Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Author: Christopher S Penn

  • Use Big Data Remarketing in Google AdWords and Analytics

    Here’s a tip about a powerful, under-rated Google Analytics feature, “You’re bad at Big Data”, aka Smart Remarketing lists. Google rolled out this feature to all Google Analytics accounts last year. Smart Remarketing Lists attempts to process massive amounts of conversion data and identify those visitors to your website who are most likely to convert if you were to remarket to them.

    This option, relatively unpublicized, is an interesting twist, especially for smaller businesses who don’t have dedicated PPC and Google Analytics analysts to crunch big data for them about massive conversions. That said, I wouldn’t leave this solely in Google’s hands, since there’s limited flexibility to the tool. Instead, what you’ll likely want to do is A/B test your ad spend for a little while.

    Here’s where to find it, in the Admin section of the application:

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    When you go to create a new audience, it’s one of the options:

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    Simply pick how long of an observation window you want. This should be mapped to your sales cycle, ideally.

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    Once you’ve got your lists set up, head over to AdWords and start building out your ad campaigns. I recommend you run 2 parallel campaigns with equal budgets, ads, and keywords for both campaigns so that you have a completely fair A/B test and see which performs better, a hand-built list or Smart Remarketing List. Remember that in order for the best outcome, you’ll need to link your AdWords account to your Google Analytics account and have goals and goal values already defined.

    Try this feature out and see if it works for your business!

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  • Sign up for my free Google Analytics webinar, 4/21 at 2 PM ET

    Join me on Tuesday, April 21 at 2 PM Eastern Time for a webinar about how to use Google Analytics for public relations and communications.

    Public relations is notorious for being difficult to measure. That said, it’s not impossible to measure, and tools like Google Analytics can be a powerful ally for understanding the impact of earned media. You’ll learn what Google Analytics can and can’t measure in PR, how it integrates with other measurement solutions, particularly around social media, and where you should get started in your own measurement strategy.

    For example, social media has a funnel of its own:

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    Google Analytics can and does aptly measure part of this funnel, but part of it is outside the scope of what the application can do directly. We’ll talk about what does and doesn’t work out of the box, and if there’s time, we can always discuss

    I will also cover the #1 thing people do wrong with Google Analytics in general, how to calculate the ROI of social media, and answer any questions you might have.

    Who should attend? You do not have to work in public relations to get benefit out of this webinar. Almost all the ideas are applicable to anyone in marketing and communications. You definitely do not need to work in an agency to gain benefits; if you work in-house, there will be plenty for you.

    The webinar will be free of financial cost, but you’ll get email from SHIFT. I can promise there will be no annoying sales guy who will call you every day for two months until you block him on Caller ID, because we don’t have any dedicated sales guys, period.

    So click on the annoying button to register now:

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    I should add as a disclaimer, in case it’s not obvious, that no one at SHIFT’s creative services team had any part in the creation of that button. I made it intentionally ugly and mildly annoying all on my own.

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  • Does a daily social media ask help to sell more?

    One of the social media marketing tactics that I’d always been opposed to in the past is high frequency repetition of an offer on social media. I made the assumption in years past that your audience was relatively static, and peppering them with offer after offer would eventually make them flee.

    Then the era of social media churn began, wherein your audience comes and goes. On top of that, algorithms changed, and you could no longer count on your social content being seen simply because you posted it. Suddenly, it was no longer guaranteed that even a majority of your audience knew about a one-time offer post.

    I began a test on March 11, 2015 to do a daily social promotion. My usual schedule of 5 items of note remained the same; the social offer was simply tacked on later in the day.

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    Because I have 3 books for sale, I was able to present a new offer every day, repeating only every 4th day.

    Other important things to note were that I wasn’t running any other promotions concurrently. My cadence of other posts and my weekly newsletter did not change. As best as possible, testing conditions were held stable and normal for the duration of the period.

    What have the results been? Here are my sales numbers:

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    To say the least, worthwhile. In the chart above, the blue bars represent daily sales of all books. The red line is a 14 day moving average of book sales. By incorporating a daily social media ask, it’s brought my 14 day sales average as high as it was during the initial launch.

