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I Have a Dream: 3 Ways to be More Memorable

“I have a dream.” It’s rightly famous, perhaps one of the most memorable lines ever spoken. So, why do we remember some phrases and not others? More importantly: How do we say something in a way that other people, like our teams, remember our message? Martin Luther King knew exactly how to write so that people will remember the key message. Repetition, he knew, was important. And a lot of it. He’d used it in his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech,…

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How Amazon.com Got Its Name

Actually, I have no idea how Amazon.com got its name. Imagining how it got its name illustrates the power of an image–painting a picture in words.  An image is something you can perceive with at least one of your five senses. It helps convey something abstract you have in mind in a way that is concrete to others. So, I imagine that Jeff Bezos goes to his marketing firm and says, “I need a name and corporate identity for my…

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