How to Create Great Visual Content for your beBee Honey and Buzz

Awesome visual content is something that draws eyeballs to your buzz and posts. That and of course, an eye-catching and curiosity-arousing title. 

As a digital marketer, I need to create lots of visual content, continuously, for my clients. I create promotions, visual content for blogs, GIFs, animations, et al. Thanks to some of the amazing tools we have here these days, creating visual content has become more fun and happening, than it was earlier. The astounding amount of license-free pictures that are available (hats-off to the photographers who share them) and the tools and templates at our disposal, help in creating these beautiful posts that get the message across with just a glance.

If you like creating visual content, too, or have to do it on a daily basis as a part of your job, then you might like using some of the tools that I am going to list over here. I use them all the time on my desktop and on my phone, to create images, ads and promotions for my website and blog, and for those of my clients, as well. 

So, here we go:

Canva

I would like to start off with what I call the super-tool of all content visual. When I first started using Canva, it just had a few design templates for social media posts, posters, and greeting cards. However, now it houses a huge collection of templates for every kind of content imaginable. From Twitter post banners to Tumblr graphics, specific templates for Instagram posts, blog graphics, collages, presentations, logos, resume, etc. They have a section dedicated to marketing materials entirely, and it feels like visiting a Sunday Flea Market, full of colors, variety, fonts, and designs. They have recently introduced some custom banners for LinkedIn, Twitch, and Soundcloud and I hope to see them add some beBee specific banners soon, too. Canva is not available on mobile and is a desktop-only tool.

• in-depth annual reports with charts, 
• graphs and diagrams
• professional-looking presentations
• simple concert posters
  
• stunning infographics
• social media creatives
• resumes and more...

The tool guides you through the sign up process, and learns about you and your requirements. It then gives you a range of templates from which you can take your pick. The step-by-step tutorial helps you start designing your creatives. In case you need more help, Venngage provides a thorough video tutorial to help to get started with some awesome creatives. 

I have been using this tool mostly to create info graphs but given their smooth UI and UX, I guess I would like to try out the other templates as well. Here's a glimpse into the Venngage infographics templates board:

Venngage caters to the business and marketing space but of late I’ve noticed them expanding their range of social media related templates like banners for LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter and more.