Act-On

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Having a background in storytelling concepts, principles and tactics can inform your marketing. Content Marketing Marketing Life Marketing Strategy digital storytelling storytelling storytelling content

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Brand storytelling is gaining momentum in the marketing world, and with good reason. The post Brand Storytelling, Defined appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. Marketing Strategy Content Marketing StorytellingStories are scientifically proven to get a person’s attention. In fact, stories stimulate brain activity. When we read or hear plot points our neurons start firing—and not just in the part of the brain that controls the language center. But there’s a […].

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In 2004, a Carnegie Mellon University study looked at the impact of empathetic storytelling. The second took a more narrative, storytelling approach where they profiled the children and told the story of their suffering. What makes storytelling so effective.

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Act-On

JULY 20, 2017

Create greater impact in your B2B advertising with powerful storytelling strategies. B2B Marketing Content Marketing b2b ads b2b advertising b2b content marketing b2b storytelling storytelling content

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Speaker: Mat Zucker, Partner, Prophet

The framework starts with your base brand story, tackles naming, nomenclature and voice and moves into content strategy and signature content including thought leadership, storytelling and content marketing.

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 29, 2020

One of those is the endless pursuit brands have with being considered a great storyteller. And for those who are concerned about the lifecycle of their leads and their base, storytelling can be a captivating and effective way to keep audiences engaged. 6 storytelling myths in marketing.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It’s essential for compelling brand storytelling. The brand storytelling lessons I learned from this song go well beyond Collins’ personal hero’s journey. There’s yet another brand storytelling lesson you can draw from Collins’ perennial hit. It’s the element of surprise.

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Contently

MARCH 2, 2020

As Jonathan Gottschall writes in The Storytelling Animal , human beings are built for stories. We all have storytelling superpowers inside us, but as the pressures of life builds—tests, grades, jobs, mortgages, performance reviews—we lose sight of this instinctual skill. Many of us have learned to suppress our storytelling instincts, thinking of it as a squishy skill that has no real place in the business world. Storytelling neuroscience

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Visual storytelling brings ideas and personalities to life, while illuminating brand purpose. Here are nine tips from CMI’s Visual Storytelling Summit to help you tell better stories now (and free access to watch all the sessions).

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 1, 2020

But, if we dig a little deeper into why empathy is so important, we can uncover one of the most effective tools in the world for connecting with people and driving results – storytelling. Storytelling is the art of drawing out empathy from both storyteller and audience. As I said in Mean People Suck , we can use the power of storytelling to truly get what we want in life and in business. Storytelling is one of the most powerful methods available for getting results.

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Carla Johnson

JULY 10, 2019

July 11, 2019 Storytelling is everywhere in your company, whether you realize it or not. The post 5 Missed Opportunities for Storytelling appeared first on Carla Johnson. Corporate Culture StorytellingMarketers are getting the hang of it in their own domain, but miss opportunities to tell stories behind the scenes in every company. Here are the top five that people miss most often: 1. Brand values Your values aren’t window dressing, they’re the ethos for.

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Kaon

JANUARY 4, 2016

4 Benefits Of Using Storytelling In Marketing. The Kaon v-Brief® interactive storytelling application, communicates your unique value story through a variety of real-world scenarios that solve a customers’ business challenge. Filed under: 3D Products , News Tagged: interactive marketing , interactive storytelling , Kaon , kaoninteractive , marketing , Marketing Innovation , Neuroscience , visual storytelling.

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RockContent

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Long-form storytelling is having a moment right now. I’ve written about long-form storytelling recently – from both brands and media – all to lead up to a bigger piece of content that I’m very excited to share with you. Storytelling is a powerful tool that brands can use to establish themselves as thought leaders. So, I wrote an in-depth piece called Without Long-form Storytelling, You Will Never Be A Thought Leader.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

From ancient to modern times, storytelling has remained a constant throughout the evolution of the human race. The post The Importance of B2B Storytelling appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. Telling and listening to stories comes naturally to people across the globe. Stories in different forms get passed from one generation to another and exist across various channels in multiple iterations. There are simple, linear ones and stories […].

