Storytelling in Content Marketing.

Wilvia Dsouza
4 min readJan 30, 2022

Content marketing for your business.

The power of storytelling in content marketing.

Content marketing has been growing vigorously over the last 10 years. Content marketing is all about building trust with your target audience and if the audience trusts you, then your prospects will communicate with you and end up purchasing your product or service.

We produce content that will help you deliver your message to your prospects, leads and customers. You can deliver your message through content marketing for blog posts, emails, website pages, social media, print collateral, etc. Content marketing plays an important role in attracting, engaging, and delighting your prospective customers.

To make your content marketing successful, your target audience must share the content with others. It's about telling your audience about your business goals and inspiring them about their purchase decisions. By creating entertaining and helpful content for your prospects and customers, you can engage them and help them learn.

The power of storytelling in content marketing,

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Facts and numbers won’t make readable content. Your prospects will want to learn something informative and entertaining and storytelling is the best way to do so. Your prospective customers want to feel connected to your brand they want to relate to.

  • Business storytelling. Here, the main focus, while you write the content, is to focus more on your business value and mission with consistency. Our goal is to make a human connection. It is about resonating with your customers through your content by providing them with information about your offerings and providing guidance for their purchase decision.

Why does your business need a story?

Through our content, stories will help your prospects make sense of their buying decisions. The decision can be about a product or buying the product. To stand out from those of your competitors who are doing well in the informational marketplace, you need to verbalize through words the uniqueness of your business.

  • Give your prospects the main role in your content.

Most of you might think storytelling is speaking about your history. NO. For business storytelling, you need to answer the following questions:

  • Why are you doing this business?
  • What kind of business do you do?

These two are the main pointers you will need to explain. But writing this content in a reader-appealing way is what makes your business stand out. Storytelling strategies in content marketing will help your specific audience elicit emotions towards your brand.

What do you need to tell a great story?

  • Golden Circle. Well, firstly, you need to keep your target audience preference, and secondly, you need to know about the golden circle. Keep in mind that your audience is attracted to your business for the reasons behind it. The golden circle consists of the following;
  • What — what kind of products and services do you offer?
  • How — how will your business help your target audience?
  • Why — Why are you doing this business?

The why and how in the golden circle framework indicates emotions and human behaviour. The Golden Circle will help you generate your mission statement.

Elements of storytelling in content marketing

  • Characters. For content marketing, the characters that need to be involved and explained about are your target audience. To involve the characters, you need to know and understand them. This way, your prospective customer will make their purchasing decision. The character is the connection with three; you, the storyteller and the audience. To know your character you need to produce a buyer's persona. The buyer's persona contains detailed information about the ideal buyer for your business.
  • Conflicts. A pitch, tagline, unique selling proposition or simply a statement is required here. If you lack conflict with your content, then you are lacking in storytelling. Here, storytelling needs to convey information about the three stages of a buyer’s journey that are awareness, consideration and decision stage.
  • Resolution. A call-to-action strategy is used here so that your target audience has an understanding of the product and its benefits after reading your content.

Conclusion

Content marketing will help you reach your customers and engage with them in less time. This way, you will be able to inform your customers about your products and services. Stay updated with my articles, and thank you for reading.

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Wilvia Dsouza
Wilvia Dsouza

Written by Wilvia Dsouza

Freelance Content Writer | Creative Content Writer | Copywriter | Blogger | Book Author

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