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HomeAway Summit 2012. Why use Pinterest ?. To display attractive and inspiring photos of your vacation rental, area attractions and local activities. S ource of promoting the highlights of your property Engaging with your target market Building links to your property page
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Why use Pinterest? • To display attractive and inspiring photos of your vacation rental, area attractions and local activities. • Source of promoting the highlights of your property • Engaging with your target market • Building links to your property page • Educating travelers about your location, and making them more likely to be interested in your property • Creating a conglomerate of shared images, resources and links • Source of potential traffic to your listing • From 2010 to 2012 we looked at inquiry conversion from Pinterest on VRBO; it was approximately 6% • Compared to some other social sites, the inquiry conversion is higher
Getting Started What is it? • Pinterest is a virtual pin-board site that allows users to organize photos from any website and places them into categorical “boards”. How do you sign up? • You must request an invite, somark it on the sheet! • Once you receive an invite, link to your Facebook or Twitter account before you create an account with your email address
Functions • Pin • Images, videos or articles • Links back to website • Board • Categories • Titles that reflect property or area • Followers • Follow users interested in travel, home décor, DIY • Repin • Repost other users pins • Place into a category/ board Let’s Pin an Image!
Creating a Pin Write a description using keywords and hashtags Include a link to your property or link source Select appropriate board Pin It Button
How to Engage Repin photos that relate to your property/location Search for friends and topics Comment on photos Follow users back
Content Content Examples on Pinterest