How To Use Pinterest For Marketing

Pinterest, as a marketing platform, is used for multiple reasons. Started in the year 2010 with only 5,000 users, Pinterest grew over the years to amass over 250 million monthly users. What started as an idea for pinning images one liked to growing into becoming an image sharing platform, Pinterest is, today, one of the largest social media platforms for getting word out about your brand and drawing inspiration. Here’s why you should use Pinterest as a marketing platform:

1. Optimize your boards

Simply put, a Pinterest board is where you can “pin” images and draw inspiration from the boards of the people you follow. The names and descriptions on your Pinterest board are extremely important. From telling the viewer what the products on your board are about, to helping people find your products easily, descriptions are the most important things for your Pinterest profile! With a 500 character limit, the descriptions require details to specificity. Use the same keywords as you would for the board’s title and make your point in not more than 160 characters. This will help improve your impact just with the words that you use!

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2. Make the most of the individual pins

When it comes to marketing on Pinterest, there are certain pins you can use to have the desired effects. These are known as individual pins and when used with the right kind of description, you can make your page stand out! While the descriptions are important in their own right, Pinterest as a platform works better if you write individual descriptions for the pins. Although they are often not looked at in the right way, the descriptions written for individual images can give your viewers an immediate understanding about what the product is. Further, these descriptions help in driving reaction for your post by increasing the likes, comments and repins.

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3. Use Rich Pins

Unlike the regular Pinterest pins, Rich Pins help in providing context to the image you are putting out on your board. Easily identifiable, Rich Pins allow for extra information to be present above and below the image. While individual pins are one way of getting your page the reach it requires, Rich Pins streamline the process. Although Rich Pins made their appearance only in the year 2010, the impact they have had on the world of marketing grew strongly through the years. Rich Pins help because they increase the amount of information you put on your board. Rich Pins come in 6 types: Place, Article, Product, Recipe, Movie and App. Although the amount of work one puts into the Rich Pins is a lot more than a normal pin, the enhanced user experience makes the effort worth the while.

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4. Add Buyable Pins

Take your Pinterest game one step further by syncing your web store and Pinterest account. Buying pins, or shop the look pins, help in letting you buy the pins which give you inspiration. You can buy more than one pin at a time and each time you buy a product, you can check out directly from the website without leaving the website at all! Buyable pins add a sense of authenticity to your website and through this, there is a larger chance of your page coming up  ahead on search results!

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5. Make sure you have a “Pin It” button

One of the best ways to make the most of your Pinterest page is by installing the Pin It button. While the other marketing ways mentioned here help redirect to your website, the Pin It button, which helps in pinning your content to the top of the page, increases the engagement from your viewers and users. The people who look at and know your website can pin the content at the top for you and once they do that, others  would able to view the content immediately. The Pin It button ensures your content is most visible the moment it is put out.

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Pinterest is the next most important social media platform after Facebook and Twitter and if you get the strategies right, then your plan is gold! If you think we missed out on any other methods which help your platform grow through Pinterest, comment and let us know!