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When accompanied by a great story, selling is easy and fun. If delivered with passion, a clear story has the power to capture emotions. Plus stories that inspire are the easiest for others to remember and share.

Create an environment that leads customers to think a certain way before you say a word

Our brains can be guided on assumptions. Despite our best intentions, we need to make sure our stories don’t provoke distrust. In order to manage expectations in a sales pitch, the presenter needs to be calm, deliberate and composed. This includes creating an environment that gets people to think a certain way before we say anything at all. That's the power of presence!

Associate your products with excitement to inspire others to spread the word

One of the first things I learned as a HubSpot partner is that as content marketers we want to create stories so inspiring others tell their friends. This is part of the delight or entertain phase in our Inbound Marketing methodology.

Open your story with an element of surprise that will leave people wanting more

People are busy, and very easily get distracted thinking about everything else on their plates. If you’ve come this far and have the opportunity to share your technology or idea with a potential client or investor, don’t waste it! Create a way to get their attention right from the start. This will pique their curiosity and set the stage for whatever story you’re about to tell.

Knowing who you want to sell to determines how you want to sell it

Up to this point we’ve discussed what storytelling is and why telling stories over reciting facts is important to connect with your audience. Now it’s time to get focused and discuss how to create stories for different people.

Facts bore, distract and confuse. Stories excite, stick and sell!

You have a great technology, the research is there, you’ve won awards, connected with a co-founder and maybe even received a little grant funding. Now it’s time to crank the wheel and attract whatever resources your startup needs to take your business to the next level. So how do you generate interest in your venture to hire talent, or compell a room of investors at a pitch competition?

Storytelling is the most successful selling method in the world!

Startups have no reason to succeed. They lack resources, including funding, consultants, a large staff - fill in the blank. But they do have agility. Founders are able to make quick decisions without being held back by bureaucracy.

Grow Your Business with Search Engine Optimization & Keywords Using HubSpot Software

Peacock Media has just entered the Upstate New York market, servicing personal brands and high-growth, high-tech startups in Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Ithaca and Utica, NY. Using HubSpot's Keyword Tool, we have started adding in the keywords about our business and industry we want to monitor and rank for in search results.

We want to help you do the same. If you’ve already read through our series on Search Engine Optimization and Keywords, you know we explored:

Earn Links by Interviewing Industry Influencers, Adding Your Business to Local Directories and Creating Google+ Pages

In our Search Engine Optimization and Keyword blog series we’ve highlighted how to get search engines to understand our pages with keywords and optimization techniques. In this article we’ll explore how to get search engines to see our websites and content as trustworthy and authoritative. A lot of this will come from your awesome optimized content, and some of it will come from the number of links that are pointing back to your website. This is called Off-Page SEO.

Search Engines Look at the User Experience On Your Website

When determining how to rank your page in search results, the user experience plays a key factor in if your content is reliable and relevant. When planning a Website Redesign, make sure your site is intuitive and easy to navigate. People are busy. Making them hunt for what they need will take away from your opportunity to convert viewers into leads and sales.