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This infographic comes to us from PRMarketing.com.

Here is part of the description that the folks at PR Marketing wrote:

“People will not be drawn to your company or brand unless they feel like it applies to them. Marketing is changing with the internet, and now that people can find a company just like yours with a click of a button it is more important than ever to woo your users. It’s about being relevant, interesting, and accessible to your customers. It’s about being transparent, or at least appearing transparent to the internet. If you are going to compete in today’s market you have to be likable, and social media is by far the best way to achieve that goal.”

I really like the color palette and flow of this graphic. The way each box and graphic runs into one another provides it with a nice natural rhythm that guides the eye down–you want to keep searching for what’s coming next. “Be Unprofessional” is a nice unexpected tip that ties in with “Be Honest”–marketing that feels like marketing isn’t a great strategy with the modern crowd.

However,white backgrounds are not ideal–they’ll blend in with the background on many websites that might host the IG. Most importantly, while this is a visually attractive way to spruce up a list, inclusion of graphics plus information does not an infographic make. It isn’t information that can really be effectively visualized. This graphic provides tips and tricks, but no concrete data.

This unfortunately means that this isn’t truly an infographic, and with no data viz I would have to give it a D on the grading scale. The dimensions are fine and the layout and design are nice, but the information is completely in text form, with no data to back up the statements. A little research thrown in, so that the tips (shortened, please) are just one factor in a larger infographic about social media strategies, would help this reach its potential.

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This infographic comes to us from the folks at ecreativeim.com and covers statistics in business to business social media marketing. Here’s what they had to say about their infographic:

B2B companies (business that sell to other businesses, rather than to end consumers) are making use of social media to promote themselves in record numbers. This simple infographic attempts to explain why for those B2B companies that simply don’t the point of social media in B2B internet marketing. This infographic covers some basic statistic about how awesomely huge the leading social media outlets are, and then dives into some B2B-specific info, including B2B buyer behavior.

First off, I really like the color scheme of the infographic. I also like the way that the charts look – I love when people take a traditional pie chart and add some subtle changes that make the chart look completely different.

The biggest issue with this infographic is pretty obvious right away: there is way, way too much text. The point of an infographic is that you don’t have to read the entire thing. Not only does having too much text completely miss the point, it distracts from the data visualization itself as opposed to clarifying or enhancing it, which I honestly think there is enough here to display properly. As it is now, it seems like the images are more there to compliment the text descriptions than the other way around.

I also think that the citations are a little unnecessary – there is a source list at bottom. The numbers for the citation should at least be a bit smaller. Finally, the title is in way too small a font – it looks like there isn’t any title at all. It should be bigger than the description, and the word “why” is just way too big here. It’s not that pressing of a question.