Hey, welcome to the Because I Can, live podcast.

And today I've brought on Carrie Charington

because she is a Pinterest pro.

And a lot of you have reached out and said,

what other ways can we market for free?

What other ways can we get our products out to the world

and not have to invest big bucks in advertising?

And so why not use Pinterest for my blog how does she dot com we are

getting the majority of our traffic organically just from Pinterest.

And so I wanted to bring in a Pinterest expert

on how we can leverage Pinterest in our own businesses

to get customers, not just eyeballs, but to get customers not just eyeballs but to get customers to come over to

our stores and join our email list make purchases and be able to use the power

that Pinterest can provide for us for free. Now a part of

Carrie's street creds are that she has helped shops, bloggers, DIYers, go from

zero pins, to over 7.6 monthly viewers. That's

pretty impressive right she has been working digging down deep into the Pinterest game for over four years helping other people grow

But she has been around with Pinterest using on her own sites ever since Pinterest

started. Remember way back in the days where we had to get an invite to get on to

Pinterest? Yeah, Carrie was one of those newbies who got to learn the ropes and you'll hear us talking about how I feel like

Pinterest has gone through some really I call them awkward stages so in the beginning it was new and exciting and fresh kind of like a new baby right and then it started to go through this awkward teenage phase where it was trying to figure out who it was and I feel like it was really hard to get past that and so Carrie came in

and she told me how the game of Pinterest is being played now it's not the hashtag game where it was a you can play with Pinterest and then here's the best part she talks about how to make it

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