by David Lee King on September 4, 2012
My new book, Face2face: Using Facebook, Twitter, and other Social Media Tools to Create Great Customer Connections, was just mentioned in this Inc.com article - Better Social Media Strategy: Show, Don’t Tell. Sweet!
In the article (sort of an author interview type article), I provide five tips on communicating with your organization’s customers using visual social media tools like Pinterest, Facebook photos, and Instagram.
Here are my five tips to create great visual communication that are mentioned in the article:
- Show your stuff
- Show your staff
- Get close
- Great lighting is key
- Make your photos helpful to customers
Each point is explained in more detail at Inc.com, so go read the article for more information (and thanks, Marla Tabaka, for the mention!).
And if you like that info … remember to buy my book!
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by David Lee King on April 10, 2012
Two huge social media sites have been mentioned in the news in the last couple of weeks: Pinterest and Instagram:
What’s going on? Why are these two sites so hot right now? Well… it’s because of this:
- Pinterest = visual
- Instagram = visual
- Facebook = visual (depending on what you do with your status update)
- Youtube = visual
- etc.
Visual is in. Why? Because you visually “get it” immediately. It takes seconds to look at a photo and understand what’s going on. It’s very easy to look and like … and then click through to the meat of the post/site/message/video/etc if the visual carrot being displayed is interesting enough to make you click.
Is your website visual? Do you use visual parts and pieces to get people interested in your stuff? If not, you should maybe take a hint from the growing popularity of visual-based sites, and … add some things to look at.
Some visual starter ideas:
- blog post – add an image that relates to the post. The image can help some people “get” the post better (I’ve had people tell me that about the images I use in my blog posts).
- Video post – make a short video, showing off a new thing in your library. Videos are easy to watch and share. Since the video is usually embedded into a site, there’s a visual component, too. Do video well, and people will stick around (and hopefully click around, too).
- Facebook – add an image of that packed program. This visually shows popularity – much better than having someone type “the event was really well-aattended.”
- Twitter – tweet links to your photos and videos.
- Pinterest, Instagram – start experimenting, and figure out how (or if) you can use one or both of these for your organization. I’ll bet you can.
- Websites – add photos and graphics. That’s what we try to do on our website, and our customers love it (they’ve told me that numerous times).
How are you making your website visual? Adding visual elements to social media?
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