In this week's episode, Lucy Howell comes on to talk to me about Pinterest and how it can work for your podcast.
Lucy busts the misconception that Pinterest is a social platform - SPOILER it's not!
How Pinterest works in comparison to other social media platforms, tips on how you can create pins from your podcast and her top piece of advice!
I found it very interesting to find out the shelf life of pins compared to Instagram/Facebook posts and Lucy's extremely important tip of not using the same link in each pin so you don't get shadowbanned!
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Kind of like why it's specifically good for podcasts?
Lucy Howell:Yeah, so I think one of the misconceptions for Pinterest, I've been using Pinterest
Rachael Botfield:like a lot of people for probably since it first started.
Rachael Botfield:A lot of people are under the huge misconception that Pinterest
Rachael Botfield:is a social media platform.
Rachael Botfield:Give you real insight into what it's like having your own podcast.
Rachael Botfield:Hi, and welcome to this week's episode.
Rachael Botfield:Today I have the lovely Lucy Howell from Hal Virtual with me.
Rachael Botfield:How are you?
Lucy Howell:Hello, Rachel.
Lucy Howell:I'm fine, thank you.
Lucy Howell:Thank you for having me on,
Lucy Howell:. Rachael Botfield: Oh, I'm excited
Lucy Howell:talk about Pinterest and podcasts.
Lucy Howell:So just, um, tell us a little bit about yourself and your business first off.
Lucy Howell:Oh,
Lucy Howell:okay.
Lucy Howell:So yeah, I've been, uh, well a general VA for about three years now.
Lucy Howell:Um, but have recently rebranded and moved into podcast and Pinterest management.
Lucy Howell:Cause I think the two pair really well.
Lucy Howell:And I'm a mum.
Lucy Howell:My little boy is two and a half years old.
Lucy Howell:Um, currently at the moment struggling with tonsillitis.
Lucy Howell:So . Um, but yes, I've um, been doing this now for, for, yeah, 3, 3, 4
Lucy Howell:years now, coming up to four years.
Lucy Howell:So, yeah.
Lucy Howell:Um, I've specialized in Pinterest.
Lucy Howell:Um, A while ago.
Lucy Howell:Um, and then recently, more recently gone into podcast management.
Lucy Howell:Cause like I say, I think the two combine really well together.
Lucy Howell:And I think if you've got a podcast, it should be on interest.
Lucy Howell:It's a, it's a fantastic way to advertise the business and,
Lucy Howell:and what you're trying to say.
Rachael Botfield:Yeah, like ever since I think, I'm not sure
Rachael Botfield:how we came across each other.
Rachael Botfield:I mean probably LinkedIn, I think.
Rachael Botfield:I think it was LinkedIn.
Rachael Botfield:Yeah.
Rachael Botfield:and we first spoke and we spoke about podcast and Pinterest and it
Rachael Botfield:is something I have to admit at the time of recording in November and this
Rachael Botfield:episode is dues come out in January.
Rachael Botfield:I haven't done anything with Pinterest, but it has been the
Rachael Botfield:one little thing that's been like niggling at me ever since I met you.
Rachael Botfield:Been like Anna kept hearing other people talking about p.
Rachael Botfield:And the bene, especially with the benefits to podcasting.
Rachael Botfield:One of my clients, Hannah and Nicole, from showing at Solo, they do pins
Rachael Botfield:and things for theirs as well.
Rachael Botfield:So she's already talked about like she does like a, on a mass producer some more.
Rachael Botfield:So I thought it'd be best first to just have a little talk about
Rachael Botfield:like what Pinterest actually is.
Rachael Botfield:Cause I think there's some, a few misconceptions about
Rachael Botfield:what Pinterest actually is.
Rachael Botfield:It's like, and then.
Rachael Botfield:Kind of like why it's specifically good for
Rachael Botfield:podcasts?
Lucy Howell:Yeah, so
Lucy Howell:I think one of the misconceptions for Pinterest, I've been using
Lucy Howell:Pinterest like a lot of people for probably since it first started.
Lucy Howell:A lot of people are under the huge misconception that Pinterest
Lucy Howell:is a social media platform.
Lucy Howell:And whilst it is a social platform on media, , yes.
Lucy Howell:It isn't a social media platform.
Lucy Howell:Um, it is a search engine.
Lucy Howell:It's exactly the same as Google.
Lucy Howell:It's just a more visual search engine.
Lucy Howell:It works exactly the same way with seo.
Lucy Howell:. And unlike LinkedIn and Instagram predominantly, and Facebook,
Lucy Howell:I think they're, they're filtering that out a little bit.
Lucy Howell:Rather than using hashtags to find things.
Lucy Howell:Pinterest relies on keywords.
Lucy Howell:That's how you enhance your searchability and your visibility on Pinterest.
Lucy Howell:Um, but there are so many misconceptions that, you know.
