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How Pinterest Can Work like Houzz for Home Builders

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If you've read any of our previous blogs for homebuilders, you'll know that we're very pro-Houzz. It's an excellent marketing tool for any homebuilder, because it's full of qualified leads just waiting for your advice. What we haven't talked all that much about is Pinterest. Very similar in layout to Houzz, Pinterest attracts many of the same users and followers as Houzz, making it another ideal social media platform for home builders to take advantage of. If your home building company is already engaging regularly on Houzz, it's a good idea to take some of that great content you're putting out, and post it to Pinterest as well.

 

Why Should Homebuilders Market on Pinterest?

 

Because Pinterest is a captive audience made up of your target buyers. The majority of Pinterest users are women, 77 percent of those users are between 18-54 years old, and 87 percent of women on Pinterest trust it as a reliable source for information. Women between the ages of 18-54 are a homebuilders target market. Most often, it's the women of the household who are making the final decisions when it comes to building a home or hiring a contractor for a renovation. That's what make Pinterest such a rich source of potential leads for home builders.

 

How Homebuilders Can Market on Pinterest

 

Now that it's clear why you'd want to use Pinterest—your target buyer lives there—let's figure out how to use Pinterest. It's certainly a tricky one, since there's no real linear timeline or news feed like you'd find on other social media platforms. Instead, Pinterest functions on boards and pins. You can create boards, and pin different articles, images, and blog posts to those boards. You can post to other people's boards if they're public, and you can invite people to pin things to your board as well. For you, the homebuilder, it's best to start small.

 

Create a Board that Showcases Your Work

 

Whether you've got some stunning before and after photos, or you've got some killer images of a staged home you just completed, that's all great content to put on a Pinterest board. Make sure you follow standard best practices for optimizing your Pinterest pins:

 

  • Link to your website
  • Include high quality images
  • Provide detailed descriptions
  • Don't forget NAP
    • Name of your business
    • Address and city name
    • Phone number or a way to contact you

 

Create a Board That Draws People In

 

Now that you've got your work up there, it's time to start drawing people in. Create a board that answers a common question that's relevant to the housing industry, and that you know people will be searching. For example, let's say there's a holiday coming up. A board that puts together cool DIY projects to decorate your home for the holidays is going to draw in a ton of people, and get eyes on your company's Pinterest.

 

Say you wrote a blog about 10 Classy Holiday Place Settings: pin that to your holiday DIY board, and make sure it links back to your website. This will help grow your company's awareness, increasing the chances that you get quality leads. In addition, the more people you get coming to this holiday DIY board, the more people you're going to have checking out your original board—the one with all the awesome photos of your past work. More eyes on that board mean more calls to your sales team about how someone can get a home that looks like the one they saw on Pinterest.

 

Create an Engaging Board

 

Finally, while you're getting your Pinterest account up and running, create a board that engages people. As a home builder, you can set yourself up as an authority, and as a place of inspiration for those considering building a home in the near future. By creating a board that invites people to contribute, you'll boost the number of pins your board gets, and boost your visibility on Pinterest.

 

For example, create a board that asks followers to pin a photo of their favorite room in the home. This invites people to get involved in the conversation, and the more people who pin to your board, the more people who are likely to see it. This boosts your authority as a place for information and inspiration, while simultaneously growing your company's brand awareness, and reminding people that you're an engaging, interested builder they might turn to when they decide to build their own home.

 

Pinterest can certainly be a bit daunting at first. It's a bit of information overload, and it can be hard to tell what's what when you first start. But, if you stick with it and continue to post rich, relevant content that those Pinterest users want to read, you'll grow your following and boost your number of incoming leads in no time at all. For more information on boosting your social media marketing strategy, get in touch with the team at Evenbound. We're here to help home builders boost their lead generation potential, and break into better markets. See how we helped one construction pro increase their average web traffic and streamline sales in the free case study below:

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