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Quotes about Storytelling

Question: What is an example of company that created a brand by conducting a dialogue with customers?

Answer: You don’t know many either, do you Guy? Ahh, we agree! I think that while markets are conversations, marketing is a story. Starbucks creates conversations among customers, so does Apple. The NYSE makes a fortune permitting people to interact with each other. But great marketing is storytelling, and if you’ve been to a Broadway show lately, you’ll notice that audience participation is discouraged. That doesn’t mean that great playwrights don’t listen! They do. They, like great marketers, listen relentlessly. They engage in offline conversations constantly. They poll and they do censuses and most important, they have true conversations with small groups of real people. But THEN, they tell a story.

Seth Godin : Gaia Explorer
Seth Godin
Source: How to Change the World: Ten Questions with Seth Godin: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/08/ten_questions_w.html
Contributed by: ~C4Chaos. More quotes added by ~C4Chaos from all sources
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She could write the scene three times over, from three points of view...none of these three was bad, nor were they particularly good.  She need not judge...She need only show seperate minds, as alive as her own, struggling with the idea that other minds were equally alive. It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp that other people are as real as you. And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show that they had equal value.  That was the only moral a story need have.

Ian McEwan
Source: Atonement: A Novel, Page: 38
Contributed by: Wednesday. More quotes added by Wednesday from this | all sources
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I think that while markets are conversations, marketing is a story. Starbucks creates conversations among customers, so does Apple. The NYSE makes a fortune permitting people to interact with each other. But great marketing is storytelling, and if you’ve been to a Broadway show lately, you’ll notice that audience participation is discouraged. That doesn’t mean that great playwrights don’t listen! They do. They, like great marketers, listen relentlessly. They engage in offline conversations constantly. They poll and they do censuses and most important, they have true conversations with small groups of real people. But THEN, they tell a story.

Seth Godin : Gaia Explorer
Seth Godin
Source: Ten Questions with Seth Godin: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/08/ten_questions_w.html
Contributed by: ~C4Chaos. More quotes added by ~C4Chaos from all sources
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When relating a story at work, think of ways to make what you have to say interesting and compelling.

Mitch : Gatsby
Mitch Thrower
Source: "The Attention Deficit Workplace" by Mitch Thrower
Contributed by: Mitch Thrower. More quotes added by Mitch from all sources
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All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has a way of leaping among persons, as it does at parties and celebratory gatherings. Storytelling always begets storytelling. It is difficult to watch others at play without wanting to join them. This is not only a human phenomenon, for researchers have consistently noted that animals at play are often imitated by other animals. So wherever it is possible to initiate a playful activity, it will have a good chance of replicating itself through other parts of the system.

Joseph Meeker
 
Contributed by: Siona van Dijk. More quotes added by Siona from all sources
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"Stories are medicine.
They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything -
we need only listen"

Clarisa Pinkola Estes
Source: Clarisa Pinkola Estes
Contributed by: Samme "Prince Samwise" Samareta. More quotes added by Samme from all sources
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Facts don’t persuade, feelings do. And stories are the best way to get at those feelings.

Tom Asacker : Gaia Child
Tom Asacker
Source: www.acleareye.com: Truth Six - From Fact Telling to Storytelling
Contributed by: ~C4Chaos. More quotes added by ~C4Chaos from all sources
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