Thursday, January 4, 2024 042 ENCORE: How Storytelling Makes Your Small Business Marketing More Productive in 3 Ways

This week's episode is an encore presentation. It's designed to introduce new audience members to a podcast they may have missed. And it's one of my f...

Thursday, December 21, 2023 130 From “Ordinary” To “Valuable Treasure” With  A Simple Story

  Many service-based entrepreneurs tell me, “My services seem so ordinary! I want to create a sense of excitement among potential clients.” It’s how l...

Wednesday, December 6, 2023 128 Position Yourself As An Expert With Your Story Archetype

One of the biggest challenges for a business owner is getting seen as a credible expert in your field…even a thought leader in your industry. Last epi...

Thursday, November 23, 2023 126 How To Use Storytelling To Make Business Plans That Won't Turn Into Pipe Dreams

“Every year I say I’m going to plan better. And it never happens.” “I make great plans. But I never seem to finish carrying them out.” “I’m a small bu...

Thursday, November 9, 2023 124 Traveling for the holidays? Take your story with you.

You’re a service-based business and the brand is YOU. So how will you keep growing your business while you’re taking some downtime? For many of us, ho...

Thursday, November 2, 2023 123 How to begin building your online brand when your website isn’t ready

When you meet prospects, live or virtually, they often want to know more about you and your services.  Inevitably, they’ll ask for your website. Resea...

Thursday, October 26, 2023 122 Two ways for business owners to share their journey stories

A content creator posted on social media: When working to improve yourself: Is it better to do it in a public forum and post about progress along the ...

Thursday, October 19, 2023 121 How this business story mistake leads to client confusion

When you introduce yourself as a business owner, do you give yourself a title? Or do you jump right in to explain how you serve clients? Many coaches ...

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...