Storytelling Through Packaging: How to Tell Your Brand Story

What’s more important; the product or the packaging? Tell your brand story in a totally unique way. When you envisage storytelling, you’ll think of words on a screen or pictures on a page. It may be fictional or anecdotal, but either way, it’s a process. It’s a way of expressing how different events unfold and…

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CMOs: Are You Torn Between Storytelling and Driving Growth?

A new study from the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council and Deloitte, surveying close to 200 chief marketers worldwide, revealed many CMOs are still focused on the traditional storytelling aspect of their position and are less comfortable with aspects associated with driving growth, including acting as revenue science practitioners and customer experience architects. According to…

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The Case Against Storytelling in Content Marketing

My industry colleague and friend, Douglas Karr, inspired me to take on this topic. It’s been a subject of conversation I’ve had for a number of years at conferences and industry events. He poignantly points out, “That Not Every Content Strategy Needs a Story” and I wholeheartedly agree with him. He makes a very poignant case…

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5 Steps to a Compelling Story for Business Proposals

If you are proposing a merger or acquisition, or simply seeking an investor for your business, the process is the same. You have to put together a convincing story of a win-win opportunity for both sides. This may seem intuitively obvious, but as an angel investor, I have heard hundreds of new business pitches that…

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4 Powerful Ways to Use the Art of Storytelling

I was in the middle of my presentation. Before me was a stadium full of people I barely knew. Then something happened. It is what all speakers dread. My slides disappeared from the big screen behind me. Gone……. And they never came back. It was a moment that all speakers hope will never happen. But…

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How to Write Your Brand Story from the Heart

It’s called a brand story but all it really is a shorthand way of describing the most important parts of your business. A brand story just means what inspired you to set up your business, why it exists in the world and what real problem it solves for your customers. People buy from people. And people…

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5 Ways Media Consumption is Shaping Future Marketing Trends

The digital age has sparked new opportunities for marketing departments to reach their target audience. The ever-growing rate of innovation has extended the list of channels the average person goes through for their daily media consumption. The era of newspapers and TV is slowly fading into the background of mobile and online streaming, along with…

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