Crowd Sourcing Insider: How is Crowdsourcing on Pinterest Benefit Your Business

Thursday, March 21, 2013

How is Crowdsourcing on Pinterest Benefit Your Business

A right social media can be a really effective crowdsourcing tool for your business.

One of the hottest crowdsourcing social media in the market is Pinterest;

How Does Pinterest Work?

Think Pinterest as an online pin board that everyone can generate ideas and visions. Pinterest has almost every categories from food to home, design to fashion, and gardening to humor. Business owner can easily to target customers by using different categories. It is extremely easy to share things on your board. You can pin everything from you electronic devices and other websites also re-pin other people's pin. Click on one pin, it will lead you to the source website directly. By this way, your product can be dispersed quickly and easily.

Inspiration

Pinterest can work for double ways. As well as you share items with others to generate your business, you can also see what other users are sharing at the same time. You can get some inspirations for you own business. Also, it helps you to have a better understanding of the market. You can determining trends and the most popular things in the market and develop your products.

Market Your Product

Pinterest is not an online shop, but when you pin your product on your board with a price tag and the link to your website. Your product will go on the Pinterest gift page automatically. This will increase traffic to your site and generate business.

Other Benefits

Like other social networks, Pinterest helps you to interact with others. You can understand the market by read and respond comments on your post. By using social media, every internet user become your potential customers. It is a free platform for you to develop your business.

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1 comment:

SvenApril 7, 2013 at 11:15 AM
I'm not sure if Pinterest is a tool for crowdsourcing. I agree that Pinterest is a great to tool for inspiration, e.g. for new product development. But this would be the same as traditonal market research. The idea of crowdourcing is that you distribute tasks to crowds to solve your problem. What do you think about that?
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We are a Marketing Group from Pacific Lutheran University looking to expand our knowledge of Web Marketing and all of its uses. As a topic of focus we have chosen Crowd Sourcing because we feel it is an important topic to the marketing world and we look forward to learning more about it.

Alex Quiner - a junior at PLU looking to concentrate in both Business Marketing and Management. I feel as though I can pinpoint Crowd Sourcing fairly well, however I look forward to see what I can learn from this experience.

Camille Carlson - a junior at Pacific Lutheran University with a concentration in Business Marketing. This is my first experience with blogging and am looking forward to working towards becoming a better overall marketer and blogger.

Anneli Lund - a transfer student from Norway. My bachelors degree is international communication, and at PLU I focus on marketing, sales and public relations. I have some experience with blogging, but hopefully I will gain more knowledge, about blogging as well as crowd sourcing.

Coco Liu - an international student from China. My major is business with concentrations in accounting and marketing. Also minor in economic. Hope I can learn more knowledge about blogging and have a better understanding about online marketing.