Yoav Vilner is Co-Founder at Ranky and a regular blogger whose articles have been published on Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc, VentureBeat and TheNextWeb.
Catch me if you can!
It’s growing more and more difficult to engage our target audience; the YouTubers, Facebook addicts and obsessive Tweeters of the web. Once you’ve caught successfully earned their attention it’s only a matter of seconds before they either:
a) Deem you worthy of more of their time
b) Quickly click or swipe on to the next contender rivaling for their precious time
As an admin of a site you need to think creatively, and efficiently to capture the attention of the ‘YouTube generation’ and get them engaged with the content on your site.
Since you as the admin of a successful website are also on a time crunch, we’ve taken our time to make sure these are in fact engaging and worthwhile tools, you don’t need to waste anymore of your time testing out and trying all of the millions of other engagement tools out there. We know these tools work and will grab the attention of your audience and pull them onto your site, and the best part, you can use them in under 5 minutes.
Spot.IM
What if instead of your users endlessly stumbling upon your content and laughing to themselves about the jokes, you could help them share this experience with other viewers and frequent visitors to your site. Spot.IM takes no time at all to engage you into its community of loyal consumers.
A pop-up social network right on your site, Spot.IM, will appear on the corner of your page and allow you to share content, chat, and make new friends with those in your online community. In less than 5 minutes you can retrieve the plug-in and have the social network on your own site and watch the tool do all of the engagement for you.
Recite
Recite allows you to combine quotes and images to create super professional looking graphics, and it will take you less than 5 minutes! If you’re looking to get retweeted by your following on Twitter, social media science shows tweets with quotes get 10% more retweets, and tweets with pictures are getting 94% more retweets. In essence, Recite combines these two elements in the simplest way possible. Type in your quote, and they provide all of the beautiful and innovative backgrounds, and straight from there by minute 2.5, you can share and upload your masterpiece straight to your social media platform of choosing.
emaze
Instead of taking up more of your users time to scroll through seemingly endless screens of text and images, if you’re trying to get across an important message, use a presentation. When sites are trying to get us to understand important information through text we’re vaguely going to retain the information, and that’s if we can even get through to the end of it. The solution and quickest way for you to get the information across is to get creative.
The use of an emaze presentation, an online cloud-based presentation software users can get through the content in less than 5 minutes. We’ll be entranced with the cool animations and 3D effects, we’ll actually want to read what the website is telling us. With easy to use templates, all you have to do is upload your information. In 5 minutes you can have a stellar presentation that looks like it took you weeks to work on, uploaded straight to your site to engage more potential and active users.
Fiverr, Duh!
Starting at around 5 dollars, in under 5 minutes you can find a wide array of engaging and fun tools and services people are offering on Fiverr®. If you’re interested in engaging and captivating your online audience, there are people willing to create video content, or write a viral blog post for your site. In under 5 minutes you’ll keep yourself entertained looking through all of the tools and services people are offering, and you’ll for sure find a quick fix to keeping your audience engaged.
Personally, I’m a Fiverr-Addict and can spend hours scrolling through the funny promo videos or animation flicks people are offering.
What other tools can you use in less than five minutes to help increase engagement? What Fiverr services can you recommend for engagement?
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