How to Use Quotes to tell a Brand Story
Updated: Jan 16, 2022
Quotes make good filler for content calendars to fill the gaps between telling your brand story and the story of your customers. Look for quotes that are statements for what you do and how you help people. As a storyteller and content creator, quotes about why brand storytelling is important fits perfectly with my brand story message.
If you are a professional and your story is around your personal brand, find quotes that reflect your values, the problem you solve, and lessons you learned. For example, a Realtor® can create quote content focusing on the words, home, design, and family. They can then use their brand colours and images of people hanging out at home to create graphics for their posts.
Start with your Brand Story Keywords to Find Quotes.
Make a list of words to search on Google. There are plenty of sites filled with quotes you can use to create content. Choose the ones that resonate with you and are enhance your personal brand story.
Quotes Generate Emotional Responses to your Brand Story
The quotes that come from well-known names will add to the credibility of your story and resonate with your audience because they recognize the name, which builds feelings of trust for your brand story.
When you use quotes to enhance your brand’s story, members of your audience will identify with certain quotes, which creates feelings of connection for your brand story.
Brand Story Images for Quotes
An image tells a story. Find images that portray the brand story or keywords. The best images will have negative space for you to place words on without getting in the way of the image’s story. You can use the same image for different quotes at different times in the year.
You can also use your brand colours as the background with the words in either black or white, whichever stands out against your brand colours. This type of quote is particularly good on Instagram for anchoring the eye and standing out in a feed.
Tell the Bigger Brand Story the Quote Reflects
When you write the copy for your post, tell a story about why the quote speaks to your brand or a brand story exemplifying what the quote says.
For example:
Quote “People are looking for a connection.” —John Michael Morgan
The brand story copy:
Ever feel like you connected with a person you just met because the conversation was so interesting? Think about those moments and what the two of you talked about, I bet stories were told.
I could then go on to tell a story about how I felt connected to a person I met because they told me a story that resonated with me.
Brand Storytelling Quotes.
Here are a list of quotes I found on Google about brand storytelling in less than fifteen minutes which I then used to create content to tell my brand story about storytelling.
“A great story is true. Not necessarily because it’s factual, but because it’s consistent and authentic.
-Seth Godin
“The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.”
-Steve Jobs
“Content builds relationships. Relationships are built on trust. Trust drives revenue.”
“Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.”
—Chris Brogan
“Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill when it comes to business.”
– Gary Vaynerchuk,
“Authenticity, honesty, and personal voice underlie much of what’s successful on the web.”
—Rick Levine
“Marketing is the art of telling a story that moves people to act.” —Bernadette Jiwa, Author, Marketing Guru
“Your stories will be unique to you, your brand, and the experience you are trying to create.” —Robert Rose, Chief Strategy Advisor for the Content Marketing Institute, Author
The Brand Story is in the Numbers
“People think in stories, not statistics, and marketers need to be master storytellers.” —Arianna Huffington
I love stats. I'm a data geek, which is funny because I suck at math. The numbers tell a story about how people behave, how they make choices, and what they want out of life. When you tell a story that is backed up by stats, it lends credibility to your opinion and shows you did your research. When you are analyzing the data of your last social media campaign or the traffic on your website, figure out the story and create a post around how people are engaging with your message. We all want to follow success!
I’d love to see some of your favourite quotes and how they contribute to your brand story. Please share them in the comments.
More Brand Storytelling Quotes
‘We would be nothing without our story.’
– Richard Branson.
‘A great salesperson knows how to tell a story in which the product is the hero.’
– Peter Guber, Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment.
“Effective content marketing is about mastering the art of storytelling. Facts tell, but stories sell.”
—Bryan Eisenberg
“Your content is not about ‘storytelling’; it’s about telling a true story well.”
—Ann Handley
‘You can’t sell anything if you can’t tell anything.’
– Beth Comstock
‘Logic makes you think. Emotion makes you act.’
– Alan Weiss
“If your stories are all about your products and services, that’s not storytelling. It’s a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.”
—Jay Baer, Renowned Keynote Speaker, Author, Marketing Expert
Every Business has a Purpose to it's Story
“Every business has a story to tell.”
—Jay Baer, Renowned Keynote Speaker, Author, Marketing Expert
To determine your business' story beyond its products and services determine its purpose. The purpose of all business is to make money, but I want to challenge you to think beyond the capitalism of our world and start diving deeper into the reason YOU decided to be a business owner instead of an employee because we all know, on a per hour basis employees have it better than most business people.
Once you've got your purpose, the reason your business exists, tell that story. When you tell the story use tone, voice, and pacing to resonate with your audience. If your purpose is exciting, action packed, cool then tell the story using an energized tone, an upbeat voice, and face paced timing. If you purpose is serious be more serious. Ensure you are using the right images, location, and media to tell the story right. If you do that - you will resonate with your audience.
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Author and Brand Storytelling Quotes
“We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.”
—Jimmy Neil Smith, Director of the International Storytelling Centre
‘Successful organisations and companies share the stage with their best storytellers. Brands are a collection of narratives. Unleash your best stories.’