Lucy Howell:. It's, it's all, you know, I like this flower pot, or I like this
Lucy Howell:wedding dress, and I'll pin it, you know, and that, that's it.
Lucy Howell:And that's all everyone's hairstyles dress.
Lucy Howell:I'll do it for hairstyles.
Lucy Howell:Exactly.
Lucy Howell:You know, and whilst we're all guilty of it, which is what I use it for,
Lucy Howell:you know, I think, oh, I like that.
Lucy Howell:Um, it's, as far as marketing goes, it's actually probably one of the
Lucy Howell:stronger platforms to market a business or a service or a product on.
Lucy Howell:Um, the demographics for Pinterest.
Lucy Howell:In terms of that.
Lucy Howell:With Instagram, for example, when you go onto Instagram, they like
Lucy Howell:to keep you in that platform.
Lucy Howell:So when you click on something, that's why you can't get clickable
Lucy Howell:links and things like that.
Lucy Howell:You have to physically copy it and go to Chrome and then open
Lucy Howell:a new page to get to someone's.
Lucy Howell:Page in, uh, Pinterest actually like you to go off their platform.
Lucy Howell:They, they encourage that and that's why you can click on a pin
Lucy Howell:and it will take you directly to someone's funnel or website or
Lucy Howell:marketing campaign that they've got.
Lucy Howell:That's how Pinterest works.
Lucy Howell:They like you to come off the platform to go and shop and buy, and
Lucy Howell:the majority of people that are on Pinterest are on there to buy a product.
Lucy Howell:I think.
Lucy Howell:Count with something like 80% of people are on Pinterest to buy a
Lucy Howell:product, not to browse a product.
Lucy Howell:Um, and unlike with Instagram, Where you are unlikely to be found unless
Lucy Howell:you have got a certain amount of followers or a certain amount of,
Lucy Howell:you know, posts and things like that.
Lucy Howell:Unless you are kind of, you know, one of the, the, the major players on Instagram,
Lucy Howell:you're not going to, you're just gonna get lost in the noise somewhere.
Lucy Howell:So, little businesses, small businesses don't really stand a chance on
Lucy Howell:Instagram to, to get noticed and get people buying their products.
Lucy Howell:Pinterest, like I say, we've, we've carefully planned keywords and, and
Lucy Howell:doing your, um, profile correctly and putting the right keywords in.
Lucy Howell:You could go viral without having any single followers,
Lucy Howell:any, any history of Pinterest.
Lucy Howell:You could open a Pinterest account.
Lucy Howell:Have a really good.
Lucy Howell:Pinterest manager, um, that will, you know, show you where to put your keywords
Lucy Howell:and, and enhance your profile properly.
Lucy Howell:And with one really good pin, that pin could go viral in,
Lucy Howell:in a certain amount of time.
Lucy Howell:You know, it's not the same as Instagram or Pin uh, Facebook.
Lucy Howell:It just doesn't work that way.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:. Um, and I, I always say to people, if they don't sort of believe me about
Lucy Howell:it being a search engine, I'll give you a little test, is to go onto.
Lucy Howell:Google, go on Google now and try and find, uh, just type in
Lucy Howell:something like white wedding dress and in the images I can guarantee.
Lucy Howell:Those images will have come from Pinterest.
Lucy Howell:The, the, the code at the bottom will be from www.pinterest.code.uk.com.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:, depending where you are in the world.
Lucy Howell:And if you click on that, it will take you to Pinterest.
Lucy Howell:It'll take you to the person's platform, and then you can go and buy that
Lucy Howell:product, that work, that white wedding dress that you've been looking for.
Lucy Howell:That's how Pinterest works.
Lucy Howell:But you won't find something the same from Instagram, for example.
Lucy Howell:It just doesn't pull through to Google.
Lucy Howell:. Rachael Botfield: No.
Lucy Howell:And uh, that's one thing that is quite frustrating.
Lucy Howell:Those kind of platforms.
Lucy Howell:I mean, LinkedIn, even though you can put links in the, um, in the body of your
Lucy Howell:posts, like you can't do on Instagram that highlight, they, they don't favor
Lucy Howell:those links and you've gotta put 'em a certain way or put 'em in the comments
Lucy Howell:or whatever the, whatever the latest algorithm hack is or whatever for that is.
Lucy Howell:Yeah.
Lucy Howell:Which is very confusing and makes it difficult to schedule your posts
Lucy Howell:and all those types of things.
Lucy Howell:So yeah, I like the fact.
Lucy Howell:Is encouraging you to, you can go create the pin and someone can click on it
Lucy Howell:directly and take it to whatever the piece of content you want it to take it to.
Lucy Howell:Video, episode, blog, whatever that is.
Lucy Howell:I really like that's.
Lucy Howell:seems really powerful.
Lucy Howell:Yeah.
