Executives are the Simon Cowell of the business world: impatient, critical, often caustic. But they're also desperately searching for talent. How do you make the right impression? These 5 tips will get you started
Timeless Marketing Wisdom From David OgilvyHubSpot
This document provides timeless marketing advice from David Ogilvy, the Father of Advertising. It shares several of his insightful quotes on topics like writing advertising copy in plain language, testing advertisements, hiring the best people, and aiming for remarkable work. The quotes encourage marketers to write honestly and persuasively, use consumer research, continuously improve through testing, and hire people who are more talented than themselves.
Jenn Lim gave a presentation on happiness as a business model based on her experience as CEO of Zappos. She discussed how Zappos prioritized company culture and customer service to become a successful business. Some key points included that committing to core values like transparency, relationships, and hiring the right team are important. Research shows vision and purpose beyond profits can increase employee engagement and happiness. Jenn hopes to spread these ideas to help more companies and communities prioritize happiness.
Once Upon A Startup: Storytelling and Startup PitchesValerie Esqueda
Once Upon A Startup discusses how storytelling is essential to creating a great startup pitch. Investors connect with founders on an emotional level and make decisions based on whether they like and believe in the person pitching. A good startup story captures the imagination by painting a vision of the future and demonstrates the founder's passion for solving problems through their idea. The story should create conflict and resolution while keeping the audience engaged on an emotional level.
Jenn Lim gave a keynote presentation at the KSF JAACONGRES 2013 conference in Utrecht, Netherlands on November 5th, 2013. She discussed how focusing on company culture and happiness can lead to business success, using her experience as CEO of Zappos to illustrate this. Some of her main points were that defining core values, building meaningful relationships, having a clear vision and purpose, and prioritizing culture above all else are keys to long term sustainable growth. She also shared frameworks and research on what really leads to happiness and how businesses and communities can help spread more happiness in the world.
Four Public Speaking Tips From Standup ComediansRoss Simmonds
How do you give great presentations? How do you captivate an audience? How to you tell a story on a stage? This deck is filled with a handful of insights that answer these questions using inspiration from studying a handful of successful comedians.
What stuttering taught me about running a businessLisa Barone
My 2011 TEDxAlbany presentation about how stuttering taught me to embrace being weird and helped me start a business.
[You can find a video of the presentation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jTjYI_l8cg]
Executives are the Simon Cowell of the business world: impatient, critical, often caustic. But they're also desperately searching for talent. How do you make the right impression? These 5 tips will get you started
Timeless Marketing Wisdom From David OgilvyHubSpot
This document provides timeless marketing advice from David Ogilvy, the Father of Advertising. It shares several of his insightful quotes on topics like writing advertising copy in plain language, testing advertisements, hiring the best people, and aiming for remarkable work. The quotes encourage marketers to write honestly and persuasively, use consumer research, continuously improve through testing, and hire people who are more talented than themselves.
Jenn Lim gave a presentation on happiness as a business model based on her experience as CEO of Zappos. She discussed how Zappos prioritized company culture and customer service to become a successful business. Some key points included that committing to core values like transparency, relationships, and hiring the right team are important. Research shows vision and purpose beyond profits can increase employee engagement and happiness. Jenn hopes to spread these ideas to help more companies and communities prioritize happiness.
Once Upon A Startup: Storytelling and Startup PitchesValerie Esqueda
Once Upon A Startup discusses how storytelling is essential to creating a great startup pitch. Investors connect with founders on an emotional level and make decisions based on whether they like and believe in the person pitching. A good startup story captures the imagination by painting a vision of the future and demonstrates the founder's passion for solving problems through their idea. The story should create conflict and resolution while keeping the audience engaged on an emotional level.
Jenn Lim gave a keynote presentation at the KSF JAACONGRES 2013 conference in Utrecht, Netherlands on November 5th, 2013. She discussed how focusing on company culture and happiness can lead to business success, using her experience as CEO of Zappos to illustrate this. Some of her main points were that defining core values, building meaningful relationships, having a clear vision and purpose, and prioritizing culture above all else are keys to long term sustainable growth. She also shared frameworks and research on what really leads to happiness and how businesses and communities can help spread more happiness in the world.
Four Public Speaking Tips From Standup ComediansRoss Simmonds
How do you give great presentations? How do you captivate an audience? How to you tell a story on a stage? This deck is filled with a handful of insights that answer these questions using inspiration from studying a handful of successful comedians.
