Thursday, October 12, 2023 120 How To Use Storytelling To Communicate Your Value (And Avoid A Story That Adds To The Confusion)

How to communicate your value by telling a story. Stories make it possible to communicate your value without coming across as boastful, obnoxious or u...

Thursday, September 28, 2023 118 How To Use Stories To Get More Results From Your Email Marketing

Email marketing is one of the most effective ways to grow your business, especially if you are a small, service-based business where you are the brand...

Thursday, September 14, 2023 116 How These 2 Stories Convince Prospective Clients You Can Do The Job (And You're The Real Deal)

When you're a small service-based business, you are the brand ... and you deliver the value to your clients. Prospective clients come to you with the...

Friday, July 28, 2023 109 Small business marketing:Clients confused about what you offer? Do this.

Here's something I see often. You're trying to explain a service to your clients. They don't get it. So...you tell them more about you. Your "why." Yo...

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 104 Ready to pivot your business? Don't make these 3 mistakes.

You know you need a change. A new direction in business...maybe a whole new business. A new career. A major move from corporate to entrepreneurship. Y...

Saturday, June 17, 2023 103 How to decide if the story you love will boost your business

Business storytelling is just one more tool in your marketing bag. But sometimes it's harder to be objective about storytelling decisions than about o...

Friday, March 17, 2023 094 Book Marketing: The Story Behind Your "Why" : Interview with Jane Tabachnick

If you own a service business, you probably know this already: Writing a book can bring you exposure, credibility, and ultimately, more clients. You g...

Wednesday, December 14, 2022 082 How To Respond When Someone Projects Their Story Into Your Narrative

When you tell stories, you influence your audience. In business and in life, you're encouraged to share stories that reflect your audience's reality. ...

Monday, November 21, 2022 080 How A Formerly Sedate Copywriter Followed Her Own Advice To Get Edgy And Wrote A Book With Trigger Warnings

"Your copywriting needs to be edgy!" is the advice I've given for years.  I could have added, "And your books need to be even more edgy!"  For a good ...

Monday, November 14, 2022 079 How To Use Stories To Market Your Business When You Can't Promise A Win

When I work on content strategy for lawyers, financial planners, and other professional service businesses, they point out that they can’t promise the...

Monday, November 7, 2022 078 The ROI Of Storytelling

You probably know that storytelling can be fun. And you probably know storytelling can be the most important tool in your marketing kit.  But how do y...

Monday, October 24, 2022 077 How To Give Your Content The Edge That Prospects Find Irresistible

I get a lot of questions about edgy copy because it’s popular today - for all the wrong reasons. Business owners want content that startles and grabs ...