Why Clients Buy—And Why They Don't
Think of a story. Any story. Maybe just Cinderella, for instance. What does it bring up right away to your mind? 1) Sequence 2) Suspense and 3) The roller coaster Stories are like magic lamps. They have a sequence, there’s suspense and sure to be a roller coaster. So if we examine Cinderella’s story we […]
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Bill Gates isn’t known for making brilliant speeches. But there’s this moment where he stands on the TED stage with a schoolboy smirk on his face. He reaches a container that’s sitting on a table nearby and opens a container. He then proceeds to tell the audience he’s just released a few mosquitoes into the audience. Suddenly Gates’ […]
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Why Backstories? Whenever you hear the startup stories of products and services, it’s always a sugar-coated, goody gum drop story. You rarely get to hear the not-so-great side of things, the mistakes, the second-guessing. In this series, you get to hear what’s happening behind the stage. How—and why—we started the article writing course; how we […]
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Building a website is a daunting marketing project But even the casual listener is astounded to learn that the Psychotactics new marketing website took three years to complete. Of course, there’s a story, so let’s head off into storytelling land. Right click here and ‘save as’ to download this episode to your computer. Back when […]
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When Kathy Sierra sat down to write her book on JAVA, it wasn’t supposed to be a bestseller. They had incredible odds with over 16,000 other books on JAVA already on Amazon. And yet they cut through the noise? How did they do it? Here is her start-up story. They didn’t pull the stunt that […]
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When it comes to audience building online, we tend to fall for the hype. It’s all about “get a thousand clients” or “make thousands of dollars”. If you’ve already been down that path you know that all of those methods fail spectacularly in building your audience. You have to ask yourself: what works? Or rather, […]
[Continue reading...]Storytelling secrets are hiding in plain sight Storytelling has a lot of guidelines and rules. And storytellers can’t always explain what they’re doing? And yet, they’re incredibly powerful. For instance, the concept of “anticipation” before the “problem”. It’s nowhere to be found? Find out how to tell riveting stories here. Here are three storytelling secrets […]
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Without a doubt, stories take first place. So how do we use storytelling in our marketing? Storytelling is way more powerful in creating any sort of persuasion in marketing because of how the story unfolds. Robert McKee is a creative writing instructor who’s famous for his “Story Seminar”. In his seminar, he explains why persuasion […]
[Continue reading...]Storytelling struggles without a catalyst Yet a catalyst doesn’t have to be in your face. It can be quiet, almost introspective. So how do you create powerful catalysts for your stories? And then, once you have the catalyst in place, how do you connect the story back to your article, podcast or presentation? In this […]
[Continue reading...]Imagine you had a program that generated over $150,000 a year Let’s also imagine that this program always had a waiting list and that clients loved it. Would you stop the program, or let it run? In 2006, we started the Protege Program and by 2009, it came to an abrupt halt. But was it […]
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