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5 Proven Ecommerce Growth Strategies ($0 to $100 Million)

Backlinko

Build a Strong Brand Through Storytelling When we consume 6 hours of content daily , attention is the most valuable currency in business. Storytelling is how you earn it. But brand storytelling isn’t just for founder-led content. It built a storytelling engine that helped customers see themselves in the products.

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A Product Storytelling Framework from an Unlikely Seasonal Source

Contently

Or maybe you know the words to the song that plays on loop in elevators and in retailers from Thanksgiving to New Year’s. Montgomery Ward exists today only as an online retailer. (It Product Storytelling Framework. So why do I say the Rudolph story is a perfect product storytelling framework for all of us today?

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6 Psychological Techniques to Help You Write Great Social Media Hooks

Buffer

Just take a look at any TikTok trend—like the feta cheese pasta recipe that caused demand for feta cheese to spike so high that retailers couldn’t keep it stocked. There are plenty of storytelling formulas you can lean into to get your point across.  Like asking them to share a story.

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How Content Can Ring Up a Better Retail Experience

Content Marketing Institute

That’s just one of the many retail marketing takeaways to learn from the success of one of retail’s most powerful forces of nature: Amazon. 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. Retail content is a mixed (shopping) bag.

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No Lies: How to Get Content Marketing Right in E-Commerce

Content Marketing Institute

E-commerce retailers can change up this dynamic – and you can stand out from your online competitors – by investing in interactive content. Lifestyle storytelling. To incorporate more storytelling: Interview and spotlight extraordinary people who embody the kind of person your product helps your consumers become. Closing advice.

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Where Do the Stories Come From?

Jane Friedman

I happen to believe that every person on earth is a storyteller. For example, books about entrepreneurship that only profile venture-backed tech businesses may not not land with aspiring entrepreneurs in retail or service businesses. We are all trying to understand the story of our lives.

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Tropes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Jane Friedman

Tropes have developed from storytelling patterns appreciated by readers and writers alike. Because they recognize the storytelling patterns and elements that they like and are comforted by knowing how the story will progress. If you think about it, you likely have favorite tropes that draw you in, whether consciously (e.g.,