Visual content is exploding across the web. The fact is people respond most often to what is a delight to the eyes (pictures!). If you want to have any chance at getting shares, likes, etc (going viral), the right picture is just what the doctor ordered (prescription filled!).

1. How You Can Choose
the Right Picture to Make
Your Social Media Post
Spectacular
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2. VISUAL CONTENT
Visual content is exploding
across the web.
The fact is people respond most
often to what is a delight to the
eyes (pictures!).
If you want to have any chance
at getting shares, likes, etc
(going viral), the right picture is
just what the doctor ordered
(prescription filled!).
WHICH PICTURE?
So how do you know which
picture to choose?
I would like to offer a few
examples to help answer this
question.

3. EXAMPLE #1: ROSES AND
THORNS
Here is the first one...
Of course, I am playing off the
roses part of Lincoln's quote with
the picture.
And I could have put the words
on the picture (as you will see a
couple examples of that in just a
moment), but this time I thought
both the quote and picture were
striking enough to stand on their
own.
And I just didn't want to ruin the
picture since it's so beautiful
(which I got it from the free
picture site pixabay.com).

4. EXAMPLE #2: ON NOT
READING
On to a second example...
Of course, I was looking for a
picture of books to go along with
Mark Twain's quote.
Then I left-justified the text and
wrapped it around the books (I
use canva.com to do all of this).
Lastly, I want to emphasize the
"branding" aspect of this visual.
I included a reference to our
company
(www.sugarpinerealty.com) at
the top.
As you can see this visual did
very well (48 retweets, 52 likes
at the time of this blog post).

5. EXAMPLE #3: WRONG ROOM
One last example...
Of course, I was looking for the
picture of a room to go along
with this anonymous quote.
You can see the branding aspect
again.
But more than that this time I
want to highlight a secondary
branding aspect I have adopted
with my visuals.
I like to use the same fonts and
sizes across the board.
You may decide on your own (or
you can use mine).
In this particular picture I use an
Oregano font for the quote.

6. EXAMPLE #3: WRONG ROOM
(continued)
I use an Ubuntu font for the
branding and quote author
aspects.
(Both fonts are found in the
canva.com platform.)
And then finally, I use 16 as the
size for the branding and quote
author aspects.
DO-IT-YOURSELF
So there you go.
You are now ready to choose
the right picture to make your
social media post spectacular.

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