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How to Get the Story Your Client Wants to Tell - It’s All About the Interview

2/25/2019

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Interviewing for case study
​If you ask, your clients are generally happy to put out a good word for you. They’ll refer you to their friends and colleagues. They’ll respond to your customer satisfaction surveys with high marks and a smiley face. They’ll even give you a favorable review on Facebook or Google. Unfortunately, the feedback, while good, isn’t necessarily compelling because what they have to say is flat. That is, it doesn’t take the reader up and over the dramatic arc, a necessity if you want to activate empathy – which you do.

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Five Ways to Find Stories for Case Studies

2/18/2019

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Find stories for case studies
If you want to use case studies to differentiate your business and gain buyers’ trust, the first thing you need to do is find the stories that you need to tell. Once you know how to uncover these stories, and you get your whole company involved, you’ll discover that you have a consistent source of ideas for the best type of content that influences your buyers’ decisions. No special tools are needed to give these five tactics a try.

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First Steps to Take to Promote Your Case Study

2/4/2019

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First steps to take to promote your case study
You just published a case study on your website. As you look at the text on the web page, you recall all the effort that went into the piece. It’s not always easy to get people to open up, but not only did you get a unique angle with which to describe the outcome of your work, you also got some great insights about your client’s experience that you can take to your team. Now is no time to sit back and bask in your client’s glowing words. It’s time to get to work to promote your case study.

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Do You Know How to Find Your Stories?

6/20/2018

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How to find your stories
​I know why you haven’t started using a storytelling approach to your marketing and communications. You’ve been hearing about it everywhere – from your industry organization, in your social media feed, at training events. You’re sold on its power to connect, persuade and motivate people. You just haven’t taken that first step. Here’s why. You don’t know how to find the stories you need to tell.

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Impact and Insight - The Jack-in-the-Box Moments of Storytelling

5/30/2018

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Jack-in-the-box moments of storytelling
Just before sitting down to write this, I had to do a search to see if you could still get jack-in-the-box toys. You can. You can get them in even more variations than the standard clown that was the norm when I was growing up. The ageless thrill of the jack-in-the-box is a mixture of predictability and surprise. You know as you turn the handle what’s going to happen. Yet when the lid flips up and the toy pops out, it’s always a surprise. This is what happens in storytelling, and I call it impact and insight.

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This is What's Wrong with Your Testimonials

5/22/2018

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Your testimonials are so boring
“Everyone is so happy with the completion of our big project implementation. Sure, there were a few problems to troubleshoot along the way, but your team stuck with it and performed brilliantly. We now have a system that is operating at capacity and is creating the real time results that we need to meet our goals.”
 
Zzzzzz….  Is it over?

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Unwrap Your Client Stories

5/8/2018

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Case studies tell your client stories
Case studies are the classic client stories. The usual format takes you through three phases: the situation, what the vendor did, and the outcome. It’s common to focus on the middle phase and blow your own horn talking about yourself and your work, but there’s a different way to tell your client stories that will enable sales and guide your prospect to a decision. Paint a better picture of what life looked like before and after you came on the scene, and you’ll have a more powerful way to connect with people and influence their decision-making process.

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Turn Your Case Studies Into Client Stories

2/26/2018

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​Case studies are one of the very best ways to demonstrate how your products and services have met the needs of your clients. In the B2B world, the buying decision may include many people and is more emotional than a B2C decision because of what is at stake. Case studies have long been recognized as a way to help in the decision making process, to validate choices, and nurture trust. They can be even more powerful when they are presented in a storytelling format that focuses more on what happened to the client, than on the products and services they used.

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Business Storytelling Begins With Listening

1/10/2018

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Start storytelling by listening
To be adept at business storytelling, you must first be a listener. This is because the story that you need to tell is not the one about you, what you do and how you do it. It’s the story about your client, their problem and the journey they went on to find a solution. How do you get your client’s story, and what do you do with it?

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The Best Habit For Your Business

1/3/2018

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The best habit for your business
If you're like most business owners, you have plans, and you have priorities. But you wonder if the initiatives on which you are pointing your energy and resources are the ones that are going to have the biggest impact on your business. What you really want is to do is to find the rock that will cause the biggest ripple in your organization, moving you towards your goals. If this is you, ask yourself how your plans and priorities are focused on your clients. Sounds obvious, right. In fact, you might think you're already doing everything you can for your clients, but maybe it's time to be more intentional about getting into their heads. Start talking more often with your clients and make it a habit.

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