Lucy Howell:And with podcasting, for example, you know, I, I, I use podcast as kind of
Lucy Howell:your, your main source of like, for people that are struggling with content User
Lucy Howell:podcast as your main piece of content and everything else can funnel off it.
Lucy Howell:Um, so, you know, you start your podcast, you do your podcast episode,
Lucy Howell:um, and then you could transcribe it and oh, you've got a blog.
Lucy Howell:You can take little clips out of that transcription and oh, you've got your
Lucy Howell:social captions for media, you know, for Facebook and Instagram and all of that.
Lucy Howell:You can pull things off it.
Lucy Howell:You can do an audiogram, audiograms, you can do on, um, Pinterest.
Lucy Howell:So you could actually have a pin with your audiogram on there.
Lucy Howell:Linking directly to Apple or Spotify or wherever your podcast is or you know,
Lucy Howell:or directly back to your website if you've got it embedded on your website.
Lucy Howell:And then obviously once people are on your website, they can then
Lucy Howell:click into your email marketing and follow you and subscribe that way.
Lucy Howell:So it's so powerful.
Lucy Howell:It's Pinterest is is amazing and I think.
Lucy Howell:. Like I say, if you haven't got Pinterest for your business, I think everyone
Lucy Howell:needs it, and especially podcasters.
Lucy Howell:Like I say, it works really well for advertising your podcast, um, and
Lucy Howell:ultimately getting you the results that you wanted from your podcast, if
Lucy Howell:that's, you know, advertising a service or a product or something along those
Lucy Howell:lines.
Rachael Botfield:Yeah, so time is a factor is the main reason why I
Rachael Botfield:haven't like, decided to invest or, or.
Rachael Botfield:, you know, create that to, to go into Pinterest.
Rachael Botfield:Yeah.
Rachael Botfield:Because, you know, thinking about it's another thing to do to implement into,
Rachael Botfield:um, the process that I've got into.
Rachael Botfield:I mean, I break down my podcast is my main piece of content, and then I, and I use
Rachael Botfield:it in that way to streamline my marketing.
Rachael Botfield:Yeah.
Rachael Botfield:Um, how much kind of extra time is it quite easy to create the pins?
Rachael Botfield:Um, off of, you know, once you.
Rachael Botfield:Your social media content or whatever, is it quite easy to create those pins
Rachael Botfield:off of that and batch them perhaps as.
Lucy Howell:Yeah.
Lucy Howell:So there is a, a platform that's sort of specifically designed for
Lucy Howell:pininterest, for scheduling pins.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:, which is called Tailwind.
Lucy Howell:Um, oh, okay.
Lucy Howell:Yeah, I've heard of that.
Lucy Howell:Yeah.
Lucy Howell:And Tailwind is fantastic because Pininterest, they like
Lucy Howell:you to produce new content.
Lucy Howell:That's what they, rather than re-pinning someone else's content, right.
Lucy Howell:They prefer you to put out new content.
Lucy Howell:That's the content that they're pushing at the moment.
Lucy Howell:That's their algorithm.
Lucy Howell:whilst you could, you could have a pin saying something along the lines
Lucy Howell:of, um, you know, top 10 reasons.
Lucy Howell:Listen to my podcast.
Lucy Howell:And then that could be your, your first pin.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:, a brand new pin could be 10 reasons why you should listen to my podcast.
Lucy Howell:Another pin could just be changing the colors on that top 10 reasons
Lucy Howell:to listen to my podcast or, so you've suddenly got three pins.
Lucy Howell:Pretty much the same title, but they're slightly different.
Lucy Howell:So it's not that time consuming to change the pins.
Lucy Howell:Um, and they recommend sort of three to five pins per day.
Lucy Howell:That's, which is, it sounds, it sounds a lot, mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:, but when you are just tweaking, you know, a color or you're just
Lucy Howell:changing one little image on it, you've suddenly got a brand new pin.
Lucy Howell:So it's not that time consuming.
Lucy Howell:Okay.
Lucy Howell:Tailwind, um, is fantastic because what you do with Tailwind is you put
Lucy Howell:in your title, your call to action, to what you want people to do.
Lucy Howell:Do you want them to click the link?
Lucy Howell:Do you want them to click the pin?
Lucy Howell:You want them to follow or subscribe?
Lucy Howell:You put in your title of your thing, so top 10 Reasons to listen
Lucy Howell:to my podcast and it will create.
Lucy Howell:Multiple versions of different pins based on different colors.
Lucy Howell:It will design different pins for you.
Lucy Howell:So all you need to do then is go, oh, I like that one.
Lucy Howell:I like that one, and I like that one, and I like that one, and I like that one.
Lucy Howell:So you've got five pins all of a sudden, and then you can just schedule those
Lucy Howell:five pins so you can do it on tailwind.
Lucy Howell:within a matter of seconds, or you can do it manually yourself.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:, it's obviously more time consuming.
