Eric Munn, Social Media Lead at the satirical news outlet The Onion, joins the Business of Story Podcast to shed light on when and how businesses can embrace the comedy in their own stories. The Business of Story is sponsored by ACT!, Convince & Convert, Emma, and Oracle. ACT! helps individuals, small businesses, and sales teams organize prospect and customer details in just one place, ultimately driving sales. Visit http://actstory.com and enter to win a pair of BOSE noise-cancelling headphones. Each day the team at Convince & Convert picks a topic and sends you the three best resources ever created about that topic. It's topical, it's timely, it's useful, so go to definitivedigest.com and subscribe to their email newsletter now. Emma helps marketers everywhere send smart, stylish email newsletters, promotions, and automated campaigns, and help us all rest a little easier knowing our marketing emailing is doing its job. Check out their newest publication at Myemma.com/click. Oracle Marketing Cloud offers an introduction to marketing automation, with tips that marketers need to automate and optimize. In This Episode How The Onion has mastered digital storytelling—and how you can, too The three ingredients essential to every humorous tweet and post How to create "thumb-stoppers" The secrets of social and how it can make or break a storyteller How more brands can take advantage of having more fun in their marketing The power of visuals on social media Resources TheOnion.com Onion Labs Onion Labs' and Bacardi's #realcocktail campaign Onion Labs' and Cheetos' "Sweetos" Vine Eric's Twitter Visit http://bit.ly/BizofStory for more insights from your favorite storytellers.

Ask this episode

“What did the council decide on item 42?” — answered with the speaker and the moment.

Transcript

Related