What stuttering taught me about running a businessLisa Barone
My 2011 TEDxAlbany presentation about how stuttering taught me to embrace being weird and helped me start a business.
[You can find a video of the presentation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jTjYI_l8cg]
Jenn Lim, CEO of Zappos, discusses how focusing on company culture and employee happiness led to Zappos' success. She explains that Zappos prioritizes hiring for culture, extensive training, and transparency. Their culture book documents values like delivering wow through service and building relationships. Research shows engaged employees lead to higher sales, lower turnover and healthier companies. Jenn encourages adopting these principles by committing to core values, vision, relationships and the right team to build sustainable happiness in work and life.
Saul Colt presents his marketing strategy called "Saul Colt's Marketing Risk" which is based on the board game Risk. It involves identifying target customer segments, building an audience within the first target segment, and then expanding to adjacent segments. The strategy emphasizes focusing intently on the first target through creative marketing ideas and activities. Colt provides several creative marketing examples he used in the past, emphasizing ideas that make people laugh, think, and feel emotion. He stresses the importance of taking risks in marketing through creative ideas and crossing boundaries.
Let's Get Personal: How to Change Your Marketing Approach & Get Noticeddomain .ME
Natasa Djukanovic, Sales & Markering Manager at .ME, presented at NMX 2013 in Las Vegas!
Over the last decade or so, the focus in marketing has shifted from the product to the consumer – almost everything, from sports shoes to M&M’S, is getting a personalized look, feel and flavor. As we each claim our own piece of Internet real estate with our business or blog, it is crucial to capture the attention of readers and customers, and stand out from the crowd.
This evolution in marketing will be presented using the best examples from the industry, along with carefully selected tips and trips to help connect with your target audience in a powerful and personal way. Did we mention there will be pictures of cute animals and food?
Word of Mouth Super Genius "How to create offline WOM"Saul Colt
Saul Colt gave a presentation on creating offline word of mouth marketing. He explained that word of mouth occurs when people share experiences that are so interesting they feel compelled to tell others. To create these experiences, he recommended being creative, looking for connections, playing on emotions, adding questions and conflict, making people feel special, and being interesting yourself. Some key points were executing extraordinary everyday experiences, that failed word of mouth campaigns often go unnoticed, and to give things away for free if wanting people to share.
The document provides tips on using story marketing to grow a business. It discusses developing a personal brand story that follows a hero's journey structure with 5 phases: setup, new situation, progress, complications and higher stakes, and final push. The story should portray the client as the hero to help them take inspiring action. The document also explains how to craft a core marketing story and leverage podcasts to share your story and attract more clients.
The document describes the personal branding story of Jarkko Sjöman. It discusses how he used platforms like SlideShare, LinkedIn, and Twitter to build his personal brand as a "Superman" by sharing compelling content that garnered over 500,000 views. This led to opportunities like becoming a top influencer on SlideShare, public speaker, and personal branding coach. He encourages others to start personal branding by creating their own content and sharing their story.
Does your company sound corporate and boring? If you want to truly connect with people, you want your company to sound like human, not a robot. Here are 10 tips based on a great article by @jaysondemers in Entrepreneur Magazine.
You’ve no doubt noticed that we’re slowly drowning beneath an ocean of content. Before long, our little world of words and pictures will be so flood bound, it’ll make Tuvalu look like Mt Everest.
That creates a huge challenge for communicators. How do you produce the stories that will float to the surface… that will engage and inspire people to belief, action and results?
Thankfully, there’s something working in your favour. You see, almost every business, brand, project or team is loaded with stories that could help and inspire others.
You’ve just got to know how to tell them…
Some useful tips to help you with your branding and marketing, from the godfather of advertising, David Ogilvy. Are you ready to take his advice? Of course you are!
Cambridge research scottsdale jenn lim_delivering happiness_50Delivering Happiness
This document summarizes a presentation given by Jenn Lim on happiness and culture. Some key points:
- Happiness comes from living according to our values and purpose, not from achieving goals or material possessions.
- Zappos succeeded by prioritizing culture and customer service through transparent communication, empowering employees, and hiring for cultural fit.
- Building meaningful relationships and committing to a long-term vision are important for creating sustainable brands focused on happiness.
- Companies that prioritize employee happiness through higher purpose have better retention, engagement, and financial performance.
