How to Sign up For a Pinterest Business Account: 8 Simple Steps

• Pinterest is a very popular social network for sharing and arranging in-order photos or pictures. 
• You find and then save stuff such as recipes, artwork, makeup tutorials, style inspiration, wedding themes, fashion, etc. 
• Just like other popular social media networks; Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn etc, Pinterest is very easy to sign up as well as free to join.

• The first thing you should do is navigate to Pinterest's home page, https://www.pinterest.com/join/. 
• There you will be given 2 sign up choices or options.
• The first option will be signing up with your Facebook account.
• The second option will be signing up with your email address.

• If you choose signing up with your email, www.pinterest.com 
• will ask you to confirm the address by going to your email inbox and clicking on the confirmation link they have sent you. 
• Notice that when you are done signing up, Pinterest will make your username as part of the web address.
• For example; my user name looks like the link below; 
• https://www.pinterest.com/SabieMogojwe/

1. Choose a Username

• Choose a different or unique username that people can remember easily.
•  You are allowed to change it later on if by any chance you have second thoughts about it.

Business Account

• If you are a business or company you can sign up for a special “business” account.
•  It is free as well. 
• The Pinterest business account is not too different from the personal account.
•  A few added features such as buttons, widgets, etc are advantageous.

2. Sign up for a Business Account

• Sign up on the below link for a Pinterest business account;
• http://business.pinterest.com/  if you want to create an account for your business or company.

3. Create Your Profile

• It is a wise idea to use the same username and profile picture for all your social accounts such as Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn, etc if at all you have more.
•  If you do that it will make it easier for anyone who will follow to know it’s you.

4. You will be asked to "like" 3 topics for Pinterest to build a custom home feed for you.

5. Install the Pin It Button

• After that Pinterest will ask you to choose your Pinterest "save button" for your browser. 
• This usually varies according to the browser you will be using.

• Congratulations you are done with creating your Pinterest Business page. 
• Below is the final step.

6. Settings

• After your account is active, go to your e-mail settings.
• Turn notifications on.
•  Pinterest will send you notifications when someone pins, follows, or likes your pins, or even repins from your boards.

 7.  Add a Pin

• A pin is more like a bookmark but visual or in images.
•  A pin will take you straight to the website of whatever image you will be pinning. 
• As you pin an image, you will be saving it for later.
• To add a pin to your boards, click on either the "Pin It" button on the website you're reading.
•  A screen will pop up asking you to select the image you want. After selecting the image (pin) save it to a new board and name it.

8. Creating a New Board

• A board is where you save your pins (images) for later. 
• To create a new board on your account, click your “profile button” at the top of Pinterest >click the” create a board” box > choose a name for your board and category. 
• You can choose to make it public or private.

Now you can start following people of the same interest as you. Enjoy!