What are the Villains, Fog and Crevasses in Your Personal or Professional Brand Story?
3 antagonists you must vanquish for successful B2B marketing The conference room at the Sheraton LAX was cold as a morgue. Two hundred screenwriter wannabes sat like zombies enraptured by Robert McKee. After all, he…
How to turn impotent business narratives into important brand stories for your professional services firm
American and British forces ally to overthrow the tyranny of mindless B2B marketing in two business storytelling workshops in Liverpool and London this June Most business leaders have important brand stories, but few are…
How to Create Killer Customer Personas for your Professional Services Firm’s Brand Story
The FBI catches serial killers through extensive criminal profiling. You can capture serial customers the same way by profiling your audiences through insightful consumer personas. Customer personas are critical because brands…
4 Easy Steps to Clarify Your Brand Position Statement
Every epic brand story starts with a positioning statement that differentiates you from the masses Leo Tolstoy, the famous Russian author, wrestled with the existential crisis of finding meaning in…
Business storytelling for professional services firms with live online video
My first Business of Story Blab session is in the books Great conversation and fun today on our first Blab.im session where we talked about the power of storytelling in…
The growing need for powerful business storytelling featured at Social Media Marketing World 2016
The importance of storytelling in business pervaded Social Media Marketing World 2016. Whether it’s real-time stories shared on Facebook Live, Periscope, or Blab.im, to how you approach visual storytelling on Instagram, to…
6 ways to grow your business when you have your brand story straight
I have been in advertising for more than 30 years, and I remember when the introduction of the fax machine was a breathtaking technological leap forward for business. Seriously. It was…
The 7 primal elements to every business story that our caveman brain can’t resist
Sometimes we get lucky and tell a business story that blows away our audience. But what if you could share predictably powerful business narratives on a more consistent basis? You can, but…
The universal story structure of an international water conservation campaign
There is a universal pattern to story that underpins all of our lives. Joseph Campbell, America’s foremost mythologist, called it the Hero’s Journey, or monomyth. The Hero’s Journey is the structure…
What B2B marketers can learn from the Doritos “Ultrasound” Super Bowl TV Spot
As all of you students in my Executive Master of Sustainability Leadership communications course know, a universal structure to storytelling pervades our lives. We see it in the movies we…
