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You have written the post for a web audience that is time poor and has a limited attention span.That is only half the work! What else is required to make your blog successful? Here are 12 steps you need to include in your blogging process.

The latest social media sensation Pinterest has opened up mood-boarding to the digital masses. A tool that was once exclusive to creatives behind the scenes has gone mass-market and has been pinned into our consciousness.

ou have written the post for a web audience that is time poor and has a limited attention span.That is only half the work! What else is required to make your blog successful? Here are 12 steps you need to include in your blogging process.

So what is happening with Facebook Marketing? Facebook has become the default social network to focus your promotion efforts on when it comes to marketing on social media. In a survey 39% said that they will be spending more on Facebook marketing in 2012.

Good, regular blogging is one of the best things you can do to help your business grow - businesses that write on their blog regularly receive 55% more website visitors and have 437% more indexed pages in Google than business that do not

What about the skeptical company head who just doesn’t quite get social media? Can he or she be swayed to adopting a social media marketing campaign for their business, a program that could lead to both increased brand exposure and better return on investment (ROI)?

Pinterest was launched in March 2010 and this social media network has has grown more than 4,000 percent in the last 6 months according to Experian Hitwise.

It seems though that it is just starting to hit its straps as the latest figures from Hitwise reveal that at the end of January (in the space of just 3 weeks), Pinterest traffic has increased from 10 million users a month to 17 million!

It is now the 60th most visited site in the USA!

So What is Pinterest?

Obviously a lot of people know what it is and have been playing in the Pinterest \"playpen\" and have been pinning on its pinboards.

Essentially it is a visual online pinboard or scrapbook that can organise your favourite hobbies or topics visually in categories of your choice.

Pinterest allows people to pin or upload images from websites and blogs (whether that is their own website or one they are visiting) that they find inspiring or beautiful. It can be done with a couple of clicks with a \"Pin it\" button on the menu bar of your favourite browser.

That image then links back to your website or the one you pinned it from.

Pinterest is still invitation only, but be patient after you apply it will only take a few days before you are let in!

It seems Twitter has entered a second tipping point as more users have been attracted to the social media platform since the launch of the new Apple mobile operating system, which now includes Twitter and is expected to reach 500 million users in February.