Storytelling framework in action

kara_susvilla
HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

Regardless of the story you’re trying to tell and how you’re trying to tell it, storytelling has three essential elements:

  • Characters
  • Conflict
  • Resolution

Choose one of your favorite brands, and tell their business's story by answering the below questions.

  • Who is the brand?
  • Who is their audience?
  • What challenge are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it?

*To learn more about this, check out The Power of Storytelling lesson via HubSpot Academy. 

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Sna755
Member

Storytelling Framework in action

 

Who is the brand? Adidas 

 

Who is their audience?

Athletes, fitness enthusiasts, and style-conscious youth — often 15–35 years old.

 

What challenge are they helping their audience to overcome?

Lack of access to high-performance, stylish, and ethical sportswear. 

Desire for self-expression through fashion and fitness

 

How are they doing it?

 

Collaborating with designers and influencers.

Promoting sustainability with recycled materials and ethical practices.

Balancing performance and fashion-forward designs. 

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Giulianapena
Member
  • Who is the brand? Falkor
  • Who is their audience? Analysts and investigators working on the field of LEA, Cybersecurity, Fiancial investigations. The work involves solving fraud, crime, and cyberattack cases, and also work with OSINT.
  • What challenge are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it?
    Overwhelmed by information.
    Limited time to finish an investigation
    Overwhelmed by too many tabs and tools 
    information chaos
sraza2
Member

Storytelling framework in action

Brand: Food Lover

Audience: My audience is people like me, students, working professionals, busy parents, or anyone who wants a good meal without worrying about hygiene or high prices. People who are tired of paying too much for too little, or eating food that doesn’t feel clean or fresh.
Resolution: A lot of people struggle to find food that’s tasty, clean, and filling, all on one plate and at a fair price. I’m here to change that.

Whether it’s through my food recommendations, home-cooked meals, or plans of a food business, I want to make sure people enjoy real food, made with care, served with honesty, and always worth their money.

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zparekh2
Member

Brand: Masters Molty Foam

Audience: Adults aged 20 and above who need well-manufactured foams.

Resolution: Master Molty foam helps people choose foam to their liking and manufactures it according to their requirements. They establish a healthy relationship with their customers through their work and passion, persuading them to purchase again. Their product is top-notch providing best quality only.

SSharma580
Participant

Brand: Patanjali
Audience: Child-Adult
Challenes: To help people eat clean, Trust on their product that whatever they are providing of good quality
They are doing it through several campaigns and showing transparency

 

Skolastika
Member

Storytelling Framework in Action

Brand: Kaegar

Audience: Career changers, upskillers, and global learners transitioning into tech, especially without a traditional tech background.

 

Challenge: Many do not know what tech role to pivot into, how to build experience, or how to stand out without a perfect CV.

 

How they help:

Kaegar offers hands-on, project-based learning that mirrors real work — not just theory. Learners build portfolio-worthy skills by solving actual business problems.

Their content also provides clear, honest guidance, helping people move forward with confidence.

Brightojiabor
Member

My brand is furniture 

Audience's everyday man

HuongGiang2004
Participant

Brand name: Lavie 

Audience: 

The target audience of La Vie's recent advertising campaigns is young adults, especially those aged 20 to 35, who are often busy with work and fast-paced urban life.

Challenge & Resolution

These individuals constantly face pressure from their jobs, digital connectivity, and the demands of modern living, leading to a growing need for short, refreshing moments to recharge and clear their minds.

La Vie positions itself not just as a provider of natural mineral water, but as a small pause – a moment of calm in the middle of a hectic day. Drinking water becomes more than just physical hydration; it becomes a way to reconnect with nature, to regain a sense of peace and balance.

The brand’s recent visual identity emphasizes purity, nature, and the feeling of being refreshed, portraying La Vie as a gentle bridge between the modern individual and the calming energy of nature.

 

 

himanshi01
Member

Brand name : geetanjali 

characters : buyers 

Challenge : In the era of mass production and fast fashion in fashion industry, people are looking for unique designs which doesn't look generic and holds emotional value to them, it could be lack of depth in design overall or couldn't resonate with the idea of machine made fast fashion. They didn't find the unique value of the product 

Resolution : Geetanjali is a small business opened by a woman who loves fashion and passionate about creating unique pieces of jewelries and accessories based on the culture and diversity of events around her and provide high quality craftmanship and desgins through her work which are extremely unique and rare to be found in the market. 

ParthaB
Member
  • Who is the brand?
    NearMe digital marketing
  • Who is their audience?
    a small business with big dreams — a tailor, a tutor, a baker, a boutique owner — all working hard, yet invisible in the digital world.
  • What challenge are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it?

    We help small businesses and entrepreneurs step confidently into the digital age. Whether it's building a website, managing social media, creating content, or running high-impact ads — we make it easy, affordable, and meaningful.

    Our goal is simple:
    To educate, empower, and elevate every local brand that wants to grow but doesn’t know where to start.

    As India moves forward with its Digital India mission, we ensure no business gets left behind.

