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Is your brand human?

Does your “story” connect with customers and prospects?

Are your marketing efforts generating the right leads and results?

A human touch wins in the marketplace.

The key to great marketing results is making a human connection with customers.  We improve results by simplifying and humanizing marketing. That means turning marketing-speak into customer-speak that matters to customers. You know, people.

Jargon-Free Marketing

Humans think in stories. We cut through clutter, and work with you to uncover, craft, and weave (in human-speak) your most powerful stories across your internal and external print, online, and social media marketing, including video.  We can even add humor. For one client with complex technology, a more simple, human story meant millions in new business.

“In Silicon Valley the pros who present the hottest android apps often sound like androids! Take a lesson from Kathy on how to present. With that rare combination of rapid-fire intelligence and great levity, Kathy wakes you up to brand new thinking! I walked away with at least 3 solid ideas for my clients after her talk. You cannot afford NOT to have Kathy come in and present on ‘humanizing products’ . You’ll re-oxygenate your blood and release endorphins just from laughing!!” – Shelly Gordon, PR Roundtable Director & Principal, G2Communications
 

Our fun seminars invert assumptions so you see new possibilities. Imagine brainstorming where you create new products by adapting existing ones! For one group, we increased new product ideas by 5X in a fraction of the time and cost of linear methods!

“Kathy’s deceptively simple approach to improvisation for product professionals is Red Bull for your team’s ability to innovate & create high-value products.”–Ellen Grace Henson, Marketing Mechanics
 

What can we do for your business?

We are a marketing communications company in San Jose, the heart of Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. We provide marketing strategy, messaging, writing, and storytelling expertise to mid-sized b2b and b2c organizations so they generate more and better leads, close higher- margin business and retain profitable customers. We’re your outsourced marketing secret weapon! We also offer fun, engaging meeting facilitation, marketing seminars, workshops and talks.  Marketing strategist, improviser, and storyteller, CEO Kathy Klotz-Guest is also a popular marketing speaker.