The document discusses brand storytelling and why it is important for a brand. It defines brand storytelling as the sum of all visual, written, and emotional elements that bring a brand to life and communicate what the brand stands for and who it aims to help. Effective brand storytelling can create connections with customers, build brand equity, help companies stand out, and foster authentic relationships with customers at each stage of their journey. Telling the brand story through various forms of content can raise a startup's visibility and market value and help secure funding faster. The document provides tips on crafting and sharing a brand story through different types of valuable content.
4. What Brand Storytelling Is
• the sum of all moving parts - visual, written and emotional -
associated with your brand or company.
• the colors, language, tone, design, and values that bring your
brand to life.
• Your brand story communicates what it is you stand for, and
what you want to sell, to the people who care the most: your
ideal target market, and why you want to help them
Source: https://www.brandpsychestrategies.com/blog/brand-storytelling
5. Why Your Brand Needs A Story
• create a connection between what you are selling and your
customer’s emotional core
• build brand equity (added value to your brand)
• help you stand out in an overcrowded market or industry
• help you make an authentic, genuine connection at every stage
of buyer’s journey (Awareness, Consideration, Decision)
• communicate your company’s values, vision, and mission
• create empathy
• raise the market value of your start-up, app or venture
• secure startup funding faster
Source : https://www.brandpsychestrategies.com/blog/brand-storytelling
9. • Give your audience truly valuable content
that demonstrates that your brand is a
useful resource or helpful. Show your
empathy.
Source: https://pro.regiondo.com/branding-through-storytelling/
10. • The most important goal is to communicate
your brand story as efficiently and
effectively as possible, Therefore, choosing
the right format is vital.
11. • Make sure you are speaking to your
audience in the way that can be heard
above bullet points or slide decks.
12. • Your brand should have a formal style
guide whether it’s a brand video,
infographic, or interactive, a consistent,
on-brand visual language creates a
cohesive experience.
13. • Help to elevate your visibility through
publishing partnerships, syndication, or
cobranded work. The larger the reach, the
more people will hear your brand story.
15. Putting it into practice, brainstorm what your
company stands for and craft a short story sharing
with your customers why what you sell matters.
Source: https://www.brandpsychestrategies.com/blog/brand-storytelling
16. How do you tell your brand stories at every stage of
the buyer’s journey?
In what way are you, as a person, connected to your
products or services?
What’s your personal story and how does it add value
to your products?
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buyers-journey
create a connection between what you are selling and your customer’s emotional core
build brand equity
help you standout in an overcrowded market or industry
communicate your company’s values and mission in a way that can be heard above bullet points and slide decks
create empathy
raise the market value of your start-up, app or venture
secure startup funding faster
The Toms Story, founder Blake Mycoskie “witnessed the hardships faced by children growing up without shoes”. One for One.
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Need to know who is your target audience, figure out what exactly your customers are
When you figure this out, you can define your brand’s story to fit their expectations.
Create customer personas to find out what they need and focus on helping them solve a problem, do something better, or enhance their life in some way
Circumstance: when, where and why the story is taking place
Curiosity: keeping them interested
Character: Give your audience a character that they can fall in love with, relate to, or aspire to be, exp. Hero story
Conflict: many people try to avoid, but without it you wouldn’t have a story to tell in the first place. Identify the conflicts your audience is facing, and that is where they will find the solution (your services).
Conflict also describes the obstacles that your audience encounters, you, business owner decided to figure out how to defeat a problem.