Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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Much more than a third of your advertising budget is wasted
In a recent Wall Street Journal report, the allegation was made by the IAB that 36% of digital advertising traffic was fraudulent, driven by bot networks, fake websites, and hacked computers. I don’t doubt these figures for a second, because the measurement system by which payment is made for advertising is the click, and clicks are easy to generate and automate.

What’s more important, though, is that even a third of your ad budget wasted in digital is significantly better than traditional and offline, where you have absolutely no idea how much your budget is wasted. When you put up a billboard on a highway, you’re making some very broad assumptions about who drives by that billboard, and who has time or interest to read it. There’s a good chance, unless you’ve got a recognizable brand with an immediate call to action (fast food chain of your choice, next exit) that the ad won’t do much good.

Even in digital advertising, an awful lot of advertisers spend an awful lot of money trying to sell me something I already own. On the gaming blogs I read, Blizzard continues to try to sell me the Reaper of Souls expansion for Diablo III, and I already own it – and because it’s all online, they know it, they have my data and purchase record, and they still show me ads for it.

John Wanamaker is often quoted as saying that 50% of his advertising budget is wasted, he’s just not sure which half. I’d venture to say that advertisers waste far more money on bad targeting than they do on fraud. By no means is fraud a non-issue – it clearly is. But if 50% of your budget is wasted on bad targeting and 36% on fraud, then you’re really only getting 14 cents on every dollar working for your business. I’d say there’s some room for improvement there, wouldn’t you?

Let the ad networks fix the fraud problem (they will, it’s in their best interests to do so) – as marketers, we need to fix the targeting problem.

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March 25, 2014
Doing less stuff better
Over the weekend, a bunch of people tagged me in a Facebook meme about my top 15 literary influences. The first thing that came to mind was, “what an interesting opportunity to promote people I actually read”. The second thing that came to mind was, “I don’t have time to do this right”. What was a simple meme to other people was an opportunity to promote and support authors that I love, provide links to their works, and potentially even earn half of a penny on the occasional Amazon click-through. (the last bit was sarcasm)

The problem was, to do it right – assembling the list, linking it up, etc. – required a lot more time than I was initially willing to devote to the meme, so I didn’t participate. More and more lately, I’m faced with a choice that is binary – do it right at a significant time investment, or do it half-assed and very quickly. The choice isn’t actually much of a choice, not for things that matter.

For the work I do at work, doing it right is the only choice, which often means not doing something else entirely. For example, I spent over 6 hours recently working on a blog post, because there was a fast way to do it that was wrong, and a correct, slow way to do it right. I had to do it right, because it reflects on the people I work with.

For the work I do for myself, doing it right is the only choice a large percentage of the time, because other people rely on that work, from my newsletter to my daily social postings to my public speaking. I can’t get up on stage and do a half-assed job. I shouldn’t do a half-assed job on anything that other people need.

The idea of doing less stuff better comes at a significant cost, a hefty price to pay, and the price is doing less stuff overall. I had to make a difficult choice this past weekend, choosing to spend time with my family who I’d been away from for a week due to business travel, or choosing to attend a relatively rare seminar with one of my teachers, Stephen K. Hayes. I couldn’t do either half-assed, showing up for a little of each. Ultimately, I chose to do it right and commit to family first, but I know that I paid a heavy opportunity cost in personal development that I’ll need to pay more for later down the line. There will be a time when I can “do it right” for my training as well.

We cannot add more hours to the day. We can only choose what we do and how well we do it. At a certain point, we have to make tough choices about what we won’t do, from memes to things we want. May your choices be the right ones.

And for those people tagging me in that meme, I will do it eventually. When I do, I’ll do it right.

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March 24, 2014
Front loading your day
Ever wish you could be more productive, get more done, work without distraction, or waste less time each day? There’s an interesting answer to this problem if you’re willing and able to do it – front loading your day.

Something funny happens to East Coasters when we come to the West Coast. Our days automatically get front loaded for us. We wake up at 3 or 4 AM without prompting, and by the time 7 PM rolls around, we’re ready for bed. Most people make an effort to acclimate to the local time, which is a missed opportunity. If you can wake up at 4 AM feeling refreshed, you can get a workout in, get breakfast in, get all of your regular work done, and be incredibly productive, all before 9 AM local time.

The secret, to the extent that there is one, is that you can do this right now, wherever you live, without traveling anywhere. Just start setting your alarm clock 5 minutes earlier every single day, unless you’re already a morning person, in which case start chopping 15 or 30 minute blocks off until you’ve hit your target time of day to get up.

