Promoted Pins on Pinterest – Mistake #1

Welcome to my world of learning and sharing the ups and downs of using promoted pin on Pinterest.

I have been intrigued with Pinterest since day 1 of getting started about 2 years ago, but never did much with it. But all of that changed when I read an article by Gary Vaynerchuk called “Marketers: Say Hello To Your New Favorite Ad Platform”.

Reading through this article I thought to myself, this is going to be huge! Only then did I realize that I am one of the few that currently has access to promoted pins. Apparently I was selected to be a beta tester. (kudos for me and even better for you!)

Why is this good for you? Because I am about to reveal the do’s and don’t of using Promoted Pins on Pinterest. Let’s just say that I have already made a few mistakes that you could benefit from.

So in this short video I am going to walk you through my very first mistake that I made on Pinterest.

Promoted Pins on Pinterest… First Mistake

My very first promoted pin on Pinterest was for an affiliate product that I highly recommend called Attraction Marketing Formula.

Here is what happened….

Insight into Promoted Pins on Pinterest

So here is what I learned from this particular promoted pin.

• Image/graphic was not an issue
• Where link went too was what Pinterest called a “hard wall” – meaning user couldn’t get the information they wanted without first sharing personal information, i.e. email address.
• Originally link was broken and I was notified of this.
• Best Practice provide value to the user, they are looking for information and NOT to be sold on something.

What I didn’t mention in the video was that when I first created this pin I was only targeting 5-6 keywords. Then as I was reading through the guidelines and was told that I should have at least 30 keyword terms. When I increased my audience is when I found out that I was making mistakes.

The good news… just after I did this review I went ahead and created a post here on my blog about this particular pin, changed the destination of the URL and now I am getting traffic and leads with this pin.

Right now as I write this I have gotten 4 new leads and it has cost me $0.15. Not bad for a new traffic source.

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Yours in Gratitude,

Chef Katrina van Oudheusden

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