Used for Business and Socially
How can it be used for business and socially?
Business- You can share your product on Pinterest and other people can see it. It promotes buisness.
e.g. small businesses on Etsy use pinterest to promote their products.
Socially- It can help you make friends by finding people that like the same things as you.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Pinterest
Advantages
- Pinterest is beneficial for visual businesses such as interior designers, fashion companies and lifestyle magazines to promote their products and inspirations
- Pinterest is also a great tool to use when you are planning an event and want to collate a variety of elements in one place.
- Easy to use.
Disadvantages
- The bigger that Pinterest grows the more issues the site faces with images that are copyrighted
- There are potential privacy concerns because Pinterest forces you to link through either your Twitter or Facebook accounts. Pinterest’s current privacy policy is not crystal clear when it comes to how information they share with your other social media channels.
Pinterest can be used on the computer or as an app on your phone.
Pinterest policy
When you sign up for or use our products, you voluntarily give us certain information. This can include your name, profile photo, pins, comments, likes, email address you used to sign up, and any other information you provide us. If you’re using Pinterest on your mobile device, you can also choose to provide us with location data.
You also may give us permission to access your information in other services. For example, you may link your Facebook or Twitter account to Pinterest, which allows us to obtain information from those accounts (e.g., your friends or contacts). The information we obtain from those services often depends on your settings or their privacy policies, so be sure to check what those are.
Citations
- http://tyrrellmarketing.co.uk/pros-and-cons-of-pinterest/
- authormedia.com
- about.pinterest.com
- accordingtocarey.com
- sarahbundy.com