Making It Sticky: how to effectively Present your Ideasvinamaria
The document discusses how to make ideas stick by keeping them simple, unexpected, concrete, credible, emotional, and telling stories. It suggests focusing on the one best reason instead of many reasons, breaking patterns to surprise audiences, using concrete details and statistics to engage audiences, appealing to emotion by understanding what audiences value, and using stories which are easily remembered. The key to making ideas stick is using principles of simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotion, and storytelling.
Thought leadership and content marketing: how to build a newsroomFINN
http://finnpr.com - The benefits of content marketing, inbound marketing and thought leadership are clear. High quality content is a proven way to increase the reputation of a company, generate leads or drive sales.
It can help establish organization leaders as visionaries in their industry, to increase their influence and it can help your organization to make its point to key stakeholders like politicians, regulators and customers.
Almost any reputational or marketing goal can be (at least partly) achieved through the creation of smart, timely content. Also, content marketing and thought leadership are great for SEO.
Guest blogs and op-eds that we have co-created with experts and leaders have been published in international media like Forbes, Fast Company, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, Inc, Tech.eu, The Next Web, CFO.com and others. Not only are a few of these domains in the top 1000 most visited web properties in the world, they are also reputable sources that can give your SEO a nice kick.
If you’re reading this, however, we will assume that you don’t need to be convinced of the benefits of thought leadership, content marketing or inbound marketing.
You are interested in starting a program yourself, but you just don’t know how to do it. That’s what this presentation is for: to show you exactly how you can set up a robust collaboration between a writer, a thought leader (CEO or expert) and the corporate communication department.
Jenn Lim discusses her passion for happiness and how it led her to her role as CEO of Zappos, where she implemented a culture of happiness. Some key points:
- Happiness is difficult to predict and sustain but is influenced by meaningful relationships, vision, and purpose beyond money or profits.
- At Zappos, culture and core values like delivering wow through service are the top priority and guide hiring, training, and operations.
- Studies show happier employees leads to higher sales, productivity, retention and profits for companies. Zappos experienced these benefits through their culture.
- Jenn hopes to spread these lessons to other companies and communities through her movement called Delivering Happiness. The
This presentation was delivered at UQ's MBA session in March 2015. I look forward to hearing how you implement the principles!
If you'd like more information email jane@jane-anderson.com.au or ph 0401 464 130.
Making Contact "Secrets to Successful Business Networking"sgeorge757
The document discusses networking and personal branding. It emphasizes that word-of-mouth referrals are the biggest referral source and work because the person sharing has nothing to gain personally. It also notes that networking events allow you to mingle and create brand awareness while lead generation groups aim to get specific leads. The document provides tips for networking successfully such as having a plan, connecting with influencers, telling your story memorably, and following up.
Everything I needed to know about marketing I learned playing Dungeons and Dr...Ian Lurie
No, seriously. There are great marketing lessons in the game of Dungeons & Dragons. This is a updated, annotated version of a presentation I've given three times now.
Worksheet: The Social Media Mindset - Tapping into WHY it Matters Chrissanne Long
This document provides a worksheet to help identify an organization or individual's "why" for using social media. It explains that having a clear why provides motivation and inspires others. It gives questions to help assess a personal and business why, such as passions, values, goals, and differentiators. Understanding why is important for developing a social media strategy and mindset around a topic, and maintaining focus through any challenges in implementation. The worksheet recommends identifying a "your one thing," watching a TED talk on starting with why, and engaging on social media with others who share the same passion.
This document provides career advice focused on creating opportunities by developing a personal brand and communicating value. It emphasizes that experience matters less than what one can do, and that standing out requires having a message and point of view supported by expertise, stories, and social proof. The key is demonstrating leadership by being a lifelong learner, applying knowledge in new ways, and showing how one adds value rather than just what was done. Interviews should involve sharing detailed stories and insights about how one will immediately benefit the company.
Above The Code: Early Stage PR for Palestinian StartupsAlan Weinkrantz
The document provides tips for early stage startups on using public relations (PR) strategies to build their brand narrative and connect with potential customers, partners, investors and media. It emphasizes using storytelling over pitches, treating the startup like a media company that creates and shares content, and developing a body of work to demonstrate expertise to media. The speaker believes narrative is a defensible business strategy and that following some basic PR principles can help startups get media coverage and succeed.
