How to Make Secret Board on Pinterest | Create Private Hidden Pinterest Board

In November 2012, Pinterest added a new 'Secret Boards' feature that allows users to create up to three boards that can be kept private - up until now, all boards were automatically public. This feature is great if you want to keep stuff like a list of secret gifts hidden, or for businesses, prepare a Pinterest promotional campaign in advance of it going live.

There are two ways to create a Secret Pinterest Board

1. Scroll to the bottom of your boards and click on one of the three 'Create Secret Board' buttons.

2. Create a new board from the 'Add' menu and make sure to click the Secret Board slider to 'on'.

To prevent re-pins disappearing all over the site, there are two caveats:

1. You can't convert any existing boards into Secret ones.

2. Once you make Secret board public (just edit the board and switch the Secret Board slider to 'Off'), you cannot make it private again - for the same reasons as in point 1.

How will you be using the new Secret Pinterest boards feature to keep your stuff hidden? Comment to let me know!

Video: YouTube Video Title SEO Tips & Tricks

In my newest video tutorial, I show you some tips and tricks to help you optimize your YouTube video's titles to help drive more traffic to your content.

500 Social Media Marketing Tips Breaks Top 1,000 Kindle Books on Amazon

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A quick check of my Amazon Author Central sales rankings for Amazon.co.uk showed today that 500 Social Media Marketing Tips had broken into the top 1,000 books on the UK Kindle Store for the first time ever! At the time of writing, it sits at position #993. I know it probably won't stay there for long, so I want to enjoy it while it lasts!

Amazon says that there are over 400,000 books on the UK Kindle store, which means 500 Social Media Marketing Tips is in the top 0.25% of all titles.

To go from 0 sales and a ranking in the hundreds of thousands to reach #993 in the 8 months since the book was released is absolutely crazy to me.

Thank you to everyone who has supported me by buying the book, liking it on Facebook, following me on Twitter or Pinterest, or watching my videos on YouTube!

Guest Blog: The Story of 500 Social Media Marketing Tips

I was recently invited to write a guest blog on socialfish.org, and asked to write about 500 Social Media Marketing Tips and the story behind it. I would love for you to go and check it out! Here's the link:

www.socialfish.org/2012/11/500-social-media-marketing-tips.html

YouTube Video Marketing Stats - It Really Works!

My Lifetime monthly YouTube statistics, from April to October 2012.

I first began posting social media marketing tutorials on YouTube in April 2012. My goal was to create quick, informative videos that would serve as an 'interactive' accompaniment to the advice listed in 500 Social Media Marketing Tips. 

I have managed to keep to a regular schedule of uploading at one or two videos a week, and slowly but steadily, the daily, weekly, and monthly view count has increased - and it seems to be rising faster as time goes on. From the beginning of July to the end of October, the number of monthly video views has doubled to over 6,700.

Now that my confidence has grown in speaking on the mic, and my video editing and YouTube marketing techniques have been refined, hopefully I will see that growth and subscriber count continue!