Marketing With Empathy®
Marketing With Empathy® helps brands and nonprofits connect with families — and the moms who influence most household purchases. Host Sarah Panus shares ideas to get your products, services, or mission into the homes of families who need them most. Top 5% of all podcasts and a proud member of the Marketing Podcast Network.
Themes: brand storytelling, content marketing, content strategy, mom marketing, storytelling marketing, consumer behavior, marketing, editorial content, StoryBrand, social media marketing, influencer marketing, video storytelling
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110. How StoryBrand Clarifies Marketing Messages
What is the StoryBrand marketing framework, and how can it help you clarify your marketing messages so you stop wasting millions of dollars and thousands of hours talking about the wrong things? Why does Sarah love this framework so much she decided to become a Certified StoryBrand Guide herself? Sarah answers all your Qs, so you can decide how to infuse StoryBrand to help make your content marketing clearer and more effective every single day.
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109. Creating Superfans, Brittany Hodak
Turn your customers into lifelong advocates -- SUPERFANS! Brittany Hodak tells you how, from her Creating Superfans book, including: the S.U.P.E.R. model, how to exceed expectations, and the important role every employee can play in brand storytelling. Plus, Brittany's giving you the first four chapters for free!
27 min
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108. How to Be More Influential (part 2) - Gord...
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 Gle...
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.
25 min
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106. Better Decisions + Discover Yourself w/ Th...
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.
26 min
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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 Storyte...
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 fro...
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.
37 min
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102. Best Influence Marketing Episodes from Las...
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 Las...
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.
36 min
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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.
36 min
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98. Smash Organizational Silos w/Content Calend...
How do you smash organizational silos to improve your storytelling marketing results? By creating an integrated content calendar. CEO of Annum, Patty Radford Henderson is on a mission to solve this top issue identified by CMOs.
28 min
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97. Do This to Gather Deeper Consumer Insights ...
EP 97. Blend psychology and research with marketing to get deeper insights on your consumers, and empower your brand storytelling marketing efforts. Take the guesswork out of what to create. Guest expert, and Sprocket founder and President, April Seifert Ph.D helps companies understand their consumers even better, and then translate research findings into tangible action steps.
38 min
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96. Video Storytelling from National TV Anchor ...
How can you merge journalism and marketing to create better, more authentic, videos people don't want to skip? Heidi Collins, former national TV news anchor, turned corporate video storyteller describes that sweet spot between journalism and marketing = JournoMarketing™. Tips to make compelling video stories that still feel natural and genuine; which brands are doing it well; and how best to structure a team with a focus on JournoMarketing™.
28 min
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95. Quizzes to Attract & Engage Customers – Hel...
Online business growth strategist and trained quiz funnel expert, Helen Munshi, explains how to create quiz funnels to help attract new leads, engage existing customers, and gain incredible data insights to inform your brand storytelling content.
33 min
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94. Behavior Economics: Predict Shopping Trends...
Using behavior economics to predict trends in consumer shopping behaviors; and, how storytelling plays a role in product packaging to help ensure our products are a best seller off the shelf now and in the future.
32 min
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93. Mental Health & Body Odor- Harrys & Lume - ...
EP 93. Behind-the-scenes of how two companies connect with their audiences. Harry’s men’s razor and body care products are tackling men’s mental health. And, Lume, an all-over body deodorant, is successfully talking about a sensitive topic with women via iPhone content from its doctor founder.
31 min
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92. Year 2 Podcast & Business Insight Recap
Learn from Sarah's 2nd year recap of running this podcast and her brand storytelling consulting business; likes, dislikes, and key things she sees all brands need help with to advance brand storytelling inside their companies.
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91. Alice Riot Uses NFTs This Way - Kelly Groehler
Our journey to understand NFTs and Web3 continues. Sarah talks to a company using them. Kelly Groehler is CEO of art curation and Web3 agency, Alice Riot. How they’re using NFTs, her early thoughts on Web3, and storytelling marketing implications.
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90. Intro to NFTs, Web3, Metaverse - Joseph Jaf...
Confused by NFTs, Web3, Metaverse, cryptocurrency, and how to think about them in your storytelling plans? Expert, Joseph Jaffe explains what each is, the notion of community capitalism, and storytelling marketing implications.
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89. Free Brand Storytelling Marketer Community
Love the Marketing With Empathy podcast and can't wait to connect with other like-minded marketers? Want to learn more about connecting with audiences through storytelling? Be part of a free community with more content marketing strategists where you can meet and share ideas? There’s a new Marketing With Empathy podcast community Facebook group for this. What happens inside the group? Why join? Who’s already in it? and Why did Sarah create it?
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88. Jia Loungewear: It's Not Bad to Think Small...
Usually we say it's bad to think small, right? But today we're kind of flipping this to find a moment when thinking small isn't bad. Are you racing past some key foundational storytelling elements that small businesses do really well to connect with their audiences? Guest and small business owner, Katie Charrier, of Jia Loungewear, shares what storytelling is like for her new small business. Reminder to be more thoughtful about the small ways you can connect with your audience through storytelling.
24 min
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87. How to Create a Content Performance Culture...
What it takes to create a content performance culture. What is it? Why do you need it? And how do you help create it at work to support your own brand storytelling growth journey? Podcaster and content expert, Christoph Trappe, joins Sarah to discuss.
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86. How I Became a Successful Brand Storytellin...
What it took to become a successful brand storytelling strategist. Sarah's personal journey the last 20 years. Do you hear a bit of yourself in this story? How she learned to punch fear in the face, and step into her confidence to lead/grow $10 million content plans/teams. And, learned to do so without sacrificing time away from her number one priority: family.
22 min