    Does this mean you should adopt a daily ask? As with all things, you have to test for yourself. Try it out, see if you generate similar, better, or worse results. Keep what works, leave behind what doesn’t work.

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  • How do you know which content to reshare?

    Which web pages are your most popular?

    Which tweets are your most popular?

    How do you know which content to reshare?

    These are not infrequent questions asked by content marketers. How do you decide what’s popular? One of the simplest methods is to use quartiles. If you’re unfamiliar with quartiles, they are a basic statistical analysis method in which a normally distributed data set is split into 4 even pieces. For the purpose of this post, we’ll want to focus on the upper quartile, the top 25% of anything you do.

    To make this more concrete, let’s walk through an example. Go to Google Analytics. Go to Behavior > Site Content > All Pages.

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    Set the list using the dropdown box in the bottom right to 50 pages, then export into the spreadsheet software of your choice. Eliminate all of the extraneous columns until you’re just left with pages and views:

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    In a column next to the views, write this formula: =Quartile(B2:B51,3) (assuming you have 50 lines of data from B2 to B51, otherwise adjust):

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    It’ll come up with a number that represents the third quartile boundary, or where the upper 25% of your data is. These are the most popular posts. The third quartile represents the upper 25% of traffic you’ve obtained. If I make a chart with this data, it looks like this:

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    What do you do with this information? If you’re re-posting content on social media, use this as the boundary line for what to retire and what to leave out. It’s a great place to start. Bear in mind you can use this method for any marketing analytics data set you have.

    Consider paying to promote some of the posts in the top quartile. They’ve already proven themselves, proven their worth – what if you took it up a notch with a few dollars?

    If you do any bylines or content syndication, consider these your A-Team. These would be the posts you might want to excerpt only, or write alternate versions for other platforms (at the very least attributing your content back to you).

    By using a simple statistical method (and yes, it has its flaws, but that’s for another time), you’ve now got a starting point for identifying popular stuff. There’s nothing overly magical about quartiles themselves; you could use any quantile you wanted (10% brackets, 33% brackets, etc.) but quartiles are baked into most spreadsheet software, and they’re easy to explain to non-math inclined people.

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  • How to get better answers to tough questions

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    When studying with a master teacher, one of  the most important things you can do is to arrive with your burning questions. Your burning questions are the questions you must get answers to. This is something that I learned from my teacher’s teacher, Stephen Hayes.

    However, some questions are better than others. Some questions will get you an answer, but not an answer that you can use to make advancements in your own growth. Your task as a questioner is to devise questions that yield real, usable answers.

    How? The way to devise a great question is to know what a great answer looks like. 

    A great answer has in it not only the overall knowledge you need, but what immediate next steps you need to take in order to bridge the gap between the question and the big picture.

    A good answer is efficient. It does not contain lots of information you already have.

    Finally, a good answer cuts to the heart of the matter immediately. Some people ask questions just to talk, or to show off in front of others. You’ve likely been at marketing conferences where someone’s question during Q&A is a 30 second ad for their business before they finally get around to asking something. 

    Based on all of this, what does a great question look like?

    A great question has three parts:

    • Create a little bit of context by stating the specific problem you’re encountering
    • Concisely indicate what information you already have
    • Ask for the big picture and next steps

    Here is a mundane example using email marketing. 

    A mediocre question would be, “I am having some trouble with getting my emails delivered. How would you fix this?”

    A great question would be, “My emails to consumer domains like Hotmail on not getting through. I have set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC in monitor mode. I’ve checked my Sender Score and it is clean. What should I do next? Is there a trend in deliverability that I missed?”

    The quality of answer you’ll get to the latter question should be significantly more helpful than the quality of answer you’ll get from the former question. Use this 3 part format when you’re asking speakers questions at conferences. Use it when asking questions of your teachers and mentors. Use it during sales and business development meetings to advance the sale.

    Ask better questions to get better answers!

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  • What’s Your Best Day in Marketing?

    DemandBase (a SHIFT client) asked the following question:

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    A fine question for a lighter Friday blog post.

