How to Use a StoryBrand BrandScript to Clarify Your Message (Examples Included)
Updated December 2025
A StoryBrand BrandScript gives you one clear story that guides your entire marketing system. Without it, content takes longer to create, websites convert poorly, and you end up reinventing the message every time you sit down to write. As a StoryBrand Certified Guide and content strategist, I’ve helped hundreds of founder-led brands use a BrandScript to clarify what they want to say and communicate it consistently. In this post, you’ll learn what a BrandScript is, why it works, and how to apply it to your website, emails, and visibility strategy.
Why Your Marketing Feels Harder Than It Should
What Happens When Your Message Isn’t Clear
What a StoryBrand BrandScript Actually is
Why Every Thought Leader Needs a BrandScript
How To Maximize Your BrandScript
Common BrandScript Mistakes
What Happens When You Use Your BrandScript Strategically
Spotlight Strategy 1-Day
Why Your Marketing Feels Harder Than It Should
Donald Miller introducing the PEACE Framework at the 2025 Coach Builder Summit, where StoryBrand Guides gather for advanced training and certification work.
If your marketing feels scattered, you’re not imagining it. When your message isn’t clear, every piece of content takes longer than it should. Emails feel repetitive. Your website doesn’t convert the way you want. Even writing a simple social post becomes a chore.
It’s frustrating because you’re good at what you do. You have the expertise. You have the results. Yet communicating that value in a way people instantly understand feels harder than it should.
The truth is, most founder-led brands don’t struggle with content. They struggle with clarity. And clarity is exactly what a StoryBrand BrandScript is designed to give you.
I have trained directly with Donald Miller, the author of Building a StoryBrand, and I see him regularly as part of the StoryBrand Certified Guide community. I have led dozens of companies through the StoryBrand Marketing Livestream. I have also trained hundreds of StoryBrand Certified Guides, which means StoryBrand trusts me to teach other Guides how to use this framework correctly.
As a Guide and content strategist, I have helped hundreds of experts, speakers, and small teams turn scattered ideas into a message they can use everywhere. The moment the message becomes clear, the marketing becomes simple.
What Happens When Your Message Isn't Clear
Without a clear message, your marketing becomes harder, slower, and less effective. Your team can’t stay consistent. Prospects don’t understand the value you bring. And you end up reinventing the wheel every time you write something new.
A confusing message doesn’t just cost you time. It costs you opportunities. Website visitors bounce. Email subscribers disengage. AI platforms scrape your content and can’t quite figure out how to describe what you do.
When people can’t articulate your value, they don’t buy.
A BrandScript fixes that.
What a Storybrand BrandScript Actually Is
A StoryBrand BrandScript is a simple tool that clarifies what you want to say so customers understand it instantly. It’s built around a proven storytelling framework: you position your customer as the hero, you take your place as the guide, and you organize your message so it speaks to what people actually care about.
Donald Miller and me at the Coach Builder Summit. I continue to train with StoryBrand so the tools I bring to my clients stay sharp and current.
A BrandScript has seven parts. Together, they help you explain who you serve, the problem they face, how you help, and the results they can expect. When these pieces are clear, your website, emails, and content finally work together instead of competing for attention.
Just like an actor uses a script to know exactly what to say onstage, a BrandScript gives you the words and structure you need to communicate clearly in your marketing. Instead of improvising every time you sit down to write, you start with a simple narrative that keeps you focused, confident, and consistent.
After being trained directly by Donald Miller and working closely with the StoryBrand team for years, I’ve seen this tool transform entire marketing systems. I’ve led dozens of companies through the StoryBrand Marketing Livestream and trained hundreds of StoryBrand Certified Guides, which means StoryBrand trusts me to teach other Guides how to use this framework correctly. I continue to train with Donald and the StoryBrand leadership team, so everything you learn here reflects the most current version of the framework.
At its core, a BrandScript gives you one message your entire organization can follow. No more reinventing the wheel every time you write something new. No more contradictory language across different platforms. When you start with a BrandScript, everything downstream becomes easier and more effective.
Why Every Thought Leader Needs a BrandScript
When you run a business that depends on your ideas, clarity isn’t optional. It’s the foundation everything else sits on. Whether you’re a keynote speaker, a consultant, a founder, or the face of a growing brand, people hire you because of the way you think. Your message has to be clear, repeatable, and easy for others to share.
A BrandScript gives you that clarity. It helps you talk about what you do in a way that feels simple, confident, and aligned. It becomes the narrative your entire team can follow, whether you work with contractors, a marketing assistant, or a rotating mix of designers and writers. Instead of guessing at what to say, everyone uses the same language, which saves time and builds trust with your audience.
I see this over and over with experts who come to me feeling stuck. They have a brilliant offer, real results, and a growing audience, yet their marketing feels harder than it should. The breakthrough happens the moment we clarify their message. Once the BrandScript is in place:
writing becomes faster
Content becomes more consistent
Their website converts more effectively.
