Category: Humour
By tsufit on Mar 31, 2011 in Communication, Communication Skills, Communications, Communications Skills, Entrepreneurship, Humour, Marketing, Media, Networking, Presentation Skills, Presentations, Presentations Skills, Public Speaking, Public Speaking Tips, Rant, Speaking, Speaking Skills, Speech, Speeches, Uncategorized | Comments Off
Open Message to Entrepreneurs and Assorted Other Business Types: When someone asks you what you do, answer in 10 seconds and then shut up! Share and Enjoy:
By tsufit on Mar 15, 2011 in Branding, Breaking News, Celebrity, Comedy, Communication, Communications, Customer Retention, Humor, Humour, Marketing, Media, Publicity, Uncategorized | Comments Off
In my last post, we talked about leveraging celebrity, yours or someone else’s and how it’s possible to leverage the celebrity of those who have created it for themselves. That’s what Aflac, the insurance company, did by using Gilbert Gottfried as the voice of it’s famous duck. Hard to forget Gottfried’s distinctive voice from Disney’s [...]
By tsufit on Mar 11, 2011 in Communication, Communication Skills, Communications, Communications Skills, Humor, Humour, Speech, Speeches, Uncategorized | Comments Off
A big part of what I do is helping people find the right words to express themselves. But you don’t always need words as this guy demonstrates. Enjoy! (Thanks for the heads up D!) Share and Enjoy:
By tsufit on Feb 2, 2011 in Branding, Coaching, Communication Skills, Communications Skills, Humor, Humour, Influence, Marketing, Media, Personal Branding, Positioning, Presentation Skills, Presentations, Presentations Skills, Public Speaking, Public Speaking Tips, Speaking, Speech, Speeches, Storytelling, Uncategorized, Why We Buy | Comments Off
By tsufit on Dec 20, 2010 in Breaking News, Celebrity, Comedy, Fans, Humor, Humour, Marketing, Media, Price, Prices, Pricing, Publicity, Sales, Uncategorized | Comments Off
That’s a first. A performer complaining about how much the promoters are charging his audience. But it makes a ton of sense. Actually, it reminds me of an author who complained to me that his publisher was charging too much for his books. According to The Calgary Sun, Seinfeld is playing London in June and [...]
By tsufit on Dec 14, 2010 in Comedy, Cool Stuff, Creativity, Humor, Humour, Marketing, music, Presentation Skills, Presentations, Presentations Skills, Publicity, Publicity Stunts, Uncategorized, viral marketing | Comments Off
Yonge & Dundas in Toronto. Make sure you watch to the end! Thanks to author/director Reva Stern for the heads up. Share and Enjoy:
By tsufit on Dec 12, 2010 in Branding, Celebrity, Comedy, Entrepreneurship, Humor, Humour, Marketing, Media, P.R., Personal Branding, Positioning, Reality TV, Success, Uncategorized | Comments Off
Learn about positioning from D Lister comedian Kathy Griffin.
By tsufit on Oct 18, 2010 in Branding, Comedy, Contests, Cool Stuff, Fans, Humor, Humour, Marketing, Media, music, Personal Branding, Radio, Reality TV, Success, Uncategorized | Comments Off
You know you’ve succeeded in creating a personal brand when it is worthy of being parodied. Even those of you who are not American Idol fans must have noticed Adam Lambert’s skyrocketing success, despite the fact that some homogeneous white bread type and not he, was the winner of American Idol. Beyond his voice, Adam [...]
By tsufit on Jul 30, 2010 in Branding, Breaking News, Celebrity, Comedy, Humor, Humour, Media, music, Personal Branding, Positioning, Publicity, Reality TV, TV, Uncategorized | Comments Off
Just announced. Ellen Degeneres is leaving American Idol. This is the right move for her for countless reasons and there are lessons here for any entrepreneur. It’s not because she’s not in the music biz. It’s not because she didn’t like saying hurtful things to contestants or because of her heavy work schedule although I’m [...]
By tsufit on Jul 26, 2010 in Comedy, Communication Skills, Contests, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Humor, Humour, Marketing, Media, Personal Branding, Positioning, Presentations Skills, Public Speaking, Reality TV, TV, Uncategorized | Comments Off
So I’m watching last comic standing tonight. Nobody is all that funny. What ever happened to Paul Foot? But I did notice something. That it’s more important to have an interesting colorful persona than to have “good jokes”. Several of the comedians were funny on paper. One even got the compliment that if the show [...]