    What’s the best day for me as a marketer? It’s not a big win, though those are certainly nice. It’s not a hire, a promotion, or a bonus. Again, those are nice things to have, and I certainly would never spurn them.

    No, the best day for me as a marketer is a day when I learn something new that I can use, or I create something new that I or others can use. In modern marketing, applied knowledge is power.

    When you get a new customer, that’s a temporary increase in your revenue. Customers come and go. Money comes and goes, too.

    When you learn something new? That’s a nearly permanent increase in your marketing power. There’s something you can do that you previously could not do. There’s some advantage you now have, even if it’s just leveling the playing field with your competitors. When you create something new, you have a distinct, tangible advantage that few others can match, at least for a while. This is why innovation is so important.

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    Innovation is about making something new, about creating something new. True innovation is hard to come by, but once you have new knowledge, you have new power.

    Those rare days in marketing? Those are the best days of my career.

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  • How answering questions proves authenticity in marketing

    One of the questions asked recently at Social Media Marketing World was how much authenticity matters. How much does it matter if you don’t personally write your own social media posts and content, especially at a brand where it’s assumed that a social team will be at work anyway? For example, when I write for the SHIFT Communications blog, does it actually matter if my name is on the post?

    If your audience is only consuming content and not interacting with the brand, then it doesn’t matter whose name is on it. You could be reading Seth Godin’s intern or Chris Brogan’s robot army, and as long as the content was still genuinely helpful, great.

    Here’s where non-authenticity bites you: the moment someone asks you a question. If you’re doing a webinar or speaking onstage and someone references a blog post you wrote, it’s awkward and telling when it reveals that you don’t even know what you’ve written. “Hey Chris, in your post on Bitly URLs for social media analytics, why didn’t you address the JSON array from the API instead of using Google Sheets?”

    If I hadn’t written that post, I’d be at a loss. Imagine responding with, “Oh, yeah, um…” I’d have to make something up or guess. In that moment, any credibility I have with the questioner would evaporate, and if that questioner was a potential business lead, my lack of authenticity could cost me thousands or millions of dollars.

    Instead, if I know what I’ve written, if I actually am who I say I am, then I could say, “Absolutely you could, and in fact, a good portion of Bitly’s API is accessible ONLY by JSON, but that’s outside the scope of the blog post. You’d have to build the custom ImportJSON function from Trevor Lohrbeer to do that.”

    The answer to the question often tells you more about what level of knowledge you have than the posted content itself.

    This is why authenticity – meaning that you are who you say you are – is so vital. Answering insightful questions are the absolute best way to demonstrate the depths of your personal expertise.

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    If you are who you say you are, you welcome questions rather than avoid them, and you ask for the hardest questions people have so that you can expand your own knowledge and growth.

    To quote Oscar Wilde, be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. That includes what you post on social media. It’s fine to automate. It’s fine to schedule. But know what you’re sharing so that when someone asks you a question about it, you know the answer. In the words of friend and mentor Tom Webster, “Do your own work.”

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  • Selling social media to a sales-driven company

    Jonathan Chiriboga asked:

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    The answer to this question is contingent upon your analytical skills. My tool of choice to prove the value of social media to lead generation and sales-focused people is Google Analytics.

    In order to make this determination, goals and goal values in Google Analytics must be set up first. Once you’ve got goals and goal values, go into Google Analytics and find the Conversions menu on the left hand side:

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    Once you’ve found the section called Assisted Conversions and clicked on the item mult-channel funnels, you should see a screen that looks like this (assuming that you have goals and goal values operational):

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    What we see above is that social media has driven real revenue. In this particular case, since this is my personal website, Google Analytics is measuring eCommerce activity from book purchases. Social media drove 44 last touch purchases (meaning a social network post was the last thing someone did before buying) worth 142.53. Social also drove 24 assisted purchases (meaning that the social network post was part of the value chain but not the last thing someone did before buying) worth77.70. Combined, social was worth $220.53, or 15.3% of my sales.

