Pintapalooza eBook Snippet

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• Juliet McEwen Johnson
• Author, Social Media Pro
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• Copyright Juliet McEwen Johnson

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• A friend of mine had lost a ton of weight with
  the Dukan diet. I think shed lost 55 pounds in
  110 days, or something quite extraordinary. I
  thought, well, if she can do it, so can I. I
  started off full of optimism and enthusiasm, as
  one does only this time, I thought Id blog about
  it. To keep myself honest was my intention, and
  accountable. Yet also to remember some of the
  turmoil I went through on this diet. I suppose
  the idea was if I wrote it all down, then if I
  came off the diet and/or was successful, then I
  would be able towell, I would remember, and it
  would be a help.
• One day, I wrote a blog post all about how if you
  are built like Beyoncé then theres no point
  trying to look like Uma Thurman. I used one of my
  most favorite tips about social media, which is
  to always stand in front of other peoples
  traffic rather than create your own, whenever you
  can. (i.s. Leveraging money the celebrity has
  already spent to get themselves top of mind,
  and/or using a current news topic as a point of
  reference and then applying it all to your
  specific topic.) I had pictures of J-Lo and
  Beyoncé because at the time they were in the
  news. I think Beyoncé had just had the baby and
  J-Lo, well J-Lo seems to be in the news every
  day!

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• I included a picture of those two, and to be
  honest, it was somebody elses article. I simply
  wrote an intro talking about how much I loved the
  article. (with a proper link to the original)
  Then I reprinted the whole bottom of the article
  and put with no permission whatsoever - heres
  the rest of this excellent article! I linked up
  to it and thought, good enough. I left it at
  that. Then it occurred to me this might be an
  interesting post for Pinterest why not put it up
  there and see what happens.
• Its not long before an email arrives from
  Pinterest with all these re-pins.
• Good heavens! Well, I guess that hit a nerve
  then. That was a good one, wasnt it? Clever old
  me! I wondered what that might mean in terms of
  my traffic. Let me go and have a look at Google
  Analytics.
• How extraordinary! 100 clicks on a private little
  blog which I was, at the time, not writing for
  anybody other than me. At some point I might try
  and monetize that blog, but it is a place just
  for me, to store everything to do with the Dukan
  diet and my own journey on it. (By which Ive
  actually managed to lose 60 pounds, Id just like
  to mention. Done for now. Phew!)

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• In my live webinars on Pinterest, people have
  asked - was that clicks on your blog or your pin
  board, or is it the same thing? No, this was
  clicks on my blog coming to me, in-bound, from
  Pinterest. Pinterest sent me 100 new people that
  day to my blog. That is new, brand new people who
  never knew me before. Its sure put the little
  Dukan diet diary blog, http//mydukandiary.com on
  the map!
• Ah, so thats how Pinterest is a big deal. It can
  do extraordinary things for you in terms of
  traffic and it has. I noticed that the three or
  four blogs I have that I am promoting on
  Pinterest or that I am sharing on Pinterest and
  making available to Pinterest readers are getting
  significantly more traffic. In fact, 32 of my
  total traffic is coming from Pinterest. ( as of
  June 2012)
• Pinterest is now ranked the 3 social network.
  They say they get more traffic than LinkedIn,
  Google, and YouTubecombined. Not surprised
  about the LinkedIn thing or the Google thing,
  are you? But if it is 3, then I think we should
  take it seriously.

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• At its most basic, Pinterest is a virtual
  pin-Board. Its a visual collection. Its a
  dreamscape for all the people that used to do
  those vision boards back in the 80s, before the
  secret came along and we were all listening to
  Tony Robbins and those kinds of people. Thats
  Pinterest. And finally the web has caught up to
  Tony Robbins. Its a dreamscape and a community
  (and its important to remember this word
  community because therefore there are certain
  rules of politeness that will apply). Its like
  fantasy football for women, although I didnt
  come up with that one - I wish I had because its
  so good.
• These visual collections are sorted the word
  used is curated around a single idea or a
  keyword phrase. The narrower and more specific
  the better.
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