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Announcing Secret Boards for the Holidays!

November 12, 2012

Announcing Secret Boards for the Holidays! The holidays are a time for being with family, sharing great meals, and, of course, surprising your favorite people with a special gift. That’s why we thought the holidays were a perfect time to test one of our most frequently-requested features: secret boards! Starting today, we’ll be gradually rolling out a test that enables anyone to create three secret boards. We hope that secret boards will make Pinterest even more useful. You can use secret boards to keep track of holiday gifts, plan a special event, or work on a project you aren’t yet ready to share with the rest of the world. You can keep your secret boards to yourself or invite family and friends to pin with you. To create a secret board from the web, visit your profile and scroll down to the bottom. Then, click Create a Secret Board. You can also click Add+ on the top right-hand corner of Pinterest to select Create Board and turn the Secret button to On. If you’re on your mobile device, first download the most recent version of Pinterest for iPhone, iPad, Android phone or Android tablet. Then, go to your profile, tap on the Boards tab, and scroll down to the bottom until you see a button that says Create a Secret Board. When you add a pin to a secret board, it won’t show up anywhere else on Pinterest—the only place you can see it is on your secret board. Right now, you can’t make existing boards secret because others people may have already repinned from your board. See this support article to learn more about secret boards. Finally, secret boards were not on the horizon when we last revised our Privacy Policy, so we’ve updated that document. While we were adding secret boards to the policy, we also took the opportunity to simplify the overall language of the policy and provide more examples. We think the result is a much clearer and more understandable policy for the non-lawyers who use Pinterest. In addition to this blog post, we’ll be sending an email notification about the privacy policy update. Source: Pinterest Blog

How Social Media is Revolutionizing Home Décor–[INFOGRAPHIC]

November 11, 2012

Style, and by association, your interior decoration decisions, are each extensions of your personality. There are many ways to express personality through design, and it’s easier than ever these days to find styles that are a direct match to the expression you would like to portray. Over the past decade, the Internet has helped to innovate the way individuals decorate. A growing number of people are discovering more unique and customizable means of decorating their home through online inspiration boards, virtual tools, and sharing through social media. Source: HSN

Small business gets a social media makeover– CNN Report Video

October 27, 2012

Is your business social media ready? Are you savvy when it comes to Facebook, Twitter or even Pinterest? If you’re not it is possible your business might not be relevant in 2013. Social media is becoming a must for small businesses trying to reach new customers. A wig manufacturer and retailer gets a social media makeover from Gary Vaynerchuk. Christine Romans reports. Source: CNN Want to get your business social media ready? Contact Dennis at Influence Social Marketing for a free 30 min. consultation and get your business social media savvy today.

Social Media for Self Published Authors

September 13, 2012

Are you using social media networking to sell and promote your self-published book? How are you promoting your self-published book? Here’s a You-Tube video of a webinar I did to show self-published authors how to use social media. It covers all the different platforms like Facebook, Google+, Twitter, WordPress and more. Keep in mind that Google+ now has pages available for their users. Pinterest has also taken off since I made this video and is an excellent way to promote your work to the masses. Have something that you are doing to promote your book on social media? Share a link to your books Facebook page below. Please share in the comments.

Social Media Image Size Chart–Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest

July 28, 2012

Are you confused at what size image you should use for your profile photo on Pinterest? How about your cover photos for your fan page on Facebook? The image you choose to use for your fan page or personal profile is important. Especially when it comes to your brand and how you want your business portrayed on social media. Luna Metrics put together this great infographic cheat-sheet to show you what image size you need for each social media platform. The infographic can be printed for a very informative guide to image dimensions on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest (Source: Luna Metrics.) [divider] [hcshort id=”13″]

Idaho Social Media Consultant and Author Dennis J. Smith to be guest on Social Media Yak

July 5, 2012

Just about everyone knows how to use social media sites like Facebook to some extent, but those using it best know that good social media use is really about being relevant, fresh and on top of the changing social media landscape. Dennis J. Smith, public speaker, consultant and author of “Promote Your Businesses or Cause Using Social Media – A Beginner’s Handbook,” helps us understand the benefits of social media. Dennis has been on Facebook and Twitter since 2007, has a social media blog and a presence on the hot new site Pinterest. Join me on Social Media Yak as I talk with host Martin Severiano Johncox about social media, webinars and the upcoming 3rd Edition of my book. The show airs Saturday July 7th on Boise’s KIDO radio in the morning at 730 am to 8 am mountain time and the podcast will be available at www.alexanderandassociates.com/upcoming-guests. Podcast available – Listen Here

More Men Joining Pinterest As Site Grows To 4 Million Unique Visitors Daily –[INFOGRAPHIC]

April 29, 2012

Men are now 28% of the users on Pinterest as the popular pinning site continues to add more users. Daily unique visitors to the site shot up to 4 million in March 2012 compared to 2 million in January 2012. Pinterest had a whooping 2.3 Billion page views in the same month. How long are you on Pinterest each visit? See what the average is on the Infographic below.

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