In the past I’ve found it too time consuming to follow through on the info I got from @PacifierCity about how well his manually created pins did on Pinterest.
I did try it on October 1st this year with just one: here’s the results:
You can see that the manually created one has got 25 X the impressions when compared to the highest performing one pinned at the same time using a Pinterest button (aka pin-it button). 233 impressions in 5 weeks is quite respectable.
When I saw that it got me thinking about how I could speed up the process of manually creating pins with image sizes that Pinterest prefers. The answer was (as usual, and what you’d expect from me) by using one of the Nifty tools.
I’ve written a blog post describing the whys and wherefores and you can read that here: https://niftytoolz.com/learn-how-to-create-pinterest-pins-that-get-20-times-the-impressions
..or you can cut to the chase and watch the 5min youtube vid here: https://youtu.be/kST_MEI8YYM
(it’s already had 35 views, mostly Zazzlers, which is almost viral for me, hehe!)
I’m continuing to create more pins manually (as it’s so easy now) so that I can get more stats. I know that one swallow doesn’t make a summer, so seeing some averages taken over a goodly number will give me more reliable stats. But I’m confident about it when I think about what @PacifierCity told me.
Happy to answer questions as always 