Lucy Howell:You do it in IT manually version, but Tailwind is brilliant.
Rachael Botfield:Is that on the free version or is it a paid
Lucy Howell:version?
Lucy Howell:So free version you get, I think it's something along
Lucy Howell:the lines of you get up to.
Lucy Howell:Up to a hundred pins on the free version.
Lucy Howell:That's like per month, which sounds a lot, but when you're being asked
Lucy Howell:to do five pins a day or more to kind of make it noticeable, that
Lucy Howell:doesn't really tend to go that far.
Lucy Howell:Um, they may have even even reduced it down to 50 now.
Lucy Howell:I think maybe actually, yeah, I think it might even be 50.
Lucy Howell:So, Generally more on the paid version that you're gonna get
Lucy Howell:the most benefit out of Tailwind.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:. But as I say, you could do, you know, the free version
Lucy Howell:and then do the rest manually.
Lucy Howell:Um, yeah.
Lucy Howell:So depending on the two.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:. Yeah.
Lucy Howell:So you combine, you know, do a week's worth of your free version on Tailwind
Lucy Howell:and then do another three weeks on, on your mul, you know, What are my words?
Lucy Howell:on your manual version.
Lucy Howell:That's the word I'm looking for.
Lucy Howell:Yeah.
Rachael Botfield:Are there any other schedulers that schedule to
Rachael Botfield:Pinterest or is it just tailwinds?
Lucy Howell:So most, yeah, so most do, um, I, I use Buffer, um, for
Lucy Howell:like my general social media just because I, I, I, I think Hootsuite
Lucy Howell:is, uh, as, as great as Hootsuite is.
Lucy Howell:It's just ridiculously.
Lucy Howell:Buffer.
Lucy Howell:I love, it's easy.
Lucy Howell:You, you know, it syncs really well with what I wanted to do.
Lucy Howell:The only thing with other platforms like Buffer and Hootsuite, and I think there's
Lucy Howell:another one called Crowdfire, and then you've got Metrical and things like that.
Lucy Howell:All of them are great, but sometimes they have problems with adding in the
Lucy Howell:sort of like the clickable pin link.
Lucy Howell:So with Buffer for example, you can put your header and your title and it'll
Lucy Howell:give you what do you want the pin to do.
Lucy Howell:But it doesn't always generally tend to work.
Lucy Howell:I found a lot of my pins that I've scheduled, they're not actually going
Lucy Howell:to the link that I want them to.
Lucy Howell:Um, and that's frustrating, isn't it?
Lucy Howell:Which is annoying.
Lucy Howell:Rely on it.
Lucy Howell:, but Pinterest have got their own schedule a version.
Lucy Howell:Um, so you can actually directly schedule on Pinterest and you
Lucy Howell:can batch the pins on Pinterest.
Lucy Howell:Okay.
Lucy Howell:So that's what I do.
Lucy Howell:So I will go in, um, I'll create a pim.
Lucy Howell:, drop it into one and then just do my, my title and everything and my keywords, and
Lucy Howell:then I'll just click plus plus, plus plus and I've got five then, and I, I just drop
Lucy Howell:them in then straight away and that's it.
Lucy Howell:And they're done.
Lucy Howell:Um, so it's, I, I actually prefer just doing it directly on
Lucy Howell:interest and forgetting the other scheduler platforms, but mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:, um, tailwind or Pinterest is my version of, of doing.
Lucy Howell:. Rachael Botfield: Yeah, I, I,
Lucy Howell:I've talked about, I've had episodes on this podcast talking about batching.
Lucy Howell:Yeah.
Lucy Howell:Um, depending on what works for you.
Lucy Howell:Um, my friends Hannah and Nicole, they do six months worth of content in one go.
Lucy Howell:They actually had a full circle content challenge in October,
Lucy Howell:and I went to the masterclass.
Lucy Howell:, I knew they batched their content.
Lucy Howell:They always have some wonderful brand photos as well, and they're
Lucy Howell:not in the same province in calendar, so they meet up like every six
Lucy Howell:months and kind of do their stuff.
Lucy Howell:But it's amazing how much stuff they get out and manage to create from.
Lucy Howell:The podcast episode.
Lucy Howell:Yeah.
Lucy Howell:You like talking about repurposing, like, you know, you, you, you, it's,
Lucy Howell:it was amazing, absolutely brilliant.
Lucy Howell:Um, what they do with it, and I think she might batch all of her
Lucy Howell:pins as well and, and do that.
Lucy Howell:It just depends on what works for you and your schedule when it
Lucy Howell:comes to batching and trying to do.
Lucy Howell:But I know that when I try to do more on a four weekly basis, but recently
Lucy Howell:it's been like eking out and then I find myself, I'm still doing creating.
Lucy Howell:because I haven't left myself enough time or something's come up,
Lucy Howell:you know, all, all those things.
