“LORE” in your Marketing

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The Power Of Storytelling For Your Business

In today's digital landscape, consumers are inundated with choices in various markets, making it challenging to decide which products to purchase. With numerous brands offering similar features and benefits, the importance of storytelling in marketing becomes increasingly evident.

Which Product Will you Choose?

Consider a brand that distinguishes itself not just through its product features but by sharing a captivating story. This narrative might begin with the founder's personal journey, perhaps detailing how they faced a significant challenge or overcame an obstacle. This relatable account can resonate with consumers who have experienced similar struggles, drawing them into the brand's world.

For example, imagine a story about a founder who developed a product to address a personal need. This journey not only highlights the product's effectiveness but also illustrates the founder's passion and commitment to solving a problem. By sharing such a narrative, the brand fosters a deeper connection with potential customers.

The Emotional Connection

Effective storytelling in marketing forges an emotional bond between the consumer and the brand. It transforms a mere product into a relatable experience. When consumers encounter a story that mirrors their own lives, they are more inclined to develop trust and affinity for the brand.

The Impact on Consumer Decision-Making

    • Building Trust
      Authentic narratives foster trust by demonstrating transparency and genuine intent. Consumers feel reassured that the product has been shaped by real-life experiences.
    • Creating Differentiation
      In a crowded marketplace, a compelling story can set a brand apart from its competitors, making it memorable.
    • Engaging the Audience
      A captivating story captures attention and holds interest, ensuring the product resonates with consumers.
    • Encouraging Word-of-Mouth
      An inspiring narrative prompts discussions among consumers, amplifying the brand’s reach and visibility.

Effective storytelling in marketing forges an emotional bond between the consumer and the brand.

A story transforms a mere product into a relatable experience.

When consumers encounter a story that mirrors their own lives, they are more inclined to develop trust and affinity for the brand.

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Branding Your Business

BRANDING MOOD BOARD

Create a folder on your computer and begin to save images.

Try not to get too "precious" at first,  select the images that seem to resonate with you the most.

When you’ve collected enough images, you can begin to sort through your folder and single out the ones that work together the best.

Sometimes it can help to select one main image that speaks to you the most and build your other images around it.

Remember, this can take time to find the right images to create a cohesive brand.

The most effective branding mood boards are the ones that pull in a variety of visual elements, like color, photos, and typography. 

Your branding mood board is going to be a springboard for branding decisions. 

Your mood board should be designed in a way that makes it easy to understand what it is that you want to convey to your website visitors.

As you’re building your mood board, you can use it as a guidepost for driving brand design decisions.

Here’s an example mood board below...

ECO SOUL ART Mood Board

This mood board was created while building the website for Eco Soul Art (www.ecosoulart.com)

Since this post was published we have made some changes, but you can see that the "feel" is still the same.

The web is constantly changing, and we can help you to change with it.

Resources for Pictures

There are many great websites where you can get free images. You can use others, as long as they are only for the look and feel.

If you want to use the images in your website it is best to purchase a stock photo or visit one of these great FREE stock photo sites:

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Fonts

It can become a little overwhelming trying to find the right typography mix for your brand.

Be sure to keep it simple (no more than 2-3 font families) and keep it legible for your audience. You don’t want to select a font that makes it difficult for the reader (i.e. too scripted).

You also want your font to "communicate" your business. For example, if you have a website geared toward kids, you want playful fonts. If you are a doctor, you will want more "sturdy/conservative" fonts.

You only have a few seconds to grab their attention so make it count.

Adobe Typekit

This is a paid subscription that is included with Adobe Creative Suite, many well worth the cost. Especially when designing print & other products that include type.

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Google Fonts

There are a plethora of free fonts, as well as typography information on the google font website. AND, best of all, they are FREE!

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Color

I love LOVE color combination websites. My Favorite Go-To is Adobe Color.
There are so many others, but I find the choices of shades, analogous, complimentary, etc are clear and easy to use on this website.

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Need Hosting?

HOSTING

THAT IS RELIABLE & AFFORDABLE

SiteGround

Hosting is the most important part of a good website, and one of the best hosting providers in the industry for standard small business wordpress websites is Siteground.

I use mostly Divi as a parent theme, then create your customizations in a child theme. SiteGround understands Divi and even partnered with Elegant Themes to provide on click installs and have optimized servers specifically for the needs and requirements of Divi. Their great support, performance, value, and commitment to reinvesting into their infrastructure sets them apart from other affordable hosting companies.

As a website designer who builds your websites on my SiteGround server, before cloning it to my clients' servers, I know the headaches of wrestling with the code to get what was working wonderfully on SiteGround to now work on their host. 9 times out of 10 there is a huge problem, with hours to repair the issues.

I am considering charging less if the client agrees to host with SiteGround!

SITEGROUND HOSTING

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