2 weeks on from my last missive about my embryonic social media campaign and there is a whiff of something positive. Negative too, of course.

The WordPress blog audience disappoints, as does my application to it. I am still waiting to hear from the web designer about a start day for my ecommerce store which will have an all dancing and singing blog design. The blog therefore continues to be a temporary storage solution for my blogs until that is up and running. I occasionally try and improve on the absolute basic appearance to no success whatsoever. In fairness I know I can improve it but simply do not have the time. Now the blog is a white screen with 4 blogs on, I know not how anyone can see the other six. Presumably they can’t!

The meeting with an SEO ‘specialist’ a few months ago and the advice offered on my Instagram management has merely confirmed my belief so many people offering SEO advice really do not have a clue. I don’t obviously, but I don’t allude to being able to. When previously I occasioned to sporadically use it off my own back I had normally 50 -200 clicks a post, with no effort gaining 200 follows. Thanks to the advice, followed to the letter, this has dropped to 10-20. Likes are exceedingly rare and this week one new follower. Thanks for that. I am following the advice now of a recent YouTube video which was more along the lines of how I used to do it. So hopefully the Instagram algorithms will soon not see my feed as spam!

Tentative success appears to have come in the form of Pinterest. I started the account a while ago. I was surprised how instantly I got ‘impressions.’ As usual, I lost interest due to lack of time. Now with time to dedicate to social media I reactivated the account two weeks ago. I have had 3000 impressions in 2 weeks including one images with 1000 impressions that has been pinned 10 times. I have experimented with 3 pretty crap videos which have been my posts with the most other impressions. I put 2 blogs on and got 5 clicks, which bearing in mind my WordPress reach I was quite pleased with!

Currently I am just pouring content onto it. I have no idea how it works other than how to do add content. It looks like the social media for me and my vintage business. Being able to link to my Etsy shop is great and I can how many clicks I get on Etsy from Pinterest. Last month 23 out of 5000! Rome and all that. So, a long way to go, but for a social media dinosaur like me it is nice to see something tangible, rather than Instagram that completely mystifies me! It is easy to use and as I have so much content, no restrictions. To be honest though, I have no idea how it works. Next week I will try and watch some Pinterest for beginners’ videos to see how I can start managing and working it effectively.

Maybe a glimmer on the horizon. Teachers comment- Must try harder.