Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Great brand stories can attract and retain attention long enough to develop trust with your audience no matter where they are in their journey. But to get great stories, marketers must shift their storytelling thinking.

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Contently

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

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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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Storytelling has long been used to activate a reader’s imagination through an interactive narrative. Brand storytelling in particular uses this narrative to share company values while connecting customers to a company. What Is Brand Storytelling? ZoomInfo MarketingOS Finally, ABM with data you can trust. Keep reading!

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 26, 2019

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.

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The Forward Observer

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Follow the advice of these content experts to create the kind of authentic visual storytelling that captures interest, earns trust, and wins business. Continue reading → The post Video Storytelling: Here’s How To Get More From Your Investment appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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FMG Suite

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Though it is millennia later, these principles are still the key to successful digital marketing and brand growth. . People needed to trust the stories they heard, and they needed others to trust them when they told a story. Today, automated campaigns and full digital marketing platforms are available to advisors.

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 29, 2020

If you have been a content marketer for a while, you know many buzzwords are thrown around haphazardly in conversations and materials. One of those is the endless pursuit brands have with being considered a great storyteller. 6 storytelling myths in marketing. This includes: How to write clear, poignant storytelling copy.

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Content Standard

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

A Content Disrupted podcast with guest Todd Unger, Chief Experience Officer and SVP of Marketing and Member Experience at the American Medical Association. What implications do these habits have for how marketers think about the brand storytelling? Listen, follow, and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or Google Podcasts.

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Valasys

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

When it comes to content marketing, you want to ensure that your audience connects with your product or service, and storytelling may help you achieve that goal. Infact, according to Marketing Words, 68% of consumers say that brand stories influence their purchasing decisions. What Is Storytelling?

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

AUGUST 31, 2022

Trust is the connective tissue between a brand and its customers. Marketers play a special role in building trusted relationships because we are in many ways the face and voice of the brand. Everything we say – and do – as marketers is an opportunity to build or destroy trust. We practice inclusive marketing.

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Trade Press Services

OCTOBER 16, 2023

That secret ingredient is brand storytelling. Storytelling by definition is “the vivid description of ideas, beliefs, personal experiences, and life lessons through stories or narratives that evoke powerful emotions and insights.” Storytelling helps us connect and identify with the world around us. Follow a story arc.

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Biznology

MAY 13, 2019

With young consumers increasingly demanding brands give more back to society, the challenge today is to create a promise that can be trusted and delivered – with credible authenticity. This trend for brands to create and communicate their CSR (corporate social responsibility) promises reflects a growing decline in trust in business.

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Contently

JULY 10, 2019

” The truth about the marketing industry is that things are nuanced, and very rarely does a tenet apply 100% across the board for all brands in all industries. What I do hope to explain, though, is how we need to consider the different types of digital PR when crafting marketing strategies. Cue data storytelling.

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The Forward Observer

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The StorySelling Method: Master the Art of Storytelling to Build Trust, Stand Out, and Boost Sales by Philipp Humm About the Book Do you struggle to connect with your customers on a personal level? Do you want to stand out in a very competitive market? Or do you want to accelerate your sales career?

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Sage Marketing

APRIL 4, 2023

Storytelling is hardly a new phenomenon. Hardly surprising then, that storytelling has always been the central pivot of good marketing. Hardly surprising then, that storytelling has always been the central pivot of good marketing. That can only be achieved through the art of storytelling.

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Sage Marketing

APRIL 4, 2023

Storytelling is hardly a new phenomenon. Hardly surprising then, that storytelling has always been the central pivot of good marketing. Hardly surprising then, that storytelling has always been the central pivot of good marketing. That can only be achieved through the art of storytelling.

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ClearVoice

MARCH 29, 2022

While your business may not include magic carpets, iridescent dragons, or seven sprightly dwarves, the storytelling elements found in fictional tales are just as engaging and influential when incorporating storytelling in your business’ content marketing. What are the Elements of Great Storytelling in Content Marketing?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I am super passionate about what I do in the world of telling business and marketing stories. If you read my stuff and know me, you know I am a storytelling nerd from both the business and improv stages—and proudly! Storytelling is so much bigger than marketing. Storytelling is so much bigger than marketing.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

JANUARY 25, 2020

Like many in PR, I’ve had debated many times over the years, and the reason is that storytelling works. And that’s the theme for this week’s Unscripted Marketing Links (UML). 1) What is storytelling? 1) What is storytelling? To understand storytelling, you have to understand what makes a good story.

