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Building a StoryBrand

Donald Miller

1st ed.

Customers don't buy the best products. They buy the clearest message. Make the customer the hero, your brand the guide.

About the book

Donald Miller's SB7 framework borrows the story structure Hollywood has used for a century and applies it to brand messaging. The mistake most businesses make is casting themselves as the hero — StoryBrand flips it: the customer is the hero, the brand is the guide who hands them a plan, and every unclear sentence on a homepage is a customer walking away. If you confuse, you lose.

Best used for

  • —Rewriting a homepage or landing page so a visitor understands you in five seconds
  • —Building a one-liner: problem + solution + result
  • —Diagnosing why marketing collateral isn't converting despite a good product

“One of the best branding, messaging, and marketing books I've read. Miller shows how to use storytelling to make your messaging and branding simpler and more effective.”

— Chad, Goodreads

Install this skill

Run this command in your terminal. The skill will be available in all your Claude Code projects.

wondelai/skills

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Full SB7 structure plus the one-liner formula and cocktail-party test for clarity.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/storybrand-messaging && curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wondelai/skills/main/storybrand-messaging/SKILL.md" -o ~/.claude/skills/storybrand-messaging/SKILL.md

kwawmannanjnr/founder-playbook

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One of 14 founder-focused book distillations — StoryBrand framed for early-stage messaging and pitch decks.

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/storybrand && curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kwawmannanjnr/founder-playbook/main/storybrand/SKILL.md" -o ~/.claude/skills/storybrand/SKILL.md

Once installed, invoke with /storybrand-messaging in Claude Code, or let Claude load it automatically when relevant.

Skill by wondelai/skills, licensed MIT.

Skill by kwawmannanjnr/founder-playbook, licensed MIT.