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kara_susvilla
HubSpot Employee
HubSpot Employee

Storytelling framework in action

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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DMoran29
Member

Storytelling framework in action

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Audience: comic book fanatics, action movie goers, actor evangelists

They have to keep people coming back for each movie through storytelling and combat the concept that each movie will have a happy ending. They also have to maintain the loyalty from those who read comics. And create new content for new audiences.

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josesalgado
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Storytelling framework in action

The brand is Frutos de Vida

The audience is people who want to live a healthy life by eating products that are natural, have no added sugar or preservatives.

The challenge is to avoid 99% of other juice products, which contain added sugar in different ways.

The brand is helping its customers to identify its free-of-sugar content with an honest label. 

 

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DivS
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Storytelling framework in action

BRAND: Ashba Botanics

AUDIENCE: Indian Women between the age of 18 - 50 

CHALLENGES: There were Curly hair products specifically targetted at Indian women in the Indian market. Over the years it was all about normal hair or straight hair. Most of them used products for straight hair as there were no options available in the market or they used to buy foreign brands from international websites/ or on their trips abroad.

HOW ARE THEY DOING IT? They created & launched Curly hair products specifically for Indian Curly hair keeping in mind the customer demand, the weather and hair texture. They hit the right spot and became popular amongst the curly hair women in Indian within a short span of time.

ArmanK
Participant

Storytelling framework in action

Brand: SteelYar

Audience: Key Persons in Iran Steel Industry like factory managers, market players, traders, etc.

Challenge: There was no clear and accurate price source for Iran raw materials price. i.e. if anyone wantrd to check ferroalloys prices, they had to check the metal bulletin.

How they do it: they created a smart dashboard wich provided daily price of all steel industry items and also a predict of near and far future.

AIbe
Member

Storytelling framework in action

  • Who is the brand? SheaMoisture 
  • Who is their audience? Their target audience is African and African-American women, children, and men
  • What challenge are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it? They are making organic haircare and skincare products for people of African descent, who have long been omitted from the beauty industry and have had a hard time finding products for their specific skin and natural hairtypes. All of their marketing speaks about inclusivity, and their website and social pages beautifully represents all colors of African skin and hair types so no matter what the audience member who comes across them looks like, they will feel represented and can relate to the images. They also appeal to emotions by marketing that they reinvest a portion of their profits into the communities in Sierra Leone, Africa where they get their organic ingredients to make products.
NelleB
Member

Storytelling framework in action

BRAND: Nike

AUDIENCE: Men and women athletes between the age of 15 - 40 who can who can build long-term brand loyalty.

CHALLENGES: Many athletes finds it difficult to perform at their best when faced with discomfort.

HOW ARE THEY DOING IT? By giving its primary customers, the athletes the best footwear, apparel, and other equipment that's makes them very comfortable and be their best.

 

GAdeyemo
Participant

Storytelling framework in action

Brand: The Fashion Houseoftogands 

Audience: African women 

Challenges: We are helping women that are looking for where to purchase quality and fashionable wears or accessories on budget to trust and buy from us at discounted prices that they can afford. 

 

chocoholic
Member

Storytelling framework in action

Character - Too Good to Go

Audience - Those looking to save money and help out in the world

Conflict and resolution - Tackle food shortage by giving restaurants a platform from which they can advertise and sell unused food that would only go to waste otherwise for discounted prices

ajsaun19
Member

Storytelling framework in action

Brand: ESPN

Audience: Sports fans/Sports media

Challenge: Gaining insight, score, rumours on the audience's favorite teams/individuals

How they do it: Provide quick updates; create opinion peices on the state of leagues, which team is the best, which teams can improve. Provide strong opinions on different teams/individuals to create contrast/agreement with others. Results in future engagement.

APerson
Member

Storytelling framework in action

My favorite brands would probably be barefoot dreams. I have loved every product I have bought from them regardless of the price and their mission is so cute. Their audience is just about anyone who loves a soft blanket, cardigan, or robe. Besides giving comfort to whole families their mission as a brand is: "Giving back is in our DNA, donating time, product, and resources to countless organizations and hospitals during times of need including The Wunder Project, Baby2Baby, Northwell Health, Valley Presbyterian Hospital, Olive View at UCLA Medical Center and LAC+USC Medical Center." 

