How Instinctual Storytelling Catches the Biggest Fish
You cannot resist the lure of a good story When making a business point, or sharing loads of data, wrap your content in the adventure of a story. Our reptilian brains…
Understand Your Personal Brand Story to Grow Your Influence
20 People to Know in the Phoenix Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Community On Friday, February 19, 2017, I was honored to be named by the Phoenix Business Journal as…
7 Habits of the Highly Effective Storytelling Marketer
How to place story marketing at the core of your content strategy It was the summer of 2006. I was standing in the middle of the convention floor in Anaheim,…
What is Story Marketing and How You Can Master it
The 3 acts of story marketing that’ll make your content king (or queen) When was the last time you retold a listicle to a friend? How many parties have you owned…
Why story spotting in the wild is critical to grow your leadership, sales and people
Stories are what make us human. We live from one to the next as our experiences are captured in a time and place through an event that gets anchored in an…
What you can learn from the Sock Club’s fashionable brand story marketing
I thought I’d do my family a favor and email them my Christmas list this year. Yep, one of the items was socks. I got my first pair yesterday from…
The Two Hardest Questions You’ll Ask Yourself About Brand Storytelling
On Tuesday, I was working with a dozen socialpreneurs at Seed Spot, a Phoenix-based incubator for cause-driven organizations. I took the group through these 10 quick questions to help them…
How two young ladies used storytelling to save Bali from plastic bag pollution
Want to be more persuasive? Tell better stories. Just like Melati and Isabel did to save their island of Bali from plastic pollution. I’ve outlined the universal structure to story found in their…
Brand Storytelling is not About What You Make, but What You Make Happen
I was in Washington D.C. on Nov. 2 and 3 hosting a Business of Story mastermind class for the American Marketing Association. Nine of their member brands were in attendance to…
10 Brand Story Elements of REI’s Disruptive #OptOutside Black Friday Campaign
When I was a kid growing up North of Seattle, my dad would take us downtown to Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI). This was in the 1970’s, and REI was…
