How To Upload Videos And Images To Pinterest
While other social platforms also allow posting of images, with Pinterest you have the added advantage of categorizing your images into various "boards." This gives followers the opportunity to hone in more narrowly on their specific interest. If you're an organization with many products and styles, the platform gives you a way to narrow things down for your potential customers. The instant gratification of the right image lends itself beautifully to the online contest. By creating a site that asks people to share images of a selected topic, and to offer an incentive for posting, such as a prize or coupon, you have the ability to draw interest for your brand or organization. You can encourage people to create a board based on their favorite images from your site, and then broadcast that whoever gets the most pins and re-pins, wins.
Once you've held your contest and drawn in some new followers, you're now beset with another monumental task -- but one that can yield monumental rewards. Its research and this is something that every social media manager should take seriously. By monitoring the things being repinned from your boards, you have the ability to conduct research into the habits, interests and behaviors of your audience, and to tailor your future efforts toward what's been popular in the past. Pinterest has another purpose for those who spend a lot of time online and need some place to file away all their great ideas for later use. Whether you're an educator, marketing expert or photographer, the ability to add items you love to your boards allows you organization ideas on-the-fly, with little fuss. They'll be readily accessible when you need to retrieve them. On top of that, you have social features working in the background; posting ideas on your board means that even while you've left your boards idle, you may have others repost those images, or share even more images with you that pertain to that topic.
Pinterest also has potential for educators. Think about the traditional yearbook that students spend the whole year agonizing over -- which is really a collection of memorable photos with some captions included. If you're a journalism teacher, yearbook adviser or other type of educator, you could use Pinterest as a forum for student collaboration. If you're creating a yearbook, a group Pinterest board could be a place to throw out ideas or consider certain photos. If you're in charge of a student newspaper, Pinterest could be an online extension of the newspaper's brand. For photography students, you could create a board for students to share photos or images that pertain to a certain theme. As a general rule, ensure that your pins give credit where credit is due by "pinning" from the original site, as opposed to Google Images or another aggregation service.