Storytelling details matter because great, memorable storytelling loves specifics. Great details bring stories to life. In this edition of the #yesandbrand Facebook Live show, I chat about how specific details are a gift to your audience. They anchor your story in memorability, and that will help your [...]
An open-mic content mindset can help companies tremendously. First, let me back up and define "open-mic." Typically, an open-mic night is a sampling of different acts in one night. Each comic gets 5-10 minutes. And clubs often (thought not always) don't pay open-mic participants. That can be [...]
A Little Background Vincenzo Landino and I chatted a few weeks back for his Brand Boost podcast. We talked about improv and marketing, Happy Days, how “human” – yes, still an important word – has also ironically jumped the marketing shark. We also talked about why all marketers [...]
We're All Improvisers in Business: Traits of Improvisational Business Masters The following is an excerpt from my new book, ""Stop Boring Me! How to Create Kick-Ass Marketing Content, Products and Ideas Through the Power of Improv." All Hail "The Improviser-in-Chief" Bill Clinton is an example of a master [...]
Creating Ballsy Content - Why it Matters, What it Means, and How to Do it Jon Burkhart and I had a blast on a blab we did Thursday August 4th on how creating ballsy content (with a high badass ratio) is a creative imperative today. How do you [...]
Six Keys to Building Storytelling Organizations That Last Building storytelling organizations is a critical topic. Why? Because every company today is a publishing company, and a storytelling company. Stories are the amino acids of great marketing content. It's the foundation for building your content house. And building [...]
Tension in business storytelling. Image source: gratisography.com How to increase dramatic tension in business storytelling I have learned so much over the years from comedy beyond just how to be funny; what has served me well is that I learned how to increase dramatic tension in [...]
I hear this a lot: "I work in a boring industry or I have a boring product. There isn't much I can do." I disagree. You can bust boring content. There is no boring product or industry - only boring marketing lacking imagination. I believe anyone can think [...]
John Oliver, Source: Youtube.com, This Week with John Oliver Why John Oliver Rocks Content I love John Oliver. He's up there in my comedy pantheon along with Key and Peele and Jon Stewart (who gave him his start on The Daily Show). He's smart, insightful, self-deprecating, and [...]
My article first ran on Convince and Convert. I am a storytelling and comedy nerd, a marketer, and a comic improviser. I know how important preparing and letting go is. In the same way software nerds rule technology development (I say this with admiration, as I am married [...]
