Did you know that the newest social network Pinterest is doing better than its allies?

  

Date Posted: 10/17/2012 10:03:35 AM

Posted By: Geekeijoe  Membership Level: Silver  Total Points: 453

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In today’s world, social media has taken over with a variety of different websites like Face book, Twitter, You Tube, Google, Pinterest among others. Pinterest is the latest social, interactive, shareable and inspirational bookmarking social phenomena to hit the masses. It is used to pin image collections such as events, interests and hobbies. The image collections are improved by the swift occurrence of Pinterest social media. A pin is an image or video, either from a website or uploaded from the user. In other words, Pinterest continues to gain traction in for users who enjoy creating collections of things to share with others in that by just Liking a pin, you add a Like on your profile. However marketing through Pinterest is so new that it is not fully exploited and is yet to meet the designer’s targets.

Originally, Pinterest was a type of scrap-booking website where users posted pictures of their family, pets and vacation and then share them with friends in the social site. For this reason, Pinterest was seen as a hobby type website. However, as the platform began to grow, users started to see the potential it held. On the whole, with new features included, you can now use Pinterest for a wide variety of things.

Interestingly, most users happen to be women, marketing through Pinterest either in planning weddings, decorating their homes, crafting, fashion, entertainment, gardening or even organizing their favorite recipes. Similarly, through Pinterest social media, people run competitions whereby winners are the users who pin the best. On the other hand, by sharing your own products in business, marketing through Pinterest generates sales from the people who visit the site. In follows that Pinterest can turn your small business into a big business with hot property in a short span of time.

Pinterest is

really exploding. Top bloggers are teaching classes on it and likewise as a business owner you need to be very strategic about your time and similarly benefit your business from being on Pinterest. As a matter of fact, the difference between sharing things on other social sites and sharing them on Pinterest social media is that people get to see exactly what the item is before they click on it. Eventually these people end up buying the item. As a result, your business can find new customers from a place that did not exist.

Even though Pinterest is still invitation only, it has to date accumulated to over 2.7 million users which for sure is an outstanding performance, it’s simple to join; all you have to do is head to the Pinterest website and request an invite. Alternatively, you can login using your Face book or Twitter account for instant access and then enjoy the ride.

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