Pinterest For Beginners: The Ultimate How To Use Pinterest Guide

Pinterest for beginners is something businesses should be thinking about, especially if they sell a product. Pinterest also has a huge amount of popularity and it’s ever-growing.Here are some stats to prove it:

Now, these statistics are from www.Mashable.com,and they tell a lot about the social media site itself. As shown above, the majority of the users are Female within a younger age demographic AND it sends a lot of referral traffic to other’s sites.

If you’ve been thinking about using Pinterest but haven’t done much about it. This guide to Pinterest will show you how to use Pinterest in no time.

So, let’s get down to the good information, how can you use it to benefit you. First you need a page. Here are the steps:

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Now that we have the fundamentals down, let’s get to pinning! But, first, what is pinning and why do you need to know about it? Pinning is putting your content (or other’s content) into a virtual “board.” These boards can be categorized as anything you want and look like this:

I decided to have boards that inspire creativity and also promote my business. As you can see I chose some boards like?logo, social media, blogging, etc. The key here is to create board that are relatable to your industry. The boards are an area to keep your work separated and organized. As another example, if you’re an artist you’d want to create boards like these: quotes, artwork, art quotes, creative, inspiration, artists, etc. Looking at what others are doing can also help you come up with some great ideas.

After you’ve finished this, you’ll see there’s a new blank board on your Pinterest page. Now we’ll start pinning. In order to do this, we have to search things on Pinterest. Simply go to the top of the page with the search bar and start typing in words, just like Google. Ideas from Pinterest will start populating and you then choose which one you want. Once you have your page, hover over the pin and a heart and red “Pin It” button will appear. Click on the “Pin It” button and then choose which board you’d like it in.

Once you have this down, keep looking up things for your industry and add them to your boards. When you do this you’ll be re-pinning other’s pins and they’ll get a notification letting them know that you repinned their item. The hope from doing this is that they’ll like the content you’re putting out and ultimately follow you or repin some of your content.

Pinterest is like other sites in that you can follow people and you can follow boards. Following people is the same as a business page on Facebook, you follow all of the person’s or companies posts and they appear on your Home screen. If you follow a board, you’re only following the person’s one, single board.

To follow someone, click on the bottom of the pin where it says who pinned it. That will take you to a different window with the person’s page. Follow them by clicking the red Follow button on the top left.

To follow a board, you can visit their profile page and click follow on each individual board. It looks like this:

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