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Gettin' Geeky w Pinterest - YouTube
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Gina Schreck: Welcome to Gettin’ Geeky. I’m your host Gina Schreck and today, we’re
talking Pinterest.
Male Speaker: Welcome to Gettin’ Geeky with your host Gina Schreck and the occasional
special guest, bringing tech tips in bite-sized pieces. She’s getting geeky, getting goofy
and yes, getting random. Welcome to Gettin’ Geeky.
Gina Schreck: OK. So Pinterest. If you’ve been under a rock, you might be asking, “What
is Pinterest?” But if you have been anywhere on the internet in the last couple of weeks
or the last month, you’ve heard of Pinterest and it’s the word “interest,” what are
your interests with the word “pin” attached, so Pinterest. And what this is, is this visual
pin board or some are calling it a visual scrapbook, a vision board, if you will. And
you can create many boards and then you find things on the internet that you like or people
have pinned items, pictures, beautiful locations. You can also find recipes, craft ideas or
products.
So you might find a picture that someone has painted. Suzanne, great job on this one and
you might see that picture and you can like the picture or you can re-pin it on one of
your boards so you might create a board that says “Pictures” or you might have a board
called “Crafts” or “Recipes” or “Books that I recommend”. You might also have a
pin board with products that you recommend or that you like.
So think of the community that you serve in social media and what items they would like
to see or what items you would like to recommend to them and then you can go around and pin
them. Now, a good tip is if you sign up to become an affiliate for some of these products
that you’re recommending, this can become a good revenue source for you.
Now people always ask, “How do you get items up on Pinterest?” Well, there’s a couple
of ways. From your web browser, you can actually go to Pinterest.com and currently, February
2012, it is still invite-only. However, all you have to do is ask anyone who’s on Pinterest
including myself. Send me an email here and I will send you an invitation and then immediately
you’re in.
But it is still invite-only. So once you are in Pinterest and you set up your profile,
just like any other social site, make sure there’s links to your website. Make sure
there’s a picture of your self. If you’re going to be using Pinterest in a way that
helps benefit your business, these are some smart tips.
So let’s take a look at how easy this is. So once you have your Pinterest account, when
you come to Pinterest.com, you will see everything. So right now, I’m on the Everything page.
I can narrow my search down to specific topics or I can look at just people that I want to
follow, some specific people, if I would like or I can look at videos. I can see what’s
popular and trending and another great feature on Pinterest is if you’re looking for a
gift idea, you can actually click on “Gifts” and then you click on the price range and
it will actually show you gift ideas of items that are pinned here.
So those are different categories that you can look at. I like to go to everything and
just kind of browse to see what types of things and usually I will browse, see right away.
Oh, look at those shoes. Like them. And then you can scroll down and see different items
that other people have pinned.
When you first create your account, you get to set up boards that you categorize your
pins and you can create as many boards as you would like and you can put them in any
order that you would like.
So I have 21 boards and I’ve pinned 913 items on those boards. So if I would like
to rearrange the boards I would click on that and then I can drag these boards into different
positions. I don’t really know why that would be important but you might want to have
things in a particular order and you can do that. So as you find items on Pinterest, you
pin them to your boards. Now, other ways you can get things onto Pinterest besides re-pinning
items, you might find something on the internet that you really like and you want to pin onto
Pinterest, onto one of your boards.
So maybe I’m reading this blog post about how to create really cool profile photos on
your Facebook timeline. First thing I would want to do on Pinterest is I want to go up
here under About and there is a Pin It button and when I click on that, it will allow me
to take this Pin It button and drag it up to my browser. So you can see I’ve already
added it up here so I’m not going to add it again but it does put a Pin It button in
your browser like a little bookmark button for you.
So now when I’m on this blog and I see something I like, I can come up here and say pin it
and what that does is it then pulls any graphic from that website. So a good marketing tip
when you’re creating blog posts or website content, make sure you have lots of visuals
because Flash does not show up and a lot of blog posts are all text.
So in this case, this is a really cool Facebook timeline, some real creative things that this
guy has done and here’s another really cool one. So I can say I want to pin this and I
actually have a board and the board is Synapse Connecting for our business.
So I’m going to pin it there and I’m going to say Facebook – maybe I would say “Cool
Facebook timeline photo”. And then I can even put a link to our website and that way,
if people want more information on what we do, they can do that. So I can just pin that
and it ends up from this blog post onto one of my pin boards.
So that is how you get items onto Pinterest. Now you also can download the mobile app on
your iPad, your iPhone, your iTouch and you can take a photo and upload it to Pinterest.
So you have to first download the app and then just upload items that you take a picture
of. Another thing that you can do is you can go under “Add”. If you don’t want to
add the little bookmark pin on your browser, you can come up here to add and click “Add
a Pin” and you can type in the URL of the photo and it will also pin an item.
So have fun pinning and until next time, keep getting geeky. [0:07:30]
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