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Create Magnetic Demand With Character Archetypes

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About The Business of Story Podcast:

Welcome to the Business of Story podcast, where the world’s best storytellers from business, Hollywood, and beyond teach you how to use stories to communicate and connect with your customers. While technology has given us all global reach with our messages, it’s still the ancient bewitchery of storytelling that connects us with one another. You will learn from some of the brightest content creators, advertising creatives, authors, professors, makers, marketers, and brand raconteurs in the business. Within every show you will learn at least one actionable tip that will make your stories more engaging, and help you advance your personal or professional quest further, faster.

Apple Podcast Reviews:

A lot of great information about story telling. It is hard to pick one episode, they are all good!

Risingmaster

I recently came across Park Howell's excellent podcast. I love how he weaves in his personal stories with the interviews of his guests. If you are involved with sales or marketing for your business definitely check out this show.

RivetingFM

Margaret Hartwell is the author and co-producer of “Archetypes in Branding: A Toolkit for Creatives and Strategists.” She joins the Business of Story Podcast to reveal how implementing character archetypes will humanize brands.

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What Is Your Brand’s Personality?

What are archetypes?
As the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung classified them, archetypes are a universal and subconscious concept, “images that are integrally connected to the individual by the bridge of emotions.”
Margaret Hartwell is well-versed in Jung’s psychology of archetypes and she brings her expertise to the Business of Story to apply this psychology to brand initiatives, creation, maintenance, and reinvention.
As you can see from our resources section, these universal character archetypes have proven to be incredibly powerful in influencing the story of various brands in the world.
Margaret shares how business leaders can bring these archetypes to life so that they are empathetic and so that we as consumers have an authentic connection that humanizes the brands in our lives.

In This Episode

  • Brand archetypes and personality archetypes based in Jungian psychology
  • Why archetyping is so important to business
  • How to use archetypes to understand where your brand gets authentically positioned in the marketplace
  • How business leaders can use archetypes to help set company vision and mission
  • The four primary archetypes

 

Quotes From This Episode

“Archetypes are the signs and symbols and themes of our lives that are hidden in plain sight.” —@MPHpov 

“Archetypes have an incredible use in business and brands. They increase the bottom line. Brands that have a strong archetypal identity have been shown to positively influence a company’s real asset valuation by 66 per cent.” —@MPHpov

“Real relationships are formed when a business can focus on being true to its core motivations, its core character or personality, and its core purpose and promise.” —@MPHpov

“Archetypes are the ripples from the collective unconscious and we see them as symbols, but we experience them in our culture, in the unconscious way or conscious way, hopefully, that we make decisions and also the way that we attach meaning to everything.” —@MPHpov

How do you cut through the noise of features and benefits to that core connection of why? I think story does that.” —@MPHpov

Resources

 

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