It’s tempting to look at pop culture for insight into the zeitgeist, and it’s hard to look at pop culture without seeing a lot of Zombies. This may well not be a coincidence.
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In fact, the title makes often the difference if I read or not an article. We have so many sources of information that it has become impossible to read them all. That's why I think that this post is an important article that you should read too. [note Martin Gysler]
How you title your stories as you create your content, blogs, marketing materials and the like is critically important in order to get people to read your material. This post from fellow curator Martin Gysler helps us a lot in crafting compelling titles that promote readability and shareability. Thanks Martin for the article and your review below!
The 80/20 Value of Titles
In my opinion, the elements of writing click worthy titles deserve more attention. In the wonderful marketing book "Made To Stick", the Heath brothers note that any good news or editorial writer may spend 80% of their time crafting the title (or "lead") and then whatever time they have left on the body of the content.
For those familiar with 80/20, what this means is, the size of the title compared to the actual content (and time spent crafting it) disproportionately affects the success of that content. It's one small piece of text with a lot power!
Read more: http://mz.cm/Aeh2Sq Via Martin Gysler Delete the scoop?
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This article by Alan Snitow goes right along with the other article I curated today on Anthrocapitalism.
Here Snitow talks about the massive shifts in consumer attitudes/behaviors that are creating shifts in marketing and branding.
The author suggests that one of these huge shifts is away from 'aspiration' marketing, where consumers aspire to buy their way into a better life, to 'inspiration' marketing. Inspiration marketing is focused less on what companies can give, and more on what consumers themselves can achieve. In other words, making customers the hero of the story.
But there is more here to the discussion and I encourage you to read the article. It's not that long and makes great points.
Even better, Snitow shares short videos of companies who have moved from aspirational to inspirational marketing. Perhaps this is what your business needs to do.
And once again, I wonder about the influence of storytelling. Of course stories fit exceedingly well into inspirational marketing.
Yet how much has the awareness, education in, and experiences with stories shaping the conversation and this movement? Maybe it is more of a chicken-and-egg syndrome.
In any event, I find it fascinating that this article and the one on anthrocapitalism show up on the same day but from different sources. And on the same day I received an email newsletter talking about how businesses are now in a post-Demming-process era and now in the era of valueing people in business. And the business was re-defining all of its work to meet this new direction.
Well, certainly these discussions about the value of people over profits in business have been around for years. Only time will tell if trend watchers are actually seeing shifts that will stick, or if we are all just spitting into the wind again.
How will you show up in 2013? Your thoughts?
This review was written by Karen Dietz for her curated content on business storytelling atwww.scoop.it/t/just-story-it