Hi, Roy. A lot of very good questions. Jay´s webinars are the best place to start and to study. They give you a great starting point, and to build your Pinterest presence from.

What I have done in parallel is to search the Internet for additional resources to explain Pinterest, Instagram and other platforms workings. What I have found is that both Pinterest and Instagram ahs their of blogs with tons of very good info and guides, further, to me, Tailwind is essential both in learning Pinterest as well as planning the scheduling and design of my pins.

Tailwind also has the possibility to join into "tribes" which significantly helps the exposure of your pins to a larger audience.

Other resources which help to understand both Pinterest and social media channels you mention is Hootsuite blog, Later and Hubspot. They offer incredible amounts of knowledge for free.

I like Linkedin very much like you do. It is great. Instagram is also a favourite of mine, but I haven´t learned how to use it. And by the way, mentioning Instagram, you can use links, but you have to put them in your bio.

Roy

Good morning Roy,

Thank you so much for your reply.

I agree with you, Jay's webinars are very informative. To be fair, more often than not, I will listen to Jay's webinars when I working on my off-line business. However, there are times when I need to really be watching Jay's webinars rather than just listening.

It's interesting how much information is out there for free, I hear where you're coming from regarding blog information.

Tailwind is something that I haven't used Roy, I guess it's something I need to look into. There are so many different products and platforms out there!

I often think that LinkedIn is very underrated, I find it so much more professional than Facebook. I have actually made some excellent connections on LinkedIn as I believe people on LinkedIn are genuine business people.

I hear you regarding using links at Instagram, that's the bit I don't quite understand is you can only have one link in your bio. However, I do know people who use Instagram very successfully for their off-line business and online business. So it obviously works for some people.

I actually listened to Jay's four-part series on Instagram about a year ago, they were good. However, I was working at the time and only listening or half listening! I probably need to watch and take notes at the same time to appreciate the full benefit of the webinars.

Have a great day Roy, I believe you're working very hard and will smash it!

Roy

Roy and Roy, 🙂 thank you for this VERY informative exchange.

RoyB, it is an excellent idea to venture out of WA and do some research online to read and learn.
Even though we do a lot of training and classes here at WA, there's still a lot out there.

Sometimes 1 tip can take you to that "Ah ha!" place where it all comes together.

DO not be afraid to explore.

I love LinkedIn as well and am starting a 21-Day Challenge today with a Writers' Members' Group that I subscribe to.

Cassi

Good morning Cassi,

Thank you for your input, as always, it's appreciated.

Just one point on venturing out of Wealthy Affiliate Cassi, and I know I brought the subject up in the first place! Wealthy Affiliate has everything we need to get started and beyond. One thing I would take care of in the early days is not to get information overload.

In the early days, I purchased so many products that I didn't have a clue which one was the right product. At the time when I was a beginner, it just brought huge amounts of confusion and information overload!

I think once we have a better understanding of how Internet marketing works we can carefully venture out to other places. At the same time Cassi, I fully understand exactly what you're saying and where you're coming from.

Your LinkedIn writer's members group sounds like a great group to join. I guess this also helps with accountability.

Have a great day and happy writing.

Roy

Thank you, Roy.

I am very fond of Linkedin, and I am in line with your impression of the platform, and as you say it is often underrated.

I have yet to see Jay´s Instagram webinars. I will have to do them preferably this week.

Roy

This exchange is like a MasterMind session, brainstorming and exchanging ideas 😃.

Enjoy your Writer´s challenge. It is great for accountablity :-)

Roy

Roy, this is a remarkable occurrence and not by chance.

I JUST! published a blog at WA about this exact thing. Are You Making Your Business Too Complicated? Stick To The Heart Of It Following that, I read your comment and it is a summary of what I wrote.
I agree with you FULLY!

Everything that we need is right here at WA.

My writer's group on LinkedIn is for my freelance writing business, which is actually growing since I joined WA.
I have been a member there for about 5 years.

Eventually, that will also be fully absorbed into my WA business as I am moving those services into one of my websites.

Thank you so very much for sharing.
Your wisdom is appreciated.

Cassi

It sure is, Roy!

I am enjoying it and supporting it with Kyle's 5X writing efficiency lessons.

The progress is mindboggling!

Have a good day.
Cassi

Thank you, Roy.

I think Jay's webinars were around about a year ago, there was a serious of four webinars. I'm sure they are very good, I was listening as I was working my off-line business. I'm sure they would have been much better if I sat and watched and took notes!

Have a great day.

Roy

I can vividly imagine the progress, Cassi :-D

Roy

I will start in the first one today 👍🏼

Roy

🙂

Calvin, I am new to affiliate marketing, just 9 months in, and have not been working Pinterest or social media platforms to drive conversions. I have only used social media and Pinterest to get acquainted with them and how they work.

Nevertheless, I have gotten conversions into commissions from my websites via Facebook, not from any other social media or similar platforms like Pinterest.

What I am aiming for as I start out once again with Pinterest, is to convert the impressions from my Pinterest accounts to traffic on my websites. The more the merrier, which will increase the chance conversions into commissions.

One thing that in my opinion is crucial to understand Pinterest is that it is a creativity search engine and not a social media platform. When working with Pinterest we need to understand the aim of the platform.

Roy

Hi Roy,

Great answer, and I hope that you're able to achieve your agenda of using the social media platforms.

Good luck and keep us informed on how it is going using them many will be interested in your overall results and analysis of the platform itself as well.

Calvin

Thank you for the information, Jude. This is absolutely something to dive into and investigate. Hilde has had the same experience. Tailwind should definitively know a lot about this since they are official Pinterest and Facebook Partner.

Roy

Hi Roy, thanks for your reply. I would love to understand how to be successful on Pinterest again, but it looks like they have made it tricky.
When I contacted them, they told me it would take time to recover my monthly vieuwers, and they did notice I had quite a few pins from other people and they prefer pins of your own.

I have then tried using real minimum amount of other peoples pins but my impressions remain single figures up till this stage

Have a great weekend.
Jude 🌺

I am reading up on the new algorithm as we speak. I will see if I can get something tangible out of it🤓.

Roy

Hi Roy, I am excited to read about your findings.
Have a great weekend.
Jude 🌺

Have a good weekend as well, Jude :-)

Roy

I suspect you are right here

This is interesting information, Hilde. When did this occur?

Really interesting Hilde

Thanks, Catherine. The tutorials can be found on the blog pages of both Tailwind and Pinterest. But I will highlight this point on the next one int he series from me, planned tomorrow about Instagram.

Roy