How to Make Pinterest Run Itself

Obviously, the less time you spend marketing on Pinterest, the more time that you can spend on other things. That means that at some point you’ll want to start automating your Pinterest (and likely other social media as well) and to do that you need to know what kind of tools are available to run Pinterest on automatic pilot and how you can minimize your investment of time and still get the same result.

1. Put amazing content on your boards. Before you begin the automation process, you want to have the foundation for a Pinterest profile that will work with automation. Check out other boards, go outside of your niche topic and find new ways or products that no one else has noticed before.

2. Auto-Follow is the first real automation tool that we will discuss. There is a great deal of automation software out there and this type looking for users to follow and automatically gets you following them, which may lead to them following you back. One tool that many Pinterest users like is NinjaPinner.

3. Schedule pins and you’ll save tons of time. You should be pinning several times per day and continually adding fresh content, but the problem is, you may not have the entire day to spend updated your social media profiles. That’s why this is such a great method of automation. You get two bonuses from this method. First, you get continually updated content, which is good for search, and you get what appears to be a personal connection over what is essentially an automated profile.

4. Pinterest Image Pinner is a plugin for Wordpress that gives your images the “Pin It” button that you’ll need to integrate it with Pinterest. This is a huge timesaver if you have a lot of photos.

5. Repinly is an automated inspiration tool. Basically, when you get stuck for something to share, you can look at what other people are sharing and then come up with a pin of your own.

6. There are two features that your website should have. The first is a pin display on your site so people can see what you have posted over at Pinterest. The second website feature that you need to include is an RSS feed, which you can get as a Wordpress plugin, so that you can display your pins right on your site.

How to Create a Marketing Schedule

There is never going to be a time when Pinterest is fully automated and you never have to touch it. For one thing, it is logistically impossible to run Pinterest page without ever having to touch it. Plus, even if it was possible, you would be missing the whole point of the site. Pinterest is a social site, which means that you are encouraged to be social with other people using the site. Having a successful Pinterest profile is all about engaging others. You need to be able to connect with other members of the Pinterest community and you need to be adding value to the website by posting great content and repinning stuff that you think is particularly interesting.

However, there are things that you can do to make sure that you spend as little time as possible maintaining your social media pages so that you can spend more time engaging with people on the site. Here is a list of things that you can do each and every week that should only take you about an hour to complete. These five steps are very important, and if you do them, you are going to find that your followers are increasing by a little bit each week. If you want to further a connection you might have made with someone through a post, look for people that repin the content that you posted, or actually comment on those videos, and then send them a quick note to say thanks.

• Open up Repinly and look for ideas of some images that you want to pin. You can look through the images that are listed and find out what your mood is telling you to post as well as what is trendy. You want to take about 30 minutes to do this.

• Schedule your pins to go out over the next seven days if you want the maximum benefit from the search engines and you want users on the Pinterest site to believe that you are behind every pin, and that the system isn’t automated.

• Make a list in a program like notepad and keep track of everything that you are planning to pin in the future. This way you have a central place where you’ll be able to find every pin that you’ve considered throughout the week. Another benefit to doing this is that you can look through your pins and find out if it is something you still want to use or if you have something better.

• Login to Pinterest and look for 10 to 15 different people that have great pins on their profile. Make a comment on their pins. Show interest in what they have posted and make sure that you choose topics that you either know about or are interested in.

• Step five is relatively simple. You’re going to use NinjaPinner to auto follow people which will hopefully bring some followers of your own in return.

Pinterest & Other Social Media Websites

Business is complicated these days. Unfortunately, in addition to running our business we also need to worry about things like social media profiles, websites and keeping information updated with regular content going out. Because this is the case, we work more hours than we ever did it anytime in the past. But you can automate quite a few things on it comes to social media and not just with Pinterest. Facebook, Twitter and even Google plus can be automated to a certain extent. Some companies hire a person or a team to manage social media because you cannot avoid using them completely. But with the automated software is available these days, you should have more time to do the other things that your business needs.