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You don’t. That sucks, doesn’t it? Pinterest and some of its hardcore groupies say, “Well it was built as a SHARING site, so making some of your boards private would defeat the purpose of the site.”

Come on, now!

That’s just ridiculous. This is one of the top social networking sites online – and there are no built in privacy settings to control who sees your boards?

Most people DO want to share almost all of their Pins, but there are some things that you find that you want to pin for your own self to see but don’t want others to see.

For example – you and your friends all follow each other. You see an ADORABLE birthday party idea. You want to Pin it, but you don’t. Why? Because over-achiever Nancy is watching you…she’s watching your boards and she’s going to one-up you and use that idea for HER kid before you do and then innocently (and we all KNOW she’s not innocent) say, “Oh this? i just saw it online – isn’t it cute?”

And you’ll want to smash her head in because she’s a sneaky Pete!

There needs to be some sort of groups or friends option you can add to Pinterest and share among only those you want to share with. So WHAT if its not open to everyone? It’s still sharing! No one’s taking away from that.

I hadn’t even thought of needing a blocking option until tonight – when I started thinking about how I saw someone I dislike in the friends list of another friend and I thought, “Hmm – i’d love to block her so she can’t see my Pins” and I Googled it and discvered there was no way to.

Epic fail, Pinterest.

But yes, I’ll bend over and take it because I’m already an addict of your site. But I’m warning ya – if someone uses my b-day idea before me – I’m blogging about this AGAIN – and next time, I won’t be so nice.

Tiff

A Pinterest invite. Everyone I know is on it or wants on it and it’s not open to just anybody (well it is, but you have to have an invitation to start pinning). And it’s getting tons of buzz. In my local paper here (big for Dallas/Fort Worth) it was on the cover of the Life and Arts section as you can see:

You can read the article from my paper here (it’ll open in a new window). But the point is, everyone wants an invite because it’s an awesome site! You are entering the epitome of sharing and socializing because instead of just posting your daily happenings (“Just got a mocha frappachino from starbucks”) you’re actually sharing your desires and things you LOVE.

One thing I adore is that it’s a very visual site. I can see at a glance if me and the other person are going to have the same tastes – in art, fashion, sense of humor, ethics, recipes – you name it.  So far, I’ve become a Pinterest addict. I’ve tried several recipes (in fact last night I made the amazing Lemonade Cake I found on Pinterest and just about DIED it was so good!). I have cooked kid meals (like uncooked spaghetti poked through bites of hot dogs) that my kids thought were amazingly cool.

Some were stinkers, too. And those are promptly deleted off my boards so I don’t lead someone else astray with a bad recipe. There are ideas on showing love to my husband and cleaning things in a jiffy. I not only get to socialize by repinning and following other Pinterest users, but I also click through to the blog and wind up bookmarking those blogs as new favorites of mine.

If you’re just someone interested in Pinterest, it’ll be fun (and addictive). Thank God I didn’t have this when I worked outside of the home or I’d have gotten worst employee of the year awards.

As someone with my own brand (ethical work at home teacher), I can brand myself on there in small ways. Or just be an affiliate marketer. Did you know that if you sign up for an Amazon Associates account, you can make money if someone buys through your recommendations on Pinterest? Just don’t go spamming the board with things that aren’t really YOU! I hate that. It’s unethical.

For example, I Pin books I love or those I want to read. I use my affiliate link. But I’m genuine in my recommendations. I pin toys my kids LOVE because I know other parents will feel they’re a good buy. I don’t just go randomly pinning things to get a commission – that’s UNETHICAL!

So if you want a Pinterest invite, use the Contact form at the top of this blog and I will send you one if you include your email address.

If you want to know how to help brand your business in an ETHICAL way on Pinterest and possibly make a little side money, then go here and buy the Pinterest report for just ONE DOLLAR! Why one dollar? Because I want the ethical method of Pinteresting to spread like wildfire. I don’t want spammy tactics to be more enticing than what I share with you.

Tiff

Hi everyone! I wanted to share the 2 new PLR packs today – one from my sister Jeni (the stop smoking one) and one from me (the customer appreciation one). After you scroll past these, have a giggle at some pictures I posted of Jeni and I from our childhood.

Stop Smoking PLR Pack:

1. Why to Stop Smoking – 415 Words
2. Why Quit Smoking? – 424 Words
3. How Can I Quit Smoking? – 423 Words
4. Help to Quit Smoking – 423 Words
5. How Can You Quit Smoking? – 428 Words

You can buy the Stop Smoking PLR Pack for $5 here:
http://www.tophealthplr.com/stop-smoking-plr-5-pack

The second PLR pack is from me – the Customer Appreciation PLR:

Customer Appreciation PLR:

1. What Is Customer Appreciation Marketing? – 409 words
2. Surprise Your Customers With a Private Discount – 422 words
3. Deliver a Thank You Gift After Purchase – 413 words
4. Host Occasional Customer Appreciation Events – 446 words
5. Let VIPs Get Behind the Velvet Rope Early – 464 words

You can grab my 5-pack of Customer Appreciation PLR articles for $5 at that link back there <—-

Okay just to make this fun I grabbed a couple of pictures from my Facebook of Jeni and I. it’s funny, Jeni and I met when my Mom married her dad, and she was there every other weekend – normally when I was at MY dad’s house, so we weren’t real close growing up. But today she’s one of my best friends and I’m very close to her as my sister.

She likes to remind me of how I used to pout when she’d come into my room and she’d say, “What’s wrong, Tiffany?” and I would sigh and say, “Oh nothing…Mom says I have to clean my room and I can’t do it NEARLY as well as YOU can” and of course, wanting her big sister to be happy, she’d do it FOR me. Oh I was mean! LOL!

And then there was the time we got in a huge stupid fight and I took a pacifier and hung it on her door (implying she was a baby) and then wound up hanging her Cabbage Patch doll from her ceiling fan. LMAO! So maybe me promoting her PLR is just me getting over my guilt for being so mean, right? We laugh now. Here are a couple of funny pictures I found:

Jeni’s about 5-6 years younger than me. This picture above looks to be a morning after picture for me. Post party animal night. I can tell because I see the infamous Taco Bueno cup and brownie box on my headboard, meaning I came home, got on the phone and ate till wee morning hours. I’m also holding a bottle of mentholatum, which probably means I drank wine coolers when I was underage. Jeni is there for moral support I’m sure – and to bring me some aspirin and ice old water by the looks of it. Wow I’m a hot mess there. Good thing my hair’s in a ponytail or I’d look all sorts of wild.

And here we have a posed picture, where I appear to be mimicking a nose pick. Lovely! My stepdad was a photographer and I’m sure I was just trying to aggravate him by messing up an otherwise good photo opp. That’s my little baby chihuahua Heidi – she died at age 3 from water on the brain. Jeni looks to be going for her nose too – I was a bad influence.

I’m sure I still am. Let’s hope as she follows me into the world of Internet marketing, she knows how to NOT look up to me ~ (I mean the Honey Badger stuff of course).

Tiff