Last week I went to a local networking meetup group. These kinds of groups generally aren’t full of my ideal audience, but I like to go to this particular one because they always have a speaker, and hearing people like LinkedIn expert Kevin Knebl or Facebook guru Andrea Vahl for free is something I can’t pass up!
Anywho, as we were finishing up, the gentleman sitting next to me, an architect looking to start his own firm, asked me a variation on a question I get a lot:
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“Hey baby, what’s your love language?”
Sound like a cheesy pick-up line? It totally is.
But it’s also a very cool book called, The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts. It was a big hit maybe 10 years ago, and I read it when my hubs and I were first married.
The idea is that everyone has a different “love language” — a way that they prefer to give and receive love and affection — and by speaking to your loved one …
“Plans have changed, Barbie,” was a constant refrain/inside joke in my house growing up.
When I was a kid, we had a Commodore 64, one of the first personal desktop computers.
(Am I dating myself here? Hmmm…)
Mostly? My sister and I used it to play games. (I don’t remember my parents ever using it, except my dad occasionally playing a flight simulator game.) And my sister’s favorite, by far, was the Barbie …
As you may or may not know, I was a film major in college.
And while I now lovingly (and only half-jokingly) refer to my film degree as “my $80,000 cocktail party conversation starter,” being a film student taught me an awful lot about storytelling.
If you want to learn how to tell a compelling story? Study movies. I think people tend to discount popular movies as not being “art,” but there is an art to the storytelling of popular cinema that cannot be denied.
Content marketing is about telling your story.
Believe it …