Pinterest for social commerce

Social media is a big source of interacting and building relations either on personal or business level. These days people are using it as a medium for networking and promoting their business. Pinterest is also a unique invention in the list of social media which is widely used now for social commerce.
Pinterest is basically an online pin board for sharing things globally. A user of this website can create, manage and share theme based picture collections and connect with those having same interest.
Pins are the uploaded or shared images on Pinterest. When you pin a picture, you can get comments from your family, friends and others about your collection. If you are planning any event or party, Pinterest is just what you need. You can take different ideas from other’s pins or people can suggest you according to your preferences. Pinterest is not just images, it is beyond it. It makes searching and decision making easier. Pinterest is now being commonly and widely used among different industries.
Like other social networking sites, one has to be a member of this site to use it. Pins can also be shared on tweets and facebook to expand network. It’s now much easy to find people with similar interest and it can help cut out some of the clutter of “just an image search”.
The website is greatly designed to attract and gather people to it. Entrepreneurs use this website as a platform for the promotion of their business among the millions of people at a same time. They just need to pin their product or business idea on the Pinterest and people will automatically get attracted to it. It’s the most effective way of promoting business and forming B2B realations.
Pinterest brings more traffic than a combined result of Google+, Linkedin or Youtube. This all became possible because of the amazing interface of the website which captures maximum viewers. It is so user friendly that it makes users addicted to it and people keeps revisiting it and pinning or viewing pinned things of their interest.
Pinterest has a potential to get great number of customers for a business because in a short span of time, a large no of people are targeted. When you are promoting your own brand in this website, you can find how other people do the same in a different manner in Pinterest which gives you newer and better ideas of marketing and developing business strategies.
A picture may be worth a thousand words but Pinterest is making it worth a thousand or millions of dollars. It is a powerful tool and has real potential growth for both personal and business use.