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I'm Stefanie, Copyblogger's Editor-in-Chief, and below you'll find your weekly dose of tips and resources to strengthen your content marketing skills. Scroll on!

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The 5 Things Every (Great) Marketing Story Needs

Here on Copyblogger, you’ve seen us talk many times about how to tell a terrific marketing story.

Why?

Because stories are fundamental to how we communicate as human beings, and mastering the art of storyselling is an essential part of learning how to become a freelance writer.

When you tell the right story, you can capture attention, entertain, enlighten, and persuade ... all in the course of just a few minutes.

Marketing stories are memorable and shareable — and those are two of the most important aspects of the very best content that helps you make a living online.

With content marketing, your marketing stories become too valuable to skip.

So, we can all agree that stories matter ... but how do you tell them? What, specifically, makes for a good marketing story?

Here are five critical components of marketing stories, and how they fit into your business blogging.

We’ll start, as every good story does, with the hero ...

Keep reading: The 5 Things Every (Great) Marketing Story Needs

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How to Make Thousands on a 1K-Person Email List

This week on The Copyblogger Podcast, Tim Stoddart and Ethan Brooks explain how media veteran Lexi Grant landed her first 1K subscribers, and then earned thousands from that list.

The guys are also both working on product launches and take you behind the scenes to talk about self-doubt, idea validation, and how to allocate your energy across projects as a creator.

Listen now: How to Make Thousands on a 1K-Person Email List

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Talk with you again soon,

Stefanie Flaxman
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, COPYBLOGGER MEDIA