Monday 17 February 2014

Exploring the visual side of digital marketing



These days, people are more interested in viewing the information than that of reading it.  A recent research has revealed that 90% of information send out to the brain is visual, and more over, these visuals are processed in the brain faster (60,000 times) than text. Videos and images are dominating the internet marketing in today’s web world. This statistics shows that visual can be an effective element of online marketing strategies and can offer a better opportunity for digital marketers to improve the rank of the websites in numerous search engines.
 
Exploring the visual side of digital marketing plays an important role to enhance your brand image. Here are few digital marketing strategies which if incorporated with visuals will surely deliver the positive outcomes for online growth of your business.
 
Visual content marketing incredibly helpful in digital marketing!
 
Visual content appears appealing to viewers and it has the amazing ability to communicate the idea or message of the content quickly and clearly. If you are trying to grab the eye-balls of online users but are failed to do so, visual contents can be extremely valuable for you. Visual contents allow the marketers to make their content unique from all the other contents written in the conventional style which are moving around the internet.  The content incorporated with interactive videos, high quality images and infographics makes the communications easier and delivers the right information rapidly to users. Visual content has the ability to engage the viewers and force them to read the content completely. Videos and pictures as compared to the text in the content leave the long lasting impression on viewers mind. 
 
Visual is the effective and integral component of social media strategy!
 
The online users enjoy pictures and videos more when they connect with their social media friends. A HubSopt study has revealed that images on social media site (Facebook) generate 53% likes as compared with the usual text posts. The same is true with the users’ engagement with business brands. As per Adobe Digital Index, if the brands post pictures and videos, 44% users are more likely to join them. This survey proved that visual social media strategy offers an amazing opportunity to digital marketers. Generally, visual communication originates with the understanding of how connected users explore and share which means to understand what is vital to them. To understand their perception and to capture their attention is most significant for business marketing purpose.
 
There are many social media networks like Pinterest and Instagram which are entirely dedicated to images, videos and infographics into social channels, blog posts and email. These shared networks are aiding to attain positive outcomes in your online business. So do not wait and get your brand involved in sharing video and images across all social networks.
 
Email incorporated with visuals breaths the new life into digital marketing!
 
Email marketing is one of the oldest and ultimate online marketing strategies. Email marketing is necessary for communication with existing and prospective consumers. If the high quality content is integrated with interactive images and videos, it will surely generate leads through email marketing. A study has revealed that 66% of digital marketers are integrating infographics in their email marketing strategy. These days, mobile devices are capable of receiving and displaying the mails with videos and pictures so, digital marketers can garb this opportunity to popularize the brands. 55% of users view the images attached in their emails, revealed by a latest survey. But still there are people who are less interested in turning on images received in their mails. For such recipients, digital marketers surely add alt image text to explain important images inside the email.
 
Infographics is becoming the most creative and effective part of digital marketing!
 
In exploring the visual side of digital marketing, infographics is gaining the popularity over the traditional digital marketing strategies. It is becoming a creative, interactive and visual way of showcasing a huge data or telling a story. Infographics is introduced in 2009 and since then it has become an effective and powerful weapon for digital marketers. Effectiveness and significance of the infographics for businesses can be estimated from the percentage (12.7%) of all infographics which are posted on the web by business companies.
 
Sometimes, typical business processes or solutions can be incorporated with a theme to spread the information in a creative and interesting way. With the help of infographics, you can represent the complicated topic in a fun, appealing and easy to understand manner. Because of its share-friendliness behavior, infographics are becoming amazingly helpful for digital marketers. In a study, it has been found that infographics shared by users on Twitter gain 832% extra re-tweets than articles and images, which takes us to our subsequent segment.