Marketing With Empathy

How do I focus my brand storytelling strategy to get people aligned and make work less overwhelming and confusing? How do I create a brand storytelling framework and prove the value of brand storytelling? What content should my brand talk about, and where should we look for insights? How can I be more creative, and confidently sell-in my ideas without feeling like an imposter? Is influencer marketing right for my brand? What are great brand storytelling examples? Are there brand blog best practices I’m missing? And—how do I more confidently listen to my inner-voice for a more joy-filled (a.k.a. saner) life? Welcome to the Marketing With Empathy podcast where we answer ALL of this and more!

108. How to Be More Influential (part 2) – Gordon Glenister

EP 108. How can you become more influential at work? International influencer marketing expert and author, Gordon Glenister joins Sarah with advice to help you in your career. Look at competitors for content insights to inform your own content strategy; your circle of friends; and tips to network and build your community with other influential people.

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107. Influencer Marketing (part 1) – Gordon Glenister

EP 107. Advice for working with influencers from international expert and author, Gordon Glenister. Why we follow certain influencers over others. The benefits of influencers beyond social media. Gordon’s favorite influencer tools and platforms. An example of employee influencer marketing. What makes the most successful campaigns; and how to invest in influencer marketing during budget cuts.

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106. Better Decisions + Discover Yourself w/ These Frameworks, Brian Ondrako

EP 106. 3 frameworks to help you discover yourself & make better career and life decisions. Brian Ondrako, is an expert on helping people make decisions and navigate to just get started. Your Toolbox of Knowledge; COMPASS Framework which includes auditing the people you surround yourself IRL and virtually; and the Feel Framework to map your short-term goals.

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105. Time Management Hacks for Marketers

Time management is a skill you can improve. Success and stress don’t have to go hand in hand. Secret to crossing things off your to-do list, how to reduce distractions to make the most of your time, and setting boundaries at work. Useful time management strategies and hacks to implement for all content marketers from time management coach, Anna Dearmon Kornick. 

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104. Video Experts Share 9 Brands Doing Storytelling Well

EP 104. Four video experts share examples of nine brands doing video storytelling well. A look back at the last 100 episodes, and top video brand mentions including: ToysRus, Ecolab, Nature Valley, Harvard Business School, Milwaukee Tool Company, J.Crew, Marriott, HP and AirBnB. Are you looking for ideas to improve your company’s video storytelling content? This is the fifth and final part of the show’s 100th episode five part series look back.

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103. 5 Top Personal Care Tips for Marketers from Last 2 Years

EP 103. You do a lot. As someone working in the content marketing space, you can’t do great, creative storytelling work if you’re personally not feeling your best. Right? Today’s episode is part four of our 100 episode celebration, and recaps 5 of Sarah’s favorite personal self-care conversations from the last two years. What you deserve to know about your body, so you can lean into your God-given talents with joy each and every day.

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102. Best Influence Marketing Episodes from Last 2 Years

EP 102. Influence vs. Influencer Marketing. Do you currently use or want to use influencers in your storytelling plans to attract new and repeat customers? The reality is many marketers still think about influencers wrong, and they’re missing the huge landscape of opportunities to influence their audiences. Sarah shares her favorite influence marketing conversations from the last two years to help you define the best way you should be using influencers.

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101. Top 4 Empathy Convos From Last 2 Years

EP 101. How can you infuse more empathy into your storytelling content this year? How do you try to better understand what your audience is thinking or feeling? Sarah shares four of her favorite empathy specific snippets from the last 100 episodes, to help you better connect with your audience, heart to heart and mind to mind. Hear from Rob Volpe, Kavita Lokchander, Laura Larios and April Seifert.

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100. Top 6 Brand Storytelling Examples from Last 2 Years

EP 100. How six different brands use storytelling. Sarah’s favorite conversations with brands that demonstrate the power of leaning into brand storytelling, having faith in the process, and truly marketing with empathy. Shutterfly, TD Bank, Sleep Number, Deluxe, 3M, and Red Wing Shoe Co.

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99. Create Better Corporate Videos – Tony Gnau

99. Emmy winner, author & video expert, Tony Gnau of T60Productions shares how to you create more engaging corporate videos? Three core videos every company needs; tips to develop a video strategy to get alignment from others; and make better testimonial videos.

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