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Importance of Infographics for Your Content Marketing Strategy

Monday, May 16, 2016 7:12
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Many businesses now turn to infographics in order for their target audience to be able to quickly grasp their business idea. The importance of infographics can be seen solely through the fact that you can easily find them everywhere on the web. They stand out because of their way of giving information, which is representable and smooth.

Infographics are illustrative and creative representation of the philosophy a business is trying to convey. When designing infographic, designers use various elements like images, charts, colors and graphs. All of these elements have a purpose of telling a story of your business, so that the audience you are trying to target can understand what your business is a about and get the information about the statistics.

So, if you want to design infographics, you will need to incorporate colors, images, icons, drawings, and statistics along with a short text regarding your business. When designing the infographics, text with all the other elements has to be presented in a very precise way. The goal is to convey the statistics and the message in a visual manner.

If you are unsure about what a proper infographic should look like, you can go through some of the best infographic designer companies to help you create a perfect infographic for your business. If you haven’t already used infographics for promoting your business, here are some reasons that will convince you to use them when marketing your business.

They Have Great Visual Appeal

Several studies have shown that 90% of information that is transmitted to the brain is visual, and because the attention span of the audience can be really short, infographics are the ones that can grab their attention very fast. Infographics are designed in way to enable the audience to quickly scan through your content, unlike some traditional methods where the audience needs to read through paragraphs to get the idea of what your business is all about. They can attract people with their bright colors and appealing imagery.

They Are Shareable

Infographics are really interesting and create a sense of pleasure because of images and bright colors, and the audience grabs all of this information in a less stressful manner. People like to share articles and blogs if they contain infographics, rather than lengthy essays and articles. People will engage more with blogs that contain infographics and share them on their social networks and that will help you in building more concrete links.

They Raise Your Brand Awareness

Infographics are an effective marketing tool when it comes to building your brand awareness. This is because of the illustrations that are visual and because they convey the message easily and clearly to your audience, and makes them memorize your brand for a longer time. Infographics can also be used offline for your marketing strategy, for example, you can print them out and distribute them on events or place them on leaflets and brochures and in that way promote your services and products. Make sure to have creative infographics that are design professionally.

They Have the Potential of Becoming Viral

Since they are so attractive and people like to share them on their social networks, they have higher chances of becoming viral than plain text content. The production of infographics is increasing every day and this makes the world of graphics lean toward infographics rather than traditional forms of text and images. A post that goes viral does not create doubt in viewers and having a successful infographic will show the audience what your brand is about without misleading or giving wrong information.

They Simplify Complex Ideas

Infographics were created to break down complex ideas into simplified visuals, and this is what makes them great educational tools. Sometimes it can be hard to understand complex ideas like how a certain system works or how the design industry works. This is where infographics are useful, they enable the audience to quickly pick up on information that they would otherwise have to read through lots of content to understand.

They Are Great For Drawing Comparisons

To successfully draw comparisons you will have to have organized differences and similarities. Infographics are great when it comes to drawing comparisons, because they visually design parallel points and comparisons and combine all information. Comparing one thing with another is not that simple, for example, it is hard to differentiate between Samsung Galaxy and an iPhone, but with the use of graphical elements, differences can be easily portrayed in a very organized way. Every comparison starts with visual differences, and this is where infographics can do an excellent job.

They Simplify the Work inside the Business

When creating an infographic, 80% of the work that is put into it is data gathering, checking and shaping. This makes the creator of infographics an amazing researcher and storyteller with a small number of words. For businesses, this can mean a better management in decision-making, because it requires a fast processing of the reports with lots of data and words that can sometimes be hard to understand. With key elements and effective designing skills, your business reports can look simple and visually appealing.

Creating a visual data like an infographic can show the growth for a new service or product, or the number of visitors of a certain marketing campaign or even the growth of the target audience on your social networking channels. This graphic art can make your employees understand and reciprocate things easily, instead of reading through lots of confusing reports.

Human nature is subjective when it comes to processing a load of data and text, so with the right use of infographics you can make the whole process more simple and enjoyable. Nowadays designers create infographics with smoother graphic elements that are easy to grasp and the colors and shapes they use make all data look appealing and informative at the same time. So, when designing infographics it is important to do it smart and effective, because they demand creativity and a set of good skills.

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