Have you heard of Visme?
So you may be asking what is Visme used for and do I really need it?
Visme is a platform for creating engaging presentations, professional infographics and other awesome visuals for your website and I am going to review Visme so you can decide if it will help you and your business.
Images are super important to online marketers and we all get stuck at times to find suitable and captivating images for our blogs and articles. But even some of the vectors we can find are just not right and need adapting in Illustrator or some other graphic tool which is costly and time consuming.
All the graphics in this article were made using Visme.
Why Do We Need Great Visuals?
The average person remembers only 20% of what they read but 80% of what they see. 90% of information transmitted to our brain is visual. That’s why visual content has become the single most important way to communicate, especially in today’s business world. So a way of creating visual images to match the information we are wanting to get across is important to any online business..
We can use many of the great royalty free images available online but I find that frequently I need something different. I can’t quite find what I need or I need a graphic depicting particular parameters, thats impossible to find so what do I do?
No way do you want to hire an expensive graphic designer or spend time learning complicated design software. I know that is something that I don’t want to have to pay for. So when I stumbled on Visme, I was interested to see whether it would solve a problem for me. I prefer to be in charge of my graphics. Its sometimes not easy to describe to a third party what you have in your head of how you see it being.
Visme is a simple yet powerful, all-in-one visual communication tool that allows you to create interactive presentations, infographics, visual reports, documents, printables, etc, in a matter of minutes. They have over 1.5 million users from over 100 countries around the world so I thought it would be a good idea to review what they offer.
Take a look at this video about Visme.
Features Of Visme
Visme is an intuitive platform which makes it much easier to for an online business owner to acheive their own graphics. I know the feeling when I’m trying to learn how to use a tool I want for my business… Its frustration at the proess of learning knowing that all I really want is to get on with the jpb in hand… Visme is so much easier to learn than other platforms I have tried and in using the tool I was able to create a really good inforaphic quickly and with, what I think was quality!
The features of Visme give you the ability to create infographics like this I made for another blog. I couldn’t have managed this with other tools. Scroll down to check it out and find out Visme Features.
Made with Visme Infographic Maker
Templates
Visme are over-run with templates.. too many to show here.. Templates for presentation, infographics, charts and maps, printables, website banners, social media and documents. Lets look at a few of them ….
Creating great professional flowcharts are easy to design with Visme and customisation is intuitive. Visme offer template flowcharts with many themes, from marketer to engineer.
There are hundreds to choose from, even on the free plan, totally customisable.
The style and design of the templates are varied, giving you the choice of how you would like to your flow chart to look – as a basis, with all customisable options from there. It might be that you dont want to change anything other than the text or you want completely move things around, either way, Visme will allow you to do this. There are more templates if you join the premiuim plan, more on this later. Great to have a starter for something you want to put together without having to do ALL the work !
Graph Maker
Visme has a robust graphmaker to represent your metrics in an understandable and visually interesting way. As we know so much more is taken in when seen rather than read. I know that in my business, that using graphs etc in my articles, will encourage my readers to stay on the page so much longer. This is exactly what we want to achieve in business, the longer the reader stays, the more likely they are to do whatever action we are promoting.
Visme offer many different ways for you to choose from to use in your graph maker, ensuring thst you can present your facts and figures in a unique way. It offers pie charts, par charts, histograms and many more ways that will appeal to you. If you want to use a template to start you off, there are those too. You can add icons and images to the graph maker includin your logo.
Document Maker
The Document maker is versatile and clear for you to streamline the making of any document you might need. They offer suggestios for proposals, reports, ebooks, survery results, white papers etc.
There are charts and data tools to populate your documents, with fully customisable themes and data tools. You can add photos, vector icons, short moving infographics and used free for commercial use.
These document templates are only a minute selection of those on Visme.
Customisation Features
Visme offers a vast range of customisation features that are available to you on all the templates, the only limiting factor is your own imagination! Visme offer over 40 charts, graphs, maps, tables, data widgets and icons that will transform your stats and figures into great visuals for your articles and blogs.
Charts and Data Tools
- Easy to use
- Fully customisable
- Easy to add to any document
- Adapts to your theme and colours
Photos and Icons
There is an extensive library or images and library photos
- Access over 1,000,000 beautiful photos.
- Beautiful vector icons and graphics with the ability to customise colours.
- Use for free or commercial use in documents.
Diagrams and Flowcharts
These charts makes it so much easier to create workflows and diagrams .
- Drag and Drop widgets
- Fully customisable with your colours and themes.
Videos and Tables
- You can insert customised tables into your documents
- Video and audio
- Embed external images and content such as forms, surveys, images.
Fully Customisable Option
Visme also had a function that if you can’t find just the right sized template or banner that you need… such as this one below that I made ….
You can create any template in any size and orientation you want along with a blank canvas for the other templates – presentation, documents, infographics etc
Your Own Images/Files
You can upload your own files – images, text, video into Visme so you can create material for your websites that are contextual to your business with your logo, colours and fonts.
Troubleshooting
Whilst I have found all the features of Visme easy to navigate and produce amazing infographics etc, there might be an occasion when there is an issue…. But Visme have got you, they have a comprehensive section that you can access from the help button at the top of your dashboard.
This brings up a help section that is comprehensive and robust.Look at my screenshot below, this is only a very small snapshot of what they have covered.
I found this all very reassurring, that if I had a problem, I would be able to easily sort it out.