Jenn Lim, CEO of Zappos, discusses how focusing on company culture and employee happiness led to Zappos' success. She explains that Zappos prioritizes hiring for culture, extensive training, and transparency. Their culture book documents values like delivering wow through service and building relationships. Research shows engaged employees lead to higher sales, lower turnover and healthier companies. Jenn encourages adopting these principles by committing to core values, vision, relationships and the right team to build sustainable happiness in work and life.
Saul Colt presents his marketing strategy called "Saul Colt's Marketing Risk" which is based on the board game Risk. It involves identifying target customer segments, building an audience within the first target segment, and then expanding to adjacent segments. The strategy emphasizes focusing intently on the first target through creative marketing ideas and activities. Colt provides several creative marketing examples he used in the past, emphasizing ideas that make people laugh, think, and feel emotion. He stresses the importance of taking risks in marketing through creative ideas and crossing boundaries.
Let's Get Personal: How to Change Your Marketing Approach & Get Noticeddomain .ME
Natasa Djukanovic, Sales & Markering Manager at .ME, presented at NMX 2013 in Las Vegas!
Over the last decade or so, the focus in marketing has shifted from the product to the consumer – almost everything, from sports shoes to M&M’S, is getting a personalized look, feel and flavor. As we each claim our own piece of Internet real estate with our business or blog, it is crucial to capture the attention of readers and customers, and stand out from the crowd.
This evolution in marketing will be presented using the best examples from the industry, along with carefully selected tips and trips to help connect with your target audience in a powerful and personal way. Did we mention there will be pictures of cute animals and food?
Word of Mouth Super Genius "How to create offline WOM"Saul Colt
Saul Colt gave a presentation on creating offline word of mouth marketing. He explained that word of mouth occurs when people share experiences that are so interesting they feel compelled to tell others. To create these experiences, he recommended being creative, looking for connections, playing on emotions, adding questions and conflict, making people feel special, and being interesting yourself. Some key points were executing extraordinary everyday experiences, that failed word of mouth campaigns often go unnoticed, and to give things away for free if wanting people to share.
The document provides tips on using story marketing to grow a business. It discusses developing a personal brand story that follows a hero's journey structure with 5 phases: setup, new situation, progress, complications and higher stakes, and final push. The story should portray the client as the hero to help them take inspiring action. The document also explains how to craft a core marketing story and leverage podcasts to share your story and attract more clients.
The document describes the personal branding story of Jarkko Sjöman. It discusses how he used platforms like SlideShare, LinkedIn, and Twitter to build his personal brand as a "Superman" by sharing compelling content that garnered over 500,000 views. This led to opportunities like becoming a top influencer on SlideShare, public speaker, and personal branding coach. He encourages others to start personal branding by creating their own content and sharing their story.
Does your company sound corporate and boring? If you want to truly connect with people, you want your company to sound like human, not a robot. Here are 10 tips based on a great article by @jaysondemers in Entrepreneur Magazine.
You’ve no doubt noticed that we’re slowly drowning beneath an ocean of content. Before long, our little world of words and pictures will be so flood bound, it’ll make Tuvalu look like Mt Everest.
That creates a huge challenge for communicators. How do you produce the stories that will float to the surface… that will engage and inspire people to belief, action and results?
Thankfully, there’s something working in your favour. You see, almost every business, brand, project or team is loaded with stories that could help and inspire others.
You’ve just got to know how to tell them…
Some useful tips to help you with your branding and marketing, from the godfather of advertising, David Ogilvy. Are you ready to take his advice? Of course you are!
Cambridge research scottsdale jenn lim_delivering happiness_50Delivering Happiness
This document summarizes a presentation given by Jenn Lim on happiness and culture. Some key points:
- Happiness comes from living according to our values and purpose, not from achieving goals or material possessions.
- Zappos succeeded by prioritizing culture and customer service through transparent communication, empowering employees, and hiring for cultural fit.
- Building meaningful relationships and committing to a long-term vision are important for creating sustainable brands focused on happiness.
- Companies that prioritize employee happiness through higher purpose have better retention, engagement, and financial performance.
Making It Sticky: how to effectively Present your Ideasvinamaria
The document discusses how to make ideas stick by keeping them simple, unexpected, concrete, credible, emotional, and telling stories. It suggests focusing on the one best reason instead of many reasons, breaking patterns to surprise audiences, using concrete details and statistics to engage audiences, appealing to emotion by understanding what audiences value, and using stories which are easily remembered. The key to making ideas stick is using principles of simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotion, and storytelling.
