Manly Pinterest Tips Podcast With Jeff Sieh

You may have heard recently that Instagram will no longer be showing posts in chronological order but will (gasp) start using an algorithm to show you posts in order of what it thinks you'll find important.   We'll cover how this will affect your Instagram marketing, changes you may need to make, and most importantly what NOT to do on today's show.   Jenn Herman is a social media strategist and the forefront blogger on Instagram marketing. She has won Social Media Examiner’s TOP 10 Social Media Blog award in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Her blog, Jenn’s Trends, shares topics focused on understanding trends in social media management and provides tips, resources, and training for small to medium sized businesses that need to structure their social media strategies. She is the author of The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Instagram and Stop Guessing: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Social Media Strategy.

Wondering how to grow your Pinterest following? Looking for better Pinterest engagement? In this episode, Jeff Sieh (host of the Manly Pinterest Show and Podcast) reveals the strategies he uses for Social Media Examiner and other clients to build a large and loyal community. You’ll leave with a daily checklist for growing a massive Pinterest audience and a plan for building trust in your community.

Visual marketing expert, Rebekah Radice is the guest on today’s episode discussing how to create viral images.   Rebekah is an Award Winning Writer, Social Media Strategist and Global Brand Ambassador for Post Planner.   She is the author of “How to Use Social Media to Virtually Crush the Competition” and recently named a Top 10 Social Media Blog by Social Media Examiner for the 2nd year in a row, as well as one of the Top Ten Most Shared Content Marketers.

Today’s episode focuses on best practices for your Pinterest business account with Kim Vij.   Kim Vij is a Pinterest Consultant, Blogger, Author and Speaker. She cohosts a weekly Twitter Chat and Facebook Community called Pinchat. As a Pinfluencer she has created award winning boards on Pinterest with 1.6 Million followers by focusing pins on Education and Parenting.   A teacher at heart she enjoys sharing ways to make everyday moments into teachable opportunities on her popular parenting site The Educators’ Spin On It and in her upcoming book 100 Fun and Easy Learning Games for Kids.

Today’s episode is about becoming a better blogger with special guest Leslie Samuel. Leslie is a former university professor and the creator of the Become A Blogger and Interactive Biology blogs. He has a passion for education and has taken on the mission of Changing The World One Blog At A Time. In his podcast, Learning With Leslie, he teaches solid lessons about how to build a blog that will have an impact, in addition to interviewing other successful bloggers who have built successful platforms and turned them into thriving online businesses.

Very excited to have my friends, the DadDudes from DudeDay Films on today's show. If you don't know who the DadDudes are, they are a group of dudes and dads that live in Los Angeles, work in the entertainment industry, and amuse themselves with the craziness and nuance that happens in the lives of parents. Their video Dads Respond to Disney's "Frozen" has been seen over 2 million times! Ryan and Matt provide some great insight on todays on what it takes to create great video and share behind the scenes stories on their creative process.

There was a ton of changes on Pinterest during 2015 and this year looks to be no different! I'm very excited to have Kate Ahl on the show today to talk all about the State of Pinterest for 2016. Kate Ahl is the owner of Simple Pin Media, a Pinterest management company. Their purpose is to manage Pinterest accounts for bloggers and business owners so they can focus back on creating awesome content their audience will love. Kate also aims to teach and train people how to use Pinterest for business with simple, actionable tips.

Gary W. Goldstein is best known for producing Pretty Woman, Under Siege, Under Siege 2, and The Mothman Prophecies.  He has also written a book called Conquering Hollywood and has an online course called Breaking Into Hollywood.   He offers some great stories and insights from Hollywood including business and networking.  On this episode we discuss:   • The difference between a producer and a director. • How is running a movie like running a business? • The evolution of visual imagery in marketing a business. • The role of relationships in making a movie happen. • And much more!

The founders of Podcast Movement have generously allowed me to share the presentation that I gave at Podcast Movement 15 that led to so many new business opportunities.  It’s called Mastering Podcast Promotion, but almost all of the techniques and tips that I give can be applicable to any business to promote themselves online with social media.  The slideshow that I used during the presentation will also be on the blog at ManlyPinterestTips.com.

Pinterest?  Google+ Collections?  What’s the difference?  Isn’t Google+ dead?   Today I’m excited to be talking with Google+ expert Kimberly Reynolds.      Kim Reynolds is a Digital Strategist as well as the Marketing Manager for Social Media Examiner. Kim started her first business at 12 years old and hasn't stopped since. Her passions include Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and riding her motorcycle. She can be found tweeting as @KimReynolds

It's that crazy time of year again!  If you're anything like me, the hustle has hit you full force this week.  Between kid's ballgames, holiday parties, setting up a Christmas tree and shopping for gifts, the last thing we need to stress over is our social media accounts.   Unfortunately for small business owners and marketers, the Internet doesn't have a Christmas break. But, there are some steps you can take to continue building your business during the holidays as well as spending quality time for your families.   Today on the show I'm excited to be talking with my friend Peg Fitzpatrick about how to best use social media during the holidays.     Peg Fitzpatrick is the co-author of The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users with Guy Kawasaki and has been seen on Time Inc., HufIington Post, Inc. Magazine, and NPR’s Tech Nation. She also runs social media campaign for some of the top companies around. She’s spearheaded successful social-media campaigns for Motorola, Audi, Google, Virgin, and more. 

