Manly Pinterest Tips Podcast

Don’t let the benign image fool you – Avocados are big business. Today’s guest, Avocado Shirt Co. cofounder Rob Russo, represents the tip of the spear when it comes to avocado and guacamole-branded merchandise. A legion of ‘guac’ fans has discovered the upstart shirt company in a big way. And lots of those discoveries were made on social media, including Pinterest. Indeed, Rob’s company has … [Read more...]

If you’re not already on Instagram, this week’s Manly Pinterest Tips Show guest, Jenn Herman, sure will make you think about changing that. Jenn, a much sought-after blogger and social media savant, has taken a deep-dive into the Instagram platform so we don’t have to. And what she found should go a long way toward getting you on Instagram, too. Further, because both Instagram and Pinterest are … [Read more...]

In case you haven’t noticed, Pinterest is changing fast, having added features like promoted pins and the smart feed over the past few months. So, who better than VP of marketing at Ahalogy, Raman Sehgal, to give us the lowdown on all these changes and get us up to speed? Ahalogy is a brand-marketing tool that helps companies curate popular content on the Pinterest platform. Joining Ahalogy … [Read more...]

Nearly 50 years ago, Paul McCartney melted hearts and moistened eyes when he sang ‘The Long and Winding Road.’ The Beatles should have dedicated that tune to this week’s Manly Pinterest Show guest, Wade Harman. Let’s just say that Harman, who blogs at wadeharman.com, has a very interesting work history. Before he became a blogging/social media marketer/psychology consultant superstar, Wade was … [Read more...]

Pinterest has had one a heck of a year. With the arrival of the new smart feed, testing a new desktop layout look, and the promise of new and innovative uses for its promoted pins service, the social media platform that isn’t really a social media platform looks poised to explode. Luckily, Vincent Ng comes to the Manly Pinterest Show ready to dispel the rumors, disseminate the facts, and give … [Read more...]

It’s incredible to have one social media superstar on a show. But what if there are two social media stars on the same show? Would it break the Internet? Well, wonder no longer. The Manly Pinterest Tips Show was proud to welcome two of the biggest names in social media, Guy Kawasaki and Peg Fitzpatrick, just as the duo’s book, Art of Social Media, hits bookshelves and the Web. The duo work … [Read more...]

Although Holly Homer admits an aversion to new social media platforms, the mom of three has become an expert on using two of the web’s most popular platforms, Pinterest and Facebook. Citing a need to get her company’s Facebook page through a period of stagnation, Holly eventually faced down the Pinterest juggernaut to increase her reach while boosting her audience on both platforms. By boost I … [Read more...]

Pinterest and medicine have very little in common, right? Wrong. For one, like the best healers understand the needs of their patients, the best Pinterest marketers are those who understand and relate to the needs of their customers and clients. For another thing, Cynthia Sanchez, once a registered radiation oncology nurse, has become one of the ‘unofficial’ faces of Pinterest. In this … [Read more...]

While most stand on the outside looking in, Susan Wenner Jackson, VP of content partnerships for the content marketing startup Ahalogy, has the opposite view, at least where it comes to Pinterest. That’s because Ahalogy recently became one of the few companies lucky enough to be given access to the official Pinterest publishing API – which essentially makes pinning with Ahalogy the same as … [Read more...]

The guest for this edition of the Manly Pinterest Tips Show, Ileane Smith, came to blogging using a fairly circuitous route. In 2009, Ileane, hoping to subscribe to her daughter’s fashion blog, somehow wound up starting her own. Working at a technical book publisher by day, she knew how to use the Internet for basic searches and the like, but didn’t really have a good idea how to use it to blog. … [Read more...]