They also include a section on tips – to get the best out of Visme.
Made with Visme
Conclusion and Costs
Visme is a great tool for the online marketer. The platform is easy to navigate, with intuitive tools that make the whole process of creating infographics or presentations or even banners so much easier.
Often its not easy to find suitable royalty free images or have the option to get charts/graphs to visually show what you are trying to explain to your audience.
Visme is one of a collection of infographic tools that I have used. I can use illustrator which is a great tool to have but the learning curve is huge.
Visme is much more straightforward to learn than Illustrator, it offers a starting point for those that need some help with the design aspect but allows for customisation and that creative flair.
Visme offers a free basic option which is perfect to trial the tool to see if it suits you and your business, the details are below about what is included in each price bracket.
I have used PowerPoint for many years, and which has been the mainstay for my business. I am truly interested in what I saw in the YouTube Demo Video. The platform seems to be very robust and entertaining. I 100% agree that much of the information we take in now is visual and with the internet, I do not see that changing at all. I have multiple subscriptions for images since free images rarely suit what I need. So as I understand from your presentation Visme could actually take the place of a couple of programs that I am paying for. I see that the Complete package includes Audio – does that mean I could narrate a presentation as I can with PowerPoint?
Thats great to hear Steve. I have the same issue, I have various platforms for images, vectors, illustrator for simple graphics, but nothing as robust as this. Even illustrator is an issue at times, it takes time to build up the image and sometimes I just don’t have the time so visme brings in the almost finished product that I can alter, easily, to meet my needs.
For a person like me who has a whole lot to do online and still wants to be able to a create a beauty in his website for presentation of what my website is all about, I think visme is just the one for me. I wanted to add a little bit of professionalism to my website and I would also soon be launching my YouTube channel so it is only normal that I subscribe to visme but for now, I will love to try the free account first.
Glad that it is of help Riley… Its free to start, which I think is perfect and the monthly fee isn’t a bank breaker either.
I’ve heard about this platform for quite some time now but I had no idea how useful and amazing it was. From the visuals that you provided, it seems like a must-need for any blogger who’s trying to make their website as visually pleasing as they can without having to spend hundreds of dollars. Definitely something I will get my hands and ideas into.
Glad this was of help Stephanie, a free tool that gives great graphics is fantastic !
Hi,
I had heard of Visme but I didn’t have much information about them. Now, reading your post I realize this is a good tool to have handy. I am running my own blog and have realized how important visuals are for our readers to engage with our content. Those posts that have the best rankings on my blog are those that have good content with charts. I’ll definitely use Visme’s free trial to check it myself.
Thank you very much for suggesting this tool!
Thankyou for your comments Paolo. I agree with you, when we are up against it financially, to find something that will help get more traffic but is free, is perfect !
Wow! An amazing review on”what is Visme used for?”
I think this is an important tools that everyone website owner needs, sometimes one will want to express his article with graph and all but couldn’t find the right ones but with Visme ,I believe that is solved.
It also gives free trails and for me that is great! The subscription fees not on the high side too. This is a cool tool to me.
Thanks for sharing.
Im pleased you like it Lizzy.. that was my feeling when I found it too. That something for free is perfect !
Oh! This is really a great and comprehensive review of visme and how it operates. I really appreciate this post a lot and thank you for sharing it here. Visual and graphics are the real story tellers and getting the software to design them to teach and pass the message faster is a good one here. Thank you for Shari g here.
It is good ! To be able to find something that will allow you to do infographics easily and free is great !
Hello Helen, it’s good to be leading about such wonderful tool for business here on your site and just have to admit I am blown away at what one can do making use of Visme. Before now i had absolutely no idea that a lot can be achieved from making use of this amazing business tool. Creating infographics have been something many people find difficult to do with just any site and if this is certain from Visme at such cheap fee, then it’s a go for me
Its a surprise to me too when I found it. I like tools that offer a free version first. It takes time to assess a business tool as to whether its worthwhile paying for or not, but when a business offers something for free, with restrictions, which is fine, I already like it !
visme seems a llot like a great platform that one can make immense use of graphics designing to help with internet marketing since we all know that only affiliate marketing drives the market now. Thanks so much for sharing this out here. I like the quality features embedded in this and it should be worth trying out. Thumbs up to you
Thankyou Rodarrick. I hope you try it out and see for yourself !
They are great quality and I think that was what appealed to me. A tool that we can use in our business needs to be good quality otherwise it compromises the look of the article. I think Visme is ideal especially as they offer a free plan too so no forking out a lot of money for this one.
Oh well you have given a broad explanation of this platform is all about. It seems like I would be able to make my own digital content without needing to pay anyone for it at all. I think this is a beautiful platform but I need to know if the support from the company is good because one might not be able to get all the points correctly and in addition to this, is it possible to be able to get this done automatedly?
Thankyou for your comments. The support from the company is excellent, and they offer numerous videos on how to do things if you are not sure which, having watched one or two for quality, I found to be encompassing.
Great review on a product I did not know about. I really like the way you have presented this topic and made it easy to understand. I would be interested to know how long it took you to learn/make the images you used here.
I have signed up for one of their webinars to learn more. Either way, I will be looking into Vis me for my own website and for that I thank you.
Thanks Alex. The individual graphics are readymade in Visme, but the infographic about Wealthy Affiliate, I made myself using the tools in Visme. It probably took me a couple of hours but only because I was looking through everything that was on offer ! I will be pleased to see what you can create.