Are you willing to make that sacrifice? That depends on how unproductive you feel during the day, and how much entertainment and night life you are willing to cut. If you can shift the evening hours (which for many people is unfocused, unproductive time) to the morning, before the rest of your area gets rolling, you can get a lot more done, from workouts and health benefits to your best thinking, free of distraction.

Try front loading even half an hour into your day for a week and see if it makes a difference for how you feel and how much you get done.

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March 21, 2014
Cure writer’s block with a photowalk
Got writer’s block around a particular topic or blog post? There are dozens of different ways you can break writer’s block (some of which are unsurprisingly outlined in Marketing Red Belt), but one of the most reliable by far is to grab your digital camera (or smartphone with camera) and go on a photowalk.

If you’re unfamiliar with the term, a photowalk is nothing more than going for a walk with the intention of taking interesting photos of anything that captures your eye. For example, if you’re working on a blog post about breaking through the noise with digital advertising, take a walk with your camera looking for pictures of allegorical images of things breaking out of other things.

Going for the walk may help you break writer’s block in two ways. First, by finding a photo opportunity that’s related to your topic, you might expand the boundaries of your thinking on the topic. Second, by getting out from behind your desk and doing a visual task, you mentally change how your brain is processing information, taking it from explicit linear processing to implicit parallel processing, which can also help break down a writer’s block.

Give it a try the next time you’re stuck – go for a walk (even inside at a local mall or another part of your office if the weather’s nasty) and see if you can find the perfect picture to break a writer’s block.

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March 19, 2014
3 Google Analytics Data Collection Features to Turn On
Google Analytics is one of the most powerful marketing analytics solutions you can obtain for no money. It does for free what other software and services cost thousands of dollars to do, which means it can be a huge playing-field leveler for small businesses and underdogs. However, most people are using it with the good stuff turned off.

One of the catches of Google Analytics is that it can’t look backwards in time. It’s simply incapable of gathering data it didn’t know about, so the sooner you can turn on features, the sooner it can collect that data, even if you’re not necessarily ready to use the data yet.

Here are three data features you should turn on, even if you’re not sure you’re going to use them.

1. Remarketing. Setting up remarketing requires some code changes, which are detailed by Google here. This gives you things like affinity data, demographic data, and what other buying intent people have who visit your site. You get access to tremendous amounts of data that you can use for learning more about your audience, even if you never buy a single ad.

2. Site search. It may not seem like a big deal, but knowing what other people are looking for on your website has its uses. Activating and configuring site search is often overlooked, yet it’s so easy to do. In your site’s View Settings (under Admin), turn on site search and configure it appropriately. Once you do, you’ll know what pages people are getting lost on, what they’re looking for, and how often they’re getting lost.

3. Social data hub activity. Google Analytics is capable of tracking social interactions on sites where you can’t insert your Google Analytics code, such as YouTube, Google+, etc., but only if you tell it which social media profiles are yours. This helps with conversation tracking and link tracking, though it doesn’t apply to the major social media sites, such as LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook. Still, something is better than nothing, and it costs nothing except a minute to set up. It’s the Social Settings under Property in Admin.

Turning on these three data sources may not necessarily change your world right now in Google Analytics. They may be features or data points that aren’t helpful today because your business or marketing may not be ready for them. However, there’s a good chance that they will be useful at some point down the road, and the sooner you turn them on, the greater the pool of data you’ll have to analyze if and when that data becomes available. Additionally, Google Analytics is continuing to evolve and change. Its data processing algorithms keep getting more and more sophisticated. By laying the foundation for collection of more data, you stand to potentially benefit from future changes at no risk or cost today.

Turn these features on!

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March 18, 2014
Seth Godin is trying to get you killed
Seth Godin is trying to get you killed. Perhaps not in a literal, go jump off a bridge sense, but his recent advice about not requiring success before you have confidence is dangerous.

Take a moment to think about confidence. Go back to ancient Rome, in which the word confidere means to have full trust.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to express full trust in something that isn’t trustworthy. One of my martial arts teachers, Ken Savage, refers to this often as “reaching for something that isn’t there”, in the sense of trying to use a skill that you haven’t learned fully, and thus is unworthy of your full trust – your confidence.

Contrary to what Seth says, confidence is born out of repeated success. Success is an absolute prerequisite of confidence, because repeatable, reliable success creates your full trust in whatever it is you’re doing. Your full trust also implies that you know what you don’t fully trust, what your limitations are, what you can’t do, and if you are in a make-or-break situation where you need as sure an outcome as possible, you go with what you know works, what you know to be fully trustworthy.

