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Treat Pinterest like you would a website and promote it with the usual methods (articles, links, directories, etc.).

Try to pin and re-pin as much as much content as possible (even if it’s from a competitor). By doing this you will encourage a high level of engagement.

Twitter, Digg, Pinterest have customizable pins that are essential if you want to get positive social ranking signals.

Avoid self promoting as much as possible. Instead, try to build a large following ‘organically’ by providing boards that are useful resources to the public.

You could consolidate all of your links with a 301 redirect and make future link building efforts easier.

Generate RSS subscribers, generate incoming links within directories and articles, and take advantage of Google’s new freshness update.

In my opinion, it is probably more advantageous to bring a blog into your main site as a subdomain or subfolder and try to generate links and social media signals.

If you have to move your business Google suggests that you close your account and set up a new account or listing. The disadvantage to doing this is your listing will now lose any trust advantage that it may have gained from age.

Google has designed this for crowd sourced editing and Google maps and certain users (power users) are able to build their trust and influence the more they contribute.

If you utilize the new troubleshooter, you can typically expect a resolution within 1 to 3 weeks and get a response from an actual person (which is nice for a change).

The internet is buzzing with the latest upgrades to Google Places including a nice, easy to use dashboard and very helpful troubleshooter.

Many SEOs have been complaining about duplicate listings that won’t go away.  Business information merging together and out of date information showing up (old addresses, old phone numbers, etc) are common problems.  Be on the look-out for this.