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You spend days and months carving out the perfect marketing plan for your business. It has a clear key message. It targets the correct audience. It has brilliant events for each phase. But it does not work. Why? What did you miss? Before hopping onto another campaign to fix the situation, try looking into something called: storytelling.

Published in Marketing

In the dynamic world of marketing, one timeless and powerful tool has stood the test of time: Storytelling. The art of weaving captivating narratives holds the potential to create deep emotional connections with audiences and leave a lasting impact on their minds. Explore the science behind storytelling in marketing, learn how to craft your own brand story, learn the different elements you need and how to leverage your brand’s story. Discover multiple actionable tips on how businesses can craft compelling brand narratives to engage their audience on a profound level.

Published in Marketing

Few things can make a business more powerful than an aligned marketing and sales team. When both departments can rally around the same story, it leads to greater benefits for each department and the company as a whole. But how exactly does this happen? After all, marketing and sales have individual sets of metrics and goals: marketing is measured on generating demand and sales is focused on converting leads. If marketing and sales are going to work together, they need to be able to collaborate on their projects. Alignment is all about collaboration, and if each team is working towards the same goal it will make this process much more successful.

Published in Marketing
Thursday, 11 June 2015

Why your narrative has to change

I've recently changed the narrative of my business. It's not something I took lightly. Re-defining what value you provide to the market place can be game-changing, or business destroying. 

If you look at Uber for instance, they could have failed, but yet they succeeded. Is it sustainable? Most probably. Is it worth the market value associated with the business? Not really. Did they not only change their original narrative, but create a new narrative for the entire industry - disruptive in design?
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