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 20, 2016

The post Presentations Need More Dragons: Corporate Storytelling Techniques appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. Marketing Strategy Content creative content how-to powerpoint presentation storytelling presentations StorytellingYou know, deep in your heart, what presentations lack. Free doughnuts, yes, but they are also devoid of excitement, clarity, and fun.

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Act-On

MARCH 14, 2017

But if you mention storytelling to some business owners or marketing managers, you’ll often get a blank look in return. When many of us think of storytelling, we think movies, books, and big budget commercials ‒ projects that require massive budgets and big ad agencies and conference rooms full of “talent.” But … storytelling is actually one of the least expensive marketing tactics. Because storytelling is actually the oldest marketing tactic ever.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 26, 2013

If storytelling sounds too “Kumbaya” to you for hardcore industrial marketing and sales, then I suggest you read on for a fresh perspective. Content Marketing Industrial Lead Generation Inbound Marketing Industrial Marketing storytelling There is a very good reason centuries [.]. This is only a content summary. Please click on the headline to read the full article. Visit my website for more content on industrial marketing.].

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Contently

MARCH 9, 2020

Last week, I explored the first of the four elements of great storytelling: relatability. Unfortunately, it often doesn’t make for very good content or storytelling. The post Novelty: The Storytelling Element Your Brain Craves appeared first on Contently. Storytelling neuroscienceWhen I was a sophomore in high school, my entire physics class aced the quiz on hand-cranked electricity.

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Oracle

MAY 31, 2019

People, of course, love storytelling. Well, storytelling is the very essence of content marketing. Strategic Storytelling. Storytelling helps content marketers: Sell or market. What matters in storytelling and marketing is how you make people feel and what impression you leave them with. Great storytelling relies upon emotion. Marketing is a conversation, and conversations almost always include storytelling. Storytelling can help with all of that.

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Contently

DECEMBER 20, 2017

And if you’d like to subscribe to our free email course on becoming a more powerful storyteller, you can sign up here ! A little while ago, my mother sent me an email with the subject line, “The Youngest Storyteller.” Thus, I’m excited to announce that Contently is going to release The Storytelling Edge on January 29, 2018! How to start using counter-intuitive storytelling techniques for every article, presentation, meeting, and negotiation.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 8, 2020

If you’re reading this, then I think you probably get the value of brand storytelling. Storytelling has been a pillar of content marketing for some time, but stories aren’t just great for consumer audiences. She’s a highly-regarded marketing leader, and she totally gets why storytelling matters. As CMO of Jones, Lang, and Lasalle (JLL), she focused on creating compelling stories and stacking her team with gifted storytellers. Storytelling Eclipses Promotion.

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 25, 2020

Like many in PR, I’ve had debated many times over the years, and the reason is that storytelling works. 1) What is storytelling? To understand storytelling, you have to understand what makes a good story. 2) Why storytelling works: The Angel’s Cocktail. In his 17-minute presentation for TEDx, The Magical Science of Storytelling , he walks the audience through several stories that trigger an “Angel’s Cocktail” of brain chemicals. The post What is Storytelling?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 22, 2015

I’ve noticed a content marketing backlash, recently, with a particular vitriol directed toward business storytelling. For example, four weeks ago, the author of The Art of Storytelling in the Age of Content Marketing lashed out at brand journalism. In Storytelling: For And Against , a Content Director made cases for and against business storytelling. So, if your company wants to use the power of story to pull the wool over your customer’s eyes, don’t use storytelling.

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RockContent

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Behind the curtains of our electrochemical brain activities, storytelling lays the foundation for developing our identity. As one of the best practices for Content Marketing , interactive storytelling works successfully in the most diverse scenarios. How to use Interactive Storytelling?

