Content Marketing Institute

MAY 22, 2018

Every creative asset you produce needs to be supported by strategic decisions – from crafting ideas into a cohesive message to selecting the content types and distribution formats that let your ideas work their magic. Every creative asset you produce must be supported by strategic #contentmarketing decisions, says @joderama.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 10, 2018

This callout from the second issue of JLL’s Ambitions magazine comes from an interview with Alex Voss, who the magazine calls “the Anthony Bourdain of brand storytelling.” Ambitions Magazine and the Ambitions website launched in October 2017 and became a unified source for the company’s story. Read more >> Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 16, 2018

If your business is thinking about indulging its inner technophile, let these cool content examples from intrepid brands inspire you to swallow the red pill and enter the Matrix-like world of machine-driven storytelling. Give reality a little creative license. Artificial intelligence in many forms. SarahMidMO Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Storytelling through content marketing and audience personas. “We Content driven by performance metrics and creativity. While her team focuses on creating the most effective content driven by performance metrics , as a team leader and content evangelist, Hursh says she and her team make sure to leave room for creativity.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2018

This year, B2B and B2C brands elevated their creativity to inspiring levels. Intercontinental turns lifestyle experts into storytellers for its destinations ( February ). Using stories, interviews, galleries, and guides, Fold explores the process of creativity and showcases work from across the world. Let’s all rock our quirk.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2018

In 2018, content marketers renewed attention to the why’s and how’s of brand storytelling techniques, almost as if storytelling didn’t exist until January 1, 2018. Here are some of the best options published in 2018 (and, in one case, the closing months of 2017). Make Blue Ocean Shift the first step in reinvention.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 27, 2021

Craig Davis , the former Chief Creative Officer at marketing communications firm J. According to HubSpot’s most recent Not Another State of Marketing Report , the top two types of video are promotional and brand storytelling. The average blog post was 808 words in 2014, but was 1142 words in 2017. This will continue.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Video Storytelling Secrets From an Award-Winning Series. Here’s the winery’s parody, Despacito Embotellado (bottling slowly) of Despacito , one of the biggest hit songs of summer 2017. Here’s a compilation of snippets Jordan Winery left out of its official videos in 2017. Yes, toasting the barrels.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2017

What has 2017 taught you? This post touches on some ways, according to 2017 CMWorld and ICC speakers, you might do just that. Data scientist – someone who “can demonstrate the special skills involved in storytelling with [complex] data, whether verbally, visually, or – ideally – both” (definition from Harvard Business Review ).

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 6, 2018

Storytelling is often done in silos at the business unit or market level. PR-friendly stunts have long been award winners at creative and marketing shows such as Cannes Lions and Effies. REI (@REI) November 24, 2017. Next, you need to create naming logic across your portfolio to drive understanding and clarity. Portfolio thread.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

The key phrases behind content-writing robots you’ll see a lot – intelligent narratives, natural language generation (NLG), and automated storytelling technology. WashPost HS Sports (@WashPostHS) September 2, 2017. And what does this technology cost? Now, let’s meet the writing AIs behind three leading publications.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 13, 2018

Its audience has grown rapidly, totaling over 800 million (increasing 200 million between July and September 2017 alone). It hired a team of influencers with highly engaged audiences to showcase the product in creative ways. What can you do to effectively connect your products to your audience? Instagram is a good answer.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 21, 2018

Be creative in what you want them to guess – make it interesting for them so they want to participate. Powerful storytelling shares these four elements: a human hero, a goal, resistance, and truth. Pratik Dholakiya offers a three-act structure to successful storytelling – and the secret sauce, he says, is suspense. Externally.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

You likely already know how important creativity is when it comes to digital marketing. Elements of your marketing strategy that your analytics partner should help on include: PPC – Performance advertising, such as Google or Facebook ads, requires a combination of analytics and creativity.

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Moz

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I’ve often used interactives, surveys, and photographic content, like most people producing story-driven creatives, so I focused on those as my formats for comparison. In 2018, they're being used more often per article than infographics were, even in their prime: Surveys are one of the "smaller" creative campaigns I’ve offered in my career.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 6, 2024

How can you use automation and tools to help you streamline your creative and business processes so you can get back to the writing? In 2016/2017, I was in Austin, Texas, and I went to a bunch of meetings for NaNoWriMo. Especially as creatives, I hear a lot of people say, “I just want to write the book.”

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Moz

MAY 19, 2019

This type of data has always been of interest to marketers doing consumer research, but the rise of data journalism shows us that there is both consumer demand and almost infinite potential for great storytelling rooted in numbers.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

After many years of people saying, “AI can never be creative, AI could never write fiction (i.e. How can we use the tools to achieve our creative purpose in an ethical manner, and understand that we need to curate, edit, and take responsibility for any usage? Do you know how many times Amazon has been ‘flooded’ with spam books?

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

California Closets is a high-end, closet-space-management business rooted in the belief that a well-organized environment – one that’s characterized by quality, impeccable style, and custom functionality – promotes beneficial creativity, relaxation, and focus. Healthcare IT News Australia. Play Magazine. Finalist: Project of the Year).

