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If you have a business blog, driving traffic is probably your #1 issue (after creating content, that is!).A good SEO strategy is a major component of getting more website visitors, but it takes time. And competing with bigger, more established businesses can be tough. Many bloggers rely on Pinterest to drive more traffic to their blogs. This is still a good strategy, but it has grown increasingly competitive. To see the best results, you need to pin extremely frequently. Some of the most successful bloggers are pinning 4-5 times per day. Who has time for that??Here's the secret — most of those bloggers are not pinning manually on a daily basis. Instead, they use a tool like Tailwind to schedule pins in advance and set up automation. Tailwind is a scheduling app for both Pinterest and Instagram. But it has functionality way beyond a simple scheduling tool. In this episode I give you a quick breakdown of some of Tailwind's best features, so you can decide if you want to give it a try.Link to Tailwind: https://www.tailwindapp.com/General Info:If you want to get a hold of us, or you would like to be a guest on our show simply click here: https://www.lbmsllc.com/contact-us/Is there a topic you would like us to cover? Send an email to info@lbmsllc.com or simply call 888-416-7752Want a free evaluation of your digital marketing presence? Simply click here: https://www.lbmsllc.com/marketing-consultation/and we'll connect with you as soon as possible.For a free copy of my book, 7 Steps to Recession-Proofing Your Business, click this link: https://www.lbmsllc.com/bookConnect With Us On Social Media:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lbmsllcInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lbms4350/Twitter: https://twitter.com/lbmsllcLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/local-business-marketing-solutionsAlignable: https://www.alignable.com/fanwood-nj/local-business-marketing-solutionsConnect With Frank Directly on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fdemming/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC97CxzX4YnOazsF39DOe34A
If you don't know about the secret weapon behind a slamming Pinterest marketing strategy, you gone learn today! Tailwind for Pinterest has worked wonders for solopreneurs and businesses of all types and sizes to get traffic, build an audience, and make sales. And they continue to amaze marketers with new innovations and features. But which of the bells and whistles are most important to get you cash-generating results? That's exactly what you'll hear about today. Just in case you didn't notice, it's a notebook taking kind of day on Dreamer's Den Podcast. So get ready to listen, learn, and catch dreams. P.S. Here's a little homework... Step 1: Watch the Video Training: https://youtu.be/ydGqFEtz4do Step 2: Give Tailwind a shot https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=992347&u=2076569&m=50947&urllink=&afftrack= Step 3: Try Tailwind Create https://www.tailwindapp.com/create/pinterest-templates Use Code CREATEPARTNER2020 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dreamers-den/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dreamers-den/support
Welcome back for our Part 2 Pinterest episode. In the last episode, we talked about why you need Pinterest and how to set up your profile, now we are diving into how to automate Pinterest with Tailwind to explode your traffic. Need a Tailwind account? Use our affiliate link to get a month free: https://www.tailwindapp.com/i/breakthehustle Also, join the Break The Hustle Tribe: https://www.tailwindapp.com/tribe/join?h=DL9QtPm4wc5plA --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/breakthehustle/support
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In this episode, I have on Karrie Chariton-Bhurgari, who is a Pinterest strategist, to help us understand how we can leverage Pinterest to get customers to come over to our stores and make purchases and join our email lists. Karrie has helped shops, bloggers, and DIYers go from zero pins to over 7.6 million monthly views.Pinterest is a fantastic platform to get your products out there to the world without investing big bucks in advertising. It would be crazy not to use this power that Pinterest provides for free to get more eyeballs and more customers for your products.As Karrie puts it, Pinterest has grown from being a social media platform to a search engine and is headed to be more of an ecommerce platform. In March, they had an integration with Shopify to make it easy for Shopify owners to create a catalog and sell their products on the platform.Good photography is absolutely key in helping you convert your pins. Karrie advises us that Pinterest pride themselves in being an inspiring and happy place. To this end, lifestyle pictures that tell a story will help you connect with your customers and convert better.To make your products