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A few weeks ago I attended the Social Media Marketing 2012 Conference in London, organised by Our Social Times. The conference included some very interesting talks from top brands and agencies. One of the talks that really grabbed my attention was Michael Litman’s presentation on Pinterest. As lately we often get asked about Pinterest and how this can be integrated into your overall online marketing strategy, I would like to share some thoughts on why it matters as well as best practices for businesses.

3311793998 5dc40f05a4 z ‘Its not only about cupcakes’: What is Pinterest and why does it matter?

Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social sharing platforms and now has more than 20 million users since it was established in March 2010. The site allows user to organize and share images (or videos, Infographics, etc.) of things that they love, by ‘pinning’ them on their bulletin boards. People can then ‘like’ or ‘repin’ your content, they can also follow your pins, or even follow a specific board. And it seems to work, people love pictures and are excited to share them.

In contradiction to what is often thought, it’s not only people who are baking cakes sharing their content on Pinterest. Businesses have recently discovered the platform as a hugely useful social media marketing tool. It’s well known for driving supreme traffic, especially for retail, and rumour has it that Pinterest is currently driving more traffic to websites and blogs than YouTube, Google+ and LinkedIn combined.

Like all other social media outlets, Pinterest is not for everyone. The first thing to ask yourself is if Pinterest will work for your specific target market. Find out if your target audience is definitely present on the platform, and if they are also actively looking for visuals related to your products or services. The platform seems to be especially valuable if your website is a destination for people who are buying, doing or seeing something, nicely explained in thisInfographic on Mashable.

So why does Pinterest matter?

Pinterest is very effective at driving traffic. By creating a website link every time a picture is posted from your website, it creates a series of backlinks to your site which help to promote your brand. These are no-follow links so they aren’t directly valuable for your SEO strategy. They can however provide great marketing value, as they allow more people to encounter your content and visit your pages.
There is however an SEO benefit in using Pinterest and each pin comes with an accessible embed code for users who would like to add the image to their own website, blog or social profile. This code can be easily copied and pasted in the HTML of your site. Make sure you include your website in your profile information, as this will help your SEO efforts, as well as getting traffic referrals.
Using Pinterest can help boost your brand awareness and strengthen your brand engagement. You can use Pinterest to showcase your brand’s personality and strengthen relationships and brand affinity among your fans and followers.
Amplify your existing content. Any new content that gets placed can then be promoted through Pinterest. You are able to reach new audiences who may not have already been following your other social media sites.
A potentially valuable sales tool. When you pin a picture from your website to one of your boards, it allows you to add a hyperlinks to the page where consumers can buy your product or service. This allows quick and easy sales.

There are a number of ways to utilise Pinterest to direct traffic to your site and increase your brand visibility, but as with all social platforms it’s important to remember that consumers don’t like to be directly sold to in social spaces and instead any activity should be directed at engaging with your audience and offering valuable and unique content.

When using Pinterest to spice up your content marketing and increase brand awareness, keep the following best practices in mind:

