In this series you'll learn how to use sound vision, structure, scenes, surprise, suspense, and specifics to make content that audiences love and share. Each of these bonus episodes is bite-sized and features examples from today's best audio storytellers. Growing your audience depends on more than marketing: It depends on creating compelling content that hooks your audience and keeps them with you.
Apply the six storytelling strategies for creating unforgettable content to your own work!
Sign up for our interactive, virtual Hook Your Audience & Keep Them Coming Back workshop
Thursday, March 14, 2024
By developing skills from story structure to scene-making, suspense to specifics, you'll learn to create or improve the show, story, article or speech that expresses what you want to express, captivates the people you want to reach, and achieves quality and depth you can be proud of. You'll move from likes and follows to building trusted, engaged relationships with your audience.
These practices work separately and together to ratchet up both the substance and the "wow factor" of your content, no matter the platform.
Did you miss Part 1 on Sound Vision? Listen here.
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Part 3: Scenes
Part 4: Surprise
Part 5: Suspense
Part 6: Specifics
All of these segments — each around 10 minutes or less — will come together soon for a full episode on How to Hook Your Audience and Keep Them Coming Back.
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"Six S" Storytelling Resources
Shows and storytellers mentioned in this series:
Cohosts: Gilbert King and Kelsey Decker
Marketplace
John Barth, Creative Media LLC
The 13th Step, an award-winning documentary series on sexual misconduct in the addiction treatment
Reporter: Lauren Chooljian
Story Editor: Alison Macadam
New Hampshire Public Radio
Daily Creative
Host: Todd Henry
Producer: Joshua Gott
Famous & Gravy
Cohosts: Amit Kapoor & Michael Osborne
The Rich Roll Podcast
Host: Rich Roll
Guest: Charles Duhigg
Book: Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
Crime Show
"Paging Dr. Barnes"
Host & Executive Producer: Emma Courtland
Katie Colaneri
Senior Podcast Editor
New Hampshire Public Radio
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