Where to Find Great Pins to Add to Your Tailwind Queue
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Tailwind is a mighty automation tool to help you manage your Pinterest activity, and allow you to pin at the best times without actually being at your computer (which is perfect for me as my best times are between midnight and 3am and I’d prefer to be sleeping!)
But as with most automated tools they can’t do ALL of the work for you, you still need to find FABULOUS pins to schedule.
Today I’m sharing seven places you can look to find great pins to fill your Tailwind feed.
If you’re not using Tailwind yet you can click here to claim your free month. Once you’ve tried it you’ll wonder how you managed without it!
1. Your Pinterest Smart Feed
Of course the easiest answer to that question is to go to Pinterest itself.
You can browse Pinterest for pins to schedule just by going to pinterest.com and browsing through your Smart Feed (that’s the technical name for the pins that appear on the home screen).
How to make sure you have relevant pins in your Smart Feed
If you don’t see many pins that fit your boards in your Smart Feed you can fix that by doing a couple of things.
Follow more boards – those pins appear there when another pinner pins something to a board that you are following. So every time you follow a relevant board you get more relevant stuff to pin.
Pinterest lets you know which boards it thinks you should follow. When you pin something manually a little box appears on your screen suggesting a similar board. Just hit the button to follow it.
Follow some topics – Pinterest has numerous topics for you to meander through. Start at pinterest.com/categories. Choose a category and then just keep clicking though the topics until you find something you want to see more of in your Smart Feed. I have a lunch ideas board so following the Sandwiches topic is a good fit for me. Hit that follow button and as pinners post new sandwich pins you’ll see them in your Smart Feed.
Sidebar: Topics are priceless because you don’t really need to worry about how many people you have following you or your boards anymore. Let’s say you have a board that’s about Sandwiches and you have 50 followers. You might feel disheartened and think that no one is going to see your pin or click through to your post. But in reality there are almost four million people following the Sandwiches topic and your pin will appear in that feed, and on the Smart Feed of people (like me) who follow the Sandwich topic!
2. Pinterest Topics
I know we just talked about topics, but as well as FOLLOWING topics so that the pins appear in your Smart Feed you can also just BROWSE through them looking for interesting pins to schedule.
3. Pinterest Search
Another great place to find pins to share is by using the Pinterest Search Bar.
I have a board that’s all about Play Dough, so when I want to schedule some pins to that board I can just type Play Dough in that search bar and I have a whole raft of great pins to schedule.
And don’t forget to make use of those filters – You can see even more relevant pins by using the little bubble boxes under the search bar. I could drill down to Play Dough Recipes, or Play Dough Mats, or activities combining Play Dough with Animals!
And then check out the row of buttons below that too. See the one that says Boards? Click on that and you have a stack more relevant boards to follow to fill your Smart Feed with goodies to schedule!
While you’re following those boards why not click through and schedule a few pins from them too. You never know those pinners might follow you back and share YOUR fabulous pins with THEIR followers!
4. Group Boards
Group Boards are are a great way of getting your pins in front of people, especially if you are starting out and don’t have many followers of your own.
But there is something many of us forget about Group Boards; in order to help them grow and really maximise their potential we need to pin FROM them as well as TO them!
So every time you sit down for a Tailwind scheduling session make sure you visit your Group Boards and select a few pins from there.
5. Tailwind Tribes
Another place to find great pins to schedule is inside Tailwind itself in the Tribes section.
A “Tribe” is a little bit like a Group Board but it lives inside Tailwind. People add their pins to the Tribe (via the Tailwind browser extension) and then other people in the Tribe can choose to add them to their Tailwind schedule.
Each Tribe has a topic and its own rules (some require you to share all the pins, others ask that you share one pin for each pin that you add etc).
There isn’t a definitive list of Tribes but if you head over to Google and search for “Tailwind Tribes to Join” you’ll see a whole list of blog posts sharing Tribes they know of. It’s just a case of looking for ones that fit your niche and following the joining instructions.
6. Your Tribe Mates and Blogging Partner
If you are in a Blogging Tribe or you have a Blogging Partner then you most definitely want to be sharing their pins! You can either go to their boards and schedule from there, or you could set up a Tailwind Tribe of your own!
7. Your Favourite Blogs
Don’t forget that you can pin content from outside Pinterest and Tailwind too! When you’re reading articles on your favourite blogs you can hit the Tailwind browser button and add that pin to your schedule.
Pinterest wants us to be good pinners and that means feeding the Pinterest machine by adding in fresh content as well as repinning content on Pinterest. Of course the chances are that what you’re reading may already have been pinned. But there are some bloggers out there who have never heard of Pinterest, or don’t realise that they can pin their own content!
How to Add Bulk Pins to Your Schedule
If you are currently adding pins to your schedule by clicking into a pin and then using the Tailwind button… STOP!
There is a much quicker way to feed your schedule and that is by BULK scheduling!
My breakfast board needs some love so let’s find some yummy pancake ideas for kids to schedule to it.
I put my phrase up in the search box and here’s all the fun pancake ideas.
Scroll down the page a bit and then back to the top (you need to do this for the next step to work effectively)
Now go up to the browser bar and hit the Tailwind button and it asks me which pins I want to select.
Now just scroll through and click the ones you want. They will turn blue as you add them. Note that scrolling down and back up in the previous step allows more pins to load so you will have more to choose from.
Hit the blue Go Schedule button in the bottom right corner.
Now you can choose the board name – I’ll pick my Breakfasts board – and click Schedule All in the top right corner.
Note sometimes it will tell you that a URL is missing or a description. Unfortunately Tailwind doesn’t make it easy to find the offending pin so you just have to scroll through. If the URL is missing I delete the pin but if its a description I usually fill it in myself.
Tip: I like to grab pins for one board at a time when I bulk schedule so it is just a matter of selecting one board at the top for them all to be pinned to. I do this because it’s super quick and easy. But I am a member of a couple of “anything goes” group boards where there’s a mix of say recipes, homemaking and DIY posts. When I bulk schedule from those boards I put the board in the top which covers most of the pins, and then I scroll through and switch out the board name where the pin needs to go somewhere else. If you look closely at the screen shot above you’ll see the “master” board is {Recipes} Breakfast but the fourth pin along on the top row has been amended to {Recipes} Family.
Those pins have now been added to the end of your Tailwind queue. Because I like to bulk pin to one board at a time I now hop on over to my Tailwind queue and hit the Shuffle Queue button in the top right corner. I do this so that I have a mix of pins going out each day rather than 20 pancakes followed by 20 play dough recipes etc.
And there you have it: 7 places to find GREAT pins to add to your Tailwind schedule and an easy way to schedule multiple pins at once!
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