#30: The Brain Science Behind Business Storytelling

Kendall Haven, story consultant and pioneer in the neural and cognitive science of story, joins the Business of Story Podcast to share the latest discoveries in the field and to illustrate how to merge themes and messages into powerful story architecture. The Business of Story is sponsored by ACT!, Convince & Convert, Emma, and Oracle. ACT! helps individuals, small businesses, and sales teams organize prospect and customer details in just one place, ultimately driving sales. Visit http://actstory.com and enter to win a pair of BOSE noise-cancelling headphones. Emma helps marketers everywhere send smart, stylish email newsletters, promotions, and automated campaigns, and help us all rest a little easier knowing our marketing emailing is doing its job. Check out their newest publication at Myemma.com/click. Each day the team at Convince & Convert picks a topic and sends you the three best resources ever created about that topic. It's topical, it's timely, it's useful, so go to definitivedigest.com and subscribe to their email newsletter now. Oracle Marketing Cloud offers an introduction to marketing automation, with tips that marketers need to automate and optimize. In This Episode The scientific proof that story structure is a powerhouse of informational systems The latest cognitive research on story engagement, story power, empathy, and influence How to merge your themes and messages into powerful, effective stories Kendall's tried and true tools for filtering story through an active subconscious Kendall's Neural Story Net How to think in story form Audience modeling Resources  KendallHaven.com "Story Proof: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story," by Kendall Haven "Story Smart: Using the Science of Story to Persuade, Influence, Inspire, and Teach," by Kendall Haven "The Storytelling Animal," by Jonathan Gottschall "Houston, We Have a Narrative," by Randy Olson BusinessofStory.com   Visit http://bit.ly/BizofStory for more insights from your favorite storytellers.