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How to Think Visually in 5 Steps

May 29, 2013 by Jeanne Bock  |  
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I’m a words person. As a PR professional, that’s always been a really good thing - but recently words-folks like myself have been adding the power of visual thinking to our bag of storytelling tricks. Our world has changed dramatically in the past year or two. Now more than ever, pictures are worth at least 1000 words. So when client DA-Desk asked us to develop an animated video, I felt some trepidation at plunging into the visual medium – but ultimately powered through.

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A Crash Course in Brand Positioning: A Guide to Getting it Right

February 14, 2013 by Jeanne Bock  |    |  

Someone once said that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Well, the public relations industry has changed dramatically over the past twelve months—with content marketing and visual storytelling at the forefront. One thing that hasn’t changed—at least not in my opinion—is the importance of precise positioning for a company or for a product. Without proper brand positioning, and hence the messages derived from that positioning, there would be no content for content marketing and no story for visual storytelling.

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If a Picture Tells a Thousand Words, How Many Words Does an Infographic Tell?

October 16, 2012 by Jeanne Bock  |    |  

Let’s face it: PR people are words-people living in an age of visual storytelling. We get the storytelling part; it’s the visual part that we’ve been slower to adopt. That is, until infographics became so much a part of today’s messaging arsenal.

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Thought Leadership: It’s More than Talking the Talk

August 09, 2012 by Jeanne Bock  |    |  

Most companies these days talk about being a thought leader – or at least wanting to become a thought leader. But with so much noise out there—so much content-overload—can you really break through the clutter? And if so, how?

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