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Charlie Stewart

Senior Content Strategist

Charlie Stewart, Senior Content Strategist at exceptional™

Charlie brings his creative flare developing content and copy for our search, web and social media campaigns.

Charlie is a writer, editor, and publicist with a background in sales, and has a huge amount of communications experience working as a content producer, animating and editing instructional videos, and producing podcasts.

Here’s my recommended reading

Thought leadership strategy: putting your team’s expertise on your clients’ radars

“Thought leadership” has become an essential part of B2B marketing. Ever since Google’s helpful content update, it’s been more important than ever for your organisation’s team members to be producing high-quality, informed content in their areas of expertise.  What is thought leadership? Articles, LinkedIn posts, blogs, videos – all of this comes under that umbrella. […]

You’re telling stories wrong: How responsive storytelling can transform your marketing

This is an article to help you get better at story-driven marketing within your organisation or for your clients.  I’m not talking about your old school wishy-washy once upon a time style storytelling. This is about drawing out the kind of authentic stories your colleagues (or clients) don’t even know they’re hiding. It’s about getting […]

Our 10 most engaging LinkedIn post ideas for corporate comms

You know your business needs to use LinkedIn.  With over a billion users, LinkedIn is the premier platform for connecting with your investors, customers, employees, industry peers and other stakeholders. You’ve only got one question. What should your organisation actually post about? So many businesses know that there are big benefits to engaging with their […]

Hearts, minds & pockets in the climate crisis

Ask yourself these questions. These are two examples of actions taken by speakers at the Better Business Conference in Manchester last week, which I had the opportunity to attend. While I understand the motivation behind both approaches, I also respectfully disagree with them.  In this article, I want to attempt to explain why, and to […]

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Blessing or curse: what does AI really mean for content marketing?

AI is the talk of the town – these days you can’t swing a virtual cat without hitting someone discussing the latest and greatest in artificial intelligence. That first sentence was generated by ChatGPT with the prompt “a funny, colourful turn of phrase about how everyone is talking about AI these days” and I’ve got […]

Honest content: how to make your marketing feel authentic

Ironically, encouraging authenticity can lead to content which appears less authentic. The word “authentic” can be misinterpreted as meaning “emotional”, “personal” or simply “fun”. How do you make content that feels “honest”?  Failed attempts at authenticity often lead with an appeal to the personal – “you can trust me because of the internal emotional factors that […]