A Simple 10-step Brand Storytelling System to Clarify Your Business Story
The Story Cycle System™ is a proven brand storytelling template to craft more compelling business stories You are a proud owner of a purpose-business, although it probably feels like it…
The 3 Crucial Mile Markers to get Customers to Buy Into Your Brand Story
The customer journey map of brand awareness, adoption and appreciation. All lasting brands are built by creating happy patrons, and mapping your customer journey is an important process to build…
The 3 Story Elements That Humanize Your Purpose-Driven Brand
How to define your brand’s promise, gift and personality Recently, I found myself in a 19th century barn in Haarlemmermeer, a suburb of Amsterdam, delivering a Business of Story masterclass. Ilknur Donmez,…
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…
You just completed your first Story Cycle workshop, now what?
If you’re here, chances are you’ve just completed my Story Cycle workshop. Do you remember what the three essential elements are to every story? I thought so. To keep what…
Content marketing for the “Attention Economy”
This article first appeared in the American Marketing Association blog, Elevate. The goldfish has an average attention span of nine seconds, which now is one second longer than the…
Infographic: Storytelling is not just for campfires
I’m curating infographics about storytelling in business on Pinterest. New Fathom Events created this graphic that does a nice job of explaining why storytelling is so important, but does not…
Budweiser’s Super Bowl spot wins with simple, proven story structure
Aristotle would laugh at the basic story structure of the new Budweiser Super Bowl spot. It’s a winner because our minds simply can’t resist the Story Cycle. Watch and see if…
What social marketers can learn from a common man’s story on NPR’s StoryCorps
Once I learned about the Hero’s Journey from Joseph Campbell’s work, it started appearing everywhere. This universal pattern to story permeates all of our lives. It’s not only in the stories…
INFOGRAPHIC: Data tells, story sells
In his new book, Trying Not to Try: The Ancient Chinese Art and Modern Science of Spontaneity, Edward Slingerland writes: “Science traffics in facts, not values: it can tell us…
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