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How Great Leaders Use Storytelling to Activate Empathy in Their Teams

Marketing Insider Group

With a long career in sales and marketing, I’ve had direct experience of how persuasive storytelling can be. But storytelling is a useful tool not just for selling things. But storytelling as a tool for leadership and education in the workplace is often overlooked. Storytelling and Empathy.

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How to Evolve Your Storytelling for Better Engagement and Conversion

Contently

Content that builds connections with customers is important. As your prospects move through the buyer’s journey, good storytelling helps ensure your brand is top of mind, especially when it’s time to make a purchasing decision. Not every piece of content is meant to drive a sale or even generate a lead.

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25 Timeless Articles Every Content Marketer Needs to Read

Marketing Insider Group

Whether your content is poorly aligned with search intent or lacking the right amount of backlinks, you have to optimize your content to rank on SERPs if you want to generate organic search traffic. Ahrefs’ article proves the gravity of Google’s role in organic search traffic, and shares some effective tips on how to rank.

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Top Content Marketing Questions Answered

Marketing Insider Group

What’s going on here is that marketers have become storytellers and concept creators. Some early classic examples of content in action are Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac, first published in 1732, and the American Bee Journal, launched by Samuel Wagner in 1861. The American Bee Journal is still published today!

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When Big Data Meets Great Storytelling: athenahealth’s Content Evolution

Contently

I don’t want to jinx anything, but I’ve had the pleasure of leading an exciting content initiative at athenahealth, and we just hit our two-year mark. (I’m Don’t skimp on storytelling. Our in-house designers are visual storytellers who can take in a data dump on chronic health conditions in the U.S.

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Piktochart vs. Canva vs. Visme: We Put 3 Visual Storytelling Tools to the Test

ClearVoice

What is visual storytelling? Visual storytelling is a method of conveying narratives and ideas through visual media that empowers readers to take action. Visual storytelling options include graphics, illustrations, photography, animation, and video. Infographics are one of the preferred tools for visual storytelling.

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Does Marketing Have A Marketing Problem?

Marketing Insider Group

But executives in most organizations are demanding more from us. The Battle for Customer Attention. Helpful content , Thought Leadership , and brand storytelling are the new game for marketers. The Battle For Customer Attention from Michael Brenner. Serving customers serves the business.