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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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How to Unite Brand Storytelling and Marketing Tech

Content Marketing Institute

Marketers didn’t invent the technology to build bots, mobile apps, games, and productivity tools, but they can make them entertaining, delightful, and helpful to entice their audiences to use them. The team didn’t use tech because it could, it used tech to show or tell the audience something. Target the ready audience.

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Sample 11 of the Best B2B and B2C Content Marketing Ideas of 2018

Content Marketing Institute

Here are 11 models she shared in her Idea Garage column in 2018: Velcro® entertains to promote trademark ( February ). Intercontinental turns lifestyle experts into storytellers for its destinations ( February ). We must be quirky, try new ideas, & think about how to be different in ways audiences will notice.

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20 Creative YouTube Video Ideas You Should Use in 2021

Neil Patel

What there is, however, is plenty of opportunity for success if you can be creative, authentic, and target your proper audience. Another idea for a YouTube video is to watch a series or movie and talk about how it relates to a concept that’s relevant to your audience/in your field. Storytelling Videos. Q&A Videos.

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

Express Writers

If you’re unfamiliar, this process is all about serving your audience with valuable content, nurturing relationships, and then encouraging past customers to become loyal brand advocates. We’ve put together everything you need to start connecting with your audience and generating more leads. What is the Traditional Sales Funnel?

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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. Call-and-answer storytelling. technology Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.