Thank You to Marketing Camp Silicon Valley. I lead a session on Telling Your Purpose, Your Why Story, and why it matters in marketing: It's the relationship with your customers. Here I am in a [...]
Great marketing IS storytelling, and it is the essence of connecting with your audience. So why aren’t there more storytellers in product – especially in high-tech? Many companies gather customer requirements, build in a [...]
I love the Olympics – the games, the glory, the intensity. I especially love the sports that defy gravity, for example, gymnastics. How these people do what they do leaves me awestruck and inspired. [...]
The stories employees and executives tell internally are leading indicators of organizational health and marketplace effectiveness - even more so than the marketing stories we tell externally. Ignore them at your own risk! There is [...]
So your customers “like” you. And, at some point, you want them to become “engaged,” and then eventually commit to a serious relationship, proclaiming their “loyalty,” rather than seeing other companies. The goal of marketing [...]
If you haven’t seen a few TED talks (live or via TED.com), you are missing out. If you have, well, you know how great the talks are. TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) and TEDx – [...]
Over the past few years, in addition to doing a lot of storytelling for video, I’ve had the privilege of interviewing digital marketers from Cisco, Ford, IBM, Goodwill Industries International and NetApp among other companies [...]
Why Great Marketing Means Storytelling
I had the pleasure of chatting recently with Bill Sheridan (Communications Manager and Editor) and Tom Hood, CPA (Executive Director) of The Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants, known as MACPA, a top thought leadership [...]
I had the pleasure of chatting with my colleague and co-conspiring mischief maker, Shel Israel, about his latest book, Stellar Presentations. Shel and I first met as Founding Fellows of the new media research think [...]
The following blog post is a compilation from a Q&A with Nilofer Merchant. Nilofer, formerly the founder and CEO of Rubicon, is a corporate director at a NASDAQ-traded firm and a lecturer at Stanford. After [...]
KKG: Your success at IBM led to more of those videos and it became a serial effort. TW: Yes, 6 ‘Art of the Sale’ videos. We would improvise, and with my writing partner, Scott, we [...]
An Interview with Tim Washer, Part I of II I had the pleasure of interviewing Tim Washer, Senior Marketing Manager Cisco, a little while ago on the topic of video, humor and storytelling. Prior to [...]
No joke! Although it sounds like the set-up to a punchline, right? Human and accounting in the same sentence! Who would have thought? Keeping it Human did. We've always believed it matters, and that it [...]
I had the pleasure of interviewing Don Bulmer, VP of Communication Strategy at Royal Dutch Shell, in January 2012 about how the company is approaching storytelling today. This article captures the essence of that conversation, [...]
Kathy Klotz-Guest (KKG): Thank you, Jill, for sharing your thoughts and experience with our readers today. Let's jump right in! So many people equate "selling" with the visual of a used car-salesman because there are [...]
I love the wonderfully heartwarming classic holiday special, “Frosty the Snowman.” This year we introduced the holiday classic to my 3-year-old son. He loved it: the music, the fun, the message of believing in child-like [...]
A few weeks back, I recorded a podcast with Joel Orr of MeFrog. Joel helps consultants run their businesses better. In this recording, we talk about a few business tips every consultant must know. Click [...]
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