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● 90% of information submitted to the
brain is visual
● Visual images process 60,000 times
faster {we are talking in nano
seconds here, but still…}
● 40% of people respond to visual
information over print
● For the rest, visual
information reinforces
the message
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65% of the population are visual
learners-pictures reinforce text
Videos on landing pages
increase conversions by 90%
Posts with visuals receive 94%
more page visits and
engagement
60% of consumers are more
likely to click on a business
whose images appear in search
results
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90%
of information
submitted to the
brain is visual
Visual images process
60,000
times faster
(we are talking in nano seconds
here)
40%
of people
respond to visual
information over print
Visual information
reinforces the
message
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…gives them
a main idea
Good visual content…
…gets to the
punch line
…saves your
audience time by
highlighting
important info
…simplifies
complex info
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• Tumblr is emerging as a formidable social media site
for marketing
• Fastest growing in new active users
• Perfect for multimedia and visual posts
• Visuals with short text are key
• Create a Tumblr blog focused on the same interests as
your potential customers
• Follow users with the same interest as your
business/Tumblr blog
• Easier to gain a following by following others first
Find their niche
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“I’m in a chillin’ mood today.
Found it here (link).”
Pictures of products are a
natural fit on Tumblr
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• Social media interactions should focus on
the SOCIAL
• Social media is a platform for connection
and conversation
• Interesting and relevant visual content on
social media gets you noticed
Be Social
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Because you’ve taken time to get to know
your audience, you know what is valuable to
them:
• funny
• thought-provoking
• useful
• discounts
Include valuable content
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• The visual content draws your audience
in
• The text keeps them engaged
• People always look for the caption to tell
them what they are seeing
• Fabulous Headlines are essential
• Interesting copy is a must--even if it just
gets skimmed
Visual content works
with copy
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• Make a connection
• Encourage comments
• Encourage shares-fun
content people want to bond
over
• Call to action
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A simple call to action helps YOU pinpoint what your
goal is with visual content and helps your AUDIENCE
(potential customers) know how to respond:
• Share your own adorable pet photo
• What’s your favorite cat?
• Know someone who’d like this article?
Share it!
• Follow us on ____
• Buy now and save $___
Call to action
There are a lot of social media platforms out there.
I am going to explain all of them for you to maximize your content’s effectiveness.
Humans are not “preprogrammed” for written language. “We were never born to read,” says neuroscience and reading researcher, Maryanne Wolf, in her book, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain. Wolf explains that vision is pre-programmed into the human brain while reading does not come naturally. Reading, says Wolf, involves tapping into existing “visual circuits” of the brain in order to decode letters into words.
Source: Wolf, M., & Stoodley, C. J. (2007). Proust and the squid: The story and science of the reading brain. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
What this research means for content marketers is that visual content is processed much easier than text. In a world where potential customers are overloaded with information, visual content makes your message easier to process and more likely to stand out.
{Image of an infographic or visual website standing apart from a sea of boring-looking sites and pages}
Source: Wolf, M., & Stoodley, C. J. (2007). Proust and the squid: The story and science of the reading brain. New York, NY: HarperCollins.
Research from UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior suggest that Internet searching may engage a greater extent of neural circuitry not activated while reading text pages (but only in people with prior computer and Internet search experience.)
Source: Small, G.W., Moody, T.D., Siddarth, P., and Bookheimer, S.Y. “Your brain on Google: patterns of cerebral activation during internet searching.” : American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 2009 Feb;17(2):116-26. doi: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e3181953a02.
Pinterest has 70,000,000 users (most are women in the US) accoring to Semiocast, a French marketing company http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2013/07/10/semiocast-pinterest-now-has-70-million-users-and-is-steadily-gaining-momentum-outside-the-us/
Pinterest’s numbers aren’t public http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/05/pinterest-is-sneaking-up-on-twitter-and-facebook.html
Instagram has 300,000,000 users http://instagram.com/about/us/
60,000,000 photos shared every day http://instagram.com/about/us/
200,000,000 active monthly users on Instagram http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2014/03/26/instagram-passes-200-million-monthly-active-users/
Tumblr has seen a 120% increase in active users from May to Nov 2014
Tumblr has 216.7 million blogs 99.7 billion posts as of Dec 28, 2014 (count changes every day) https://www.tumblr.com/
From May to November 2014
Tumblr has overtaken Instagram in growth of active users.
Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram grew most in active members
This chart shows that people LOVE interacting with images, they also LOVE creating their own content.
It is important to speak the language of your audience and interact with them on their terms.
these concepts apply to any print or web material your company produces