Merging Content Opens Story-Telling Avenues

When Dr. Richard Powell sees a new patient in pain, he can empathize perfectly: that was how he first encountered the world of chiropractic.

So starts a recent Inside Edge PR news release on behalf of Dr. Richard Powell of HealthSource of Elmhurst.

The rest of the release, headlined "His Pain Leads To Others’ Gain: Elmhurst Chiropractor Marks 25 Years of Helping Patients," blends a biography that I developed about Dr. Powell as well as excerpts from testimonials that I wrote about two of his patients.

The outreach reflects the power of re-purposing individual story-telling elements--regardless of industry--into a new piece targeted to a different audience.

Here, Dr. Powell's bio and the two patients' stories are geared mostly toward an internal audience, such as existing and new patients. When combined and edited, however, they can speak to an external audience, such as local media outlets.

You can read the entire news release at TribLocal.com.