Pinterest has proven to be an extraordinarily fabulous tool for marketers. With its business offering, Pinterest is going to be even more effective – so if you are not yet exploiting Pinterest, it’s high time that you start using with it!
Pinterest Notifications is indeed a great way to keep on top of your Pinterest activity. Please know that Pinterest will notify you whenever:
• Your Facebook friends join Pinterest
• Your pins are likes or re-pinned
• Your Pinterest friends create new dashboards
• Someone follows any or all of your Pinterest dashboard
• Someone (new) sends you a pin
Pinterest has lately introduced a noteworthy analytics for business accounts. The filtering and searching functionality of the paid version are truly admirable. It also provides you with a complete overview of your most successful boards (based on followers and repins) which should be pretty useful for analyzing your various interests.
The common adage is – if you want to increase your following, you need to follow someone first. Initially, you can just go ahead and follow everyone you like in the hope you’ll be followed back. However, “smart” following is what will be meaningful and rewarding.
One of the efficient smart following tactics is to follow people you already know otherwise. Pinterest has a handy “http://pinterest.com/invites/” section where you can find your friends from Gmail, Facebook or Yahoo. So use it sparingly (once in a two months should suffice) to locate your friends joining Pinterest.
Another effective method is to follow people who like or repin your pins (you, usually, get an email about that) and follow people who pin images from your website (using http://pinterest.com/source/blog.com/ URL).
It is essential that you integrate other social networks and particularly share your pins on Facebook. Make sure your Pinterest account is authenticated with both Twitter and Facebook for your friends to be able to locate you.
Learn to efficiently manage your boards and make it a point not to start too many boards. Also, make sure your best pin is your board cover.
It is preferable you have your headshot as your avatar (people are more willing to follow people than some abstract images). Finally bear in mind that the more you pin, the more followers you gain!