Have a heaping helping of story goodies with your stuffing, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie …
Michael Margolis has been running a series this week emphasizing how 
entrepreneurs can better tell their bio stories:
- The Power of Storytelling: From Hauling Trash and Addiction to Stardom
- The Key Ingredients of a Good Bio: How to Get Others to Believe In You
- Storytelling to Land Better Job and Business Opportunities
- 3 Case-Studies of Good Bios that Create Results
Karen Dietz is offering two terrific worksheets for free download:
- Story Gathering Guide: An excellent guide to asking your customers to tell stories about using your product or service.
- Core Stories Worksheet: Another superb tool, one that would benefit job-seekers as much as entrepreneurs.
“Marketing lab” Hammond Hill offers an attractive, reader-friendly white paper, B2:
Building the Brand Story for Both Side of the Brain, for free download. The paper describes B2, “branding for both sides of the brain, creating brand characters and stories that appeal to the left brain (analytic) and right brain (intuitive) in us all.” B2 …
elicits a brand character that is dynamic and speaks to us, while being true to who it is. It uncovers the authentic brand character so that people connect with it on a fundamental level where both emotion and experience live to form an instant recognition.
For lifestory, journaling, and memoir folks, Marelisa Fábrega offers an amazing collection — A Plethora of Writing Prompts for Creative Writing and Journaling — 17 writing-prompt resources with examples from each.
And finally, a terrific short piece from Thaler Pekar, 3 Ways You Can Apply Narrative & Story, in which the three ways are identity, expertise, and engagement.
In between feasting, giving thanks, watching football and parades, curl up with some of these tasty resources. Happy Thanksgiving to all!