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Rethinking ASAP: The Magic in Going Slow at Just the Right Moments

As slow As Possible (AsAP) is the counterintuitive way to thrive in a fast-paced world. The key is slowing down at the right moments. Because that’s what will deliver faster, more sustainable results in the end. Sounds weird, right? But it’s true: AsAP Is the Key to Less Stress, More Success, Real Results. But what’s […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Slow Marketing Tagged With: As Slow As Possible, As Slow As Possible Framework, ASAP, ASAP framework, slow business, slow content, slow content marketing, slow marketing, Writing

Why Marketers Are Embracing Long-Form Storytelling

I’ve been talking about the benefits of long-form storytelling for a while. And lately, I’ve noticed a bunch of new examples crop up. “Gradually, and then suddenly,” as Hemingway once wrote. That’s long-form storytelling and longer content pieces. Right now. We marketers are always experimenting with new content formats and new vehicles. And lately, the […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Ideas you can steal, Slow Marketing, Writing Tagged With: long tale, long-form content, long-form storytelling, longtail, longtale

These Two Incredible Stories from the Morning Newspaper Will Inspire Your Own Storytelling

For all the stories of gutted newsrooms and struggling newspapers, there’s still an awful lot of innovation coming out of journalism. Staffed as they are with storytellers, writers, and illustrators, newsrooms can offer marketers and content creators a lot of storytelling inspiration. Here are two of my recent favorites. I The Boston Globe‘s Metro section […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Ideas you can steal, storytelling Tagged With: audio storytelling, newspaper, storytelling inspiration, visual storytelling

How Do You Balance Your Personal and Professional Social Media Presence?

  I started on Twitter in 2007 as @MarketingProfs, sharing headlines from the site and representing the brand there. Then 5 years later I resuscitated @AnnHandley on Twitter as a personal ID—a handle I’d been squatting on for years but never used. Why the second account? I guess the easiest answer is that it seemed… […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Annecdote, Business, Media, Social Media Tagged With: personal versus professional, Social Media, social media for business, social media tools, twitter

Empathy, Marketing, and ‘Misterogers’

This post on empathy and marketing is an expanded version of the intro to my forthnightly newsletter, which features a letter from me to you along with ideas worth sharing and a healthy dose of fun. Not on the list? You can subscribe right here. I moderated a panel about Empathy and Marketing last week […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Annecdote, Business, Slow Marketing Tagged With: empathy, fred rogers, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, misterogers, sxsw

The Story of This Guy Who Grew Up in a Library Made Me Realize I Did, Too (Kind Of)

Ronald Clark’s father worked as a custodian of a New York Public Library branch in an era when library caretakers and their families lived on site. A few of these apartments are still around, although now there are no people living in them. Ronald’s dad kept the NYPL Washington Heights branch clean and tended the […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Content, Writing Tagged With: library, library marketing, NYPL, public library, public library marketing, Ronald Clark

The Oxford Comma and Why We Argue Over Grammar

This post is an expanded version of my biweekly newsletter content, which features a letter from me to you along with ideas worth sharing and a healthy dose of fun. Not on the list? You can subscribe right here. Nothing ignites fire in the gut of righteous grammar geeks more than the serial—aka Oxford—comma. Why […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Writing Tagged With: content writing, Maine truck drivers, marketing writing, Oxford comma, Writing

Slow Marketing Moment: A Snack Mix Story from 30,000 Feet

pretzels yum

We want everything fast, don’t we? In marketing, we want more leads, more pipeline, more brand awareness… and more fans, followers, and friends. We want more content. We more content marketing programs and more channels (more ways to reach our customers). But, ironically, the companies that have the biggest, most sustainable business wins won’t get […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, Slow Marketing Tagged With: airplane snack mix, As Slow As Possible, ASAP, marketing writing, slow content, slow content marketing, slow marketing, slow marketing moment

12 Books That Can Help You Be a Better Writer and Storyteller

My favorite book is always the one I’m reading now. I get vested in the story, in the characters, in the voice of the writer. The last few pages can feel like a kind of death (a sense of foreboding, a final ending), which is why I often sequentially, and (sometimes) obsessively, read the works […]

Filed Under: Annarchy, best writing advice Tagged With: blogging, Writing

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