What’s the plot? That’s the question every marketer is trained to answer. The timeline. The launch. The announcement. The metric to hit. The feature to unveil. The call to action to place like a flag at the summit. And that’s how brand storytelling becomes a sequence of events. Structured, yes, but strangely empty. We know…
Zeus had lightning. You have… a PDF lead magnet. It’s not that practical offers don’t work, but they tend to forget where they came from. Somewhere along the path from oracle bones to Google Slides, we turned stories into strategies and prophecies into KPIs. Marketing became a spreadsheet. The gods fell silent under the weight…
There’s a particular silence that lives on Instagram. It smells faintly of linen and lemon balm. Everywhere you scroll, a soft pink carousel murmurs, “You are enough”. Pastel backgrounds. Sans-serif typography. Gentle imperatives wrapped in whisper tones: pause, breathe, slow down. It’s the visual vocabulary of modern serenity, and it’s everywhere. Wellness brands sell peace….
What if your call-to-action chased your audience into literal motion instead of just inviting clicks? The best stories don’t wait. They run toward you. Welcome to the apocalypse (It’s branded) You’re running. Your legs ache, your breath is uneven. In your ears: Static. Crackle. Panic. “Runner 5, they’re behind you. Faster. NOW.” It’s the Zombies,…
This is not where stories are supposed to start. But here we are, already in the middle. Already unsure of what’s been left out. Already in motion. Without direction. Which is how most of us move through the world now, isn’t it? Scroll by scroll. Echo by echo. Brand to brand to brand. Linear storytelling…
We don’t crave novelty. We crave resolution. You rolled your eyes. Another Hero’s Journey. Another three-act story arc. Another startup founder sharing how rock bottom was actually the best thing that ever happened to them. In a marketing world obsessed with breaking the rules, there’s a new kind of cliché: the one where we dismiss…
Motion isn’t meaning. Shape is. Things are moving. Your business is pivoting. Your content is being posted. Your strategy is shifting, launching, optimizing, reacting. But is it moving in a way that matters? Motion without shape isn’t strategy. It’s just noise with good branding. The difference between a marketing machine that builds trust and one…
Storytelling is powerful, but if you don’t handle that power with care, it turns into manipulation. Stories are spells. You cast them with rhythm. With tension and silence. With the kind of precision that can make someone nod, click, cry, or buy. But here’s the thing about spells: they can enchant or deceive, empower or…
If your stories don’t leave a mark, your audience won’t remember they were bitten. In 2025, “relatable” content isn’t enough. The digital world is drenched in contradiction, tension, absurdity, grief, and humor. Audiences are savvy to emotional manipulation and numbed by vague vulnerability. People don’t want your pain, exactly, but they do want your pulse….
If your marketing failed, maybe it wasn’t the idea. Maybe it was the storytelling. “Fail fast” left out the best part We’ve absorbed the Silicon Valley gospel like scripture: Fail fast. Fail often. Learn and move on. The part they forgot to teach us was what to do with all that failure. So, we bury…
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