Write a Business Story to Get Your Message Remembered (video podcast)
Check out the video podcast below, in which Dan Janal, of Write Your Book in a Flash gets my thoughts on:
Shape of a Story
When you tell a story, you want to engage your audience from start to finish. You can plan an engaging story, if you follow the typical story plot or shape. The basic elements of a story are: A. Context (Time, place, characters, goals)B. Challenge (inciting incident/obstacle)C. Rising Action (more obstacles or events leading to . […]
Telling Facts vs. Telling a Story
In the video below, I give an example of fleshing out a fact with a story to create greater engagement and buy-in.
Can You Figure Out this Riddle?
In the short video below, I share a riddle so that you can see how a story can flesh out facts and make your ideas, your products, and your services easier for people to visualize.
Facts Tell. Stories Sell.
Sometimes lessons (i.e., speech material) come out of the most ordinary experiences. In the video below, I share a story of how I bought something at an estate sale because someone told me a good story. The lesson for me was: Facts tell. Stories sell.
The Secret to Engaging Stories
You know you need to have conflict to make a story interesting. You know you need the basics of setting, characters, and action. But, there is one element that can make your stories incredibly engaging, an element that many speakers don’t use very much: dialogue. Almost every speaker that I have coached starts out with […]
Release Your Story with Right-Placed Details
How many triangles are there in the illustration below? Don’t read further until you answer that question. Two? Eight? More? Note that I didn’t ask, “How many triangles do you see in the illustration?” How many are there actually? The correct answer is “zero.” There are only V shapes and 3 Pac-Men type figures. At […]