Why business storytelling is always about the personal dilemmas behind your professional pursuits
Story marketing must be at the heart of your content marketing Every business leader or communicator must “humanize” their brand. This is especially true for the cold, feature-and-function advertising that professional services firms run. But a…
How Downton Abbey resembles B2B marketing
I admit it. I’m a Downton Abbey fan. My wife and I started watching it around the first season of Breaking Bad. If Breaking Bad is the opiate of TV programming, then…
10 reasons/ways to be a more powerful B2B marketing storyteller: #6 hurts
I have a business storytelling brother from a different mother, and we grew up across the great pond from each other. His name is Bryan Adams, founder of Ph-Creative in…
5 storytelling resources to help hone your business and brand communication
Every week, I will share the five stories that I have found useful to help our clients and my students sharpen their business storytelling skills. Some are new articles, while…
The evolution of you and your brand is in how well you tell your stories
(This post originally appeared in LinkedIN Pulse.) Our brain, like the amoeba, has one main goal: Survival. We can go weeks without food, days without water, but only about 35 seconds…
How to Tell Compelling Stories to Drive Donations for Your Social Cause
Goodwill of Central Arizona will help more than 23,000 people find employment this year through its workforce development programs. Goodwill relies on your donations for the inventory it sells through…
Why the resurrection of storytelling in business?
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/106234050″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] “Is storytelling enjoying a resurrection in business?” I asked screenwriting coach, Robert McKee, who is working with business executives to help them…
The water cooler remains the best campfire for business storytelling
Email is the most one dimensional form of business communication. There is zero emotion conveyed, so our overactive imaginations frequently strain to make up behavioral context for the content. There…
