The Rise (and Love) of Pinterest

Move over Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms - Pinterest is here and I think it’s staying; it’s the latest form of social media and it’s generating a lot of buzz!  Lately, Pinterest has been popping up everywhere – blogs and magazines; and now with the integration with Twitter and Facebook it’s even on my news feeds!

For those not familiar with Pinterest it’s an online bulletin board allowing you to collect images of all your favourite things and post them to your boards – I like to refer to my boards for inspiration. When you pin something new your followers will see it; they can like, comment or re-pin to their personal boards.  Depending on the content your pins have the ability to go viral just like a Facebook status or a Tweet.

Does anyone else find themselves pinning all of the time? I pin over coffee, I pin while watching TV, I pin while on the phone and occasionally I pin on my lunch hour – for someone that often wants more hours in the day I seem to be dedicating a lot of my precious little time to this site.  I hope I am not alone…someone please tell me I am not alone!

I read on Mashable.com that Pinterest is actually driving more traffic to company websites and blogs than YouTube, Google and LinkedIn combined - that’s insane.  Maybe Pinterest isn’t for all businesses; after all, not everyone sells fancy white dresses and home renovation products ;) but it is something to consider.  Where else do you have this kind of access to this many consumers – consumers who are pinning and researching; consumers who are telling you exactly what they want?  Attention small businesses – get on the bandwagon you are currently missing out on sales!

When I first joined Pinterest; I started with inspiration boards for the wedding; since then I have graduated to the “Hubby, can we do this…???” board(s) – stay tuned to see if any of my pins become a reality during our renovation phase ;)

Here’s a peek at 2 boards I have been building up.

For the Home

My Style

All of these things will eventually be in a house I live in – hopefully sooner rather than later! ;) 

As a budding blogger, DIY’er and somewhat of a domesticated house-wife  Pinterest is a great OK SAVIOUR for inspiration; if it happens to also kill some of my precious little time I am OK with that too.