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You Ask, I Answer: Measuring Contest Effectiveness
Ziring asks, “I want to run a social media contest, how do I measure the success of mentions of my account and hashtag?”

This is an interesting question, because measuring a contest with social engagement may not be a great business objective. While we talked in the past episode about vanity metrics not always being bad, generally speaking, our metrics and KPIs should be as close to a business goal as possible most of the time. What’s the purpose of a contest? To grab new, enrolled audiences for first reach. Watch this video for my recommendations about how to best measure contests.

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In today’s episode Ziering asks, I want to run a social media contest How do I measure the success of mentions of my account and hashtag? This is an interesting question because measuring a contest with social engagement, particularly very trivial social engagement may not it may not be a great business objective. It may not get you to where you want to go

in the past up. So we did talk about how vanity metrics are not necessarily always bad, but generally speaking from a planning and strategy perspective, you want your metrics to be as as close to a business goal as you can get them so let’s think about this contest for a second the contest purpose any contests purpose is to essentially acquire new audience right? Have a contest you have

giveaway you have some kind of promotion what you want to do is you want to get new audience that you don’t have access to already because presumably you’ve already gotten something out of your existing audience and you want people to share and talk about your contest that’s why when a car or when a this or that the other thing is something that there’s a prize that is big enough that people go Oh, wow, I want to be a part of that thing.

So there has to be something that’s attractive of value to the end user

in order for the contest to be successful in getting you new reach getting a new audience so if we think about the the campaign goal is being new reach new audience then what are the

what are the metrics the KPIs that go downstream from their that lead to the business goals the business goals always almost always going to be something like make money right so how do you map backwards from make money to this contest? Well, there are

bunch of steps along the way that somebody could take. Somebody could Yes, follow your account, in which case you then have access to them through the social media platforms, advertising tools, you can advertise to anybody who follows you. You can advertise to people who use specific certain terms. But generally speaking, the more concrete the the action, like, follow or subscribe or whatever, depending on the platform, the easier it is to advertise to that person. However,

remember that just building that audience if there’s contest is wildly successful, you get a million followers, right? Great. Congratulations. Now you have to have the budget to advertise those million followers that can get expensive. So what’s the next step after that? Well, after that you would leave the social media property and go to like a website. A website would be a place that you only have control of and you can pixel and cookie people who visit your site

in compliance with local laws like

GDPR.

And then you can advertise to those people or get them to subscribe to something that you control. Ideally, that would be something like an email newsletter. And the reason for that is that email it other than the service costs, email is a lower cost channel for earning back attention. As long as what you’re sending people is actually valuable, that helps them, it entertains them, it does something along those lines that is of benefit to them. Email is a great channel for that. So is a blog subscription for people who have subscribed to blogs. There’s a certain audience which that works really well for

and then downstream from there. What are the goals after that? Okay, got somebody to to

subscribe to an email. Do you want them to install an app? If so they’re at metrics and you should use a tool like Google Firebase to measure that

is there is there a purchase funnel some kind you would use marketing automation software and CRM software to measure that and ultimately get down to your business goal, so

In terms of measuring the success of this campaign,

I would for you, social media is the channel. But this is not where I would build the destination of the campaign, I would try to get people either to a website or to an email newsletter list so that you can capture that audience. Because remember, when you have somebody’s email or their mobile phone number, either one,

you can then re upload that list back to social media advertising sites, and target those people with custom audience advertising as long as the audience is big enough. So

because you can do that email is a great choice for being able to reach back out to people in multiple ways. You don’t have to just email them. You can show them ads on YouTube and Google and Facebook and Twitter and all these different platforms. So I would say a good campaign goal might be to get the email address rather than tracking hashtag usage, right? Because that doesn’t really do anything for

You and

the other thing that’s dangerous to me about hashtag usage if you are competing for attention and you are successful and competing for attention is a hashtags are public, which means that a competitor can also target your hashtag and vacuum of people. That way, when someone signs up to your email list, your competitors can’t get hold that they shouldn’t be able to as long as your information security is good. And so

another consideration of campaign successes,

what what are you letting competitors see Now granted, if you’re doing something that’s very common, you know, it’s it’s not going to be a big deal. But if you’ve got fierce competition for eyeballs, you may want to pull that back. So email I would say you should be the goal of your campaign and then from there, keeping those people engaged, keeping you that’s the toughest part of a contest is a part of contests that companies do the most wrong they run this big contest they get a lot of new people on

mailing list

and they don’t segment them they don’t treat the audience definitely they don’t warm that audience up with nurture campaigns with starter campaigns with a drip campaign have some content whether it’s blog content video content email content they just throw people into the usual marketing crap that that we get companies and as a result

contest end up costing a lot of money and contest end up generating lists of audiences that are in many cases poor quality of them had the company not been anything at all and that’s bad for things like email and social media where algorithms determine deliver ability right the number of people who report you a spam goes up significantly may it may seriously impact deliver ability and then on social networks it’s even worse because

the with email an algorithm for letting a user see your content needs binary either they get it they don’t vote with they get

They get all your content with social media, the algorithms filter down at the post level. So you’ll get that you may have noticed this, especially on Facebook. And the first time you like a page, you’ll see that pages posts for like a day. And if you don’t engage with them, they vanish from memory, right?

