GIFs are moving images and you want them!

Hi Everyone,

I am George Pierce and this post is about GIFs which are images that move.

Why are images that move important to you?

They literally GRAB attention. Our brain is hard-wired to be drawn to something that moves.

GIFs can be especially powerful. Images are static, even videos are technically static when posted on social media sites,

and GIFs are NOT.

If you or I share a GIF on a social media site, for example, our GIF is going to get noticed!

GiFs are available for free at a site called GIPHY which is https://giphy.com/

What I like even better is that Giphy has free online software that allows you to create your own GIFs.

GIF Secret #1:

Create longer GIFs or select longer already made GIFs. Based on my experience and opinion, short GIFs do grab attention,

but they do not always keep it. Longer GIFs will do a better job since they will keep your viewer's attention.

The above GIF is a clip from a video that I downloaded for free from Internet Archive, a Public Domain site. I used my video editor to

cut out a 29-second segment. Clipchamp is a free online editor and Openshot is a free downloadable editor. Then I uploaded the segment

to GIPHY and their software made the GIF. GIPHY will do GIFs for up to 30 seconds. Another reason to consider making GIFs at GIPHY is that

their traffic is 300 MILLION a day!

GIF Secret #2: Having your Facebook cake and eating it too!??

The above is a snapshot of the same GIF on FB. This image is moving, of course, on FB, so it is getting the attention

that you and I want, and it includes a link to the video! The FB secret is that you can include two or more links on FB.

For most FB posts, it seems to look better to delete a link after the image or video shows up. Once the image appears,

you can delete the link and the image stays. However, with multiple links, do NOT delete links. The secret is that

the last link will be the one FB will use. In the above snapshot, if I were to change the order of the links, then the

video link would be last and that would be the image that FB would show.

Twitter GIFs.

On Twitter, click on the GIF symbol, and type in the kind of GIF that you want, in this case, Caroll Burnett.

Add your content and link.

A snippet from a recent email.

Hi {first_name},

Emails

I have been using GIFs regularly in emails for about two years. I do not know that anyone is teaching this yet, but the big dogs

have been using GIFs for about a year, The idea, of course, is to grab attention and keep the attention and to get your subscribers

to read the contents of your email and take action.

I am sold on the value of GIFs, if you try them, you will be too.

Thank you for reading.

Much success,

George Pierce

PS. I invite you to visit my Internet marketer Training channel for free training.

PPS. Some GIFs can be rather hard to ignore.

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