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The StoryBrand Podcast

Marketing Made Simple #5: Your Customers Are Looking for a Guide, Not a Hero

The StoryBrand Podcast

StoryBrand.com

Business, Marketing

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Many businesses feel like they have something to prove and position themselves as the hero in their story. But customers aren't looking for another hero, they're looking for a guide! When you position yourself as the guide, showing customers exactly how your product can fix their problems and transform them into the hero, you're destined to win!

 

This week, J.J. and April unpack the Guide section of the StoryBrand framework and show how you can: 

 

-Use specific language throughout your marketing to position your brand as the guide

 

-Combine empathy and authority to build trust and engagement

 

-Craft your marketing tools, like a sales email, through the voice of a guide

 

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Every week on Marketing Made Simple, marketing experts Dr. J.J. Peterson and April Sunshine Hawkins give you practical marketing tips rooted in the StoryBrand framework and show you how to invite customers into a beautiful story where they become the hero and you become their guide. And when you help your customers win, you win. Subscribe to weekly episodes, dropping every Wednesday in the Marketing Made Simple feed! Just search "Marketing Made Simple" on Apple Podcast, Spotify or wherever you enjoy podcasts.

 

Begin applying the StoryBrand Framework to your marketing by creating your own BrandScript for FREE at MyStoryBrand.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

A lot of people think that their marketing needs to position themselves as the hero in

0:11.5

the story, but that's actually wrong.

0:13.9

That actually will turn customers off.

0:16.6

But when you position yourself as the guide in your customer's story, then you're inviting

0:22.6

them into a story that you get to help them win.

0:37.8

Welcome to the Marketing Made Simple Podcast where we believe that marketing should be easy

0:42.0

and it should work.

0:43.7

My name is Dr. J.J. Peterson and I am joined by my co-host, April Sunshine Hawkins.

0:48.8

Hello, April.

0:49.8

Hi, J.J.

0:50.8

I feel like a lot of businesses think that their theme song for their marketing needs

0:58.0

to be.

0:59.0

Okay.

1:00.0

I need a hero.

1:01.0

Oh, I'm holding up for a hero to the end of the line.

1:06.1

Yes.

1:07.1

Yes.

1:08.1

They also think that maybe it's like, I can be your hero, baby.

1:12.1

Yes.

1:13.1

Yes.

1:14.1

I can take away your pain.

1:16.2

Yes.

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