
Feb 22, 2022 Category:
Digital Marketing
Pinterest Marketing isn’t just about posting impressive pictures. The unique social media platform also plays a pivotal role in marketing products.
According to a source, more than 64% of Pinterest users describe the platform as a place to find ideas, products, or services they can trust. In fact, 90% of weekly Pinners make purchase decisions on Pinterest!
Owing to the number of features that make it stand out among the rest, Pinterest has become the most sought after social media platform among brands and businesses to market their products.
Here are some crucial reasons, why should marketers consider Pinterest marketing.
Voice or visual searches are easier and quicker than traditional text-based searches on smartphones. People prefer either speaking out their search or taking pictures with their smartphones and quickly putting them on search to get faster results.
Despite the fact that there are not many users on Pinterest, the ads are very likely to be seen here, especially when the audience is well targeted. And moreover, people come on Pinterest for the purpose of shopping as well, and look for the images that entice them.
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Pinterest is mostly about finding all that is new. Yes, people come here in search of something that they haven’t seen or come across. It’s a great place for launching any new product and getting it popular.
The brands can have maximum exposure at this platform, as they can create their personalized page, that would have their logo, and even an outline of their business, where they can categorize their various products and present them better.
Pinterest helps the brands develop a good customer base, as your pins get pinned by the users. Even if your pin is popular enough, you keep getting viewed by the users. So, the chances of getting new customers are always there.
One of the best parts about Pinterest is that you can pin the images directly from your website. Also, you can have a guided editor which would serve you as your navigator to help you go through the pages quite easily in no time.
On Pinterest, you can perform research to have deep insight into the latest market trends, which includes the requirements and preferences of your customers. You can do so by looking into how they develop their pinboards. You will understand their preferences and the products that are trendy.
The platform allows you to perform ample of market research so that you can make shits in your strategies and actions anytime. You can target and retarget your audience depending upon how well you understand them during your market research. So you can have an anytime access to the niche markets.
To engage your customers, you can host various contests, such as rewarding the photo that your business logo in it. This would certainly lead to the pinning of photos that have your logo, getting your marketing task done automatically within minimum possible time. You brand would get instant exposure, with its photos getting shared, generating the possibilities of potential customers.
As you post your photos on this platform, you present yourself to the audience for lot of exposure that stays longer. Sources say, Pinterest pins last 1,600 times longer than Facebook posts on an average!
This certainly leads to increased opportunities for sales.
Pinterest marketing boosts SEO automatically. The Pinterest pins come up with many pinboards that may contain the keyword related to the product your potential customers may be searching on the Google search. It is all about the way you pin!
The goal of Pinterest marketing is to get the brands and their products found and sold. For this you need to build a robust Pinterest marketing strategy. Understanding the significance of Pinterest marketing in social media marketing strategy, Tarika Technologies builds smart strategies that improve visual ranking of the information source of the product. Since the platform helps in product discovery, it provides value to the businesses and that’s why more and more businesses are pinning their hopes with a promising Pinterest marketing strategy.
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Lamuel Datoru Biambo is a dynamic and results-driven leader with over a decade of experience in business development, human resources, facility management, IT and media services consulting.
A techy in online radio setup and production, Lamuel has successfully setup a couple of online radios (personal, community and commercial) and still counting.
As the CEO/CTO of LifeSERV Integrated Services Limited, he managed multiple departments and successfully serviced as a subcontractor for Julius Berger Nigeria Ltd as a Contract IT Manager, Head of IT Support Unit, Media & Events Manager.
Prior to this role, Lamuel served as Group Head of Accounts at Tolobs Marine Services Limited, an oil servicing company where he sourced for clients, liaised with local and international clients to ensure smooth operations, and prepared PDAs/invoices for proposed jobs, as well as liaised with finance departments of local/international organizations and other financial stakeholders.
Lamuel’s expertise extends beyond business management and administration to web development, cinematography, creative writing, and oil and agro consulting. He has developed and managed over 300 websites, administered training to top executives and staff of organizations, and provided ICT consultancy and research.
A hardworking, proactive, and trustworthy individual, Lamuel is a reliable problem-solver with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively in a team. He is fluent in English, his local language Kirike, and elementary French. He has a personal interest in tennis, basketball, soccer, scrabble, music, and cooking. He is happily married with children who loves his cooking skills and every fun moment spent with them.
20+ years of professional experience
William Yaw Ansah, Chairman, and CEO, Origin8 Limited in Ghana is an accomplished executive with experience spanning multiple sectors – Publishing, International NGOs, Education, Consultancy, and more.