discoverable on Pinterest, you need to think through the lens of the person who wants to buy it. This will help you find the right keywords to use for your product on the pin title, description, and the text overlay on the picture. Karrie advises against using hashtags because they don’t work anymore.Listen in to this episode to learn more about these and many more Pinterest strategies that will help you get your products to the world.Key TakeawaysHow to add the Pinterest app to your Shopify store and apply to Pinterest vendor portal (06:54)Pinterest is a search engine, so use keywords; hashtags don’t work anymore (07:40)Your products on Pinterest will appear on Google search results as well (08:26)Why you need good photography and beautiful pictures to convert your pins (10:23)How to keep your Pinterest game simple (12:42)New pins are doing better than old pins (20:58)Use Tailwind to schedule your pins (22:15)Why you may need to pin other people’s pins (29:18)Pins take a while to show on people’s feed, so focus on evergreen promotions rather than flash sales (37:46)Have a purpose of every pin and the Call To Action you need potential customers to take (42:44)Additional Resourceshttps://karriemarie.com/about-me/www.pinningfoundations.comhttps://www.facebook.com/KarrieMarieVA-------Connect with Alison:FacebookInstagramLinkedIn>>>Join the $1-100k Program
Today’s guest is Julia Bocchese, an SEO consultant and Pinterest strategist for creative small businesses. Her goal is to make SEO and Pinterest strategies approachable and easy to implement for all small businesses so they can reach their ideal clients organically. She lives in Philadelphia with her Siberian Husky sidekick and her husband. And on the side, she runs a travel photography site and goes to grad school for history to study Vikings. In this episode, Julia provides a lot of strategy and tips on how to use Pinterest for your freelance business, whether you’re brand-new to Pinterest or you need to ramp up your efforts. I was concerned that Pinterest was only for businesses that are heavy into images like photographers or fashion bloggers, but Julia assured me that most businesses can benefit from Pinterest. Please know that Julia is hosting a virtual workshop on Pinterest on Tuesday, May 26, so check out the link under Resources below for more information. Pinterest is a visual search engine, not a typical social media platform. Followers don’t matter as much as they do with other platforms. You can still get a lot of traffic and engagement with just a handful of followers. You can spend less time on Pinterest as well, scheduling out pins and not engaging with people directly as much as on other platforms. Pinterest pins can rank high in Google, so keyword research is important in Pinterest. People think of Pinterest as visual mood boards for your individual interest, but it can be very helpful for businesses. Pinterest can be for almost all businesses, except for brick-and-mortar local businesses like a drycleaning business. Pinterest also allows you to have secret boards, so you can have your personal interests, such as recipes, fashion, home decorating, on your business Pinterest account too. You can also have secret lists of your competitors or clients you want to keep tabs on. You can pin any type of content you create, like blog posts, videos or podcast episodes. Create vertical images—you can take a stock image and put a text overlay with your content title over it using Canva.com. Canva has Pinterest templates you can use. Pinterest’s algorithm favors “fresh content,” meaning a new link or a new image. So, create multiple graphics for the same blog post so you can pin more than one pin. Space them out across a few weeks or months. You should pin something every day, but you can schedule them through an app called Tailwind and only spend a few hours a month scheduling for the entire month. If you’re just getting started and don’t have a lot of content to post, it can be helpful to post other people’s contents; those can also be scheduled in Tailwind. Follow people in your industry to see what pins work well for them, but it doesn’t matter how many followers you have, unlike other social media platforms. There are a few ways to find out if your ideal audience is on Pinterest, such as searching on Pinterest for topics you have written about or cover in your business. Look for people in your industry. You can also find out who has pinned your website content by typing in: www.pinterest.com/source/YOUR WEBSITE NAME. This shows you which of your content is gaining traction. If no one has pinned your information yet, Pinterest might not be the best platform for your business. SEO is important for Pinterest. Pinterest doesn’t have a great keyword search tool yet, although you can type in topics in the Pinterest search tool and they will auto-populate. Optimize your pins’ headlines and descriptions with strong keywords and be smart about