Pinterest comes with extensive sales potential. This is one of the reasons why 60% of top brands today maintain a Pinterest account. Pinterest offers its users a number of free and paid tools. Here are the top power-players that can help businesses catapult their way to success over this visual social media platform.

(Was previously PinAQuote): Quotes and sayings are extremely popular over social media and can quickly go viral over a visual social platform like Pinterest. ShareAsImage is a great tool to use when creating picture quotes either from your own webpage or form any other webpage. You can also share images directly to Pinterest or any of your social profiles or simply save them to your computer. To use this tool, all you have to do is sign up for an account, drag the bookmarklet to the browser bar, highlight the text you want to include in your quote, and then simply click the bookmarklet.

If you are looking at gaining new followers, WiseStamp is the tool of choice. This tool allows you to display your latest pins in the emails you send or even include it in your newsletter. With WiseStamp you can personalize your email signatures for all your web-based email accounts such as Yahoo, Gmail, and Hotmail. Not only can you download this for free, but it also is compatible with most browsers. Want to spruce up your emails and newsletters?
Go ahead and include elegant links, add a dash of color, and add your favorite social profile

Designed as a multi-platform visual content marketing tool, Reachli allows you to create and promote content from a unified dashboard over different social platforms including Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr. Reachli also comes with analytics which make it easy for keeping a track of and measuring your results. Using the “Lite” version of this tool, you can post over four social media accounts without shelling a penny!
Reachli comes in pay-per-click model starting as low as $10.

Piqora, is an excellent marketing service for the visual web and includes a centralized marketing and analytics dashboard that supplement visual networks such as Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr. Designed to be feature-rich, Piqora can be used to host and track contests and promotions over Pinterest, to easily manage content, schedule pins, reach out to influential and popular pinners, and also to measure level of engagement. Using its robust Social CRM capability, users can enhance customer engagement, gain greater insight into social conversations, and track consumer reactions.

This is a free nifty Facebook application which allows your Facebook fans to locate your content over Facebook and pin it to Pinterest. The “PinIt” button included in this tool supports instant sharing and distribution of your Facebook content over Pinterest. This tool can organize your content in a Pinterest -like format and pulls in all likes and comments that are linked to your Facebook post.

Postris is a free “content discovery dashboard” designed with a simple interface which allows you to keep track of what is hot and happening across Pinterest. Postris, lists the most popular pinners, boards and pins. By browsing boards you can easily locate and follow new accounts and generate content ideas which can be used on your own Pinterest page.

PinAlerts will keep you informed via email anytime anyone pins something from your site; instead of informing you about what was pinned, PinAlerts identifies the pinner who has pinned content from your website. This way, not only can you personally thank them, but you can also invite the pinner to follow your other boards. This tool is an excellent way to keep a track of repins from your site; to connect with other influential pinners; and subsequently to build a community of followers.