• To be stronger • To feel better • To trai • To be stronger
• To feel better 
• To train my mind to know that hard things are good things
• To set an example 
• For longevity
• To get out of the house 
• To start the day on the right foot
• To listen to good music for a little while
• To have productive alone time

I just wanted to list a few "Why"s in case you were having a hard time finding yours today. Goodness knows I struggle some days but usually one of these pulls through for me ❤️

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I’ve talked about this before but never to its f I’ve talked about this before but never to its full extent. 

6ish years ago I was working full-time as a doctor’s assistant and coming home to an 8-month-old baby while Josh worked 12-hour shifts until midnight. I was so busy that I felt like I was losing my sense of identity. 

That year I decided to start my blog. I kept it a secret for a while because I was embarrassed. I didn’t want anyone to think, “Who does she think she is? We’ve known her for years and she thinks she has something to say??”

But - I loved it! I wrote posts on everything! Random pizza recipes, how my run went that day, marriage, motherhood - I had absolutely no direction. But, I started sharing my blog and got a bunch of great feedback on my marriage and family posts. So, I decided to focus on that because that was, afterall, my favorite thing to write about anyway.

A few months later, I started pinning my posts on Pinterest and educating myself on what it meant to blog well, set up posts for good SEO, how to engage an audience, etc. I had a couple posts go viral on Pinterest and for a few months I had over 350,000 views on my blog/month.

Way late in the game, I started posting to Instagram in 2017. By then we had 2 babies and I had been working with brands for a while so I was able to quit my (at the time) part-time job to stay home with them which I was stoked about! 

Later that year, we packed up our stuff and moved to WA. The original plan was for Josh to find work and for me to continue blogging & be a SAHM. But, after several months later and finding it much harder for Josh to find work than we anticipated, I told him, "Hey, don't feel bad, I don't want you to feel pressure. I will look for work to take some of the pressure off."

So, I started applying for jobs in social media and content marketing. About a month into my search I made a profile on a job-matching platform called @scouted.io. A couple weeks later, I got an email from someone at Scouted saying that they were looking for someone to help with their content and they wanted to have a conversation. 

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Blogging, Life & Finances · December 24, 2015

How I grew my pinterest monthly audience to 900,000 with Viraltag

Now, some of you have probably heard of Pinterest scheduling apps like Buffer or Tailwind and I’ll tell you that I’ve tried them both. After testing them each out for a few weeks I kept hoping for something better. I finally came across Viraltag after a desperate Google search and gave it a whirl. It was exactly how I wanted a Pinterest scheduler to work.
*Update* I’m now at 2,400,000 monthly viewers on Pinterest as of December 2015, having only created Sweet Wife in July of 2015.*


Hey blogger friends, today I wanted to talk about something I don’t normally talk about. I usually leave the blogging advice to some of my blogging mentors but I found something that I think you’ll want to know about. Actually. I’m
really excited about it…

Not long ago I came across something that I NEED to share with the rest of the blogging and business world; and that, my dears, is Viraltag.

What is Viraltag and Why use it?

I think most people who use Pinterest for business know what Buffer is, or maybe use a tool like it. Long story short, Viraltag is a social media scheduler. Why use one of those you ask? Because bloggers and business owners need to get their content out there or else no one will know it exists! And that’s not helping anybody. And you can’t post just once. Oh no, bloggers and biz owners know that their needs to be repetition and consistency in the social world. But this can take a ton of time. Say I have 100 blog posts that I would like to promote on 5 different Pinterest boards or group boards. I would either have to pin each blog post 5 times each, OR I can simply schedule all of them to the group boards using a bulk scheduling option. 5 minutes and done. Now I’m set for the rest of the week and I don’t need to worry about pinning or scheduling other content till next week.

How is Viraltag different from the rest of Pinterest schedulers?

Now, some of you have probably heard of Pinterest scheduling apps like Buffer or Tailwind and I’ll tell you that I’ve tried them both. After testing them each out for a few weeks I kept hoping for something better. I finally came across Viraltag after a desperate Google search and decided to give it a whirl.

It was exactly how I wanted a Pinterest scheduler to work.

Instead of only being able to schedule images (like on Buffer) I was actually able to re-pin pins that already existed on my Living the Sweet Wife Pinterest board. That was awesome. THEN I was able to schedule the bulk of those pins to large group boards I had joined, easily getting my content to a large audience. Creating a posting schedule was super easy and quick on their scheduling page (unlike Tailwind which always ran super slow for me and to this day I couldn’t figure out how to delete scheduled pins if I changed my mind). PLUS I can choose to include the times that Viraltag recommends for me based on my Pinterest Analytics.

How I get my content to 900,000 Pinterest users every month

Now I’m going to get into the gritty details of how and where I pin and expose my content from LivingtheSweetWife.com to an audience of nearly 900,000 (and growing) Pinerest users a month.

Joined large group boards and started using ViraltagJoin group boards.

