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What can you do with Pinterest traffic?

With this traffic, you can use it in a variety of ways.
Brand Building

Use it for the usual Social Media brand building. You need to be everywhere in Social Media, Pinterest is just the latest site you need to include in your online marketing mix.
Watermarking

Watermark the images on your site with your URL or something more creative to encourage people to click through.
Sell Own Items

If you have your own ecommerce site, then pinning the images can link directly to sales.

Or encourage your customers to do the linking for your, run a competition -see later.
Affiliate Marketing

Think beautiful items that people might want to buy, especially on impulse.

Link to them and earn from any sales that come from them. Two possible ways of doing this are;

Landing Page

Create a simple landing page with the image you want to pin. Perhaps include a price, or a call to action to get the person to click through to the affiliate site.

Direct Linking

It's back, Direct Linking! If the affiliate program includes your tracking ID in the actual URL of the page that the image lives on you can directly pin that page.

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Instant messaging is an integral part of the online marketers daily life. I think I have an account with just about every major one out there. I have a business account, a friend account, old accounts, etc...

Instant messaging is just a great way to quickly discuss an issue with a client or partner - remotely. I don’t even have to leave my computer, just send a quick message. I have some form of instant messenger running at all times.

Just like anything though - using IM wrong can be problematic.

First off you can look very unprofessional to potential clients and/or partners. Secondly you can waste a lot of time.

If you want to make sure you look professional and don;’t waste your’s (or other’s) time then read these tips below:

No All Caps - Sigh, I only repeat this because people still don’t listen. You know why by now.

Use Status Effectively - All IM clients allow you to set your status. Use it properly. If you are going away, switch it to away. If you are busy, set it to that. You can also hide out in invisible or away mode if you don’t want interruptions.

Use “BRB” - If you have to leave the computer for any length of time and you are mid-convo, tell the person with a simple BRB (be right back) or AFK (away from keyboard).

Say Goodbye - There is nothing worse than talking to someone and they just disappear. It can be an infuriating feeling. I never know whether I should move on, or wait for them to come back from a disconnection. Obviously things happen and sometimes you might have to rush and leave, but in general try to give the people you are chatting to, a heads up.

Respond in a Timely Fashion - Don’t leave me hanging -if you are at your computer and in a discussion with me please respond in a timely fashion.

Give Me A Sec - That said, if I don’t respond instantly, please don’t ask 17 follow up questions. Let me respond to the first question and we can move on from there.

Keep Font Simple - A lot of IM clients allow you to change color and font. Keep it simple. Pale yellow on a white background will give me a headache long before we can finish a discussion.

Be Professional - I am really laid back, I have no problem with hilarious IM convos. However, if you are contacting and chatting with people for online networking - remember they could be saving your convos. Don’t say anything that you could come back and bite you.

Stop Buzzing - Please never “buzz” or “nudge” me. I hate that these even exist on instant messengers. Talk about annoying. I have an audio alert when I am message I don’t need a shaking screen and buzzing noise.

No Audio Emoticons - I have stopped using MSN Messenger because of this. I had people who a typical smiley wasn’t enough, they would have audi enabled ones that would greet me with joyous “boings” and “aaaa-oooooo-gaaaas”. No thanks.

Don’t Send A File Randomly - One of the great things about IM clients is you can share files. While that is great, randomly messaging me out of the blue with a file transfer is weird. Are you hacked? Is this attachment safe? Give me a heads up before you start a file transfer.

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WordPress is one of the most popular website platforms available today. What once was only powering blogs, is now one of the most flexible website platforms period. In fact it is estimated that 22% of new websites are built with WordPress. If you work online, you almost assuredly have used WordPress in some fashion.

One of the things about WordPress is that it is Open Source software, so anyone can get and view all of the code. The bad news - hackers can scour the code for vulnerabilities. The good news - 100s of really smart people are scouring the same code to find and fix those vulnerabilities first. More good news is that people create plugins that help you secure your WordPress website more thoroughly.

This chapter will look at some of the plugins you can use, to give your WordPress website an extra layer of protection:

WP Security Scan - This plugin will scan your system and find potential vulnerabilities. It will then suggest fixes. It scans things like passwords, file permissions and database security.

AdminSSL - This plugin will force any of your pages that require an email, to be secure (https://) pages. Remember though, you need to have an private SSL certificate already installed on your website for this plugin to work.

TAC - Theme Authenticity Checker - This plugin will monitor any installed themes you have for malicious code. One thing that hackers and black-hat marketers do is offer free WordPress themes that include malicious code.

This plugin will avoid that.

Login Lockdown - This plugin will monitor the IP addresses of anyone trying to login to your site, if it records a certain amount of failed attempts in a certain time frame, it will lock that IP address down. This helps avoid automated brute force attacks.

Hide Login - Hide Login will allow you to move your login page to an URL that is easier to remember and/or cryptic enough someone can't guess it. This alone won't secure your blog completely, but if someone does manage to hack your password, they may be stymied by not being able to find your login page.

BulletProof Security - From the WordPress Plugin Description: The BulletProof Security WordPress Security plugin is designed to be a fast, simple and one click security plugin to add .htaccess website security protection for your WordPress website. The BulletProof Security WordPress plugin is a one click security solution that creates, copies, renames, moves or writes to the provided BulletProof Security .htaccess master files. BulletProof Security protects both your Root website folder and wp-admin folder with .htaccess website security protection, as well as providing additional website security protection.

Akismet - The classic WordPress comment plugin. It comes with WordPress installations for a reason - it works and it is important. Activating this simple plugin will dramatically reduce the crappy SPAM comments you receive. Well it won't reduce them, but it will handle them so you don't have to.

Antivirus - This plugin will monitor your WordPress site for malware, exploits and spam injection. Its runs daily.

BackupCreator (PAID) - This premium (paid) plugin is the perfect backup solution for your WordPress blog. It will allow you to easily backup and restore your entire WordPress installation.

These plugins won't make your site impenetrable but it will make it much harder to successfully attack. WordPress is a powerful website platform, but it can be vulnerable to attack - use these plugins to eliminate those vulnerabilities.