Stand out from the crowd — find your origin story

Two children play as superheroes — find your origin story
Origin stories aren’t just for super heroes — companies can have them too. And they provide a strong foundation on which to build a brand.Six years ago, I was in Los Angeles making a living as an actor and occasional screenwriter. I had worked in the entertainment industry for over a decade, and had loved it. I got to travel … Read More

How screenwriting principles can help you write better copy

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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

Want to engage your prospects? Tell them a story

To engage with pospects use brand stories

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

Brand Storytelling: How to find compelling stories

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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

Online marketing and the power of a good story

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A little while ago I was grabbing some lunch from the Marks and Spencer food hall near my office and noticed a series of four in-store advertising posters stretching along the wall. Each of the posters drew attention to one food product type and one M&S producer/supplier of that product. One poster featured John Mearns, a pig farmer from Oxfordshire, … Read More