Category Archives: Storytelling

Gen AI Powers Content Marketing Advantage for Early Adopters

Deloitte Digital’s new research on Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) in marketing content production reveals that Gen AI is already reshaping content production giving brands an advantage.

See the research that should compel you to collaborate with a forward leaning Gen AI content marketer.

See More [R. Michael Brown Marketing & Communications Consulting]

Why You Don’t Like A Recording of Your Own Voice

Speaker Rébecca Kleinberger. Researcher from MIT Media Lab

Your voice is indistinguishable from how other people see you, but your relationship with it is far from obvious.

Rébecca Kleinberger studies how we use and understand our voices and the voices of others. She explains why you may not like the sound of your own voice on recordings and the extraordinary things you communicate without being aware of it.

Top 5 Ways to Crush Your Marketing Goals - And Competition by Consultant R. Michael Brown

Top 5 Ways to Crush Your Marketing Goals – And Competition

Business is getting tight! Here are the top 5 marketing and communications moves that your company should make for the rest of 2023 into 2024 to crush your competition during this slowdown.

#InfluencerMarketing
#VoiceSearch
#Personalization
#VideoMarketing
#AI

See More [R. Michael Brown Consulting]

Business Idea? 4 Tips to Make it Successful

Build Your Brand – 1 min.

The first work day of 2023 is today for most and many are setting goals for the year.

Start strong! Your goals and ideas will always work better when you collaborate with top performers. Think about all of your past successes. Did you do it alone? Probably not. Build your brand! Here are tips to help you do that: Design, Content, Marketing Strategy, Reliable Team

See More [R. Michael Brown Tips]

Are you on Goodreads?

Are you on ⁦‪@goodreads‬⁩? Avid reader? What type of books do you read? Let’s connect on Goodreads!

#books #reading #readinglife #writer #writinglife #bookworm #fiction #novels #reader

www.goodreads.com/user/show/19996447

Brand Storytelling LinkedIn Group Reaches 8,000 Members

By R. Michael Brown

Sound ON!

Congratulations for topping 8,000 members today in the #BrandStorytelling #LinkedIn Group I founded.

Brand Storytelling and Journalism in a hot topic now for public relations and marketing.

Join us! [LinkedIn Group: Brand Storytelling & Journalism]

BrandJournalism #CorporateCommunications #PublicRelations #marketing #MarketingCommunication

How to Tap Into Emotions and Boost Your Content Marketing

Making a purchase is 85% emotional and 15% logical – this article breaks down how you can use content marketing to tap into your customers’ emotions.

Emotions are an integral part of our everyday life. So if you have chosen the work as a content marketer you need to know how to discover these emotions, and uncover their raw ingredients. Embrace them, dig deeper and offer a way out the other side.

We are always trying to understand why some content goes viral and rises to the top – and some flops. Up until now we have focused on the content itself – optimizing it for search and sharing, then desperately hoping it will get some attention.

But what about your readers’ emotional needs? The sense of belonging, ego, self-expression and obligation. There are ways to “tap” into these emotions and they should be a part of every content marketing strategy.

You have about 2 seconds to get people’s attention – that’s your first couple of sentences. My hope, for example, is that you were drawn in by my first sentence and lured down the page. Now, the rest of my job is to engage you, to continue to feed your emotions, and move you along in two ways:

  1. If the goal is increased brand awareness, relationship building, and sharing of valuable and practical information, then I am looking to compel and engage the emotions of my readers to the extent that they will want to share.
  2. If the goal is moving the visitor into the next phase toward a purchase, I will be using sales psychology and neuroscience to stimulate the emotional responses necessary to achieve certain actions (solving his/her problem or relieving the pain through purchasing the product or service I am selling).

— Read on www.jeffbullas.com/tap-emotions-boost-content-marketing/

James Patterson’s Writing Started as a Side Hustle — Now He’s One of the World’s Highest Paid Authors

James Patterson at play in his home in the Town of Palm Beach, Florida
James Patterson at home in the Town of Palm Beach, Florida

By Jade Scipioni

At 73, James Patterson has sold more than 425 million copies of his 200 novels globally, making him one of the highest paid authors in the world.

Patterson had annual earnings topping more than $80 million between June 2019 to June 2020 and sold nearly 5 million in books in the U.S. during that time, according to Forbes.

In July, Patterson signed a multi-project deal with Amazon’s Audible for an undisclosed amount, with his first Audible Original, “The Coldest Case” out Thursday.

“I do not work for a living, I play for a living. I love doing it,” Patterson tells CNBC Make It.

But Patterson’s road to success didn’t happen overnight. He started writing as a side hustle and he faced a lot of rejection before getting his first book published.

See More [CNBC]