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The Nine Best Story Lines for Marketing
Lois Kelly is the author of Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Word-of-Mouth Marketing. This is her explanation of the top nine types of stories that people like to talk about. If you’re pitching your company to investors, customers, partners, journalists, vendors, or employees and you don’t use at least one of these story lines, you probably have a problem. And most likely you’re too close to what you’re doing, so you think that you’re uniquely “patent-pending, curve-jumping, and revolutionary.” :-)
How to Increase Sales Is By Keeping Head on the Challenge, Heart on Prize and Hands in Action
How many times in sales are we so focused on just the prize that we forget about the challenge or challenges preventing us from sales success? Knowing what the prize is that being an earned sale, is important. Yet, we must not forget to make sure that all of our actions are aligned both to that prize and challenge.

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telling stories the brand connection
Today, we're interested in stories, and not particularly interested in facts. Every story needs facts, of course, but they are secondary. The facts are there just to provide some ballast for the story. There are always so many facts that don't fit into the story, and insofar as they don't fit, depending on our commitment to the story, we have a tendency to disregard them. Every good story has some connection to the truth of our experience, but the story's the thing.

Diamonds In Your Backyard
This is a story about David. David was a very ambitious and proud man, who was desperate to be very rich. To this end he traveled the globe, spending years away from home searching for a diamond mine. He knew that once he owned a diamond mine his dream of riches would come true. Unfortunately David ended his days neither rich nor happy. After he died the local condominium developer bought David’s property and started to dig the foundation. And what did he find? He found that for all these years David was sitting right on top of a very large, very rich diamond mine. I tell this story to remind us to look first in our own back yards for the glittering opportunities.

7 Steps to Internet Marketing Success
Slaying Goliath isn’t the goal of every internet marketer, but competing effectively is near the top of the list. With the seven tips outlined in this article, you can be well on your way to internet marketing success that hopefully helps you to at least play in Goliath’s sandbox at some point.

Resist the Interpretation Addiction
Sometimes we adopt a story and unknowingly our emotions get swept up in it. And 99% of the time we don’t really question or inquire into the story we create. We treat our story as what actually happened. The problem, of course, is that the story influences, in part, the action you take in subsequent events. This article is about identifying the stories you may have created, working around them and managing them.

How to Give a Guarantee That Attracts New Business... and Doesn't Put You at Risk.
I was working with my client David (not his real name) - the principal of a sports psychology business - to review their marketing program. I asked David "Do you offer a guarantee?" David thought for a moment and then replied, "No... We can't really give a guarantee." >> Do you think the same thing about your business? Read on to find out how to give a guarantee that attracts new business and doesn’t put you at risk.

The Most Important PR Secret
What most entrepreneurs and companies don't understand is that often the main job of the PR firm is to find the right story. It's often not the obvious story that works, because that's the same angle that the competition will be pitching. Without the right story and tone, you have a weak campaign, at best. Finding the right story, that's what it all comes down to.
Make Your Story Add Value to Your Clients Bottom Line
The purpose of your story for a workplace audience is to improve the bottom line. Even in those employee appreciation programs where entertainment may seem the focus, there is an undeniable expectation of increased productivity after your story is heard. The question to ask yourself when using your story is: What is the point of the story and how does the story improve a client's bottom line?
Win Business Faster Than Your Goliath Competition
If waving a magic wand would win more business faster than the competition, no doubt every we'd all do this. Needing to shine in the spotlight against Goliath companies won't stop until we fix how we give business presentations -- specifically business video presentations.
David Wood - A Worthy Marketing Mentor
You may have had a friend or do have one by the name David Wood. However, he is not the one to be discussed here. Better still, could it be that you heard about one David Wood who is known to be one of the big players on network marketing?
Key 2011 Hacker Prevention Lessons
I recently came across this article on the “Top hacker disasters of 2011”, written by David Aitel of Immunity Inc. David has put together a brilliant article that lists some of the high profile attacks and five lessons to be learned. One key point that you should notice in this article is that there was no single security failure points that caused the company’s breach. The points of attack ranged from technology being cracked to poor security practices within a corporation. After reviewing David’s 5 lessons, I wanted to comment on each to add a little more insight.
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