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Chief Content Officer: A Year of Insights

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As he argues, “even highly educated people disengage rather than spend the mental energy to unpack dense, complicated prose.” But before you think Dan is arguing that journalists are prima donnas to be avoided, he provides advice on how to harness a journalist’s nose for a strong story and knack for compelling and highly readable prose.

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Brands Often Overlook This Superhero of Storytelling

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OK, maybe writing this article as a comic script isn’t such a great idea, even if prose is at a disadvantage when discussing such a visual medium. Comics can work for all audiences. A prose novel will sometimes go on for pages and pages on setup that would take us a single splash page.”. Buddy, you can come back now.

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8 Rules for the Startup Marketer (or Anyone Who Wants to Think Like One)

Content Marketing Institute

Unless otherwise noted, all images and quotations in this post come from Vishal’s Intelligent Content Conference talk How to Connect Your Content and Technology to Your Business Goals with a Small Team (which he told his audience he almost titled “Straight Outta Locash”). Build a simple system that frees you to do extraordinary work.