Lucy Howell:And, and I'm thinking perhaps maybe some things like your evergreen content,
Lucy Howell:you know, have, like perhaps for pins and things, if you can just get into
Lucy Howell:a flow and allocate this much time, you can do the, you know, create all
Lucy Howell:these pins that can be great for your podcast or whatever it is that you are.
Lucy Howell:For your business as well as, um, your podcast.
Lucy Howell:So when you started doing it, what kind of, um, I'm just thinking about the
Lucy Howell:engagement that you get on, on the pins.
Lucy Howell:So compared to the other social media, Platforms that you do,
Lucy Howell:do you get just like so much
Lucy Howell:more on that?
Lucy Howell:Yeah, so I'll be completely honest.
Lucy Howell:My, my own Pinterest, if anyone goes on my own, Pinterest is terrible.
Lucy Howell:It's dire cause I just haven't got the time to do my own Pinterest.
Lucy Howell:I very occasionally schedule stuff onto Pinterest.
Lucy Howell:It's, um, but for, yeah, the, I think the other thing with
Lucy Howell:Pinterest as well, um, compared to say Instagram, I say Instagram,
Lucy Howell:um, the half life getting technic.
Lucy Howell:Um, of a pin now is so much longer.
Lucy Howell:It's longer lasting than it is on Instagram, so you can.
Lucy Howell:. Instagram is called Instagram for a reason.
Lucy Howell:It's instant.
Lucy Howell:That's what it means.
Lucy Howell:So any engagement you get is kind of an instant thing.
Lucy Howell:And then once that kind of initial half life of your Instagram
Lucy Howell:post has gone, that's it.
Lucy Howell:It'll never get found again on Instagram.
Lucy Howell:It won't get re-brought up until someone reposts it or shares
Lucy Howell:it or, or along those lines.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:, Pinterest is a slightly slower burner for a platform, so it can take on average.
Lucy Howell:Three months for you to see good results.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:for it to measure how well you're doing on Pinterest.
Lucy Howell:So we always, I always say to clients, look, you need to give
Lucy Howell:me three months with Pinterest.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:to be able to see the results of it.
Lucy Howell:Don't go checking it tomorrow, you probably won't get any views.
Lucy Howell:They'll probably be like three people on there and then three
Lucy Howell:months later it'll be, you know, up in the hundreds of thousands.
Lucy Howell:Or it'll be even, you know, some people have got millions of viewers
Lucy Howell:and millions of followers on Pinterest.
Lucy Howell:The pins last a lot longer on pin on Pinterest than they do on Instagram.
Lucy Howell:So when you are cycling content and podcasts and things like that,
Lucy Howell:we always, I always say to people, you know, if you've got like a
Lucy Howell:Christmas offer, for example, you want to start marketing it in around.
Lucy Howell:August, you wanna start putting your Christmas pins, your Christmas products,
Lucy Howell:everything that you're gonna do for Christmas out in August on Pininterest so
Lucy Howell:that by the time Christmas comes up and people are searching Christmas gifts for
Lucy Howell:my husband, or Christmas gifts for mom and things like that, your pins have already
Lucy Howell:had that time to, to get that traction and get that growth so that they're
Lucy Howell:already right on the top of the platform.
Lucy Howell:They're already right.
Lucy Howell:. Rachael Botfield: Yeah,
Lucy Howell:So it's had time for people to view it and to get the, cause.
Lucy Howell:I mean, when I look at some pins and things, I don't know
Lucy Howell:how recent some of them are.
Lucy Howell:And when I look back, I like looking for my hairstyles, you know,
Lucy Howell:just to use that as an example.
Lucy Howell:You know, some of them I've seen before and they come up multiple times.
Lucy Howell:So with that, like you're saying with Instagram and like, like you say,
Lucy Howell:once you post it, it's, it's out in the ether and that it's, it's less
Lucy Howell:likely to be, you know, Back up again.
Lucy Howell:Yeah.
Lucy Howell:Whereas, like you say, the longevity with Pinterest, with
Lucy Howell:the pins is much, it's much more.
Lucy Howell:Exactly, so I've just, I've just double checked
Lucy Howell:the facts on this, right?
Lucy Howell:So the halflife of a, a Pinterest pin is three and a half months.
Lucy Howell:So I was right in, in terms of the three and a half months.
Lucy Howell:It's three and a half months.
Lucy Howell:So a pin will last on Pinterest in the, in the visibility for it to be
Lucy Howell:found for three and a half months.
Lucy Howell:Now, to put that into perspective for people that are
Lucy Howell:on other platforms, a tweet.
Lucy Howell:is only, it'll only last for 24 minutes.
Lucy Howell:So any engagement you get is 24 minutes.
Lucy Howell:That's it.
Lucy Howell:And then it'll die.
Lucy Howell:It'll go and no one will see it again.
