{"id":143,"date":"2017-10-05T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T10:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mybadges.com\/magazine\/?p=143"},"modified":"2020-09-03T16:54:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:54:50","slug":"what-are-infographics-how-can-they-help-your-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybadges.com\/magazine\/index.php\/2017\/10\/05\/what-are-infographics-how-can-they-help-your-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Infographics &#038; How can they help your Brand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.77&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Infographics<\/strong>\u00a0are visual presentations of information that use the elements of design to display content.<\/p>\n<p>Often containing high level complex information, a picture says 1000 words when it comes to infographics and boy do people love to share them!<span id=\"more-4595\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Infographics for marketing are used to\u00a0communicate a message,\u00a0\u00a0present data in a way that is easy to understand and because they are branded, if you share them, you could get a wider social reach.<\/p>\n<p>They usually contain the following elements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visuals \u2013 pretty pictures and icons to represent your info<\/li>\n<li>Content \u2013 Stats, references, the interesting stuff<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge \u2013 Cold hard facts \u2013 this will need researching<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Examples of infographics online:<\/h3>\n<p>There are even sites dedicated to infographics and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;ie=UTF-8#hl=en&amp;sclient=psy-ab&amp;q=infographic%20examples%20pinterest&amp;oq=&amp;gs_l=&amp;pbx=1&amp;fp=fcd162ac5010100e&amp;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&amp;biw=1920&amp;bih=995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pinterest Boards dedicated to infographics<\/a>, such is their \u2018share-a-bility\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Follow the links to see the full infographics<\/p>\n<h3>How can I make one wthout a Designer?<\/h3>\n<p>Well the beauty of the internet is that you don\u2019t need a designer for anything these days if you know where to look (sorry designers!). Obviously a designer should always be used for quality content, but if you just want to have a play around before you start creating regularly, there are a number of \u2018infographic\u2019 creators that you can use<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/infogr.am\/\">http:\/\/infogr.am\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/visual.ly\/\">http:\/\/visual.ly<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.easel.ly\/\">http:\/\/www.easel.ly\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will be sending out an infographic this week made by these tools to see how we get on!<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infographics for marketing are used to communicate a message,  present data in a way that is easy to understand and because they are branded, you could get a wider social reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybadges.com\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybadges.com\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybadges.com\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybadges.com\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybadges.com\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybadges.com\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6684,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybadges.com\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/6684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybadges.com\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybadges.com\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybadges.com\/magazine\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}