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Stories Make the Difference

In: Marketing Wisdom

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  • Neil Baker

    (Dark Angels)

  • John Simmons

    (Dark Angels)

Abstract

Some years ago, The Invisible Grail (Simmons in The invisible grail: how brands can tell better stories. Latest edition Urbane Publications, London, 2003) [The book has published its latest edition in 2016. It is one of the Dark Angels trilogy alongside We, Me, Them and It and Dark Angels, also published by Urbane.] made the case that brands were ignoring their most obvious and available assets: words. With the decades-long emphasis on ‘visual identity’—the vital combination of logos, symbols, colours, typefaces, illustrations to make companies distinctive (Olins in The corporate personality. Mayflower Books, New York, 1979)—words hardly got a mention. But we were not just talking about any word. The argument, told in the form of a quest, was about the use of words to make an emotional impact, not the dry, corporate language that seemed to be the comfort zone for most brands.

Suggested Citation

  • Neil Baker & John Simmons, 2019. "Stories Make the Difference," Management for Professionals, in: Kartikeya Kompella (ed.), Marketing Wisdom, pages 127-138, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-981-10-7724-1_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-7724-1_9
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