How to Set Up, Convert & Verify a Pinterest Account

How to Set Up a Pinterest Account

  1. Go to Pinterest for Businesses and make sure you are not logged in to another account already.
  2. Click Join Pinterest or Join as a business
    1. Enter the client’s email address (Get this from the CEM), create a password (keep it professional, such as client1 or similar) and click Sign up.Record the username (client’s email address) and password, use Q4Launch16, in Basecamp. Very important!!
    2. Enter account info – email, password, business name, website URL, and select Local Business as the business type.
    3. Click Create account
    4. Follow 5 topics (Ie: travel, city, state, photography, etc.)
  3. Go to the PIN icon and select Edit Settings
    1. Scroll down and add a photo.
      • Go to the client website and save a nice photo to your desktop. Then click Change Your Picture and upload that image. If it doesn’t fit, you’ll need to find a smaller image.
    2. Check the Username. Must be between 3-15 characters. If you are limited onspace, you can abbreviate, such as IsaiahJonesBnB instead ofIsaiahJonesHomestead. Just make sure it’s an accurate representation of the

      business.

    3. Fill in the About You (Limited word count), Location, Website
    4. Click Save Settings
  4. Go ahead and create several boards and add pins linking back to the website as much as possible. (Board examples: Isaiah Jones Homestead Blog, Things to Do in Sandwich, MA, Places to Stay in Sandwich, MA (only feature their website/rooms for this one), Things to Do in Sandwich, MA, etc.
  5. Copy/paste the Pinterest URL into Basecamp, along w/ the username and password.
  6. Now you’ll need to verify the account using the following instructions.

Verify a Pinterest Account

  1. Login to Pinterest.
  2. Go to Edit Settings
  3. Click Confirm Website.
    confirm-website
  4. Copy the code that appears between the “quotation mars”.verification-code
  5. Login to the live site (This process only works if we are hosting the website)
    • For Old Framework
      1. Go to Appearance > Customize > B&B Framework
      2. In the box labeled “Verify Pinterest” paste the code copied from step 4 into this box.
      3. Click Save
    • For New Framework
      1. Go to Appearance > Customize > Q4FWSite Options > Social / Pinterest Verification
      2. Paste the code copied in step 4 into the box labeled “Verify Pinterest”pinterest_verify
      3. Click Save**If the site is a Dev Site, you can login, enter the number and save it, but you want to verify the live URL, not the dev.. so, wait on that part.
  6. Go back to Pinterest and click Finish or Save and Publish.  You might still need to click Save Settings
  7. To verify that the code was added correctly, go to the homepage of the website and hit Ctrl + u on the keyboard (or Right-click on the homepage of the website, select View page source)
  8. While viewing the page source, hit Ctrl + f.  In the search box type “domain_verify”domain_verify
  9. This should find the code that was added for the Pinterest verification with the same code that you previously pasted in the quotations after content =domain_verification
  10. Check this To Do off on Basecamp.

 

 

How to Convert a Personal Account to a Business Account

  1. Go to Pinterest for Business and make sure that you are not logged in to another account.
  2. Click Convert now
  3. Log in with the client’s email and password
  4. When you set up (or convert to) a business account, Pinterest suggests that you:
    • Confirm your website – which you can do right away or later
    • Add a Pin It button to your website – so users can pin content from your website
    • Add a Follow button/widget to your website – so users can follow you directly from your websiteNote that you will lose the link to your Facebook Personal Profile when you convert to a business account, but you will keep all existing Followers/Follows, boards and Pins.

Note that you will lose the link to your Facebook Personal Profile when you convert to a business account, but you will keep all existing Followers/Follows, boards and Pins.

For More Information on the difference between a Personal Pinterest Account vs a Business Account click here.

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