Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand
WIN CUSTOMERS AND BUILD BRANDS THROUGH THE POWER OF STORYTELLING

Moth GrandSLAM all-time champion storyteller, writer, and business coach Matthew Dicks presents a guide to using the power of storytelling for success in business of any type or size. Matt has found that the basic principles of effective storytelling are universal, teachable, and more crucial than ever for business communication. Jam-packed with examples, Stories Sell reveals the ingredients of a compelling story and then demonstrates how they can be incorporated into persuasive marketing copy, productive face-to-face conversations, effective sales pitches, and presentations that people actually want to hear. Topics include:

• The three elements of a winning story: stakes, suspense, and surprise
• Finding the right narrative structure (and why beginning at the beginning isn’t always the best method)
• The power of being vulnerable: how admitting your mistakes can build rapport with audiences
• When and how to use humor
• Zigging while others zag: making yourself stand out from competitors

Whether you’re an online marketer, advertising professional, salesperson, small business owner, independent contractor, or Fortune 500 executive, Stories Sell will teach you to find your voice and get your message across for maximum impact and profit.
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Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand
WIN CUSTOMERS AND BUILD BRANDS THROUGH THE POWER OF STORYTELLING

Moth GrandSLAM all-time champion storyteller, writer, and business coach Matthew Dicks presents a guide to using the power of storytelling for success in business of any type or size. Matt has found that the basic principles of effective storytelling are universal, teachable, and more crucial than ever for business communication. Jam-packed with examples, Stories Sell reveals the ingredients of a compelling story and then demonstrates how they can be incorporated into persuasive marketing copy, productive face-to-face conversations, effective sales pitches, and presentations that people actually want to hear. Topics include:

• The three elements of a winning story: stakes, suspense, and surprise
• Finding the right narrative structure (and why beginning at the beginning isn’t always the best method)
• The power of being vulnerable: how admitting your mistakes can build rapport with audiences
• When and how to use humor
• Zigging while others zag: making yourself stand out from competitors

Whether you’re an online marketer, advertising professional, salesperson, small business owner, independent contractor, or Fortune 500 executive, Stories Sell will teach you to find your voice and get your message across for maximum impact and profit.
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Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand

Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand

Stories Sell: Storyworthy Strategies to Grow Your Business and Brand

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WIN CUSTOMERS AND BUILD BRANDS THROUGH THE POWER OF STORYTELLING

Moth GrandSLAM all-time champion storyteller, writer, and business coach Matthew Dicks presents a guide to using the power of storytelling for success in business of any type or size. Matt has found that the basic principles of effective storytelling are universal, teachable, and more crucial than ever for business communication. Jam-packed with examples, Stories Sell reveals the ingredients of a compelling story and then demonstrates how they can be incorporated into persuasive marketing copy, productive face-to-face conversations, effective sales pitches, and presentations that people actually want to hear. Topics include:

• The three elements of a winning story: stakes, suspense, and surprise
• Finding the right narrative structure (and why beginning at the beginning isn’t always the best method)
• The power of being vulnerable: how admitting your mistakes can build rapport with audiences
• When and how to use humor
• Zigging while others zag: making yourself stand out from competitors

Whether you’re an online marketer, advertising professional, salesperson, small business owner, independent contractor, or Fortune 500 executive, Stories Sell will teach you to find your voice and get your message across for maximum impact and profit.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781608689057
Publisher: New World Library
Publication date: 06/11/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
File size: 988 KB

About the Author

Matthew Dicks is an internationally bestselling author and award-winning slam storyteller with a record-breaking fifty-nine victories at the Moth StorySLAM competition and ten victories at the GrandSLAM. In addition to cofounding Speak Up, a Hartford-based storytelling organization, he teaches storytelling and public speaking to individuals, corporations, nonprofits, universities, and schools around the world. He lives in Newington, Connecticut, with his wife and two children.

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Table of Contents

Foreword by Masha Cresalia

Introduction: It Started with a Question and Ended with a Story

Part 1: Climb Aboard

Chapter 1: How I Landed Here
Chapter 2: Do I Need Storytelling?
Chapter 3: Zig vs. Zag

Part 2: Finding Your Stories

Chapter 4: Story Then Purpose. Not the Other Way Around
Chapter 5: Why I Have the Good Stuff
Chapter 6: Homework for Life
Chapter 7: First Last Best Worst
Chapter 8: 3-2-1
Chapter 9: Stories Are Often Invisible to the World
Chapter 10: Building a Culture of Storytelling in Your Business

Part 3: What Is a Story?

Chapter 11: A Story Is a Story Is a Story
Chapter 12: A Story Is About One Thing or Nothing
Chapter 13: Building the Frame of Your Story
Chapter 14: The Weirdness of Your Perception of Attention
Chapter 15: Wondering Is Everything
Chapter 16: Stories Happen in the Mind, Not the Slide
Chapter 17: But and Therefore, But Never Said.
Chapter 18: Chronology: The Beginning Isn’t Always The Beginning
Chapter 19: How and Why to Be Funny
Chapter 20: Tense and Perspective: Keep It Close and Personal Whenever Possible
Chapter 21: Guess Who Put All of This Together Perfectly?

Part 4: Marketing and Sales

Chapter 22: Who Is Doing the Speaking?
Chapter 23: How to Not Build a Deck
Chapter 24: Numbers Should Not Be Numeric
Chapter 25: Good, Hard Truths to Wrap This Up

Afterword by Alykhan Rehmatullah
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