who you are targeting. You can rank high in Google with pins—and not just in the Google image search. If you have a limited amount of time for Pinterest, focus first on creating great content to pin. Then, create a few graphics to pin for your new content. Use Tailwind to fill out your schedule for the month. Then, look at your analytics at least once a month to see which pins and which content are performing the best. You will need to have a business Pinterest account to see Pinterest’s analytics and will need to claim your website through Pinterest. It’s easy to switch your personal Pinterest account to a business account. It can take a long time to build up your Pinterest efforts, similar to Google. It could take up to three months to start seeing traction. But pins can live on for months and years, unlike tweets and Facebook posts. Biz Bite: Have a CEO Day Each Week. Resources: Julia Renee Consulting website Julia on Pinterest Julia on Instagram Julia’s blog post “How the Coronavirus Is Affecting Female Entrepreneurs Around the World” Julia’s blog post “How to Use Pinterest for Small Businesses: 9 Easy Tips to Get You Started” Julia’s blog post “Pinterest Strategy Tips for Small Businesses” Julia’s virtual workshop “Grow Your Business with Easy Strategies for Pinterest!” on May 26 Canva.com (to create easy graphics) Tailwind (Pinterest scheduling tool)
Alisa is the content manager at Tailwind, and is here to share some best practices and fresh 2019 strategies to drive Pinterest traffic :)Full post here: https://doyouevenblog.com/tailwind-tribes-drive-traffic-2019-alisa-meredithIn this interview, we chat about…Are group boards really dead? (for driving traffic?)How to analyze Tailwind Tribes (to determine which one's will work for YOU)To what boards should you pin–and what order?Re-sharing OLD content/pins vs. sharing fresh content!And more
Simple Pin Podcast: Simple ways to boost your business using Pinterest
Update November 2020: Tailwind officially changed the name of Tailwind Tribes to Tailwind Communities. Today we're going to be covering everything you need to know about The post #135 – How to Use Tailwind Tribes in 2020 appeared first on Simple Pin Media®.
Simple Pin Podcast: Simple ways to boost your business using Pinterest
In today's episode we're discussing the who, what, when, where and why of Tailwind Tribes. How to incorporate them into your Pinterest strategy and the best way to utilize them for your content.
How do you master college blogging all in a single semester? Sensi of The Metamorphosis did exactly that, and we're chatting about what worked and what didn't. From Tailwind to niching down, listen to discover how Sensi makes college and post-grad blogging work for her. CONNECT WITH SENSIThe MetamorphosisInstagramHow to Use Tailwind to Grow Your BlogCONNECT WITH THE SHOWOffbeat Grad BlogSamanthabilityInstagramTwitterGot a question? Send me an email at hello@offbeatgrad.com!
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How a Blogger Uses Pinterest to Boost His Following Welcome to the final episode of our Blogger Breakthroughs series. Today we share a story from Rowan Sims, Digital Photography School writer and ProBlogger podcast listener. Rowan's also a landscape and travel photographer who uses his blog to teach readers how to improve their photography, as well as share his photo adventures and location guides. The biggest challenges he faced with blogging were being inconsistent and not attracting the right audience. So he switched his blog's focus from just sharing photography to teaching it as well. He's also written some guest posts. Don’t underestimate the power of guest blogging. It’s about more than just link building. Another breakthrough for Rowan was discovering the power of Pinterest. It’s become Rowan’s largest source of referral traffic. Rowan has used various tools and social media sites to promote his photography, but Pinterest needed a different approach and was a steep learning curve. No matter what your niche is, Rowan has suggestions on how to optimize Pinterest for best results: Set up a Pinterest business account and review your Pinterest insights/analytics to know what’s working and help identify your target audience Create attractive pins Use Tailwind to drip feed pins and create tribes Pinterest is one option, but experiment with different platforms to figure out what works best for you. Rowan’s blogging breakthroughs have not only helped increase his traffic, but has brought him the right traffic. People are genuinely interested in what he has to say and share. Links and Resources for How Rowan Grew His Pinterest Following to More Than 300,000 in Two Months: Rowan Sims Pinterest for Photographers - The Ultimate Guide 2018 Canva Tailwind Pinterest Digital Photography School Podcast Motor Further Listening PB 037: Grow Traffic to Your Blog Through Guest Posting and Creating Content for other Blogs, Forums, Media and Events The Rowse