The Power of Enterprise Storytelling
With our StoryOne storytelling process, you can deliver the highest caliber of writing in your marketing content. Here’s how to do it.
What is enterprise storytelling?
Enterprise storytelling is defined as the art of using powerful narratives to help enterprise companies:
- Capture their audience’s interest with a meaningful, unique, personal connection
- Build on that interest to establish trust between the reader and writer, and by extension the brand
- Answer timely questions, offer a solution to the reader’s problems and inspire action
- Evoke emotion and stimulate the imagination
Enterprise storytelling goes beyond the mere exchange of information and data to connect with the reader in a memorable way, taking them on a compelling journey to influence new perspectives, solve problems and drive decision-making.
Benefits of enterprise storytelling
In today’s hyper-competitive tech landscape, it’s not enough to have innovative products and services. To truly stand out and build lasting relationships, you need to tell a story that resonates with your target audience — and that delivers results.
Enterprise storytelling is the key to:
- Persuasive marketing content. By sharing content that demonstrates your understanding of your audience’s pain points and aspirations, you make readers feel seen and valued — and draw them to your solutions.
- Effective, trustworthy customer outreach. Establish trust by guiding your audience to content that helps them solve their challenges, and deepen that trust by demonstrating your thought leadership on critical issues.
- Strong brand identity. By creating a unique and memorable brand identity, your content stands out from the crowd and differentiates your solutions from those of the competition.
- Content creation at scale. At the enterprise level, your content needs to work across multiple assets and campaigns. Enterprise storytelling is 90% final on first draft, enabling you to move quickly and cross multiple projects off your marketing to-do list.
Storytelling in Marketing: Enterprise storytelling goes hand in hand with marketing. When you pair a story with a product, not only will the product messaging be more memorable, but the overall perceived value of the product has been found to increase by 2,706%.[1]
But that’s not all — brand storytelling can also sway customer decisions. Research has found that 65% of consumers are influenced to make a purchase based on a brand’s words, actions, values and beliefs.[2]
[1] Experiment conducted by journalist Robert Walker, in collaboration with writer John Glenn
How enterprise storytelling works
We partner with our clients to find the initial thread of each story and nurture it into a lively and compelling piece of writing. By using a carefully planned and managed process, we cultivate your narrative from project initiation through writing and approval to deliver the one story that best captures your unique message.
Enterprise storytelling is the strategic practice of:
- Framing a vision. Craft compelling narratives that clearly demonstrate how consumer pain points are addressed by your products and solutions, setting the stage for your audience to understand their options and envision a better future.
- Engaging audiences. Connect with your audience at the right time and captivate their attention, making complex tech concepts accessible and relatable with crisp, clear, creative language.
- Driving action. Employ your creativity to deliver a story that is both functional and irresistible — a bridge that gets the reader from A to B effortlessly and enjoyably.
- Highlighting value. Communicate the key differentiators of your enterprise and solutions through brand storytelling, helping the reader find value in your story.
- Showcasing impact. Emphasize the impact and positive outcomes your solutions bring to tech buyers, illustrating real-world benefits and results.
- Inspiring advocacy. Motivate stakeholders, employees and tech buyers to become advocates for your brand, fostering loyalty and driving business growth.
- Meeting goals. We focus on helping you reach your content goals across various platforms, asset types, audiences and stages of the buyer’s journey, becoming a seamless extension of your marketing team.
Enterprise storytelling in action
Dell and Kyndryl employ enterprise storytelling to build excitement about cloud innovation
For these enterprise partners, the future of cloud isn’t public or private — it’s both. Learn how they utilize enterprise storytelling to help their joint customers understand how to leverage the cloud to achieve a competitive advantage.
Oracle and Infosys showcase CX cloud transformation with enterprise storytelling
This alliance applies enterprise storytelling to guide global businesses in creating phenomenal customer journeys and defining a well-laid road map that takes customer experiences to new highs.
AWS and partners highlight faster cloud services using enterprise storytelling
AWS and several of its top technology partners chose enterprise storytelling to help them powerfully differentiate their joint offerings from competitors, overcome industry-specific challenges and achieve their strategic priorities.
Start crafting your story
Join the ranks of tech giants who have harnessed the power of enterprise storytelling to connect, inspire and succeed. Schedule a storytelling consultation with us to discover how StoryOne can transform your brand’s narrative into a powerful asset for success.
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