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Evolution of Web Design & Marketing Infographic via @Curagami

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Pushing web design forward too fast blows up trust from internal stake holders and visitors. There is an organic path the journey to online community takes.
Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com's curator insight, July 3, 2014 12:07 AM

Marty I agree. So many businesses still think "Build it and they will come".
The website gets built, they spend thousands promoting it and doing social media and yes the visitors come. One small problem no one discussed with the website development company or budgeted for follow up analytics and review of the design and content to see what changes can be made to improve the ux. So many visitor never comes back and that's where the problem is with most websites. Percentage of return visitors is key.

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Creating Hero's Journey Websites: Using Storytelling To Improve Your Online Marketing

Creating Hero's Journey Websites: Using Storytelling To Improve Your Online Marketing | Curation Revolution | Scoop.it
An introduction to the "Hero's Journey" method of storytelling Your product or services will likely solve a problem for your customers,  

No matter how boring you view this product, it sits within a ‘story arc’ that can always be made interesting to consumers facing the challenges that it solves.


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Creating Hero's Journey Websites
I'm a big Joseph Campbell fan and this piece does a good job of explaining and then applying the Hero's journey to business narrative. The hero's journey is all around us all the time (as the piece implies).

UGC (User Generated Content) is my favorite place to find the hero's journey. Customers will share the same kind of dragon fighting stories faced by our young hero in the example in this post IF you ask for feedback, prize the feedback you receive and gamify UGC enough so that it is clearly important.

Gamification is  another favorite tactic to solidify the hero's journey. Nothing like a little competition to increase the challenge and produce amazing results fast. The other point this piece misses is WHO is the hero of your journey.

I like to design websites where YOU (the visitor) are the hero. Visitors become heroes by sharing, finding "like me" tribes and figuring out the environment well enough to suggest improvements. The more your website creates a hero's journey the more fascinating and experiential it becomes.

If fascinating and experiential sound like good things congratulations you are on a hero's journey.

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malek's comment, September 24, 2013 8:38 AM
Thank you Marty for insightful comment. Contributing the angle of Gamification provides more richness to the subject.
Martin (Marty) Smith's comment, September 24, 2013 5:24 PM
Great Malek Scoop and Nick Simonton comment. This is a favorite topic. Nick I was scheduled to attend McKee's Story seminar last year and then got sick and could go, but still on my bucket list to attend. Marty
Bad Spoon's curator insight, September 25, 2013 2:21 AM

Une nouvelle présentation pas à pas du "Voyage du Héros", la technique de storytelling la plus efficace à ce jour