Pinterest Info

Updates Coming to Pinterest

Pinterest has announced that is about to release a very new and improved design. The updated Pinterest will include larger images, enhanced navigation, and a better menu navigation to help find related pins next to the pins you view. Now finding fashion, or recipes on Pinterest could be a much more fun experience.

The good people at Pinterest are reporting that this update will be rolling out to a select group to being beta testing and that everyone else will start to see this update in a few weeks. Read more…

Is Pinterest Driving Sales

This blog has not been huge in the re-publishing of infogrpahics. For sure there is not a shortage of websites that are jumping on the Pinterest boom to help get traffic to their sites. We at Pinterest Login of course would know nothing about that.

This is about to change with this posting. The fine people at Shopify have put together a nifty graphic that outlines how successful Pinterest is and has been at helping retailers to close sales.

Here are some highlights from the this graphic:

• Pins with price tags get 36% more likes than those without it
• Pinterest contributed with 17% of social media driven revenue in Q1 2012, up 16% from Q2 2011
• Buyers coming from Pinterest are spending 10% more than the ones coming from other networks
• Brands are growing faster than on Twitter
• On Shopify, the average order coming from Pinterest is $80, higher than any other site including Google, Amazon and Facebook, which has an average of $40

Men the Bigger Spenders on Pinterest than Women

Perhaps you have heard some place the the majority of users on Pinterest are women? An earlier post in this blog placed placed the percentage of women as Pinterest users at 97%, but there are reports  that can be found listing the percentage between 60% to 90%. All of which is a set up to deliver some interesting news regarding men using Pinterest.

It seems that men are reporting being more than twice as likely compared to women to have purchased a product or service after seeing it first on Pinterest. Read more…

Pinterest Losing Traffic

Are Fewer People on Pinterest?

Back in January 2012 and through the beginning of March 2012 there was an explosion in free media attention surrounding the social media site Pinterest. All of this interest drove a large amount of first time visitors to the Pinterest site.

After this media coverage there was an explosion in traffic that peaked in March. Now it would seem that Pinterest is actually starting to lose users. At least in comparison to March it is clear that April has seen fewer people spending much less time on Pinterest. Read more…

Amazon and eBay Add Pinterest Share Buttons

Already on this bog we have highlighted retail stores that are buying in to the idea that marketing on Pinterest is a great idea. In fact other groups like charities, celebrities, and newspapers have all decided to get their share of the Pinterest market. That is why the news today is not all that much surprising. Today we found out that both Amazon and eBay have decided to add Pinterest buttons to their product pages. Read more…

Pinterest Rolls Out Editable Board Covers

Have you noticed when looking at your boards on Pinterest that  the the largest pinned picture has always been the last pin that was pinned for that particular board? Today, April 5th, Pinterest has updated their website with a minor upgrade that now allows a user to select which pin will be displayed as the board cover.

Pinterest has become so popular in part because it allows users to express their own personal expressions and style by pinning web pages and images that they find interesting. Read more…

One of Your Boards Was Categorized on Pinterest

With so many new people joining Pinterest over the last few months there are from time to time emails, posts, messages, or other happenings that newer users may not understand. One of the most common questions people new to Pinterest have is why they are getting an email or emails saying that some person has “categorized” one of their boards. Does the text from this email sound familiar?

Hi [Your Name],

Your pinboard ‘Name of a Board You Have‘ was categorized by Some Person you May or May Not Know as belonging to ‘Category Name‘.

Click here to change it.

- Ben and the Pinterest Team

Read more…

Wedding Planning with Pinterest

Very few people that spent much time on the Internet over the last few months have been able to avoid the new social media site Pinterest. Not even a year old, Pinterest has touched a nerve with the public, and for sure has attracted a dedicated female base. Just looking at some of the popular “pins” on Pinterest proves that brides, mother of the brides, maid of honors, and friends of the bride have for sure found the benefits of having a Pinterest account.

For those that might not be fully aware of what Pinterest is, think of the it as a large bulletin board in which a person can pin pictures of things that they find interesting. The difference is that with Pinterest the pictures that a member pins to their bulletin board can be shared with the entire community. As many previous and future brides have discovered a Pinterest account can be very handy. Pinning cakes, decorations, dresses, hair styles, announcement pictures, invitations, and hundreds of other wedding related items can help inform planners, friends, and others about the styles of wedding planning that interests the bride. So how to get started? Read more…

Social Media Marketing with Pinterest

Pinterest the fastest growing website in history has an advantage for website marketing that a number of other sites do not have. That advantage is that with compelling pictures future customers are only a couple of clicks away from purchasing from you or your clients. Reducing the amount of clicks that possible customers have to complete in order to convert as a qualified lead or to make a purchase places Pinterest in the “must do” category on a social media marketing professional’s to-do list.

Because future customers are actually clicking on pictures of your products or services marketers can expect higher conversion rates and drastically reduce the time of the sales cycle. There is little chance that larger companies with in house SEO or Social Media Professionals are not already making their presence felt on Pinterest. This means that if you or your clients have not started yet with a Pinterest strategy then perhaps the below points of interest can persuade an expedited buy in. Read more…

Websites Can Block Content from Being Pinned

New Meta Tag Available to Stop Pinning Tools

No one needs to tell most people right now what Pinterest is. In fact the site is growing so fast that there are a few growing pains being experienced. One of the primary complaints leveled against Pinterest so far has been that the site allows for the use of copyrighted images to be published without the owner’s permission. This is not really a unique issue for just Pinterest because many sites are publishing copyrighted images without permission. Sites such as Facebook, Google Plus, and even personal blogs are all using material owned by other people. Read more…