Thought leadership and content marketing: how to build a newsroomFINN
http://finnpr.com - The benefits of content marketing, inbound marketing and thought leadership are clear. High quality content is a proven way to increase the reputation of a company, generate leads or drive sales.
It can help establish organization leaders as visionaries in their industry, to increase their influence and it can help your organization to make its point to key stakeholders like politicians, regulators and customers.
Almost any reputational or marketing goal can be (at least partly) achieved through the creation of smart, timely content. Also, content marketing and thought leadership are great for SEO.
Guest blogs and op-eds that we have co-created with experts and leaders have been published in international media like Forbes, Fast Company, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, Inc, Tech.eu, The Next Web, CFO.com and others. Not only are a few of these domains in the top 1000 most visited web properties in the world, they are also reputable sources that can give your SEO a nice kick.
If you’re reading this, however, we will assume that you don’t need to be convinced of the benefits of thought leadership, content marketing or inbound marketing.
You are interested in starting a program yourself, but you just don’t know how to do it. That’s what this presentation is for: to show you exactly how you can set up a robust collaboration between a writer, a thought leader (CEO or expert) and the corporate communication department.
Jenn Lim discusses her passion for happiness and how it led her to her role as CEO of Zappos, where she implemented a culture of happiness. Some key points:
- Happiness is difficult to predict and sustain but is influenced by meaningful relationships, vision, and purpose beyond money or profits.
- At Zappos, culture and core values like delivering wow through service are the top priority and guide hiring, training, and operations.
- Studies show happier employees leads to higher sales, productivity, retention and profits for companies. Zappos experienced these benefits through their culture.
- Jenn hopes to spread these lessons to other companies and communities through her movement called Delivering Happiness. The
This presentation was delivered at UQ's MBA session in March 2015. I look forward to hearing how you implement the principles!
If you'd like more information email jane@jane-anderson.com.au or ph 0401 464 130.
Making Contact "Secrets to Successful Business Networking"sgeorge757
The document discusses networking and personal branding. It emphasizes that word-of-mouth referrals are the biggest referral source and work because the person sharing has nothing to gain personally. It also notes that networking events allow you to mingle and create brand awareness while lead generation groups aim to get specific leads. The document provides tips for networking successfully such as having a plan, connecting with influencers, telling your story memorably, and following up.
Everything I needed to know about marketing I learned playing Dungeons and Dr...Ian Lurie
No, seriously. There are great marketing lessons in the game of Dungeons & Dragons. This is a updated, annotated version of a presentation I've given three times now.
Worksheet: The Social Media Mindset - Tapping into WHY it Matters Chrissanne Long
This document provides a worksheet to help identify an organization or individual's "why" for using social media. It explains that having a clear why provides motivation and inspires others. It gives questions to help assess a personal and business why, such as passions, values, goals, and differentiators. Understanding why is important for developing a social media strategy and mindset around a topic, and maintaining focus through any challenges in implementation. The worksheet recommends identifying a "your one thing," watching a TED talk on starting with why, and engaging on social media with others who share the same passion.
This document provides career advice focused on creating opportunities by developing a personal brand and communicating value. It emphasizes that experience matters less than what one can do, and that standing out requires having a message and point of view supported by expertise, stories, and social proof. The key is demonstrating leadership by being a lifelong learner, applying knowledge in new ways, and showing how one adds value rather than just what was done. Interviews should involve sharing detailed stories and insights about how one will immediately benefit the company.
Above The Code: Early Stage PR for Palestinian StartupsAlan Weinkrantz
The document provides tips for early stage startups on using public relations (PR) strategies to build their brand narrative and connect with potential customers, partners, investors and media. It emphasizes using storytelling over pitches, treating the startup like a media company that creates and shares content, and developing a body of work to demonstrate expertise to media. The speaker believes narrative is a defensible business strategy and that following some basic PR principles can help startups get media coverage and succeed.
Above the code story telling : branded content : sadara ventures - ramallahAlan Weinkrantz
This document provides an overview of a presentation on storytelling and branded content. The presentation discusses how every startup is now essentially a media company that needs to focus on storytelling, tone of voice, and developing a narrative to connect with potential customers, partners, investors and the media. It emphasizes writing like you speak to sound human and developing a mission to help others in order to get discovered and shared online. The presentation encourages attendees to think creatively about how to put their brand out there and get lucky with media coverage through wide distribution of their content.
