How To Successfully Market to Latinos on Pinterest

If you are interested in discovering how to market to Latinos on Pinterest, read on. I am sharing some of my tips on successfully doing so.

How to Market to Latinos on Pinterest. Step 2: Understanding User's Intent. A guide to successfully market to Latinos on Pinterest. Don't miss out!

How to Market to Latinos on Pinterest. Step 2: Understanding User’s Intent.

One thing is to Pin in Spanish. Another one is to achieve your marketing goals for the Hispanic market. To successfully market to Latinos on Pinterest, this is what you need to understand. First and foremost, the platform’s nature, your audience and their needs, and your business/marketing goal. Finally, you need to be intentional, measure your efforts, learn from them, and adjust your Pinterest strategy accordingly. Let’s go over each of these items one by one.

Why Pinterest: Understanding the platform’s nature

Pinterest has created a platform that presents you with an outstanding opportunity: engage consumers who are actively looking to learn more, buy, try or use your product or service.

I am not saying Pinterest is for you. But I am definitely stating that you have to consider it, particularly if you are in ecommerce. Although, as I have already made clear on “Reverse Showrooming to the Power of Pinterest,” brick and mortar stores are not exempt from leveraging Pinterest’s tremendous traffic and sales driving power.

“64% of Active Pinners—and 85% of Daily Pinners—indicate they look at items they’ve pinned while they’re at a brick and mortar store, which is up significantly from 2014 (30%).“ – Ahalogy 2015 Pinterest Study

Since its launch, Pinterest has been a visual search engine and the first social commerce platform. On today’s online search and image-oriented world, disregarding a platform that enables you to visually engage with your audience and sell your products right on the spot, is a big mistake.

“Pinterest is more “search” than “social”. The Pinner experience is more geared towards personal content discovery than outward social expression.” – Ahalogy

Since January 2012, you have heard me rant and rave about Pinterest. I believe that Pinterest is NOT a social platform. It never was. I will recap now the reasons why I am such a believer in the Pinterest phenomena. At the same time, this will also help depict the platform’s true nature.

How To Successfully Market to Latinos on Pinterest

How To Successfully Market to Latinos on Pinterest

1User’s Intent

Why is user’s intent so important? You will spend less time converting a prospect into a client when their intent is to purchase what you offer. Therefore, people with an intent to buy have a higher likelihood of contributing to your bottom line sooner.

It’s easy to discern intent on potential customers who walk into your store. Maybe he wants to browse, maybe she wants to buy. You can observe behavior and body language to tell these intentions apart.

Understanding the platform’s nature means understanding what people do on Pinterest and why. We are aware that people don’t go to Facebook to shop. Facebook users want to interact with their friends making this platform a great place to generate awareness and/or feedback and reviews. Meanwhile, people go to Pinterest to search for what interests them. Their intent to is take action. Be this action to do or to buy now, to research to purchase later, or to save it for a rainy day.

2Platform “freebies”

Unlike other platforms where brands have to pay for play, one of the freebies Pinterest provides brands with, are Product Pins (Buyable Pins are also free.)  Not only because they pull the information directly from your website markup for its creation, but because when the product price drops by 15% or more, Pinterest will notify the interested pinners via email of the drop in price. For free. Allowing you to reach people you didn’t even know were interested in your products. Not bad, huh?

Pinterest is more "search" than "social." I would say, Pinterest is search and NOT social.

Pinterest is more “search” than “social.” I would say, Pinterest is search and NOT social.

3Platform paid tools

Pinterest promoted Pins have gotten even more targeted. In addition to targeting Promoted Pins based on Pinners’ interests, search keywords, device, and location, among other variables, brands can also target their Promoted Pins using their own business data. Brands can merge what they know about their customers with what Pinterest knows about their audience. So the next time the customer who bought the brand’s fashionable red lipstick browses Pinterest, brands can show them another lipstick or gloss from their latest product line.

4Pinterest user’s actions by the numbers

Pinners’ actions run the gamut. They go from trying a new recipe or craft of any kind to purchasing a product at a retail store. From planning an event to planning their next vacation. And because of this, they tend not to follow celebrities but brands!

Yes, you heard me right, 83% of active pinners would rather follow their favorite brand than their favorite celebrity. Furthermore, 70% of them would rather get tips and ideas directly from their favorite brand of hair care products than from their favorite celeb hair stylist. And the list goes on.

“87% of Pinners have bought a product after seeing it on the platform.” – Ahalogy

But don’t go a’pinning a’crazy yet. To achieve its goals, brands must be smart about what and how they Pin. And, of course, understand its audience.

