I love Pinterest and use in addition to other social media. I enjoy looking at the creativity of different boards and pins, and can always find something enjoyable.
I think Pinterest boards need to be done slowly over several weeks to garner interest, and to have followers look forward to the ‘next pin’. Even after completed, a few pins should be added from time to time. I think other than special event promotions, that boards should tell a story and be as imaginative as possible. If someone likes one of your boards, it is likely they will look at all of them, so create just for fun boards, not all product. Find your interests or passions and create boards about them.
When completed, tweet your boards, you may get re-tweets from Shopinterest which I have had on several occasions. Tweet your fun boards as well as business boards.
With millions of users, it is a wonderful marketing tool.

I use it sporadically, and therefore probably not as effectively as possible.

I have my products broken down into roughly category lists – Biker Gear, Wholesale Lots, Women’s Fashions, etc. Also have a list or two that reflects my personal interests – one about pitbulls, for instance, especially those in need of homes (as you can tell from the picture, I’m partial…lol).

In any case, I’ve been posting to all of the boards more frequently, and as I’ve done so I’ve seen more views coming from Pinterest, and have also had more people either re-pinning or beginning to follow my lists…so it apparently is generating traffic…and anything that does that is all to the good!

I use Pinterest a little, have items broken down to afghans, cool pics I find online, craft books, etc. I don’t have a category just for Bonanza but so far it works for me.

I use it, and that is all that I can say.

Thank you all for sharing. This is great information.

I see that Gifts4u2 and LowerWholesale (and perhaps Norma and MyTexas) use categories, if I understood right, as a way to organize in how you pin. Before I posted this conversation I had started a Baby board for baby products, baby clothing, etc. I figure as I add more related listings I can just go to this board to pin and this will help to speed things up in promoting as I list.

MyTexas, thanks for sharing your thoughts on pinning over several weeks. I admit that when pinning I get the feeling that I need to hurry up and do a board. It makes sense that in order to create a beautiful and/or interesting board that it takes time….like all good things.

I like quotes, so for the baby board I found a site on Google that has baby quotes. Behind the quotes are images pertaining to babies. So, I pinned one of those. Plus I figure it gives the author credit for their quote since it had their name on it.

Question, when naming the pin do you just pick and choose keywords from the title’s listing or do you get creative in what you say…do you or don’t you include some keywords from the listing’s title?

Also, is there something I need to be looking out for when pinning. For example, if something is copyrighted and belongs to someone else, is there a way for me to know this so that I do not pin it. Or like for the example I gave further up above on pinning the quote with the image and the author’s name, was this okay to do? After I pinned it, a pop up on Pinterest said that it had been pinned 347 times approximately by other pinners.

Oh, and I got 3 more followers not long after starting the baby board, which is funny because I’ve only got 2 things pinned to it lol. Is this kind of fast following normal?

I am still very eager to hear more comments, so please participate if you like.