All marketers communicate, few actually connect! To succeed in the 21st century, b2b marketers must rethink business as usual. Forget the jargon and find your core story. Simplicity, a human touch and stories matter. This presentation was given at the Technology Marketing Summit in Silicon Valley May 2012 by Kathy Klotz-Guest, CEO of Keeping it Human.
4. Image courtesy of cubicle ranch.com
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5. “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”
~ Herbert Simon, late Nobel laureate economist
Volume of Information
Attention, Trust
(EdelmanTrust Barometer)
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9. How does marketing make us FEEL?
Conscious
“Facts,” and Mind
most are 10%
filtered!
Subconscious
Mind
90%
Feelings
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10. How People Think We Decide
EMOTIONS LOGIC
EMOTIONS LOGIC
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11. Wanna Connect? Get Human!
Simple Stories
Think “Upside Down”
Likeability? Unleash Your Best People
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16. Metaphors,
Analogies
Simplify
Complexity
Marketing Operations
– the Central Nervous
System of Marketing &
Sales
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17. Customers don’t buy what we make;
they buy who we are.
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18. Sinek’s ‘The Why’
Too much How great leaders
marketing communicate
focuses here
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29. Unleash Your Best Storytellers
Person-Person Service Builds Trust
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30. Where can I humanize?
“Feeling” Stories
Simple
“Upside Down” and Lighten Up!
Think
Likeability Means People and Personality
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32. About Kathy
Chief Human Officer
Values play, simplicity, and the power of human-speak in business
20 years high-tech marketing / communications strategy and comedy
Founding Sr. Fellow, new media think tank (sncr.org)
MA Stanford University, MBA UC Berkeley
Founder, Keeping it Human
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33. Thank You for
‘Keeping it Human’
with me!
kathy@keepingithuman.com
www.keepingithuman.com
@kathyklotzguest
Marketer to the “Human” Kind