..like how many pins are getting shared from your website once you start using it. Use this link: http://pinterest.com/source/yourwebsite.com

Now do it! And share with us here your experiences!

Making Your Facebook Pages Timeline Work For You

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New changes seem to be always in line at Facebook. Once you really understand how the changes work, they really begin to make sense! Making your Facebook pages timeline work for you will really make a difference!

On March 31st, 2012, you will not be able to opt out of using the new design, so here are a few tips to make the best of it.

Make your Cover Art BOLD! A  picture is worth a thousand words so creating a strong cover image that connects your readers to what your brand is all about is essential. A single, powerful, bold l photograph can have a lot of impact here! BUT– it cannot have promotions, discounts or graphics that encourage people to “like” your page. Th best image size is 851 x 315 pixels, but smaller images will work also, smallest being 399 pixel wide. You can also use a free photo editor tool like Pixlr to help in the process

Square up your profile picture Instead of being longer as it is currently, it will be positioned in a square over your cover art image. It will need be at least 180 pixels square.

Put your most important applications first. With the new layout, Facebook apps are your photo albums, events and the number of people who like your page. Only the first four will display when your Facebook Page first loads but you can have 12 max.

Put a good consistent content post plan in place. This new timeline really shows your inactivity so make in minimal.

Organize create love in your posts. Highlight them by clicking on the star and pencil  includes the ability to hide items, delete items and mark items as spam.

New to Facebook Pages is the admin panel for private messages. Be on top of that monitoring. People like to chat!

RSS Feed feature is New! Use it to bring tons of new people in!

I am loving the new changes, how about you?

 

Cool Social Tools

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merchant circle customer loveAre you familiar with Merchant circle? It is another avenue for event promotion and connecting up with businesses. Not as big a platform as others but good in its place.   You can offer promotions, discounts or whatever you desire here (they call them coupons). You invite other businesses you are interested in networking with. They invite you. You can chat with them, rate them, and answer questions.

 

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Pretty new on the scene is the “Pinterest” social platform. It can be connected with Facebook if you chose with your updates on your timeline,  It consists of boards where you create and post images and descriptions that you are very passionate about.   You make virtually any category and name it something unique.. Thoughts, quotes, your favorite food, places to go, any kind of stats, your business info and products, on and on. I  seems to be common for women to use it, but yes, men are there also! I believe it is an awesome tool for getting to know a person (no matter how high profile they are) on a more personal level as well as business. A great place for your potential clients to get to know you. People like your photos and repin them.

Have you used them yet?

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