Charging into a dangerous situation without a toolkit of methods and tools that you know you can trust fully isn’t confidence. That’s recklessness, and in a truly dangerous situation, be it a martial confrontation, or only two months’ marketing budget left for a 10 month year, you cannot afford to be reckless. There is a time and place for experimentation – when the stakes are low, when you’re in a learning environment. You can be a little reckless on the test server. You can be a little reckless with gloves on in a safe dojo with caring instructors. You absolutely cannot be reckless if the stakes are high. Unwarranted confidence will get you killed. It will get your business killed.

Sorry, Seth; on this we have to disagree. Confidence doesn’t just require success – confidence is born of it.

Incidentally, if you like the graphic above, type “etymology of confidence” into Google to get those very cool etymology charts.

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March 17, 2014
Upping my speaking game
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Over the last two days, I had the opportunity to attend a training for public speakers with a coaching firm, Oratium, led in part by my friend Tamsen Webster. One of the things I’ve always struggled with as a public speaker is coming up with a winning architecture for my presentations. I can do the delivery, the performance, just fine, but I’ve always felt that something was missing, something wasn’t quite right, something wasn’t as good as it could be.

What the last two days showed me were the missing pieces, the few tweaks and adjustments I need to make in order to take a presentation from good to great, from ordinary to extraordinary. I don’t view myself as a bad speaker, but the training was beneficial for me to understand what could be better, and what will be better in future talks I give. What I enjoyed most about the Oratium training was that it presented a complex, complete framework of how presentations work, and from there I could assess what I did right already and where I am deficient. Instead of trying to “just be better” or “just do more”, I could clearly see what it was that I wasn’t doing right.

What’s one of the biggest points where I have not done as good a job as a speaker? Giving the conclusions outright to the audience. This is a deficiency that comes largely from my martial arts training, where we learn to draw our own conclusions in real-time (and face bone-jarring consequences if our conclusions are incorrect), which is an efficient way to learn for the martial arts, but not an efficient way to learn or teach from the stage. Because of the limitations of how we learn in real-time (relatively poorly if we’re not trained to do so), it’s simply better for a speaker to hand a conclusion or insight to the audience rather than make them work for it and possibly come to a completely wrong conclusion.

I’ve got a lot of work to do in order to revamp and rework my speaking, but in the coming months and years, I hope that the training pays off for you (should you choose to see me speak) as much as it already has for me. If you’re ever in the speaking role, I would strongly encourage you to take an Oratium master class as well.

Disclosure: I was not compensated by Oratium for this post, nor do I receive any financial benefit, directly or indirectly, from it. I did receive a substantial discount to take the class, but there was no expectation or requirement for me to write about it.

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March 13, 2014
Equitation
One of the joys I’ve experienced recently is watching my daughter learning the art of riding horses. At her first competition (after a few months of lessons), I learned about one of the categories on which she was being judged, something called equitation. I, having never ridden a horse besides the kiddie pony ride horses when I was a child, had no idea what equitation was.

It turns out that equitation is a fancy word for horsemanship, and it’s about the rider’s poise, command, and presence while on a horse, from basics like the cleanliness of the horse to the rider’s posture, and most importantly, the ability of the rider to control the horse with a commanding but relaxed presence.

I suspect equitation has its roots in the military application of horsemanship. The ability to control a horse with a relaxed command means that a horse is responsive to you. That skill would be handy in less calm situations such as a battlefield, where keeping order in a cavalry line would mean not only your own safety, but preventing panic from spreading to other horses in the line.

In watching my daughter’s lessons, one of the most important factors in equitation is your own attitude, energy, and approach to the horse. If you train with the horse and learn its idiosyncrasies, if you know its limitations, if you reward it amply and maintain your own calm and poise when it misbehaves, in time it learns to trust you and obey you. If your behavior towards it is obnoxious, at best it’s not going to do what you want and at worst it’s going to throw you, which can lead to serious injury or death.

In thinking about discussions in recent days about girls, bossiness, and what not to say, maybe we should take a fresh look at the very old art of equitation for some answers about what we do want girls to learn about leadership. While what we don’t want to call them matters, I think it’s equally or more important that we positively define what we do want them to be. The traits that make for outstanding command over your horse are traits that make for an outstanding leader as well.

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March 12, 2014
How to calculate the value of your social media influence
“I would do this for free, but I make you pay so that you understand the value of what you are getting.” – Mike Lipkin via Mitch Joel

One of the most core concepts in economics is the concept of opportunity cost. For any given expenditure, what else could you have purchased? If you bought an iPad, what else could you have bought with that money? If you spent your time weeding the garden, what else could you have been doing in that same period of time?

If you’re going to spend any amount of time working in social media, building influence and your personal brand, you need to be able to understand the opportunity cost of social media and how your influence impacts it. You also need to know what you are worth so that you can judge if any corporate social media campaign you’ve been asked to be a part of is worth your time. Obviously, if it’s a brand or product that you legitimately love and don’t measure in monetary terms, then put the value equation aside and skip this post!

