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How to Grow Pinterest Followers

How many of you are a huge Pinterest fan, like me? I’ve always torn pages from magazines to save as inspiration — so a pin-board for the internet has been up my alley since the day I first heard of Pinterest. Since I’m naturally drawn to this concept, I’ve always invested time into it. It’s been a source of inspiration for my home, my blog, and my shop. I’ve learned a ton through tutorials found via Pinterest, and I’ve discovered some of my favorite bloggers through this handy site.

Yet, there is still so much to learn.

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Specifically, I can learn more about how to grow my own blog using Pinterest. Over the last 4 months, I’ve been using a new tool to grow my Pinterest following and increase my Pin frequency {aka. how often I pin}. It’s called Boardbooster and is the first time I’ve really invested in my blog — outside of buying my domain and web hosting.

Why Boardbooster?

Boardbooster is an effective tool for scheduling Pins, but it’s also very affordable.

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The price of one fancy coffee a month, actually.

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For $5/month, Boardbooster provides 500 pins a month. This allows me to be active in the “Pinterest World” on a daily basis, about 16 pins per day. However, I don’t have to actually spend time pinning content every day. Maybe I’m cheap, but prior to signing up for Boardbooster, I had tried to just pin 5-10 times per day. That gets complicated because it’s better to Pin in the evenings even though I typically would have time to Pin in the mornings. Plus, some days are just too busy and it’s easy to be inconsistent.

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I know that I love to blog, but I also know I can’t do everything. It was time to invest money somewhere — and Pinterest growth is what made the most sense. Nearly 50% of my Blog Traffic comes from Pinterest, and it drives many of my Etsy Shop sales. There are tons of things I could spend money on {CoScheduler, e-courses, etc.}, but investing in Pinterest is the best strategy for my blog, right now.

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Does Boardbooster Work?

Yes. Well, it has for me… let me explain.

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I’ve been using Boardbooster for 4 months and, in that time, my Followers have increased by 35%. In the 4 months prior to joining Boardbooster, my Followers had only increased by 16%.

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On a monthly basis, I was seeing an average of 4% growth, and now I average about 9% growth in Pinterest Followers each month.

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Assuming similar growth continues, I will have doubled my Pinterest following by September, by investing only $35 over the course of 7 months. Plus, I’ve saved myself a ton of time by scheduling Pins instead of pinning “real-time.”

How Do I Use Boardbooster?

There are 3 types of pinning tools within Boardbooster: Campaigns, Scheduler, and Looping.

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Campaigns

A Campaign pins from selected boards to other selected boards. For example, I have a campaign setup to schedule 5 pins per day from my Board “Craftivity Designs | Best of the Blog” to 5 different Group Boards.

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It’s a “Random Campaign” which means it chooses pins from “Craftivity Designs | Best of the Blog” randomly. This is a great feature because it pulls both old and new blog content for repinning.

Scheduler

The Scheduler allows you to — can you guess? — schedule pins. I use the Scheduler more often than pinning “real-time.” Why? Because I may come across a great Pin from a blogger-friend at 8 AM… which is not a great time to Pin. I could share it at 8 AM; but it would be more likely to receive Repins if I schedule it for later.

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In Scheduler, Boardbooster creates a hidden board that you pin to instead. So, for the above example, I have a hidden board called “-DIYHomeDecorIdeas.”

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It’s here, and other hidden Scheduler boards, that I typically pin. Then Boardbooster pins those over a period of days, at the best times for pinning, based on the parameters that I’ve set within the Scheduler.

Looping

Looping is an interesting feature which works to revive old pins, specifically those with low repins. It repins the pin, on the same board in which it currently exists, and deletes one of those pins {so there aren’t dupiclates} after a set period of time. It chooses which pin to delete based on the number of repins.

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In other words, if you wrote a post several years ago — even if it was a great post — your followers may have never seen it. The Looping function moves it up to the top of the board, for Followers to see in their feed.


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Should you invest in Boardbooster? If Pinterest is a primary traffic source for your site and you are looking for a small investment, I think Boardbooster is a great option. At a minimum, it’s definitely worth giving the free trial a spin and testing it out.

Sabrina

Tuesday 13th of September 2016

Thank you Lora, these are amazing tips! I love how explained each step and showed how to set it up! I have been using Boardbooster but I feel like there is still so much more to learn. Seeing how you used it helps me a lot!

craftivitydesigns@gmail.com

Tuesday 13th of September 2016

That's great, Sabrina :) Glad it was helpful!

Alina

Saturday 23rd of July 2016

I was looking the other day on how to use boardbooster. I am using at moment tailwind which i love for pinning from other people's boards to mine. For my own pins boardbooster allows me to be more specific and i love the deduplication feature.

craftivitydesigns@gmail.com

Saturday 23rd of July 2016

That is good to know, Alina! I tried Tailwind for a short bit, but am not very familiar with it.

Amanda

Tuesday 12th of July 2016

I have heard so much about this! I need to give it a try!

Xx, Amanda || www.fortheloveofglitter.com

craftivitydesigns@gmail.com

Wednesday 13th of July 2016

It's a great tool!

Rosemary

Tuesday 12th of July 2016

Thank you for being so clear about Boardbooster. Had heard about it but was never clear about how it works. Sounds like it is a worthy investment. This is worth additional consideration. Thank you :)

craftivitydesigns@gmail.com

Tuesday 12th of July 2016

You are welcome! I'm glad it was helpful!

Ashley S

Monday 11th of July 2016

This is such a great post! I have been on the edge about trying it and definitely want to give it a try now! Your knowledge about it is amazing!

craftivitydesigns@gmail.com

Tuesday 12th of July 2016

Great! Glad it was helpful!