A Few Easy Ideas for Visual Blog Content

Okay, so everyone knows visual content is HOT. For example, Buzzfeed, Mashable, just to name a few.

Quick Facts:

• Instagram had more daily users in August 2012 than Twitter
• Pinterest drives more sales and revenue than Facebook for jewellery retailer Bottica.com (source) and Pinterest drives more traffic than Twitter for Sony (source)
• KISSmetrics built 41,142 backlinks from 3741 unique domains by publishing 47 infographics (source)

Adding an image to each blog post is easy. Blogging school questions: But what else can you do? How can you turn information about boring industries into visual content? How can you create fascinating infographics about dull products?

1. Create an infographic to share statistics about your industry or industry-related topics.
2. Comment on the history of your industry. Do you know the origins of the humble business card?
3. Share your vision on the future.
4. Comment on industry trends such as cars becoming bigger.
5. Show geographic, gender, or economic differences in the use of your product, service or cause.
6. Gather quotes from industry experts and make them look appealing. Take your inspiration from Lifehack.