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Predictable B2B Success

How to write a powerful brand story that boosts referrals

  • E48
  • 43:58
  • May 20th 2020

In this episode, Ben Baker, founder of Your Brand Marketing (an employee engagement firm) shares how we can write a powerful brand story that boosts referrals. Some insights he shares include:

  • How companies get employee engagement wrong
  • Is employee advocacy a subset of internal marketing
  • Who needs a personal brand story and why
  • How to write a brand story
  • The biggest mistake people get wrong with crafting a brand story by using the hero's journey formula
  • How to write a brand story and repurpose it
  • How can you factor your brand evolution into writing your brand story
  • How to get customers to tell a version of your brand story
  • Are brand stories driven by personality
  • Is their truth to the saying that customers must buy into the story not just the product
  • Examples of companies sharing great brand stories
  • How to help a company, discover and create their brand story assuming that they've already got their mission and vision
  • How to persuade customers and vendors to be interviewed and gain their perspectives
  • What could businesses do to create a quick win and prove to their leadership that is worth investing in
  • Why brand story resonance is important
  • How to reiterate and reinforce the brand story at various touch points

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