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7 Steps to Effective Brand Storytelling

Marketing Insider Group

Storytelling is a human pastime, something we’ve been doing for thousands of years. Those same foundational elements of a moving story apply to content marketing. With brand storytelling, you can create an emotional connection with your audience. Following a step-by-step plan can jumpstart your storytelling initiatives.

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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

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. Optimize Your Storytelling for Engagement and Conversion.

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Why Social Impact Storytelling Will Be 2021’s Hottest Content Trend

Contently

But one thing is clear: Gen Z and millennials are changing the way that brands tell their stories and position themselves in the market. Edelman’s 2020 Trust Barometer also found that values are driving purchase decisions. Social impact storytelling needs to be a part of your content strategy in 2021. That’s right.

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4 Reasons Why Customers Should Be Your Brand Storyteller, Not You

Contently

Fact : Consumers don’t fully trust corporations. But somehow brands still create elaborate marketing campaigns that don’t involve customers at all. I imagine {INSERT WELL KNOWN COMPANY NAME HERE} a marketing team meeting where everyone is coming up with their best ideas to sell their product. I know, I know.

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The Marketing Book Podcast: “The Perfect Story” by Karen Eber

The Forward Observer

The Perfect Story: How to Tell Stories that Inform, Influence, and Inspire by Karen Eber About the Book Learn how to take any story and make it perfect—from storytelling expert Karen Eber, whose popular TED Talk on the subject continues to be a source of inspiration for millions. What makes a story perfect? We live in a story world.

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5 Ways to Improve Customer Retention With Storytelling

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Every day, your customers are bombarded with corporate promotions and marketing messages, from both familiar and unfamiliar brands. While there’s not one simple answer, there is one method that stands head and shoulders above the rest: storytelling. But, storytelling can portray a more personal, emotional resolution.