Contrary to what some people would have you believe (including the creator of the message above), Pinterest isn’t all fun and games. Sure, it’s a great way to kill an hour, or two or three, looking at pretty dresses, cool vacation houses or interesting examples of innovative type design on magazine covers of yesteryear.
But as more people start using it, Pinterest has also become yet another social network that you can use to find work. That includes freelance work in writing, copywriting, graphic design, software development and more.
Pinterest isn’t a job board, but you can use it to post your resume or portfolio of your work.
Pinterest isn’t LinkedIn, but you can use it to research companies you might want to approach about contract work.
Pinterest isn’t Blogger or WordPress.com, but you can use it to promote your blog, which you should be using to showcase yourself and your work (and if you’re not, you should be).
To find out more, read this story I wrote recently for SecondAct:
10 Ways to Use Pinterest to Find a New Job.
Here are a couple more resources:
- My Pinterest board on Job Hunting and Careers
- How freelancers and other writers are using Pinterest
- Search “freelance” on Pinterest and here’s what comes up: Inspiration, infographics, T-shirts and more
Fantastic, Michelle. Thanks for this. I’ve been avoiding Pinterest, mostly because of the extra time it would take. But it’s definitely something I should look into as the people who use it are the demographic for my books, and I like visual things anyway, so it could be a good fit. You’ve given me some more to think about. B 🙂
My approach to this and other new tech: start by playing around with it. Don’t give yourself a goal. Don’t broadcast what you’re doing. Just have fun. Spend a month or more. Figure out what appeals to you, what patterns emerge, how you want to use it. Let how you use it become organic.
Michelle