Comments on: How to Make Boring Content More Engaging

By: Angelina

Angelina — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 08:06:45 +0000

Great Ideas!! The story relevant to the content is a good part for addition in the blog content. But Offcourse to find these story relevant to your niche blog is sometimes difficult. Isn’t it?

By: Ada

Ada — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 01:01:38 +0000

I read Story Brand and I totally get you have to tell stories but the way you broke it down into three sentences… I think I FINALLY get it HOW to write stories. Thx u!!!!

By: Denny

Denny — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:18:02 +0000

Thanks Derek, this is very helpful.

By: Cleo

Cleo — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:44:00 +0000

So, I stand there in front of my screen, all combed and prepared, feeling ready to kick some ass and then my smile frozes. Noone. Let me repeat that. Noone shows up. I turned blue. 10 minutes later — still...nada. And then ****pling pling*** trumpets!

By: Siva

Siva — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 03:22:34 +0000

It’s literally “Gun-to-the-Head” situation now.

I was kicking my butt to come up with a converting FB ad -in an Hour!

And my brain let out a BIG juicy fart.

But thanks to accidentally opening your email, I got just what I needed.

Thanks

By: Miklos Mayer

Miklos Mayer — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:21:42 +0000

Though I’ve read a lot about storytelling, I really enjoyed you distilling it into such an easily understandable and practical article, thank you for that Derek!
I’ve had to realize that my blog post intros are not that entertaining as they should be, so I’m rewriting them! I fell into the trap of your financial advisor friend’s. Also, as my articles are pretty long, I need to insert a lot more stories in between those as well!

For me, the biggest takeaway from here is that I can create a story in just 3 well written sentences. You got me convinced that that will be enough to get people read more…

For those people interested in storytelling, I highly recommend “Noboby wants to read your sh*t” from Steven Pressfield. In that book Stephen explains the whole 3-act principle with many examples (and with a lot of personal stories from his own life).

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 01:16:14 +0000

I think I do this organically, but nice to go back to the “why” behind writing. Thanks for sharing, the examples are extra helpful.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:53:05 +0000

So I was working on a blog post, and I realized that I had lots of good information, but it didn’t sound engaging.

What good is it to write an insightful article full of solid information if nobody reads it?

How can I make the blog not only informative, but also engaging enough that people will actually read it?

Then this came in my email…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:43:27 +0000

This is awesome content. I really appreciate it. So as an NLP master practitioner and hypnotherapist, I am wondering how to use this method to sell my services instead of a program? I am currently creating a program my clients can use, however, this is not an easy task. I am doing this on my own. I have never attempted to implement this nor have I been taught how to even create this. Anyway, any ideas on this would be greatly appreciated.

By: Javier Sanabria

Javier Sanabria — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:26:56 +0000

Great advice Derek! I work with actuaries and other finserv pros. The content they create is usually very dry and technical – it’s actually comes across in most of their personalities. in a similar vein, I tell them to focus on the challenge (conflict) facing their client base and the potential solution (resolution) to it, while not being afraid of being personable, especially on social media. You’re three-sentence rule is much easier to remember. I’m going to share this with them on our employee advocacy platform. Thanks, Javi.