Contently

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In this TCS exclusive, we’re featuring a guest post from the content guru, Ann Handley. Ann is a writer, speaker, and the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs. This post is an excerpt from her brand-new Everybody Writes: Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content. million shoppers.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

But, they are playing a significant role in the future of content marketing. In fact, 52% of business leaders have already implemented AI content generation tools into their content marketing strategies, and 64.7% In this article, we’re unveiling our tried-and-true formula for harmonizing AI and content marketing.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 11, 2023

Image credit: Nguyen Dang Hoang Nhu on Unsplash AI can also be used—carefully—to help create more content for your blog and social media. This post explores how AI can assist with content creation. What Exactly Is AI for Content? It’s a way to create content or update old content that is quick and easy for you to do.

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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. However, story-telling in branding and content marketing is a powerful tool that may help. What Is Storytelling? Why Is Storytelling an Integral Part?

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Nothing captivates an audience like a great story—no matter what industry you work in. 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. Keep reading!

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Stevens & Tate

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

To ensure that your audience remains engaged, you need to use the power of brand storytelling. Why is Storytelling Crucial to Marketing? The reason is simple: if information is presented using storytelling, it becomes more enjoyable and easier to retain. And that’s how marketing works as well.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 7, 2023

The best way to do this is through conversational content. Conversational content is more than just a marketing strategy. Writing conversational content for your audience means speaking their language, understanding their needs, and making them feel heard. That’s exactly what conversational content is about.

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Contently

DECEMBER 2, 2019

My gifts are also self-serving— marketing is all about empathy and storytelling, and great stories are proven to make us more empathetic and creative. The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human | Jonathan Gottschall. One of the most underrated skills in business today is the ability to write in a first-person voice.

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Contently

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

” “Or, maybe we just write a blog post and increase our ad spend to get more traffic to the post!” Influencer marketing works because influencers build a loyal following with like-minded people who begin to trust them and their opinions. Big brands use this strategy because it works. I can hear it now. “Oh,

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Contently

MARCH 9, 2020

Last week, I explored the first of the four elements of great storytelling: relatability. ” In my content strategy work with brands, many conversations start out with the well-intentioned desire to copy brands they admire. .” Unfortunately, it often doesn’t make for very good content or storytelling.

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Animalz blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

“I’ll write a fictional story for one of my clients.” ” 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?

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The Lead Agency

MAY 25, 2023

The 2022 Content Preferences Survey, which was based on data from a survey of 174 executives, found that 62% of B2B buyers engage with three to seven pieces of content before contacting a salesperson. Tell the whole story When writing a case study, avoid only focusing on the outcome. Identify the problem they were facing.

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Contently

JULY 10, 2019

“Modern” digital PR was developed in order to start a more active, valuable and ongoing conversation between brands and the public , and to do that, you need compelling content. Cue data storytelling. The Rise of Data Storytelling. The effect of that one piece of content can even be reflected in Google search.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 26, 2020

In today’s “cancel culture,” many businesses and other organizations are thinking it might be best to avoid opinionated content marketing. The hide in their vanilla content cave, their figurative tail tucked between their legs. What is the number one goal of content marketing? Take fear out of the equation.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 10, 2020

Here are several types of content that can help you do just that. No other type of content enable you to deliver as much information, as quickly, and with such a high level of engagement. Storytelling is a big one. This enables you to direct your content to those users who fit your target persona or profile.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 3, 2021

Let’s get real about B2B content marketing. The truth is, your content doesn’t have to boring or stuffy. In this post, we’ll review why B2B content marketing sucks and how to improve it so that it delivers a true ROI (return on investment). Bad content isn’t going to propel a company forward. Most of it sucks.

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BenchmarkONE

APRIL 1, 2020

Comedians are compelling because they are storytellers. And if a good comedian can hold a crowd rapt for an hour or more with nothing but a microphone and some words, you should be able to do the same for your customers — with storytelling. Why You Need Storytelling. One last note about storytelling. The Muddle.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 19, 2015

But here’s the key question: How do companies get started with storytelling? Everyone Is a Storyteller. The first and probably most important step is recognizing that every company can be a storyteller, and every company has good stories to tell. Knowing where your target audiences consume content is just as important.

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Contently

APRIL 23, 2020

At every practice, I’d write 1,500 words on the best and worst performers, and send my post to a Giants fan blog. Since then, comments and questions have been the content metric I secretly value over likes and shares and views. By that measure, our webinar on the science of storytelling a few weeks ago was a big success.

