Tell Your Story: Business Storytelling for Arts Professionals

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Stories, not hard-sell pitches, are the best way to make connections and sell your work. Here's a storytelling presentation I made for arts professionals.

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StorySelling for ArtistsMake connections. Promote your work.

Bruce Hale

Story is aboutCONNECTION

Stories...

are the fast train to the brain

Number of persuasivemessagesper day?

Number of persuasivemessagesper day?

5,000(According to

Adbusters Magazine)

How do you break through the clutter?

Stories stick

From storytelling...

Stories help youhelp the listenermake a decision

Left brain

NumbersLogic

“Just the facts, ma’am”

LEFT BRAIN:

Right brain

ImagesEmotions

ColorStories

Who’s in control?

Why stories workTo feel with = To act for

What do galleries and grant organizations

want to know?

Everybody has a story to tell

The Five Fundamentals

ofStorySelling

1. Listen before you speak

2. Tell what’s true in you

In your StorySellingquiver...

Values stories

Creation stories

Mistakes stories

‘Why I’m here’ story

3. Have a hero with a problem

HERO =one person

to identify with

PROBLEM =lifeblood of story

4. Get hooked on a feeling

What creates emotion?

• telling details

• pause & see it

• letting yourself feel

5. Begin with the endin mind

Serve your point• KNOW your point -- listener’s action

• THROW OUT what doesn’t serve it

• Keep things SHORT & SWEET (2-3 min.)

The Five Fundamentals

Listen

Tell what’s true

Hero with problem

Emotion

Point

Telling your story

• One person = timer

• 3 minutes maximum

• Feedback: What worked, what could be improved, what you felt

• Just say: “Thank you”

The story not told

StorySellingfor ArtistsMake connections. Promote your work.

Bruce Halewww.brucetalks.com

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