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Kathy Klotz-Guest
Kathy Klotz-GuestBusiness Storyteller, Comedian, Speaker, Facilitator
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MarketingInspired
by YourInnerKid
BATMAN
&
HOTWHEELS:
Kathy Klotz-Guest
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SPONSORED BY
YOUR
INNER
CHILD
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Mash-Ups!
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Humor is Human and Pattern Disruption Deivce
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Exaggeration
Contrast
Status Shifts
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Go to Unexpected Places
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SAFEIS THE NEW RISKY
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Comedy Is Truth on Steroids
Source: Andrew Magill
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Source: gratisography.com
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Smart Phone:
Put to Other Uses
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‘Yes, and: You don’t have to marry the idea.
Just take it out for a few drinks.’
@kathyklotzguest
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opposite, unexpected situations,
incongruities
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Source: Michael Russell, CC 2.0
Contrast2
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Fish
Out of
Water
Take Your Company’s Main Product
Put It In A Different Time Period
What would people do with it?
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Take one minute
Status Shift / Role Reversal
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Screen capture “Girl in a Country Song”
Your Turn
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Storytelling: Create a status shift or role reversal
with your customers, employees and /or executives
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Have customers or kids explain your product in their words
Have customers run your company. What would they build?
Have executives switch places with customers or employees
Exaggeration | Contrast | Status
Play Like a 7-yr-old!
Go to Unexpected Places
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Q&A
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I have finally become the adult
my inner child would
approve of.
Play like your inner child
depends on it.
www.keepingithuman.com ©2015
keepingithuman
Thank You!
Kathy Klotz-Guest MA, MBA
Storyteller
Marketer
Comic Improviser
kathy@keepingithuman.com
@kathyklotzguest
408.578.8040
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  • 1. All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest 1 MarketingInspired by YourInnerKid BATMAN & HOTWHEELS: Kathy Klotz-Guest
  • 2. All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest 2 SPONSORED BY YOUR INNER CHILD
  • 3. All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest 3 Mash-Ups!
  • 4. All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest 4 Humor is Human and Pattern Disruption Deivce Source: Pen Waggener, CC 2.0keepingithuman
  • 5. Exaggeration Contrast Status Shifts All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest 5 Go to Unexpected Places keepingithuman SAFEIS THE NEW RISKY
  • 6. All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest 6 Comedy Is Truth on Steroids Source: Andrew Magill 1 keepingithuman
  • 7. All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest 7 Source: gratisography.com keepingithuman
  • 8. Smart Phone: Put to Other Uses All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest 8keepingithuman
  • 9. All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest 9 ‘Yes, and: You don’t have to marry the idea. Just take it out for a few drinks.’ @kathyklotzguest keepingithuman
  • 10. opposite, unexpected situations, incongruities All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest 10 Source: Michael Russell, CC 2.0 Contrast2 keepingithuman
  • 11. All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest 11 Fish Out of Water Take Your Company’s Main Product Put It In A Different Time Period What would people do with it? keepingithuman Take one minute
  • 12. Status Shift / Role Reversal All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest 12 3 keepingithuman Screen capture “Girl in a Country Song”
  • 13. Your Turn All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest 13 Storytelling: Create a status shift or role reversal with your customers, employees and /or executives keepingithuman Have customers or kids explain your product in their words Have customers run your company. What would they build? Have executives switch places with customers or employees
  • 14. Exaggeration | Contrast | Status Play Like a 7-yr-old! Go to Unexpected Places All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest 14keepingithuman
  • 15. Q&A All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest 15 I have finally become the adult my inner child would approve of. Play like your inner child depends on it. www.keepingithuman.com ©2015 keepingithuman
  • 16. Thank You! Kathy Klotz-Guest MA, MBA Storyteller Marketer Comic Improviser kathy@keepingithuman.com @kathyklotzguest 408.578.8040 All rights reserved 2015. Klotz-Guest keepingithuman