Definition

The corporate rebranding of "making stuff up to sell things," now elevated to an art form at marketing conferences worldwide. Every brand now has a story, even if that story is just "we sell soap" wrapped in 3,000 words of emotional manipulation.

Example Usage

"Our brand storytelling initiative revealed our authentic narrative: we're a 150-year-old company that pivoted to SaaS. Riveting stuff."

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customer journey mapping

Creating elaborate diagrams showing every touchpoint a customer encounters with your brand, from blissful ignorance to purchase and beyond. It's like stalking, but with Post-it notes and the pretense of empathy.

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top of mind awareness

The first brand that comes to mind when a consumer thinks of a particular product category. It's the ultimate marketing achievement: occupying mental real estate rent-free.

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time on site

The average duration visitors spend on a website during a session, measured from arrival to departure or timeout. It's a metric that can't distinguish between engaged reading and forgetting you left a tab open.

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Easter egg

A hidden message, inside joke, or subtle reference embedded in marketing materials or products that rewards attentive audiences. The marketing team's way of entertaining themselves.

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Content Marketing

The art of selling things to people by pretending you're not selling things to people. You write a helpful blog post about productivity tips, and somehow by the end, the reader is buying your project management software.

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converting

The holy grail of marketing where you transform casual browsers into paying customers, or skeptics into believers. It's the art of turning window shoppers into wallet openers through a carefully orchestrated dance of persuasion, psychology, and sometimes sheer annoyance. Every marketer's favorite verb and every CFO's favorite metric.

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