Saturday, April 26, 2025 177 Storytelling Prompts for Business Stories

  Have you ever faced a blank page, saying to yourself, “I know I need a story…a good story…for business. But I keep drawing a blank.” And most of the...

Thursday, April 10, 2025 176 How To Generate Buzz For Your Products With Client Backstories

If you’re a small service-oriented business, you want to get people to talk about you!  But how do you do this?  Small companies—especially service-ba...

Friday, April 4, 2025 127 How to Demonstrate Your Expertise By Telling Stories (Encore)

"You're the expert." How do you feel when you hear those words?   You'd better get used to hearing that sentenence if you're a service-based soloprene...

Thursday, March 27, 2025 175 Three Ways To Create More Powerful Headlines With Storytelling

You’ve got a nice draft of the copy, all set to go…but will your audience ever read that copy? The answer is: Not unless you’re reeling them in with a...

Friday, March 21, 2025 174 These 2 tricks will 2X your selling story

Telling the right story, the right way, can lead to more clients and more sales.   You don’t have to come up with a story that keeps you in suspense--...

Thursday, March 6, 2025 173 From story to sale: How Solopreneurs Can Connect With Their Audience: An interview with Angela Wills.

Angela Wills created her Life  Style Freedom business by making connections. She believed business doesn’t dictate your lifestyle: your lifestyle crea...

Friday, February 14, 2025 170 How to bring emotions into your business planning by using stories

Oh no...the New Year begins with two tasks a lot of us dread: planning and taxes. I can't do much about taxes, but this episode is all about making pl...

Saturday, January 18, 2025 125 The best business storytellers do these 3 things

Almost every business coach on the planet will advise you to start telling stories. They’ll encourage you to use storytelling for your blog posts, ema...

Thursday, January 9, 2025 167 Marketing as an Educator with Guest Robert Middleon

When you're a small, service-based business, you are selling yourself and your ideas. I call this marketing when the brand is YOU.  Most service busin...

Thursday, December 19, 2024 165 Why clients expect you to deliver magic in your services (and how you can create a magical experience realistically)

Your story has a hero and a guide. Sometimes your story has cheerleaders and a villain. But your story doesn’t have a wizard or fairy godmother or mag...

Thursday, November 21, 2024 023 The most important story for solopreneuur marketing

Your most important story isn't about you. It's about how you work with clients to help them reach their goals.  This is your success story.  Your su...

Thursday, November 7, 2024 163 Is your story a literary production, a good business story, or both?

https://www.marketingwords.com/blog/write-copy-future-pacing/?ref=cathy_goodwin I recently came across a workshop on writing creative nonfiction. And...