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4 Secrets of Great Storytellers

Content Marketing Institute

Great storytellers come from all sorts of places. Great storytellers come from all sorts of places, says @EditorStahl. storytelling Click To Tweet. Let’s take a look at the secrets to their storytelling success. Great storytellers collaborate. Great storytellers know who they want to enchant. But that’s OK.

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Buyer’s Guide to the Best Content Marketing Books of 2018

Content Marketing Institute

During 2018, authors and publishers created some of the most helpful and sophisticated content marketing books. Books published in 2018 tended to have better designed covers and short, punchy titles coupled with longer subtitles that described the benefits to readers. Make Blue Ocean Shift the first step in reinvention. Joey Coleman.

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Go Behind the Scenes of Coca-Cola’s Storytelling

Content Marketing Institute

Kate Santore took the stage at Content Marketing World to share Coca-Cola’s storytelling ethos – and in the process inspired marketers to ask, “What if?”. Santore: We begin every brief with a storytelling thought-starter question “what if?” CocaCola begins every creative brief w/ a #storytelling thought-starter question: What if?

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Say No to the Rise of Internal Content Agencies – and Other 2019 Trends

Content Marketing Institute

The post looking forward to 2018 was one of the last written by my pal Joe Pulizzi before he retired. In looking toward 2018, Joe offered that the trends pointed upward, highlighting the growth in acquisitions, the increase in budgets, and even the idea of marketing as a profit center (which is the focus of our book Killing Marketing ).

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How Voice-Activated Tech Will Change Content Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

adults who report they have one today, according to a 2018 Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report. 43% of companies already invest in technology to enable voice marketing, according to a survey taken at the 2018 Digiday AI Marketing Summit. 55% of adults will have a smart speaker by 2022 via @OCC_Strategy. technology Click To Tweet.

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What Are the Differences Between Customer Lifecycle Marketing and Traditional Sales Funnels?

Express Writers

Ardath Albee, an industry leader in content marketing, talked about a lifecycle on the Marketo blog in 2018. Prioritize Conversations and Storytelling in Your Marketing. Incorporating storytelling into your marketing efforts. Storytelling brings people together and, much like having conversations, builds deeper connections.

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20 Creative YouTube Video Ideas You Should Use in 2021

Neil Patel

Storytelling Videos. As I’ve already mentioned here on the blog, storytelling is one of the main powers in content nowadays. YouTube published a video about 2018 that has accumulated millions of views. So far so good – but the video looks like advertising, not like a summary of 2018.