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Developing the Brand Storytelling Plan

Developing the Brand Storytelling Plan | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

“Storytelling.” It’s the flavor of the day, whether you’re talking about content marketing, visual communications or public relations, and for good reason. Stories are how humans communicate – with each other individually, across populations and over centuries.

In fact, many organizations are pretty good at identifying and defining their key story lines. The key to success in brand storytelling is in the next step – the strategic deployment of the story. Telling the brand story effectively requires a plan.

And to be clear, we’re not talking about hanging a touchy-feely post up on the blog and then calling it a day.  No.  Brand storytelling, in this context, means developing a sustained plan to create and execute a strategic approach to telling the brand story, in a way that supports company’s objectives.  Personally, I don’t give a hoot about impressions.  Let’s gun for something a bit more meaningful....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Sarah Skerik offers valuable tips on how to develop your brand storytelling plan.

Bilawal Sher SEO Masters's curator insight, February 10, 2015 10:39 PM

nice

rodrick rajive lal's curator insight, February 11, 2015 1:21 AM

Storytelling is definitely the flavour of the day, not just for content marketers, but also for educators and learners alike! Stories are about making emotive connections, they are about being human and not cyborgs! Making connections is also about being able to "communicate with each other," as the article states, and it is about appreciating another's point of view!

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Don't Confuse Real-Time Marketing with

Don't Confuse Real-Time Marketing with | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Many brands jumped into the real-time marketing fray with the Royals’ latest addition to the family on Monday.

This effort wasn’t as effective as what took place during the Super Bowl blackout for a reason I’ll get into in a minute.

Still, I don’t think the Mashable headline, “Brands, Try, Fail to Capitalize on Royal Baby Hype” quite captures the situation. After all, the Oreo Cookie tweet triggered more than 800 retweets and more than 300 favorites, not exactly chopped liver (no charge Nabisco for the cookie filling idea).

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Brand Storytelling Is Not Enough

Brand Storytelling Is Not Enough | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

...But while brand storytelling may be dominating the trade conference stages, it’s not enough on its own for brands aiming to add meaningful value to their customers over the long term.


Strategies for Retention: Own Every Consumer Touch Point


Most content marketers know this particular statistic: 70 percent of consumers prefer getting to know a company via content over ads. To deliver this type of lasting, comprehensive value to their audiences, brands must build their content strategy around three core areas of focus:

Foundational content

Engagement content

Social content...

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Here's why you need different types of content to reach different types of audiences with your brand storytelling.

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Crash Course in Content Marketing: 12 Lessons From a Brand Publisher | Business 2 Community

Crash Course in Content Marketing: 12 Lessons From a Brand Publisher | Business 2 Community | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it
Drinking From the Content Marketing Fire Hose

As we launched the site, the iQ team started to work with a team of journalists and editorial partners, conducted editorial meetings and worked closely with the Intel social media team to amplify and extend iQ content. Before we knew it, we were beginning to operate a newsroom, managing a robust content machine and starting to see our goals for iQ come to fruition.

 

By end of 2012, iQ was emerging as an essential asset to Intel’s marketing and social media strategy. Although satisfied with the early success of iQ, we knew there were many improvements to be made. In January 2013, iQ version 1 (the current site) was released. Several new changes and strategies were implemented from our learnings since the BETA launch. So what have I learned about content marketing in the last 11 months? I’ve distilled the 12 core lessons for brand publishers organized by the tenets of the iQ content marketing approach; production, process and promotion....

 

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Excellent content marketing case study and tips from Intel's Luke Kintigh.

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