Marketing is sometimes perceived as deceitful or manipulative, with a goal to make us buying things that we don’t really need or at unfairly high prices. It may also be viewed in an oversimplified manner, as “common sense” and “creative thinking”, limited to promotional activities and advertisement. On this site I will focus on positive aspects of marketing - changing the world for the better, establishing new trends, providing great customer service, engaging and creating shared value, corporate social responsibility and sustainability. I will also tell you how successful marketing strategies are rooted in understanding human psychology.
We are excited to announce the release of Positive Spin, a digital educational tool that uses the power of personal stories and video to raise awareness about the HIV care continuum and to encourage people living with HIV to get into treatment. The AIDS.gov team worked with our Federal colleagues, healthcare professionals, people living with...
"The Golden Age of Web Video" presents 40000 years of storytelling history in four minutes. From the first cave paintings to the latest viral video on smartphones, storytelling is in our human...
Have you ever noticed how fast food companies all seem to make use of the same basic color palette? The industry is dominated by red and yellow, and the few brands that don’t use those colors make use of orange, pink, and other warm, bright colors.
Consumers online behaviour has changed. They make split-second decisions based on visual content. Here are the 10 new rules of visual content marketing
The law of credibility states that your customers must be willing to stand by your brand by publicly aligning themselves with it. In layman terms, if your customers are posting images and sharing their experiences, they should be linking back to you or tagging you in their social media updates.
Want to understand your audience, where they are talking, and what they're interested in? We show you how, and much more in these content marketing tips
A few months ago, I wrote an article about storytelling’s newfound renaissance. It seems to me that the term “storytelling” gets thrown around in marketing departments without much thought to what it ...
by Kimberly Nevala Here’s the conundrum. Our ability to influence change is proportional to our ability to alter people’s perceptions and motivate action. Generally, doing so requires evidence. But our ability to provide convincing evidence is, paradoxically, often stymied by the inscrutable analytic methods which generate that evidence. Not to mention the nature of the…Read more →
The New York Times is a 150 years old. So you don't expect it to be a content marketing pioneer. Here are lessons from a leaked report that may surprise you.
Frank Toskan tends to shy away from the media and rarely boasts about his success, even though he was responsible for opening some 300 MAC Cosmetics stores worldwide in just 15 years.
Storytelling as a content marketing strategy certainly made its mark in 2014 as the pharma industry recognized the need for simpler, more interesting ways of engaging with customers. This trend is set to continue, with Blue Latitude, the strategic marketing consultancy, ranking storytelling as one of the top seven predicted trends in pharma marketing for 2015. We explore why storytelling can be such a powerful marketing tool for gaining the attention of key stakeholders within healthcare.
How do you redefine a brand after 25 years? American Dance Institute confronted this to give fresh new meaning to their brand. They found the Untold Story.
One of my favorite shows is House Of Cards. And in my excitement for last year's Content Marketing World, I answered WTF does Kevin Spacey Know About Conte
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