Latinos on Pinterest: The Market Opportunity

Just like IRL, Hispanics are everywhere. Pinterest is no exception. According to Ahalogy’s research: “Hispanic [audience] is also growing—now at 9%, up about 6 percentage points from 2014. More than half of all Hispanic Pinners have joined Pinterest in the past year, and 11% of Active Pinners and 14% of Daily Pinners are Hispanic.“

Hispanics look at Pinterest for guidance on trends, styles, and new things to try, especially if related to Hair & Beauty, Women’s Fashion, Gifts and Photography. Read How to Successfully Market to Latinos on Pinterest.

Hispanics look at Pinterest for guidance on trends, styles, and new things to try, especially if related to Hair & Beauty, Women’s Fashion, Gifts and Photography.

And just like IRL, there is always an undercount. Why? Because Hispanics – and millennials in particular, who may be calling themselves monikers such as, “China Latinas” or “Blaxicans” – may not identify so clearly as Latinos. By the same token, the number Pinners with large families (5 or more people) has grown on Pinterest. This correlates with the typically larger Hispanic household. Also, active pinners are early adopters, trend-setters and significantly more likely than regular consumers to own and use mobile devices. All of these statistics correlate with the profile of Latinos online.

So let’s say that 11% of active pinners are Hispanic. By 2017, the visual sharing platform is projected to reach 58.5 million monthly active users in the United States. If we do the math, 6.5 million monthly users is a pretty attractive piece of the Pinterest pie, as you would be reaching around 12% of the total U.S. Hispanic population.

Did you know that Pinterest has more self-identified Hispanics than African Americans? And that 20% of active pinners live alone, a slightly higher percentage than the previous year? More millennials anyone? 😉

Furthermore, Millennials and Gen-Z being the most racially diverse generations as of yet, and with 79% of millennials saying that “Pinterest is a guide to life and a place to teach me how to do things,” the Pinterest market opportunity just became even larger.

Hispanics on Pinterest Behavior Analysis

  • According to Ahalogy’s study, Hispanics who are extremely active on Pinterest are also extremely active on Facebook and spend an average of 36 minutes per visit on each platform. They also log into Instagram but spend less time on it.
  • Hispanics look at Pinterest for guidance on trends, styles, and new things to try, especially if related to Hair & Beauty, Women’s Fashion, Gifts and Photography.
  • Did you think could reach these Hispanic pinners via magazines and newspapers? Think again. Only 39% of them read magazines, 32% read newspapers versus 48% and 41% for non-Hispanic pinners, respectively. They do check email and search online more frequently than their non-Hispanic counterpart.
  • About half of Hispanics surveyed, indicated that their Pinterest usage has increased in the past year and more than 50% of Hispanics shared that they had purchased something because they saw it on Pinterest. As a matter of fact, active Hispanic pinners are more likely than Active Female pinners to pin content from other sites and make purchases related to pins.
  • 56% of Hispanic pinners shop online while only 43% of non-Hispanic pinners do so. Therefore, if you thought non-Hispanic pinners were a prime candidate for your Buyable Pins, how about increasing your conversion rates and revenues by targeting Hispanics on Pinterest?
  • Only 21% of Hispanic Active Pinners don’t like seeing Promoted Pins, down from 25% in 2014. This is a trend that will more than likely continue.
  • After seeing Promoted Pins, Hispanic Pinners are more likely than non-Hispanic pinners to make purchases in the following categories: Make-up and skin care products, Hair care products, Baby/children’s care products/toys, Nail products/nail art, Household cleaning and maintenance products, and Recipes.

From personal observation and my own professional experience, Promoted Pins fare better amongst the Hispanic community on Pinterest than Buyable Pins. This could be probably due to the fact that Promoted Pins provide with a less pushy or sales-y experience than Buyable Pins.

 

How to Market to Latinos on Pinterest. Are you taking advantage of this opportunity. to grow your brand?

How to Market to Latinos on Pinterest: the opportunity.

How to Successfully Market To Latinos on Pinterest

1First, develop a Pinterest strategy that is in alignment with your business and marketing strategy and define your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) you will use to measure success. Every company has to have their own (and not copycat somebody else’s) Pinterest strategy before starting to execute it.

2Leverage intent. Hispanics are on Facebook but so is everybody else. The importance of marketing on Pinterest is to leverage intent. While on Facebook, people’s intent is to socialize, on Pinterest, the intent is to take action. This action could be to research, to do or to buy. Notice the similarities with search?

