Posts by Ashley Myers
Pharmaceutical Brand Worldbuilding
https://storysoft.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/pharma-brand-worldbuilding-1.mp3 As a pharmaceutical marketer, instilling trust in HCPs and patients is vital. Trust in a pharma brand’s data and claims opens the door to increased engagement. One method other industries have been using to successfully forge trusting relationships with customers is brand worldbuilding. Let’s step back for a moment and briefly discuss what worldbuilding…
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The Art of Persuasion Marketing
https://storysoft.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/persuasion-marketing-1.mp3 Persuasion marketing cuts to your core. It targets one’s deepest, often innate desires or fears. In Storynomics, a marketing book written by Robert McKee and Thomas Gerace, they write of “touch[ing] people’s basic, unchanging instincts” to persuade them to buy your product. (Storynomics, Page 25) To successfully implement persuasion marketing techniques, you need to…
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2023’s Super Bowl Commercials Leverage Celebrity and Nostalgia
https://storysoft.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/superbowl-commercials-1.mp3 Super Bowl Sunday is for two types of people: the ones there for football and the ones there for the halftime show and commercials. Residing in the latter camp, I thought we could take a look at some of the more compelling Super Bowl commercials of the night, from T-Mobile’s goofy ode to Grease…
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Dexcom’s 2023 Super Bowl Ad: Normalizing Medical Devices
https://storysoft.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/dexcom-1.mp3 The Super Bowl brought us its usual abundance of star-studded commercials on Sunday, Dexcom standing out with an ad for its new continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system, featuring pop sensation Nick Jonas. The ad might not have millions of YouTube views like those sponsored by brands such as Pepsi and T-Mobile, but 160K is…
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Conversational Marketing: Meet Customers at a Human Level
https://storysoft.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/conversational-marketing-1.mp3 The personalization of marketing has become a priority across industries, and with good reason. McKinsey’s Next in Personalization Report revealed that 71% of consumers expect personalization. To expect personalization is to expect humanization. And what’s more human than having a conversation? Here enters conversational marketing. What is conversational marketing? Defined by its creator, tech…
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The Building Blocks of Your Brand World
https://storysoft.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/building-blocks-of-brand-world-1.mp3 More often than not, a story contains multiple stories, like a nesting doll made out of words. Your brand world is built the same way, but instead of stories within stories, you’re looking at worlds within worlds. A note on brand worldbuilding This is the act of creating a branded world for your customers…
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Immersive Brand Worldbuilding
https://storysoft.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/immersive-brand-worldbuilding-1.mp3 Let’s pretend storytelling is a tree for a second. Worldbuilding is one of its most vital roots; without it, the tree would fall. And it isn’t just reserved for fictional pursuits, marketers can leverage brand worldbuilding, too, becoming creative architects. What is worldbuilding? Worldbuilding is as it sounds. It’s the process of creating a…
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STORYSOFT’S UX Laws Guide for Digital Storytelling
Senior UX designer Jon Yablonski compiled a list of UX laws built on the basis of psychology and the trends seen in how humans perceive various aspects of design. In this guide, we’ll define and discuss the same UX laws through the lens of digital storytelling. By putting the UX laws into practice in your…
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Marketing Mavens: Orangetheory Masters Community Marketing
Orangetheory Fitness offers more than killer workouts, it offers community. Boasting nearly a million members, the fitness giant has its customers in the palm of its orange hands. Community marketing is effective because it relies on fostering meaningful connections centered around one’s business, thereby increasing customer loyalty. I can vouch for Orangetheory’s irresistible pull. They…
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