Is anyone using TAILWIND for PINTEREST?

[TAngelone]

Hello everyone. I have a quick question. Does anyone use TAILWIND for PINTEREST to manually make pins to promote their Zazzle store and products? The reason I am asking is because I have a subscription to TAILWIND and I have never used it. Moreover I am still learning Zazzle and Pinterest. 

If you use TAILWIND could you be so kind as to post a step by step process you take to make MANUAL ORIGINAL pins to promote your Zazzle products on PINTEREST. What URLS do you use? What media such as photos and videos are you uploading to TAILWIND if any. 

This will help NOT only myself but others who read and follow this thread who need guidance about using TAILWIND for PINTEREST to make MANUAL ORIGINAL pins to promote Zazzle pins and products. 

Thanks in advance. Any help is needed and appreciated. 

I would like to reciprocate by following you on PINTEREST so we can help promote each other. 

Thanks in advance. 

[LisaMG]

I do, not that I can tell it helps drive traffic to any of my shops other than my website (which I don't sell from). I don't have one method to create pins. I either download or take a screenshot of the products/mockups and create the pins in Canva to save, then upload to Tailwind. Or I use the "create" in Tailwind to add the URL of the product and then select the pins I like to add my branding to then continue editing from there. It's a learning curve using the Create in Tailwind until you get used to it as it's not particularly user friendly, IMHO.  I have been using the AI portion of the pin creation in Tailwind to create the pin descriptions which has been a lifesaver as I suck at creating descriptions. Hmm .. may use it to create descriptions for my POD shops. 🤔 

[GraphicAllusion · Accepted solution]

Yep, I do. Only started a few weeks ago, so it's too soon to see if the auto-posts are driving traffic or not, but these things can take some time. One thing I have noticed is that by auto-posting every day my monthly views are increasing dramatically which I'm very pleased about to say the least, lol. So, I make most of my cover images from scratch. I did have a Freepik subscription for a while and found that useful but it was only for a month to save money. I still use those mockup templates, but find I'm using background images more and more from Pixabay, in conjunction with Photoshop's new remove background function. It was very time-consuming at first, but I've become quite fast at doing it now so it's all good.

For Tailwind, you can access it in two ways (1) by clicking on the little blue circle in the righthand corner of your screen, or (2) just bookmark the main Home page which is what I've done. I've got into a workflow now where I'm clicking on the blue circle to use the Ghostwriter (which is great for creating product descriptions for my stores here at Zazzle) and clicking on the bookmark in the browser when I want to schedule posts to pinterest.

So, I (1) create my mockup in Photoshop; (2) go to the Tailwind home page; (3) click Upload or Create Post (the blue bar); (4) upload my mockup image (make sure it's under 8 mbs or it will refuse it); (4) Click on Go Schedule Post (blue bar, bottom righthand corner of screen); then (5) fill in details such as Pin Title, Description, Pin URL, Pin Destination, what board I'm pinning to, choose a time under where it says When to Post, then click Schedule Post and then it takes you to the calender where you can see it's scheduled. Et voila, you're done.

Hope all that made sense. If you have any questions ask away, athough I'm not in the forum every day. Lisa is right, it is a learning curve - it took me a few days to get my head around it but all it takes is a bit of practise. Good luck!