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Business Blog Writing: Come on, light my fire!

Writing on the Web

It demands vivid insight and storytelling skill to present an idea that packs enough emotional power to be memorable. Or, better yet, what if they featured a video clip of a client who saved “X&# amount of dollars by coming to them instead? Blog this on Blogger. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on del.icio.us.

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Content Rules: Secrets of Writing Compelling Content

Writing on the Web

And, it gets multiplied on websites, blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and videos on YouTube, to the point that people tune out. How can you introduce storytelling into your marketing mix? According to these authors, when you produce great stuff, (blogs, videos, etc.) .&#. Sadly this classic marketing approach is everywhere.

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Content Marketing: Connect the Dots and Drive Results

Writing on the Web

These goals apply to your website, your blog, your newsletters and everything you publish on the Web whether in text, audio or video. But without context, without drawing a picture for them through storytelling , they won’t take any action to further the relationship. Provide choices without confusion. Blog this on Blogger.

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Blogging with Personality and Tim Ferriss

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I recommend listening to his short video about sharing your personality on your blog, an interview done by Rohit Bhargava , author of Personality Not Included. And, what better way to show personality than short video clips like this one here. I was at this Blog World conference when Rohit interviewed Tim, in 2008. Post on Google Buzz.

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Content Marketing from the Inside Out

Writing on the Web

Video clips. Online marketing today includes plenty of content in all forms, all of which communicate personality through stories: Web pages. E-newsletters. Social media profiles and updates. E-books, white papers and digital downloads. Some companies have personality through characters like the Aflac duck and the Geico gekko.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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If your audience skews older, you may not want to engage in a lot of “make a video&# contests, since that segment indexes low on the “Creator&# scale. link] Production Video Services Well, I must say…I found this blog post via Twitter. You can play with the Social Technographics Ladder data right here: 5.