Bay Area eBay and Ecommerce Meetup Group

A huge thank you is going out to the Bay Area eBay and Ecommerce Meetup Group, it was a true pleasure to be your speaker this week.

As promised at the Meetup, here are the slides:

If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments below and I will do my best to get you answers.  Thank you!

Pinterest for Business: Why You Can't Use the New Analytics for Your eBay, Etsy, & Amazon Store

photo courtesy mkhmarketing on flickr.

Yesterday, Pinterest announced new tools for Pinterest Business accounts: Analytics.  

This is very exciting, and free.  We all like free.  There's just one catch.

Pinterest Analytics will not work for your eBay, Etsy, Amazon, or Shopify store, nor will this work for certain free blogging platforms.

To use Pinterest Analytics, you must first verify your Pinterest Business account.  You can only verify top level domains, like eBay.com.  At this time, these sites will not allow you to upload html files to give Pinterest the verification process it wants so you cannot verify these sites.  

Pinterest now has an alternate method to verify your website with meta tags, but I have not been able to find a way of embedding the correct meta tag in the correct place in eBay stores for verification.  I will keep investigating and keep you updated if I learn anything new.