Many companies focus on ‘thought leadership’ content that makes the company look great. That’s about you. Here’s a better way to actually get your audience to participate and share content: make your customer the hero. [...]
I was interviewed for an article recently by The Glass Hammer on women executives and humor. Click here to read the full article on The Glass Hammer.
I cringe every time I hear the "Women aren't funny" nonsense. Well, they haven't met me or the many women entrepreneur friends I know. There are some general truths to this 'mythology' based on research, [...]
My Feature, "Once Upon a Time," was published online and in print by Pragmatic Marketing Magazine. Read Once Upon a Time...
This post is Part II of II. Read Part I. Always keep people at the center of your focus. This demonstrates empathy and empathy matters. Imagine you sell to executives, and you know they are [...]
Keep Communications Human in a World of Partial Attention. It Starts with Connecting. What does it mean to "Keep it Human" in the way you communicate? Great leaders and brands don't communicate; they connect. They [...]
Marketing Automation is Not a Customer Relationship-Building Strategy Social media is about people. Marketers know this. We’ve talked about it forever. Yet, we want to scale, so we throw technology at the issue. Because technology [...]
Content, Profits and Internal (Employee) Advocacy Today I had the pleasure of talking with Susan Emerick from IBM. We chatted about content, employee advocates and to how balance marketing as both art and science. IBM [...]
Business Storytelling vs. Storydoing In his recent HBR article, Ty Montague calls great companies 'storydoing' organizations. The premise: great companies are story doers, not just storytellers. Specifically, this means they take action on stories, and [...]
Sometimes Bad Messaging Happens to Good Businesses! On Thursday, July 11th, I talked about the signs - and fixes - for bad messaging. How do you know if you're off? The reality is most people [...]
This is part II/II. Read Part I here. Show How Customers’ Situations “Change” Users don’t buy ‘value propositions’; they buy something bigger that helps them in their lives. The most important part of a story, [...]
Product Storytelling Matters Humans are wired for stories; we’re storytelling animals. Yet, we’re living in an era of ‘Big Data’ information overload. There is too much data chasing too little mindshare these days. That’s because [...]
I am a marketer and improviser and that makes me a storyteller. And “digital storytelling” is critical today. Few things stretch your comfort zone (read: scare the pants off you!) like improvisation (Think: Whose Line [...]
I gave a workshop recently about humanizing products and marketing, and we talked about why narrative and great stories matter during design and in our customer communications. Stories of empathy and customer needs inform the [...]
On Saturday, May 18, I gave a workshop to the SVPMA - the Silicon Valley Product Management Association - on how to use customers' human needs to design better products and craft marketing stories. That's [...]
As a stage improviser, I love playing with the audience and creating stories in real-time. As a marketer that often applies improvisational tools to improve client outcomes, being prepared and still knowing when to ditch [...]
On Thursday, May 2nd, I talked about the latest research on neuroscience and neuromarketing and how it applies to storytelling. What should marketers know so they can better connect with customers? Listen to the podcast [...]
I've written a lot about knowing your core purpose and telling that story in marketing. It's your most important one. And I've had a number of conversations recently on this exact topic. So the blog [...]
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Far too often, we tell people all the things they shouldn't do in the workplace. Don't rock the boat Don't make [...]
Humor and Branded Content - How to Show Audiences You "Get it" I published a piece on humor and branded content [...]