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4 Secrets of Great Storytellers

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Great storytellers come from all sorts of places. Great storytellers come from all sorts of places, says @EditorStahl. storytelling Click To Tweet. Let’s take a look at the secrets to their storytelling success. Great storytellers collaborate. Great storytellers know who they want to enchant. But that’s OK.

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Is Your Marketing Ready for 2018?

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After you put away the champagne flutes and flip the calendar to 2018, what will you set your sights on to take your marketing to the next level in the new year? What’s new for 2018 is that you need to make smarter use of images and video. Here’s to a 2018 that’s uncomfortable in all the best ways! What has 2017 taught you?

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Go Behind the Scenes of Coca-Cola’s Storytelling

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Kate Santore took the stage at Content Marketing World to share Coca-Cola’s storytelling ethos – and in the process inspired marketers to ask, “What if?”. Santore: We begin every brief with a storytelling thought-starter question “what if?” CocaCola begins every creative brief w/ a #storytelling thought-starter question: What if?

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Video Storytelling Secrets From an Award-Winning Series

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Now, Simon delves deeper into how you can translate what Visa and Click2View learned about video into your own visual storytelling. Simon and his colleagues recommend considering the following factors when casting real people (not influencers) in any factual video-based storytelling: Look at authenticity, not reach.

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Buyer’s Guide to the Best Content Marketing Books of 2018

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During 2018, authors and publishers created some of the most helpful and sophisticated content marketing books. Books published in 2018 tended to have better designed covers and short, punchy titles coupled with longer subtitles that described the benefits to readers. Make Blue Ocean Shift the first step in reinvention. Joey Coleman.

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How to Unite Brand Storytelling and Marketing Tech

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“My media relations team built our first bot,” says Heather Whaling, CEO and founder of Geben Communication, who presented Acting Like Technologists to Improve Content Strategy at the 2018 Intelligent Content Conference. “If But at the end of the day, content marketing is storytelling ,” Heather says. “We 4-7 in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Brands Often Overlook This Superhero of Storytelling

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DarrenSanch #storytelling Click To Tweet. But they’re missing the point, which is: There is a richness to this type of visual storytelling that transcends cultures and time and can really get that call to action that you’re looking for.”. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 4 Secrets of Great Storytellers. storytelling Click To Tweet.