Infographics are a key component of any content marketing strategy. They’re the ultimate accompaniment to any piece of long-form content, like a blog post or news article, because they’re like visual candy–bite-sized and easily digestible. While most content marketers I speak to these days recognize the value of infographics in digital marketing, most don’t have…
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Infographic Outline Best Practices: How To Make Your Information Accessible
As marketers and writers, we’re always looking for better ways to engage and interact with our target audiences. We want to show people we’re the best at what we do, convert them into customers or subscribers, help drive a change in the industry and so much more. But in today’s fast-paced world, if your content…
Six Holiday Card Design Tips For Social Media
Where do I start? That’s probably the question that brought you here. Designing your own Christmas card for social media can be a little stressful. It’s certainly not as bad as looking for parking at a mall this time of year, but it’s up there. From trying to figure out what program or tool to use,…
Four Simple Best Practices for Designing A Poster
Posters have been used by many businesses for a range of purposes. Whether it’s to promote an event, educate an audience about a company’s features and mission, or to engage a following. They’ve been used in print as well as digitally. After all, what other forms of communication can get information out to the masses…
Five Types of Infographic Layouts For Visualizing Information
Not all infographic templates you come across will necessarily be perfectly formatted for the information you are trying to visualize. In some cases, you might have a text-heavy article that you want to transform into an infographic, and at other times you might have a lot of survey results to work with. Sifting through mountains…
How To Identify What Core Message to Visualize in an Infographic
One of the most difficult parts of creating an infographic isn’t creating the design. It’s summarizing your content and really identifying what the core message is you want to visualize. I often find myself looking at infographic examples for inspiration on style and layout, and the ones that stand out the most aren’t necessarily using evolutionary…
How to Use Pictograms Effectively
The fundamental purpose of an infographic is to simplify complex information and help make difficult concepts easier to understand. We often use infographics to summarize data in order to send a message to our audiences. One of the best ways of visually representing this data is through the use of pictograms. A pictogram is a…
4 Principles For Coming Up With Better Infographic Ideas
Picture this: You’ve been told that infographics are a great way to engage your audience, so you find an online tool and spend a couple of hours designing what you believe to be an amazing infographic. And then you publish it. And no one seems to care. Finding ways to come up with engaging and…
4 Best Practices For Creating Informative Infographics
A lot of marketers who first start out with creating infographics initially think that all they need to do is copy and paste blog content. But it’s not that simple. If anything, one of the hardest parts of creating an infographic is identifying a core message to relate back to your audience. Remember, an infographic…
4 Tips for Designing Facebook Ad Images That Convert
A big struggle that comes with creating compelling Facebook Ads is identifying what type of image to use for accompanying your ad text. With so many advertisements constantly inundating us on Facebook, it’s no longer easy to stand out and compel people to click on your promotion over others. So how do you create unique…
5 Amazing Resources For Infographic Inspiration
One of the biggest struggles I face is finding inspiration for creating infographics. As someone who does not have a background in graphic design. What really helps me to produce captivating visual content, without bothering my design team, is to look at existing content that is really good. But where do you go to find…
4 Design Tips to Make Your Social Media Images Better
The unfortunate truth is that a lot of us really suck at graphic design, especially when it comes to creating engaging social media images. Here’s one I came across recently on Twitter: It’s not horrible, right? But it’s not great. Here’s why: See the header? It says “Seeking Inspiration?” in white font. Well because the…
8 Simple Icon Hacks to Make Your Infographics Shine
Icons are to infographics, like apples are to cider. One always requires the other. But proper icon usage doesn’t always come naturally for everyone. When used well, icons can make the information on your infographics truly pop, but when used poorly, your infographics will just look sloppy and unprofessional. In this article, I’m going to…
6 Styles of Timeline Infographics
Timeline infographics are a great way to visualize a process over a period of time. This style of infographic is often used to portray the history of specific event, figure or movement. They often have a very linear progression. You can use a timeline data visualization when creating a company fact sheet for employee onboarding,…
How to Create A Roundup Infographic
One of the most effective ways of increasing blog traffic and social engagement of your blog posts is by creating a round-up infographic. What is a round-up infographic? It’s pretty simple actually. It’s an infographic that compiles tips or advice from a number of different experts within a field. Round-up infographics are a great way to connect with…
How to Create Stunning Infographics for Social Media in Minutes
Lately, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about creating infographics for social media. People are desperate to know how to create compelling images that generate tons of retweets, likes, and shares.I’ve even been offered to be paid quite handsomely to create infographics for social media for various individuals. But the truth is, I feel guilty…
How To Transform Survey Results Into an Infographic
Here’s the situation: You’ve been instructed to conduct a poll or survey and present your findings to a group of people. Great, that seems simple enough. But upon receiving the results from your survey, you’re overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data before you. What do you do? The solution may be easier than you…
How to Create an Annual Report Infographic
When one hears the term, “Annual Report” it’s unlikely that they will be overcome with a wave of excitement. The truth is, annual reports can be very boring, and I’ve never met one person who has been truly happy to put one together. Until today. Because I’m going to tell you how to create an…
How To Target Millennials With Your Infographics
The talk around town as of late seems to be, “How do I engage millennials with my content”. After much research, I noticed that many of these articles written about millennials, are not in fact written by them. For some reason, those who belong to Gen X or the Baby Boomer generation seem to think…
How To Create The Perfect Visual Content For Instagram
It’s difficult for many businesses to know exactly what type of content performs best on Instagram. After all, a company whose primary focus is social media marketing for instance, can’t really boost their following by posting selfies. One important thing to keep in mind is that the primary user demographic on Instagram is people between…
Using Infographics to Make Engaging Slideshares and Powerpoint Templates
Recently my team and I began doing a lot of research on the various personas and market segments that use our product. After looking at some of the feedback from our top users, one of the most frequently asked questions was, “How do I make powerpoint templates from an infographic?” Or “How do I make…
How To Choose The Perfect Copy For Your Infographic
What are the rules when it comes down to picking out the right copy for your infographic? I was wondering this a few days ago and realized that there aren’t too many really good sources that provide this kind of information. Knowing which words to include in an infographic is very important if you want…
A Beginner's Guide To Infographic Design
The first time I ever created an infographic, it was not good. In fact, my employer told me to focus on other tasks and let the designer worry about making the infographics. I became very discouraged and refused to make another infographic again! Naturally, in my line of work, this proved very difficult to accomplish….
Why You Should Create Infographic Designs For Instagram To Reach Out To Millennials
Not too long ago Instagram released an update that allows users to move away from the square-framed restrictions of the platform, and post portrait and landscape images. It may be a seemingly small step for the image sharing tool, but it opens the door to a wide range of potential image types. For any company…