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  • 5 Visual Content Tools to Boost Engagement

    by Yoav Vilner / December 1, 2015

    social media toolsDo want to create stronger visual content for your social channels?

    Looking for tools to help?

    A number of budget-friendly tools make it easy to create visual content that invites your social media audience to engage with it.

    In this article you'll discover five tools for creating visuals that engage your social community.

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    Discover five visual content tools to boost engagement.

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    #1: Quiz Your Followers

    Apester is a digital storytelling platform that allows you to create and embed surveys, personality tests, video quizzes and polls into your social posts. The polls and quizzes alone can engage your community even if they're not shared.

    apester quiz
    To increase engagement with your followers, create a poll and post it to your social channels.

    The idea is to increase reader engagement, make stories more shareable and get people to take part in the conversation. At the same time, you're collecting feedback that you can use to produce more relevant content in the future.

    Apester has a user-friendly interface that makes it easy to create “personal interaction units.” When you embed these units in your content, you create a seamless user experience that gets your audience actively involved in the story.

    apester quiz creation
    Create surveys, personality tests and video quizzes with Apester.

    The tool makes it easy to share your content on social networks (such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Reddit). When a user clicks on one of the share buttons, it creates a shared link directing users to your blog.

    #2: Curate a One-Stop Content Trail

    The average bounce rate on blogs for new visitors is 60.2%, and the average reader stays only 1 to 2 minutes on your website. One way to get people to really engage with your content is to use a tool like Roojoom, which is a content curation and creation platform.

    Roojoom lets you collect content from your online and offline sources (such as your web pages, videos, PDFs and marketing materials) to create a “content journey“ for readers. You then guide readers step by step through the journey, all from within one centralized place.

    oreo's roojoom content journey
    Create a Roojoom to aggregate content from web pages, videos, PDFs and more.

    Readers can then share links to the Roojoom instead of to individual sources. They're encouraged to interact with the content, and this keeps them reading the content until the end.

    Once they're hooked, most people will turn to social media and share links to the great content they discovered.

    #3: Invite Community Collaboration on Maps

    Visual tools that engage a community are pretty awesome, but tools that actively get users to take part are on a whole other level.

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    Dubbed a “community visualization platform,” you can use Mapme to let your community develop and add to existing maps you create around a specific topic, such as startups in San Francisco. In other words, they're maps created by the people for the people.

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    mapme collaborative map
    With Mapme, you create a map and then open it up to your followers to add locations of their own.

    Mapme is a visual user-generated tool aimed at businesses and organizations. You'll find a gallery of maps built with Mapme on the company's website.

    Once you've created a map based on a topic, you share it with your customers on social media, who can then get involved by adding new locations. It's similar to Foursquare, but it's not restricted to places of entertainment.

    Each map can be customized by content, look or feel (such as a logo) and different categories. When you create a map, you fill in the activity on the map, and then open it up to public users of your site. There's no better way to connect with your community than by getting them actively involved.

    #4: Display Instagram Galleries

    Instagram has claimed its throne as the king of engagement with over 300 million active monthly users who like about 2.5 billion photos and videos per day. But currently the only way to display Instagram photos on your website or blog is with a third-party widget.

    SnapWidget is one of the most popular, visually appealing widgets, and more than 100,000 websites use it daily.

    snapwidget instagram gallery
    SnapWidget lets you display Instagram images on your website.

    The tool offers both free and paid versions. The free version lets you pull the photos from an Instagram hashtag or account and display them on your blog. You can personalize the format, as well as the size, layout, colors and effects and choose whether the sharing buttons show up next to your photos.

    The free version is ad-supported, so each thumbnail links to a page on SnapWidget.com where the photo is displayed with the site's ads. The paid version offers extra features, such as more advanced customization options.

    #5: Design Appealing Images

    Content with visuals gets 94% more views than content without, and it's much more likely to be shared on social media. That makes using images a no-brainer for marketers.

    Pablo (as in Pablo Picasso) by Buffer is a free social media image creation tool. Choose from a wide array of stock images (or upload your own photos), add a text overlay and post the finished product to your social channels.

    pablo image creation dashboard
    Pablo makes it easy to create sharable, engaging images for your social channels.

    You can create graphics with stats or facts, inspirational quotes, recipes or important announcements. Pablo is noted for its speed and easy-to-use filters and sizing options.

    Conclusion

    With the abundance of visual content tools out there, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the prospect of finding the right ones for your own marketing needs. Even if you're on a tight budget and can't afford to hire a full-time graphic designer, the easy-to-use tools covered in this article can help you create compelling visual content for your business.

    There are loads of marketing tools for visual content creation, and these are just a taste of what's out there. For any marketer or content creator looking to dabble in design and increase engagement, I'd recommend trying out one of these visual tools.

    What do you think? Have you used any of these tools? What are your favorites for visual marketing? Please share your thoughts in the comments below.

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    Tips for using five visual content tools to boost engagement.

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    Tags: Social Media Tools, Social Media Visual Content

    About the authorYoav Vilner

    Yoav Vilner is a growth hacker and CEO of Ranky, performing marketing & growth for startups. He’s contributing his knowledge to publications such as VentureBeat, TheNextWeb, and ReadWrite.
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