
Craft five versions of your true business story using stickiness principles to create vivid, memorable messaging for marketing, potential investors, and compelling web copy.
Shape your story into five versions across contexts through 15 lectures, with downloadable transcripts and a sticky story workbook, using Phlip thinking and Suzy and Max's real-world examples.
Explore sticky story examples from Green & Black's, Housing dot com, and Patagonia, including the Once Upon a Time sections, to see how mission and purpose shape focused brand narratives.
Explore how mirror neurons shape emotional responses to stories, showing how observing actions triggers brain activity and aligns customers with narrative characters.
Explore selecting three vivid emotions from your backstory to craft an impact autobiography and a compelling blurb for the back cover, with downloadable prompts for discussion.
Explore how morality, tension, and narrative patterns shape compelling stories—from To Kill a Mockingbird and myths to modern films—teaching decisions and values.
Explore Robert McKee’s story workshop and story formula, illustrating incident, complication, climax, and reversal through situations like Toy Story, and highlighting the story spark and Stephen King's emphasis on situation.
Shaping your plot guides you to craft a compelling backstory with three defining moments, mood boards, and clear themes that reveal your authentic journey and plot twists.
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Explore you as a character and authenticity using internal method acting, highlighting your best qualities to create a vivid, accessible hero your audience can relate to.
Explore how word and character archetypes reveal motivation and leadership ambitions, blending Meyers-Briggs and Big Five insights to craft compelling business stories.
Choose an adventure character that embraces thrill, experimentation, and exploration, or a character who looks after others, prioritizes humanity, and pursues change through leadership or transformation.
Explore how stickiness works by leveraging availability and vividness, crafting simple stories with strong visuals, vivid metaphors, tension, contagious emotion, and storyteller credibility.
Create a direct video script that aligns your business story with your ideal customer's day and tribe, using bold quest, rebirth, overcoming the monster, and rags-to-riches patterns plus ruthless editing.
Invest a half day in this course, to create your lifelong business story.
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Business Story Marketing is for creative entrepreneurs and small biz owners, seeking one most shareable business story, to use across your marketing channels.
You may find marketing a challenge, with your efforts feeling fragmented - or maybe you could do with creating a compelling narrative to gain investment for your business, and rapid growth.
Using truth, psychology and story analysis, you'll create five different formats to shape your business story for the web, print, podcast, video and byline. You'll identify your character type and your story type, and work out how your business story can merge with that of your customers or clients.
Highly interactive and practical, you can do this course in a half day, giving you a business story that will last a lifetime.