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Pinterest in correlation with other websites #1

Pinterest in correlation with other websites #1

I don’t know about you,  but I can recall more than one time that I sit in front of the computer – trying extremely hard to think of something – anything – to pin. That’s when I decided to do something that seemed a little crazy – but it will require a little back knowledge. […]

How to Gain Followers on Pinterest

How to Gain Followers on Pinterest

My Tuesday post – as promised in my updates post 😉 At any rate, Pinning for your business or your pleasure is relatively pointless if you don’t have followers. Sometimes it can be very off putting… staring at your follower count hover at a low number. The main ingredient to gaining followers is, as with anything […]

A Guide to College Resources on Pinterest

A Guide to College Resources on Pinterest

If your family is like mine, you have attended several graduation parties this month. With a teenage child who is a sophomore in high school, we will be looking at colleges before I can say “second mortgage”, so I thought I would test out Pinterest as a college planning resource. I have found that when I […]

The “Couponista” Culture

While I was searching for cake ingredients for my last post, I stumbled across a Land-o-Lakes coupon…it had not occurred to me that I could find coupons on Pinterest! But why not? Pinterest seems to have everything! So I decided to do a little research on coupons to see how pervasive they are in the […]

Pinterest Image Optimization

Pinterest is such an extremely visual site,  that while for all of your Etsy shops an items you probably have to focus on SEO, here, we have to focus on PIO (if you will, 🙂 ) .  I find if you optimize images on Pinterest, you will greatly increase traffic and followers. 1. Pin your […]

I Love Cake

Anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE cake. So when I was thinking about a topic for this week’s Monday blog post, I thought I would search on the phrase “I Love Cake” to see what came up. My search brought up hundreds of different cakes, all of which had comments that went something like “I Love […]

Etsy’s About Page

This week we’re taking a break from pinterest, because while this blog is pinterestcentric, the goal of pinterest is to grow your business, so occasionally if I find another bit of powerful information that I believe will help your shop, I might switch. Plus it keeps things interesting ;). We’ll go back to regular pinterest […]

Wednesday Features #2

Excellent! Another Wednesday (Read Thursday because I forgot to post…) which means we get to go through all the wonders of the little land that is Etsy. Featured Shop: MicheleCordaroDesign While going about and searching through Etsy, immediately when I saw this shop I knew I had to feature it! The items are unique, fun, […]

Pinterest: Connecting Generations

For this week’s Monday blog post, I thought I would choose a famous person and search their name to see what came up on Pinterest. Who better than Audrey Hepburn, style icon of the 50s and 60s, to research on Pinterest? When I searched by keyword “Audrey”, Pinterest came up with so many pins that I could not […]

4 Ways to Add Pinterest to Blogs.

If you have a blog, say one that represents your shop, then having people “pin” it can be an excellent way to drive traffic to your blog, and, hopefully curiosity enough to drive it to your shop. This can also be if you just blog for fun, however have paid advertisements on your blog. The […]