Above the code story telling : branded content for bio medical Alan Weinkrantz
This document provides guidance on using storytelling and branded content to promote startups and companies. It discusses establishing an online presence and sharing a company's narrative to connect with customers, partners, and investors. Tips include writing like you speak, focusing on how you help others, and thinking of yourself as a media company that creates and shares content across various online platforms. The goal is to get discovered online and be ready to engage with media to help recruitment, fundraising, and business development.
Above The Code - Successful Startup Communications Strategies for 2015Alan Weinkrantz
Tech PR / Startup Communications Advisor, Alan Weinkrantz shares insights on five simple ways to help you in your startup's PR / Communications plans for 2015
Above the code story telling : branded content : wayra - buenos airesAlan Weinkrantz
This document provides tips for startups on using storytelling and branded content to promote their companies. It discusses how the rise of the internet and social media allows startups to connect globally in new ways. It encourages startups to think of themselves as media companies that create and share content to get discovered. It provides beliefs and strategies for using blogs, videos, and other media to build expertise and tell their company's story in order to attract investors, customers, and media coverage.
How to get anyone to do anything: four secrets to never feeling powerless againMaryanne Dersch
This document promotes a workshop on courageous communication techniques to influence others. It introduces the presenter Maryanne Dersch and her background helping nonprofits with marketing. The workshop teaches 4 secrets to getting people to do anything: 1) understand your audience, 2) give first, 3) speak to the subconscious, and 4) set the stage for success. Attendees would receive a 90-day action plan and tools to implement cultural changes to support fundraising and marketing.
Build your brand on the job - Workfront LEAP 2016Terri Trespicio
This document provides advice on building your personal brand at work. It emphasizes that your brand is how you are seen by others and is defined by what you do and how you do it. It encourages developing expertise in a niche, teaching and sharing knowledge, leaving your comfort zone to meet new people, and standing out through signature work rather than just completing tasks. The overall message is that career success depends on actively promoting your brand through contribution and becoming indispensable rather than just putting in effort.
She Who dares wins - Women in technology Discover the differenceLiz McGettigan
Liz McGettigan provides advice to women on developing leadership brands and careers in technology. She discusses establishing yourself as a valuable team player early in your career, then developing a reputation as an innovator and change agent at mid-levels. At senior levels, your brand should be known as a visionary leader who develops other leaders. McGettigan encourages women to find their niche, take risks, and get their brand and accomplishments visible through publishing, speaking, and participating in high-profile projects and committees.
Liz McGettigan provides advice to women on developing leadership brands and careers in technology. She discusses establishing yourself as a valuable team player early in your career, then developing a reputation as an innovator and change agent at mid-levels. At senior levels, your brand should be known as a visionary leader who develops other leaders. McGettigan encourages women to find their niche, take risks, and get their accomplishments visible in order to advance their careers.
Above The Code - Successful Startup Communications StrategiesAlan Weinkrantz
Sponsored by Rackspace Hosting's Startup Program, Tech PR and Startup Communications advisor, Alan Weinkrantz, shares his insights and 5 key ways to get your communications mojo on for 2015. Presentation given at the HAC - Accelerator in Herzliya, Israel on December 23, 2014
Ringling College of Art & Design: Content and Social MediaAutumn Sullivan
Had a wonderful conversation with students from Ringling College of Art & Design. What is, and what isn't, content, tips on strategy and creation, and how social media marketing works (and how it doesn't).
Above The Code (TM) Story Telling & Branded Content - : TechLoft / Tel Aviv...Alan Weinkrantz
U.S. Public Relations Consultant, Alan Weinkrantz' nsights on Story Telling and Branded Content Strategies for 2013.
Weinkrantz's core premise of the discussion will be based on studying and playing music for the last 50 years, with his belief sets about music being the original code with great story telling.
What Weinkrantz sees today in most startups is great code, great UI and little and generally no story telling. He will discuss the art of story telling in the context of a building and sustaining a startup and its role in adding value to a company.
Visit: http://www.alanweinkrantz.com or email Alan - alan@weinkrantz.com
Story telling, having a voice, and the on-going narrative is a reflection of the startup's heart and soul. It also becomes the body of work which will help the startup recruit talent, gain investors, attract customers, build partnerships and be discovered by the media. It is the later that he will focus on. This discussion will not be about how to pitch media, but rather, how to prepare yourself to best work with the media by having not only a great product or service, but a body of work that will separate you from your competitors.