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In The Creative Group 2017 Salary Guide , the authors explain: Creatives with skills outside their specialty are highly marketable. Storytelling. Don’t hire for 1 skill. Hire people who have skills in complementary areas, says @MicheleLinn. Click To Tweet. Importance of mission / differentiated content.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 21, 2023

Plus, my next book for authors Writing the Shadow: Turn Your Inner Darkness Into Words will be out on Kickstarter in October, sign up for the pre-launch here ; Great examples of creative extras in Sara Rosett's campaign Murder in the Alps ; and I'm on the Travelling Through Podcast on a walk and talk along the canal.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 6, 2017

I’m excited, and I know you’re super-keen to get moving, so these are my top tips for getting your blog in tip top shape for 2017. If you chafe under such restrictions, think it hampers your creativity, or just need a hand getting started, then you might want to check out these posts: Creating a Blog Content Plan for 2017.

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Buffer

JULY 27, 2017

sessions in May 2017. As an established blog, you can run the risk of dropping your standards or hoping that creativity can be scheduled in order to hit a certain number of posts in any given month. — How To Do Keyword Research in 2017  by Ahrefs. million sessions, and struggling to break out, we hit 1.5m

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 30, 2023

Does it help you creatively? So yes, it's funny how we do that, but I do think it helps creatively. I have to devote entire days to one type of work: creative or administrative marketing detail work. The post The Empowerment Of Selling Books Direct To Your Readers With Steve Pieper first appeared on The Creative Penn.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 6, 2017

I’m excited, and I know you’re super-keen to get moving, so these are my top tips for getting your blog in tip top shape for 2017. If you chafe under such restrictions, think it hampers your creativity, or just need a hand getting started, then you might want to check out these posts: Creating a Blog Content Plan for 2017.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 9, 2024

How can you use click testing on Meta to help refine your creative and book marketing ideas? No, Collective Intelligence [Ezra Klein with Holly Herndon]; AI may take our jobs, but not our creativity [ Claire Silver on The TED AI Show ]. Then my action is, okay, it sounds like I just need to work harder to test newer creative.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 19, 2023

Damon: So we launched direct sales in September 2017, so two years after BookFunnel launched. We did launch direct sales two years later, in 2017. The post How Authors Can Use Bookfunnel To Read Readers And Sell Direct With Damon Courtney first appeared on The Creative Penn. Joanna: It was probably me!

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Storytelling. Bloggers to Watch in 2017. 15 Project Ideas to Spark Your Creativity. I’ll link to the latest one of these in the show notes today for 2017. The number four type of post or content that I think does particularly well with evergreen content is storytelling. Storytelling is amazing.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 20, 2018

In mid-2017, NASCAR leaders united the teams and put Evan, who reports to NASCAR CMO Jill Gregory, in the driver’s seat. Creative design for all of NASCAR, including licensing, event signage, executive presentations, and more. The 40-person team handles: Social media. Digital media (including all content for NASCAR.com).

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Here are 15 of the most intriguing as she shared them in 2017. Starbucks inspires with multichannel Upstander series ( February 2017 ). HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Documentary Storytelling: 6 Examples From Brands That Nail It. Metropolitan Museum of Art creates extension for Chrome ( February 2017 ).

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2017

As with any content effort, your video-based storytelling needs to be supported by a deliberate, strategic plan. According to REI’s Managing Editor Paolo Mottola (2017 Content Marketer of the Year), this base has helped his team provide a consistent audience experience, no matter what stories they decide to tell at a given time.@REI

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Neil Patel

APRIL 1, 2021

In 2017, CryptoKitties , a blend between Tamagotchi and trading cards, exploded onto the scene. They are so versatile, they can be used to represent other forms of creative work like virtual real estate, virtual worlds, fashion, and much more. Because each NFT is unique, it cannot be traded or exchanged at equivalency with another NFT.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 27, 2024

While mastering the craft of fantastical storytelling, Adam simultaneously embraces the rewarding challenges of family life as well as being an authorpreneur. Adam: Well, I started writing around 2017. You've got to be creative. Adam Beswick goes into his strategies. Adam: Hi there. Thanks for having me.

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Content Marketing Institute

JULY 11, 2018

In fact, the retail landscape is so rich with opportunities that all you may need is the right content experience – and a bit of creative ingenuity. The #retail landscape is rich w/ content experiences with the right creative ingenuity, says @joderama. Click To Tweet. Agility, anticipation, and preparation are key. Click To Tweet.

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The Hoth

JANUARY 5, 2023

If your narrative storytelling is strong and your call-to-action is convincing, you stand the greatest chance of boosting conversion rates. . While focusing on newsletters within your niche is a good idea, looking at ones from other industries can spark some creative ideas you may not have thought of otherwise. .

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Not only can it help identify and characterize the unique value your company will provide through its content, it’s also a critical component for governing your storytelling efforts and guiding your decision-making throughout the life of your program. Register by December 31, 2017 for the lowest rates! Brainstorm ideas.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2017

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 16 Visual Storytelling Tips to Give Your Content Marketing a Boost. You just have to be creative about the type of content your community loves to consume. Today I present 12 types of visuals you can use in a blog post. You do not have to use all of them. Data-driven visuals. Flip books.

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