What is storytelling?
The word storytelling pretty much speaks for itself. Storytelling is about telling stories. It's about using stories to engage your audience, or to make something more clear - as described earlier. Stories are much easier to remember than simple facts. Stories are also enjoyable; they stimulate your imagination. That's why parents tell their children stories, why we like to watch movies and read books. People love stories and can even be said to be addicted to stories.
Use storytelling on your website
If you think that storytelling has to be a story in the traditional sense, you're wrong. Storytelling can easily be just a form of narrative, a story that inspires, sells and that people will remember. In other words, one that goes straight to the heart of the recipient.
Using storytelling in e.g. a blog post will - if you do it the right way - make your post more engaging. Your blog post becomes something people want to read. Stories increase your audience's attention. If you use stories in the right way, stories help you communicate your message more clearly. Stories can help you prove your argument and can add clarity. Most importantly, people will remember your story and with that, they will remember the message of your post or even your brand. And if you use stories in a good way, you can even inspire people to take action. Maybe you inspire people to work with SEO on their website or to get started with storytelling on their website.
If you get storytelling right, you will be rewarded. Through successful storytelling, you will find that you build a trusting relationship with your customers and readers.
This relationship is worth its weight in gold!
Storytelling - understand your customers
If you want to be successful with your storytelling, it is first and foremost important to understand your customers. Understand who they are, what they seek, dream about and their general needs and problems. If you don't understand them, you won't be as successful with your storytelling, so never stop researching and trying to understand your customers or readers.
Knowing the reader and being able to identify with their emotions will allow you to apply this to your storytelling. Before you start writing your story, consider which emotions you want to emphasize in your story. A common mistake is trying to hit multiple emotions at the same time. Instead of trying to focus on several in one story, create multiple stories - it's much more effective.