PinGroupie is how I have found most of the group boards I am a part of. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this site because it allows you to search for boards based on category, keywords, and order by followers, collaborators, or pins. It is the ultimate pin directory. Most group boards give instructions on how to request to join. Sometimes it’s an email, sometimes a comment. If there’s directions for how to request to join, simply follow the board creator and send them a polite little message including your Pinterest email.

Create group boards in your niche.

Creating group boards within your niche is an awesome way to not only build community around your website but also gain followers on Pinterest who are already interested in your niche. It’s also a GREAT way to find other bloggers whose content you LOVE and can connect to collaborate! For example, I mainly blog for moms and marriages and hence I have created the ••Marriage & Relationships Group Board •• and the ••Mommy Lifestyle Group Board••

Get organized.

I use Trello (a free online and mobile scheduler to organize which boards I can bulk schedule on Viraltag, which ones I will manually pin to less often, and which ones I can only occasionally pin to in order to stay within the rules of the board and not clog up the board with just my own content- board creators don’t like that).

Schedule pins using Viraltag

After you get organized and figure out what boards you’ll be able to pin to in bulk, you’re ready to start scheduling! Here are some screenshots of my process…

I have one board where I have one or two pins of each of my blog posts.

Chelsea's boards with arrow

I open the board and there are the pins of all my content, ready for me to schedule.

Screen Shot 2015-12-22 at 9.45.50 AM

From here I click my installed Chrome extension (next to the Pinterest extention) just as if I were on a webpage and I wanted to pin an image I liked. You’ll then see all your pins pop up on a selection page (just like if you were pinning an image from a page), and you can select which pins you’d like to schedule. It’ll look like this:

*hint* not all your pins from the board may show up on the selection page and that’s just because they hadn’t loaded on the page when you hit the Viraltag extension. Go back and scroll through the board and make sure every pin is loaded and then hit the extension again. You should now be able to see all your pins.

Selecting pins to schedule using viraltag

Then hit schedule.

You’ll be brought to the scheduling page which looks like this:

Screen Shot 2015-12-22 at 9.47.32 AM

Now you have 2 options: schedule each pin to different boards individually (which you may want to use for smaller boards that don’t allow pinning as often or for boards of different niches), or select boards under “Bulk Options” which allows you to pin all your selected pins to the board or boards of your choosing at once. I use this a lot. The awesome thing about Viraltag is that it syncs with your boards automatically (they’ll all be listed in a dropdown menu) so if you join a new group board, you’re ready to schedule pins to it right away.

Now Viraltag will already have some times scheduled to pin to Pinterest for you based on your analytics, but you’ll probably want to add more. I added a lot more. Here’s a snapshot of what my cue looks like:
Screen Shot 2015-12-22 at 9.48.49 AM
Screen Shot 2015-12-22 at 9.49.05 AM

See the “Get Recommended Times” option? You can click this to see and add the times when Viraltag says it would be best to publish. I do this from time to time.

From here you’re all set to relax while Viraltag does your pinning work for you! And I don’t mean to neglect other forms of social media that Viraltag is a boss at too, but today I’m just focussing on Pinterest scheduling.

If you’d like to see how your pins are doing, you can click on reports and see images like this:
Screen Shot 2015-12-23 at 8.51.49 PM

You can see that early mornings (and Wednesdays apparently) are not busy times but the evenings and weekend kick up a bit.

Extras!!!

Viraltag is a fairly new company, and what do new companies care about? Customer service! Viraltag has been THE BEST at communicating with me if I have questions because they want bloggers, like me, to LOVE their service. After my free trial was up, I was able to request another week of free, unlimited use just to have more time to make up my mind.

Not only that, but if you’re a blogger and you sign up to use Viraltag, you have the option of getting 60% off your yearly subscription just for doing what we do best, writing about why we love Viraltag! Seemed like a easy coupon to me. Plus, with the 60% off, I can also get commission through anyone who subscribes to Viraltag using my special link right here: Subscribe to Viraltag!

So if now, or in a few days you decided you love Viraltag just like I do, come back to this link to join to help out a fellow blogger and pass on the love!

Share your questions and comments in the comments section below!

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In: Blogging, Life & Finances · Tagged: blogging, content, pinning, pinterest, pinterest scheduling, repinning, scheduling, sharing, social, social media, social media scheduler, viraltag

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Comments

  1. Nikhil says

    December 28, 2015 at 6:03 pm

    Hey,
    I wanted to know one thing about it. Does this tool offer free trial?
    I think it is not…

    Reply
    • Chelsea says

      December 28, 2015 at 8:51 pm

      Yes! I think I had a 14 day free trial before signing up!

      Reply
  2. Lisa says

    January 6, 2016 at 9:43 pm

    One of my goals for this year is to learn how to use Pinterest for blog promotion.

    Reply
  3. Charlene says

    January 6, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    Wow. Thanks for sharing this! I use Buffer but I may have to try Viraltag. Also, thanks for linking to those group boards!

    Reply
  4. Jenny says

    January 6, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    I currently use BoardBooster but I might have to add this one into the mix as well at some point…or at least try the free trial.

    xoxo, Jenny

    Reply
  5. courtney says

    January 6, 2016 at 11:17 pm

    This is so helpful! I’m trying to work on my Pinterest so this is perfect! Thank you!