3Leverage platform’s behavior. If you Pin without understanding the platform or your audience needs, and believe that it’s just about uploading images, your Pinterest strategy will fail. Think about Pinterest more as a search engine because it actually IS a visual search platform, and not a social network.

“About half of the Active Pinners who have noticed Promoted Pins on Pinterest have clicked on them to get more information. More than 40% have made a purchase, suggesting Promoted Pins inspire future action.” – Ahalogy

4Make it aspirational. Remember the aspirational aspect of Pinterest when creating images. The Litmus test: does it make YOU want it so badly your knees are shaking just by looking at the photo?

5Apply SEO and content marketing principles to your Pins. A pin has staying power, just like evergreen content, because it is evergreen content. On Twitter, if you didn’t see right away it is lost forever in a matter of hours. The same applies to Facebook with a longer timespan. Snapchat shortens these times to the max and you only have a few seconds to see the content. Pins are indexed by Pinterest and by Search Engines alike. I can assure you, you will continue to receive traffic from Pinterest years after it has been added to your boards. Therefore, optimize your boards and your Pins for search. And please, no #hashtags unless you want to be seen as a spammer.

6Collaborate and Repin. It’s not just about your brand. Allow others to collaborate on Group boards. Humanize your brand. Show that your brand has other interests. Reap the rewards.

What aspects of the Latino culture need to be taken into account?

What aspects of the Latino culture need to be taken into account?

What aspects of the Latino culture need to be taken into account?

A large percentage of U.S.-born Latinos, just by the mere fact that they were born in the USA, are English-dominant. Another large percentage of the U.S. Hispanic population is bilingual and bicultural through the process of acculturation and retro-acculturation. Therefore, it’s not about the language (especially with such a highly visual platform) but about the culture.

Proof of this, is the success I had on Pinterest (measured by the targeted traffic drawn to the site) with quotes in English on the image and a Spanish description of the quote and vice-versa. Analyzing the people who pinned these images one quickly notices that the majority are U.S. Hispanics.

Definition of culture: a mental roadmap that guides people’s behaviors and responses.

It is also important to understand all the various cultural aspects that make up the Hispanic market – it’s not monolithic, for example Cuban-Americans have different interests and values than do Mexican-Americans. You cannot go after the Hispanic market with pictures of Latino cuisine and believe that it will appeal to all Latinos. Think about it, you don’t go after the general market with pictures of apple pie and hamburgers. That’s stereotyping.

Here is an example of cultural differences and how to make them play to your favor. I have noticed a strong correlation between culture research and Pin success in attracting the desired segment of the Latino market when Pinning for one of my clients, a publisher on the wedding industry. Less acculturated Hispanics will demonstrate more interest on banquet halls and their decor as well as on evening weddings. Meanwhile, more acculturated Hispanics find daytime weddings more appealing. Culture research findings and their pinning behavior match.

Use insights to guide your content and your Pinterest strategy just like you do with your Search Engine Optimization (SEO.)

How to Market to Latinos on Pinterest: Measuring success

First define what you consider to be your Pinterest success metrics. Pick from metrics such as, revenue increase, traffic to your website, traffic to retail stores and engagement.

The next step is to know where to obtain these numbers. Pinterest analytics is a great source of information on your audience and engagement metrics. They will also help you identify those pins that have the highest conversion rates.

Measuring strategy success: Pinterest Analytics. How to successfully market to Latinos on Pinterest.

Measuring strategy success: Pinterest Analytics.

Google Analytics is my next source of information. It allows me to look into my pinners demographics by analyzing language, geo, interests and behavior of these Pinners on my client sites.

A Few Words of Thanks

I’d like to profusely thank both Ahalogy and ViralTag for being so supportive of Target Latino and me.

Thank you Ahalogy for sharing your study with us, I hope I did honor your effort and your tremendous interest in helping brands market to Latinos on Pinterest.

Thank you to the ViralTag team because they asked me to podcast my knowledge of how to successfully market to Latinos on Pinterest. And here is the link to the podcast, if you’d like to listen to it. Thank you, Jilly Badanes.

Do not wait to market to Latinos on Pinterest!

Last but not least, one additional tip on interpreting Pinterest results: Always consider the whole story and not just one Pin who did or did not go viral.

And finally, Pinterest actually leads all other information sources (search, social media, other websites, magazines, or word of mouth) in the following categories: Design, DIY & Crafts, Food & Drink, Gardening, Gifts, Hair & Beauty, Home Décor, Photography, Tattoos, Weddings, and Women’s Fashion. Don’t miss out!! 🙂

I sincerely hope this helps your brand successfully market to Latinos on Pinterest. Feel free to leave me a comment with your thoughts and/or questions and you can rest assured I will personally reply.

