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An editor once told me, “Jen, you gotta show more than you tell in your writing.”
It’s a tip I wish he’d share with content marketers, too.
A lot of the content marketing you read these days consists of companies telling and telling and telling… all about themselves, all in exactly the same way.
And, a lot of the posts you read about content marketing are the same way.
I aim to change that, right here and now.
This post started out as a mess – which is fitting, since that’s where a lot of stories begin.
I had gathered together a host of salient thoughts, deep quotes and pity insights. But, none of them fit together or made any sense — kind of like two boxes of puzzles had been mixed together and then stuck back on the shelf.
It’s a problem entrepreneurs run into when we’re crafting our brand stories, too.
We’ve got an elevator pitch here, a testimonial over there, and maybe a compelling anecdote in our back pocket. So, we stitch all those ideas together, call it “our story” and start sharing it with the world.
