Articles Tagged Pinterest:
- Content MarketingDouglas KarrAug 6, 2013
Should Your Business Be On Pinterest?
This decision tree from Zoom Creates Blogs is a great tool for businesses to decide whether or not they have the resources and should invest the time and energy in building a Pinterest strategy. It’s a beautiful infographic and very practical. If your business decides not to develop its own Pinterest strategy, though, it doesn’t mean you can’t piggyback on…
- Social Media & Influencer MarketingDouglas KarrApr 29, 2013
How Consumers Use Social Media to Find Local Businesses
People use social media to find and engage with local businesses in various ways, leveraging the platforms’ features like search and discovery tools, user-generated content (UGC), and influencer recommendations. Social media platforms have become essential for regional companies to connect with their audience, increase brand awareness, and drive sales. Statistics highlight the importance of social media for local businesses: Facebook…
- Social Media & Influencer MarketingDouglas KarrFeb 23, 2013
Social Media Explained with Coffee
Coffee is one of those incredible pleasures in my life that I can’t do without. I’m sipping on a freshly roasted dark French Roast right now, and it’s fantastic, brewed in my stovetop espresso maker. My best friends own a coffee shop. There’s nothing I love more than discovering some non-chain coffee house when I’m on the road. Most of…
- E-commerce and RetailDouglas KarrDec 13, 2012
Social Commerce Best Practices
This holiday season some doubt was spread as to the impact of social media on e-commerce sales. Since the holiday season is dominated by discounting, I tend to disagree that social’s impact is diminished. 8thBridge has developed this infographic that reviews e-commerce platforms and how social impacts the purchasing process. 8thBridge are makers of the Graphite, a social commerce platform…
- Analytics & TestingDouglas KarrNov 2, 2012
Pinfluencer: Marketing and Analytics From Pin to Purchase
Companies have found some incredible results utilizing Pinterest to grow their marketing reach. As with any social platform, Pinterest has its own marketing best practices, campaign opportunities and influencers. Pinfluencer is a marketing and analytics platform that integrates with your site’s analytics to provide you with return on investment data. They’ve also added a new Pinterest promotion platform that enables…
- Content MarketingDouglas KarrAug 21, 2012
The Dramatic Impact of Online Visual Storytelling
There’s a reason why we use so much imagery here at Martech Zone… it works. While the textual content is the focus, the imagery balances the pages and provides a means for readers to get an instant impression of what is to come. Imagery is an understated strategy when it comes to developing your content. If you haven’t already –…
- Marketing InfographicsDouglas KarrMay 10, 2012
Video: A Marketer’s Guide to Pinterest
I love infographics, so when I see a great video infographic I get even more geeked out. Pinterest continues to grow in the social sharing space thanks to its visual aesthetics, simple sharing and ease of use. We maintain a Marketing Infographics board there that’s quite popular and gets a lot of traffic back to our site. At times, Pinterest…
- Content MarketingDouglas KarrApr 30, 2012
Rise of the Visual Social Networks
Flickr, Pinterest, Instagram, Path, Facebook and Twitter are all focusing quite a bit of attention on visuals. It’s long been understood by marketers that visuals are essential to all content marketing efforts – but not it appears more important than ever as these tools fully leverage the image to enhance the user experience and shareability of the content presented. John…
- Content MarketingDouglas KarrApr 13, 2012
Free Pinterest Marketing Guide from Brainhost
The folks from Brainhost dropped me a line promoting their new guide, How to Promote your Website with Pinterest and I think they’ve done a nice job on it! Here are 3 Excerpts from the Guide You Might Find Useful: Currently, Chobani yogurt, Dyson vacuum cleaners, Etsy.com, and even the famous Nike shoe brand have wildly popular Pinterest pages. What…
- Paid and Organic Search MarketingAustin GunterMar 27, 2012
Using Pinterest to Engage Users and Backlink To Improve Organic Rankings
Pinterest has become the newest big thing in social networks. Pinterest, and others, like Twitter and Facebook, grow a user base faster than the users can learn how to use the service, but a huge user base means that ignoring the service is foolish. It’s an opportunity to grow your brand. We’re using Pinterest at WP Engine, so I’ll be…