Report Podcast Courses Starting a Blog ProBlogger Pro – 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Join our Facebook group Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Darren: Hey there and welcome to episode 269 of the ProBlogger podcast. My name is Darren Rowse. I’m the founder of ProBlogger which started out as a blog with lots of blog tips and has become a blog, a podcast, ebooks, courses, and a job board as well to help bloggers to find jobs. There’s a lot on ProBlogger. You can check it all out at problogger.com where we really are about trying to help bloggers to monetize their blogs. Today is the final episode in our blogger breakthrough series. We may do this again in the future because I’ve had a lot of really great feedback on the stories that we’ve been featuring. I’m going to get back to a noble flow of things next week. But today, I want to share with you a story from Rowan Sims. Rowan actually is a writer over on Digital Photography School. I didn’t realize he was also a listener of this podcast. You hear at the end, he worked his way back through all of the archives of the podcast—all 269 episodes. He may be up there as one of the most avid listeners of the podcast. He submitted his story of how he grew his blog. He took his blog from fairly inconsistent blogging, he switched his focus, and he shares two strategies that he used to help grow his traffic particularly Pinterest. He gives some good tips on driving traffic with Pinterest as well. He actually submitted a short 4 ½-minute story and then I asked him to submit a few more tips so you will a bit of a change in the audio—that’s kind of part two coming in halfway along where he gets to be a bit more practical about Pinterest. Before I introduce you or put Rowan onto you,
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Ep #48: There are two main factors to remember when you want to get more traffic from Pinterest: first is prepare high-quality images on your website for people to share and the second Pin and share other people content. I love Pinterest. It is more a search platform like Google now. As much as social media is time-consuming, I want to give you the shortcut and bring you the expert from the service I use for Pinterest. Tailwind will help you to organize and schedule your pins very fast as well as get together with other Pinterest members and reshare each other Pins. In this episode, Melissa Megginson shares how to get more traffic from Pinterest within next month. She is Marketing Manager and resident Cat Lady at Tailwind, the leading visual marketing tool for brands. In her 5 years at Tailwind, Melissa has won an ADDY award worked with major brands like Adobe and JCPenney, and is currently working towards an MBA from the University of Oklahoma. Time Stamped Show Notes: [00:22] About the episode and Melissa Megginson [01:56] Melissa shares her experience working in Tailwind [04:39] If you want to get more traffic from Pinterest optimize your website and images for Pinterest first [05:37] Use Social Warfare plugin to optimize images and description for major social media platform including Pinterest [07:39] How to create images that potentially may bring more traffic from Pinterest [08:26] Use high-quality photos from pexels.com and unsplash.com to create beautiful images for your blog posts [09:54] Test both images with the text and text on the plain background to see what performs well for your niche [11:49] Make sure that the Pin images match the website content [12:28] Be consistent with your pinning [13:17] Find or organize the like-minded communities of other Pinterest users so you can support each other [13:48] Use Tailwind tribes to find other bloggers in your niche [16:32] Use Facebook to find groups with other Pinterest users [18:32] How to find relative Pinterest groups on Facebook [19:12] How often to post on Pinterest [20:33] Use Google, Pinterest, and Tailwind analytics to see what works well for you on Pinterest [22:13] Test images to find what’s more attractive on your Pin the style or the description [23:59] Tips on using hashtags on Pinterest [24:33] Why a number of followers aren’t so important on Pinterest [25:40] First five pins after midnight UTS are the first one that are shown on the follower tab [27:52] Use Tailwind Smart Scheduler to define at what time it’s better to post your pins [28:52] The biggest mistakes people make on Pinterest [30:38] If you use Pinterest for business keep your account around one topic [32:07] Where to find Melissa and Tailwind [32:26] For the show notes go to IntNetworkPlus.com and subscribe to the Marketing for Creatives show Let’s get in touch: What topics do you want us to talk about in the next episodes? Who should I interview? Let me know on Instagram Did you get new insights? Please leave a short review on iTunes Get more marketing tips on intnetworkplus.com Follow on Instagram @MarinaBarayeva Follow on Twitter @MarinaBarayeva