or
through online tools like PicMonkey (
http://www.picmonkey.com
) and Canva
(
http://www.canva.com
),
or
apps like A Beautiful Mess and Phonto (both available for
iOS and Android devices).
Share hints, tips, and tutorials
Offering hints and tips to your customers is a
great way to be consistently valuable, increase the potential virality of your
posts, and to grow brand loyalty. One of the easiest ways to do this is to show
simple step-by-step instructions by composing a single photo split into several
frames (the Instagram-built Layout app, websites like Fotor (
http://www.fotor.com
)
and Canva both offer free collage-making tools, while mobile apps like
PicFrame and Diptic will help you to achieve a similar effect on iOS and
Android devices). To take one example, Petsmart uses a single Instagram image
split into multiple images to give simple pet training advice, like teaching a dog
to sit and lay. The photo's visual instructions are complemented by further
explanation in the text caption.
Show behind the scenes
To increase intimacy with your brand, show your human side, and make
customers feel that they are getting a special sneak peek at the inner workings of
your company, use photos to snap photos of behind-the-scenes goings-on –
either vague, but exciting teasers
or
documenting each stage of a project as you
go along; showing fans your work in progress. For example, Tiffany & Co. once
snapped a photo of an artist they had employed, right in the middle of him
painting a new backdrop for its new Fifth Avenue store. Other examples might
be as simple as showing off the treats bought for the office to celebrate the end
of the working week, taking a snap of a special visitor, or posting a photo to
welcome your newest member of staff.
Highlight your charitable side
To help enhance your brand image, stand out as a
brand that cares, use images to highlight your charitable side. Levis regularly
promotes the good its company does, such as posting a photo of a t-shirt printed
for the free day it gives all employees so that they can help projects in their local
communities. Get your fans involved in the process, too. For example, you could
create a poll ("Poll" or "Offerpop" are two handy Facebook apps for this
purpose), and ask your audience to vote on the charity or cause that they want to
see you support.
Share popular memes, adapt them to your audience
Memes (most often
humorously-captioned images grouped into categories such "Bad Luck Brian,"
"First World Problems" and many, many others) are hugely shareable and
extremely popular on Facebook, and all social media. If you're unfamiliar with
memes (I'm sure you'll have seen one even if you didn't recognize the image as
one), the best thing is to visit a site like
http://www.memegenerator.net
to discover
examples for use on your Page, or to create your own - you'll pick up the idea in
no time. Humorous and cute memes and images also do well on social media -
anything that will evoke an emotional reaction, particularly if it is a positive one.
The "Funny", "Aww" and "Pics" subreddits of Reddit.com
(
http://www.reddit.com/r/funny
,
http://www.reddit.com/r/aww
and
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics
respectively) are an almost-infinite source of such content, but if you have your
own original funny, cute, or interesting images, all the better. The unstoppable
spread of many memes and funny images means that crediting the original
source can be an almost impossible task, but it's always good to do so if you can.
Despite the widespread popularity of memes and other viral images, do not rely
on them heavily as a way to bulk out your social marketing strategy. Regardless
of the high engagement rates they might get, this type of content can be regarded
as not "high quality," (especially in the eyes of Facebook, as often the
engagement it
does
get is not the most highbrow) so too much of it could hinder
your reputation and reach more than it helps, but used once in a while, they
shouldn't do any harm.
Jump on fads in popular culture
Just as the popularity of a meme comes and
goes, so do real-life photo trends. Photobombing and selfies are trends that look
like they are here to stay, but others like whaling and owling burnt out as quickly
as they arrived. Nevertheless, all of these trends can be taken advantage of in
order to boost engagement in your own content strategy, whether you take the
photos yourself or encourage your fans to, so that you can share their efforts on
your social profiles. For example, Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary in Australia
encourages visitors to take selfies with some of the animals within the park,
which it then features on its Facebook and Instagram profiles.
Build Presentations for Slideshare
With over 60 million visitors a month,
Slideshare (
http://www.slideshare.net
) is the web's biggest hub for hosting and sharing
presentations on almost any topic. Some of the most popular slideshows are
business-related, which makes the site doubly important for B2B companies.
The site's visual nature makes it one of the most efficient platforms for which to
create or re-purpose work in order to generate high quality leads (paid
membership even allows you to place contact forms within the presentation
itself). The most successful Slideshare presentations are laser-focused in their
subject, turning individual aspects of written content (blogs, e-books, speeches,
and even infographics) into highly visual content,
i.e.
strong and emotive photos
or graphics, a consistent color scheme and fonts, and keeping text to an absolute
minimum - often just a single sentence (or even half of one!) per slide. Check
out the Explore and Popular pages on Slideshare for examples of featured
content, and mirror this style in your own uploads. Slideshare decks can be
created, saved, and uploaded via software like PowerPoint and Keynote, online
tools like Canva or Haiku Deck (
https://www.haikudeck.com/
), or apps like SlideIdea
(
http://slideidea.com/
) Once published, Slideshare presentations can be shared
onwards to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and more,
and
embedded
into websites.
Other image types: word clouds, screenshots, and snack size data
Word clouds
are a fun and inventive way to represent a piece of content when sharing it to
social media, whether that be the words from a blog post, the transcript of a
video, or the opinions of people commenting on a particular status update. Sites
like Wordle (
http://www.wordle.net/
) ask you to paste in a body of text, which it will
then use to generate a word cloud - customizable by font, layout, and color
scheme. The more times a word appears, the more prominence it is given in the
cloud. If you want to direct people to a specific part of your website or show
them a quick step-by-step process, then screenshot images are one effective way
to go about it - show people, don't tell. Creating them is as simple as using a
snipping tool like Skitch (
https://evernote.com/skitch/
) (or even the Print Screen key) to
grab a snapshot, then adding text and arrow annotations before sharing. Or if you
want to add a bit of visual flair, check out a service like PlaceIt
(
http://www.placeit.net
), which allows you to insert a screenshot onto professional
stock photos of devices captured in real-life settings. Screenshots are also useful
if you simply cannot find a suitable image: grabbing block quotes, ordered lists,
or short paragraphs (stuff that can be easily digested) is the best option here.
Infographic-style images needn't be big, full pieces of work. Sharing a snippet of
fascinating or impressive data in the form of a graphic with a text overlay, or a
chart can be just as powerful. Examples might include the number of hours it
takes to manufacture a single pair of bespoke shoes, how the amount you've
given to charity has increased over the years, or how many cups of coffee your
team gets through during a busy week!
A note on perspective and comparisons
Customers viewing your products online
are doing so on flat (often small) pixilated screens - way different to the
experience they'd have inspecting them in real life. With this in mind, consider
posting images from multiple angles (perhaps as a collage) to give the best look
that you can. And if size is an important part of your product, think about
juxtaposing it next to a common household item (or your competitor's product!)
so that customers can easily judge the scale.
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