HIVE MIND

Humor in Marketing

by | Oct 9, 2024

Ready for three words that will have you ROTFL?

Healthcare Financial Management.

[Ba-Dum-Tss]

No?  Nothing?  Not even a teeny nasal puff of amusement?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.

Healthcare financial management is about as dry as a popcorn fart.

What’s interesting though is that since, as an industry, healthcare financial management is essentially a comedy desert, adding just a tiny bit of humor actually goes a long way. It’s like a drop of water on Arrakis.

If you’re in an industry where no one has cracked a joke in 10 years now is your chance to capture seriously rare ROI on your marketing.

5 examples

Here are 5 examples from one of my healthcare financial management clients that each outperformed competitor content by five times in terms of views, comments, likes and shares.
Spoofing well-known genres like prescription drug commercials.

Spoofing well-known brands like insurance companies.

Using sports themes in a business context.
One actor, many characters.
Spoofing reality TV.

Humor is fun, it can be easy to do if you follow these formulas, and it friggin’ works.  If your industry hasn’t had a good laugh since the Three Stooges, give it a try. You’ll be surprised how well it works.

Written by

Colt Briner