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How to use Pinterest to generate traffic, leads and sales?

Using Pinterest for promotion means that you must optimize your presence on it using mainly the power of images. Think visually. Pinterest is a virtual pinboard and until now the best image-based social media around. In my opinion,  Pinterest can be a huge time saver or the biggest time thief! It is easy to sign in and get lost in that sea of lovely images! Fashion, advertising, photography, animals, home decor...you'll find anything you like on Pinterest . As I said it can be also a big time saver! I used Pinterest for a while   as a source for crafts inspiration. I saved tutorials that I might want to try one day. But it has been months since I logged into that account. I really don't have time for it!  To use Pinterest to fuel my Zazzle store's sales is another story. Everyone is writing wonders about Pinterest as a market tool. I think this sums it, but, easy to say, not that easy to do.  Pinterest buttons - Use Pin it and Follow button in your sites a...

Gifts for St. Patrick's Day celebration!

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When I was a child I enjoyed searching for rare four-leaf shamrocks. My grandmother always told me that if I could found one it would give me good luck! Sometimes I find one inside my children's books very dry and yellowish! She also told me that each leaf has a different meaning: faith, happiness, love, and hope. When she was young she worked in agriculture and she knew lots of stories about plants. I don't think she ever heard about tradition in Ireland. She never spoke me about Ireland! Back then I did not know shamrocks   are a symbol for Ireland and St. Patrick’s Day . Irish people traditionally wear a small bunch of shamrocks on their jackets or caps on this day. There’s an Irish legend that stipulates that St. Patrick used the three leaves shamrock to illustrate the concept of the Trinity (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) when trying to convert pagans to Christianity. She never spoke to me about leprechauns neither! Little unpleasant and lonely old man dress...