Source: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/5-visual-content-tools-to-boost-engagement/
For most business owners, getting their target audience to engage with them might take months, sometimes even years. Such type of problem can be avoided if business or website owners can create visual content that can effectively invite social media audience to engage with it.
To create stronger visual content for your social sites, below are some budget-friendly tools that you can use:
SnapWidget – SnapWidget is a tool that allows you to display Instagram photos on your website or blog. This tool offers both free and paid versions. The free version enables you to pull the photos from an Instagram hashtag or account and display them on your website or blog. You can also personalize the format, the size, layout, colors and effects of the image. You also have the option of placing the sharing buttons next to your photos. The paid version comes with more features, such as more advanced customization options.
Pablo – Pablo, a derivative of Pablo Picasso, by Buffer is a free social media image creation tool. When you use Buffer to share a post, you can create graphics with stats or facts, inspirational quotes, recipes or important announcements with this tool to attach with it. Pablo is highly regarded for its speed and easy-to-use filters and sizing options.
Apester – This tool is a digital storytelling platform that permits you to create and embed surveys, personality tests, video quizzes and polls into your social posts. The idea behind this tool is to increase reader engagement, make stories more shareable and get people to participate in a conversation. With Apester, you can also collect feedback that you can use to produce more relevant content in the future. The polls and quizzes you post using this tool can also engage your audience even if they’re not shared.
Roojoom – Roojoom is a content curation and creation platform. This tool permits you to collect content from your online and offline sources such as your web pages, videos, PDFs and marketing materials, to create a “content journey“ for your readers. From within one centralized place, you can then guide readers step by step through the journey. Your readers can then share links to the Roojoom instead of to individual sources and they will be encouraged to interact with the content. This also keeps them reading the content until the end.
Mapme – This tool is often dubbed as a “community visualization platform”. Mapme, a visual user-generated tool, can be used to let your community develop and add to existing maps you create around a specific topic, for example, startups in New York. In other words, they’re maps created by the people for the people but aimed at businesses and organizations.