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Small but mighty - Google+, Instagram, Pinterest
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Smaller but mighty: tips on making
Google+, Instagram and Pinterest
part of your marketing activity
without losing (more) sleep
February 7, 2013, Jerusalem
Megacomm 2013
By: Miriam Schwab
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Background
• Was fastest growing social network in
history (now twitter is)
• More than 80% of pins are repins – they
want to share your content
• Most popular pin category: food &
drink
• Most popular board category: home
decor
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Show me the $
• Pinterest buyers spend more money, more
often, on more items than any of the other
top 5 social media sites
• Drives four times the revenue per click as
Twitter and 27% more than facebook
• U.S. consumers who use Pinterest follow an
average of 9.3 retail companies on the site
• Of people with Pinterest accounts, 21%
have purchased an item after seeing it on
Pinterest
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Pin features
• Add price to pin by typing $ or £ and
amount in description
• Mention user by typing @firstname
• Prevent others from pinning images
from your site:
<meta name="pinterest"
content="nopin" />
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Biz account features
• Verify your website
• Choose business type and username
• No multiple admins
• Source page:
pinterest.com/source/yourdomain.com
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How to pin
• Pin a few times a day
• Use keywords in description
• Create boards for
products, services, team, testimonials
• Add links in descriptions
• Use hashtags
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• Auto post images from WordPress to
Pinterest
• Enable on posts and/or pages
• Choose where pins link to –
home, post, custom URL, nowhere
• Disable per-post
• Choose default board, and per-post
• Analytics – no. of people who clicked
from Pinterest
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Sony Pinterest Results
• Over 2,500 followers in first six months
since launch
• 800% increase in traffic from Pinterest
to Sony Store website
• Pin It button has received more than 10
times the clicks from Sony Store vs.
Tweet This button
• More than 4 million brand impressions
(via Curalate dashboard)
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Instagram
• There are 575 likes, 81 comments every
second. (Via Digital Buzz Blog)
• More than 5 million photos are
uploaded every day. (Via: Business
Insider)
• 575 likes per second
• How to use it: favoriting, commenting
48.
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What you can do
• Home tab – shows you feed of pics
from your friends
• Camera tab – take pics from within
Instagram, or share pics from your
mobile camera
• News feed – likes and comments on
your photos and others
• Profile tab – your bio and photos
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How to build your community
• Go to Profile > Find Friends. Will see if
your facebook friends are using
Instagram
• Suggested users – Profile > Find Friends
> Suggested Users.
• Explore tab – find new people to
follow, search for people, see hashtags
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Instagram for business
• Location page for your business – via
Foursquare
• Engage with other users
• Show your products
• Introduce employees
• Customer service
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Google+
• Google +1 button used 5b times/day
• 2/3 of users are male
• What it is – nothing much different, but
some unique features like Hangouts
• Google+ pages appear in search
results for 30 percent of brand term
searches for brands with G+ pages, up
from 5 percent in February
2012. (source: Bright Edge)
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Vanity URL
• Page must be authorized by brand
• Page must link to org website
• Site must connect to Page (badge or
code)
• Page must have meaningful number of
followers. (Meaningful???)
What’s nice about these buttons is that they are just plain ol’ images – not javascript, not iframes. That makes them easy to implement, but means they’re not “alive”