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Social Media Marketing @Convonix
Are you interest-ED
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Pinterest is a pinboard-style social photo
sharing website that allows users to create and manage
theme-based image collections such as events, interests, hobbies and more
What Wikipedia thinks it is
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It’s a social networking and publishing site based on photos
What bloggers think it is
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What WE think it is
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Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you
find on the web
What Pinterest thinks it is
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What it actually is
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It’s an addictive online scrapbook
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• It’s About Discovery, Not Search
• The Content is the Navigation
• It’s About Interests, Not Friends
• It Creates Persistent Content
• It Doesn’t Seem Commercial (Yet!)
What is Pinterest all about?
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The origin of Pinterest
• The Pinterest project began in December 2009 with former Google
display advertising designer Ben Silbermann at the head, supported by
Paul Sciarra of Radius Ventures and Evan Sharp, former Facebook
product designer
• Pinterest started operation under closed beta status in March 2010
• Although the ability to expand Pinterest's membership was somewhat
limited with the invite-only clause, its growth was alarmingly
exponential
• While in its beta stage, Pinterest accumulated over 1.5 million users
with approximately 3.8 million views per day
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How to use it
Pinning
Upload a new pin/linking/comment
Follow people/boards and re-pin
Create boardsYour own Or choose from available
Invitation requestUse Facebook Use individual login details
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What is a pin?
A pin is added to Pinterest. A pin can be added from a website using the ‘Pin it’ button or you can upload images from your computer. Each pin added using ‘Pin it’ button links back to the site it came from.
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What is a board?A board is a set of pins. A board can be created on any topic, such as Cool Posters, Recipes For Dinner, or Wishlist. You can add as many pins to a board as you want
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Pricing Function
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TRAFFIC
Link the board to the web-
site
Pin directly from
website
Add URL in description
Linking Back
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Why all the Interest in Pinterest?• January 2012, Pinterest had 11.7 million
unique users
• It’s the fastest site in history to reach 10
million unique visitors per month
• 3rd most visited social media site in the
US
• Average time spent on website by a
visitor from Pinterest is higher in
comparison to other social platforms
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• Visual appeal
• Invite-only
• Strong word of mouth
• Something new is exciting
• Design
• Action buttons are hidden
• Limited comments
• Images are center stage
• It's easy & it’s a fun
experience
• It’s like shopping
Why did this happen?
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industries that should use Pinterest• E-commerce
• Beauty
• Apparel
• Tourism
• Education
• Wedding planning
• Interior decoration
• Designing
• Photographers
• Hotels and Food Chains
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• Drive traffic
• Index boards
• Build links and back-links
• Searching Images
• Analyzing Traffic
• Buttons to Pin
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• Make sure to repin and follow other pins and
users from the same industry
• Infographs are big on Pinterest
• Fill out the “About You” section that appears
under your photo so that your followers know
about you
• Link the pinned photo back to your site
• If you’re selling something, add the price to
your pin
• Get creative with the board names
• Feel free to pin videos!
• Always add a description to your pins
• Make sure to change the descriptions written by
others to make your pins unique
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• Repin everything to your Twitter and
Facebook profiles by default
• Create boards strictly for your own business
• Use your brand’s Pinterest account for
personal pinning
• Use Pinterest if it can’t be a part of your over-
all social media strategy
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related: http://pinterest.com/
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• Completely visual inspiration engine and cloud scrapbook for all your
wedding favorites
• Plan a wedding, create your dream wedding, collect ideas for your
wedding, etc.
• Have various color schemes to help you narrow down searches or to find
what your looking for
Lover.ly
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• Same layout as
• The top search
query is
clone”
pinspire
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• “Manly website”
• Still invite based
• The core of Gentlemint
was actually built in a day
gentlemint
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Pinpuff lets you measure Pinfluence - popularity, influence,
activity, reach on a scale of
100
You can measure the value of pins
& referral traffic
Provides analytics and
graphs
You can measure
profile, board and pin level
insights
Lets you measure the popularity
and reach of your boards
and pins
Pinterest lets you monitor the pins and repins that
are done from your website
Adding, ‘source/yourwebsite’ after
pinterest.com/ will let you
see the total number of pins from
your website
Google Analytics lets you measure referral traffic coming from
You can also measure
conversions, last
interaction conversions,
assisted conversions
How to measure the Metrics
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A FEW SUCCESSFUL CASE STUDIES
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• Etsy’s pinboards really take to heart what its brand stands for
• The company is humanizing its brand and forming deeper
connections with its target audience.
• Etsy representative Adam Brown said that "Pinterest is a growing
source of traffic for Etsy" and that they consider it "terrific for our
members because it's another way for shoppers to discover all of
the amazing things that Etsy sellers create."
CONNECT WITH YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE
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• In 2011, Perpetual Kid began to gain
organic exposure on Pinterest as
customers pinned pictures of
Perpetual Kid’s products, as well as
pictures that had been drawn on
shipping boxes by the staff
• In the summer of 2011, Pinterest was
driving only 0.20% of Perpetual Kid’s
total traffic; by January 2012, it was up
to 2.63%
• For Perpetual Kid, Pinterest traffic
converts to a sale at more than
twice the rate of Facebook traffic
DRIVE WEB TRAFFIC
GENERATE LEADS
CONVERT SALES
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Social media traffic: perpetual kid
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Indian Brands
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• Niraj Shah, CEO Wayfair (the 2nd largest home goods retailer by
revenue) says that shoppers referred by Pinterest are 10% more
likely to make a purchase than visitors who arrive from other
social networks, including Facebook and Twitter
• "Pinterest is a huge source from a referral standpoint, even
beating out referrals from Facebook in the month of October," said
Shannon King, GM of digital for Real Simple magazine
• When Lionsgate introduced video content to its Pinterest profile,
Lionsgate BeFit’s YouTube activity doubled, from 200,000 to
400,000 views
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what’s behind the Pinterest phenomenon?
Lower barriers to building reach
Pinterest is reportedly monetizing the site by making money as an affiliate
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