Noah and Ally went through a lot of ups and downs, break-ups and make-ups. There is so much turbulence in The Notebook that it leaves viewers wondering if they’ll ever make it together.

To our surprise (and vulnerable emotions at this stage), we discover that the old gentleman reading the story to the lady every day in the home is Noah reading their own love story to Ally to help her remember their life together- and it works!

The lesson: great content that spurs emotions is incredibly effective and can be used and distributed organically time and time again. In marketing, the distribution of great content is key to boosting brand awareness, collecting loyal followers, and encouraging readers to engage, click, act, and finally become customers.

A great story is good to have, but what use would it have been if Noah wasn’t reading it to Ally? (i.e. distributing it!)

2. 10 Things I Hate About You: Be Authentic

Although this one is technically a rom-com, it’s still a cult classic, and for good reason.

How else can you modernize Shakespeare’s comedy The Taming of the Shrew other than retelling it in a late 1990s American high school setting? It’s the story of a new student Cameron who has fallen in love with Bianca. However, due to her father’s strict rules on his daughters’ dating, Cameron attempts to trick Joey, another student in love with Bianca but who is popular and rich (and largely obnoxious) into paying for ‘bad boy’ Patrick to take out Bianca’s ill-tempered sister, Kat. It’s all a bit complicated, but what Shakespeare’s plot isn’t!

Unexpectedly, Kat falls in love with Patrick for real once his bad-boy shield is torn down and it’s revealed that Patrick is a genuinely nice guy who cares about Kat, enjoys her company, and is slowly beginning to fall in love with her – despite accepting bribes to take her out. Kat was not impressed when she found out that Patrick was paid to take her out, despite him falling in love with her by that point. The lesson: be authentic in your marketing as this will help better express brand values and purpose.

Since many customers are more inclined to align themselves with businesses that share their values (much how Kat warmed to Patrick once she saw he wasn’t as awful as she thought and that they had a lot in common), authenticity marketing puts you in a position to win over the right customers!

3. Love Actually: Everything is interconnected

This is a Christmas classic but still a romance movie, in our opinion!

Nine intertwined stories examine the complexities of the one emotion that connects us all: love. In particular, the understanding and portrayal of love’s multifarious connections and underpinnings.

But when we say intertwined, we mean really intertwined. We recommend watching it a few times to get all the connections ordered!

Luckily, Lemonly has created a Love Actually love connections flow chart to help navigate this.

The lesson: marketing roles are very similar, they are all interconnected to achieve one unified goal: generate revenue. Marketing teams achieve this through the execution of strategic activities such as:

defining and managing the brand
planning and overseeing campaigns
researching target markets
producing assets and content
driving traffic to the website
coordinating social media presence
upselling and more!

This requires a well-rounded marketing team that builds off of one another: CMO, Demand, ABM, Digital, Content, Product, Social, Campaign, etc., in order to have a cohesive and effective marketing strategy.

4. The Bodyguard: The importance of branding

Rachel (Whitney Houston), a singer and an actor, receives death threats from an obsessive stalker. However, things turn chaotic (and full of love) when she hires Frank (Kevin Costner), an ex-Secret Service agent, to be her bodyguard, and slowly falls for him.

Whether you’ve seen this movie or not, you know the famous Whitney Houston belter “I Will Always Love You.” Unless you’ve lived under a rock, of course. In which case, we understand.

The lesson is the importance of having a well-rounded brand. You think “The Bodyguard” and “I Will Always Love You” come straight to mind! It’s instantly recognizable and sells well that this is indeed a love story. A good recognizable brand will help build trust, can improve advertising, and becomes an asset in itself.

If romance isn’t really your thing and you prefer comedy, have a flick through something a little funnier!

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