 

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -Bertrand Russel Quote on following your own path.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -Bertrand Russel Quote on following your own path.

Uncovered Facts About Online Hispanic Women and their Media Usage

Are you considering going after the online Hispanic women market? Here’s all your questions on their online media usage answered but to find out you must read every word of this comprehensive report.

Online Hispanic women are social networking butterflies

Online Hispanic women are social networking butterflies

One of the main factors that decisively affects business profitability and ROI is market share. The connection between market share and profitability has been recognized by scholars, business executives and consultants.

Hispanic women in the U.S will reach 51 million by 2050 and will make up 25% of the total U.S female population by 2050, according to Hispan Telligence.

If we add the fact that U.S. Hispanics are ahead of the curve when it comes to digital, they lead in adoption of new devices, are power users of mobile and over-index in video consumption, the conclusion is clear. It’s time to pay attention to the online Hispanic women market.

Hispanic women RULE in digital

Many brands believe that the only places to reach online Hispanic women are lifestyle magazines, celebrity gossip and mommy sites. While these sites are very effective in reaching them, Hispanic women trace their own path and can be found in other online properties in droves and we will cover these shortly. You just have to know where to look.

Check Out These Uncovered Facts About Online Hispanic Women and their Media Usage

Uncovered Facts About Online Hispanic Women and their Media Usage

Online Hispanic women are social networking butterflies

Hispanic women of all ages engage in a multitude of online activities, such as blogging, photo-sharing, gaming, video viewing and instant messaging. Mobile social networking is a habitual practice in the lives of today’s women.

Social retail, clearly demonstrated by the percentage of women that participate on Pinterest and because it combines two activities that are already firmly embedded in the daily activity of online women, is the next logical step in this evolution.

Women transact online more than men

In the U.S., currently the largest e-commerce market in the world, women are the key drivers of online buying. More women than men conduct business online and, collectively, they spend more. Women account for 85% of consumer purchases (She-conomy) and 58% of U.S. ecommerce spend but in spite of this, 91% of women say advertisers don’t understand them.

Differences between women and men on Social Networks

Even when their online behavior is similar, motivations can differ widely between the two genders. The adoption of Twitter is a great example – both genders adopted this technology at similar rates, but for different purposes. Men are far more likely to post their own Tweets than women. Meanwhile, a larger percentage of female Twitter users say they use the site to find deals and promotions. Women are also more likely to use the service as a conversation medium, to ask for help from other users and to follow celebrities. (comScore)

Online Hispanic Women Social Media and Other Web Media Use

Girls dominate visual platforms - Pew Internet 2015

Girls dominate visual platforms – Pew Internet 2015

Social Media Networks with the largest incidence of Hispanic demographics are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.

Facebook

73% of adult Latino internet users (18+ years old) say they have a Facebook account with a slightly higher Hispanic women presence in the social network. (Pew Research Center 2014)

Twitter

25% of Hispanics are on Twitter versus a 21% of non-Hispanic whites. The site’s reach is marginally higher among men than among women. Still, this is a great network to reach a college-educated, affluent, and urbanite demographic.

Instagram, Flickr, Other Photo Sharing Sites

Hispanic women surpass men in every age group in both reach and time spent on photo sites. They were also much faster to adopt photo sharing when it first reached the market.

SnapChat tends to be used by wealthier teenagers - Pew Internet 9-4-15

SnapChat tends to be used by wealthier teenagers – Pew Internet 9-4-15

Instagram has the largest percentage of Hispanics out of all other social networks. 34% of Instagram users are Hispanics, a much higher percentage than their white counterpart (21%). This demographic skews much younger, especially in the 18 to 29 years old segment. Besides young adults, women are particularly likely to be on Instagram, along with those who live in urban or suburban environments.

Pinterest

Pinterest does not fall behind on the Hispanic forefront. Definitely the Queendom of women, with 21% of Hispanic Pinterest users, looking for inspiration, this is “the” place to be. The first social commerce network (I really hate calling it a social network as Pinterest has always been so much more than that and by the way, don’t miss out on these outstanding Pinterest for Business statistics when you are done reading this article. If you are not active on it, you will want to be.)

To sum up: Women dominate Pinterest with 42% of online women using the platform, compared with 13% of online men.

