PinChatLive: The Perfect Way to End an Online Event

***Disclaimer- PinChatLive events are addicting, I speak from first-hand experience. I have attended all events to date, and don’t intend to stop!***

A few months ago, I discovered something new. It’s called PinChatLive, and it combines two popular activities, Pinterest and YouTube, into one super fun event!

I first heard about PinChatLive when my friend Christine, from Cook the Story, invited me to participate, along with several other bloggers, in the online blog event Brunch Week. It was a week-long event where we shared our favorite brunch recipes the week before Mother’s day. We ended this event with a PinChatLive. While I had never heard of this kind of event before, it was easy to catch on and I had so much fun!

Christine co-hosts the event with Carla LaBrosse, a business consultant who helps you and your business get the attention you want and the results you need to make your dreams a reality. Here’s a graphic Carla made that explains just how a PinChatLive event works.

Basically, you listen to Christine, Carla and anyone else hosting, on Youtube, while you watch questions and tips being pinned on the event Pinterest board. For every question you answer, you are entered into a drawing for a prize! I won a ton of fun makeup from the Brunch Week PinChatLive event I attended, and recently won some Ben and Jerry’s ice cream from the Ice Cream Week event aaand a Desserts in Jars cookbook from the Desserts in Jars Week event!

At the end of August, I co-hosted Back to School Week with Kelley from Miss Information. During that week we, along with 21+ other great bloggers, brought you quick & easy meals and crafts for back to school. We celebrated the closing of the event with a PinChatLive, where we announced the Back to School Week giveaway winners and gave away fun prizes at the event itself. I can honestly say that it was much better, and way more fun, than just closing our last post with a ‘thanks-for-joining-us-it’s-been-fun’ message.

We had about forty people participate in the Back to School PinChatLive, everyone was answering questions and commenting like crazy! Kelley and I had the opportunity to ‘meet’ our readers via the video, and engage with them in ways we normally wouldn’t have been able to.

Carla sums it up beautifully:

“PinChatLive is a high energy-level social media event that combines your love for pinning on Pinterest with the added bonus of a live community – oh and prizes! 😉

From a bloggers point of view, hosting a PCL to wrap up a week long event not only allows a great platform to announce winners and help promote sponsors, it also allows us to directly engage in REAL TIME conversation with fans. It helps fans deepen their blog/brand loyalty by allowing a sneak peek at the author in person, as well as give them access to the blogger’s valuable wisdom & knowledge (and wittiness) as it permits participants to engage directly with the hosts via the YouTube (G+) feed and Pinterest comment section.”

-Carla LaBrosse

Want to have a PinChatLive to wrap up an online event, but you’re worried about being on video? Kelley and I couldn’t have been more nervous! We we unsure of how to set the event up, didn’t have time to make the question and tip pin graphics and were a little insecure about what to say while so many people would be watching.

Christine and Carla were quick to put us at ease. Christine walked me through setting up the event & coached Kelley and I on some things to say, while Carla designed all the graphics. Plus, Carla kept us on tract during the event, making sure we were pinning questions and tips, reading answers to the questions and announcing prize winners when we needed to. We had thirteen giveaway winners, seven question pins, several tips, and four PinChat winners, so we really needed someone to stay on top of us during the event.

Once the event was over, I wanted to do it again! Kelley and I had such a fabulous time and so did our readers. I can’t wait to host another PinChatLive event!

Want to check out a live event to experience the fun first hand? Sign up for the PinChatLive Newsletter and you’ll be notified of upcoming events.

Interested in hosting your own PinChatLive event? Give Christine a shout-out and let her know!

Are you wanting to expand your customer base by sponsoring a PinChatLive event? Christine can help with that, too!

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***PinChatLive hosted an event for me in exchange for my review, no other compensation was given. All opinions are 100% mine***

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