Generally, pictures are more likely to be shared on most social media platforms. In fact, infographics are liked and shared on social media three times more than any other type of content. For SEOs, higher share-ability on social media means more than just opportunities to connect with influencers or engage their audience—it means they can…
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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…
Four Simple Best Practices for Designing A Poster
Learning how to design a poster is an essential skill for any marketer. 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…
How to Use Infographics on Pinterest to Get More Website Traffic
If you are not utilizing infographics on Pinterest you are missing out on the potential for massive traffic back to your blog. Blogging and online marketing, in general, is an endless journey. On top of regularly publishing content that provides value to your audience, you also need to keep up with the ever-changing trends and…
Five Types of Infographic Layouts For Visualizing Information
Not all infographic templates you come across will necessarily be perfectly formatted with the best infographic layouts 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…
How to Effectively Use Infographics in Your Blog
With millions of articles being published each day, bloggers need to be extra creative when it comes to their marketing strategy. A modest budget will help you to launch display ad or video marketing campaigns. But for cash-strapped marketers, investing in visual content like an infographic blog post can be the best step forward. Not…
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. So what are pictograms…
The Essential Parts of a Winning Infographic (And How to Create Them)
Incorporating the use of infographics into your content marketing is a great way to boost social media engagement, conversions, and your brand’s credibility as an information source. However, it’s not a “magic bullet” that can be implemented with no strategy whatsoever. Remember that customers, influencers, and competitors will judge your brand quality by the kind…
How to Promote Your Infographic on Social Media (The Best Practices)
Sharing infographics on Pinterest and Instagram makes sense, given that these platforms are specifically designed for sharing visual content. For these networks, you can simply pin or upload your infographics and they’ll easily be visible to your intended audience. But if you want to truly maximize their exposure, or if you want to share them…
How to Write a Killer Infographic Script
An infographic’s value is tied to the information it contains. Just because it is a form of visual content, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay attention to the text aspects of the piece. That’s why every infographic project requires a killer script that is well-researched, well-structured, and engaging from start to finish. Remember that one of…
The Seven Different Types of Infographics and When to Use Them
7 Different Types of Infographics – and When to Use Them Think written blog posts are enough to keep your brand afloat? Think again. Content marketing experts predict that the industry will be a lot tougher. In an interview with Mention, Rand Fishkin of Moz says, “Marketing is going to be even more challenging than…
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…
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, they 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 type of infographics that offer 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…
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…
How To Target Millennials With Your Infographics
The talk around town as of late seems to be, “How do I target 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…
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…
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…