SnapChat

Did you know that 70% of SnapChat users are women? And they are a very young demographic. Now, let’s do the math. There’s a much higher incidence of Hispanics on Gen Y and Gen Z than on any other generation. If you have not considered a SnapChat campaign for your Latina teens, you may be missing the mark.

Read What Everybody Ought To Know about the Latino market to discover even more

LinkedIn

LinkedIn seems to rank low on Hispanic demographics with just an 18 percent of adult Hispanics but if you are looking for online Hispanic women who are college-graduates and between the ages 30-64, then this is your site.

Remember that users are becoming more and more multiplatform and if you find them on Pinterest, it is highly likely you will also find them on Twitter and Facebook.

Source: September 2014, the Pew Research Center

Online Video Sites

59% of all Hispanics are on YouTube and 72% of Hispanic Americans using YouTube’s app. By the same token, YouTube has the higher share of viewed minutes for online women.

Universal has a Universal Latino YouTube channel dedicated channel to online Hispanics. You can read more about their success in driving this audience on this article.

Online Streaming

Latinos stream way more online TV than their white counterparts, according to Nielsen: “Latinos on average watch 6 hours and 22 minutes of online video per month, whereas white viewers clock 3 hours and 44 minutes on average.”

There are several players in this field.

Hulu Latino, has been developing its own original content. Hulu Original Latino Series ‘East Los High’ Receives Three Daytime Emmy Nominations. They are partners with Univision, Galavision and Telefutura. In 2012, Hulu Latino added shows from new partners Azteca America, Butaca, Caracol Televisión, Comarex, Estrella TV, Imagina US, Laguna Productions, Maya Entertainment, RCTV, Todobebe Inc and Venevision.

MiTu Latino is a multi-channel streaming network that receives over 100 million views per month and in just two years it amassed an audience of more than 36 million subscribers.

mun2, re-branded as NBC Universo on February 1, 2015, was the fastest growing Hispanic cable network with women 18-49 in total day Monday -Sunday 6a.m.- 2a.m., +8% year-over-year.  The network continued its double-digit growth with women. Source: Nielsen Media Research.

Radio

We cannot skip online radio, so we’ll take a look at the Pandora demographics. These are mostly Hispanics Males/Females younger than 24yrs old no college, some grad school, income range $0 – 55k, no kids. This is a very young demographic.

Hispanic Women and Online Search

Language used by Hispanic women to surf the web

Language used by Latinas to surf the web

“Latinas search in English for information in Spanish. Beyond language, a majority (62 percent) of Latinas wish for more lifestyle information about Latinas online, and over sixty percent want more lifestyle information written in Spanish. When Latinas search for Latino subject matter online, recipes top the list, followed by news, music, family health, beauty and celebrations.” Source: Comscore

Google is the most popular search engine among both genders but their behavior on Bing displays an interesting behavioral twist. In general, men perform a higher number of search queries than women (71.6 searches per searcher for men vs. 64.0 for women). When it comes down to Bing, Hispanic women perform a much higher number of searches than males that use this search engine do.

Google has seen the number of Google search queries that include common Spanish-language question words nearly double over the past 3 years. If you still think of “Hispanic Marketing” as “Spanish Marketing,” it’s time to re-evaluate your knowledge of this market. Looking for Spanish SEO or Spanish Inbound marketing will not help you capture a solid market share of the Hispanic market in the U.S., unless you only want to target this particular Hispanic market segment. But remember that even people who have recently immigrated to the U.S. will eventually be searching in English, Spanish and Spanglish.

Combine cultural relevance with language to get to the winning formula. – Havi Goffan

Why you need a Hispanic Inbound Marketing Agency

Hispanic Women market Opportunities & Challenges

I wouldn’t end this article without providing some tips and data regarding the Hispanic women market. Here are a few of the market’s opportunities and challenges.

Opportunities

  • Once a brand is identified as a trustworthy one, Hispanic women will share the news with family, friends, co-workers and this might lead these reference groups to continue the buzz about the brand around their own set of groups.
  • Customer relationship management is another important aspect to consider when marketing to Hispanics. Both from a cultural and language perspectives, this audience deserves careful consideration. The last thing a business should do is generate interest in their products or services to lose them once they form part of the customer-base.
  • Coupons have an influence on the Latino consumer’s decision.
  • Latina Bloggers have a strong influence in the purchasing decisions of many Hispanic moms.
  • 33% of Hispanic moms claim to have learned more about products and brands from online ads than from traditional media. Don’t forget internet ads!
  • Hispanic women are also more open to companies’ content: 57% said they read emails from brands while only 19% of U.S. moms do so.

