Toddlers screaming. Teenagers sulking. The menopausal amongst us being, well, menopausal. Those are the kinds of things we tend to think about when we think of hormones. Great stories need hormones You might never have thought about it before. But every piece of content, from Star Wars to Kim Kardashian’s sex tape, activates your hormones. […]
brand storytelling
Telling a great story about your brand has never been more important
In October 2020, 6 million small businesses in the UK declared they were in a precarious position. This left 16 million jobs at risk. There were 190,000 retail jobs lost in the year from March 2020. It’s felt pretty gloomy. Good news is not all good news There are green shoots, with a stock market […]
Good stories will always move us
It seems incredible that it’s just 10 days since I went to Fine Food Show North in Harrogate. Restaurants were still open, Bettys was still serving tea, and people were still meeting. How lives change. But in these times I wanted to pull out a couple of the businesses I met that day. Businesses that […]
What to do about Brexit
I’ve held off writing this post, and debated whether to write it or not. That’s not because it’s a political post, more because the Brexit situation changes every day. By the time this is published, there will already have been at least one major vote on the matter this week, possibly two. By the […]
What can you learn from fiction writers to create better brand stories?
It’s World Book Day today. Which means if you’re a parent of children of a certain age you’ve probably had some panicked moments of coming up with an outfit! Hopefully, that’s over with now, so grab and coffee and relax, and take a moment to consider what you can learn from writing fiction to […]