Summary: <br> Welcome to our food blogging Podcast and here we are with Food Blogging FM 015.<br> <br> <a href="http://recipethis.com/downloads/podcastfbfm15.zip"></a><br> You can listen to the Podcast on the link above, read all about it below or click to download the ebook version on the banner above.<br> What Is Featured In This Podcast?<br> How Tailwind has changed things at RecipeThis.com – discover how making a few smart changes has actually doubled our Pinterest traffic in the very first month of using it. Plus we were on holiday for part of that month so we didn’t start it straightaway!<br> The Tailwind account – what you need to know about Tailwind and the top 10 stages of making a successful Tailwind account.<br> Links & Resources Mentioned In Food Blogging FM 015:<br> <br> * <a href="https://pt.pinterest.com/recipethis/">Our Pinterest Boards</a><br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/pinterestboards/?ref=group_browse_new">Pinterest Group Boards</a><br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/PinterestGroupBoardAdd/?ref=group_browse_new">Pinterest Group Board Add</a><br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/469456266564807/?ref=group_browse_new">Best Of Pinterest</a><br> * <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1643949929216689/?ref=group_browse_new">Pinterest Boards</a><br> * <a href="http://pingroupie.com/">PinGroupie</a><br> * <a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?B=551332&U=680203&M=50947&urllink=">Tailwind</a><br> * <a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?B=363461&U=680203&M=37818&urllink=">Hootsuite</a><br> * <a href="https://recipethis.com/ice-cream-maker-luxury-vanilla-ice-cream/">Our Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe</a><br> * <a href="https://www.fiverr.com/recipethis">Recipe This on Fiverr</a><br> <br> Today I wanted to talk to you about Tailwind. If you’re not familiar with Tailwind then put in simple terms it is a scheduler for Pinterest. Here at RecipeThis.com we have tried other schedulers but not one of them has matched up to this one.<br> We are also the frugal type of food bloggers so we don’t spend money on our food blog unless we have to. So for us to spend just over $100 a year for something it has to give us something special.<br> Well most people are on Pinterest for traffic and to use it to grow their social media activity and it has certainly done that for us.<br> Here is our Pinterest traffic the day we started on Tailwind:<br> <br> 1685 sessions was what we had for the last 30 days. This had become the norm and for a food blog that was just six months old we were relatively happy with this result. However we were still looking at our former site that got a lot of traffic from Pinterest and wish we could have the same success.<br> But Pinterest has changed a lot since then and you could just post your recipes in 2013 and not have to make any effort. But with more and more people using it and promoted pins you have to go that extra mile.<br> So we started on Tailwind and this was our first full month on Tailwind:<br> <br> 3672 sessions was what we have had in the last month in comparison. This means that we have more than doubled our traffic. We have also added approximately one thousand new followers to our Pinterest account too.<br> Normally to have that kind of growth you would need one of your updates to go viral but thanks to Pinterest Groups and incorporating it into Tailwind you can achieve this on your own. So let me explain how:<br> The Tailwind Account<br> To get going you will need to have a Tailwind account. You can sign up for one by going to RecipeThis.com/tailwind. Once you have a tailwind account set up then you can set to work making it work for you.<br> Here are the first things you need to do:<br> <br> * Put a spreadsheet together<br> <br> For me my spreadsheet it what runs a successful Pinterest campaign through Tailwind.
