How Cisco Uses Comedy to Grab B2B Customer Attention

Sep 22, 2017

Tim Washer, Creative Director for Service Provider Marketing at Cisco, joins the Social Pros Podcast to discuss how humor and customer pain can cut through the noise and land those B2B accounts.

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In This Episode

• Why cutting through the crowded marketing space means investing in well-produced comedic content
• How retweets instead of metrics can lead to internal funding for hilarious products
• Why producing good comedic content means preparing for and accepting negative comments in advance
• How getting angry leads to a closer connection with your customers

Resources

• Tim Washer on Twitter: @timwasher
• Cisco
• Use Humor and Ridiculousness to Reach Your Audience
• Mainframe: The Art of the Sale, Lesson One
• The Network Effect
• Shorts International
• Marketoonist
• Tim Washer on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• Fast Innovation and the Slow Waiter

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