Since its launch, Pinterest has been doing good and going strong and with 70 million users, 80% among which are women, there's no ignoring it.

Pinterest was launched in March 2010 but somehow 60% of its user-base is based in US. Not that the company is not trying to expand globally, it's making efforts; but slow.

However, this shouldn't deter you from including Pinterest in your company's social media marketing strategy but before you start working on your social media marketing strategy, here is an infographic you must check.

This inforgaphic has been created by the folks at Dashburst and it presents you with 26 interesting stats about Pinterest.

For many people Christmas planning has just started but for the online retailers the Christmas planning started long ago and as the holiday is upon us the online retailers are looking for innovative ways to market their products. They do everything from email marketing to incorporating all sorts features and widgets, running perfect social media campaigns to what not to generate sales during the holiday season.

Since the new age media plays an important role in marketing products therefore, it's the number one choice of the online retailer. But when it comes to going the social media way, we have heard a lot about Facebook and Twitter, and how the two help in generating sales.

What about this time I tell you about something pinteresting about Pinterest?

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If I'm not wrong for most hobbyist photographers Pinterest has become that one place to lookout for photography inspiration, tips, ideas, DIYs, promote one's work and much more. With more and more photographers considering Pinterest one major player in their promotion strategy, I highly doubt if Pinterest would ever become obsolete for photographers.

As a photography lover and a crazy pinner, myself I took the liberty to compile a list of some must-follow Pinterest boards for photography lovers.

This list features boards that are filled with photography inspiration, shoot ideas, tips and what not all that you have to do is take out the time and explore these few boards.

Image based social media networks such as Pinterest and Instagram can be a great asset to your business' marketing strategy, especially when they are effectively integrated into your current social media efforts. Since Pinterest and Instagram are two of the fastest growing social media networks today, and it's been proven that image posts create significantly more traction than posts without images, why wouldn't your business be taking advantage of this huge opportunity?

Just like other social media networks, Pinterest and Instagram are about creating, collecting, and sharing content that appeals to your business' target market in order to increase your reach, and hopefully, your sales. If your business doesn't sell a physical product, it may be hard for you to see the benefit of marketing with images. However, services or B2B companies can benefit still benefit from image marketing by sharing posts containing info-graphics, videos, or other kinds of content that creatively depict or relate to your business.

Facebook did it, Twitter is also doing it and now joining these biggies of the social networking world is Pinterest. I bet I got you wondering what 'it' is.

'It' stands for advertising. Yes, Pinterest is welcoming advertisers with both hands open. This is a huge step taken by Pinterest towards monetizing its service and why not? Everyone is doing it!

With a great success story and popularity, Pinterest has began experimenting with promoting certain pins from a select group of businesses.

When it comes to promoting one's business, looking up to social media is what every business owner does and why not, this is the sure shot way of getting noticed and reaching your target audience. While there are oodles of social networking platforms out there to use, somehow Facebook is always our number one choice. Reason pretty obvious - it's active user count that is 1.5 billion active users, this means that almost everyone who has internet access is using it.

When it comes to using Facebook for promotional purpose it can be very tricky, reaching out your people, posting, getting likes is not as easy as it seems but a planned social media strategy would make it easy, trust me. So while everyone is latching on to the Facebook wagon, we should not forget the fact that there are other options in the social networking list as well.

Before we start anything, let me ask you a few questions:

1. On an average you spend more than two hours a day hours a day pinning stuff on Pinterest?

2. You have over 10 boards and all of different categories?

3. You can't stop yourself from pinning everything you like on Pinterest?

4. Out of creative ideas, Pinterest is your obvious pit-stop?

If your answer to the above four questions is yes, then my friend you're a Pinterest addict.

Earlier this week Pinterest announced some Pinteresting changes to its existing layout, changes that we for long have been craving for like personalized pins, board recommendations, etc.

In order to engage and make Pinterest more interesting, Pinterest for long has been making changes and adding new features and for the next few weeks Pinterest will be trying out new ways to help the users.

According to the announcement, "We want you to feel like Pinterest is really yours—so in the next few weeks we'll be trying out new ways to help you see more pins you love, and fewer you don't".

To make your Pinterest experience better and like never before, Pinterest has been working a lot and this new update announcement is like a breathe of fresh air.

When a writer holds the pen or scribbles something on the notepad of his computer, he wants to write what he visualizes in his mind. When he portrays it down, his creativity and art try to hold the image so that it becomes easier for the readers to understand what the writer is trying to say.

However, a common question that strikes our mind often - Does the reader understand what the writer is trying to convey?

When you see the actual picture of a writer’s imagination through illustrations, you tend to differ as your imagination fails to match with him. Well, if a writer tends to provide the suitable sketch of his imagination in the form of photo, picture or graphics, will you be able to visualize better?

The internet is full of all kinds of different tools for a small business owner. Majority of them are full of ads, cost too much or are just plain useless.

