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In New Ecommerce Story Rules via Curagami

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Story Rules New Ecommerce

In New Ecommerce Story Rules riffs a post from Mathew Jenkin about video game developer since online commerce is a game too. Similarities between video game and online commerce development are numerous and insightful. Every visit to an online store is a quest and this post explains how to build a hero / protagonist journey into your online story. 

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Is Your Website EPIC? Here's How Your Website Can Become A Hero's Journey

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Most Internet marketers agree. Your website must be heroic, a quest of and for greatness. But how can your marketing make customers heroes? Here's How:

Ways To Make Your Customers Heroes Online

* Gamification (nothing like social kudos to reinforce a heroic journey).

* Curate and Use UGC (User Generated Content). 

* Contests (who has the best Tough Mudder Pinterest board etc...).

* Leaderboards (part of gamification, but a constant reminder that a game is going on NOW). 

 

Website design tips and several examples of "heroic" websites are included. If you know of great heroic online experiences please share so we can curate in.  

Elsie Barone's curator insight, May 16, 2013 2:36 PM

Very Good Information;

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Creating Hero's Journey Websites: Using Storytelling To Improve Your Online Marketing

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An introduction to the "Hero's Journey" method of storytelling Your product or services will likely solve a problem for your customers,  

No matter how boring you view this product, it sits within a ‘story arc’ that can always be made interesting to consumers facing the challenges that it solves.


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Creating Hero's Journey Websites
I'm a big Joseph Campbell fan and this piece does a good job of explaining and then applying the Hero's journey to business narrative. The hero's journey is all around us all the time (as the piece implies).

UGC (User Generated Content) is my favorite place to find the hero's journey. Customers will share the same kind of dragon fighting stories faced by our young hero in the example in this post IF you ask for feedback, prize the feedback you receive and gamify UGC enough so that it is clearly important.

Gamification is  another favorite tactic to solidify the hero's journey. Nothing like a little competition to increase the challenge and produce amazing results fast. The other point this piece misses is WHO is the hero of your journey.

I like to design websites where YOU (the visitor) are the hero. Visitors become heroes by sharing, finding "like me" tribes and figuring out the environment well enough to suggest improvements. The more your website creates a hero's journey the more fascinating and experiential it becomes.

If fascinating and experiential sound like good things congratulations you are on a hero's journey.

More On GooglePlus: https://plus.google.com/102639884404823294558/posts/apVB5CabhxB

malek's comment, September 24, 2013 8:38 AM
Thank you Marty for insightful comment. Contributing the angle of Gamification provides more richness to the subject.
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment, September 24, 2013 5:24 PM
Great Malek Scoop and Nick Simonton comment. This is a favorite topic. Nick I was scheduled to attend McKee's Story seminar last year and then got sick and could go, but still on my bucket list to attend. Marty
Bad Spoon's curator insight, September 25, 2013 2:21 AM

Une nouvelle présentation pas à pas du "Voyage du Héros", la technique de storytelling la plus efficace à ce jour

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Why Your Web Content Is On A Hero's Journey: Content Marketing That Gets Buyers [Chris Brogan]

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You can write for your idea-spreaders, and you can write for your buyers.

One gets you seen and the other gets you business. I say do both. Here’s a post about content marketing with the mi...
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This piece by Chris inspired me to write about how all web copy is on a Hero's Journey on Google Plus:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/102639884404823294558/posts/2jXTLKhxqTx 

My First Reaction Notes
Great Chris Brogan article explaining how to write content that makes your customers the hero. I also love the "never waste content without an ask of some kind". We are in the Call to Action business; to forget to ask is to waste your content marketing. 

Types of asks:

* Ask to join a list.

* Ask to amplify your ideas with their take.

* Ask to buy something.

* Ask to read something else, something related.

* Ask for comments.

* Create a poll or a survey and ask specific questions.

* Ask to be LIKED or shared.

* Ask for support.

* Ask for trust (can be very powerful).

* Ask for help (admit you don't know it all).

 

That last bullet, ask for help, may be controversial. Don't you want to appear to have all the answers if you are selling your consulting services to other business? No one can know it all. People are smart. They want to work with people like them. 

Admitting to being human only helps and strengthens your case. I don't like wimpy copy, but admitting you are unsure of something isn't wimpy (if done right). Collaboration is about knowing your strengths AND weaknesses and collaborating to contribute one and buttress the other. 

Great Chris Brogan article on how to write content that makes potential buyers actual partners and collaborators.  

 


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