Generate Creative Marketing Ideas Using Improv Comedy
This past week, I had a blast reprising a blab I started about 10 months ago: how to generate creative marketing ideas using improv comedy. This is the 4th installment in the series with my [...]
How to be a More Human Connector: with Bryan Kramer
I had such a great time talking to my friend, Bryan Kramer of Purematter on the show recently. Bryan is an influencer, a down-to-earth nice guy and such a powerful connector. We had fun chatting [...]
Visual Storytelling with Comics
Simplifying Complex Concepts: The Power of Visual Storytelling with Comics I love this article about how a student turned her PhD work in science into a comic book for people who might not otherwise care. [...]
Comedy in Live-Streaming Video (Vid)
Recently, I had so much hosting a blab with two super smart video people, Tim Washer and Brian Fanzo. Tim knows more about adding humor to b2b video than almost anyone I know and he [...]
Improvisation in Business Storytelling
End of February 2016, I got to chat on a video blab with one of my fave fellow improvisers, Kat Koppett, about improvisation in business storytelling, and how principles of improvisation can help us be [...]
Social Media Marketing Humor from Kathy Klotz-Guest
Avoid Snoredom Keeping it Human is about weaving storytelling and humor into marketing for myself and for my clients. Here is my collection of images, sayings, and vids that are fun examples of [...]
Stop Marketing Bullshit – Use These Three Words
Bullshit is all around. And most of us agree we hate it. Yet, sometimes we do it. Yep - even me in my younger days. Until I realized how much marketing bullshit hurts us. We [...]
Kathy’s interview with Business of Story podcast airs Dec 23
I had a great time chatting with Park Howell on the 'Business of Story' podcast last month. We talked about the story spine model, improv and why it matters for better storytelling, and we talk [...]
How to Keep Your Content Playful and Fun
Note: this post originally appeared in Convince and Convert. As a storyteller and an improviser, I get asked about humor a lot. I was invited to speak to a company a few weeks back on [...]
Financial Marketers: Conservative Does Not Mean Boring!
Why Financial Marketing Needs to Lighten Up! I gave a webinar a few weeks back about how to come up with new ideas for content marketing that were fresh and fun using improv comedy. This [...]
Comedy in Marketing: Chat with Author David Nihill
On November 17, I had a great time chatting on the podcast with my friend and colleague, author and FunnyBizz founder, David Nihill, about comedy in marketing and speaking. This is a topic near to [...]
Content Marketing and Improv
How to generate kick-ass content marketing ideas using improv On my improv and innovation cafe' series, I've had a blast discussing how to generate new ideas for content marketing using improvisation techniques. I've been joined [...]
Improv Meets Business Storytelling: Yes And!
Does your business have a ‘Yes, And’ or a ‘No, But’ attitude? Culture, collaboration and storytelling are the focus of this episode. Recently, I had the pleasure of chatting about Business Storytelling with Lianne Picot [...]
Improv and Content Marketing, Part II (video)
We - Brian Carter, Gary Ware and I - had so much fun in part I, that we came back for more! On July 30th, we had a part II of improv and content marketing. [...]
Humor in the Workplace: Video Chat with Drew Tarvin
This week I had a lot of fun chatting with Drew Tarvin, engineer, speaker, improviser and founder of Humor That Works about Humor in the Workplace for our Improv & Innovation Cafe' video series. Humor [...]
Content Marketing Humor: My Talk at FunnyBizz (Video)
Batman & Hotwheels: Marketing Inspired by Your Inner Kid I had the honor of speaking at FunnyBizz San Francisco on June 11, 2015. There were so many great presentations that day - all advancing the [...]
Business Storytelling: Two Great (Video) Panels
Business Storytelling and Why it Matters I have done two great panels on storytelling recently. The first on the Hero's Journey with Michael Margolis and Brian Carter. The second panel was on business storytelling with [...]
How Smart People Can Communicate Better
Business Communication: How Smart People Can Communicate Better I had the pleasure of discussing IntellectualSpeak with a few great people including Felicia Slattery and Tamsen Webster on Brian Carter's Podcast. Smart people often rely on [...]
