Pinterest Marketing: 6 Valuable Pin Tips for Winning Discovery Shopping

Are you familiar with Discovery Shopping? How about Pinterest marketing? Now there is a way to combine the two to improve your word of mouth marketing. Let’s step back a minute to be sure we are all on the same page.

You just can’t say it. You have to get people to say it to each.

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Discovery shopping is a form of online shopping that utilizes the browsing aspects of the shopping experience.

The goal is to recreate the experience of live shopping as a leisure activity, where the items are selected by viewing a variety of similar or related products. Like window shopping.

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To enhance Pinterest marketing and Discovery shopping, the Pinterest site recently introduced a new kind of pin called rich pins, that includes details like pricing, availability and where to buy. Rich pins are for recipes, movies, and products.

That’s why including automatically updated details like prices, availability, movie reviews and ingredients are an important move for Pinterest marketing and Discovery Shopping.

Pinterest marketing … how product pins help

Get higher click-through rates than regular pins

Make your brand more visible because your logo’s on the pin

Are more likely to appear in a category feed, like Men’s Fashion or Gifts

Include automatically updated details, like price changes

Have a direct link to your product page

Consider these tips when using rich pins with Pinterest marketing and Discovery Shopping:

Encourage Your Customers to Share Your Images

Encouraging people to pin your content so as to share with friends. Friends’ opinions mean a lot to people.

Pinterest marketing ideas … trending section

Add a page on your website to show trends from the pins. Curate pins into an inspired shopping experience created by other shoppers.

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Pinterest marketing tips … highlight practical discoveries

Consumers will always surprise you with practical discoveries about your products. Highlight these discoveries. Maybe even write a blog about the best ones.

 Gather and analyze insights

These pins will tell a story. Put some time into studying what consumers are telling you about your products. You will be amazed at what you can learn.

Engage

Don’t forget Pinterest is a customer engagement site. Don’t be timid. Ask your customers questions and what they think.

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 Run a Contest

Pinterest is slowly adding to its contest rules and regulations, which can be found on its Brand Guidelines page. That said, you can run contests where you ask participants to pin their favorite images from your website.

What do you think about the new rich pins?

Have you integrated them into your business website yet? Please offer your thoughts to this community in the comments section below.

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When things are not what you want them to be, what’s most important is your next step.

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Mike Schoultz is the founder of Digital Spark Marketing, a digital marketing and customer service agency. With 40 years of business experience, he blogs on topics that relate to improving the performance of your business. Find them on G+, Twitter, and LinkedIn.  

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