Ann Handley
Wall Street Journal Best-Selling Author and World’s First Chief Content Officer
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$20,000
Ann Handley
Featured Keynote Programs
Storytelling in a Chaotic World
These are weird times to be in Marketing, aren’t they? It’s business as usual at exactly ZERO companies. That’s true no matter what you do or what you sell …B2B, B2C, SMB … all of us. Everything is suddenly, confusingly different. So, what’s the path forward? What do the current times mean for you, your business, and your customers? In this presentation you’ll learn:
- How the notion of brand storytelling has shifted
- 7 non-negotiable things your storytelling MUST do
- The best tactics for connecting with customers right now
The Big, Bold, Brave New World of Content & Storytelling
How content marketing and storytelling can give your organization the ability to reach the people you need to reach.
In this fun, inspiring session, Ann will counsel you on how your organization can create marketing that’s engaging—because your audience demands it, and your organization deserves it.
Challenge Your Assumptions
A Guide for the Fearless Marketer (That's You!)
The three specific places where most companies are relying on fake facts and hunches instead of data, research, and honest empathy. Ann delivers inspiration to develop marketing stories and programs that don’t just drive business… but also feed your soul.
How to Level-Up Your Writing and Make It Ludicrously Spectacular
Time: 45-60 minutes
Tactics, tricks, takeaways for improving your marketing writing.
Suited to: Marketing practitioners, writers, journalists looking to move into content marketing, creatives
Most everyone hates writing.
But most everyone loves to have written.
Especially when we’ve produced something we can be proud of. ("Of which we can be proud” might be technically correct, but it sounds too stuffy, amirite?)
Come to this fun session to hear Ann’s key insights on a subject near and dear to her heart: how you can take your writing from second-rate to spectacular.
As Slow As Possible
The Magic in Going Slow at Just the Right Moments
In our always-on, speedy, tech-connected 21st century... why should your business think about marketing more slowly? Conventional wisdom holds that when you’re slow, you’re a slacker. When you slow down, you’re road kill. But, just maybe, the opposite could also be true. Yes… but only if we move with more intention and thought at only just the right moments.