visual content marketing ebook

Visual MarketingA Powerful Strategy For Capturing The Attention of Your Potential Customers

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N1. About this book

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2.Why customers prefer visual content

3. Visual Content to get customers

04. Social Networks that support visual Marketing

xwj5. Easy & Free tools to create amazing visuals

6. Some Parting thoughts

This eBook aims to give you ideas on how to marry the best socialmedia methods with the power of visuals to reach your customersand rapidly grow your business.

It doesn’t cover everything you need to know about this topic, justwhat you need to take meaningful action.

We aim to educate, educate, educate! Knowledge is marketing power!

Wherever possible, we leave out long explanations and presentinformation and methods you can try right away. We aim to makevisual marketing an easy addition to your marketing strategy, movingaway from a complex methodology that will end up having you hire agraphic designer or a social media consultant.

And please remember, visual marketing is for all types of business,please ditch that misconception that only fashion or restaurantbusiness can leverage visual marketing.

So lets skip the text tidal wave and jump straight intointo your customer’s powerful visual instinct.

Written BySbuyiselwe Mthembu

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90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual, & visuals are processed 60 000X faster in

the brain than text.

Or that photos generate 53% more Facebook likes than the average post? And that videos are

shared 12X more than links and text posts combined

Did you Know?

u Why customers prefer

visual content

Visual content marketing has never mattered more, particularly in anera where consumers are increasingly savvy, connected and crunchedfor time

Consumer habits have changed, so get a head start and be a leader inyour industry with content that is designed to capture and retain yournew customers

What has caused buyers to slant more towards visual content over the recent years?

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content overload

Time is of the essence

e At our core we’re visual learners

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visual content

5. Easy & Free tools to create amazing visuals


content overload


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e At our core we’re visual learners

The amount of blogs, eBooks and whitepapers to sift through to get the information can get overwhelming. Consumers are suffocating in text and as a result simplified, ‘snackable’ content is more appealing.

Time has never been more valuable. So, when readers stumble upon a 2,000-word text, their trigger fingers are a little quicker when they see a one-minute video or eye-catching infographic.

83% of learning occurs visually, which makesvisual content much more digestible andmemorable. And for that reason alone, itappeals to a much greater audience.

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content overload


At our core we’re visual learners

Marketing a business solely through copy is dead. The mostinnovative small business owners now use the graphics ofvisual marketing to land new customers

If you want to encourage engagement and shares, yourimages have to appeal directly to your target audience.

“Break through a cluttered content landscape”




content overload



Let’s take a look at 3 popular and easy to make visual content formatsthat resonate best with customers.

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Videos

Infographics Photos




VideosVideo’s are a great way to share your expertise and helppeople. Don’t you think a potential consumer would ratherwatch a 3 min DIY plumbing video that you made for themthan read about how to fix their problem in a long text?.

And its more likely that your business will be the first he/shecalls when the problem gets a little too advanced, becausethey trust you and you’ve helped them before. So think aboutit, take videos to create solution based content.

You don’t need editors and graphic designers, just do whatyou do best in front of a camera and share it on Youtube orcreate a short blog post, promoting your video and share it onother social networks. It really is as simple as it sounds. Justpress play.




“Sometimes explanations just lend themselves to a more visual representation.”

Harnessing the power of images and visuals makes your marketing more powerful and more memorable. Infographics are a great way to solve a problem or let your customers in on a fact that would be helpful be helpful.

Infographics




InfographicsInfographics are actionable and highly shareable so its also great for exposure.

So, I know you probably thinking – I’m not creative! I don’t have time! I have no idea where to start but is just fear or laziness talking. There are a number of easy-to-use tools that give you instant creativity and design skills, as well as allow you to share images quickly.

I’ll share some easy to use tools and platforms that are visual content friendly in the last section.

Visual content doesn’t need to be comprised of perfectly-edited, long-form videos or graphs to succeed, in fact its better if it isn’t .




PhotosPhotos have become the eye candy of the Internet. They are meant toattract reader’s attention and spark their interest. A photo that tells astory will help people remember.

