StoryBrand Made Your Customer the Hero. Now Cast the Guide.
StoryBrand fixed brand messaging by making the customer the hero. The missing chapter: heroes don't follow guides they can't remember. Meet Signal Branding.
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Your website sounds generic because it was built from your industry's unwritten script. Here is where that script comes from and the three-part fix.
Why We Named Our Agency After a Feeling Nobody Wants
Most brands run from the word "boring." We put it in our name, on a star, and in our logo. Here's why that was the smartest thing we ever did.
Two Negatives. One Unforgettable Brand.
"Don't." "Boring." Both words your English teacher told you to avoid. We built a company around them. The psychology behind why it works.
The Guide That Started as a Joke
We were teaching brands to sound more human when someone asked: couldn't this work for dating too? It could. And that question changed how we think about everything.
The Least Boring Thing in the World Is You
Tim had no social media experience. He typed "Hashtag John Wayne" instead of using the # symbol. He ended every tweet with "Thanks, Tim." It worked better than anything the experts were doing.
Your Business Is Not a Business. It's a Person.
I once posted a photo of my squash garden. It outperformed everything else I had ever posted for that account. That made no sense — until it made all the sense.
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