How to Use Pinterest Effectively

Video Tutorials for Online Social Image Sharing

Pinterest is a media-based social tool. With Pinterest, you can create a virtual bulletin board of images and videos based on your interests online. Learn to use Pinterest effectively with Grovo’s video tutorials, conceptual lessons, expert interviews, quiz questions and downloadable PDFs.

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“How To” Tutorials on Pinterest

Screenshot lessons show you how to master the most important features of relevant web products.

28 lessons 24 minutes
27 quizzes 5 certifications
# Name Description
Pinterest Friends and Followers
1. Introduction to Pinterest What Pinterest is and an overview of what you’ll learn about it
2. Send Invites Via Email Bring your email contacts to Pinterest.
3. Invite Facebook Friends Bring your Facebook friends to Pinterest.
4. Invite Gmail Contacts Bring your Gmail contacts to Pinterest.
5. Find and Follow Facebook Friends Keep up with all your Facebook Friend’s pins.
6. Find and Follow Gmail Contacts Keep up with your Gmail contact’s new pins.
7. Follow and Unfollow Users See pins from the users you want and drop the others from your feed.
Pinterest Boards
1. Create a Board Start pinning to a new board.
2. Edit a Board Change a board’s properties.
3. Rearrange your Boards Change the order of your boards on your profile.
4. Follow Boards Stay updated with the new pins to any board.
5. Unfollow Boards Remove a board’s activity from your homepage feed.
6. Remove Board Contributors Revoke user’s ability to contribute to a board.
7. Delete a Board Remove a board from Pinterest.
Pinterest Pins
1. Repin from Pinterest Pin media already on Pinterest to your boards.
2. Install the Pin It Button to a Web Browser Pin media from different sites with a link in your bookmarks bar.
3. Using the “Pin It” button Pin media from other sites to Pinterest.
4. Add a Pin by URL Add pins from a specific page on the web.
5. Upload a Pin from a Hard Drive Pin a picture or video from your computer to a Pinterest board.
6. Interact with Pins “Like,” “Repin” and comment on any pin on Pinterest.
7. Add a Pin Price Tag Designate a monetary value for your pin.
8. @Mention a User Send a user a notification through a pin’s description or comments.
Pinterest Privacy
1. Prevent Sharing Through Facebook Disable auto-sharing through your Facebook Profile.
2. Hide a Profile from Search Engines Remove your Pinterest profile from search results.
3. Change Email Notification Settings Determine how you want to be notified about the activity on Pinterest.
Pinterest Promotion
1. Add a Follow Button to a Website Add a link to your Pinterest Profile from your website.
2. Add “Pin It” Buttons to a Page Add multiple buttons to your site’s page to easily pin its media.
3. Block Pinning from a Page Keep users from pinning the media from your site.

Animated Concepts and Strategy

Fully animated lessons teach you the facts and concepts you need to know before you use a product.

10 lessons 15 minutes
9 quizzes 1 certification
# Name Description
Social Media
1. History of Social Media Gain an understanding of the history of social media.
2. Reach Harness the efficiency of social media to communicate with a wide audience of potential customers.
3. Targeting Target the people most likely to become customers and evangelize your business.
4. Desire Get people to want to do business with you by creating a positive impression online.
5. Tracking Keep track of consumer opinions and of how well your social media pages are performing.
6. Integration Make your organization more tightly integrated.
7. Social Media Management Set up internal structure and process for governing social media.
8. Create Social Media Policy Establish protocols and methods to standardize handling of Social Channels.
9. Social Media Design Strategy Preserve your branding across social media channels.
10. Social Media Response Plan Nail down a plan of action for responding to negative comments.
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