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Kathy K lotz -Guest@kathyk lo tzgues t
ka thy@keep ing i thuman .com
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Create Better Marketing Content with
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Image courtesy of cubicle ranch.comChanges by Kathy Klotz-Guest
Marketi ng Crap Explosion(even MacGyver can’t fi x! )
BAROMETER O’
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Humor Connects
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ClutterEvery 2 days, we create as much information as existed from all of human history up to 2003– Eric Schmidt, former CEO, Google
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“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”~ Herbert Simon, late Nobel laureate economist
Attention, Trust12% trust execs; 60+% trust
people like me
Volume of Information
Marketing Challenge
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Humor is Human and Pattern Disruption Deivce
Source: Pen Waggener, CC 2.0
Humor Disrupts the Expected Pattern
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Peter McGraw, co-author of The Humor Code, posits that theBenign Violation Theory explains what makes things funny.
“I shot an elephant in my Pajamas. How it got there, I’ll never know.” – Groucho Marx
Image source: Wikipedia.org Violation of the Expected
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Getting Started
Source: Jon Mick CC 2.0
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Customer Pain
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Start with a customer pain
Image source: crtmedical
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The Truth: Relationships are Hard
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www.kinaxis.com
Go for Big Truth: It’s Funny
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Hubspot, “Unsubscribe”
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I could change...Maybe we could be friends with benefits?”
Image source: screen shot Hubspot
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Exaggerate!
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Image Source: Creative Commons Wikipedia Friedrich Bohringer
Take challenges to comic extremes
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Get Historical… It’s Hysterical
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Put products in unusual contexts
Source: Michael Russell, CC 2.0
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Flip Expectations
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Source: YouTube screen shot Valentine’s Day Cisco
Routers CAN be sexy
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Contrasts
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Create Big Contrasts
Image source: Sprint.com screen shot
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Fun Stories
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Source: YouTube screen shot Cisco video with Tim Washer
Tell Fun Stories
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Create Surprise!
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CC 2.0
Give an audiencewhat they don’t expect
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Go ‘Un-Product’
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Source: Ford.com - Doug the Puppet
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Co-Create
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Co-Create with Customers
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Use Role Reversals
Source: U.S. Army CC 2.0
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Celebrate Levity A Little is Powerful
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Image Source: Kathy Klotz-Guest
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Image Source: Intel.com
Let’s Get Visual, Visual…
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Awww, man!Wait for me…Oh, right, yeah.. never mind!
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Image source: keepingithuman.com
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Image source: Wikipedia CC
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SAFE IS RISKY
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Start Small. Just Start.
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No actual fingers were harmedin the making of this photo!
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Thank You for ‘Keeping it Human’
with me!
Kathy Klotz-Guest MA, MBA StorytellerMarketer
Comic Improviser
[email protected]@kathyklotzguest 408.578.8040
Marketer to the “Human” KindAll rights reserved 2014. Klotz-Guest
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