INTAgLIO Business Solutions
BizD Tip

Don't Sell Me Your Product, Tell Me A Story 

Success Stories
The Right Story Will Encourage An Emotional Connection To Your Brand
Written for a target audience without sounding like an infomercial, a Success Story inspires prospects to act by demonstrating how you've tackled challenges similar to theirs with solutions that produce desired results. Also, the process is great for doing research and retaining mind share as you remind customers of what you did for them.
Key To Success

Story Selling Is Mission Critical For Your Business

A dynamic portfolio of success stories proves that your company is in the business of energizing customer results and that you're not just a vendor of products and services. If you don't tell your stories, you are wasting an opportunity to differentiate your company. If you don't have compelling stories to tell, you probably compete on features, price and delivery, which shouldn't give you a high degree of confidence in your business.

Story Facts Story Facts Are More Important Than Product Features

Your responsibility is to commit to a success story portfolio that can be used by everyone in your company. Top tier BizD professionals are natural "StorySellers". The middle tier, who fear the risk of tackling new customer challenges, will learn what your company has done for its customers and feel less threatened when looking for new customer problems to solve.

Author The Most Powerful Story For Each Situation

Your company is a collection of customer stories. Employees and partners should contribute product or service applications that have solved customer problems. Then, you can prioritize the stories which need to be published based on gaps in your success story portfolio.

Assign The Story To Someone With Good Communication Skills

After gathering story essentials and the best contacts for internal and external interviews, apply a format that spotlights your customer and what they achieved through your solution. Compel readers to understand, believe and remember your message by including visualization narratives, quotes, images, charts and numbers. Readers will insert themselves into your story, draw their own conclusions and retell your story in their own words

Make It Happen
Hire a reliable and friendly resource to create your success stories. Here are success story examples that I have written for my clients. 

 

Sincerely,

John J. Bernardi John Bernardi

203-668-1172  

 

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