Thanks for sharing Lisa! Very useful and informative..

Great article Lisa :) we can also use hashtags to the description of pins to gain more exposure on Pinterest. I have experimented with hashtags on Pinterest for quite some time and it is giving me nice results.

That's a valuable point, Salman, thanks for sharing it with us. Glad you stopped by to read and comment.

Great article. Thanks for sharing Lisa!

Lots of great articles all in one place. Very useful. Thanks Lisa.

Great article Lisa. Pinterest is one of the pending subjects for my biz: I've delivered a lot of training and coaching on the subject, but somehow I have never focused too much on the platform for my own brand... So your article is a timely reminder :)

I'm happy to hear this nudged you a bit, Antonio, and am excited to see what you do on Pinterest for yourself. Thanks for reading!

Great articles on Pinterst. I have just began to explore the platform to use it for business so this information comes in handy at the right time. It is also good that there are so many interesting articles in one place. Good job Lisa, thanks for sharing.

Thanks Lisa it was useful and informative, mind if you keep it brief next time? Several questions at the beginning of each paragraphs is a bit irritating.

This is a very good resource, Lisa! I run the Pinterest account of a manufacturer that has products sold in the U.S. and in a few foreign countries. I started using Promoted Pins at the start of May to drive more traffic to the manufacturer's website. However, our website does not sell the products we manufacture on the website. Instead, the website has a directory containing links to all of our retailers' homepages. Based on what I just described, what would be the best way to utilize Promoted Pins in order to most effectively determine if the pins are successfully sending traffic to the retailers' websites?

Lots of terrific insights. I'm excited to put these ideas into action!

Hey Lisa,

Very informative article...I've been trying to use pinterest for a while, but haven't gotten much traction yet. I had a couple questions

1. If the business is B2B, but the customers of the business are likely to promote their businesses on Pinterest, can Pinterest be used effectively? (For example, a garment manufacturer in Bombay, India, whose customers are clothing retailers and fashion brands)
2. Is it advisable to link Pinterest to facebook and twitter? I find that sharing straight from Pinterest to Facebook hides large parts of the image. Is there anyway around that?

can i create pinterest paid ads in India? because i read on Pinterest sites that we have to US business account for running paid ads????????

please suggest me.????????

Hi there, Vinod - thanks for reading. At this time, Promoted Pins are available to U.S.-based business accounts. You can read more about that here: https://business.pinterest....

So this is for 2014, has there been an update as of recently?

Sure! You can find our latest articles and updates on Pinterest by following this link: http://www.socialmediaexami...

Hope this helps!