
Where to Find Your Brand Story
Learn How to Captivate Your Customers With a Bewitching Brand Story In March 2019, I sniffed into an old claustrophobic bookstore in Queenscliff, Australia, like a mouse searching for cheese.…

How Brand Storytelling Helped BROKK Demolish its Competition
Make your brand story your customer’s story “He wanted to take his clothes off and rub his naked body all over the demolition robot.” That is the story Mike Martin shared with…

From flop sweats to rock star: How audiences buy into your story when you OWN it!
The confidence of owning your business story Last June, I shared the business storytelling stage with my friend Bryan Adams of PH Creative in Liverpool, England. Bryan and I co-hosted two workshops in his…

On a wing and a prayer following 9/11
I recently had the honor to work with newly minted United States Air Force brigadier generals at Joint Base Andrews in Washington D.C. on the power of storytelling. I was never in…

10 surefire questions to ask when creating audience personas for your purpose-driven brand
Every story starts with empathy I love Jack Handey. His Deep Thoughts from Saturday Night Live always cracked me up. I came across the one above last week while reading Originals, How Non-Conformists…

How the 16 characteristics of greatness apply to business storytelling
He’s written 25 books, nine of them New York Times best sellers, about some of the top sports superstars and coaches of our time. Don Yaeger knows a thing or…

Have you had business storytelling up the Wazzu?
Then create a brand story you can celebrate with your customers The new president of Washington State University cringed at the school’s legendary nickname: WAZZU. V. Lane Rawlins took the helm of…

10 quick questions to help you own your brand story
No one will buy into your brand story until you own it first. I’ve found for the past 10 years guiding brands through the Story Cycle process that if you can get…

How Coca-Cola Used the Story Cycle System™ to Double the Impact of its Fleet Ecodriving Program
Doubling the fleet’s fuel efficiency through story How do you sell a planet-friendly driver training program to road-worn truck drivers? You tell the story from behind their steering wheels, not…

10 Ways to Own Your Brand Story to Grow Your Business
Business storytelling is about differentiating your brand story and then OWNING IT! The three concerns I hear most from business leaders and communicators about their brands: No one knows what our…