Visual Contenting February 2016 | Page 39

AUTOMATION As an old saying goes “A picture is worth a thousand words”, visual elements now appear in every piece of content we marketers create every day. With the explosion of information online nowadays, we hear our readers yelling “Make it more appealing, make it more visual, we’d rather see it than read it cause we don’t have time”. So what is visual marketing? And how do we leverage it to grow our business more efficiently? Visual Contenting What Is Visual Marketing? In short, visual marketing is the way we use visual aids including design elements, graphics, images and photos, etc to help convey our brand’s messages in the most memorable compelling way. Why We Should Use Visual Marketing? The reason why visual content is effective in our marketing campaigns is because our brains are hard-wired to visual, we can process information received in visual formats faster and more efficiently than in text alone. • 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual. • Visuals are processed 60,000 times faster in the brain than text. • 40% of people will respond better to visual information than plain text. • 93% of all human communication is nonverbal. • 67% of the audience was convinced by the verbal presentation that included visuals.