    Because when your business is visible online, growth is no longer a dream — it’s a click away.

Tanya101
Participant

The Brand: Meesho


Their audience: The target audience can be conveniently broken down into two categories: retailers and buyers. 
The retailers are largely small business owners, homemakers, and women entrepreneurs who are trying to upscale their businesses. The buyers, on the other hand, are cost-conscious customers, particularly in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, looking for quality items at affordable prices.

Their problem statement: Meesho's problem statement again can be put under two user groups: the retailers and consumers.
The retailers are mainly women entrepreneurs or local businesses, wherein the owners have a hard time attaining scalability due to unavaibility of funding and resources and lack the necessary digital skills required to publish their enterprises online.
The consumers are largely people who lack access to affordable quality items or who are not digitally inclined to easily navigate through existing platforms.

Their solution: Meesho aims to provide a platform with minimal technical barriers, with an interactive UI/UX interface, that can be easily accessed in multiple languages. The retailers can launch their businesses with zero capital investment. As for the customers, they have the luxury of purchasing trendy and value for money products easily, without having to pay a delivery fee.

EdenOtuoze
Participant

Brand: Life Bank

Audience: Patients, especially women who have just delivered babies and are in need of blood, oxygen or the right medical equipment to enable care.

Story

You can see the pain on their faces, the look of despair on those of their relatives. As the medical personnel struggle to save them with what little resources are available in the developing suburbs of Africa.

With remote access to adequate resources, it can seem like all hope is lost and lives can't be saved.

But it doesn't have to be this way.

Because LifeBank's mission is to provide blood, oxygen and other necessary medical equipment just in time to save lives. To transform those looks of despair into smiles. A patient losing blood and in need of medical help could be saved within minutes with just the right call. 

At LifeBank, we believe we can be the heroes of our own story.

Mirgal
Member

Who is the brand: miracle new age.

Who is audience: mother and elderly ladies.

What challenge are they helping their audience to overcome: women facing health issues due to pregnancy,or age and skincare issues with their upcoming ages became normal.

How are they doing it : by providing personalise and customise healcare and skincare plans and diet to help them overcome the problem of ageing 

Make them feel young again

NZungu3
Participant
  • Who is the brand? Weet-Bix Cereal
  • Who is their audience? Young and old people who eat breakfast
  • What challenge are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it? They offer a nutritous morning meal to help with digestion as it known for high in fibre elements and promotes feeling full. It's a great breakfast to have before starting your day.
PLakhlan
Member

My brand name is Feel free ...

Audience : youth that feels frustrated 

So my idea is 

That I built a app feel free .. there people share their thoughts ,ideas and own feelings without hesitation and without judgement.. because today generation are very frustrated and always complain that no one listen if we tell anyone then they judge us .. so this app help this share thoughts without judgement and without showing identity.. 

Uzi
Member

•MY BRAND NAME IS "SUCCESS WITH LITTLE ACTS"

•My audience are all the youth of this generation 

•Now a days youths are suffering from many distractions like unhealthy relations and one of the main reason is excessive use of SCREEN TIME 

MY APP IS A TIMER TYPE APP 

Which includes many features which differently treated people as their problems are. In the initial it ask questions about what's their goals and what getting their distracted and also says some storys of the people who has same problems and how are the exit from that. 

All l also added a group time to finish their task with other people which was more productive.

THANK YOU**

 

 

NNikolenko
Member

Brand:
My brand is a digital coloring book shop that offers AI-generated coloring pages for kids and adults. I create fun, creative, and relaxing designs to inspire imagination and mindfulness.

Audience:
My audience includes parents looking for creative screen-free activities for their children, educators, and adults who want to reduce stress through art therapy and mindfulness coloring.

Challenge & How:
Many people—especially children—spend too much time on screens and lack creative, relaxing offline activities. My coloring books provide a fun and calming alternative that supports creativity, focus, and emotional well-being. I use AI to design unique and beautiful illustrations that are easy to download, print, and enjoy anytime.

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adelineseck
Participant

Choose one of your favorite brands, and tell their business's story by answering the below questions.

  • Who is the brand?
    Starbucks
  • Who is their audience?
    Coffee drinkers
  • What challenge are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it?
    Convenience of barista standard coffee beverages, by opening up more stores all around the world. 
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Omkar_S
Participant

Who is the brand? 

Nirorama

Who is their audience?

Their audience is the young college-going girls and boys who whats to wear something different but at the same time something which looks premium and comfortable to wear.

What challenge are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it?

Nishorama helps their customers by overcoming the challenge of finding unique, stylish, and comfortable Indian ethnic wear, blending it with modern ideas.

 

KMurad
Member

Brand: Sowears.
Audience: Young girls and women aged between 15-45
Challenge: They are providing women of Pakistan with affordable and good quality western wears.

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RMatlou
Member

Brand: Kauai

Audience: Everyone

Challenge: Providing fresh healthy on the go menus, to meet all kinds of diets using natural ingredients.

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