The StorySMART Way

Ron Watermon • March 1, 2022

Storytelling for All

Clayton, Missouri - March 1, 2022 - This is the way. The StorySMART way. For me it comes down to two hashtags #getStorySMART and #OwnYourStory. Allow me to explain our way.

It isn't the Mandalorian creed. And I am not talking about "the Cardinals Way" popularized by legendary coach George Kissell. But I suspect there are some commonalities. The StorySMART way speaks to both core values and our proprietary methodology.

I'll leave our intellectual property to another day. Right now let's focus first on your IP as it is central to why we are on a mission to modernize a growing and thriving video and motion picture production industry.

StorySMART LLC is a technology startup that is less about technology and more about people. It is rejection of the idea that a DIY app is always the answer. The idea is simply this. Sophia Coppola, Steven Soderberg or Spike Lee will do a better job telling your story than you.

Who wouldn't want to have Walter Cronkite, Walt Disney or Edward R. Murrow tell their story?

Video storytelling and motion picture production are highly-skilled art forms that do something that is as old as human kind. Tell a compelling story. At its core, StorySMART provides the most human service of all - storytelling.

If you want to be remembered, you must tell an amazing story. It doesn't matter if you are talking about brand marketing or grandparent marketing to grandkids. We all connect through story. It is simply how our brains are hard wired.

Seemingly ordinary people have extraordinary stories. They do.

We want you to have your own Stephen Spielberg tell your story. Stephen doesn't work for StorySMART (yet?), but I'm using him to illustrate my point about our way.

We provide premium video and motion picture storytelling by connecting our clients with gifted storytellers like Stephen who are among the best in professional film and video production. All clients are entitled to have their stories told in an amazing premium way that they will own forever.

A great story is a gift we all deserve to own.

StorySMART's mission to provide STORYTELLING FOR ALL is rooted in our values. We believe EVERYONE matters and deserves to be remembered. And everyone is entitled to own their own story - copyright and all. Nobody should own, control or profit from your story but YOU (unless of course you sell it or give it to them as gift).

Every client is entitled to have their story told professionally in a high-quality premium way while still retaining the intellectual property rights on their story. That is the StorySMART Way.

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