Social Network Marketing Tycoon

**Alaister** · 03-27-2012, 09:10 PM

Pinterest has seen enormous amounts of growth and traffic. They have become one of the top 20 websites according to Alexa in under a year.

Here are some articles about pinterest that will help uncover how they grew so fast. What do you guys think?

10 Reasons Pinterest Booked 10 Million Visitors a Month So Fast - Forbes article about Pinterest's growth.

How did Pinterest gain initial traction? - Quora thread about how Pinterest got intial traction. The main reason seems to be their sexy and usable design.

How did Pinterest grow by 4000% in a year? - It's all about virality.

The Secret To Pinterest's Success: We're Sick Of Each Other - Article in the Huffington post. It explains how Pinterest has allowed people to share who they want to be instead of what they are doing.

**CharlesKayne** · 03-27-2012, 09:23 PM

Pinterest is growing, that's because of its uniqueness.

**Alaister** · 03-27-2012, 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CharlesKayne

Pinterest is growing, that's because of its uniqueness.

There's lots of sites that are unique that experience no growth.

I think the key reasons for growth:

Great design and user experience
Invite only which has generated huge amount of hype
Auto-follow every Facebook friend that joins the site and send email telling them
Incredibly social and fun

Here's an infographic I found which tries to answer "What makes pinterest grow so fast"

**CharlesKayne** · 03-27-2012, 09:46 PM

That's a great infographics, thanks.

**Digmen1** · 03-29-2012, 10:59 PM

A few years ago I was telling a friend that there is nothing new to be thought of on the internet.

Ebay,
Adverts
Facebook
On line selling

Then along came Twitter and now Pinterest.
And Freelancer and Fiverr

The people that think of these things are nearly as clever as the person who invented the Adkaf.

**gcolletti72** · 04-03-2012, 09:33 AM

It's true that the 80% of Pinterest users is woman?

**payment proof** · 04-11-2012, 08:22 PM

Pinterest offered a simple service that a lot of people wanted, without complicating it with a whole bunch of bells and whistles, other apps, etc.

**longlivemedia** · 05-18-2012, 09:47 PM

Who can really tell why some sites grow more popular overnight while others take years just to gain a handful of visitors? Pinterest hasn't done anything new by becoming more popular so quickly. Then again, that's already pretty impressive.