by Heather Pemberton Levy | Nov 23, 2016 | Content Marketing
Earlier in my career, when I moved from a magazine editorial job to brand marketing and multimedia, I had to manage revenue producing product lines to fund innovative editorial projects. Today, content creation pays for itself as the gas in the modern marketing...
by Heather Pemberton Levy | May 23, 2016 | Best Practices, Content Marketing, Storytelling
The girl wore a hat. It was a simple hat that covered her young bald head and sported the tag line: Life is Good. And while the story was about her dire cancer prognosis – they said she had a mere year to live – it was also about that tag line. Or rather, her spirit...
by Heather Pemberton Levy | Apr 1, 2016 | Brand, Content Marketing, Storytelling
In the opening to episode 10 of the Showtime series, Billions, U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (played by Paul Giamatti), stands in front of his office for a mea culpa speech. If you haven’t made it through the season yet, don’t worry; I won’t spoil it. Let’s just say...
by Heather Pemberton Levy | Jan 3, 2016 | Best Practices, Content Marketing, Strategy, Voice
Recently, a prominent business leader called a former client of mine to compliment him on the book he’d recently published. This leader, who ran two of America’s largest corporations, said he had read the short self-published book “cover to cover” and wanted to share...
by Heather Pemberton Levy | Mar 16, 2015 | Best Practices, Brand, Content Marketing, Storytelling, Strategy, Voice, Writing Tips
Good content marketing and brand journalism are more storytelling art than SEO science. Follow these principles to create content that lifts your brand rather than creating more noise. 1. Start with a Story I grew up in a large family that ate a formal dinner every...
by Heather Pemberton Levy | Feb 13, 2015 | Best Practices, Brand, Content Marketing
The best branded content takes a few lessons from premium chocolate by paying attention to a few key ingredients. A few years into our marriage, I told my husband that he could make me happy every year on Valentine’s Day by giving me two things: flowers and...