Focus on quality not quantity. Feature your strongest visual content and be creative. Share beautiful imagery. Online visual content has great expenses potential to elicit emotions in people. Produce visually compelling content that people want to pin and share.
When creating a board for your pins, always make sure to add a description. The same rule counts for pins. Use the pin and district board description areas to include keywords that director people might be looking for. This helps your pins be more findable to new people.
Use the “About Me” section to mention your company name and provide links to your website, Facebook page and Twitter account. This is your chance to tell people more about who you are and what you want to focus on with your boards.
Don’t just post about your own products and services, but give your readers exactly what they are looking for. Create boards that help you tell a northern story to the audience you want to reach. Don’t bombard your followers with self-promotion. Grab other users’ attention by creating boards related to the lifestyle around the product, rather than just the product itself.
Repin and participate (reuters) in the community and don’t only post and create boards about your products. Interact with other users by liking and leaving comments on their pins. People want to share the things they love, make sure you pick up on this.
Build proactive relationships with other influential pinners, who could help you increase your content reach, help you build links and social sharing via their own web presence, lawyer and audience.
Get fans involved to help spread the word about your products and services and allow other contributors to pin content to your pinboards. You can decide yourself who is allowed to contribute, so select some of your most active fans and ask them to pin pictures.
Use various themes in creating boards so you can share and engage with as many different people as possible. Come up with themes that resonate and are open to notice. You will see that people will start engaging more and maybe they will even – if you allow them to – add their own images to your boards.
Create catalogs of your products. You can also add a price to these pictures. In order to add a price to a pin, type the currency symbol followed by the number amount in the description and just pin the picture. Adding the price increases the possibility of you attracting people to your website who are really interested in buying the pinned product. Add to many cities and states like alaska, anchorage, california, san francisco, kentucky, lousiville, chicago, illinois, vermont, carolina, florida, tampa bay offices).
Connect Pinterest to your Twitter account. More eyes from other social channels means that more people can get access to your pictures.
Tell people you are on Pinterest and promote your Pinterest through other channels. Add a Pinterest follow and pin-it button to great images on your site.

Are you using Pinterest to market your brand? Has Pinterest helped your online marketing efforts? Let us know in the comments below. (copied by charles nyangiti, check out more info at Charles Nyangiti Tumblr)

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The most interesting thing I ever did, by Charles NyanGiti

I am writing something. Yes, I plan to make it the most interesting thing ever written. I go to the store. A car is parked. Many cars are parked or moving. Some are blue. Some are tan. They have windows. In the store, there are items for sale. These include such things as soap, detergent, magazines, and lettuce. You can enhance your life with these products. Soap can be used for bathing, be it in a bathtub or in a shower. Apply the soap to your body and rinse. Detergent is used to wash clothes. Place your dirty clothes into a washing machine and add some detergent as directed on the box. Select the appropriate settings on your washing machine and you should be ready to begin. Magazines are stapled reading material made with glossy paper, and they cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from news and politics to business and stock market information. Some magazines are concerned with more recreational topics, like sports card collecting or different kinds of hairstyles. Lettuce is a vegetable. It is usually green and leafy, and is the main ingredient of salads. You may have an appliance at home that can quickly shred lettuce for use in salads. Lettuce is also used as an optional item for hamburgers and deli sandwiches. Some people even eat lettuce by itself. I have not done this. So you can purchase many types of things at stores.

If I drive around, I sometimes notice the houses and buildings all around. There are also pieces of farm land that are very large. Houses can be built from different kinds of materials. The most common types are brick, wood, and vinyl or synthetic siding. Houses have lawns that need to be tended. Lawns need to be mowed regularly. Most people use riding lawnmowers to do this. You can also use a push mower. These come in two varieties: gas-powered and manual. You don’t see manual push-mowers very much anymore, but they are a good option if you do not want to pollute the air with smoke from a gas-powered lawnmower. I notice that many families designate the lawnmowing responsibility to a teenager in the household. Many of these teenagers are provided with an allowance for mowing the yard, as well as performing other chores, like taking out the trash, washing the dishes, making their bed, and keeping the house organized. Allowances are small amounts of money given by parents to their children, usually on a weekly basis. These usually range from 5 dollars to 15 dollars, sometimes even 20 dollars. Many parents feel that teenagers can learn financial responsibility with this system.

Now I will talk about farm land. Farm land can be identified by some common features. They almost always consist of a very large patch of dirt with small green plants lined up in very long rows. You may sometimes see farm equipment riding over these rows, like tractors or combines. These machines help farmers grow more crops in less time. They are a very helpful invention. Some different types of crops are soybeans, cotton, corn, tomatoes, tobacco, and lettuce (which I mentioned earlier). Most crops are used as food, and can be defined as either fruits or vegetables. Some are commonly eaten raw, after being rinsed in water to remove any dirt. Some are often cooked, which helps give them a more pleasant taste and makes them easier to chew. A very versatile vegetable is the potato. It can be eaten raw, or it can be cooked in a variety of ways. They can be baked, and many people like to add butter to them. They can be mashed, and a lot of times brown gravy or milk gravy is poured on top of them. They can be cut into thin strips and fried. Typically a large amount of grease is required to prepare potatoes in this style, but they are easy to make and easy to eat. You can order them at several fast-food restaurants. Potatoes can also be boiled, stewed, and scalloped. There is a wide variety of options available to you when cooking potatoes.

