Branding with Powerful Stories : The Villains, Victims, and Heroes Model / Greg Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Greg, author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Branding (Marketing).

Storytelling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 204 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2022.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Whether you are branding your company, your product, your service, or yourself, learn to boost the power of your story and convey a compelling message in any setting by incorporating villains, victims, and heroes. Compelling stories exalt, motivate, and acculturate every worker in an enterprise. They also attract customers and media alike. Imagine an elderly man, snowed in, unable to shop for groceries until a supermarket comes to the rescue and delivers his food. The story of this company going out of its way to help a customer in need will resonate not only with consumers but also with employees. This book explains not just how to tell a captivating story, but also what elements-namely, villains, victims, and heroes-it should include in the first place. This approach is based on the notion that in business messaging, the villains may just be your best friends. The "villains" are simply any problems that cause pain, discomfort, or extra expense for customers, who are in effect the "victims." As for the "heroes," they are best illustrated by the supermarket going beyond expectations. Who in business wouldn't want to emulate that company? If your products and services offer real solutions to customers' predicaments, there is nothing more powerful than communicating that message and making sure your potential customers remember it.

Contents:

Preface Acknowledgments Part One: The Elements of Your Story ONE Why Bother with Storytelling? The Payoff Is Executive Presence TWO Find the Villain to Uncover the Story and Make Your Company the "Hero" THREE Travel to Your Islands: The Key Elements of Messages FOUR Brand with the Heart: Because Consumers Often Think Products Have One FIVE Why Stories Resonate: Neuroscience Meets Homer SIX Examples of Great Business Stories: The Formulas in Action Part Two: How to Tell Your Story SEVEN The Pictures Are Better on Radio or Podcasts: Especially with Sound Bites, Rhythm, and Brevity EIGHT How to Compose a Compelling Story, in Person or on Video: A Dose of Dickens and a Splash of Casablanca NINE Making Rhetoric Stick: Tips, Signs, and Lies TEN Make Your Words March: Clichés, Writer's Block, and Plot Patterns ELEVEN Body Language, Vocal Techniques, and Stage Fright: Your Body Speaks, Your Voice Gestures TWELVE Social Media Relations: Printing Presses, Water Coolers, and Crises THIRTEEN More Stories to Emulate: Prevail with a Tale FOURTEEN The End of the Story: My Own Saga Notes Bibliography Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400621116

9798216055785

9781440864780

1440864780

OCLC:

1048661274