Being an internet marketer and a small business owner myself, I have put together a list of very useful internet marketing and monitoring software. All of them – Free of charge.

In the past we have discussed about ways to drive traffic from Facebook, Twitter and StumbleUpon. Today we'll be discussing how can one do the same via Pinterest.

For most social media marketers, Pinterest is considered to be the third best social networking platform, after Facebook and Twitter. Why?

Because of its unique pinboard-style photo sharing and its theme based image collection.

Now coming to the point, do you use Pinterest for your website or blog? If yes, are you getting the desired results?

YES, MAY BE or NO!

But whatever your answer is trust me Pinterest can do much more for your website or blog than you think.

"Why should boys have all the fun?" is a line taken too seriously and to the next level by the dudes.

Pinterest has been the fastest growing social networking site of 2012. However, its runaway success clearly shows a gender divide.

According to popular statistics, Pinterest- the virtual scrapbook of one's interest, is said to be a women's domain. Modea, a Washington-based digital ad agency says that nearly 68.2% of females rule the roost here with fashion, accessories and mushy quotes being popular interactive categories.

Last month heralded the arrival of the much anticipated Pinterest for Business accounts – but is a business account really any better than a regular one?

The savvy entrepreneurs amongst you will probably already be pinning with passion to develop your presence and grow your client base. Pinterest is now the proud possessor of over 25 million users – a phenomenal achievement for such a relatively young social media platform - and now the Pinterest peeps have introduced Pinterest for Business accounts even more businesses are likely to reach for a stake in the Pinterest pie.

Ok I bet a lot of you are thinking "yeah that's great and all, but I don't want to have to scrap my existing account and lose all my hard won followers, no sir thank YOU very much!" so let me put you at ease right now – it's all taken care of. You can simply switch over your account type and the process is pretty simple and stress-free.

No Google is not venturing into championing mainstream education now.

Now try some brain exercise here. What could possibly be common between a Tim Armstrong, a Marissa Mayer, a Biz Stone and Evan Williams?

As they say "Everyone Googles", so have each of these Google babies.

Today we bring for you a collection of Xooglers or those who transcended to the 'next level' of their careers after a brief stint at Google. Mind you the list is long and indeed baffling!

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It is a fairly common problem most of us have faced at one point of time or other.

Pinterest's terms and conditions do not allow users to post images from Facebook.  And mind you over-smart users who try to force feed this action, immediately get a "pop up" disclaimer note!

So should one not wish for a bridging both these social media sites? We say, why not.

This is a mighty annoying restriction for most social media users who are active on both these sites. It is a fair desire that bloggers and page admins have about garnering greater site traction by mutually sharing images on both the sites simaltaneously.

A few days ago, I faced the same glitches and worked around to come out with a workable solution that you as readers might have also faced.

There's a good news for all Pinterest users, who been waiting long for a more iOS friendly app.

Pinterest first launched its app for iPad last August which allowed users to Pin and Repin stuff and manage their Pinterest account. But there were some glitches here and these like the navigation and the option of editing and deleting comments on pins.

This Monday Pinterest updated its latest version of  Pinterest's iPad app. That allows users to edit the description of a pin, change its board location and delete it. Users can also delete comments and fix typos.

It's raining cats and dogs on the internet and when I say that, I'm only referring to the fact that whatever social networking or photo-bookmarking websites you visit, you're going to come across cute images of cats and dogs spreading cuteness all over your computer screen.

One thing that I really love about being a pet lover is the fact that among 5 people 2 are crazy pet lovers, so you're not the only crazy person out there (What a relief it is!).

Sometimes its really hard to find these like-minded people, you might come across a few on Facebook or Pinterest but not everywhere. But thanks to two Malaysian developers, now there's a social network exclusively for cat lovers - Catmoji.

When evaluating the marketing and PR outlook of the average business owner, it’s useful to break these folks into four groups:

1. People that want to increase visibility but don’t know how.

2. Those that try to increase exposure on their own (e.g., Start a Facebook account) but are either incapable or too overwhelmed to keep up with it.

3. Proactive people that follow the latest social media news and keep up active accounts and outreach.

4. People that don’t want to market themselves. Although these are rare, there are old-school word-of-mouth-only folks out there who make no effort to build a web presence.

'2012' is a year in the eye of the storm for reasons galore. Most of us into business would be gearing up for the festive season promotions, review meetings and charting out the next year's calendar. Coming onto Social Media networking, it too has seen its share of hits and misses this year.

While Pinterest expanded its features to facilitate businesses, Instagram has introduced a Web version and Facebook too joined the bandwagon by expanding its advertising options. With so much trending, businesses and SMBs in particular have a great opportunity to plan out for the future. Analytical knowledge is a handy tool when it comes to judging the market trends and keep track of one's competitors.

Here's the 'data book' of 3 Social Media platforms that have created some ripples in the consumer market this year.