How To Create a Website That Will Strengthen Your Brand
Creating a website and creating a brand are not the same things. Hence, your website might have a million dollar look, yet still not reflect your personality or corporate identity. So, then what’s branding, you ask? Above all, it’s really a smart question to consider before starting to build your brand. Here is a good…
How Gary Vaynerchuk Helped Me Build & Grow a Business
I’m a huge fan of Gary Vaynerchuk. For many that know me personally, it’s quite evident. For the last 3-5 years I have been an avid follower of his work, business principles and methodologies. How can you not be though? He is probably one of the most practical and influential business individuals that I’ve encountered.…
How to Build Your Brand With Snapchat
If you’ve been tracking the growth of top social networks, then you’ll about Snapchat’s meteoric rise over the last year. Back in September 2011, this image messaging app was started by three Stanford University college students — Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown. According to Wikipedia, Snapchat today has 10 billion daily video views.…
How To Convey Purpose Through Brand Storytelling
Today’s consumers aren’t just passively buying from brands. They view their purchases as extensions of their identity and values. What this means for marketers is that effective marketing can’t just be about promoting a product for its sole use or benefits anymore. Successful marketing needs to be able to create a purpose, a community and…
How to Make Pinterest Work for Your Business Marketing
Since 2010 Pinterest has continually and quickly risen to one of the top social networks with more than 70 million active users worldwide. Not only are images and videos a big hit, but content from blogs as well. According to an article on Business Insider, men are becoming increasingly interested in participating on Pinterest with…
How to Build Content Wealth with Integrity
A fresh deck of 10 well researched, clearly articulated, thought leading blog articles on topics your business has expert knowledge on, could translate to a year’s worth of blog and social media posts, Fact Sheets, downloadable PDFs, eBooks and newsletter material. Add a few well produced infographics and videos, and you have just created a…
Case study: Record Breaking Swedish Commercial Series
My native country Sweden has the longest running TV commercial series in the world. The first episode aired in 2001 The record was broken in 2007. The series is still going. There are several marketing lessons to be learned from this. The commercial is for one of the big supermarket chains in Sweden. It features…
Brand Journalism versus Brand Storytelling
By Andrew Hutchinson I read an interview with author Arnold Zable recently in which he discussed his work in championing causes through his writing, most notably asylum seekers. Zable talked about the power of storytelling in such efforts, saying that ‘story is a very beautiful way to lead people somewhere else’. Zable noted that more…
Here Are 5 Elements of Great Storytelling
By Bryan Kramer Snow White. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. All names that are part of the iconic stories we grew up with. Retold countless times through children’s books and Hollywood blockbusters, these tales has become part of our collective psyche for generations. And yet, what do these well-known fairytales have to do with marketing? As it…
For an Effective Content Strategy, Context is Key
Online content marketing is no longer an option for your small business, it’s a necessity. Your prospective customers are spending their time looking for answers. They’re asking for recommendations through search and social media. If you’re business isn’t there when they’re looking, you are missing opportunities without even knowing it. Unfortunately, the world of online…
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