Make use of photo’s frequently because they are the easy to create or find on the internet. They produce great engagement results and drive traffic to your website when combined with links.

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rPinterestWith over 70 million users, Pinterest is one of the fastest growing network on social media. Behind those lovely images, Pinterest is fast becoming a heavy hitting marketing tool for brands and businesses

What to do on Pinterest

• Add an On Hover Pin It ButtonTo drive referral traffic from Pinterest, your blog images have to make it to Pinterest

• Convert Your Pinterest Personal Page to a Business Page

Take a few minutes to convert to a Pinterest business page and learn about the analytics and metrics you can measure.

• Explore Rich PinsAdd topic – specific details to a pin, like a map, address, phone number. This is good for local businesses.




fAccording to Kissmetrics, photos receive 53% more Likes, 104% more comments and a whopping 84% more click-trough’s on links

What to do on Facebook

• Post Shareable PhotosPut up pictures that are funny, ask questions, quotes, quizzes, common stereotypes, these are very sharable. Q• Choose to upload an image than to write a statusFacebook certainly supports photos when it comes to posting. As you can see, a photo gets more space on the newsfeed.




wYouTube doesn't always strike small business owners as the first port of call when thinking about marketing but it can really help you gain exposure online.

What to do on YouTube

• Make Content, Not AdsYou will notice very quickly that traditional types of advertising do not work on YouTube. Think out the box, tell a story, use triggers, emotion and social currency to make engaging content.

• Become The Face of Your Business.YouTube is a community made of real people andthey want to see, hear and interact with other realpeople. The connection to your business becomesmuch more powerful if you or someone in yourorganization becomes the face of your brand

• Push People To Your WebsiteFor most businesses, it doesn’t do much good ifyour YouTube subscribers only hang out at yourchannel. Include a link to your website in the firstline of each video description.




Use Instagram to make your brand visible to a new market. Instagram is growing at exponential rates and gaining popularity across generations, cultures, geographic areas, and industries.

What to do on YouTube

Instagram

• Use brand specific hashtagsInclude your business name in some of your post hashtags. For example, if you’re hosting a photo contest on Instagram, make a unique tag just for that campaign.

• Like your Follower’s photosAcknowledge your customers’ awesomeness by liking their photos - particularly if they include your product.

• Be creative with your photosInstagram enables you to create high quality images without all of the technology and tools necessary for professional edits.

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Easy & free tools for creating amazing visuals



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xwjLuckily there are so many DIY tools to help you create simple but effective visuals that you can use across all the social networks we discussed above.

Tools for choosing fonts

Check out Google Web Fonts, a directory of almost 600 fonts that are ready to use on your website

Da Font is also a easy too use archive of freely downloadable fonts.

Having a variety of attractive types of font is great way to create images with overlaid text or illustrations that can easily be shared on various social media channels.

http://www.google.com/fonts/

http://www.dafont.com/




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xwjTools for Creating or Editing Your Own Visual Content

Create, edit or manipulate an image using Photoshop-like editors likePixlr or Sumopaint.

Modify photos or create memes with the Google+ Photo Editor (you have to have a Google+ account to do this).

http://pixlr.com/

http://www.sumopaint.com/www/

https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1053729?hl=en




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xwjCreate a reusable PowerPoint template with several simple backgrounds that you can easily layer text on top of.

Create Infographics on Power Point.Hubspot has great infographic templates that you can download HERE

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Some parting thoughts



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We have come to the end of the eBook and we hope that you have learned something new and most importantly something useful.

Over To You …

• Go turn existing pieces of written content into presentations. Break up text with meaningful

• visuals.

• Experiment with letting just your visuals do the talking (post a photo with overlaid text to your

• company Facebook page and monitor interaction rates).

• As you become skilled with one tool, add another tool or app to your design kit. When you find something you love, stick with it for a while until something else strikes your fancy.

Feel free to share any problems or queries with us and we will be glad to help.

Get Straight to Your Customer’s Mind, Heart, Buy Button…Visually!

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