14 Tailwind Mistakes Wasting Your Time And Money

Are you guilty of Tailwind mistakes?

Tailwind is my most indispensable marketing tool because it maximizes my Pinterest traffic while minimizing my time.

The small investment in Tailwind pays for itself over and over in time saved.

But if you’re not using it well, you’re not getting the full benefits!

Let’s make sure you’re not wasting time by missing out on these great features.

7 Tailwind Mistakes That Are Wasting Your Time

1. Scheduling to one Board at a time

If you’re not using Board Lists, you’re missing a huge time-saver!

Create a board list for each major category you have content for. Add all the boards where that kind of content makes sense – up to 10 boards aligns with the current Pinterest best practices.

When you’re ready to schedule a Pin, add the appropriate board list with 1 click!

4. Adding Pins sporadically

The Tailwind browser extension makes it super easy to add content on the fly.

But that doesn’t mean there’s not a faster way to fill your queue!

If you’re not batching your Pin scheduling, you could save hours a week by adding content en masse. You need to try this feature!

You can go to any web page – including:

• A top-performing blog post.
• One of your best Pinterest boards.
• A group board where you’ve promised to share Pins.

Click the browser extension to pull up all the pinnable images on the page.

Choose the ones you like, and add to your drafts, or schedule them with a click.

The Tailwind browser extension is available for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Add and enjoy!

5. Searching all over for good content to schedule

Okay, I get it, you’re adding Pins one at a time because it takes you so long to find them.

Find them faster! Add your favorite sites to the Find Content tab in Tailwind and create an RSS feed of Pins you’ll love.

You can also sort them by Recent, Trending, Popular, and recurring keywords. Awesome!

6. Letting the queue run dry

Use the tips above to keep your queue full. Pinterest loves consistent Pinning!

Your account will be rewarded with more exposure, repins, clicks, and followers.

7. Pinning to crummy Group Boards

I know – if you don’t have Tailwind, you don’t know how to evaluate which Group Boards are working for you.

But you do have Tailwind, so use the Pin Inspector and sort by board so you know which are your best and worst boards.

What?!? You don’t have Tailwind? Well, if all this has convinced you what a huge timesaver it is, do yourself a favor and try it out!

Because the biggest mistake of all is…

8. Not getting your FREE Tailwind account!

That’s right, there’s now a Forever Free level for Tailwind users. Free members:

• Get 20 posts per month to publish on Pinterest and Instagram.
• Have 20 Tailwind Create posts to use every month.
• Enjoy 5 Tailwind Communities with 30 submissions per month.

So check it out now!

• • • Click here to get your FREE Tailwind for Pinterest account • • •

Disclosure: I’m an affiliate and will receive a referral fee if you purchase.

7 Tailwind Communities Mistakes That Are Killing Your Reach

Tailwind Communities were formerly named Tailwind Tribes. If you haven’t heard of them, listen up, because this is a feature that can really multiply your reach!

Are you using Communities, and using them well?

1. Ignoring Tailwind Communities

Tailwind Communities are simply a better way to get your content seen and shared than Pinterest Group Boards and “Pin share” Facebook groups.

Community members are held accountable to sharing other members’ content of their own choosing. So – no forced sharing of doggie Halloween costumes, for example, if that doesn’t fit your niche.

If you have a Tailwind account, take advantage of the free Communities feature. Join 5 Communities in your niche and start sharing!

2. Dumping the same Pin into all your Communities at once

Here’s a heads up – many of the people in one of your niche Communities are in several of them.

Most likely they’ll only share your Pin from one Community. So, if you’re going to add your Pins to Communities once a week (or day, even), add different Pins to different Communities.

I recommend adding one blog post to 3 Communities at a time, max.

3. Adding a ton of your Pins to one Community at the same time

Here another scenario.

Sherry Sharer visits a Community. She’s greeted with 10 of your Pins. How many do you think she’ll share?

Maybe 1, if she doesn’t get annoyed and simply “hide” your content.

Spread it out! Add one or two Pins at a time, and make them different blog posts, not just different images. Don’t compete with your own content for shares!

4. Being miserly with your Community shares

Did you know? Super sharers (Community members who share a LOT of others’ content) get featured in the weekly Communities newsletter.

This means your mates will see you as a generous soul who deserves their support!

So, if possible, go above and beyond the sharing required by the Community Admin.

5. Going off-topic in Communities

Don’t even. People will “hide” your content – and you might even get booted from the Community.

6. Not vetting members’ content

Please. Ensure that the content you share from Communities is stuff you’d share with your best customers.

Because that’s what you’re doing!

I get that it’s a pain to check every post. Eventually you’ll know which content to trust, and which to skip.

Hint: I never share Pins with affiliate links, as I don’t believe a Pin to a sales page adds value to my audience. I may not even know the product! Of course, it’s your choice.

Don’t forget you can filter Community Pins by contributor! So find a few people whose content you love, and look for their latest additions.

Problem solved.

7. Ignoring Community rules

Does this have to be said? Well, I said it.

Each Community may have slightly different rules as to sharing ratio, topics, if you can ever repeat the same content, and even Pin size.

Read ’em and follow ’em.

Don’t like ’em? Join a different Community.

8. Not using your FREE Tailwind Communities!

All Forever Free, Pro Plan, and Plus Plan Tailwind users enjoy 5 Tailwind Communities with 30 submissions per month.

Try them out! When you see their power, you can upgrade to join more Communities and submit more content.

Or stay “forever free!” It’s your choice.

• • • Click here to get your FREE Tailwind for Pinterest account • • •

Disclosure: I’m an affiliate and will receive a referral fee if you purchase.

Are you ready to maximize your Pinterest?

So – now you have a choice.

Use Tailwind better with the tips above! Or…

Don’t have Tailwind yet? Join for free here.

Disclosure: I use, love, and am an affiliate for Tailwind. I will make a referral fee if you decide to purchase.

Now stop wasting time and money on Tailwind mistakes!