Screenwriting & Marketing One of the fields we frequently refer to in our work is screenwriting, so we’re often asked what screenwriting has to do with marketing. In this post, we’re going to take a look at one way screenwriting principles can be applied to copywriting for your business: the Three Act Structure. What is the Three Act Structure? The … Read More
What’s your tribe? A lot of people ask us where we got the name Tribus (pronounced try-bus) from, and we explain that it refers to the three ethnic divisions of Ancient Rome, and is the Latin root of the word tribe. They normally follow up by asking what a tribe has to do with what we do — our answer … Read More
Brand Values Chipotle, a well-known Mexican restaurant chain from North America, has served up a masterclass in brand storytelling & values, with an animation short that has since gone viral. The video features a scarecrow who works for a large food corporation, one that claims to use fresh produce and free-range animals, but is in fact a giant assembly line … Read More
You should be able to articulate what your organisation is about in just four words. It’s not easy, but four words is concise enough to allow your audience to process, understand, and then engage with you immediately. More than four words means there is more to process and understand, and any engagement is likely to involve you repeating, rewording or … Read More
How often have you visited a company’s website to read something like “we go the extra mile”, “we give one hundred and ten percent”, or “our product is best in class”? I’ve lost track of the number of companies that make those kind of statements on the homepage, but offer nothing to back them up. All the statements about service, … Read More
In an article for the Talk Business Magazine website, I wrote about using brand storytelling to market a company’s products and services. I drew on three examples of companies that had used compelling stories to engage the emotion or imagination of their prospective customers — Saddleback Leather (which I have mentioned before), Waitrose, and one of my own clients (discretion … Read More