Challenges

  • Brand loyalty towards one brand vs. another is very strong in some industries – e.g., the baby care industry. It may be based on brands used by previous generations or it built out of a product trial.
  • Hispanic women email lists need to be built in-house. Otherwise, be prepared to pay heftily for a solid list.
  • Trust generation is one of the most important achievements when targeting the Hispanic women market.

This audience IS the future. Play it smart and play it well. If you were doing business in China, you wouldn’t leave your marketing in the hands of people who knew nothing about the language and the culture, right? And there’s even more variations of Spanish than versions of Chinese. Don’t blame the market for not responding to your campaigns. The numbers are there and they are yours for the taking.

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Trending Now! Adoptable Trends with Dieste

Find out more about Dieste and “Adoptable Trends,” their latest campaign for Dallas Pets Alive! Are you in?

DPA Adoptable Trends Campaign info graphic by Dieste

DPA Adoptable Trends Campaign info graphic by Dieste

To provide marketing solutions for multicultural markets is a challenge for most, especially when targeting people’s good will, but not for Dieste. Last year this award-winning multicultural marketing agency, together with Dallas Pets Alive! (DPA!) were able to help save dog’s lives through their campaign “muttbombing!” The response was so massive that got media coverage in every continent, except Antarctica.

Using the power of Instagram, selfies and Photoshop, they were able to help shelter dogs find loving homes. The campaign has been a success, with a $0 investment they helped increase the number of adoptions by 55% giving some well-deserving dogs a second chance in life.

This year Dieste has launched “Adoptable trends” – turning shelter dogs into trending topics – their brand-new campaign for Dallas Pets Alive that leverages social media and search to give new and unique names to rescued dogs and, therefore, improve their chances of being adopted. Of course, as we always admired their work and we have a huge soft spot for shelter pups, we decided to contact Dieste to find out more about their “Adoptable Trends” campaign.

The Adoptable Trends Campaign Unveiled

Q. We have been hearing a lot about your new campaign “Adoptable trends”. Could you share more about how the concept was created?

A. Shelter dogs face a harsh reality. They lack attention and online exposure for them to find a permanent home. This gave us the idea of naming the adoptable dogs after the hottest trending topics. Then, “Lemmon” became “Interrupting Kanye,” “Sadie” became the famous social media debate “What color is this dress” and by sharing about them on social media, they were able to trend and get their much needed exposure.

Q. The idea of redirecting the attention trends get towards the dogs is brilliant. But you did more than just help these dogs, didn’t you?

A. Well, yes, we wanted to give trending topics a social purpose and make shelter pups “trendy.”

Q. Tell us a bit more about your client’s cause.

A. There are 6-8 million dogs and cats entering U.S. shelters every year and only about half are adopted. The other half is not as lucky. On top of that some shelters euthanize animals after a few weeks. Our clients’ mission is to promote and provide the resources, education and programs needed to eliminate the killing of companion animals.

Q. And now that they are trending what have the results been so far?

A. These are partial results as the campaign is still “live.” The average Twitter engagement performance for the “Adoptable Trends” campaign has almost doubled (from 2% before the campaign to 3.7% during the campaign, as of now.) The average engagement on campaign related posts is of 6.2%. From February 14th to March 23rd, the #AdoptableTrends has reached 751,725 Impressions. Traffic to the site has almost doubled and we had four times more adoptions than with last year’s campaign.

Q. Truly impressive. Now, let’s talk about Dieste. What do you consider to be your core strengths?

A. Our core strength is as simple as a twitter post: Dieste develops creative solutions and services to grow our clients’ businesses.

Q. What differentiates you from other Hispanic Marketing agencies in the market?

A. Two things mark the difference. Our very talented people and the fresh approach we take to Multicultural Marketing. We call it Multicultural Marketing Re-imagined. We have a data-driven process that uses quantitative storytelling and genuine cultural insights to deliver results. No anecdotes. No stereotypes. Data.

Thank you, Dieste, for these extraordinary, powerful, and engaging campaigns. We look forward to seeing more of your fantastic work!!!

We thought these adorable pups deserved even more exposure, so we are featuring them on our site as well.

Adoptable trends campaign by Dieste

Adoptable trends campaign by Dieste

If you’d like to know more about turning shelter dogs into trending topics, visit Adoptabletrends.com or search in social media for the #adoptabletrends hashtag.

6 essential Pinterest SEO tips to develop natural backlinks to your site

Read these 6 essential tips for Pinterest SEO to develop more backlinks to your site naturally.

