Month: March 2018

  • You Ask, I Answer: How I Make Daily Video Content

    Kathy asked, “How do you make daily video content? What’s the process?” This process has been iterative – it’s not something I came up with all at once. Below is the outline; if you’d like a printable PDF version, just click here. Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here. Listen to the audio here:…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How To Prove Marketing Bottom Line Impact

    Sandie asks, “How can I prove that marketing is impacting our bottom line?” This is probably the most important question for the average marketer to answer. It’s literally the difference between keeping our jobs and being asked to either improve or leave. Today, we’ll review the process of valuing our business goals, then spreading that…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Diagnosing a Failed Marketing Strategy

    Pradeep asks, “Even after making the most calculated decisions, we have seen that Digital Marketing Strategies may fail due to improper implementation or a possible disruption in the Market. What is the best way to redesign the strategy when your previous strategy has failed?” We use the hierarchy of analytics to determine the cause of…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: When To Pivot Marketing Campaigns

    Sandie asks, “How often should I report and adjust my marketing campaigns?” We marketers should report on our campaigns whenever we’re asked to by our stakeholders. We should have internal reporting that’s near real-time so we can spot anomalies. In terms of pivoting, we should pivot once an action cycle has passed. Action cycles are…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Learning Marketing Analytics Resources

    One of the most common questions I receive is, “where do I get started learning marketing analytics?” Can’t see anything? Click here to watch on YouTube. Transcript and Video Notes Here’s the logical progression of training for burgeoning measurement folks in digital marketing today. Do these in the following order – courses, to build a…

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  • IBM THINK 2018 Wrapup Video

    Let’s look back at IBM THINK 2018. What were the big things, the eye-catchers, the thought-starters? Amazing New Technologies Quantum Easier to Use Technologies Watson Studio Watson Discovery The New ABCs AI Blockchain Cloud Data Encryption Watch the 9-minute video for the full review:  Can’t see anything? Click here to watch it on YouTube.

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  • THINKing Out Loud: Deep Learning For All

    In my last full day on the IBM THINK campus, I got a chance to learn about Watson Data Kits, the pre-trained models that help bootstrap AI projects faster, and the new Watson Studio. Watson Data Kits are cool – they’re like pre-built templates that help get a project off the ground by not having…

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  • THINKing Out Loud: The Importance of Practical AI

    My summary of Day 3 at #THINK2018:  Sales lessons learned from an IBM sales exec Facebook Live sessions coming up Inevitable Disruption talk Practical applications of AI The last is the most important. AI will never reach its fullest potential if people don’t understand the value it delivers. Let’s commit to simplifying AI and focusing…

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  • THINKing Out Loud: Quantum Leaps Forward

    Things I learned at IBM THINK, Day 2: Looking at quantum computing and the future of everything. Watson Discovery, the free news monitoring service (and unstructured data analytics service) that will make life easy for marketers and communicators What will we focus on once AI does most of the work How to take advantage of…

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  • THINKing Out Loud: Analytics and Technologies

    Riffing on an idea I heard yesterday at IBM THINK, what does it look like when we map technologies to various stages of the analytics hierarchy? From Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to deep learning, how do the different technologies line up? Can’t see anything? Watch this video on YouTube. Listen to the audio here: Download the…

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