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Heinz Marketing

JULY 23, 2022

The Power of Storytelling in B2B Marketing. In this article, Paul Cash and James Trezona explore how storytelling fits into B2B marketing and how leaders in this space might utilize its unique powers. In this article, Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio , Taha Masood , and Andy Ouderkirk analyze what exactly makes pushes for innovations work.

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Contently

MARCH 18, 2020

Freelancing is such an important part of Contently’s DNA. Before I joined Contently, I started as a freelance writer, as did our head of marketing Joe Lazauskas. We know firsthand how difficult it can be to write for a living, especially if you have to prove yourself over and over through pitching. Reported features.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

You can prove – through brand storytelling – that what you offer consumers works. Case studies are one of the most powerful forms of content to have in your marketing repertoire. The longer-form content goes more in depth to describe a problem, solution, and outcome – all while keeping the customer at the center of the story.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2020

Content marketing is helping e-commerce brands like never before. In order to use content to build brand awareness, differentiate from competitors, secure customer loyalty, drive more traffic to your product pages, and increase sales for your e-commerce business, you have to approach it differently than you have been these past few years.

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Contently

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

” The question came from a strategy colleague when I was helping a brand staff its new content studio. Sure, writing is at the core of multiple marketing jobs, but there are key distinctions. Copywriting and content marketing call for different skills and success metrics. “Aren’t writers just writers?”

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Martech

MARCH 22, 2024

AI tools and large language models (LLMs) are changing the content marketing process, impacting how we conceive, produce and distribute content. Below, I delve into the content marketing lifecycle to show how content teams are incorporating generative AI at different stages.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 10, 2021

Every year, I have tons of prospects who ask me, “Is content marketing right for my industry?”. Either they think they don’t need content marketing because everyone knows they’re there – or they don’t quite know how to explain what they do and why people need their product. I just write my own.”. The Local Mainstay.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Storytelling is described as an art … the “art” of storytelling. Storytelling isn’t something you can grasp in one sitting, after one course. Sounds like a lot of work, right? It is, and rightfully so because storytelling has become a crucial component of the most successful marketing campaigns. Here’s why.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 13, 2019

Top-performing B2B content marketers put the information needs of their audiences ahead of the company’s sales and promotional message. That’s one of the key findings from the ninth annual report from the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs: B2B Content Marketing 2019: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America report.

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Contently

MARCH 24, 2020

After a few more anthropology and psych classes, I realized all of academia was in a giant contest to see who could write the most confusing sentence possible. Over the past few weeks, I covered the first two elements of great storytelling: relatability and novelty. Why you should write at an elementary school level.

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Content4Demand

APRIL 24, 2020

Businesspeople don’t stop being humans when they start working. Humans Respond to Stories How did humans pass on information that was important for survival before they could write? Jenny Coppola notes that nearly two million years passed between the time the first humans developed speech and they began to write.

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Vidyard

OCTOBER 27, 2019

While the content is broadly entertaining, their target audience of event managers recognize the specialized terms and scenarios presented, and thereby quickly understand exactly how Cvent can help them with specific day-to-day activities. Contents 1. Video Storytelling Tips 3.1 Focus on Big-Picture Themes 2. Show, Don’t Tell 3.5

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 16, 2023

The Content Marketer Sorting Hat — Which house are you? That’s why when we think about brands who embody the Gryffindor spirit, we think of serious content marketing trailblazers — ones whose daring content has made them well known by just about everyone. Let’s look at a few Gryffindor-esque content examples.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

You can do it through your online content. In a short block of text paired with a visual element, your copy should describe the core benefits people will gain by working with you – something people can get from your brand only. Convey a consistent message across your website and content marketing. Write specifically to them.

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Contently

JUNE 29, 2021

Contently Case Stories gives a behind-the-scenes look at the amazing stories Contently customers are telling. Immediately, the content was a hit. The site earned a Digiday Content Marketing Award for Best B2B Branded Content Site in its first year thanks to a blend of unique research, reporting, and insights.

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Content Standard

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For brands that want to engage with storytelling in marketing , this distinction can be an obstacle. How can you communicate with your team of content storytellers to keep everyone on the same page about your brand’s narrative? The Difference Between Communication and Storytelling. The Parts of a Story.

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Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 6, 2021

They’ll be more likely to remember you, admire you, trust you, and work with your business long term. With content marketing. Fuel the momentum needed to retain your customers by offering your followers relevant and engaging content at every stage of the buyer’s journey. Publish Quality Content Consistently.

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