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Build Your Brand With Effective Storytelling

The Hoyt Organization

How can you make sure your brand stands out in a sea of competition? The answer lies in the power of storytelling. Effective storytelling is about creating a compelling narrative that connects your brand with its audience on an emotional level. Such a connection easily turns audiences into brand evangelists.

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What content works–what what doesn’t–for executives on LinkedIn?

Communications Conversations

In case you haven’t noticed, executive participation on LinkedIn has been way up during COVID. In fact, many leaders have turned to LinkedIn as a key channel for reaching customers, prospects, and employees during the pandemic. I’ve never seen any hard data from LinkedIn, or any other outfit, around this yet.

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Storytelling is the Essence of Brand Development; Off Script No. 44: Jeffrey Crow

Sword and the Script

Can a good story create value for a brand? While I look for my next gig, I’m doing some consulting for a range of different companies helping to set their brand strategy and developing plans for them to attack their respective markets. From your perspective what is storytelling? . If there’s no story, there’s no brand.

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Once Upon a Time …: The Art of Storytelling

Waxing UnLyrical

The art of storytelling is rooted in the origins of every society. As far back as history can reach, humans have used storytelling to teach the next generation, to connect with others, to protect their culture and much, much more. Is your brand a non-profit looking for funds? Provide opportunity for a happy ending.

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3 Surprising Things People Want From Branded Content

Contently - Strategy

Here’s something that might surprise you: branded content is now a part of 80 percent of consumers’ lives. Earlier this year, we surveyed 1,072 Americans about what they want from branded content. Brands need to up their meme game (and spend more time on simple, visual content in general). Right now, not really!

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Rock Your Personal Branding With LinkedIn Long-Form Posts

Rock the Status Quo

The growing interest in storytelling requires skilled writing abilities, too, adding a layer of polish and sophistication to the copy you churn out. Write on your own time to build your personal brand. LinkedIn is perfect for this. Even just one post per month builds your personal brand. You only get this by writing.

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Art and Science: The Three Pillars of Storytelling Mapped to Data

Cision

People who work in the marketing communications field have grappled with a very existential question in recent years: If marketing comms is becoming a more data-driven profession, then what happens to the art of storytelling I’ve cultivated my whole career? The science of data and the art of storytelling shouldn’t be mutually exclusive.