Content Marketing Humor
Humor is an important pattern disruption technique and it can change the way prospects and customers perceive your company. Humor is human! Sprinkle in a little levity - and boom, you can flip expectations. Content [...]
Humor is an important pattern disruption technique and it can change the way prospects and customers perceive your company. Humor is human! Sprinkle in a little levity - and boom, you can flip expectations. Content [...]
What Makes Things Funny and What Marketers Can Learn: A Chat with Peter McGraw Much like Monty Python's 'Search for the Holy Grail,' Peter McGraw and his researchers at the Humor Lab in Boulder, Colorado, [...]
Marketing Humor ebook - Lighten Up Your Content! and Get Results We all want better content! Well, you're out of reasons to avoid adding humor to your marketing. There are so many great examples and [...]
Every buyer has a story about his or her work, what's wrong, what's right and why he or she does what they do. Conversely, every company has a story they tell buyers about why they [...]
(Note: I wrote this 3.5 years ago - still relevant with a few updates!) Storytelling Pieces. Source: pexels.com As a marketer and storyteller, I love that storytelling has made a huge resurgence in [...]
Scaling the Human Factor Note: Chris Boudreaux was scheduled to be on the show today and didn't make it. The show goes on! I discussed scaling the human factor and brought in many tips and [...]
June 2014 Brand new is my new ebook that just launched June 3rd 2014 and is only available in the Amazon store. Get yours today! Better Content and Storytelling with Humor
Source: Video Screen Shot The Big Marketing Question Your Company Must Nail It's a comical scene right out of one of my favorite new shows, Silicon Valley, where I grew up (of course, [...]
Keeping Sales Human: Agile Selling in a Noisy, Busy World On May 22nd I had the pleasure of chatting with one my fave sales experts - and I don't throw that term around liberally - [...]
Facebook Marketing Using Humor with Brian Carter Facebook Marketing Using Humor On May 8th, I had the great and fun pleasure of chatting with author, Brian Carter. He and I were on a [...]
Funny Business: Comedy in Business Marketing Humor is human. In March, I was fortunate enough to participate in this great funny business panel. I discussed humor in marketing along with great folks including [...]
Turn Jargon into Human Speak Source: Wikipedia.org Jargon. It's the worst. We've all heard it, done it and regretted it after. Jargon is more than just lazy; it's marketing air pollution. I call [...]
Kick-Ass Marketing Storytelling in Five Steps Great marketing is about great storytelling. Stories stick, inspire, and move people to action. So how do you tell a better story? Here is my latest infographic: Five Steps [...]
Storytelling is the original social medium and humans are wired for it. As a marketer, storyteller, and improviser, I also believe it's one of the most important, though underutilized, skills for leading today. And it's [...]
Cut the Crap! The "Er" of Comparison Branding Harvard Business Review (HBR) had a great article last week on common mistakes start-ups make in talking about their brands. In that piece, the author explains that [...]
My Favorite Marketing Podcasts I started my podcasts series with a tongue-in-cheek title just over 1.5 years ago. Kathy Klotz-Guest on blogtalkradio.com The idea was to have fun with great guests where we [...]
Why Most Brand Videos Suck This parody video of a generic ad created by Dissolve.com (and republished by AdWeek.com) cracks me up. Dissolve took stock footage to create the ad based on Kendra Eash’s “This [...]
Visual Storytelling Rules I had the pleasure of talking with author, CMO and co-founder of Branderati, Ekaterina Walter, on the podcast today. We had a blast talking about why visual storytelling matters (Ekaterina is the [...]