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Explainer Video for Your Business: Do You Really Need It?

Strategy Driven

You need to be a master of storytelling, animation, writing a script, and many more. Diversify Your Marketing Channels. Now that you what an explainer video can do to leverage your marketing strategy. Outsourcing the Video Production Process. Video production isn’t only about learning to use specific software.

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Good Companies Are Storytellers. Great Companies Are Storydoers

Harvard Business Review

Discussions about story and storytelling are pretty fashionable in marketing circles. On the other hand, I''m worried that too many marketers think that telling their story through advertising is enough. Marketing Strategy' I have ambivalent feelings about this.

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10 Insights from the 100 Most Creative People in Business

In the CEO Afterlife

Schectman’s new boutique in Manhattan’s Chelsea district is linked to storytelling. “70% It was Leo who said, “When you reach for the stars , you might not get them, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.”. #79 79 Rachel Shechtman – Founder, Story. Take a pretzel, for example.

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Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business School professor Shelle Santana discusses her case, “Super Bowl Storytelling,” (co-author: Jill Avery), regarding the art of storytelling on the world’s biggest television stage. Much of the advertising purchased during the Super Bowl is about selling corporate brands rather than products.

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Marketing Trends You Should Keep an Eye on in 2020

Strategy Driven

Marketing in 2020 requires students to have a more well-rounded set of skills than ever. While a solid marketing formation is a prerequisite, here are some of the skills that will be expected of marketing professionals: Brand storytelling. Social media management. Data analytics. Serving progressive customers.

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Maintaining a Unified Brand in a Fragmented World

Harvard Business Review

Thus, transbranding is using brands to connect and effectively move between divergent markets. Branding has always been an important part of marketing strategy, since many consumers use brand attributes to determine their purchasing decisions.

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The Brand Benefits of Places Like the Guinness Storehouse

Harvard Business Review

Marketers have long known that stories capture consumers’ attention and they commonly weave storytelling into their marketing messages. We find that brand homes are most effective in combination with other communication and content platforms as part of a holistic marketing strategy. Start in the heart.

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