If you have important business content on your Pinterest boards, create a backup file of your pins for your own reference and peace-of-mind. Making a backup copy of your business boards protects you from someone hacking into your business account and deleting content. Another reason to print your boards is so you can cross-check board […]
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How to Make Cover Pins for Your Pinterest Boards
Board “cover pins” are the pins you select to be the largest image on a board in your Pinterest account’s Board View. Setting board covers can help to identify the content of a board. If you don’t set a board cover image deliberately, the first image you pinned will be displayed as the largest image […]
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Repin for (Re)Exposure
After you’ve been in Pinterest for a while, you start to notice pins that have “been around.” For me, the first pin I noticed again and again in the pinflow was glass candlesticks made to look like sea glass with Elmer’s glue. (Epic Fail, BTW—bugs got in the glue). A silver beaded dress does the […]
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Should I follow this person back?
A question from one of my “Pinterest Done 4U” clients: Well, this was sort of a surprise. My first unknown follower. It is the best etiquette to follow back? I looked at the Pinterest account that followed hers (she has three accounts following her naturally. One is her personal account, and two are mine). This […]
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Use Quozio to Create Text Pins
Quozio is a bookmarklet available from Quozio.com. Intended to create pinnable quotations with attribution, I use it for much more than quoting other people. First, install the bookmarklet onto your browser toolbar. I keep it right next to the PinIt bookmarklet. When you have something to quote, click on the bookmarklet. Type your quotation […]
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PinIt Bookmarklet Passes Alt Tag
Inquiring minds want to know: What image meta tag gets pulled into a pin? Does it matter which pinning tool you use? Your personal Pinterest Investigative Reporter to the Rescue. I tested Pinterest’s PinIt Bookmarklet (first option on the list) on my Rugs from Rags site (better image collection) to see which of an image’s […]
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Don’t stress over your precious images
I have heard people say that they “don’t want to go near Pinterest because of their Terms of Service.” Hum, I thought. That’s your choice. Pinterest’s terms of service (TOS) are shifting and changing frequently, by the way, so I can’t be sure which version anyone saw when they made that decision. The TOS on […]
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Don’t Mess with Downton Abbey
In the past two weeks, I received two sales emails with short-duration, late night deadlines. The second arrived on Sunday, at 5 pm, with a 10 pm EST deadline. The offer was enticing—get more, free, traffic in six weeks with this course—and had bonuses that were also appealing, for less than $200. I had my […]
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Notes on Optimizing
From Bob Lewis, IS Survivor: July 9, 2012 Posted here because I can never remember all six of the “good, fast and cheap” real life dimensions, and they matter. Just like change comes in project change and application change, and defects come in project defects and application defects, and they are all very different things. […]
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Adding Pinterest Boards to WordPress Posts
Pinterest’s new Business Accounts allow you to add a Board widget to an external web page. This widget puts a live image of any one of your boards on a webpage. Visitors who click on the board will be taken to that board on the Pinterest side. It’s a great idea, when it works. Unfortunately, […]
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