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Batman and the Storytelling Map
In my last post I wrote about the Story Map I used to analyze stories and search for ways to incorporate brands into well known narratives. By using the same tools as Hollywood its possible to effectively place your brand … Continue reading
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The Value of Storytelling in Sales
Continuing on my mental model month I tried to summarise the value I see in stories. At its simplest when people communicate they are trying to get across and idea. The audience can be transported by the communication to understand the … Continue reading
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Stories That Create Trust
Stories help us understand the world around us. They have a sticky quality to them when they work and are told well. Somehow we are made to create and retell stories and these sticky stories are often part of culture … Continue reading
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Storytelling Superbrands B2B Marketing
Storytelling to create Superbrands Here is the article I wrote for Superbrands Swedish Edition 2011. One of the most recent trends in business communications is storytelling. It’s an ancient art that has been suppressed in the modern world in favour … Continue reading
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Storytelling Presentations
Prezi is the newest presentation tool that allows you to present in a non linear way. prezi.com This is great move forward allowing people to tell a story in an engaging visual way rather than Powerpoint slide after Powerpoint slide. The first … Continue reading
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What is Brand Positioning?
Ries and Trout started a marketing revolution by focusing on positioning. They wrote about making your brand stand out in your prospects mind by making different from others. To me positioning is the way the brand fits inside the prospects … Continue reading
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The Go Giver- Success Stories
I have just finished The Go Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann. This tale takes a the lead character and the reader through five laws that generate stratospheric success. Each of these laws speaks to stories successful people build … Continue reading
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Negotiations, Storytelling and Brand Planning
I recently went to a great course on negotiations. If I boil what I learnt down to one key learning it would be that negotiations rely on our ability to create trust, be authentic and create value for each party … Continue reading
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HSBC Bank Storytelling Ads
I’m writing this on the plane to New York. On the way I noticed again the HSBC advertising that adorns many of the world’s airport jetty’s. HSBC the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank uses this channel to communicate a unique … Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Pharma Brand Stories
There are two types of discussion when selling and in Pharmaceuticals sales it’s the same. The first type of discussion between the company and the physician is best termed a “no conflict story”. In this case there is a medical … Continue reading
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Hiaku Poetry- Small but Perfectly Formed- Communication
At a birthday party last night my friend Phil, asked if I had heard of Haiku (Japanese poetry) storytelling. I hadn’t but it sounded really interesting. It’s a poem or story told in 17 syllables broken up in to 3 lines (in English) or groups of 5, … Continue reading
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Don’t Swing At Everything
As a Cricketer or baseball star, shot selection is key. You don’t swing at everything. If you do you strike out or get tired. Prospecting for customers is the same. Develop a sense for whom to talk to and how … Continue reading
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Deep Branding
Deep Branding requires deep storytelling but how do we get there? Many of the previous post have focused on aspects of storytelling and it connection to customer attitudes and behaviours. Brand architects search for the best way to connect their brand … Continue reading
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Open Source Branding
What do Lunix, Twitter. BBC, Google, Starbucks, Apple, Amazon and Innocent along with many other brands have in common? I think its open source branding that makes these stick out in today’s teams. In effect the company has “Let Go” … Continue reading
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Pharma Marketing 3.0
The Brand Storytelling Marketing Manifesto In setting out a new marketing manifesto for pharmaceutical brands, I’m looking to the future where most health care products will be seen as a commodity, low priced and undifferentiated. It’s going to be true … Continue reading
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Project M- Metaphors in business and branding
A slight departure from the normal post. I’m starting Project M. Its a quest to hear and share great metaphors and quotes you use to help people understand your business and brand strategy. Yesterday is history….. Tomorrow is a mystery…. … Continue reading
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Right Time- Right Message
One key in storytelling is getting the chapters in the right order. Can you imagine your favourite book with all the chapters mixed up.? There are two parts to this. One rational and one emotional (left brain and right brain). … Continue reading
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Brand Stories: Tools and Tactics
Finding a story Getting a solid story takes a inquisitive mind. I have found that keeping a note book close to hand for travelling or for the times when you wake up in the morning with a burning idea. In previous … Continue reading
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Pharmaceutical Brand Planning-The Pharma Brand Story Plan Part II
Here are my tips for a more concrete way of creating a pharma brand plan. I based the methodology on EBM (Evidenced Based Medicine). Why? Because I think that this is the market access mantra of the future. So our plans need to reflect this. How is it done? Continue reading
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Cool Brand Story Pictures
Ive had this slideShare presentation tagged for a while. It does a great job of illustrating current and future marketing potentials. Slide 17 sums it all up. Storytelling has impact!
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