Lucy Howell:You know, unless anyone reposts that exact same pin.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:, um, same tweet, that's it.
Lucy Howell:The halflife of a Facebook post is 90 minutes, so it's slightly longer than.
Lucy Howell:Twitter, but not much longer.
Lucy Howell:So an hour and a half and a Facebook post, any engagement you get, that's
Lucy Howell:the maximum engagement you're gonna get.
Lucy Howell:Um, so in concept it's one, a Pinterest pin is 1,680 times
Lucy Howell:longer than a Facebook post.
Lucy Howell:Um, so if you've got content and you've got a product, it needs to be on Pinterest
Lucy Howell:because it's gonna last so much longer on Pinterest than it is anywhere else.
Lucy Howell:Um, which is why, again, it goes back to the thing of it's not a social media.
Lucy Howell:. Rachael Botfield: Yeah.
Lucy Howell:So also I'm thinking, so I've got, you know, at least 30 odd episodes in the
Lucy Howell:bank, potentially more when this airs.
Lucy Howell:So, and I've created audiograms for those and I've got, I've created social
Lucy Howell:media posts and things like that.
Lucy Howell:So Would you recommend as a starting point, Creating pins, using all of
Lucy Howell:like repurposing the old content.
Lucy Howell:Definitely not say old, but you know, starting there.
Lucy Howell:Yep.
Lucy Howell:And then kind of creating stuff with the new, cuz a lot of this
Lucy Howell:information and it's easy to forget, and I talk about this a lot, that
Lucy Howell:it's still relevant, A lot of it is still very relevant to your audience.
Lucy Howell:So if.
Lucy Howell:, you know, just, just discovering my podcast.
Lucy Howell:Now they've got all these other episodes that could be helping them.
Lucy Howell:So that would probably be a really great place to start is looking at
Lucy Howell:what content you've already created.
Lucy Howell:Yeah.
Lucy Howell:And creating the pin.
Lucy Howell:Is that what you kind of recommend if someone's kind of starting out on
Lucy Howell:Pinterest?
Lucy Howell:Definitely.
Lucy Howell:And, and the, the.
Lucy Howell:The three to five pins per day, that sounds terrifying, but really, say for
Lucy Howell:example, for you, so you could put one pin with a direct link to the, the,
Lucy Howell:the podcast itself, but then you could do another pin off the back of that.
Lucy Howell:I dunno, obviously how your kind of setup is for your content and
Lucy Howell:how you, but you say you use.
Lucy Howell:Podcast is your pillar for your content.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:. So you could do one pin for your podcast, so the direct link to Apple
Lucy Howell:or Spotify volume, wherever it is.
Lucy Howell:If you are pulling that information and you've got a blog to that same
Lucy Howell:podcast, do a pin to the blog, you know, do, and then you can do an audiogram.
Lucy Howell:So you've got three pins already off the back of one podcast episode.
Lucy Howell:Um, and then you could just do two others.
Lucy Howell:I dunno where else you'd be, your other posts go to.
Lucy Howell:But if you've got a, you know, a marketing or a, a offer or anything
Lucy Howell:like that that you've got, there's another pin that you can do.
Lucy Howell:So you can say, you know, listen to my podcast, grab this here, you know,
Lucy Howell:or grab my top 10 reasons for doing a podcast, or whatever your promo is.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:. So you want to kind.
Lucy Howell:What I tend to tell people is not to post the same link.
Lucy Howell:So for five pieces of content, you don't wanna be posting the same link.
Lucy Howell:So you don't want to be saying, you know, you've got your five different
Lucy Howell:pins, but each of those pins are going to exactly the same place,
Lucy Howell:like your website, for example.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:. Um, because what will happen is you can actually get kind.
Lucy Howell:Essentially kind of like shadow band on Pinterest if you keep
Lucy Howell:repurposing the same link.
Lucy Howell:So what you wanna do is see, you want to, cause they kind of, they don't like that,
Lucy Howell:they like you to go to different places.
Lucy Howell:So with one podcast episode, do one for your website, one for your blog.
Lucy Howell:It's, it's still on your website?
Lucy Howell:I, I would assume, probably, but different.
Lucy Howell:But it's taking, it's different linking, right?
Lucy Howell:Slightly different
Rachael Botfield:link.
Rachael Botfield:So that's okay then as long, even if, cause I've got, um, Yeah, my podcast is
Rachael Botfield:integrated into my website and, but it's, if you click on each individual episode,
Rachael Botfield:it's got a different kind of URL link.
Rachael Botfield:Yeah, exactly.
Rachael Botfield:So that would, would be okay.
Lucy Howell:That would be fine.
Lucy Howell:Yeah.
Lucy Howell:Okay.
Lucy Howell:And it's not, you're not gonna get, you know, automatically shut Aand if
Lucy Howell:you've got one podcast episode and you do post the same link because
Lucy Howell:they all go to the same place.