Very excited to have my friend and fellow Pinterest Marketer with me today, Vincent Ng. I consider Vincent the king of Pinterest search optimization. And today we’ll be talking about Pinterest new visual search tool and how it’s a game changer for visual search. Vincent is the founder of MCNG Marketing and Pinterest marketer, speaker, and enjoys reading Batman comics. He is the author of Pinterest to Profits with Pintalysis and the host of the Pictures to Profits Podcast. He is a top 20 resource for becoming a Pinterest expert according to Heyo and has written for amazing blogs such as Social Media Examiner, Top Dog Social Media, and Tailwind.

Danielle Miller is a marketing coach, keynote speaker​ and​ small business enthusiast. Danielle has designed multiple social media marketing campaigns with a consistent track record of collecting over 5,000 new leads within the first 90 days. Her company, Miller Media Management, is the top-rated social media company in Maui, Hawaii. Danielle is the Social Media Manager for WedTech, the first-to-market wedding conference and Brio Ice Cream, a national food brand made by the co-founders of Earth’s Best baby food. In her spare time, Danielle is also an EdVenture Maui Instructor teaching continuing education classes at the University of Hawaii Maui Campus.

If you're marketing on any social media platform, you're interested in increasing your followers. There is a big difference, though, between simply having followers and having engaged followers. How can you bring your followers to the next level, and why is it so important?    To answer this question, I interview Dawn-Swick Renshaw, one of the biggest supporters of this show.   Dawn has been in love with social media since she accepted her first Facebook friend request in 2008. She is now the owner of Stoney Creek Social Media, an agency located in Michigan that manages over fifty unique businesses on many different platforms. She takes pride in getting to know her clients on a personal as well as a professional level so as to accurately express their brand via social media.

The fairly recent addition of promoted pins on Pinterest provides another way to take full advantage of this platform. Promoted pins are basically ads on Pinterest. They can raise awareness, boost engagement, and increase traffic to your website- all while maintaining an organic look and feel.   Maybe you've used promoted pins with some success, or maybe you're just wondering if they're right for you. Either way, you'll want to check out this interview with Alisa Meredith.

Social Warfare was born from the desire to make social sharing faster and easier as well as beautiful, efficient, and responsive. After realizing that nothing existed that met all of these needs, Nicholas, Jason, and Dustin set out to create their own solution. What resulted was a plugin based on customization, psychology, and paradox of choice (or, to the lay-person, limiting options - which, believe it or not, can be a good thing!)   Although much of our discussion focuses on the great features of Social Warfare, the interview is definitely not a long commercial. Nicholas, Jason, and Dustin offer some great tips on social sharing in general. They touch on many topics, including analytics tracking, the use of click-to-tweets, and the importance of perception.

  Welcome back to part 2 of a special event on Visual Marketing where I team up with Phil Mershon from Social Media Examiner.    This week, four more visual marketing experts weigh in. They offer some great advice for making the most of visual platforms like Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook. They've got lots of tricks to save you time and cut down on the hassle of keeping up with multiple platforms. They are also gracious enough to candidly share their biggest (and most humorous) mistakes to help spare the rest of us the pain of learning these lessons the hard way.

  This week I join forces with Phil Mershon, director of events for Social Media Examiner, on Blab to bring you part one of a two part discussion on visual marketing. We discuss some compelling visual marketing statistics (if you aren't already convinced of the importance of visuals you will be!), and offer some advice for how to fit some visual marketing strategies into your busy schedule.   We found a few experts who were willing to take a turn in the hot seat to share tactics, tips and tools that have worked for them. They also reveal their biggest fails and what they have learned from their mistakes.

Rachel Miller is the founder of the Facebook community, QuirkyMomma which has nearly 1.5 million followers.  She loves building and participating in communities online.  Offline she is mom to a vanful and author to multiple books.  She offers tips on topics including finding and creating content, handling controversial topics (like blue food coloring and marshmallows-gasp!), and prioritizing - because to manage a community that large you have to know what's important!

Erik Fisher is the community manager for Social Media Examiner and host of the award-winning podcast, Beyond the To Do List. Erik is an authority on social media,  productivity, and podcasting who began blogging back in 2004 – before Facebook and Twitter even entered into the picture. With such a long history in the business, he's picked up a trick or two, and, thankfully for us, he's willing to share!On this episode he lends his expertise to a discussion of how the team at Social Media Examiner works. He weighs in on topics like scheduling posts, delegating work, responding to comments on social media, managing email, and useful tools. He even fields a few questions from the audience.