In this article I will explore the importance of backlinks and give you practical tips on how Pinterest SEO can assist in building them that you can put to work right away. If you would like to begin using Pinterest for Business, you can download my free beginner’s guide to Pinterest right here.

So you just bought 10,000 links. And your page isn’t ranking?

So you just bought 10,000 links. And your page isn’t ranking?

The only way to avoid a spam penalty from Google is not by trying to hack your way onto relevancy through magic formulas or schemes. Natural link building has been proven to be the way to develop links since 2014 and earlier. Link earning is the way to go and it’s fundamental to your SEO efforts.

If your content is worth it, people will link to it. If your content is relevant and easy to share, your target market will share it. This has always been the case. Don’t worry if a piece of content fails to be shared. Learn from the experience and improve your aim next time.

Of course, content needs exposure for people to find it and share it. People are visually oriented and we all know the difference a good image with compelling copy can make.

You may continue paying for play on Facebook to have your content be seen or appeal to the newsy nature of Twitter, but for staying power and evergreen content there’s almost nothing that beats Pinterest.

Your images will remain there forever gaining exposure with every new Pin shared. And because of the very nature of the platform, Pinterest users shop more often, in greater quantities, and more frequently than in any other network. Making it a very sought after platform by brand marketers.

If you are already using Pinterest, your analytics report will show you which pieces of Pinterest content earned a referral click. And for every referral click, there’s a backlink.

Here’s 6 essential Pinterest SEO tips for increasing your search rankings

1Identify good and relevant blogs to comment on. Finding relevant blogs with interesting information to add your comments to may take you quite some time via search but by using Pinterest search you can uncover some real gems. Search for particular keywords or search by categories on pins, pinners or boards, it really doesn’t matter. Add a valuable insight as a comment to the selected blogs.

What are the benefits? First, it builds your credibility on the subject.

Second, when commenting on a blog you usually have a chance to add a link back to your site.

Third, it helps search engines build an association between your website topics and the topic selected. The higher the association the better you rank on search engines.

Fourth, your leaving great comments on other relevant blogs could lead to genuine opportunities as a guest blogger. Some blog owners, take me for example, like to see some engagement with my content and have the chance to evaluate their knowledge and ideology before allowing somebody to guest post on my blog. Don’t worry about back links with no follows and keep building association and relevancy on the topic of your interest on your field of interest or your industry.

2Spy on your competitor’s content, fans and links. On Pinterest it’s very simple to discover what content is being re-pinned from or promoted by your competitors. You can also discover who repins their content directly from their websites.

Those particular Pinterest users will be more likely to share your content as they have shown an inclination for it. Generating more likes, more shares which grows your authority and the likelihood that your content will pop up on Pinterest search results higher than the rest.

All you have to do is go to this Pinterest source url: http://pinterest.com/source/domain.com (remember, this is not their Pinterest URL. They may not even have a Pinterest account but you can see what people have pinned from their website or domain)

For example, when I look up http://pinterest.com/source/generalmills.com I can see what they are currently promoting and can also evaluate how well this content is faring on Pinterest by the number of repins and likes.

Spy on your competitor content fans and links - Pinterest SEO tips

For example, when I look up http://pinterest.com/source/generalmills.com I can see what they are currently promoting and can also evaluate how well this content is faring on Pinterest by the number of repins and likes.

Make it a point to evaluate the content that pinners have shared from their website directly because that’s the most enticing content for them to share on Pinterest.

3Get links from Pinterest shares. Pinterest backlinks. If you have a verified account, Pinterest will give you a follow link. Having a back link from Pinterest is a bonus to traffic generation. And a nice one!  When content is interesting to your Pinterest audience it will get repinned and the more repins it has, the more traffic and backlinks it will gain. Here’s some examples:

When content is interesting to your Pinterest audience it will get repinned and the more repins it has, the more traffic and backlinks it will gain | Pinterest SEO Tips

When content is interesting to your Pinterest audience it will get repinned and the more repins it has, the more traffic and backlinks it will gain

4Rank your pins and boards on search engines with keyword targeting. High-ranking Pinterest pages with relevant keywords increase the value of the back links and consequently gives you a Pinterest SEO boost.

Write good descriptions for your images with searchable keywords and try to avoid hashtags. Pinterest does not use them and you too many hashtags on your description will make you a Pinterest spammer. Use them to highlight certain words to make them more visible, but remember not go overboard.

5Social Seo. If you create good content that does well in social media, it is probably being linked in other places, and therefore will rank well. But it’s not as simple as just sharing on social media, or is it? Jennita Lopez, Director of Community at Moz explains it in full detail on her slideshare presentation.

