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The Power of Storytelling

Convince & Convert

Sometimes this notion of “storytelling” in business seems folly, conjuring up thoughts of bedtime, folklore, embellished narrative, and performance art. The key is this: Good content is not about storytelling; it’s about telling a truly connective story well. Spoiler: The camel was a jerk, and that hump was a magic curse.).

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Content Marketing World 2011

Ambal's Amusings

It is called Content Marketing World 2011. A: At Content Marketing World , you’ll learn how to transform your marketing department into a storytelling factory, engaging your prospects and customers in all the right channels with the right messages– including social, mobile, email, online and even print and in-person strategies.

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Content and Social Media Marketing Predictions for 2011

Avitage

Two strategic insights I found especially helpful: Must have a real-time mindset (David Meerman Scott) The “consumerization” of B2B marketing (Tom Pisello) This summary of especially salient points looks like a pretty good content checklist: Content will get shorter (Doug Kessler) Relevance will become the new standard (Sandra Zoratti) Must become (..)

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The Great British Christmas Ad: How UK Retailers Dive Head-First into Festive Brand Storytelling

Content Standard

You could say Coca-Cola invented the Christmas ad, but brand storytelling king John Lewis kidnapped it and taught it to manipulate emotions to a twee acoustic soundtrack. Using storytelling for national holidays is nothing new; companies both large and small have been known to hijack a big event to get some associated feels for themselves.

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The Nifty 50 Top Women of Twitter for 2011

Webbiquity

Cheryl and I thought it would be a great idea to collaborate on this special social media project—and so the process began for creating the 2011 #Nifty50 List of Top Twitter Women. Brooklyn-based Maria calls herself an “interestingness curator and semi-secret geek obsessed with design, storytelling and TED.” Maria Popova. brainpicker.

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11 Indispensable B2B MarTech Solutions Cybersecurity Marketers Actually Use

KoMarketing Associates

WordPress is my foundational platform for storytelling. Since I published my first WordPress post in 2011, I can’t tell you how many blogs I’ve written or websites my various teams have designed.

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Learning from Our Past Mistakes: A 2015 Guide to Video Storytelling

Content Standard

” The year was 2011, and marketing teams, more familiar with ad buying than sustained storytelling , scrambled to set up their first digital publishing experience. Storytelling was a new concept to brand marketers (and video storytelling was not even on the radar). The Shift to Video Marketing.