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Published August 1, 2024
Are you running out of social media post design ideas?
We get it.
You’re not the only one struggling with this issue.
In fact, it can happen to anyone.
As a savvy social media manager, you know that stale, boring, and repetitive content won’t turn heads and drive engagement.
To help clients stand out and draw attention, you need fresh, engaging visuals that ignite interaction and amplify your client’s brand presence.
However, finding that creative spark can be tricky, especially when handling multiple clients with various posts and campaigns.
The good news is that this guide can help.
Continue reading to uncover innovative social media post design ideas that inspire you and help you turn your clients’ feeds from drab to fab.
Get inspiration for your clients’ next social media posts from the following design ideas.
Less is often more, making simple and minimalist designs great options for social media posts.
Don’t sacrifice clarity for overly complex designs that can drown out your clients’ messaging or defeat the purpose of the posts.
Take Vista Social’s Instagram post, for example. It includes several sentences without crowding the image.
The post lays out everything in a simple design while conveying the message to audiences.
Also, it uses fun emojis and dark text against a light background, making it easy to understand what the post is about quickly.
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Using a similar design for multiple posts can give your clients’ social media feeds a cohesive look and vibe.
The design is a great option for a content series or for brands who want to use a single aesthetic for their social media feeds.
Instagram user juniperoats’s Instagram feed is a good example of designing posts to achieve one cohesive look.
Image source: https://www.instagram.com/juniperoats/
Follow these quick tips to design posts with a similar theme or aesthetic for your clients.
You’ve likely heard of carousel posts, but do you know you can create scrolling panorama carousel posts on Instagram?
A scrolling panorama carousel is a long scrollable image of still photos edited together, like this Instagram post from Mcdonalds.
Image source: instagram.com
The design can engage audiences for the following reasons:
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Consider turning your clients’ UGCs into eye-catching, shareable posts (with proper attributions and permissions, of course).
For instance, you can screenshot your clients’ positive comments, DMs, and reviews and add a few design elements, such as background colors, images, or borders.
The screenshot below is a classic example.
Image source: instagram.com
It’s a great way to flex your clients’ brands through engaging posts while saving time and energy on content creation.
Leveraging UGCs in your social media post designs also offers the following perks:
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Plain numbers and stats can be boring and easy for audiences to miss.
If you want your clients’ statistics-focused posts to attract attention and drive engagement, create eye-catching designs that stop audiences in their tracks.
For instance, Calvin Macdonald’s LinkedIn post below can capture attention through its large fonts, cohesive layout, and high-quality images.
Image source: linkedin.com
Designing your clients’ numbers-filled posts this way can work well for several reasons:
Designing your clients’ social media posts is only half the work.
You must edit and publish the posts to ensure that your client’s content receives the visibility and engagement it deserves.
However, editing and publishing social media content takes a lot of time and effort, but you can streamline the process using Vista Social.
The social media management platform has all the essential and modern features for seamless post creation, customization, and auto-posting scheduling.
Connect your client’s profile and use the platform’s Canva integration to create and edit the post’s design from the social media publishing feature.
Log into your Canva account, and you’ll see the Canva design board, where you can:
After saving and uploading your design, you’ll be redirected to Vista Social’s Publisher.
From here, you can customize your client’s post further by adding captions, hashtags, emojis, and more and setting an optimal auto-publishing schedule.
You can speed up your content creation and publishing further using Vista Social’s AI Assistant to generate or suggest improvements to your post’s captions and taglines.
With the Canva integration, you can easily create, design, and edit your clients’ social media posts without leaving Vista Social.
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Awesome social media post designs can do wonders for your clients’ brand presence and engagement.
Get inspiration from creative, fun, and time-tested designs to help your clients’ posts stand out and draw attention.
Use Vista Social to streamline designing your clients’ social media posts.
Create your Vista Social account to explore more of the platform’s publishing and other handy social media management features.
About the Author
Content Writer
Jimmy Rodela is a social media and content marketing consultant with over 9 years of experience, with work appearing on sites such as Business.com, Yahoo, SEMRush, and SearchEnginePeople. He specializes in social media, content marketing, SaaS, small business strategy, marketing automation, and content development.
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