subject: 3 Tips To Grow Your Connections On Pinterest [print this page] With social media more is betterWith social media more is better. More fans, more likes, more pluses, more comments on your pins and repins because it all means more connections. From connections come conversations, the spark of potential business in the future. Pinterest is no different: more comments, more likes and more repins expands your reach. More reach gets you more traffic to the places where you can do business.
Here are 3 tips to expand your reach on Pinterest:
1. Create Momentum
There is a point in all social media where your consistent, daily efforts suddenly swing into quantifiable, exciting results. This effect is like a boomerang in terms of its energy, and you get there by posting daily - something useful, something fun and something inspiring. Remember to always present yourself with authenticity and as a whole person. If you are contributing to the landscape then you earn the right to offer things for sale in the future. By doing a little every day, you provide fresh content and a consistency that sets expectation. Within that expectation comes anticipation - that something interesting and fun will be coming today from you and the wonder of what it might be - this is the beginning of leadership.
2. Make Everything You Do Worthy of Sharing
Every pin needs to be of interest enough that people would want to share it with others. Certainly pin things that you like, but when you pin something from outside of Pinterest, consider how it might be useful to your friends and followers. When you keep their best interest in mind, your own interesting-ness gets taken care of!
3. Ask, and Ye Shall Receive
There is nothing wrong with asking people to repin an image every now and then. Especially if you are participating in a contest to get the most number of likes or are looking for feedback on a series of choices. Collecting opinions is a perfectly legitimate activity, when done with honesty and no hidden agenda. This way you have created your own unique focus group, and who knows who might discover your products along the way. You will want to publicly recognize anyone who has helped you here. Otherwise, you are just using people and no-one finds anything "social" in that!
As you can see these three tips will help grow your connections, especially if you are using Pinterest for business. They will also work for other social media sites. Consistent daily activity combined with valuable content that is worthy of sharing will do the lion's share of the work for you. When you add value to the community, you have then earned to the right to ask for help when it is needed and appropriate.