Some other types of crops grown on farm land are used for other purposes. Cotton is used to make clothing (which I also mentioned earlier). It is a very versatile and inexpensive material for clothes. Such items as shirts, pants, socks, and underwear can be made from cotton. The process of converting cotton from a cotton plant to clothing is fairly complicated. Today, cotton is harvested more efficiently through the use of the cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney many years ago.

Tobacco is another type of crop. It is used in making cigarettes. A lot of people smoke cigarettes, even though many medical sources have identified them as harmful to people’s health. Warnings are printed on cigarette packages reminding people of possible dangers resulting from smoking. Cigarettes are available in several brands, including Marlboro, Salem, and Virginia Slims. There is a brand called Kool, but I don’t know whether they are still available at most outlets. Tobacco farming is a large industry, and currently there is debate about it. Recently the government decided on some regulations that cost tobacco companies a large amount of money.

If you notice, some farm lands have animals living on them. Most of these are cows, and there are also pigs, sheep, and goats living on farms. Some are raised for the milk they provide. This milk goes through several processes to ensure that it is not contaminated before it is made available to consumers at stores (which I mentioned earlier). Another use for farm animals is meat. Three popular types of meat are beef, pork, and chicken. Beef comes from cows. Pork comes from pigs. Chicken comes from chickens, but you probably knew that. These animals are raised to become plump and healthy, then they are killed, sometimes at slaughter houses. The meat is then removed from their bodies, cleaned, and made available at a variety of stores and restaurants. Sometimes this process can seem gross, but it is part of an advanced ecological food chain on earth. Just like birds eat worms and tigers eat deer, human beings eat cows and pigs. The main difference is that we don’t eat animals raw. We cook the meat to remove blood, fat, and germs from it. We also season our meat with salt or different kinds of sauces. The end result is food that is very tasty and is healthy for us.

Farmers do not like trespassers. If a farmer sees one, he will sometimes shoot at them with a shotgun that he owns. Trespassing is against the law. Laws are created by government to prevent people from living in fear. They are meant to provide safety for citizens. Our government in America consists of a legislative branch, an executive branch, and a judicial branch. The legislative branch makes laws based on the concerns of citizens they represent. The executive branch consists of the President. This person enforces the law, and he has certain other duties like declaring war and approving bills prepared by members of the legislative branch. The President is also considered the leader of our country. The judicial branch interprets the laws. This branch consists of the courts and the trials held in them. Here a judge and jury determine from evidence presented by lawyers whether someone is guilty of breaking a law. Initial law enforcement takes place among police officers. They are the first people to encounter situations where a law is being broken. If a criminal (law-breaker) becomes too violent or hostile, they will use guns or mace or nightsticks to administer immediate punishment. Their goal is to bring the criminal under control, so that he can receive a punishment determined by members of the judicial branch of government. Punishments mostly include time in jail, but they can also include fines and, in extreme cases, the death penalty. There is controversy surrounding the death penalty.

Children play with toys. This is common to almost all kids. Toys come in a very wide variety. Boys tend to like cars, action figures, and toy weapons. Girls tend to like dolls, toy kitchens, and make-up. Both of them like building or assembling things, be it with Legos, blocks, Play-Doh, or something similar. Toys can be found at most stores, and these days entire stores are dedicated to selling only toys. The most popular of these is Toys ‘R’ Us (with a backwards “R”). Their mascot is Geoffrey the Giraffe. Children love to go to Toys ‘R’ Us and look at the wide variety of toys available. Most children receive the greatest quanitity of toys on their birthdays, or during the holiday season in December. For the majority of children, this holiday is Christmas. For Jewish children, the holiday is Channakuh. Either way, the kid gets presents during this time, and most of these presents are toys.

