Just a short post today for all those people, especially business people on Pinterest.
About an hour ago I finished writing a new product page about my £45 Website & Online Marketing MOT, pretty excited and in my normal promotional way, I liked it, it and now, as part of my routine, pinned it.
And this cool thing came up, a banner on the side of the picture associated with it with the price “£45″. How cool is that.
It turns out this is automatically created by including the price of the item in the description. When you pin a product, simply add a description like “Our New Foot Cream only £20″ and Pinterest will automatically add the £20 as a banner in the corner.
A cool tool in my opinion, and a great help for e-commerce website users and it saves Pinterest users the effort of having to open up the link to find the price. Efficient, clean and elegant, this is clearly one of the top tips on how to use Pinterest effectively.
BLOGGING!
I’ve been asked over the last few days by quite a few people “how long should my blog posts be”.
My stock response is usually “2-3″ paragraphs.
And why is that?
Well, think about the most memorable blogs you’ve read.
Revisit them and note their word counts. You’ll probably notice a common thread: Less is definitely more in the realm of the successful blog. With this in mind, to keep your blog posts concise and relevant without rambling or straying from your core message. It’s tough to engage busy people, and interest can be quickly lost when your word count goes beyond 500. This means that a certain amount of post tailoring is always required, but it’s a skill quickly mastered and full of rewards in terms of subscribers and reposts.
So keep it short, and she won’t mind…
According to a recent report from Pingdom.com, WordPress is the blogging system of choice for 49 out of the Technorati Top 100 blogs.
And who can blame them? If it’s good enough for them, it is for me.
Here’s why I continue to use WordPress for the design of absolutely all my clients websites, and why I will do for some time:
- WordPress is absolutely free and free forever!
- The massive, massive catalogue of FREE plugins available enable all client sites to go beyond being just a “site” or “blog”
- The backend is so easy to use compared to others like Joomla. You don’t need to learn about modules to find a page and edit its content.
- Blogging is a dream with WordPress with comments sections, tagging abilities etc built in as standard.
- It’s secure. In the 4 years I have been using WordPress, none of my clients have had security problems.
- And lastly, GOOGLE LOVES IT
Source: royal.pingdom.com via Liam on Pinterest
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Stop Linking your Twitter & LinkedIn Updates.
Would you put, “that was a messy one last night” on your CV? No? Then stop putting it on your LinkedIn by cross linking your accounts.
It’ just lazy, to be effective with any form of marketing you must tailor your message to the appropriate audience. The same goes for social networking “for fun”. Your future boss could easily see your messy night update!
Not only that, I don’t want to read the bum end of some weird Twitter conversation full of # tags and @’s.
- Rant over.