MRosmus
Member

Storytelling framework in action

Brand: Disney (World)
Audience: Families with children aged 8-16
Challenge: They are helping their audience escape their normal lives and create a memoriable (magical) time together at their theme parks. They do this by creating vacation packages at various price points to attempt to make the experience affordable. Once at the park, Disney attempts to make each persons' stay and experience to be as easy, stress free and comfortable as possible.

COkoro
Participant

Storytelling framework in action

Brand: Maltina. 

Audience: Their audience is a large mix number of people ranging from kids, teenagers, adults. 

Challenge: They are helping their audience to quench thirst . They are doing this by making sure Maltina is easily accessible to the public in malls, eateries and more.

 

 

 

KSzucs
Member

Storytelling framework in action

  • Qubiz
  • IT professionals at different stages of their career
  • Qubiz is providing a learning path for juniors, a chance to change careers for mid-level developers, and an opportunity to do more than write lines of codes for seniors
BScazafabo
Member

Storytelling framework in action

  • Who is the brand? HUNGRY Marketplace
  • Who is their audience? Office Managers, Hr, Facility Managers, Property Managers, Event Managers, - people that need food solutions for their work environments
  • What challenge are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it?  HUNGRY solves for "office" food needs by providing several food solutions: in person vs. virtual; individually packaged vs. buffet; customer paid vs. company sub.; by utilizing local top chefs to curate authentic and custom menus.
XKondile
Participant

Storytelling framework in action

  • Who is the brand? Subaru 
  • Who is their audience? Drivers that love adrenaline, the outdoors and adventure. 
  • What challenges are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it? They are providing the car market with vehicles that offer all-wheel drive capabilities, cars that are strong, resilient, can be driven in challenging terrains while giving drivers confidence and comfort. Subaru cars come with a guarantee that they can last for a very long time and are reliable and are still fun to drive.  
Emmanuel21
Participant

Storytelling framework in action

1. OG Capital

2. Underbanked business people

3. Underbanked business people cannot access finances from traditional banks because they do not have collateral and good business plans.

4. OG Capital is making business capital easily accessible to people who cannot access it from traditional banks

 

PamKrishnaswamy
Participant

Storytelling framework in action

Brand : Dove

Character : Every woman

Conflict / Need : Identifying confidence and true beauty, along with caring for the skin

Resolution : Each campaign urges women to think about what makes them beautiful from the inside, and reassures them that they are, and that they deserve the best in skin care.

ama1
Participant

Storytelling framework in action

Brand: Dunkin's (Dunkin Donuts, but I believe they officially changed it to just Dunkin's)
Audience: Their audience is a pretty large mix of people. It consists of commuters, older teenagers, families, and busy people who don't have time to make coffee for themselves at every point of the day they need one.
Audience challenge/overcoming it:
Customers are busy, tired and always on-the-go. They want a straightforward, reliable and convenient place to get the energy they need for the day without having to sacrifice taste or preference. Dunkin's aims to have fast service, to provide the same experience for customers at every store, and offer a nice rewards card. You can order online, go to the driv-thru, get delivery or go right inside. Comparatively speaking, Dunkin's is generally lower priced than other popular coffeeshops like Starbucks (although they creep up) They also do their best to stay in touch with the community. For example, offering free coffee or donut days for various occasions or for people in specific industries, really reinforcing the idea that they are your friendly neighborhood coffeeshop who you can trust and rely on.
Nkeci
Member

Storytelling framework in action


@kara_susvilla wrote:

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. 



@kara_susvilla wrote:

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. 


Boundless Designs

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They solve the challenge of branding ad brand identity amongst businesses and they do this by offering unlimited brand designs to businesses at a fixed subscription.

 

Char2025
Participant

Storytelling framework in action

Brand = YogaRenew

Audience = Yoga Instructors, Yoga Practitioners

Challenge = Reach a global audience for yoga teacher certifications and training by providing online, self-paced education that is accessible and affordable for anyone to learn the practice of yoga.

Hadiyeh
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Storytelling framework in action

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