Tag Archive: stories

Content Marketing: Stories are Key

Tweet If you want your content marketing messages to be remembered, you must engage the emotional memories of your readers. Memory formation happens in two ways: 1.  You say or do something that makes an emotional connection. 2.  Something happens that closely resembles a previously established emotional connection. What results is a neural network of associations that get triggered by a hot-button…

Business Blog Writing and Content Marketing:
Come on, light my fire!

Tweet Why is content marketing and persuasion so difficult, and what can you do to set people on fire? When it comes to writing content for a business blog, most professionals start from their point of view. Of course, who wouldn’t? “We’ve got a state-of-the-art 128-bit secure site, offering the best rates on the Web.”…

Content Marketing from the Inside Out

Tweet In your opinion, what’s the single biggest factor that builds credibility and trust in content marketing? To me, it’s personality. Readers and viewers want to feel a human connection. They need personal stories about people and about you. It doesn’t matter what form the stories come in. We’ve come a long way from the…

Content Marketing with Stories: Why We Tell Lies…

Tweet Telling stories is a fundamental part of good content marketing. Stories have so much marketing clout, they make it possible for little businesses to compete with the big guys. Since stories are fundamental to the way our brains work, why don’t we tell more stories? Why doesn’t every piece of online content we write…

Content Marketing Tips: Get Your Stories Straight

Tweet Good content marketing requires good storytelling. Fortunately, the human brain is a story-creating machine. In our lives, we take whatever happens and impose logic and chronology upon it. Consider these common phrases: Everything happens for a reason One door closes and another one opens More will be revealed Things happen in threes People have…

Content Marketing with Stories: Better than Facts

Tweet Good stories are what make a blog interesting and fun to read. More importantly, if you’re trying to influence people to buy into your ideas and ultimately your business, there is evidence that stories work better than facts. A 2007 study by Jennifer Edson Escalas, a marketing researcher at Vanderbilt University, found that people…

Content Marketing Matters: What’s Your Brand Personality?

Tweet What are two key elements to creating content that get results? I stumbled across an interesting quote on a site that gets to the heart of content marketing matters: “Evolution tends to favor action over thinking.  That hasn’t changed.  Emotion controls the mind as it did when humans first came on the scene. “People…

Working at Home: Desperate House Bloggers

Tweet Some days I feel scattered, like maybe I’ve got a bad case of Attention Deficit Disorder. Or, maybe my brain isn’t aging well. Here’s what happened yesterday and how it all worked out. It’s not that I forget things, although that happens too, but it’s more like I remember too much, all at once,…