Lucy Howell:It's only if you are every single day.
Lucy Howell:For example, like a lot of, uh, service providers, like mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:you know, like us for example, that don't have a physical product to sell.
Lucy Howell:We're selling.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:a service.
Lucy Howell:Um, obviously if you've got a shop and you've got products, then
Lucy Howell:you're gonna have a different link.
Lucy Howell:You're gonna have different shoes.
Lucy Howell:Yeah.
Lucy Howell:Handbag, dresses, you know, everything that you can advertise.
Lucy Howell:But for us it's a bit more difficult.
Lucy Howell:Yeah.
Lucy Howell:So if.
Lucy Howell:A lot of service providers will, all of their content is on their website, so
Lucy Howell:their, their blog is on their website.
Lucy Howell:Their offers come off their website, you know, and it does make it difficult to
Lucy Howell:find different links, but it's, you're not gonna get shadow banned straight away.
Lucy Howell:It's only if you are continue.
Lucy Howell:Constantly doing it.
Lucy Howell:And you are only posting to, you know how virtual.code.you go how
Lucy Howell:virtual.code.you go, how you know?
Lucy Howell:And that's it.
Lucy Howell:And that's the only link you ever do.
Lucy Howell:What you wanna do is mix it up a little bit.
Lucy Howell:You know, take someone to your blog, take someone to your homepage, take
Lucy Howell:someone to your link, to your account.
Lucy Howell:If you've got it , you know, take someone to your email marketing to
Lucy Howell:sign up over there and yeah, and do it.
Lucy Howell:Just mix it up a little bit.
Lucy Howell:That's all.
Lucy Howell:Yeah.
Lucy Howell:stops you from getting, yeah.
Lucy Howell:Shouted out by Pinterest pin, you know, p chest prison
Lucy Howell:. Rachael Botfield: So what would be
Lucy Howell:podcast wanting to start with Pinterest?
Lucy Howell:What would be your kind of like top piece of device or top tip?
Lucy Howell:So I would say top tip on P.
Lucy Howell:. Don't be frightened of it.
Lucy Howell:That's the main thing.
Lucy Howell:I think a lot of, like I say, a lot of people kind of think because they
Lucy Howell:don't know a lot about the platform and they don't understand how it works.
Lucy Howell:Don't focus on it too much.
Lucy Howell:My top tip would be know your audience as to who you are advertising to.
Lucy Howell:So is it women in business?
Lucy Howell:Is it mums, is it women Over.
Lucy Howell:D, is it men that you're marketing to know your target audience and really
Lucy Howell:get that in your head because your keywords that you need to use are gonna
Lucy Howell:come off the back of that audience.
Lucy Howell:You don't want to be selling a product to women in business and then only
Lucy Howell:finding the, you know, Teenagers under the age of 14 are looking at your pins.
Lucy Howell:It's just, it's, it's irrelevant.
Lucy Howell:You don't want it.
Lucy Howell:And if that happens, you've done something wrong with the targeting.
Lucy Howell:So you need to be really clear and really specific in your head of who
Lucy Howell:you are marketing your products to.
Lucy Howell:Mm-hmm.
Lucy Howell:. Um, so there's a really easy way of doing it, but I'll.
Lucy Howell:give you a link to that and show you how to, you know, show your
Lucy Howell:audience how to find keywords, but it is really easy to do it.
Lucy Howell:But you need to know in your head who you're marketing your project
Lucy Howell:to in order to be able to get that target audience found on Pinterest.
Rachael Botfield:Yeah, I mean, that is really important and that you should, in
Rachael Botfield:your podcast, have a good idea of who you.
Rachael Botfield:Your podcast to reach as well.
Rachael Botfield:Yeah.
Rachael Botfield:Um, so hopefully you, I mean, it, it's always, it can be quite hard narrowing
Rachael Botfield:some of those things down, but it's a really good exercise to do for your
Rachael Botfield:business and for your podcast in general, is really knowing who you want to
Rachael Botfield:target and what key words are gonna be relevant for those, for those people.
Rachael Botfield:Definitely.
Rachael Botfield:Well, thank you, Lucy.
Rachael Botfield:It's been such a great chat today.
Rachael Botfield:No.
Rachael Botfield:You have some news as well, don't you?
Rachael Botfield:Do you wanna tell us a little bit about your
Lucy Howell:news?
Lucy Howell:Yes.
Lucy Howell:So I have got, um, a little bit of news.
Lucy Howell:So I am in the process of setting up my own podcast, which is going
Lucy Howell:to be called based on my name and my tagline, uh, how can I help
Lucy Howell:I love that.
Lucy Howell:It just seemed like a, so it's gonna be a.
Lucy Howell:A podcast basically with moms and moms in business predominantly.
Lucy Howell:I'm not discounting dads, obviously.
