How to Find + Tell Awesome Customer Stories
Want to grow your business? Then share your customer stories. Yet one of the greatest difficulties entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and large corporations have is collecting their customer stories. Not only do many organizations resist talking with their customers (I might hear something I don’t like), it requires time and feels complicated to actually get done. But…
5 Ways to Please Your CMO Using This One Easy Trick
That title got your attention didn’t it? Such as the state of the Internet these days. Content marketing, having exploded in the way that it has over the past few months, has contributed to a robotic methodology of writing blog posts much like this one. Blog posts champion the importance of giving a numerical amount…
The Power of Emotions, B2B Marketing And Your Business
Storytelling provides the emotional aspect to B2B marketing that stands one company apart from another. My article for this week pulls a nugget or two from several, perhaps not obviously linked articles, hopefully paving a path from one to the other where it may not be so obvious reading each article individually. The New Buyer…
Great Visual Storytelling Tools to Make Your Content Go Viral
In my last article we talked all about visual storytelling — why it’s important for your business, how to think about it so it will work for you, and then I shared examples of companies doing visual storytelling really well — and being successful as a result. Yahoo! At the end, I promised that my…
Red Bull’s Branding Lessons: We Are All Media Companies Now
BANG Branding Changed Figuring out why branding changed is moot. Understanding HOW branding has changed is important. Brands used to create aspirations for customers as this 1958 Tide commercial demonstrates: Flash forward to this video from Red Bull TV: What happened? A: The web, Smart Phones, We Changed, Branding Changed. There isn’t ONE thing moving…
Here’s How To Find The Story In Your Data
This is the introduction to what will be a sporadic series on Data Story in Social Media. Over time, individual aspects will be delved into in greater detail. When discussing anything about Data Story, it’s important to start from the very beginning. Telling stories through Data can mean different things to different people. This…
Millennials, You are Your Brand
“What do you believe in?”, a fellow networker asked me at The Art of Active Networking in San Francisco. Confused, I gazed ahead, nursing my alcoholic drink while wondering what he exactly meant. A lot of people at networking events liked asking me what I did for a living, but few cared what I believed…
Use Social Context To Connect
Is it just me (and my timelines), or is everyone suddenly talking about the unignorable power of social context? I often see patterns emerging across all my information feeds, from thousands of sources in my realms of culture, media and publishing, technology, marketing, entrepreneurship and leadership. What bubbles to the surface across multiple fields is…
5 Reasons You Don’t Need to Be on Every Social Network
What if I told you that you didn’t need to have your business on Facebook? Most companies would freak out over this. It’s understandable too, because Facebook has over a billion users and is one of the largest social networks out there. But like anything, just because there is a crowd rushing to adopt something,…
Want impact? Create Your Brand Story.
When blogging and curating, sharing your relevant and inspiring stories keeps you at the top. Over time, this generates your distinctive brand narrative. Your distinctive brand narrative is your unique voice in the world. It is how you distinguish yourself from others. Your brand narrative helps mold and shape not only how you conduct your…
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