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A Million Dollar Message ‘North Star’ helps keep all stories about your business on track. Photo by Andrew Preble on Unsplash

All businesses are telling their stories all the time.

But it can be a mightily difficult task to retain coherence in all those stories. (Different people tell different stories in different ways).

It is very easy to go off on a tangent as you illustrate your different products and services.

Such tangents are natural good and useful…as long as they align with a business’s core message.

This is one reason to have a powerful and resonating first story – the first thing read on a website.

As well as telling customers your what and why, it also acts as a ‘North Star’ or lodestone for all other messaging.

So sure, you might and should tell your stories in different ways.

However, always, but always make sure these other stories reflect and reinforce your first Million Dollar Message.

A business can only tell one story as its first story Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

Any business could create its narrative from many different objective viewpoints

We all, as a business have different stories, different parts of our whole.

But we can tell only one.

Deconstructing your business to find your One Central Truth is necessary to unearth who you are.

A Million Dollar Message emerges from a structured chaos to reveal a ‘what and a why’ story, fit for purpose.

All a business’s other stories can be developed with its first, most important story acting as a North Star.

These 2-10 words as the basis for the escalator (going in different directions) answer to ‘what do you do’, as well as being an encapsulating story on a business card.

This one story is a lodestone for all internal and external message – one story, told very well.