    No VP of sales would dare throw away 15% of their sales revenue, not if they wanted to keep their jobs.

    Now, if you’re B2B or complex B2C (because they’re the same thing), you’ll instead be measuring the inferred value of the leads you create, rather than the transactions themselves.

    When you can prove that social media has a direct tie to sales, it becomes straightforward to sell in social. At this point, social media is a relatively known quantity, and there are case studies all over the Internet on sites like MarketingProfs and MarketingLand that you can show a skeptical VP of Sales or CMO. By explaining the above measurement strategy as part of your social program, you’ll prove that you’ve got your eye on what really matters to them, and that will go a long way towards getting their approval.

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  • What’s my favorite mobile app?

    Laura Pezzotta asked:

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    For my favorite mobile app? There are so many to choose from, but if I had to pick the Swiss army knife I use more than most, it’d be Evernote.

    Why Evernote? Versatility. It’s a document scanner, which comes in handy.

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    It’s a whiteboard capture utility.

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    It’s dictation software (especially when wired together with Do Button):

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    It’s a blogging and note taking platform.

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    It’s a filing system and a digital notebook.

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    The key to Evernote that makes it so versatile for me is syncing.

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    I can start a blog post on my laptop, sync, move to my smartphone to continue working, sync, and go back to my laptop for polishing and edits. Half of my blog posts I write while driving, using voice dictation and speech transcription. I’ll write a broad outline by voice (hands-free, of course), sync it, get to a desk, clean it up, and have content ready to go in minutes.

    This is a key to high productivity. In your average day, there are a few blocks of uninterrupted time that you can do lots of work in. There are also dozens of time fragments, periods of 5-10 minutes when you’re between meetings, standing in line, etc. You can waste those fragments playing Candy Crush or Trivia Crack, or you can use mobile apps designed to help you maximize them. Evernote is that app for me – it lets me make the most of small slivers of time. At the end of the day, a dozen slivers of 5 minute blocks add up to an extra hour of productivity.

    Whatever mobile apps you use, consider how you can leverage them to soak up those time slivers and make them work for you.

    As for the second part of Laura’s question, on social analytics… that’ll have to wait for a future post. I’ll give you a hint, though: Google makes it.

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  • How to find true marketing expertise and news

    Alan Belniak asked a followup question on yesterday’s blog post about what sources I read. This is less a question of what I read and more a question of method: where do the sources come from?

    Here’s what I mean: everyone starts with the same sources because those are the easiest ones to start with. We all read what I call the mainstream, the places that publish news that’s already news, stories people are already talking about. These are the Mashables, the Next Webs, the Techcrunches of the world. Reading these sources isn’t a bad thing; in fact, it’s the best place to start.

    What you need to pay attention to is where they get their information. In many articles, you’ll find a small link of attribution to where they got the news. These are the sources that you need to be paying attention to. These are the sources that did the original research, that found the information. When you find one of these sources in an article, follow the link and subscribe to that source’s blog. In this manner, you’ll build out a blog reader portfolio in three layers: mainstream, specialization, and source.

    It’ll take a little while, but as you build up your sources, you’ll have a better sense of where the thought leadership resides. In some cases you will have to go through three or four layers before you get to the best stuff. For example, Mashable every now and again runs an SEO story. They published one recently that was picked up from Marketing Land. Marketing Land’s story came from an individual contributor. That individual contributor follows a source named Bill Slawski, who runs SEO by the Sea:

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    Bill’s specialization is reading and understanding patents. That’s his thing, and he is one of the best people to follow if you want what will eventually be breaking news stories about companies like Google. In this example, you should subscribe to Mashable as the mainstream site. You should subscribe to Marketing Land as the intermediary, the specialized news site. Finally, you should subscribe to SEO by the Sea as a source news site.

    As I mentioned in the video yesterday, if you are reading it in Mashable, it is probably too late for the news item to be a competitive advantage. Don’t just lazily read the mainstream news sites. Click, investigate, and dig until you find the real story from the expert sources. That’s how you’ll build out a blog reader feed that is world-class and a true competitive advantage. Know long before your competitors know what is going to happen.

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