Having strategy on Pinterest - Pin with purpose.
You see the tricky thing with Social Media is you can't really measure analytics before you set goals & objectives. This means that a lot of the time you risk wasting energy on things that don't get you where you want to be.
When it comes to Pinterest, lets not waste anytime and lets get the most out of it, effectively.
So, before you start your pinning, repinning and follow counting, decide what you are doing and what you are actually trying to get out of being active on Pinterest.
Social Media Today's, Lindsey Weintraub talks us through some key ideas:
Driving Traffic - Pin products that are on your website to Pinterest (via Reachli) to drive traffic across. This creates a link within each pinned image back to your site, and you can measure the referral traffic to see how effective it is. So, in a nutshell think of it as you can use every product image as a link back to the original website.
Increase Awareness - Even if your bussiness isnt product lead, you can still use Pinterest to build an image and your brand by sharing your personal content of your office, employees and more. Use it as a base to give your bussiness personality and people will follow you for your content, but will then recognise your brand and remember you. You'll become familiar indirectly.
Engaging with other brands and loyalists- Use the powerful tool of WOMM (World of Mouth Marketing.) Engaging with those who are influential will mean your brand gets promoted even when you are inactive. Pick out those who are regular ''repinners'' and ''likers'' of your brand and engage with these loyalists. This will then escalate on it's own but it can take its time.
Use all the useful measuring tools out there to help you keep on top of how effective your engagement is. Tools such as - Google Analytics, Reachli, Pinfluencer (to measure referral traffic from Pinterest to your website) and Pin reach, Reachli, Curalate, Octopin (when focusing on brand awareness.)
Source: http://socialmediatoday.com/parkerwhite/1275621/pinterest-strategy-are-you-pinning-purpose