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Marketing Inspired by Your Inner Kid BATMAN
& HOTWHEELS:
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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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SAFE IS THE NEW RISKY
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Comedy Is Truth on Steroids
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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.’
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opposite, unexpected situations,
incongruities
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Contrast 2
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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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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.
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Thank You!
Kathy Klotz-Guest MA, MBA
Storyteller
Marketer
Comic Improviser
[email protected] @kathyklotzguest
408.578.8040
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