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How to Evolve Your Storytelling for Better Engagement and Conversion

Contently

As your prospects move through the buyer’s journey, good storytelling helps ensure your brand is top of mind, especially when it’s time to make a purchasing decision. Creating Content for Engagement vs. Conversion. Optimize Your Storytelling for Engagement and Conversion. Identify key metrics from the get-go.

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9 Video Storytelling Tips to Engage Your Audience

Content Marketing Institute

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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The SettleHead storytelling crib sheet

Ben Settle

Stay the hell away from fapGPT, or anything like AI when telling stories – use your own God-given brain, write with your own hands, engage your thinking, utilize your nervous system, your imagination, your problem-solving, your emotions, your unique experiences/observations/opinions/thoughts/personality/peculiarities. *

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Storytelling 101 for Founders

Kayleigh Moore

Great storytelling typically follows a fairly basic structure. A good arc engages your readers from start to finish and delivers a satisfying conclusion. The outline Once you’ve decided on the storytelling structure you want to use, next it’s time to start mapping out the elements of your story so they fall in the right places.

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The Flashback: A Greatly Misunderstood Storytelling Device

Jane Friedman

Along with prologues, adverbs, and semicolons, flashbacks may be the most vilified—and most misunderstood—of storytelling devices, ones that work only if they don’t seem like devices. Used unskillfully or too often, they lend an erratic feel and potentially compromise readers’ engagement. Join her on Wednesday, Oct.

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25+ Unforgettable Protagonist Examples In Storytelling

Smart Blogger

By examining these examples closely, not only will you better understand the magic behind unforgettable storytelling, but you’ll also discover actionable strategies to craft your own compelling characters. Conflict Interaction : Engaging deeply with the story’s main conflicts. Let the exploration begin!

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The Art of Storytelling 101: Techniques for Creating Compelling Narratives

iWriter

Great storytelling can leave us spellbound. Get ready to embark on a thrilling journey through the art of storytelling! Elements of a Compelling Narrative A compelling narrative is the key to captivating audiences and keeping them engaged. They create tension, drive the plot forward, and keep readers engaged until the very end.