Lucy Howell:I want to get another perspective, but originally it's gonna be moms in business.
Lucy Howell:Um, just to kind of have a chat with them really and find out any.
Lucy Howell:You know, issues that they've had with, you know, being a, a mom and,
Lucy Howell:and maybe working from home and things like that when they've got children.
Lucy Howell:Like I say, I've got a two and a half year old and it's so difficult, but,
Lucy Howell:you know, we do it and we are doing it.
Lucy Howell:And I look on LinkedIn every day and see so many amazing women out there that
Lucy Howell:are like, you know, they're running a.
Lucy Howell:A, a six figure business, you know, or, or more even.
Lucy Howell:And they've got, you know, 2, 3, 4 kids even, you know, um, and they're
Lucy Howell:all toddlers or they're all, you know, they're all at home and things like that.
Lucy Howell:So it would be great to kind of talk to other women and other moms and
Lucy Howell:find out, you know, what their kind of key tips are for other people and
Lucy Howell:you know, what their struggles have been as well with getting there.
Lucy Howell:So that's kind of where we're going with the
Rachael Botfield:podcast.
Rachael Botfield:Yeah, I really, I really like listening to.
Rachael Botfield:real life stories.
Rachael Botfield:Um, yeah.
Rachael Botfield:And hearing how people who are, you know, just like you, often it's,
Rachael Botfield:it's quite easy to, um, kind of think that you are alone, alone in it.
Rachael Botfield:And even though you know you aren't, it's so easy to fall in into that feeling.
Rachael Botfield:Like, what?
Rachael Botfield:Like when I started my first podcast was.
Rachael Botfield:Um, virtually inspiring podcast and I was talking to VAs and how they got
Rachael Botfield:for their journeys, and that was what something that me at the beginning of
Rachael Botfield:my journey was really interested in knowing, like how did you actually just.
Rachael Botfield:Start and do this, and you know, a lot of them women's as well.
Rachael Botfield:And it's so interesting hearing people's root to it, and it's all very different.
Rachael Botfield:So I think that's, um, it's gonna be a really good podcast to
Rachael Botfield:listen to in the, in the Preneur.
Rachael Botfield:I know some people don't like that.
Lucy Howell:Uh, . Yeah, I know.
Lucy Howell:That's why I try and say mum's in business.
Lucy Howell:But yeah,
Rachael Botfield:you know, my, the jury's still out.
Rachael Botfield:I get why people don't like preneur because it's like, it's
Rachael Botfield:like saying, oh, Womenpreneur, you can't be an entrepreneur, but.
Rachael Botfield:I think in terms of, um, I don't necessarily think it's like a, I
Rachael Botfield:don't think of it as a derogatory
Lucy Howell:thing.
Lucy Howell:I think it's dislike.
Lucy Howell:I don't kinda like, yeah, it's like it's catchy, you know?
Lucy Howell:It's just a slang way of saying it's just a slang way own mom in business, isn't it?
Lucy Howell:You know?
Lucy Howell:Awesome person in business.
Lucy Howell:That's it.
Lucy Howell:So . Yeah,
Lucy Howell:. Rachael Botfield: That's
Lucy Howell:Yeah.
Lucy Howell:Person.
Lucy Howell:. Yeah.
Lucy Howell:Person.
Lucy Howell:Yeah, person.
Lucy Howell:Yeah.
Lucy Howell:We won't go that
Lucy Howell:. Rachael Botfield: Um, well, do you
Lucy Howell:If people are interested in having Pinterest for their podcast, do you
Lucy Howell:wanna let us know the best place to find you and where you hang?
Lucy Howell:Yeah, so, uh, my website is uh, www.howellvirtual.co.uk,
Lucy Howell:Facebook, Instagram.
Lucy Howell:Um, all of my social media handles are at Howl Virtual, so pretty simple and
Lucy Howell:straightforward to find me . That's
Rachael Botfield:great.
Rachael Botfield:I'll link it all in the show notes as well.
Rachael Botfield:Just say that.
Rachael Botfield:Make it easier for people to find you as well.
Rachael Botfield:And thank you so much for coming on and talking to us about Pinterest.
Rachael Botfield:I'm sure I do have some more questions, so potentially we might do a follow
Rachael Botfield:up episode , and definitely you've inspired me to be a little bit more
Rachael Botfield:proactive with getting into Pinterest.
Rachael Botfield:I'd just like those, those odds, let's say, not odds, but you know,
Rachael Botfield:the, the, um, interaction and the engagement you were talking about it.
Rachael Botfield:Extremely exciting.
Rachael Botfield:So I would think I might have a look at that.
Rachael Botfield:So thanks very much, Lucy, and we'll
Lucy Howell:speak to you soon.
Lucy Howell:No problem at all, Rachel.
Lucy Howell:Thank you for having me.
Lucy Howell:Okay, bye bye.
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