Take Your Wall Down and Collaborate With Others to Grow Your Pinterest.

As an introvert you might be thinking, well geez I don't wanna do that, cant I do this without talking to someone?

You can't make genuine connections online without eventually talking to them.

At first, giving each other a share of likes or maybe you both purchase a product from each other.

But eventually, to really grow that relationship strong you need to collaborate together and make a genuine connection.

Sometimes in life, you are faced with difficult challenges.

This is one of them.

As an introvert myself I can tell you I am deathly afraid of collaboration.

But here are some tips on how to come out of your shell as an entrepreneur.

First things first, you need to change your mindset.

Think about a diet, which you most likely failed at, but with a diet there are rules.

And you know if you want to commit yourself to lose the weight you have to commit to those rules.

Think of starting a collaboration with someone as the same thing.

The rules for collaboration are:

— you get to talk with other entrepreneurs like yourself

— make a product that you both share with sales on because you sell to both your audiences

— you communicate thoughts with the other person in order to form a good product idea

All of those things require you to be a fully willing participant.

When I first discovered the power of collaboration I was still very much so frustrated with social media. It didn't make sense to me what I should be doing, the thought of doing presentations and coaching made me nervous and someone scarred.

But when I say the power of collaboration I mean POWER, I mentioned me joining joined jump first academy I made myself (like actually forced myself) to participate.

I was active in the class and began to get active in the Facebook group.

Overnight by doing that one change, I got 200 followers. Yup, 200.

All I did was share my thoughts/opinions on this past week's work and I participated in the group discussion.

That's crazy though if you think about it.

I am struggling with myself to find momentum and keep doing that every day because it is draining.

I love writing long-form, but the short form is hard for me because I cannot fully express my thoughts and views.

Now that you have developed why you need to communicate and the importance of communication, here's how you can keep it going.

2) Social Snowball

You may have heard of this before like the debt snowball, the social snowball is very similar you have good days when you're producing back to back content and its good content and you start getting comments you will start to see the following grow and grow and grow.

Warning though, the snowball does decrease eventually and some traction will slow, but it always comes back if you stay consistent.

Some easy ways to remember to stay consistent are:

• make sticky notes

• set timers on your phone

• use a tool like Hootsuite to schedule your posts

• set reminders on Hootsuite app on the right times to post

• set popup reminders on Outlook to alert you on your desktop

Every once in a while you will feel defeated because the likes or the comments may not be there but if you look at those days determine what you could have done better on and go with that.

I've learned that a perfect medium-sized text works for my readers. As far as interaction goes

I was able to determine that people the post that got the most comments and followers were the ones that were meaningful but short.

So for other bloggers really long information works better, it may be because I post usually informational photos like infographics which allow them to read as they are looking at the picture. It's the best forum I've seen for my marketing campaign.

People on my feed also love short witty quotes with nice photos attached to it. I'm not a meme queen but I'm good at finding motivational stuff.

So just remember to keep doing it. After about a day or so you'll see it as just another part of your day.

3) Hashtags that matter

Try really digging into the Instagram hashtags by studying the amount of posted materials in the hashtags feed.

Here I have heard that using a mix of audience sizes is important, but if you are so small like me with less than 500 followers you should really stick to sticking out in the small audiences first because I promise, you will eventually get more and more likes if you continue to use the SAME hashtags.

If you notice some hashtags mixtures don't do well with each other than mix them back up again.

Maybe your niche isn't vague enough.

Maybe you need to really dive in and just think about other keywords you could use to pull

up better search results.

There are so many things you can do to improve.

But during the social snowball, you'll usually come in contact with other entrepreneurs that

will reach out to you or will like a comment you post on their contact.

When that happens you have to move on to the hardest of all parts to these tips.

4) You have to reach out.

If you take the time to comment on someone's post, and they in return give a like or a comment you should immediately respond back with another like or another reply. Or if you can be brave enough send a PM.

“Hey, I saw you liked my post or I liked your post (whatever the scenario is) and I was just wondering what you do for a living?”

Now as you sit there and contemplate whether they will reply just go ahead take a breath and starting scrolling again.

You'll soon forget you sent something and then if they reply it's just on you to keep the conversation going. That's how you collaborate.

So, how do I do this on my boards on Pinterest?

Hold up wait a minute!

There's just one more step, once you've connected with them on Instagram, ask them to connect with you on your Facebook and ask them if they have a Pinterest.

If they do share your page URL with them and ask them to follow you and you'll follow them back.

Once this happens, you can then either create a board based on the common traits you have or simply add them as a collaborator to any of your already made board. !

5) If you already have a following on Pinterest you can easily add them as collaborators on your boards where you share your blog posts.

This will allow you to constantly show each other updated work which helps build traffic to your site.

This also allows you to plant the seeds of your core values and also a good test subject when coming out with new products.

6) Once you've added them to collaborate start posting and sharing in that board and get that other person curious in what you're posting to make sure the captions have a call to action in them to catch the readers' attention.

Pinterest tells people when others have posted to boards that they are following or apart of. If you constantly keep posting on those boards more people will see it in their feeds.

And then they are more than likely to share or repin to one of their boards.

The key to Pinterest growth is really to just keep posting. You don't have to post in a specific manner you just have to post enough to get noticed. And once you get noticed you'll see that you keep growing.

Pinterest, unlike Instagram, is fast but it doesn't always have the best rate of return on your investment so be careful when running ads if that is what you choose to do.

You can grow a steady following on Pinterest of people who are interested in what you post.

You just have to make sure to keep pumping out content or it's really easy to lose momentum on your social snowball.

Pinterest can help you gain the connections you need to get traffic to your site.

You just gotta take the steps we just discussed.

Step out of your comfort zone and just go for it.

One thing you can always remember to do is to stay on task. By staying on a task you will

see communication as another thing you do for your business.

And since your business excites you and you want it to thrive you will do everything you can to make sure it works out.