AI tools even begin to surface their expertise more accurately, because the narrative across their digital footprint becomes unified.
If you want speaking inquiries, sales calls, and warm referrals to come more easily, you need a clear and consistent way to describe what you do. A BrandScript gives you that anchor.
How To Use Your BrandScript
1. Your Website
Your BrandScript gives you the language for your homepage, services pages, speaker page, about page, and calls to action. Instead of guessing at what to say, you follow a clear narrative: the problem your audience has, the solution you offer, and the results they want.
Most clients who work with me are shocked at how quickly their website comes together once the BrandScript is finished. It makes every decision easier.
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2. Your Email Strategy
A BrandScript shapes your welcome sequence, nurture emails, lead magnets, newsletters, and promotional campaigns. It keeps your writing grounded in a message people recognize and trust.
If you’ve ever felt like your email marketing sounds different every time you send something, this is the fix.
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3. Your Content System
Whether you’re posting on LinkedIn, recording a video, or preparing talking points for a podcast, your BrandScript gives you the through-line. It keeps your voice consistent. It ensures each piece of content points back to the problem you solve, the plan you offer, and the transformation you help people achieve.
This is also how AI tools learn your message. When your content aligns with a single narrative, AI can surface your expertise more accurately.
4. Your Sales Materials
Your proposals, one-sheets, pitch decks, and workshop descriptions become clearer and more persuasive when they follow the BrandScript. Instead of listing features, you speak to the story your clients are living through. You become the guide who helps them move forward.
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5. Your Thought Leadership
If you’re a speaker or consultant, a BrandScript helps you tighten your keynote, shape your point of view, and communicate the transformation you deliver. This is often where clients feel the biggest shift. They finally sound like the expert they truly are.
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Common BrandScript Mistakes
A BrandScript is simple, but it’s powerful only when it’s used correctly. After helping hundreds of founders, speakers, and marketing teams clarify their message, I see the same mistakes come up again and again. If you can avoid these, your BrandScript will work harder for you.
1. Writing from your perspective instead of your customer’s
Your BrandScript only works if it starts with what your audience wants. When you center your own process or credentials too early, your message becomes harder for people to understand. Lead with their story, not yours. Your authority shows up naturally once the message is grounded in their needs.
2. Making the problem too vague
A clear problem creates tension, and tension creates interest. When your problem statement is soft or overly broad, your message loses its edge. Be specific about what your audience is struggling with so they instantly recognize themselves in the story.
3. Treating the BrandScript like a script to copy and paste
Your BrandScript isn’t meant to appear verbatim on your website or in your emails. It’s a strategic tool that guides your language. The BrandScript shapes the message. It doesn’t replace the message.
4. Overcomplicating the plan
Your plan should feel simple, doable, and reassuring. When you add too many steps or load it with jargon, people mentally check out. Most audiences can only process three clear steps. Keep it focused.
5. Creating the BrandScript and then never using it
This is the biggest one. A BrandScript only works if you use it consistently. It should inform your homepage, your speaking points, your email strategy, your content, and your sales conversations. Without implementation, it becomes another document sitting in Google Drive.
6. Updating other parts of the brand but leaving the message untouched
Your audience changes, your offers evolve, and your positioning shifts. Your BrandScript should evolve with you. I recommending reviewing my clients’ BrandScripts at least once a year to make sure the message still reflects the work they want to be known for.
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This conversation was recorded during my early work with artists and creatives. While my client base has expanded to experts, speakers, and founder-led brands, the principles in this episode still offer helpful examples of how a BrandScript simplifies your message.
Use a BrandScript Strategically
Once your message is clear, everything else gets easier. Your website starts converting because people finally understand what you offer. Your emails feel purposeful instead of rushed. Your content becomes more consistent because you’re not reinventing the story every time you sit down to write.
You start sounding like the expert you already are. Your audience hears the same message no matter where they find you, which builds trust and strengthens your reputation. Even AI tools begin to describe your work more accurately because every piece of content points back to the same narrative.
Most clients tell me they feel lighter once their BrandScript is finished. They stop second-guessing themselves. They start creating with confidence. They gain momentum because they know exactly what to say.
A BrandScript doesn’t just simplify your marketing. It gives you the clarity you need to grow.
Spotlight Strategy 1-Day
If you want a message that feels clear, confident, and unmistakably you, a BrandScript is the best place to start. And you don’t have to figure it out on your own.
During a Spotlight Strategy 1-Day, we’ll clarify your message, organize your best ideas, and build a simple plan you can use right away. You’ll walk out with a BrandScript you understand, a narrative that feels honest and strong, and a content direction that supports your business goals.
If you’re ready for clarity that makes every part of your marketing easier, let’s talk.
