Social media provides content creators with a powerful tool for sharing their content with thousands of people simultaneously by simply clicking the “Post” button. However, to get the most out of these channels, you’ll need to have a solid strategy. And since every social media platform is different, each requires a different approach for promoting your publications.
To help you navigate the fast-changing world of social media, we’ve created a special tutorial for digital content creators: our Guide to Social Strategy. Inside, you’ll find the numbers, insights and tips that matter. Take a look!
In this tutorial, you’ll learn all the essentials about five key social media platforms and answer valuable questions, including:
Should I still promote content with Facebook?
What kind of publications should I share on LinkedIn?
Why should I consider a video strategy on YouTube?
Who can I reach by posting content to Pinterest?
How should Twitter fit into my social strategy?
Explore the strengths and weaknesses that each of these platforms offers for promoting your digital publications with our full Guide to Social Strategy. Plus, we’ve picked out the most useful statistics to review engagement rates, audience details and more at a glance.
Want more guidance from Calaméo to achieve your goals? Consult our tutorials to learn how to embed your publications and create a personalized Theme. Or visit our Help Center for support in English, German, Italian, Spanish and French.
Digital design is always evolving and in recent years user experience has been a major focus. Also known as UX, user experience involves improving how people interact with digital products and services. And it’s become a key investment for modern businesses. That’s because a great user experience can encourage visitors to spend more time on your website, help them view your brand positively and even increase sales.
Luckily for our publishers, Calaméo offers an exceptionally user-friendly HTML5 reader that allows their documents to shine on every device. But there are a few simple steps you can take to create an even better experience for your online audience! Learn about four essential UX principles and how to apply them to your digital publications.
Use consistent visuals
A top rule for ensuring great user experience is committing to one, coherent graphic design. Whichever fonts, colors and layouts you have chosen for your documents, they should match the visual identity of your business. Otherwise, too many different graphic elements risk overwhelming your online audience and can negatively impact UX.
So how do you create a seamless visual transition between your brand and your digital publications? To start, you can customize the appearance of the viewer. For example:
Choose a background for the viewer to harmonize with your website.
Build a custom theme and fine-tune the viewer right down to the font.
Reduce friction
For UX designers, “friction” is anything that gets between users and their goals. For digital publishers, this often means not ensuring optimal readability for their online documents. When publishing on Calaméo, take a moment to select the best options for your publication in its properties. Easy ways to reduce friction include:
Thanks to decades of digital culture, certain features of user experience are already understood and expected by just about everybody. For instance, Internet users expect that clicking a logo in the top left-hand corner of a web page or window will return them to the home page.
The publication above from County of Brant shows a great example of this strong UX element. With Calaméo, it’s simple to place your logo directly in the viewer and add a link. Take advantage of it in your digital publications to increase traffic to your site!
Encourage action
Do you wish you could:
Let your readers follow your business’s social media accounts in just one click?
Modify a button in the viewer to include a call to action, such as “Download now”?
Create a smart contact button in the viewer to help generate leads?
Then you need to explore Calaméo’s custom themes feature. Because of its unique flexibility, you can adapt the user experience of your digital publications to best serve your business’s goals. Check out this example from Office de Tourisme de Bordeaux Métropole:
We’ve put together an illustrated tutorial to show you how to get started customizing your theme. But to discover the full range of possibilities, take a look around our Developer resources.
From one-click options to made-to-measure themes, Calaméo gives you powerful tools to create the best possible user experience for your digital publications.
Our PLATINUM plan includes all the must-have features to boost your digital publications’ UX. Request your free, two-week demo and try them out today!
When it comes to the statistics you need most for your digital publications, views are probably the first thing that springs to mind. You want to know how often your publications are being read online in order to measure their success with your audience. But the advanced statistics offered by Calaméo let you access data to dig in much deeper and better understand the impact of your digital publications.
In this post, we’ll highlight three ways to make the most out of data for your online publications.
Focus on the fundamentals
Views are undeniably a key metric for anyone publishing digitally. It makes sense to check in on your publications and see how many times they have been displayed.
The more context you have for this information, however, the more valuable it will be to you. A longer data history means that you can distinguish a short-term decline in readership for one of your publications from its overall long-term growth, or even model month-to-month views. In the case of data for your digital publications, more is definitely more.
For more statistics, upgrade today: PREMIUM subscribers have access to six months of stats and PLATINUM subscribers enjoy an unlimited data history.
Expand your vision
Views may be the basics, but Calaméo’s statistics offer you a wealth of other information. Looking at data that you may not be taking into account yet can refresh your approach to analytics and reveal fresh insights into your readership.
Stats like the average amount of time that readers spend on each page of your publication, or the time of day that your publication is most read may require a bit of interpretation, but they can help you understand your readers’ interaction with your documents.
A relatively even average reading time from page to page could indicate that readers tend to browse your publication. A clear spike in reading time on a particular page, however, suggests that readers are looking for specific information. Similarly, a noticeable peak in views at a certain time of day might correlate to an event mentioned in your publication as readers seek out the details. Add in the quantity, date and time of reader downloads and you begin to have a clearer picture of how your audience makes use of your digital publications.
Take action
So far we’ve talked about tips for looking at your Calaméo statistics. To take full advantage of your readership data, you can use it to try out changes in your own publications. Knowing what works will let you build on successful features and experiment with areas that you wish to improve.
This applies not only to your content but also to an element of your publication such links. Our PLATINUM plan provides you with a detailed breakdown of clicks for your publications. You can view clicks on external links, audio and video elements in your documents, as well as the CTR (Click-Through Rate) automatically calculated for each.
We’ve already discussed how these statistics can be put to good use in your sales and marketing strategies. The data can also help you to maximize the performance of your external links. By testing different types of placement with our Editor, for example, you can determine how and where to position links most efficiently to engage your readers.
We hope that this post has inspired you to take a new look at how you use Calaméo’s readership statistics. Have any questions? Check out our Help Center or write us anytime at contact@calameo.com.
Focus on the fundamentals
Expand your vision
Take action