February 10, 2012 - Over the past few months, a social site that lets users “pin” things that interest them, has been blazing a rocket-like ascent in traffic and social mentions. And this social site is Pinterest.
What is Pinterest?
Pinterest is an online pin board where you can create, organize and share theme-based image collections you find interesting.
What are its Features?
Pinterest lets users label and create theme-based image boards, as well as populate their own boards with media found online using the “Pin It button”. Each item of the media is known as a “pin,” and can be a picture, a video, a discussion or a monetary gift.
Pins may be divided into pictures, videos, discussions, and gifts and can be grouped into “boards,” which are sets of pins created on a given topic. Users can enable Pins to show up on the homepage through a Pin Feed that takes into account timing of pin, re-pinning activity, ‘like’ activity, and comment activity.
How does it help Small Businesses for marketing or promoting their offered services/products?
With its traffic increasing 429% in the last quarter, Pinterest is currently the no.5 social media site. Pinterest is already driving buyers to some websites.
This image and video sharing social network is a kind of mash-up of Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube, providing an online pinboard for all of your interesting discoveries.
Pinterest is said to be the fastest growing social network. As Pinterest allows you to organize images into boards for specific categories, it also allows businesses to post images of their company’s products on their Pinterest board and link them back to their website. It works as a sort of virtual store catalog. These pins can be liked, commented or re-pinned to other boards. Similar to Facebook content, your Pinterest pins can go viral.
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