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Welcome to episode 012 of The Blogger Genius Podcast. My guest is Kim Vij from the blog, The Educators’ Spin on It.

The Educators’ Spin on It has close to 1.6 million followers on Pinterest. In this episode, Kim and I discuss how her account grew so fast on Pinterest, and how to expand your business using group boards on Pinterest.

It’s an exciting time for Pinterest, as they just unveiled the new “following tab.” Easy to access on both mobile and desktop views, this is a huge change that has the blogging community buzzing. And below is why you need to know about the new Pinterest following tab:

A Little Backstory

In 2009, we launched our first company, Catch My Party, which we’ve since grown into the largest party ideas blog on the web.

In 2015, when we realized how important social media was to the growth of our traffic on Catch My Party, we designed and built a popup we named MiloTree, that popped up on our site, and asked our visitors to follow us on social media. It was amazing how well it worked!

Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest: What social networks should I grow? Or should I just focus on my email list?

If you want to learn how to create the best Pinterest boards, check out this podcast I did with Kate Ahl from Simple Pin Media.

This is Part II in my series on How To Grow Your Social Media Followers. You can read Part I on growing Instagram here: How to Grow your Instagram Followers Faster.

If your follower count is down, you’re not alone.