This article, re-published with kind permission of Danny Brown, takes a different type of look at the importance of storytelling in engaging an audience, and is itself written in a manner that engages from first word to last. Enjoy! Creating and Curating an Experience Your Audience Will Remember We like to be entertained. We enjoy…
Here’s the bottom line: if your content does not engage your reader emotionally, their connection to you is puny. Their ability to remember you vanishes. Your value to them is lost. No no, don’t go down that road! Yet it happens too easily. Any content you create needs to connect and emotionally engage your audience…
Film MacGuffins I’ve been fascinated with the idea of MacGuffins and how the idea translates to websites. Here is an explanations of a film MacGuffin, an idea created by Alfred Hitchcock: One of the most oft-used and well known plot devices in Hollywood movies is the “MacGuffin,” the object that drives the story forward and…
The adage that perception is 9/10th of reality is becoming ever more true in the online world. With Facebook giving their reasons for the decline in organic reach and saying that the fraction of the potential news feed that they show us, is what is relevant to us, the question must be asked as to…
In our previous post, we discussed how great marketing starts with a good success and outlined a few ways of how a company could tell such a story. Luckily with the invention of many different technologies as well as the Internet, success stories can be told in many different ways. Going beyond the power granted…
Re-published by kind permission of Brian Vickery Did I mention the time that I had to send my oldest daughter to college with my Jeep Liberty, and my wife said “why don’t you get a sports car?” Well, my youngest daughter is coming back from college, and she will want her car back – so my…
Streaming Downton Abbey via Roku and Amazon Prime this weekend struck a nerve. As the web continues to destroy middlemen and gatekeepers concepts like “CBS” and “Time Warner Cable” are in play. Watching Amazon move from webpage arbitrage to web services platform to streaming video seller got me thinking about tips every content marketer should steal…
There are plenty of posts that purport to give the secrets of getting reader engagement with your content, not a small number of which themselves have few shares and no comments. Similarly, we’ve all seen plenty of dynamite blog posts, perhaps with a large number of shares, but with little to no engagement Engagement: The…
Remember how excited you found yourself when you were a child and it was story time? That same notion of story time applies marketing your company as well. In the past, success stories when published in a magazine or in a newspaper reached a limited audience. Fortunately today, the existence of social media allows for…
This is the fifth post in a 12 month series on the use of Instagram for businesses. If you’re using Instagram for your business, there are a few things to really consider in formatting your Instagram profile. Since Instagram doesn’t differentiate between business and personal accounts, you have to take maximum advantage of the options…
