How to Use Pinterest Messaging for Business?
Pinterest messaging is a feature I believe to be totally underutilized in Pinterest. Pinterest enabled the new feature as a way to make pinning personal and enables you to send a private message to your followers.
What really sets the system apart from Facebook Messenger or Twitter’s direct messaging system is that Pinterest Messaging is more focused on engaging in conversations in a visual manner within Pinterest. This is particularly helpful in simplifying complex projects that are too hard to explain through words, as well as saving users the hassle of sending picture attachments back and forth. (Imagine explaining a hairdo tutorial in words!) Be it text, links, pins or entire boards, Pinterest users can share as much content as they want without losing track of the conversation or compromising their privacy.
The Great things about Pinterest Messaging
Besides from being completely private, the Pinterest messaging system allows up to ten Pinterest users to engage in a visual group conversation at one time. This exceptional feature is particularly beneficial for team projects that involve a lot of visual co-ordination, for example, organizing a friend’s surprise bridal shower or planning a college concert.
Let us walk you through some simple ways in which your brand can benefit from the Pinterest messaging system.
1) Build better connections with Your Pinterest Followers
A major problem encountered by those who love to comment on Pinterest is that their comments are barely noticed if the pinner uses Pinterest on a smartphone. This is because a comment notification appears the same as that of a repin or ‘like’, and it is only on desktops or iPads that notifications display a preview of the comment.
It’s in circumstances like these that Pinterest messaging system comes to the rescue! The interactive platform allows you to start a back and forth conversation with your potential customers, and enables you to build better relationships with your brand page followers and especially Pinterest influencers who follow your business account. Drag a pertinent pin into the conversation, appreciate a particular pin that a follower posted months ago, or invite them to join a group board, the possibilities are really endless!
2) Invite Pertinent Pinners to Create Group Boards
Before Pinterest introduced its messaging system, it was a hassle to invite other users to contribute to group boards as there was no way to directly explain them the purpose of the board or what makes you think they’ll make a good contributor. In all honesty, it used to be a really awkward situation to have a group invite at the top of your feed without any proper proposal.
Now, with the advent of Pinterest’s messaging system, you can message and invite pertinent pinners to join a group board by explaining to them how your pins revolve around a mutual theme, or how your product complements theirs. Who knows your hospitality may even translate into a lucrative partnership in the future?
3) Assist high-profile clients with their planning
Imagine yourself as an event florist working with a top-notch wedding planner to decorate a reception. Instead of having to send them pins one by one, you can send them a first glance of your newest flower collection, your portfolio images from previous events, or simply some content repinned from other boards privately in one go! Your brand page will generate a buzz and attain a free-rider promotional advantage if a high-end client or VIP customer repins your image on their board.
A little heads-up: Pinterest only allows you to send or drag a pin into the messaging system if it is available to the public. So if you experience any glitches, it maybe because of the pin belongs to a secret board.
4) Communicate with your loyal followers and reward them for their engagement
Admit it, we all love brands that appreciate our loyalty towards them and reward us for being their unofficial brand ambassadors. What Pinterest messaging does best is that it gets you talking with your most engaged followers. After all, what could be more special for a follower who has been re-pinning a lot of your content and driving traffic to your retail site than receiving a thumbs up from the brand, or ideally, a gift voucher? The word-of-mouth marketing that such tokens of appreciation can generate can be phenomenal for your business.
All you have to do is cherry-pick the most loyal followers of your brand page, and drop them an encouraging message, such as, “Hey, we would like to thank you for always repinning our content by sending you a coupon code for your brand loyalty. Please use the code within the next fourteen days to receive 20% off your order. Thanks again for your continued support!”
Voila, you just added a number to your conversion figures!
5) Receive Feedback from Your Followers
Getting in touch with your Pinterest followers through individual e-mails may prove to be a tall order, but the new Pinterest messaging system enables you to send private messages to your followers and receive feedback on your boards and pinned content.
Pinterest messaging allows pinners to send questionnaires and surveys to other users on the Pinterest platform who are specifically following their boards. The feedback particularly enables business account holders to measure their target market’s interaction with their brand page, determine their most popular content and decipher followers that can potentially convert into customers.
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