Marketing

I use it....there are a ton of other discussions about Pinterest, you might want to do a search in these forums for them. Good luck.

i find pinterest to be a waste of time and energy. i'd look it up in the search as its been well covered. i mostly hate it because you can't find anything on it. its a site for hoarders.


----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

pintinterest is like instagram.you get the likes but not the sales

We have excellent sellers here that swear by Pinterest.

For that matter, we have excellent sellers here that swear by Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and every other SM service.

The problem is we also have people that will come in and say that each and every one of them is worthless, individually or as a group.

My suggestion is to pick two of them and work with them until you have learned how to use them effectively and then maybe think of adding a couple of others. I started with Facebook and Twitter and after I got my sales to what was an acceptable level for me, I moved to Pinterest and a couple others. When I started Pinterest was not a very big thing yet, Twitter and FB were the two biggest.

I have gone full circle now and I have cut back to just FB and Twitter and an occasional post to Pinterest.

Read the selling aide below and learn about vertical and horizontal advertising and why you can not be everywhere.

Understanding Advertising and Why You Simply Cannot Do It All

https://fineartamerica.com/blogs/understanding-advertising-and-why-you-simply-cannot-do-it-all.html

Pinterest got rid of their Like feature in 2017.

pinterest is like that huge bulletin board they put in a supermarket. the one where they tag up businesses. and everyone puts up something random and its like all over the board. you could be seen because they are interested in something very particular and they might hunt down the board looking for it. if you are lucky they will find it right away. but usually they have to look at everything before finding it all. and that's why i don't like pinterest.

even when i know there is something of mine, or something i want to find, something that i saw in google that i know is there. you have to load up the entire screen and hope you can fine it and 80% of the time i can't. there is too much on the screen.

its good to use if you want to organize for your wedding. but even then its information overload. great for people that like to collect random things. like everything yellow, or just birdhouses, weird quotes, etc. people that like to scavenger hunt go there. but for advertising, meh. i'm there because i wanted control over my descriptions. people just put me there whether i want to be or not. and despite having so many images up there, including all those boards that they made just for me, i get few hits. maybe 1 a day. that's a low number. the only one that does worse now is twitter, and that used to be pretty good.

so i say to be there just to be there, but don't depend on the place unless maybe your very active and people notice you. mostly they take links away from you and drive it toward itself.


----Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Pinterest is saying I get 1600 viewers, not just views, per month. I took my FAA merchandise off and dropped from around 12k viewers per month.

It has made no difference, but it is free. It just sits there. Of course over the course of a year that is probably over 12k people who took an interest. No work on my part at this point.

It is not solid marketing on my part.

Dave

Ok I'm going to step in here officially

We get sales through Pinterest. Lots. Just so you know

We get more through Google.

I have one pin that got 47,000 views and 255 click throughs.

But it wasn't just another "lookee at this new art" pin. It was a compelling ad for one of my blog posts which includes ads fo my art.

One of Google's measures of popularity is how many links your work has. Pins are another link directing people to your work.

Don't expect instant results from any of your marketing efforts. Simply keep at it and eventually it pays off.

I have one image (Blue Butterfly Bedazzled) that has repinned in the thousands.

Why that particular image, I have no clue.

I think it might have resulted in the one sale ( pillow)

"We get more through Google."

Do we know if those Google shoppers were not sent to FAA via a click on a Pinterest post?

I have over 500,000 vintage images that I sell mostly through other places.

I get people asking for specific images all the time. I search Google to find those titles that I do not have and the number one source that comes up in Google for over half of those I find is Pinterest.

So if I click on the Pinterest link on Google and it takes me to FAA, is FAA seeing that "breadcrumb" trail that identifies Pinterest as the actual place where the image resided that supplied the link back to FAA?

The shorter version of this same question is did the image get in Goole search via Pinterest, to begin with.

I think Pinterest is a huge contributor to Google in the way of images.

I am told Google. Google Search

Yup, I would believe that even without seeing the cookie crumb trail but it would be cool to see that.

Anytime I do a photo search on google, pinterest is always at the top. So I look at pinterest as an important search engine which is what it is. I created a pinterest account a few years ago but didn't start really using it until last year. I can say that my traffic to my AW site increased and so did my sales. When I look at analytics, the majority of my traffic comes from pinterest and twitter which is where I do most of my promoting.

Everyone is going to have their favorite social media marketing plans and platforms so find a few you like and stick with them.

Google Search is very important, but I can't afford to advertise with Google which is what I think you have to do in order to be seen. With pinterest being free and it always being at the top of google photo searches, I say why not?

"With pinterest being free and it always being at the top of google photo searches, I say why not?"

Because like anything it takes time. Yes, one pin doesn't take much time, but you needs lots of them and it adds up. I put up thousands of pins last year, they represent at least 30-40 hours of my time. I had four sales total, so even if every one of those sales originated from Pinterest it was far from worth it.