9 Pinterest Hacks to Drive Traffic, Sales and Profits

Pinterest Growth Hacks to Get Your Business Found

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Rebekah Radice

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➔ Global Brand Ambassador

for Post Planner

➔ Award Winning Blogger

➔ Social Media Strategist

➔ Author, “How to Use Social

Media to Virtually Crush the

Competition”

➔ @RebekahRadice

➔ @PostPlanner

Melissa Megginson

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➔ Marketing Manager and

Cat Lady at Tailwind

➔ Content Creation, Social

Media, Blogging and PR

➔ Award Winning Blogger

➔ @MelMegg

➔ @TailwindApp

Housekeeping...

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➔ Don’t forget to use the hashtag #pinteresthacks

➔ Clear off your desk and shut down your tech toys - you won’t want to miss a second of this

➔ Grab a pen and paper or your favorite note-taking app and get ready to take notes

Have You Ever Wondered...

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➔ How to get noticed and create brand awareness with Pinterest?

➔ How to market your business on Pinterest?

➔ How to create content that gets shared?

➔ How to drive traffic to your website, increase sales, revenue and cash flow?

Succeeding at Pinterest

➔ If you want

to succeed

at Pinterest,

you have to

work smart.

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#1 Pinterest SEO

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Hybrid Discovery Engine/Social Media Platform

Guided Search

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Help Get Your Content Found

➔ Use

searchabl

e

keywords

in your

boards,

descriptio

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Help Get Your Content Found➔ Find out what content is ranking

already on Pinterest’s analytics

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Help Get Your Content Found

➔ Look at Tailwind’s

word clouds to see

what users are

saying when they

pin your content

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Help Get Your Content Found

➔ Hashtags - useful,

but not supported

by Pinterest in

search

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More on Hashtags

➔ Two things to know on

Hashtags -

◆ Could lead to

being found on

category pages,

but could also lead

your competitor if

the hashtag is too

generic◆ Hashtags are only

clickable in your Pin description

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#2 Reuse viral content from other platforms/accounts

Find viral content on PostPlanner, repost on Pinterest.

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Create new images for your own viral content

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#3 Embed Boards

Highlight popular pins on your

website or blog

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Add “Pin It” Button

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#4 Work with influential users in your industry

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Where to Find Influencers

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Where to Find Influencers

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How to Engage Influencers

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#5 Cross promote on other social networks to expand reach

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Facebook

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Twitter

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Google+

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Pin content from your website and Instagram account to cross-promote.

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#6 Include in newsletter

Highlight popular

pins or one board in

particular.

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Examples

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Examples

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#7 Follow the right people

Type in relevant keywords, find people,

follow.

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Tip: Don’t do this too often or Pinterest could flag your account. There is no magic number, but 300 is limit based on testing. Stick with 50-100 relevant pinners to stay away from seeming spammy.

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#8 Run a Contest

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#8 Run a Contest

● No “Pin to Win” style contests

● Don’t require a minimum number of

pins

● Be careful with Pinterest’s branding

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A great contest is a creative contest

#9 Pin regularly, pin around the clock

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Why?

Not everyon

e is online at the same time.

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● How to use Pinterest to connect with your target market (how to find people looking for your product/service)

● How to create content your audience cares about (identify what you have now and how to position it for maximum Pinterest exposure)

● Steps to create a reliable stream of traffic to your website and blog

● Why (and how) you must leverage other social channels to boost channel awareness

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