The monetary value of your social media influence starts with your current income. It’s the fairest and most accessible price estimate of what the market is willing to pay for your time and labors. If you spend an hour on Facebook in your free time, what could that hour have earned you at work?

The way to calculate this is by some basic math. The average person works 50 weeks a year (with two weeks’ paid leave) and 40 hours per week at full employment. Thus, take your income, whatever you made in total last year, and divide it by 2,000. That’s your effective hourly rate. While this does make the assumption that every hour you work is valuable (including lunch), it’s a starting point.

Once you know your hourly rate, you understand your current market value. You understand at a basic level what your time is worth, what someone else is willing to pay you. If a company sends you a product for review on your blog and it takes you an hour to review it, its value had better exceed your hourly rate or you’re losing effectively losing value. You’re giving away more value than you’re receiving, because theoretically, you could be working for your current employer at the same rate.

When a corporation approaches you about helping them with their campaign, you must know your hourly rate as a baseline to judge whether or not something is worth doing. Lots of artists and musicians get proposals all the time about working for “exposure” and other non-monetary compensation. Lots of bloggers and social media influencers get asked to pitch stuff to their friends or to submit guest content for “exposure”. The question isn’t whether or not that’s a valid form of payment; the question is whether it’s an equitable trade.

This isn’t to say that your hourly rate is the only calculation to use, just the easiest one (especially if you’re just getting started building your brand). If you have established digital properties, your value may greatly exceed just your time alone. Think about what value your personal web site provides. Check out similar sites with similar search rankings, traffic, and reputation, especially commercial sites, and determine what an ad costs to place on those sites. This is a measurement (often reviled) called ad value equivalence, only in this case it makes total sense because a company is asking you to place something in a spot where you could run a different ad.

For example, if a commercial entity comes to you and asks you to display a badge on your blog, know what they’d pay on other similar sites (use Google Adwords Display Planner, for example) and judge whether you’re getting that value from the asking company in exchange for your efforts and ad space. On this blog, I have ads for my book and for my public speaking. If I swap out that space for something else, it had better generate the same or better economic outcome for me, or it’s not worth it.

The reason we have so much trouble with social media ROI begins with not having any idea what our own value is. Use some of the points in this post to start assessing your own value, and you’ll have the beginnings of understanding what the value of your social media influence is. How much money are you leaving behind?

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March 11, 2014
Timeframes, analytics, and objectives
One of the most misused parts of marketing analytics is the timeframe. Whether it’s daily/weekly/monthly views in Google Analytics or People Talking About This in Facebook or the metric of your choice, we tend as marketers to use the timeframe (no surprise, we’re marketers) that makes things look the best, or at least look meaningful. Most of the time, this is unintentional and not malicious. We look for patterns, trends, and information that is meaningful. Sometimes it’s just what we’re given by the tools we use.

Here’s why timeframes matter in analytics. The timeframe tells you what results you are capable of generating using any given marketing method. For example, let’s say your focus is on audience and awareness building, core functions of things like advertising and public relations. Monthly or even quarterly metrics timeframes are perfectly okay to work with because you’re looking more at the cumulative effect of all of the communications with your prospective audiences. You don’t necessarily need to be top of mind 24×7, just enough that you maintain share of mind.

However, if your focus is on something like direct response, you might want to work in a weekly or daily timeframe. Direct response marketing and lead generation typically have much shorter timeframes, timeframes in which you must meet certain numbers. You might, for example, need to generate a certain number of leads before the end of the month to meet a quota. Working in weekly or daily timeframes in your metrics will tell you how likely you are to achieve your goals.

Here’s an example using Facebook’s People Talking About This. By default, Facebook reports PTAT as a weekly timeframe metric. In your Page’s insights, you can also get daily and 28-day PTAT:

If you’re in charge of growing audience and growing awareness, looking at the monthly PTAT vs. Total Likes is a reasonable thing to do. What chunk of your audience did you reach in the last 28 days?

If you’re in charge of lead generation, looking at the daily PTAT vs. Total Likes is important, because it will help guide your expectations about how many people today will see your offer in a very short period of time.

When you mix the two is when disaster can strike. If you’re a direct response marketer and you see the monthly reach numbers, you might expect that up to 100 people could respond to your offer on any given day, when the reality is that at best, 20 would be the maximum number of people in a given day. Conversely, if you’re a PR professional, you might be distraught at the idea that 3 out of 1,300 people are seeing your work today, when the reality is that your content is being seen by a hundred in the month. Today’s post might be invisible to an audience member, but tomorrow’s might be quite prominent.

Know the timeframes that your marketing methods operate in, and measure accordingly!

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March 10, 2014

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