Scrolling through your main feed on the opening page of Facebook has become just as mind numbing as daytime television. Pinterest.com, the latest in social media, has taken the bore out of web surfing. With an overall simple web design, Pinterest.com allows users to post graphic images of almost any content you could imagine. Learn new innovative crafts and styles, read hilarious comics, and check out some of the remote wonders from around the world. The sky is the limit with Pinterest.com.
With your own user profile you can either pin new photos that you have found or repin photos that your friends have found. DIY projects have never been so abundant! Now we can all now learn to convert a wine bottle into a tiki torch and make brownie pop-sickles for our next mixer. With pinterest.com anything can be inspired through shared images.
Because Pinterest.com is a social media machine, anything on its pages has the ability to go viral and what do you think you can you put behind each photo? That’s right, the link to your very own business’ web site. A very sneaky marketing ploy some might say but very useful none-the-less. In fact, “the retail deal site ideeli.com has seen a 446 percent increase in web traffic from Pinterest and sales resulting from those visits have increased five-fold”(Falls) Useful for business? I think so.
Pinerest.com can also be linked to your Facebook and twitter accounts so all of your friends can find you. The world is getting smaller people!
{Source:Julie{the hyperhouse}.7 ways to use pinterest. Thehyperhouse.com 02/08/2012}
{Source:Jason Falls. How Pinterest is becoming the next big thing in social media for business. Entrepreneur.com 02/07/2012}