Environmental Jobs: Pinterest Makes Advertising Your Green Company Easy

October 7, 2012 in Environmental Jobs, Environmental Science Jobs with 7 Comments

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Pinterest Can Be Useful for Promoting Your Green Environmental Business – Image from Gemesis.com

Whether you are trying to promote your own green company or are looking for an environmental job, sometimes the same place you use to goof off just could become your next work spot. Rather than simply relying on regular online job search sites or online ads, why not turn to Pinterest – the newest sensation in the green world?

Believe it or not, the newly popular social networking site Pinterest is more than just a place to post and share photos with potentially 23 million other unique visitors. Many green companies actually are using the engaging social networking giant to show off visually stimulating images of their products that users don’t mind pinning to their personal boards.

If you are building your green business and want to give your environmental job a boost, then consider posting images that strengthen the identity of your brand and make your business more appealing to other Web users. After all, even though Facebook still tops the list of most popular social networking sites, Pinterest quickly is emerging as a larger traffic-attracter than Twitter. In fact, research shows that the greatest amount of money spent by green users on the Web (when you consider sales that stem from a social networking site) is linked to Pinterest: The average Pinterest total is close to $170, while those of Twitter and Facebook are $71 and $95, respectively.

Pictures indeed are worth a thousand words, and with Pinterest, your photos can speak volumes of your environmental job company and positively impact your sales and marketing strategies. In addition, if you are job searching in the green field, Pinterest rapidly is becoming a platform for all major green companies that wish to get their names out in the open. Consider Pinterest your new database of potential employers – and an avenue to get to know these employers’ brands a little bit better.

By YaShekia King

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About YaShekia King: YaShekia King, of Indianapolis, Ind., began writing professionally in 2003. Her work has appeared in several print and online publications including the “South Bend Tribune,”Ehow.com, Wisegeek.com and “Clouds Across the Stars,” an international book. King holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ball State University. She also is a licensed real estate agent, is a clinical certified dental assistant and is completing her master’s degree in human resource management through DeVry University. Connect with YaShekia on YaShekia King

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