Comments on: Pinterest for Business: How We Grew 115,726% in 3 Months

By: Jill

Jill — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 04:21:51 +0000

Thanks to you guys, I’m improving my Pinterest game.

By: Bhringraj Oil

Bhringraj Oil — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 12:56:41 +0000

I’d been thinking of working with Pinterest to promote my beauty blog. I’ve written a lot of quality posts but I didn’t know how to drive traffic from Pinterest to them. Seems like following all of these tips is going to take some time but it’ll be worth it. Set up my blog’s Pinterest profile today and ready to apply some of the tips from this blog. Thanks for such an actionable post!

By: Shreya

Shreya — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:14:13 +0000

This was by-far the most useful post I read about Pinterest marketing. I wasn’t even aware of group boards (know a lot about them now after reading your other post about group boards!) And, thanks for simplifying the branding bit as well. I’m sure it makes a lot of difference.

By: Lak

Lak — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 10:41:15 +0000

Thank you! This is a very helpful post! I’ve been trying to get around Pinterest for a few months now, but just haven’t managed to get the idea of how exatcly it works. Also, I had no idea that I should go business profile, I’ll get right to it.

By: Brit on the Move

Brit on the Move — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 21:58:00 +0000

Hi there,
This is a great read – thanks! I’ve actually been struggling with the branding element and I need to nail that. One thing that has caused me to chicken out is I am not that big yet and therefore not a household brand. I don’t want to be too spammy with pins that have the same look and feel “yet” but I do want to get there. Also, I used tailwind but I had a royal mess. I had loaded the same pins (vs. re-pin or re-save) so had multiples of the same thing. I could not keep track of “a pin”. My board took a hit but it was needed. Thanks for all the insight. Nikki

By: Ben Huber

Ben Huber — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:08:14 +0000

In reply to Anna Havens.

Hey Lenora!

It obviously depends, to some extent, what your goals with your blog are — if you’re looking to monetize it/turn it into an online business, you may find it useful to research niches that have higher income potential. Ideally you’ll mesh your topic choice with 1) something you know a fair bit about 2) something you enjoy/could see yourself writing about frequently, and 3) something that is profitable (hence the topic research).

By accomplishing the above, you’ll ensure you start something that not only has potential, but will help prevent burn out as it revolves around a topic you genuinely feel strongly about.

By: Lenora Finch

Lenora Finch — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:35:26 +0000

Hello! I am Lenora Finch a retired nurse and getting bored! someone had a suggestion to start a blog and was not interested. I looked around and found a couple of savvy bloggers. I have never blogged but I am willing to begin after reading your success stories. Now what to blog about (smile). Thanks!

By: Ben Huber

Ben Huber — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 15:45:36 +0000

In reply to McKinzie | Moms Make Cents.

Yes and no — we still get good exposure through them and I think our numbers would drop measurably if we were to ditch them all together — we were able to get onto a few high-quality ones over the years that still seem to get good distribution/engagement. If it becomes immediately apparent that Pinterest is throttling those group boards out too, we’ll likely ditch them.

It’s one of those things where its clear Pinterest is trying to reshape the pinning environment/phase out group boards (at least in their prior form), but they’re still working for now. When they stop working, we’ll adjust. 🙂

That being said, we also niched down and created more personal boards to get ahead of the suspected drop off. They perform well (and better than most group boards because our audience is more targeted than some of our group boards), but I’m not sure they’d be enough on their own to keep up (traffic wise) with where we are now. :\

By: McKinzie | Moms Make Cents

McKinzie | Moms Make Cents — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:48:52 +0000

So fun seeing this a couple years later and the massive growth you and Ben have had! I love the TwelveSkip pins too. Her branding is so solid! Are you guys still using group boards much? I’ve been using them still, but a lot of my viral pins are coming from my niche personal boards.

By: Ben Huber

Ben Huber — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 13:37:39 +0000

So Pinterest actually JUST did an interview with Tailwind and addressed this in the stream.

They said that deleting under-achieving boards/pins has no effect on the other pins on the the board (so no point in deleting she said).