In August 2015, Kathy was interviewed by the Huffington Post (author Phil Simon) about her business and the human side of business communications. Human Side of Business Communications Business communication is broken, but don't take my word for it. In May 2013, the PMI released its annual "Pulse [...]
On Feb 12, I had the pleasure of chatting with Roger Dooley, author of Brainfluence, one of my favorite marketing books of the last few years. On this podcast, we chat neuromarketing, influence and persuasion and what marketers must do differently. Neuromarketing with Roger Dooley Follow [...]
Today, I had a blast on the podcast. I interviewed myself on one of my favorite topics: How to Speak Human in marketing. Kathy Klotz-Guest's podcast Hope you enjoy listening to it; I had fun doing it. Speak Human Listen to the Podcast! Check Out Marketing [...]
The way you communicate with prospects and customers creates or destroys value. When communication is focused and simple, it can add value by challenging your prospects’ status quo, expanding their options, and helping them to see things in new ways. Yet, too often we’re guilty of complicating things [...]
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 - Jill Konrath. Always a breath of fresh, no-nonsense Midwestern common sense on sales, [...]
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 it "Jargon-monoxide poisoning" and it costs you more than you think. Jargon is [...]
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 to Kick-ass Storytelling to Bring Out Your (and Your Audience's) Inner Superhero. Marketing [...]
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 co-author of The Power of Visual Storytelling) and what you need to know [...]
As a marketer and comic improviser, this is a topic near and dear to my storytelling heart. I know comedy can help marketers learn to connect with audiences in a much deeper way and make us better content marketers! I didn't learn that in business school. I recently [...]
That's right. Intuit's latest ad for TurboTax - that unsexy, boring accounting software - broke the mold. Finally. It's a great piece of storytelling. Here's why. It's never about your products and services. It's always about people and what your products and services allow people to do better. [...]