Most recently, William was appointed as Course Manual Author Monitor for Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana. He was also appointed as a Member of the Management Committee, School of Arts, University of Ghana. He is also a Member of the Institute of Directors Ghana, an Accredited Member of the Institute of Public Relations, and a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketers, U.K
Over the years, he has been a mentor and advisor to a number of new ventures in Ghana and has trained several organizations such as SSNIT, Ghana Revenue Authority, Ghana Water Company Limited, National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme among others.
William has authored a number of books such as Simple English for Senior High Schools in Ghana, Simple English books for Primary Schools in Ghana, and Simple English books for kindergarten, among others.
William received his Master’s degree in Global Marketing from the University of Liverpool, the U.K, and a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from the University of Ghana, Ghana. He started his career in Ghana as an Instructor, Consultant, and later management member of Afram Publications, Sahabia Publications, Comland Ghana, Origin8 Limited to mention a few.
30+ years of leadership experience
Joe leads the company’s strategy development and team building processes to formulate and enact the mission and goals. His strategic decisions involve the commitment of various resources for the fulfilment of goals and purposes of the organization, with a positive impact on its various aspects of growth.
With over 30 years of leadership experience, Joe has lead transformation projects, new business ventures, and execution of change management strategies.
In his previous role in C/C Financial Corp, a start-up financial technology business, Joe served as President & CEO. The start-up was scaled up and acquired by a large publicly traded company.
Joe started PeakFormance Leadership Consulting, a leadership and strategy advisory firm that specializes in helping busy executives develop high-performing team and organizations. His experience and proven strategies have helped him lead organization development projects with Fortune 500 companies as well as small to medium size start-ups.
With a strong passion for leadership, Joe has demonstrated the ability to develop cohesive teams, aligned and collaborative teams that achieve extraordinary results. Joe’s passion for leadership and team-building and vast experience enable him to connect with executive leaders and partner with them to improve performance.
Joe holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Minnesota State University, and an MBA in Organization Leadership from Walden University. He enjoys spending time traveling, golfing and training for Ironman triathlon competitions.
20+ years of professional experience
Sachin has over twenty years of experience managing innovation and development of solutions and optimizing complex business processes; Business & Technology Architecture and Integrations. His proficient leadership and exceptional communication skills, technical expertise, combined with industry experience have delivered extraordinary results for his firm and clients.
Sachin instituted Tarika Technologies to support businesses by implementing a strong process-oriented system and the virtual CIO model, managing a team of offshore and onsite professionals. He performs complete business and technology assessment, advises on Enterprise Architecture and provides solutions for mid to large companies, globally. Under his leadership, Tarika Technologies has acquired several key accounts, providing Enterprise Solutions, Infrastructure Solutions (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS), Software & Web Solutions and Mobile Applications.
In addition, Tarika Technologies provides technology and communications infrastructure set up and has successfully launched several products in the ERP, Communication, Entertainment & Media domains. Today, Tarika stands as a global company with presence in America, Asia, and Africa.
Sachin is the CIO to a leading firm in Bethesda, Maryland USA that provides acquisition support services; and technical advisor to the Crisis Center Hotline located in the state of Maryland in the United States. During his career, he also served as Director of Information Technology at a prestigious infrastructure management firm in the DC area providing IT consulting, infrastructure design and enterprise solutions for small to large corporations all around the mid-Atlantic region, as well as governmental organizations. His innovation in business process has led to a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Offices for one of his clients.
Sachin’s keen interest in International business has formed key alliances and relationships worldwide apart from just Technology. In recent times, he has partnered with Origin8 Limited, a leading PR & Advertisement firm located in Ghana, extending all the products and services offered by Tarika to the African region. As an integral part of this partnership, Origin8 will be heading the sales and marketing of EBIMS AirWatch in the West African market; a cloud-based ERP solution by Tarika, supporting the needs in the Media industry providing real time strategic planning, monitoring, management of operations, automation of collections and complete digitization of payments through integrations to local payment gateways. He is also the Chief Technology Advisor for Origin8 Limited, driving advanced digital solutions for clients in Ghana; and introducing customized ERP for businesses across West Africa.
His keen interest in international business has formed key alliances and relationships worldwide in areas aside technology. Other areas of his expertise include managing and streamlining business processes, vertically independent Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Management, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, high-level network and systems architecture, design and development capabilities of secure distributed applications for both private as well as governmental organizations.
Sachin holds a Master of Science in Information Architecture with highest honors; a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Associates in Computer Engineering Technology from Capitol Technology University in Maryland, USA. In his leisure, Mr. Agrawal enjoys playing musical instruments and practices Haidong Gumdo, the Korean swordsmanship, as a senior martial arts practitioner. His personal blog can be found at www.sachinagrawal.com.