Fairy Tale Marketing
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If you've been struggling to create a marketing campaign that is memorable and engaging, this is the book for you. Fairy Tale Marketing will walk you through the research behind story driven marketing as well as give you tips and insights on how to write the stories in a manner that is compelling and will grab the attention of your viewers.
It's No Gimmick
Fairy Tale Marketing isn't a gimmick. It's based on how the human brain stores and retrieves memories, backed up by scientific research, and proven examples. It does take creativity, but it can be applied to not only your own story, but to your products and services as well. Sell more and make more by harnessing the untapped power in stories.
Brandy Miller
Brandy M. Miller lives in Dallas, Texas with her husband. She is a professional Creativity Consultant for Creative Technology Services, a company she started with her husband in November 2011, where she employs her talents in graphic design, marketing, and writing. She is also the Chief Executive Storyteller for 40 Day Writer LLC where she helps others publish their books.
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Fairy Tale Marketing - Brandy Miller
Fairy Tale Marketing:
Harnessing the power of storytelling to increase sales and improve business
By Brandy M. Miller, Creative Technology Services
Fairy Tale Marketing
Brandy M. Miller
Copyright 2014 by Brandy M. Miller
Smashwords Edition
Table of Contents
Why Marketing Efforts Fail
It All Starts With the Brain
Stories and Your Business
Better Business Stories
Finding Your Marketing Story
Telling Your Marketing Story
Creating a Product or Service Story
Sharing Your Story
Getting Started
Why Marketing Efforts Fail
Companies that want to succeed know that marketing is an essential part of the game plan. It doesn’t matter how good the product or service is, after all, if nobody knows it exists. Marketing effectively isn’t usually cheap, either. Traditional mediums like print, television, and radio can run into the thousands of dollars a month. Paid online advertising can be extremely competitive and equally expensive. Even the free
advertising mediums like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter aren’t really free. They still require considerable amounts of investment in terms of time and resources to produce.
With all this money, time, and effort being spent on marketing, it’s clear that businesses cannot afford marketing campaigns that fall flat. Yet many of them do. Here are the three mistakes most marketing campaigns make:
The Wrong Audience
No matter how compelling the marketing message, it will fail to achieve the desired results if delivered to the wrong audience. Children are not likely to find marketing campaigns featuring college students or college life appealing because it is too far outside of their experience and doesn’t address the needs that they face. Put that same marketing message in front of a teenager or a parent with older teenaged children, though, and they are likely to hang on to every word if it’s an appealing enough message.
The Wrong Message
Even with the right audience, the wrong message will cause a