How To Use Pinterest For Business:

Anusha Rashid Siddiqui
3 min readApr 12, 2022

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Do you know you can grow your business by advertising it on Pinterest? Or are you still considering this site for inspiration for dream vacations? If you aren’t doing it yet, it might be time to consider your brand’s visual representation with Pinterest.

According to the ratio, Pinterest advertising is growing upto 94.7 million U.S Dollars. It allows businesses of all sizes unique ways to advertise their brand. The site is a great way to visually represent your business to attract new customers to your brand.

So grab your coffee and explore these strategies to fill secretly in your bank account.

Tips And Tricks You Need To Know For Pinterest Marketing:

  1. Create Marketing Strategy:

To begin with any business marketing, you should start withdrawing a marketing strategy. You can simply do it by following some significant steps like,

Set a SMART goal ( Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound). It will help you get followers and increase the sales of your website. As a review, about 80% of the weekly pinners find new brands every time.

You should know about the general audience and their interest in the type of visuals for better reach. Also, do thorough research on how your competitors use this platform for their growth and what they do to get an idea of your target audience’s type of content.

Once you are done planning a clear strategy, you can get started working to make your goals come true.

2. Your Content Should be Captivating:

Pinterest is a visual platform, so you need to make visually aesthetic and pin engaging content to share. Here are some tips to make your content captivating and engaging:

About 80% of people use Pinterest on their smartphones. Therefore, we suggest using a 2:3 aspect ratio to shoot your videos and images. It will help you avoid awkward cropping and present an appealing side of your business to people.

Write down a great description to improve SEO. Also, add context to your images to encourage viewers to click on your brand’s link. Avoid adding broken links or links that redirect to 404. Ensure the attached link loads quickly to give users the best visiting experience. It is essential to do tasteful branding and incorporate your brand’s logo in the images to avoid being lost while shuffling.

3. Optimize Your Pins For SEO:

As mentioned before, Pinterest is a visual search engine, so make sure your pins are easy to search. You can do it by adding keywords on boards, descriptions, and hashtags. Moreover, being a business owner, avoid duplicating your content and new ideas to enhance your marketing.

4. Promote Your Pinterest Profile:

Lastly, promote your Pinterest profile with your loyal followers on other social media accounts. You can link your profile to your company’s website, include links in your marketing emails, and ensure to promote it through a newsletter.

Conclusion:

Growing a small business has always been challenging; however, you can easily do it with the correct strategies. Pinterest is one of the visual platforms which can spice up your business game to 10X if used with captivating content.

We’ve mentioned some of those effective strategies to help your business stand out from others in the market.

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Anusha Rashid Siddiqui

Food technologist; who loves to write about food and other stuffs.