How to utilize Vine, Pinterest and Instagram in your social media strategy?
Would you like to learn how to use Vine, Pinterest, and Instagram in your social media strategy? Let us see what are these tools and how can you use them to drive leads. These days brands have started utilizing visually-rich content such as images, animations and videos, etc. on their social media platforms to increase engagement with their customers. The rise of platforms such as Vine, Pinterest and Instagram shows that visual marketing is rapidly becoming an integral part of the social media marketing strategy across all businesses. These are the tools that can be used in your social media strategy to drive traffic and improve results. (I) Vine A free mobile application that lets users record and edit up to six-second-long looping video clips and revine, or share others' posts with followers. How to use Vine in your social media strategy?   
Ensure visibility and awareness reach to your potential clients by exhibiting originality, uniqueness and creativity. Create a video teaser for a blog article, e-book or download within the 6 second time frame. Use hashtags to enable users to sort topics of their choice. This would help you in targeting a more niche audience.
(II) Pinterest
A virtual inspiration board that allows users to collect and share beautiful and visuallyrich images found on the web. How to use Pinterest in your social media strategy?
According to many successful Pinterest users, in order to popularize your profile, you not only need to promote your own content, but also need to ‘pin’ tips and products from other companies. You need to recognize the requirements of your customers and create boards accordingly. Use vibrant and eye-popping photos to get noticed and get your items pinned and repined on Pinterest boards You can also run online contests which can be cross-promoted on other social media as a paid promotion
(III) Instagram An online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking application that enables you to take pictures, videos and share them on a variety of social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr among others. How to use Instagram in your social media strategy?
Use other apps such as camera+ and Snapseed to enhance your photos. Give your feed a consistent look and feel. Use relevant photo captions to grab the attention of people and include questions to drive comments. Send brief notes/ messages to the people who have liked/commented your content in order to drive two way conversations. Use hashtags in your posts to reach a larger number of Instagram users.
These are some of the tips on how to use Vine, Pinterest and Instagram in your social media strategy. By tapping on these effective social media tools, marketers can gain an edge over their competitors and enhance their profits and sales at a relatively low cost. So, are you inspired to try these tools in your social media strategy? Posted by - Kalpana Dogra on 17-02-2015 Digital Marketing Evangelist at TSLimpact. Always aching to share the latest on the digital marketing ..Passionate about All Things Digital !An ardent apple fan, Great Swimmer and a ZumbaEnthusiast.