Do you have the tools to engage your audience?
Meet Mark Daniel! Mark shares his tool box and wow, the tools he offers will make all of us better storytellers! In this episode we talk about his work as a warm-up host for celebrities like Sting, Harrison Ford, and Disney’s Descendants. We also talk about working together in shows at Walt Disney World and our approach to telling your story — you need a tool box filled with great tools. Because every audience is different, every moment is different and each moment requires you to adapt. Mark opens up our shared toolbox and even gives me a few new tools for mine.
Show Notes:
Mark Daniel is the host of The Telly Award Winner "inside Disney Parks", along with The Disney Parks Blog LIVE Streams. He’s also the current Warm Up and Panel Host for Star Wars Celebration USA & Europe, New York Comic Con, Playlist Live, C2E2. And is the warm up host for the The Daytime-Emmy-Winning Disney Parks Unforgettable Christmas Celebration on ABC television.
StoryMaven Takeaways:
Are you FLIFY? Fascinating, Lovable, Informative, Fun! What a great acronym to apply to all our copy, posts, stories and audience engagements. Find your FLIFY!
Mark & I talk about being trending and how to capture the energy of a trend while being true to yourself and your brand. Don’t chase trends! Be genuine to your brand.
We also talked about letting go of something that’s not working and how to absorb it when a joke doesn’t work.
Trusting the storyteller. The audience needs to trust the storyteller to engage in the story.
Mark is able to warm up the crowd for big name celebs by serving the audience and serving the content, even when that content is setting up a famous actor for success.
Value the audience and invite them into the process.
Check out Mark’s youtube channel and see his sizzle reel about some of the work we talked about here, especially the mannequin challenge!
Links:
Mark Daniel Youtube
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