the new Pinterest messaging feature and I also talk with blogger and freelance writer Karen Cordaway. Karen was an early adopter of Pinterest and was recently chosen by Pinterest to have her account featured.

Content curation is something that most social media markers say you MUST do in order not to be spammy or too self promotional. Many say it would be rude to only post your own content and never share anyone else’s. But, is your social media content curation just noise, is it really the best way to approach social media marketing?

Have you taken a close look at your Pinterest feed in the past couple of days? There have been some big changes to what is appearing in the Pinterest feed. Each of the changes could be in preparation for the launch of the long anticipated promoted pins or paid advertising on Pinterest. Yes!!!!

If you post recipes on your blog, wouldn’t you like to boost your Pinterest visibility? It’s easy to install recipe pins on your website.

Pinterest continues to receive funding and its valuation continues to skyrocket, as of June 2014 it is reported to be $5 BILLION. This meteoric rise brings additional attention which is causing the platform to rival Twitter in popularity and the developing of new features such as the much anticipated advertising on Pinterest through sponsored pins.

The incredibly talented Margot of Margo Madison Creative is a graphic designer who has been creating gorgeous invitations for special events for over 15 years. This experienced business owner saw how Pinterest could help her business be even more successful. Margot shares with us how she uses Pinterest to attract new clients and to it helps her to work with work with existing ones.

They’re on Twitter. They’re on Facebook. They’re on Google+… They’re even on Pinterest too! Wherever people are online, scammers will always be there to try to lure people to their spammy sites. They will steal your pins or your boards and use them as their own. They hurt business’ reputations! How do we identify spam on Pinterest and what can we do about it?

Pinterest is certainly changing the way people think about search engine tools. Pinterest Guided Search recently launched on the mobile version and it has the potential to greatly influence what users find on Pinterest.

Spring has sprung and all around there’s change and it seems that spring has made it’s way to Pinterest too. In the past few weeks new Pinterest features have bloomed. Some have the potential to be great for businesses on Pinterest but unfortunately, that’s not the case for all of them.