Facts may work in a courtroom but they rarely work in marketing.
Still, amateur marketers believe that all they need to do is to recite a fact to make marketing successful.
Stats like 65,000 likes, 2 million views, 500 comments for a social media campaign rarely equate to business conversions.
If facts were enough, no one would sms whilst driving, everyone would…
I have written about telling a negative story first and then telling a positive story to motivate change.
The simple rationale behind this order of information is
Negative Story, gets attention. So, tell it first. After you have managed to get attention, you must tell a positive story to motivate the action you desire. I use this order of information in Change…
This blog is part 2 of the Insights Inform But Don’t Inspire blog. If you have not read part 1 of the blog, then I suggest you read it before you read this one.
You can read blog 1 here.
These learnings are from Brent Dykes’s article in Forbes
What can we learn from Semmelweis’ experience?
Semmelweis’ data met three key criteria …
I wrote this blog when I saw a teenager upset about a negative comment he had received on a video he had created and posted on Social Media. My default reaction was to question the teenager, ” So why are you on social media and do you think it is a good place for you to be on? ”
However, I changed…
As I am doing more and more work on Data Storytelling, I am coming across examples that are demonstrative of the fact that our ability to data storytell is still at its embryonic stages. There are simple things that we agree with in theory but fail to apply.
Here are some slides I have worked with that demonstrate my point.
Now, as…
Our insecurities around social media Likes and Followers has created business for some people. In today’s day and age it is very easy to feel insecure when you do not have as many likes as someone else but we have to remember is number of likes and Followers is always the wrong thing to chase. It is easy to build crowd. Trust…
I have written about my views on the obsession attached with collecting data on Feedback Forms for workshops, seminars and trainings in the past. But as I am reading and understanding more about Feedback I am developing some insights.
The trend has been to centralise and standardise systems, collecting data on metrics on feedback for workshops, trainings, seminars etc.
This can be…
There is senior management meeting coming up and a fairly strong presenter has been chosen to lead the presentation. A day before the presentation I am sitting with the entire team who is responsible for managing the upcoming presentation to the management
The presentation serves the purpose of making a case on why the organisation needs to curate a Change Story for…
This blog is part 2 of my blog Tech Talk About Connections But Lacks a Human Connection. In this blog series I am decoding ( decoding = what makes it great ) one of the best IOT presentations I found via online research. The presentation is by Scott Hanselman.
The first 5 mins of the presentation decode can be found here…