6Local SEO. Search Engine Marketing on its article “Best and Worst Ways to Influence Local SEO Rankings” where it shared and analyzed Moz research results, showed that external location signals provide 16% influence on local seo efforts.

“External Location Signals: Participants said that factors such as the availability and consistency of NAP in third-party local business directories including Yelp, Zagat and Internet Yellow Pages (YP, DexMedia, hibu etc.) provided 16% influence in determining performance.”  Search Engine Land – Best and Worst Ways to Influence Local SEO Rankings

Therefore, it’s a good idea to develop Pinterest boards related to the area you serve, including images of your storefront, local points of reference among others as this will generate backlinks with geo signals back to your site.

I hope these tips have been useful to you and if you are interested in starting your Pinterest for Business strategy go ahead and download our free beginner’s guide to Pinterest for Business right here. It will give you all of the basic information you need to start on your own.

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17 Pinterest Statistics For Business You Need To Know

Still haven’t made up your mind about being on Pinterest or not? New year, New Platform! And to help wipe away all doubts, I leave you with these 17 Pinterest statistics for business to begin planning your 2015 Pinterest strategy now!

17 Pinterest Statistics For Business You Need To Know. Infographic

17 Pinterest Statistics For Business You Need To Know

1. In the U.S. alone, Pinterest has 53 million active users – or, 22% of the population of 16 years of age and older and according to the last Census the number was 243.3 million. Twitter has 57 million, but this number includes users from the U.S. and Canada.

2. 66% increase in yearly visits, year after year. More than any other social network.

3. Are women your main audience? While Instagram moves each day closer to equilibrium between its visitors’ genders, 80% of Pinterest users are women. Although lately, more men have been jumping into the visual search engine platform. In fact, 33% of the new users in the last 3 months are men.

4. $123.50 is the average amount of a sale originated in Pinterest. $54.64 is the average amount of a sale originated in Facebook. This accounts for a 126% difference. Not bad, huh?

5. You’d better have a responsive site (one that provides an optimal viewing experience across a wide range of devices like desktops, smartphones, tablets, etc.) because the majority of Pinterest users access the platform via their smartphone

6. If you are in the food industry then, you are in luck! Food is the most shared topic on Pinterest! 57% of Pinterest visitors or Pinners share or Pin about food. This is followed by Home (40%), DIY (34%), Fashion (30%), Products (26%), Vacations (25%) Humor (25%), Tourism (22%), Education/Inspiration (20%), Children (14%) Weddings, Gardening, Health and others.

7. Together with Snapchat, Pinterest is one of the favorite social platforms of Millennials (18-32 years old) Snapchat attracts an even younger audience, one that starts at 13 years of age. As far as Pinterest statistics for business go, this one is great news for brands trying to capture the attention of this young audience.

8. 15% of Pinterest users do not use any other social platform.

 

9. Pinterest statistics for business would not be complete without a look at the generations on Pinterest: 33% Gen Y, 27% Gen Z, 14% young Boomers and 10% older Boomers. The silent generation does not fall behind with a 6% And even though these are estimates, they paint a very powerful picture.

Pinterest brings an average of 300% more referral traffic to your site than the traffic generated by Facebook with a lower investment in budget, time and effort. | 17 Pinterest Statistics for Business You Need to Know

Pinterest brings an average of 300% more referral traffic to your site than the traffic generated by Facebook with a lower investment in budget, time and effort.

10. 27% of Pinterest users follow brands.

 

11. 52% of Pinners check Pinterest while shopping at a store.

 

12. Moms on Pinterest share 3 times more than the rest of the users on Pinterest.

13. 47% of U.S. online shoppers bought something as a result of a Pinterest recommendation – Yup! Pinterest recommends.

14. 30% of Pinners prefers to be on Pinterest rather than watch TV and 64% has been inspired by an activity discovered on Pinterest and gives it a try.

15. 31% of Pinterest users are not bothered by Pins Promoted by brands.

 

16. In 2013, 45% of the Fortune 500 companies had a corporate Pinterest account.

 

17. Pinterest brings an average of 300% more referral traffic to your site than the traffic generated by Facebook with a lower investment in budget, time and effort.

Do you believe these are strong enough Pinterest statistics to have you start working on your Pinterest business strategy?

Now check out “How To Successfully Market To Latinos on Pinterest

Pinterest Statistics for Business Sources: Ahalogy, Pinterest reports, RJ Metrics, Target Latino

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30% of Pinners prefers to be on Pinterest rather than watch TV

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