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The "So What" Factor: What It Is and Why You Need to Get Over It

By Lyn Graft1 min readIncludes video

“So what.”

This is a factor every entrepreneur is going to encounter when sharing your story. Audiences are constantly going to be judging your idea or concept whenever you get it in front of them based on a number of factors relevant to their world regardless of how good your product or service is.

This video explains what the “So What’ factor is and why you have to overcome it every single time and why you have to make your story relevant to audiences.

I also as well as gives you a tip what you can incorporate into your story to get over the So What factor and get audiences to care about your story.

Mentioned is this story is Amy Cosper, former Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, SXSW and Media Dynamics.

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Lyn Graft

Founder of Storytelling for Entrepreneurs and author of Start with Story. Lyn has filmed and interviewed more than 1,000 entrepreneurs since 2003, including the founders of LinkedIn, Starbucks, Dell and Whole Foods.

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