Christmas is a holiday which has gradually become centered around the character “Santa Claus” and his elves and reindeer. Children are told that Santa’s elves build their toys, and Santa delivers them personally to each house in the world by riding in an airborne sleigh hauled by nine reindeer, including Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, who leads the way. Another popular Christmas character is Frosty the Snowman. Frosty is basically any snowman that comes to life. So during Christmas, many children build snowmen, and some of them hope that theirs might come to life. But all of these characters are myths. The true origin of Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Jesus, who founded the religion of Christianity a couple of thousand years ago. Many popular Christmas carols deal with his story, such as “Joy to the World” and “Silent Night.”

Other holidays include Thanksgiving, Halloween, and Independence Day. Thanksgiving has become a tradition of preparing large quantities of food for a large gathering of people, mainly family and friends. This meal usually features turkey or ham as the main course. Turkey and ham are both kinds of meat (which I mentioned earlier). The meal usually also consists of dressing and a wide assortment of vegetables (which I also mentioned earlier). The origin of Thanksgiving is usually traced to the days of the pilgrims, who were the first settlers in America. They made peace with the native people, the Indians, and together enjoyed a large feast, thanking God for providing them with such an abundance. (Their concepts of God were probably very different.)

Halloween is the holiday when people dress in costumes to look like other characters. Most of these are children, who go from door to door in different neighborhoods to request candy from the people living there. They usually say “trick or treat” then receive a treat. Very rarely does the person in the house respond with a trick. Halloween has some sort of demonic origin that I am not quite sure about, but the name derives from “All Hallow’s Eve.” I will not say much about Independence Day, but it is the day Americans celebrate the anniversary of our independence from Britain. Most families purchase fireworks during this holiday and set them off in their lawns (which I mentioned earlier).

America gained independence from Britain in the late 1700′s after the Revolutionary War. Britain was hoping to extend its empire across the Atlantic Ocean, but the colonists who settled the territory did not want to be under Britain’s control, with their various taxes and regulations. Both sides were very passionate about their position on the issue, so a war occurred. This war featured a few heroes, including George Washington and Paul Revere. George Washington became America’s first president when we gained independence. I am not sure what happened to Paul Revere. The Declaration of Independence was written before the war by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 and made clear the position of the colonists. It was signed by many important people, including Ben Franklin and John Hancock. Ben Franklin is well-known for many things. One of these is inventing electrical conductors in the form of lightning rods. A famous tale is that he flew a kite with a small piece of metal somewhere on the string during a lightning storm. This was an effective way to test his theory. Another thing Ben Franklin is known for is publishing Poor Richards Almanac. This was like a magazine and contained some of his famous writings and quotations. One famous quote was “Tell me, I forget. Teach me, I remember. Involve me, I learn.” Maybe this had something to do with why he flew that kite.

Trees are one of our most important natural resources. They are made of wood, and wood can be made into a variety of products. Some of the more obvious kinds are furniture, houses, and toothpicks. However, wood can also be made into paper. When I first heard this, I was skeptical, but it is true. Paper is a very important product in our society. Writers and artists have greatly benefited from the invention of paper. With only some paper and a pen or pencil, a writer can produce stories and poems that can captivate readers. They can also write down historical facts about their society. Actually, these writings don’t become historical until years later. At the time, the writings could probably be considered news. Artists use paper for their drawings and paintings. They can also use canvas. Drawings and paintings can be very beautiful. They can depict a wide variety of subjects, including flowers, animals, landscapes, and people. They can be realistic or impressionistic. Some paintings also attempt to convey emotions merely by the way the colors are combined and the brushstrokes are applied. This is a modern or contemporary approach to art. Many people think this approach does not require as much talent as the realistic styles.

I will end my writing here. I have tried to make it very interesting, and I hope I have succeeded. There are plenty of interesting documents available for you to read. Check your public library for more information. You can also find interesting materials at a bookstore or on websites. Sometimes this information can be found in magazines (which I mentioned earlier).