There’s a reason they say…“Watch out Pinterest is addicting!” This is my 3rd post in a row where I am talking about the hottest new social network on the planet. (I need to get a life, haha.)

I totally agree that it can become very addicting. Just look at all the gorgeous pictures everyone is pinning there. Most people are visual people and like me respond to brilliant colors or funny and/or cute pictures. So when something gets “addicting” it means you spend a lot of time there. Or should I better say waste a lot of time?

I needed another social network to worry about like I needed a hole in the head. But, since I kept hearing how awesome Pinterest is for marketing I had to check it out. I really love what I see there, but I do not have much time to devote to it. So any tool that comes along to make my life easier and save me time is highly welcomed. Don’t you agree?

If you missed it, here is part one of “Powerful Reasons Why You Should Use Pinterest for Marketing.”

Success on Pinterest is about Strategy

So strategize! Strategize! Strategize! Just like Facebook with its EdgeRank it’s all about interaction on Pinterest as well.

Strategize and plan out your boards. Cute and funny always trumps. Infographics are eye-catching. (I love infographics.) Always think, what audiences do I want to reach and …how is this going to be viral so people want to share it? Use hashtags #.

I attended a power-packed webinar about using Pinterest for marketing last week. Actually, I couldn’t write fast enough and quite frankly I don’t remember the last time I took so many notes. But I wanted to make sure I copied everything down so I could share it with you all.

So, pull up a chair, get comfy, get your favorite beverage and read what I’m about to share with you….

I assume you have heard by now that Facebook bought Instagram last week. I guess the reason behind it is because they saw it as kind of a threat in light of Pinterest’s recent growth.

When you think about it, the web is going more and more to VISUAL and although Pinterest is still dwarfed by Facebook, with its record-breaking growth to 10 million there is no telling where it will go. So yeah, I could see where Facebook would feel threatened.

Today I want to share with you a little more of what I learned going through Mari Smith Extreme Fanbase Growth course. Since Facebook introduced the subscribe button at the end of last year I sometimes get the questions what is the difference between “Facebook subscribers” and “Facebook friends?” Do I need both?

Are there benefits to turning on Facebook subscribe?

Well, it depends. If you are like most of the millions of users that uses Facebook strictly to connect and interact with close friends and family members then maybe you don’t need the Facebook subscribe option because you most likely will never hit the limit of 5,000 friends.

Change is good! But too much change too quickly and radically can really overwhelm even the most experienced marketer, as well may be the case with the new Facebook Timeline for Pages.

If you haven’t been living under a rock you’ve heard about all the changes Facebook made in recent weeks. Actually, I heard there were somewhere around 90 changes in the last 60 days alone. Now that’s a TON!

The biggest change obviously is the new Timeline for Pages.

We all love to get more traffic to our blog, don’t we? And I’m always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to get more blog traffic.

The first time I heard about Pinterest.com the newest social network on the block was when I visited the lovely Brankica Underwood’s blog. I invite you to pay her a visit and read her “Complete Pinterest Guide.”

Although I loved the idea of pinning pictures of what you are interested in to a virtual pin board, I was apprehensive to join because the last thing I needed was another distraction.

Gosh, I don’t know about you, but when I find out about some cool kind of ninja trick I get all tingly inside and just can’t wait to implement it and experience how it will work for me. And you know I will always share it with you guys.

So, what did I learn today?

Well, I was watching a recorded webinar with Mari Smith (you know THE top authority when it comes to anything to do with Facebook) and Mari mentioned that having Networked Blogs installed on your Facebook Page is really beneficial for getting more SEO from Facebook.

That’s when my ears perked up. Really?

Well, it totally makes sense as Facebook has an Alexa ranking of 2 and is the second most trafficked website in the world after Google.  It is also ranked #1 in the world for site visits for the length of session time.

Have you ever wondered if people find out when you “unfriend someone” in Facebook?

Personally, I haven’t been too concerned about this, because I rarely use the Facebook unfriend option. But it seems to be a very popular question because it often shows up as a search query on my blog. Just today I had several people ask, …

“Will friend know if I unsubscribe them — unsubscribe facebook find out – does facebook tell friend if you unsubscribe – does someone know if I unsubscribe them”

And I get those queries on a regular basis.

Has this ever happened to you?  You are getting ready to write one of your weekly blog posts and nothing happens. You have been staring at the screen for 10 minutes and you are drawing a complete blank.

Writer’s block, arrgghh!  Not a single usable blog post idea comes to mind. Nothing! Zilch! Nada!

If you are anything like me, you are starting to get pretty nervous right about now. You know that your readers are waiting for your blog post. You don’t want to disappoint them, yet for the life of you you can’t think of anything that would provide the value your readers are used to.

Pretty horrible feeling, isn’t it?

Every once in a while I get that Request for Recommendation from LinkedIn. I’m sure you get them too.

While I am genuinely flattered that somebody values my opinion about them enough to ask me for a recommendation and I love giving them, sometimes that request leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.

Such was the case just this past week and this particular one was a double no-no.

The new Facebook Timeline roll out is almost completed. If you are still on the old interface and would like to know how to switch to the new timeline now, there are plenty of tutorials on YouTube or just Google it.

So now that you have all that space available  just what in the world are you going to choose as your Facebook Timeline Cover?

With more than 800 million users Facebook is the #1 Social Network and a very powerful marketing tool. As I have mentioned a couple of times before Facebook isn’t static, it changes all the time and it changes fast. At times it is hard to keep up. So anytime I come across new information about Facebook my antennas go up.

Last week I was invited to a webinar about FBinfluence an All in One Facebook Marketing course.

Right away I knew two things…

I knew I had to be on this webinar and I knew I was going to buy this product ….even BEFORE I attended the webinar.