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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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HV2
Member

Storytelling framework in action

Brand: Reliance Jio

Audience: Normal persons who use phones.

Overcome Challenges:  They are providing a basic handset with an internet connection, useful for people of low economic status. An unlimited voice call service for all the customers who are using their sim.

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reesehernandez
Member

Storytelling framework in action

  • Who is the brand? Maybelline New York
  • Who is their audience? Everyone with an interest in makeup and everyone who wants to enhance their appearance, especially women
  • What challenge are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it? Maybelline helps women (and men) boost their confidence by providing a wide selection of high-performance and long-lasting beauty products that can suit enhance every look and skin tone.

 

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AChamarthi
Member

Storytelling framework in action

Brand: Mamaearth

Target audience: babies and girls

Challenges: skin problems and their cure with natural remedies

How they are doing it?

They provide skin care products made of natural integredients and paraben and they use no plastic in their product making.

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Preciousjewel
Participant

Storytelling framework in action

  • Who is the brand? Precie fragrance, an online store that sells perfume
  • Who is their audience? men, women, young ladies, and young guys
  • What challenges are they helping their audience to overcome? They help their audience smell nice and look smart. How are they doing it? By advertising long-lasting and affordable perfume
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Heyitscici38
Member

Storytelling framework in action

 

  • Who is the brand? - Photzy, an online photography school based in Sydney, Australia 
  • Who is their audience?  - photography enthusiasts 
  • What challenge are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it? - Photzy provides simple, proven, step-by-step tutorials in the form of eBooks, cheat sheets, and video courses. Over the past 7 years, they’ve helped millions of photographers discover & unleash their inner artist and creativity. 
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faithnte
Participant

Storytelling framework in action

  • The brand: SMB in auto insurance
  • Who is their audience: Private car owners
  • What challenge are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it? They are helping their audience get updated about insurance issues, and tips on how to be on their best insurance game. And they do this by providing educational blog posts, and helping them make certain insurance application and payments.
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JGerardo
Member

Storytelling framework in action

One of my favorite brands is Mercury Drug, a pharmacy here in the Philippines. 

 

  • Who is the brand? Mercury Drug is the country's trusted and caring health and wellness partner.

  • Who is their audience? People who want to purchase quality healthcare and personal care products, including medical devices, and basic everyday needs.

  • What challenges are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it? Most of the challenges that help their customers are that they provide a 24/7 service bringing medicines within easy reach for their customers. Mercury Drug's mission: "To serve you, to have what you want – when, where, and how you want it," solves this challenge.
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SReyes1
Member

Storytelling framework in action

Who is the brand? = Boucher Brothers Management was built by a family of 4 brothers who began renting chairs for one hotel. Through hard work and ambition, the family now operates the majority of the Miami Beach beach hospitality sector and has expanded to other regions around South Florida & the United States. 

 

The brand is a fun beach company that trains individuals on how to be overall hospitality professionals. 

 

Who is their audience? = Boucher has different audiences. The primary audience is tourists coming to the beach who want to rent beach equipment or watersports. Its secondary audience is the hotels, residential, and public municipals that partner with Boucher Brothers to provide a great hospitality experience for their guests. 

 

What challenges are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it? = They help their primary audience overcome the difficulties of planning & choosing the best experience for their beach activities. They help their secondary audience overcome the difficulties of managing & servicing their outdoor facilities.  

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sairro10
Member

Storytelling framework in action

 

  • Who is the brand? Slack
  • Who is their audience? Workplace teams/businesses/organizations
  • What challenge are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it? Slack is helping this audience overcome communication challenges, while also making it casual and fun in the process.
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KatieMayo
Member

Storytelling framework in action

The Brand: Dove

The Audience: Mostly women

The Challenge: Helping women to feel beautiful in their own skin

How are they doing it: By celebrating all body types in their television and print advertisements 

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aditi109
Member

Storytelling framework in action

Who is the brand? - Apple

Who is their audience? - basically, smartphone users

What challenges are they helping their audience to overcome? How are they doing it? -  focuses on user experiences

LuuPhuongDung
Member

Storytelling framework in action

  • Who is the brand: Huggies
  • Who is the audience?: children and nursing mothers
  • What challenges are they helping their audience overcome? : Help parents overcome the fear of taking care of their children's hygiene. Helps babies to clean, dry and move easily
  • How are they doing it?: Creates breathable, fast-absorbing, and non-sticky baby diapers
CarlaDurán
Member

Storytelling framework in action

  • Who is the brand? The brand is Tony's Chocoloneny, a chocolate brand created in 2005 after realizing most of the chocolate bars in the world were a product of slavery.
  • Who is the audience? People who buy from Tony's enjoy high-quality chocolate and are willing to listen to what is wrong with the world, but most importantly want to make a change.
  • What challenges are they helping their audience overcome? how are they doing it? They are helping the audience enjoy a chocolate bar without the guilt of slavery by sourcing their products with ethical farms in Africa that pay fairly to their employees and farmers.
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IEnoch
Member

Storytelling framework in action

Who is the Brand: Wolt 

Who is their audience: Working men and women 

Challenge helping the audience overcome: save time, time is money, saves money, eradicate inconvenience

How are they doing it: provide a easy to navigate app to order for food from their favorite restaurant and get the meal delivered at your doorstep

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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XuanThuy
Participant

Storytelling framework in action

- The Brand:  Uber Vietnam

- Their audience: Driven Woman

- Challenge: According to WHO statistics, 77% of traffic accident deaths are men, but people strongly condemn accidents caused by women, and label them with harsh nicknames such as: "Ninja Lead rides a stupid motorbike", "selling gas to women is a crime". Therefore, women in Asia in general and in Vietnam in particular have to bear heavy prejudices when choosing a driving career.

- Resolution: Uber has launched the #DrivenWoman campaign on International Women's Day, in partnership with CreativeX and Freeflow Productions. The video has gathered a lot of female drivers, they tell their stories and the journey that brought them to their dream of driving.

iamonyinye
Participant

Storytelling framework in action

So I am going to do mine differently by using my new brand because it's helping me gain clarity. 

 

Who is the Brand? :  Profitfromsocials

 

Who is their audience?: B2B small and medium-sized consulting firms who are looking for a low-cost and effective way to stand out, compete and win more business.

 

What challenges are they helping their audience to overcome: We are relieving them of the stress, time, and money they spend trying to get customers who are interested in their products and services.

 

How are we doing it? By helping them build a standout online presence that establishes them as an authority and then leveraging that to achieve their revenue goals. 

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SKassem
Participant

Storytelling framework in action

The storytelling of the great brand adidas -parley: 

the story under the name made to be remade that stands for saving oceans from the plastic waste by their cooperation (adodas and parley)

it was by releasing short videos that aware people from this danger that threatens the living organisms and encourging audience that interested in this topic to help to use a recycable materials as their products with hraet offers to encourage them buying these product and tke in their mind to the danger of unrecycable materials. I like also all the sentences they ised as run for the oceans / made to be remade they was simple and messege reachable.

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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
Member

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
Member

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.