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Seismic

MARCH 4, 2021

The best companies today are great storytellers. Among B2B marketers, storytelling is a buzzword that’s often assumed to be the narrative that brands tell their buyer. The first part of storytelling is connecting with the buyer. Storytelling is about putting your best foot forward in the medium where your buyer is.

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Content4Demand

APRIL 24, 2020

Marketers are learning what neuroscientists have known for some time: Even in business situations, buyers respond to narrative—especially narrative that invokes an emotional response. Adding emotion to narrative triggers the release of oxytocin in the brain, which pushes us to relate, care, trust and help others.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 15, 2024

By concentrating on specific niches, B2B creators produce content that directly addresses their audience’s needs, establishing trust and fostering strong connections. By combining industry expertise with a knack for storytelling , B2B creators are setting new standards for how businesses communicate and connect.

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Navigate the Channel

JANUARY 8, 2024

The last time you took an objective look at your company’s business marketing strategy, what was your takeaway? If using micro-moments, storytelling and video aren’t part of your plan, let’s re-visit these digital marketing trends and their importance in every business strategy now. What’s working?

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Animalz blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

” I went down a Google rabbit hole, hoping to find out more about storytelling in content marketing. So I decided to settle for a lesser quest: finding out when to use storytelling in content marketing. So You Think You’re a Storyteller? ” – Stefan Sagmeister in You are not a storyteller.

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Digilant

JULY 7, 2022

While the subject matter may require a certain formality, a cautious tone, and unglamorous language, that doesn’t mean that storytelling in healthcare has to feel like a doctor’s waiting room. What Makes Storytelling Effective in a Healthcare Setting? Humans have always relied on storytelling to pass down information.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Marketers have been forced into survival mode to keep their businesses afloat. However, we know that COVID-19 has forced the world to make significant shifts in business and marketing. Digital has become the supreme leader in the marketing world. It now accounts for about 80% of all marketing channel budgets.

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Vidyard

OCTOBER 27, 2019

But in today’s noisy marketing landscape, what your brand really needs is a story. Stories make for better marketing because they elicit emotion. They can influence who we trust, play on our nostalgia, and help us make sense of complex information. Video Storytelling Tips 3.1 Video Storytelling Tips. Contents 1.

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Content Standard

MAY 6, 2024

A Content Disrupted podcast with esteemed marketing professor and consumer behavior expert, Dr. Michael Solomon. Marketing to Today’s Chameleon Consumer: Insights from Dr. Michael Solomon from Skyword on Vimeo. Forget your traditional marketing demographics!

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In the deluge of advertising, marketing gimmicks, and multi-sensory content all of us are exposed to daily, establishing trust between your brand and your customers is an uphill battle. Here are six key practices for building trust in your brand. Storytelling is a powerful tool. Guest post by Natasha Lane.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2015

The stories employees and executives tell internally are the most human leading indicators of organizational health and marketplace effectiveness—more so than the marketing stories we tell externally. The gap between highly positioned marketing messages and what employees really feel about the culture is evidenced by stories employees tell.

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EveryoneSocial

MAY 4, 2020

Whether you work in the marketing department or not, you’ve probably heard more industry experts and brands focused on storytelling. Brand storytelling has been around for years and you probably have numerous companies in your mind right now that tell great stories that often reflect their mission or brand values. .

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PureB2B

AUGUST 27, 2017

From ancient to modern times , storytelling has remained a constant throughout the evolution of the human race. Storytelling works because people have the innate desire to learn about certain developments that might be relevant to them. Storytelling also provides an alternate reality, especially if it’s fiction.

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DivvyHQ

AUGUST 17, 2020

The role of content marketing is to deliver value, not interrupt consumers with spam calls, junk mail, or even catchy ads. To stand out in your prospects’ crowded inbox, though, you may need to take a page out of Madison Avenue’s playbook.the page about visual storytelling. Let's take a closer look with some great examples.

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Content Standard

MARCH 12, 2024

We’re living through the decline of mainstream media, and as marketers, we have a role to play in filling the void. Mistrust in mainstream media has hit record lows, as highlighted by Edelman’s latest Trust Barometer research. We have the opportunity—and responsibility—to become trusted voices in this environment.

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DivvyHQ

MAY 3, 2021

Whether you work for a well-established brand, or you're in start-up mode, there's always a need to establish trust in both existing and new audiences. Content marketing can play a huge role in this effort, and here are five foolproof ways to get started.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Marketing and content teams are gearing up to ring in the new year with a bang, but the buyer journey is complex. This is not another prediction piece boasting the top 99 content marketing trends to look out for in 2022. Below are 3 marketing strategies that should be prioritized in 2022. 2022 is right around the corner.

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