    Reply
  6. Lauren English says

    January 7, 2016 at 12:30 am

    This is awesome! I’ve been using Boardbooster for a while and have definitely seen some growth from that but am always looking for new options. Do you know anything about how it’s similar to or different from Boardbooster? You make Viraltag sound awesome and I might have to try it out 🙂

    Reply
  7. Ak says

    January 7, 2016 at 2:47 am

    Definitely trying now!

    Reply
  8. Melissa says

    January 7, 2016 at 4:15 am

    I love this post! I have not been loving the one I am trying but I may not be utilizing it correctly :/ this is the type of post one needs to bookmark and pin for multiple references! Thank you!

    Reply
  9. Melissa says

    January 7, 2016 at 4:18 am

    I hope I am not double commenting now but I really appreciate this post. I have been trying to utilize another system and have been underwhelmed. Excited to try this.

    Reply
  10. Natalie says

    January 7, 2016 at 4:04 pm

    This sounds like such a great resource! I love Pinterest and it is my top blogging referrer, but I’m always looking for ways to make it work better for me. 🙂 Definitely checking this out!

    Reply
  11. Roxy says

    January 7, 2016 at 4:51 pm

    Wow, this post was super informative. This is the second time in a week that using a pinterest scheduler has been recommend to me. I’m a fairly new blogger and am still focusing on consistently posting so I’m not quite ready to add monthly expenses. However, when I get there I will be sure to revisit this post!

    Reply
  12. Catherine Short says

    January 7, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    This is so interesting. I haven’t been very consistent with Pinterest and a lot of that is the time it takes to post to a ton of boards. I’m going to look into viral tag.

    Reply
  13. CHocolate Mama Loves Vanilla says

    January 9, 2016 at 5:09 am

    I use variegate and haven’t used it the way you are using it! I’m about to start doing it your way after I get done typing this message!! 😀 Thank you so much for the life save!

    Reply
  14. Maya LaBoo says

    January 9, 2016 at 9:47 pm

    I just started using Viraltag, I love it! Thanks for providing more insight!!!

    Reply
  15. Tyler DeBroux says

    July 4, 2016 at 10:56 pm

    Thanks for the insight. I was using Tailwind but have heard many good things about Viraltag. I think your article convinced me, I’m going to try them out. Thanks again!

    Reply
  16. Shelly Begarowicz says

    July 10, 2016 at 6:23 am

    You said you posted ALL the pins from your site to some of these group boards. How often do you find it is ok to repin or repeat a pin on a BIG group board. Obviously it would be bad form to pin too much or repeat pin at all on a smaller board.
    Thanks.

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I just wanted to list a few "Why"s in case you were having a hard time finding yours today. Goodness knows I struggle some days but usually one of these pulls through for me ❤️

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• To set an example 
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• To listen to good music for a little while
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I just wanted to list a few "Why"s in case you were having a hard time finding yours today. Goodness knows I struggle some days but usually one of these pulls through for me ❤️

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I’ve talked about this before but never to its f I’ve talked about this before but never to its full extent. 

6ish years ago I was working full-time as a doctor’s assistant and coming home to an 8-month-old baby while Josh worked 12-hour shifts until midnight. I was so busy that I felt like I was losing my sense of identity. 

That year I decided to start my blog. I kept it a secret for a while because I was embarrassed. I didn’t want anyone to think, “Who does she think she is? We’ve known her for years and she thinks she has something to say??”

But - I loved it! I wrote posts on everything! Random pizza recipes, how my run went that day, marriage, motherhood - I had absolutely no direction. But, I started sharing my blog and got a bunch of great feedback on my marriage and family posts. So, I decided to focus on that because that was, afterall, my favorite thing to write about anyway.

A few months later, I started pinning my posts on Pinterest and educating myself on what it meant to blog well, set up posts for good SEO, how to engage an audience, etc. I had a couple posts go viral on Pinterest and for a few months I had over 350,000 views on my blog/month.

Way late in the game, I started posting to Instagram in 2017. By then we had 2 babies and I had been working with brands for a while so I was able to quit my (at the time) part-time job to stay home with them which I was stoked about! 

Later that year, we packed up our stuff and moved to WA. The original plan was for Josh to find work and for me to continue blogging & be a SAHM. But, after several months later and finding it much harder for Josh to find work than we anticipated, I told him, "Hey, don't feel bad, I don't want you to feel pressure. I will look for work to take some of the pressure off."

So, I started applying for jobs in social media and content marketing. About a month into my search I made a profile on a job-matching platform called @scouted.io. A couple weeks later, I got an email from someone at Scouted saying that they were looking for someone to help with their content and they wanted to have a conversation. 

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 ✖️ Choosing not to get coffee with a person because it could get awkward if you don't know what to say.

✖️ Snoozing the alarm rather than waking up earlier to workout and make health a priority. 

✖️ Not approaching a homeless person with a bag of lunch because it's hard to look them in the eye when you have so much. 

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