Above The Code (Based on Samurai Prinicples) Successful Startup Communicatio...Alan Weinkrantz
The document provides strategies for startup communications and public relations (PR) success in 2015. It outlines 5 practical ways for startups to plan their communications, including identifying target audiences, understanding those audiences, learning from competitors, building a body of content, and pitching to media. The presentation encourages startups to think of themselves as media companies that create content to be discovered. It provides tips for developing blogs, social media strategies, and editorial calendars to build an online presence and narrative over time. The overall message is that strategic communications and PR are important for startups to define themselves, attract investors and partnerships, and get media coverage through sustained, team-driven content creation and storytelling.
This document provides guidance on basic principles for starting and running a successful business. It outlines key areas to consider such as deciding your business focus, managing cash flow and employees, and maintaining integrity. The document emphasizes the importance of vision, passion, and having what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur. It also discusses developing a business idea, creating a business plan, obtaining funding, building systems and teams, and leveraging technology and best practices. The overall message is that successful entrepreneurship requires thorough preparation and a strong work ethic.
Careers in Management - A new vistas.pptxSarang Bhola
The presentation depicts career opportunities to UG students specially thinking to pursue career in Management Domain.
Presentation narrates the mantra of success. It unfolds the careers on demand right now, careers in digital marketing, careers in business analytics and training and development.
The presentation promote the concept, 'Think Differently' .
Above the code story telling : branded content : google israel : 12 februaryAlan Weinkrantz
This document provides guidance on using storytelling and branded content to promote startups and companies. It recommends treating your startup like a media company by creating and sharing content across various online platforms. The document emphasizes focusing on how your product or service helps others rather than focusing on yourself. It also stresses the importance of coming across as human, having a clear mission, and putting your content and brand out in various places to get discovered.
Tech PR / Startup Communications Advisor, Alan Weinkrantz, shares his insights and methods on how early stage startups can begin to employ pre-launch activities aimed at the media, bloggers and analysts.
This document provides an overview of fundraising and bootstrapping strategies for startups in 2014. It discusses investors and what to know about them, such as most having no startup experience. Fundraising requires traction like 5000 users or $5000 in revenue. Bootstrapping options include the "kamikaze style" of working alone with no outside income for years or the "normal style" of balancing work and fundraising over time. Overall, the document advises startups to demonstrate traction and solve painful problems to attract investors and build sustainable businesses.
Leadership Ambassador club Adventist modulekakomaeric00
Aims to equip people who aspire to become leaders with good qualities,and with Christian values and morals as per Biblical teachings.The you who aspire to be leaders should first read and understand what the ambassador module for leadership says about leadership and marry that to what the bible says.Christians sh
A Guide to a Winning Interview June 2024Bruce Bennett
This webinar is an in-depth review of the interview process. Preparation is a key element to acing an interview. Learn the best approaches from the initial phone screen to the face-to-face meeting with the hiring manager. You will hear great answers to several standard questions, including the dreaded “Tell Me About Yourself”.
How to Prepare for Fortinet FCP_FAC_AD-6.5 Certification?NWEXAM
Begin Your Preparation Here: https://bit.ly/3VfYStG — Access comprehensive details on the FCP_FAC_AD-6.5 exam guide and excel in the Fortinet Certified Professional - Network Security certification. Gather all essential information including tutorials, practice tests, books, study materials, exam questions, and the syllabus. Solidify your knowledge of Fortinet FCP_FAC_AD-6.5 certification. Discover everything about the FCP_FAC_AD-6.5 exam, including the number of questions, passing percentage, and the time allotted to complete the test.
Joyce M Sullivan, Founder & CEO of SocMediaFin, Inc. shares her "Five Questions - The Story of You", "Reflections - What Matters to You?" and "The Three Circle Exercise" to guide those evaluating what their next move may be in their careers.
Learnings from Successful Jobs SearchersBruce Bennett
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8. IF YOU’RE THE KIND OF
PERSON THAT WANTS TO:
• Demonstrate you’re a leader…
• Understand what hiring teams are listening for…
• Gain insights into how to stand out…
• Discover tools that can help to elevate your brand…
• Entertain multiple job offers…
THEN TODAY’S
CONVERSATION
SHOULD PROVE
VALUABLE.
10. • Being in Sales
• Communicating Your Superpower
• Articulating a Point of View
• Sounding Different
• Sharing Knowledge Others May
Not Have
GET
COMFORTABLE.
