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Content Marketing Gives Customers a Reason to Believe | AT&T Networking Exchange Blog

Content Marketing Gives Customers a Reason to Believe | AT&T Networking Exchange Blog | Public Relations & Social Media Insight | Scoop.it
How do you build an effective content strategy?

 

“People don’t buy what you do; people buy why you do it,” according to author Simon Sinek. The best brands give customers reasons to care about them. Unless your brand can climb into your prospect’s consideration set, that prospect will not seriously consider your brand for purchase. The earlier you reach your prospect in the customer decision journey, the better chance you have to make the sale. The secret may well lie in the power of content marketing.

 

What is content marketing?

Let’s start with my definition of marketing, which I describe as the process by which a firm profitably translates customer needs into revenue. So, what is content marketing? I believe it is the creation and application of all marketing content formats across relevant touch points where your brand “touches” customers. Armed with a good understanding of the media consumption habits of your audience, a marketer’s goal is to use content marketing to help meet the informational needs of your audience while achieving the revenue goals of your company....

 

[Content marketing basics ~ Jeff]

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Offline Storytelling for Online Scanners -- How to share stories on the Internet

Offline Storytelling for Online Scanners -- How to share stories on the Internet | Public Relations & Social Media Insight | Scoop.it

Are you a headlines person? You know, the kind who reads the first few chapters of business books on Google and then move onto the next? Are you probably going to scan through this post for bolded phrases and numbered lists and then retweet it before really digging into the details?

 

What an interesting take on sharing stories on the Internet! I just love this new twist, and the ideas shared here for creating content. And with valuable points to take to heart.

 

The premis of this article is that many people will simply scan the content you create for your blog, website, social media posts, etc. Yet storytelling requires reading, not scanning.

 

So what's a person to do? Follow the advice here! Make your stories scannable, also. Seems like an oxymoron and there are times when it might not work. But then there will be times when you can follow the advice here and still have your stories be effective.

 

How do you do that? This author suggests saying the same things lots of times but in different ways, and using visual shortcuts.

 

Read the article to understand her points and think about what you might want to do.

 

Then share with me what your next steps are. I'd love to hear them!

 

Link to original article: 

http://www.bigspaceship.com/2012/07/offline-storytelling-for-online-scanners/ ;

 

This review was written by Karen Dietz for her curated content on business storytelling at www.scoop.it/t/just-story-it ;


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Content as Conversation | Using Stories & Story Elements

Content as Conversation | Using Stories & Story Elements | Public Relations & Social Media Insight | Scoop.it

Every use of your website is a conversation started by a site visitor. Think about it: why do people come to your site or app?

 

If you read my review and article on this same page ("Forget About Content Management...") about moving away from content management systems to developing audience development systems, then this article explains more about how to do that. Yeah!

 

I really like the specific examples and concrete steps laid out in this post. It all makes sense to me!

 

Once again, while never mentioning storytelling per se, the article is all about using stories and story elements to generate conversations and engagement with customers/prospects. Like: converse with personal prounouns, invoke action using verbs, and write visually. Sounds like storytelling to me.

 

So go grab this article and its tips so you can continue developing audiences and engagement to build business success.

 

Review written by Karen Dietz for her curated content on business storytelling at www.scoop.it/t/just-story-it ;


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Karen Dietz's comment, June 6, 2012 5:26 PM
Thanks Jeff! Have fun today :)