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1. Juliet McEwen Johnson Author, Social Media Pro NOTICE: You Do NOT Have The Right To Resell This Report! You Also MAY NOT Give Away, Sell Or Share The Content Herein � Copyright Juliet McEwen Johnson

2. A friend of mine had lost a ton of weight with the Dukan diet. I think she�d lost 55 pounds in 110 days, or something quite extraordinary. I thought, well, if she can do it, so can I. I started off full of optimism and enthusiasm, as one does only this time, I thought I�d blog about it. To keep myself honest was my intention, and accountable. Yet also to remember some of the turmoil I went through on this diet. I suppose the idea was if I wrote it all down, then if I came off the diet and/or was successful, then I would be able to�well, I would remember, and it would be a help. One day, I wrote a blog post all about how if you are built like Beyonc� then there�s no point trying to look like Uma Thurman. I used one of my most favorite tips about social media, which is to always stand in front of other people�s traffic rather than create your own, whenever you can. (i.s. Leveraging money the celebrity has already spent to get themselves top of mind, and/or using a current news topic as a point of reference and then applying it all to your specific topic.) I had pictures of J-Lo and Beyonc� because at the time they were in the news. I think Beyonc� had just had the baby and J-Lo, well J-Lo seems to be in the news every day!

3. I included a picture of those two, and to be honest, it was somebody else�s article. I simply wrote an intro talking about how much I loved the article. (with a proper link to the original) Then I reprinted the whole bottom of the article and put �with no permission whatsoever - here�s the rest of this excellent article�! I linked up to it and thought, good enough. I left it at that. Then it occurred to me this might be an interesting post for Pinterest; why not put it up there and see what happens. It�s not long before an email arrives from Pinterest with all these �re-pins�. Good heavens! Well, I guess that hit a nerve then. That was a good one, wasn�t it? Clever old me! I wondered what that might mean in terms of my traffic. Let me go and have a look at Google Analytics. How extraordinary! 100 clicks on a private little blog which I was, at the time, not writing for anybody other than me. At some point I might try and monetize that blog, but it is a place just for me, to store everything to do with the Dukan diet and my own journey on it. (By which I�ve actually managed to lose 60 pounds, I�d just like to mention. Done for now. Phew!)

4. [In my live webinars on Pinterest, people have asked - was that clicks on your blog or your pin board, or is it the same thing? No, this was clicks on my blog coming to me, in-bound, from Pinterest. Pinterest sent me 100 new people that day to my blog. That is new, brand new people who never knew me before. It�s sure put the little Dukan diet diary blog, http://mydukandiary.com on the map!] Ah, so that�s how Pinterest is a big deal. It can do extraordinary things for you in terms of traffic; and it has. I noticed that the three or four blogs I have that I am promoting on Pinterest or that I am sharing on Pinterest and making available to Pinterest readers are getting significantly more traffic. In fact, 32% of my total traffic is coming from Pinterest. ( as of June 2012) Pinterest is now ranked the #3 social network. They say they get more traffic than LinkedIn, Google+, and YouTube�combined. Not surprised about the LinkedIn thing or the Google+ thing, are you? But if it is #3, then I think we should take it seriously.

5. At its most basic, Pinterest is a virtual pin-Board. It�s a visual collection. It�s a dreamscape for all the people that used to do those vision boards back in the 80�s, before the secret came along and we were all listening to Tony Robbins and those kinds of people. That�s Pinterest. And finally the web has caught up to Tony Robbins. It�s a dreamscape and a community (and it�s important to remember this word community because therefore there are certain rules of politeness that will apply). It�s like �fantasy football for women�, although I didn�t come up with that one - I wish I had because it�s so good. These visual collections are sorted � the word used is curated � around a single idea or a keyword phrase. The narrower and more specific the better. You have just read a snippet of Pintapalooza � (Show Me The Money). To learn more and read the entire Pintapalooza e-Book click the link below: http://www.amazon.com/Pintapalooza-Show-The-Money-ebook/dp/B0089DXQOM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341336278&sr=8-1&keywords=pintapalooza