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Content4Demand

APRIL 24, 2020

That’s why emotions play a big role in storytelling. The post Storytelling in B2B Marketing appeared first on Content4Demand. Blog b2b marketing neuroscience psychology storytellingMarketers are learning what neuroscientists have known for some time: Even in business situations, buyers respond to narrative—especially narrative that invokes an emotional response. It makes perfect sense. Businesspeople don’t stop being humans when they start working.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 29, 2015

For some reason people don’t think that they’re good storytellers…even when faced with evidence to the contrary. The biggest barrier to storytelling is the irrational concept, “I have nothing interesting to say.”. The post The Accidental Storyteller appeared first on B2B Marketing Insider. A few years ago, I met a guy who described himself as a 20-year veteran of the apparel industry.

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Contently

JULY 10, 2019

Cue data storytelling. The Rise of Data Storytelling. They care about a lot more—and you’ll be able to do that as data supports storytelling by bringing credibility and reliability to the message your PR content is putting out. All types of storytelling can possibly be extremely effective, but the fun part about data storytelling in particular is that a story based on a new dataset is inherently unique. The Impact of Data Storytelling.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 19, 2019

When identity, values and experiences are core brand differentiators, storytelling becomes essential. The post The Role of Data and Storytelling in Marketing Transformation appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. Today’s decision makers don’t want a sales pitch. They want to hear your story and how it aligns with their own. When you tell that story well it gets audiences deeply invested, increasing the value of a product or service substantially.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 13, 2020

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. Smart leaders understand how to use storytelling to teach, to bring teams together, and to persuade people to do what they want them to by harnessing the power of empathy. Storytelling and Empathy.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 8, 2015

What’s Business Storyteller?” He’s an optometrist storyteller. The post The Optometrist Storyteller appeared first on B2B Marketing Insider. I lost my distance eyeglasses a couple of weeks ago. Figuring that they’d show up sooner or later, I forced myself to wander through a blurry world. However, when all hope of such a reunion vanished, I made an appointment to see a local optometrist. “Dr. is a big, gregarious guy.

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Content Marketing Institute

JUNE 1, 2018

Great storytellers come from all sorts of places. And they’re telling stories in so many new ways that each day seems to add proof to Daniel Pink’s dramatic 2006 assertion : The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers – creative and holistic ‘right-brain’ thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn’t. storytelling Click To Tweet. storytelling Click To Tweet.

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DivvyHQ

AUGUST 3, 2020

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 14, 2016

Storytelling is one of the oldest forms of persuasion. Nowadays, storytelling is used to sell us everything from cars to vacations. The post How to Use Storytelling to Engage and Persuade Consumers appeared first on Marketing Insider Group. Content Marketing Engage Consumers Persuade Consumers StorytellingGoing back to biblical times, the entire point of fables was to persuade the population to do the right thing.

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Contently

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

For the past six years, I’ve been obsessed with understanding how storytelling can transform a business. While most people are looking for a magic solution or singular trick, the truth is that storytelling is an art and a science. Contently co-founder Shane Snow and I recently wrote a book called The Storytelling Edge revealing all of our research and guidance— check it out here.

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RockContent

JULY 9, 2020

Storytelling appears as a fundamental instrument to engage the leads in a narrative and direct them to the bottom of the funnel. Recently, for example, the trend is to use long-form storytelling. In this text, we will discuss: What is long-form storytelling? How can you apply long-form storytelling in your company? What is long-form storytelling? When we talk about long-form storytelling, it is clear that we are referring to a more extensive content format.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 6, 2015

Whether he knew it or not, my grandfather was a master storyteller. What’s interesting is that it’s these same elements of storytelling that capture and enrapture audiences of companies with which I work today: Structure : All stories should have a clear beginning, middle and end. Mood : By focusing on mood, the storyteller can guide the emotions that they want to create. The post 6 Elements Of Remarkable Storytelling appeared first on B2B Marketing Insider.

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B2B PR Sense

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Data and storytelling are probably two words that you wouldn't expect to go together. Data storytelling can be a key way to turn dry facts into exciting stories -- a transformation that could win high-tier media coverage for your brand. What is Data Storytelling?

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