Lots of inspiring discoveries to share with you this month!
Our favourite blogpost
We were invited by 91 Magazine to share our top five Pinterest tips on their blog. Caroline the 91 magazine editor recently enrolled on our online course ‘Grow Your Creative Business With Pinterest’ and found by following our advice she’s seeing more and more traffic to the website and the monthly unique viewers on Pinterest doubled in the space of a few weeks of completing the course! Click here to read: 5 WAYS TO MAKE PINTEREST WORK HARDER FOR YOUR CREATIVE BUSINESS
Our favourite podcast
Georgie and Dörte on Collaboration for Creative Introverts ~ we loved working out if we are creative introverts and sharing our business story with Cat. We also all agreed that Pinterest is the most ‘introvert’ friendly platform!
Our favourite community
The Design Trust Business Club is a curated online learning hub tailor-made for motivated creative business owners. It covers ALL aspects of running a business. There are monthly topics and May focused on Pinterest and LinkedIn. On a live webinar, we shared tips and tricks on how Pinterest can drive traffic to business websites, generate sales and help creative businesses flourish.
If you’d like easy access to expert help growing your business, join over 100 other members of the Business Club now. The Design Trust is offering you a £10 discount on the first month of membership of the Business Club. Use code BCFRIEND here https://thedesigntrust.thrivecart.com/business-club-monthly-gbp/ to pay just £15 (usual cost £25). Offer ends 15 June 2019.
Our favourite workshop
Jo from Lume Lighting came along to one of our Pinterest Workshops earlier this year. We love her unique lampshade designs! She runs creation workshops in Brighton and Hove ~ Fairy Light Making Workshop & Lampshade Making Workshop
Our favourite magazine
Bloom magazine ~ It’s definitely been the month to get stuck into the gardening again, a great way to unwind and de-stress. We’ve been loving this magazine for inspiration. ‘For gardeners, plant admirers, nature lovers, curious explorers and outdoor adventurers. It is beautiful and useful; it looks lovely and it works hard; it makes you muse on the handsomeness of nature and it inspires you to get out there and be a part of it.’
Our favourite article
Are you charging enough? A tricky one to get right! This may help: 7 easy steps to calculate the cost price of your creative product
Our favourite Pinterest Tip
Optimise your website or online store for Pinterest
A third of all Google searches are for images! Pinterest is popular because people are drawn to visuals and love searching for them. By not deleting that ‘IMG_1785’ title and including keywords in your Alt Text then you’re missing a huge SEO trick and ruining your chances of appearing in search.
Our favourite Pinterest Account
Louise Tilbrook Designs ~ A knitter, designer and blogger. Addicted to coffee, cats and journalling.
Louise completed our online course GROW YOUR CREATIVE BUSINESS WITH PINTEREST
Her account is looking gorgeous. It really gives you a perfect overview of Louise’s style and aesthetic!
“I found the course so useful and I’m totally amazed that I’m starting to see results so quickly. I cleaned up my boards and starting using Tailwind in earnest two weeks ago. Already my monthly views have gone from around 40k to 72k – *they are now 214.8k !! – and the monthly engaged figure has gone from 1.1k to 1.9k. I’m trying to get into the habit of checking in with Pinterest quickly each morning and adding interesting pins (plus those I find from blogs etc) into my Tailwind queue ready to be scheduled…”
Dörte’s Race For Life
Dörte is taking part in the 10k Race for Life at the end of June to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Click here to read her story and to find out how you can help.
Our favourite Pinterest board
How To Start A Business Blog ~ How To Start A Business Blog for your creative business. Tech tips, SEO tips and blogpost ideas.
