Assignment 2, Bootcamp #6 - Pinterest Marketing, Part 1

[Lannie]

Hofkissed:  I agree that copyright can often be a concern on the internet. The Pinterest Help pages only talk about what you can do if you feel your copyright has been infringed by someone. (http://about.pinterest.com/en/copyright). Here's an interesting article and Pinterest and copyright: http://mashable.com/2012/03/21/pinterest-copyright-legal-issues/, especially under "No, You Can’t Just Post Other People’s Stuff"  

I'm going to have to think some more about this one - and have to run off now. I'll be back later...

[Jewelry Made With Love]

Whoops!
Trouble verifying your domain. Please try again later.


This is after doing the download agent and then being told that it is looking good now to finish the verificaton. I then hit Verify and that is the message I get every time.

[Lannie]

Hi Jewelry Made with Love, Did you try only putting in the domain, not including your store address? I had a problem with this too. When I put in https://icraftgifts.com/ only, it worked.

Have to run now, will check back in later today.

[Hofkissed]

Hi Jewelry Made With Love... I just clued in to what you were talking about - verifying your domain.

Pinterest will currently only allow you to register top-level domains. For example, www.icraftgifts.com Therefore, domains that are not top-level, such as your iCraft store (www.icraftgifts.com/YourStoreName) will not work.

This is probably another reason why I have my Blog attached to my account rather than my iCraft store... it's all coming back to me now.

Sorry you've been having so much trouble!

[Hofkissed]

You can read more about that here:

http://help.pinterest.com/en/articles/verify-your-website

[iCraft Admin]

Hi Jewelry Made with Love, verifying your domain is not critical for this weeks assignment. Pls skip this step, if you can, and we'll look into this issue later. Thanks!

[Lannie]

Hofkissed, I was playing around on Pinterest, and I think there are ways to connect your iCraft store and your iCraft product pages to the Pinterest pins. When you click on a pinned image, it takes you to an enlarged image. When you click on the enlarged image, you go to the product page on your iCraft site.

You can also add the URL of your iCraft store to the little description under each pinned image. For instance,  from https://icraftgifts.com/hofkissed.

[iCraft Admin]

So how's everyone doing today?
Any progress with Pinterest setup, Jewelry Made With Love?

[Unique Bundle]

 I've been gone and just checked to see the posts.  I set up a Pinterest account ages ago,.  I do not use it much but I'd like to keep the personal one personal.  Will I experience the same issues as the other "Bootcamper" trying to set on up for this?  This is the type of stuff that if it becomes too complicated, I'll just check out.  That's why I haven't done much with "Social Media".  I just don't get the basics so doing things are difficult without clear direction.  I have no idea how any of this works… Thanks

[Lannie]

Hi Unique Bundle - welcome back! I found it was easy to convert my personal Pinterest account to a business account. The only difference is that you'll get analytics and information about your account when that becomes available on the Pinterest site. I went to http://business.pinterest.com/en. I could choose Join as a business, or Already have an account? Convert now. I filled in some information and voila it was done! Everything looked exactly the same.

[Jewelry Made With Love]

No progress yet. I am having trouble with the adding the "meta tag"  Where is the "head" of the URL?  I did get it to tell me once that permission was denied.

[Lannie]

Jewellery Made with Love: I fear you may be over complicating this. This is what worked for me:

1. Go to http://business.pinterest.com/en
2. You already have an account, so click on Convert now.
3. Fill in your information.
4. If asked to connect your account to a website, put in http://www.icraftgifts.com.

Give it a try, and let us know what happens.

If this doesn't work, how about you use your current account to do the assignments? You can set up a separate Board for iCraft. What do you think?

[NoriandChasesCorner]

I have my pinterest account active. I'm working on setting up boards.

Unique Bundle: I also didn't want to convert my personal to business. All I did was click on the "Are you a business?"
                            I did have to use a different email address but everything else was store related. The only downfall to this is I keep finding pins I want to pin to my personal while I'm on the business account! 

[iCraft Admin]

Jewelry Made With Love,

You don't have to convert to Business account, if you are having so much trouble with it. In the interest of time, just leave the domain and all other non-required fields blank for now.

All we are trying to do this week is:
a) to establish a presence on Pinterest (create an account)
b) browse boards, get familiar with their interface/features and start building a followings there and
c) get into a habit of pinning things

You can customize your account and add tags etc later, as it's not critical to this week's assignment. Thanks!

[iCraft Admin]

Everyone, please focus on creating boards and pinning from your own and other Bootcampers stores, finding cool boards and members to follow. Let us know how many of those activities you've managed to do each day/this week. What are your learnings this week? any questions, feedback so far?

What are everyone's Pinterest accounts? I'd like to list them in this post, so we'd at least follow each other.