Everything changes. Client needs evolve. Your business pivots. A new chief executive decides that you need to get into duvets, but made of wool.
No one knows what the future brings, except change.
Since Storyselling is such an important part of your business, we recommend a quarterly review of your solution story and its impact.
The benefits of committing to a quarterly review are many.
Not only are you ensuring the solution and its story continue to race ahead of the competition.
You're also investing time in measuring all the ways you're using the story against success metrics.
And getting that all-important qualitative feedback on your solution story relevance.
As market dynamics shift or new innovations launch, the narrative should flex accordingly.
Here's our suggested optimisation plan to continually refine and improve Logisticks's storyselling system.
Objectives:
Gauge ongoing resonance and relevance of core messaging
Identify potential dilution points or message confusion
Spotlight emerging priorities to evolve messaging
Month 1: Analyse performance on defined success metrics
Month 2: Conduct NPS surveys with customers and employees gathering open feedback
Month 3: Interview sales team on messaging resonance with prospects
Evolving report (as you progress through the months) with recommendations to refine value proposition language, key proof points, or iterate on success metrics.
Month 4: Run A/B message testing with current/prospect customers
Month 5: Monitor Q2 success metrics for impact of changes
Month 6: Interview subject matter experts on industry/technology shifts
Update core messaging framework to align with feedback
Month 7: Survey employee sentiment on clarity of vision and purpose
Month 8: Assess trade media/analyst perceptions through audits
Month 9: Review YOY metrics benchmarked to baseline
Consolidate findings into future planning presentation
Month 10: Conduct competitive audit on any distinctive messaging
Month 11: Run employee workshops to uncover future innovations
Month 12: Interviews executives on upcoming strategic priorities
Outline next year's vision plan with messaging recommendations
This builds structured reviews informed by both data and human insights into the optimisation rhythm. We'll course correct messaging regularly without overhauling foundational positioning.
As you tune and upgrade your story, you might like to quickly take the pulse of what your clients are saying about your business and the solutions you provide.
If you’ve been around for more than five minutes, you’ll have a treasure trove of client feedback waiting to be explored.
Whether it’s on Facebook, Google, TripAdvisor, Trustpilot, or on your website, there’s a mountain of fabulous insights waiting to be conquered.
And the magical reality is that you don’t need a data scientist with a ton of time. You just need someone with the passion to work alongside our machine soon-to-be-overlords and interpret insights generated by scraping this data and plugging it into one of the many AI chatbots.
My recommendations - based on the number of free tokens offered per prompt - are:
You can quickly export all your business’ reviews from whichever feedback platforms are associated with your brand.
But it’s also easy to scrape competitor reviews.
So you have a 360-degree overview of where you’re going right, and your competitors, wrong.
This can inform all manner of big bets. From refining your digital journeys, to generating new product ideas already shown to have huge potential through free market research known as customer reviews.