12. DOES THIS
SOUND LIKE
YOU?
Infinite learner?
KNOW what
separates you?
Have stories
beyond your
industry?
Have tangible
assets to show
your POV?
Have social proof
for your claims?
14. THE KEY:
TELL HIRING TEAM ABOUT THIS
(#facebookofficial)
• Infinite learner
• Seek inspiration from outside your domain of
expertise
• APPLY (or expound upon) the things you’re
learning
• Learn to unlearn
20. TOOLS TO POLISH
YOUR CONTENT
• Canva – design for non-designers
• Plotagraph – get noticed, arrest attention
• Mevo – high-end, LIVE video
• Designcrowd, 99designs, fiverr
21. TOOLS TO IMPROVE
YOUR CONTENT
• Record calls/interviews and listen back to
them: skype, join.me, uberconference
• Feedly.com
• Buzzsumo.com
• Listen to:
* Unthinkable
* TED Talks Daily
* The Growth Show
* B2B Growth
* The Unpodcast
* How I Built This
* Masters of Scale
22. TOOLS TO SYNDICATE
YOUR CONTENT
• Hootsuite, meetedgar
• Anchor.fm
• Spend $5, $10
to promote post
24. THE KEY:
People follow crowds… show that other
people think you’re a solid bet
• Create a portfolio of work you can use
• Use camtasia/snagit/wistia to
document how you do what
you do
• Audio testimonials
• Fly-on-the-wall thinking
27. THE INTERVIEW:
I’M LISTENING TO HEAR…
• Detailed Stories
• How It Worked in
Real Life
• Things I Haven’t
Heard Before
• How You’ll Add
Immediate Value
• You’re Smart
28. THE INTERVIEW:
SALESPERSON EDITION
• Mirroring – people will like you
• Posture
• Tone
• Speed
• If they’re talking, you’re in a good place
• Magic Words
• In a moment, I’m going to …
• If you’re the kind of person that ______
• Just imagine…
• I am a team member that ______
• Have you noticed that _______?
• What makes you say that?
29. QUESTIONS I’D BE PREPARED
TO ANSWER
• How would you __________?
• How specifically did you _______?
• Why was that ____ the right thing to do?
How did you know?
• What’s your superpower?
• Where are you learning?
• How did you apply the something you learned?
• How did you fail this week? How did it get fixed?
THE KEY:
Once you have these answers, find a way to interject them into other
questions you may be asked. Pivot to an answer you know you want
to give.
30. PARTING THOUGHTS
BE CONSISTENT…
ONCE YOU’RE HIRED, KEEP IT UP…
REMEMBER THE PURPOSE…
You may not see much interaction or engagement on
your content… but that’s not the point...
AND, experience says you’re making a bigger
impression than you think you are.
Since 1946, Cathy has closed his stores on Sunday… and the restaurant continues to get applause for violating its policy to not open on Sundays.
Las Vegas shootings, hurricanes, nightclub violence etc.
Figure out what the robots can’t do… and do that.
If you understand your space… can sell your way in... And understand how to promote it, you win.
Up to this point, you’ve probably received a lot of direction and pointers on resume presentation and social profiles etc…Your resume is good enough. Now the real work begins... and
If you’re competing on better… you’ve probably lost.
Vanessa brings a boy home. They discover
EVERYONE WANTS IT, BUT DON’T WANT TO PAY FOR IT
EVERYONE WANTS IT, BUT DON’T WANT TO PAY FOR IT
EVERYONE WANTS IT, BUT DON’T WANT TO PAY FOR IT
People buy from people they like. Separate yourself. Bypass the linear, logical brain
1. I’m going to show you all the things you mentioned you wanted in a marketing system and you’ll be thrilled by what you see. (set an expectation and anticipation). Going to show how I delivered value.
2. If you’re the kind of person that values an ability to apply and execute new ideas, then you’re going to love working with me.
3. Just imagine what it’s like to taste a sour lemon… Just imagine getting a report 2 days ahead of schedule or hearing about trends our competitors are doing. (Excite the possible. Get out of linear)
4. I am a person that attracts money. Closes deals. Always learning.
Conversationalist!
5. Have you noticed how competitors in your space are doing ______?
6. What makes you say that lets you get more color on their belief systems.
Any questions for me? When you hire me I bring ______ to the table. I am a lifelong learner and just imagine what it would be like to have someone like me on the team bringing new ideas and applying outside perspectives to this business.