Business

32 terms in this category

Audience

There are two ways to think about an audience.

Back Story

The story behind the story that builds trust and draws people into your world.

Brand Storytelling

Using stories to build emotional connection between customers and your brand.

Business

The creation of value that others are prepared to pay for.

Concept

The core idea as expressed in the story.

Conversion Copywriting

Copy that's engineered to sell RIGHT NOW.

Core Messages

The foundational messages about a brand, business or founders that are woven through the Storyverse.

Core Value Proposition

The strategic summation of the value you deliver for your customers.

Donald Miller

Author of StoryBrand. You're the mentor, not the hero. Your customer is the protagonist.

Easy Button

This week's must use tactic that works for everyone regardless of product, market or context.

Execution

If you want to get anywhere – with your story or your business – you need to execute consistently.

Genre

The consistent conventions, themes and stereotypes around certain types of stories.

Grethics

Grey ethics.

Hopeless Fraud

What do you know.

Legend

In business storytelling, this may be the Leader Legend, Origin or Founding Story/Stories.

Manifesto

Why your work matters.

Minimum Viable Story

A strategic story, up to 500 words, designed to build attention, connection and trust.

Mythology

The interconnected web of stories a brand tells about itself and what it stands for.

Narrative

The overarching arc that connects all the smaller stories into one coherent whole.

NDP Business

No discernable personality.

Offer

The proposal we make to our prospects.

Origin Story

The seed story that explains the business, brand, product or service.

Parable

Simple lessons that are taught through stories.

Premise

The core idea of a story, arc or mythology.

Pressure Selling

The use of aggressive/passive aggressive tactics to pressure customers into buying.

Seth Godin

A rockstar in the marketing world.

Story.Business

My regular newsletter.

Strategic Copywriting

Copy that's written to build attention, connection and trust ... to sell over time.

Strategic to Tactical

Business stories exist on a spectrum from Strategic to Tactical.

Strategy

The long-term goal.

Trans-Media Storytelling

The increasingly common practice of telling a story across multiple mediums.

Zero

The number of storytelling concepts I use that start with Z.