199: Visual Content Ideas that Get Shared Like Mad

The days of only using textual content marketing to build your brand, attract, inspire, engage and empower your audience and customers are long gone. If you are only using textual marketing you are already falling behind. In case you haven't noticed, the world is turning visual.

As humans we are bombarded by marketing and media everywhere we look. Every brand, every marketer and human has an opportunity to be the media. Social media levels the playing field. Today even the smallest of businesses and brands can compete with the biggest if they know how to tap into the power of modern, social and digital marketing.
A picture can truly speak a thousand words! Visual marketing is a form of content marketing that enables and empowers savvy marketers to better communicate, educate, empower, inspire and connect with their audiences in a human way.

Did you know...

The human brain processes visual information 60,000 times faster than the time it takes to decode text?
84% of communication will be visual by 2018
People are 85% more likely to buy a product after viewing a video
89% of internet traffic will be video by 2018
The average person gets distracted in 8 seconds
People form a first impression in 50 milliseconds
Posts that include images produce 650 percent higher engagement than text only posts
*Source: WebDam Infographic
Visuals are powerful as they help people more quickly understand and retain information. It takes at minimum 5-6 brand impressions for someone to remember your brand. Visual marketing can help ensure each touch counts even more and becomes more memorable. Standing out from the noise is half the battle for even the smartest of marketers. Rising above the noise and connecting in a human way can help smart brand leaders zoom past the status quo quite quickly.

Have you tapped into the power of visual marketing? Do you understand the need for visual marketing and don't know where to start? Many marketers know they need to start better leveraging visual marketing. However, they don't know where to start.

Would you like to know what types of visual content marketing work best? How about understand what visual content will be shared by your audience and fans like mad? Visual marketing doesn't have to cost you a fortune. You can leverage everything from infographics, personal photographs, video, to custom designed or even stock photos to build and share your brand story.

Take a listen to 199th episode of the Social Zoom Factor podcast for 12 Visual Marketing Content Ideas that Get Shared Like Mad!

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In this 20 minute podcast you will learn:

Why visual marketing?
12 visual content marketing ideas that get shared like mad
How to leverage infographics to educate, empower and inspire
Humanizing your brand with visual marketing
Brand storytelling with visual marketing
Sharing behind the scenes images and video
Sharing stories of travel, corporate and customer events
Why images of action can drive action
The power of connecting as humans in an emotional way with images
Leveraging simple branded images for quotes, tips and tricks and more
Tips for using coupons on the top social networks such as Facebook and Twitter