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Build your marketing business using the world's most trusted framework. Get the training, tools, and community to make it work.

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Where Most Marketing Businesses Get Stuck

You’re good at what you do. Maybe really good.

And yet, growing your own business still feels harder than it should. You’re losing deals to marketers who aren’t as talented as you. You’re spending the first half of every sales call just earning the right to be heard. You’re competing on price because prospects can’t see what makes you different.

The frustrating part? You know exactly how to solve this problem for your clients. You just haven’t had the right system to solve it for yourself.

That’s what the StoryBrand Guide Program is built to change.

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"When I became certified, that first year my business grew 570%. It's been invaluable to me."
Britt R, Britt & Co Studio


A PROVEN SYSTEM FOR EVERY STAGE OF YOUR BUSINESS

The StoryBrand Guide Program is built around 3 phases, each one targeting the specific place where most marketing businesses get stuck.

ATTRACT LEADS

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  • Get in front of the right people consistently. Install your positioning, build a conversion-ready website, and create a nurture engine that fills your pipeline even when you're busy delivering for clients.

CLOSE LEADS

  • Turn conversations into contracts. Use a proven pitch deck, clear offer architecture, and a deal-closing proposal system that shortens your sales cycle and increases your close rate, at better margins.

DELIVER RESULTS

  • Build a business clients line up to hire. With a licensed flagship offering, Fractional Marketing Director positioning, a stage-ready keynote, and a niche strategy, Phase 3 is where you stop trading time for money.

“Within 6 weeks of completing my certification, I 10x’d my revenue and paid off my investment entirely.”
Audrey S, Marketing Consultant

“My return on investment was immediate with two clients. I had seven clients within the first 3 months.”
Michelle B., StoryBrand Certified Guide

Your Roadmap And Service Offering

By the time you’ve worked through the playbook, you don’t just have a stronger business. You have 15 proven, deliverable services that clients are already asking for.

Each step builds your marketing, your systems, and your client pipeline, making your own business stronger as you go.
Each step is also a packaged offering you can deliver to clients, meaning the playbook doesn't just build your business. It builds your service menu.
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In-Person in Nashville.
A Career's Worth of Clarity.

Certification is a hands-on, in-person intensive with Donald Miller and the StoryBrand team. This isn't a course you work through on your own time, it's live, immersive, and built for real transformation. You'll learn the framework at a depth most marketers never reach and leave knowing exactly how to sell it, deliver it, and build a business around it.

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“$42,000 project landed within days of completing training.”
Scott C, StoryBrand Certified Guide

You Don't Have to Figure This Out Alone

It starts in Nashville.

From day one of your certification, you’re not just learning a framework, you’re meeting the people who’ll be in your corner for years. Your cohort arrives from all over the country. They’re agency owners, freelancers, consultants, and marketing directors all making the same commitment you are. By the end of those two days, they’re not strangers anymore.

That’s on purpose.

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The StoryBrand Guide community is 450+ active marketing professionals who stay connected long after the training ends. This isn’t a Facebook group you forget about after the first week. It’s a high-engagement, high-trust peer network, with real infrastructure behind it:

  • Live community platform where Guides share wins, ask hard questions, and swap strategies in real time
  • Regional meetups where local Guides connect, collaborate, and refer business to each other
  • An annual Guide Retreat, a dedicated event built around connection, growth, and recharging
  • Regular coaching calls and live events designed to keep you sharp and moving forward
  • A directory that puts you in front of prospects who are actively looking for a certified expert

Here’s what I’ve learned after watching hundreds of Guides build their businesses: the strategy is learnable. The tactics are solvable. The thing that actually slows people down is isolation, not knowing if you’re on the right track, not having people who get it around you, not having somewhere to bring the hard questions.

This community exists to solve that. I believe in it, and I think once you’re inside, you will too.

— Tyler Pigott, VP of StoryBrand Certifications


PRICING

STORYBRAND GUIDE CERTIFICATION: $9,999

For independent marketers, freelancers, and consultants

  • Live certification training with Donald Miller and the StoryBrand team
  • Licensed framework and StoryBrand.ai — a proven system you can confidently sell to clients
  • A clear path to $250K–$400K+ as a solo marketing business — without building an agency
  • Done-for-you marketing assets — teaching tools, pitch decks, proposals, and campaign templates ready to use
  • Pricing & positioning guidance — know exactly what to sell, what to charge, and how to stand out
  • 12 months of coaching and community — ongoing accountability, peer support, and live access to sharpen your business
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STORYBRAND AGENCY CERTIFICATION: $20,000

For StoryBrand Certified Guides ready to scale their team

  • On-site team training on the StoryBrand Framework — we come to you and certify your entire team
  • Exclusive agency license for your team to use the StoryBrand Framework with clients
  • New hire onboarding system — ongoing virtual training so every new team member gets certified
  • Prioritized directory listing on MarketingMadeSimple.com for qualified inbound leads
  • Monthly Agency Mastermind led by Tyler Pigott to sharpen strategy and accelerate growth
  • Business Made Simple subscription for every team member
  • Certified Agency community — access to a network of agency owners scaling with StoryBrand
  • Full team access to StoryBrand content, resources, and sales / marketing assets
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Training Dates

IN-PERSON TRAINING
April 28 – 30, 2026
Nashville, TN
IN-PERSON TRAINING
June 17 – 18, 2026
Nashville, TN

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See how your website, messaging, and sales process compare to best practices used by the most successful independent marketers.
 
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