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The Social Media - Merry-Go-Round

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Topic - Pinterest

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Pinterest The Scrapbook or online Pin Board, if used correctly can drive loads of

traffic to your site and ultimately to your front door. Keep it Social, some 'business' & loads of sharing, be it cultural, about

your city, places you have visited. People learn to; 'Like, Know and Trust' You. This is the secret to Social Media and selling online.

Visit often, comment on other peoples hard work, folk with similar interests, befriend competitors and learn from them. Where you may be the expert in a topic share your knowledge.

Share information using pictures with informative detail. Look to the left hand side bar on your Pinterest to see who has repinned

your pics, commented or liked your work, befriend them they are interested in what you have to offer. Follow their boards and pins – 'sharing is caring'!

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A good place to start is by using pictures with every post you make for your Blog.

Finding pictures from online sources, http://www.flickr.com is one of many. When Placing your own pictures online ensure they are protected.

Check the License or Terms of Use. The photographer may just wish you to includeTheir website in the description of the photo.

Take a look at any large website today it will have pictures and videos, both are Extremely viral in nature,when produced with excellent quality Answers toQuestions.

Plan what results you require from Social Media, what are people looking for?

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To make life easier for You, I offer a Plugin that is extremely user friendly, for both you and your visitors.

Post a new blog post with a picture once completed, direct traffic to your site by going to your Blog outside of WordPress and Pin the picture with a short description onto Pinterest.

With this plugin a hover effect can be implemented on each picture offering the Pin It.

A sidebar widget may be added or a floating 'Pin It' badge.

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Using 1 of 3 options of the 'Pin It' Button on your site or all 3, the image can be shared with a short description, branded with your company name when going viral.

Plugin enables branding company name by attaching automatically to the picture, you can also add your URL into the description for additional access.

Three options are Hover – Sidebar Widget – Floating Pin It.

Create boards of specific Interest

• Promote your boards on other social media sites such as Facebook.

• Engage with other pins/users by commenting or liking their pins/boards

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Pinning from your Blog

Using the Plugin:- Sign into Pinterest first. Go to your Blog site and click a Pin Button. This will open Pinterest for pinning..... Select Picture you wish to pin onto the board.

Picture selected will reflect the Pin This – Change your mind use Cancel Pin

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Pinterest discription – Add your URL

Having signed into Pinterest first makesIt quick and easy to share your work. Select the board you wish to use and typeIn 500 characters of interesting detail onWhat the picture is about, add your URL.

Visit this board 'pin' and you will see theDescription has a clickable URL for whicheverSite you selected. If the image is from theWebsite, use the Mobile site URL giving ultimate exposure when repinned.

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Going Viral with Social attract new visitors....

Once you click to save the pin, this willCome up. At this point Tweet your pin,Sending picture more viral with your news.No need to worry about Facebook since itIs already there – if you have implementedA Facebook Page with an app to take the Picture automatically into Facebook.Or feel free if you have no Facebook PageTo share it from here to your Timeline.

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Branding Your Name Wherever You Go....On the board refer to the 1st, pinned directly from website where Plugin enablesWP Pin Pro to stamp 'DomainName.com' - whereas previously it said 'Uploaded by user' or 'Facebook.com'. The only place you will have this effect is pinning from your Blog where the plugin resides. The picture is branded wherever it goes. When shared in Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook anywhere the picture travels it is branded with your name below.

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Pinterest Round-UpFun to use, fun to share, be aware people get lost on this site for

hours!

Plan your Blog Post with Pictures, then Share Picture with Caption on Pinterest, do the Tweet to obtain maximum 'Social Momentum'.

When adding the Caption, if you were selling in Euro or US Dollars, you would add the symbol and a price. This adds a tag to top left corner with price indicated. Pinterest has a good selling rate!

Video is extremely popular in Pinterest, another format to consider posting into via You Tube.

Pinterest should find fresh new traffic to your site, introduce your friends and clients to Pinterest via an invitation. Search 'Durban South Africa' to see what other local pinners are up to.