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DIY DESIGN
How to Design Compelling Visual Content
for your Blog
Peg Fitzpatrick, co-author The Art of Social
Media: Power Tips for Power Users

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1. Why you need visuals for your blog
2. How to create a visual style for your blog
3. What kind of visuals can you add to your blog posts
4. Plan your visual marketing for your posts
5. Tools to power your visual marketing
VISUAL CONTENT FOR YOUR BLOG

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1 WHY YOU NEED VISUALS
FOR YOUR BLOG

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Images are the new call to action.
CTA

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• Facebook graphic
• Twitter graphic
• Pinterest graphic
• Multiple blog graphics
Set your blog up for
successful social sharing by
making it easy for people to
share.
This means visuals!
Graphics you need for each post

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TURN YOUR
FANS INTO
ROCKSTARS
Designing great visuals for your
blog makes it easy for people to
share your content and they’ll be
more successful because it will
be popular.

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2 HOW TO CREATE A VISUAL
STYLE FOR YOUR BLOG

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• Fonts
• Style of photo
• Filters for photos
• Do they look like they
belong to your brand?
Repetition breeds familiarity
and comfort.
Keep consistent with the following:

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REBEKAH
RADICE
• Orange branding
• Consistent graphic style

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SUE
ZIMMERMAN
• Instagram-focused
• Uses great photos of herself in
all her designs
• Builds community
• Always on-brand

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MY BLOG
• Pink logo
• Great photos
• Black and white
• Add context to content

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1.Give context to your content
2.Build your brand visually
3.Help people connect with you
4.Make it easy for other people to share
Images tell your story

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3
WHAT KIND OF VISUALS
CAN YOU ADD TO YOUR
BLOG POSTS

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PHOTOS

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GRAPHICS

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VIDEOS

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GIFS

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SLIDESHARES

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EMBED
SOCIAL
POSTS

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INFOGRAPHICS

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Visual content is more than 40x more
likely to be shared on social media.
Source: Blog.bufferapp.com/infographics-visual-content-marketing
40x more

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4 PLAN YOUR
VISUAL MARKETING

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Social shares plummet on blog posts
after three days.
Source: http://okdork.com/2014/04/21/why-content-goes-viral-what-analyzing-100-millions-
articles-taught-us/
98.9% decrease

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PLAN FOR
EACH POST
• Make sure that you have a
featured image on your blog
posts as well as optimized
social sharing graphics.

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5 POWER YOUR VISUALS WITH
THE RIGHT TOOLS

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ADOBE
SPARK
• Easy to use
• Free
• Includes great photos that you
can legally use
• Works in the cloud on desktop
and mobile

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SOCIAL
WARFARE
WordPress plugin to help you
load images for your blog post
without slowing down your
website.

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TRELLO
• Organize your graphics and
photos
• Work with a team or designer

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GIPHY
• Find cool GIFs

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EZY
WATERMARK
• Add your logo to photos
• Polish your design with your
John Hancock

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VSCO CAM
• Create beautiful pre-set filters
or use the ones in the app
• Crop and edit photos

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USE A CHECKLIST
FOR SUCCESS

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DON’T BE A
ONE-HIT
WONDER
Create a social sharing plan for
your blog that goes beyond the
first day of publication.

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1. Schedule multiple tweets
2. Post more than once on Facebook - spread out over a few weeks
3. Share an image on Instagram and link to your blog in the bio
4. SocialChamp.io allows you to schedule retweets of your own tweets
5. Pin your article to multiple boards on Pinterest over time
Social sharing plan for your blog

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READY TO
LAUNCH A
VISUAL BLOG?
Using these ideas and creating a
solid plan for your visual
marketing of your blog content
will ensure that more people will
see and share your content.

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GRAB THE
RESOURCES
Download resources with links at
pegfitzpatrick.com/DIYdesign16

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THANK YOU!
Find me at PegFitzpatrick.com