That’s the danger with contests, you could get this huge enrolled audience. And if nobody engages with you after that, then your visibility throttled back down. Maybe even worse, because you have a lower engagement rate at that point. And Gosh, now you’re worse off because now you can’t reach the people who are already engaged with you because your your overall engagement rate has dropped. So be very careful about that with Qantas, get the email send really valuable content to folks, warm them up, get them introduced to you, and that will be a good way to measure the success of your campaign. It’s a good question. As always, if you

Have follow up constantly them in the comments below and subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you.

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March 7, 2019
You Ask, I Answer: How Often to Check Facebook Analytics?
Deb asks, “How often should you check your Facebook Analytics?”

This is an interesting question because it’s predicated on a key assumption about Facebook Analytics. Watch the video to learn more about how often and why you should or shouldn’t check your Facebook Analytics.

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Today’s episode Deb asks how often should you check your Facebook analytics? This is an interesting question because it’s predicated on a key assumption about Facebook analytics and that is the they were important that there’s something that you should be checking

Facebook is a channel and it’s a set of tactics and methods and therefore you would want to check it when you are making changes to those tactics or if your businesses one of those rare few where Facebook is the end point for your transactions, meaning that the the the key business KPIs happen on Facebook such as if you’re using Facebook marketplace to sell stuff and you’re making money on Facebook then then yeah, you’d want to check Facebook analytics fairly often.

The general rule of thumb is the

The further the closer to the business result you are, the more you should be checking the analytics of any system, right? So if your business result is sales, you probably want to check that fairly frequently. On the other hand,

something like reach or impressions or even engagements on social media, those are not business outcomes and therefore you don’t have to check them as frequently

the time when you would want to check these analytics would be again like I mentioned when you’re making changes to a system but also when you’re doing an in depth analysis of what’s working and what’s not and you would do this using statistical or machine learning software to say hey these are the key factors that we care about like sales and then you have a big old spreadsheet of all the different columns that you have like Facebook Likes and engagements and like and wow and haha

All that stuff and your Google Analytics data and your marketing automation data, and your CRM data that has the, the outcome that you care about the business impact, and the statistical software will process the slice and dice and and mix and match all these variables until it finds the combination of those variables that

indicate most strongly that they correspond to the business outcome you care about. So if it turns out that Facebook post reach or engagements is has a high

a strong relationship to the business outcome, then you would want to check those analytics more frequently because those the ones that are better are shown to have a a correlative engagement and you’d want to then increase or decrease your activities to see if you can prove causation to see if you can say, Yep, this is in fact what drives

this sales that we care about. On the other hand, if you

Run that analysis and Facebook’s not in your top five variables of of things that lead to business results that it’s probably safe to say you can do a little bit less on Facebook and certainly check the analytics a lot less frequently.

At the end of the day, you have to check the analytics of the things that matter the most. Because every time you dig into the analytics of a system

you are are many people are compelled to dig around some more and figure out like who is this something I should be looking at. And then they kind of go down a little rat holes and that’s okay. If it’s a critical business number. If it’s just a distraction. If there’s no value to that number, then you’re not using your time the best way possible. So

Facebook analytics are only important if Facebook’s important to you. And Facebook’s only important if it’s creating business outcome.

This is true by the way of any analytic system.

So how often should you check your YouTube Analytics? How often should you check your Twitter analytics, your Reddit analytics, all these different systems. One of the problems that a lot of marketers, especially social media marketers have is there’s too many systems and too much data out there. And they’re not sure what matters and they don’t know where to spend their time. And so it’s kind of like all these numbers. What I do with all these numbers, this is this is how you get around that you do the analysis you figure out what what matters what doesn’t, and then you focus in on the things that matter the most. I was doing some work for a customer yesterday actually. And one of the things that came up in this this analysis was

Instagram matters to the whole bunch or matters to their outcome that they care about a whole bunch but they’re spending a lot of their time on Facebook and so one of the pieces of feedback is let’s move some of those resources because the analytics man and and the end

sites say Instagram has that more strong relationship. So let’s

keep the amount of work that you’re doing, but move it from one channel to another and see if in turn, we have the increase in business results that corresponds to that relationship. It won’t always be there. Sometimes there can be a relationship that is not causal, or that there’s a confounding factor of some kind. A really good example of this would be the textbook example is

ice cream consumption and drowning deaths have a highly correlated well, ice cream doesn’t cause drowning. But it’s summertime means people eat more ice cream in summertime means people go swimming more and the more people who go swimming the more people

down so

it’s not always a guarantee, but at the very least you can establish the relationship then begin testing for question.

ality or looking for those underlying factors so great question Deb how often should you change your check your Facebook analytics how often to check any analytics is contingent upon what those KPIs are And the important thing to do and maybe this is a topic for a separate video is you got to do your KPI mapping first so that you understand what you really should be focusing your time and energy on. As always, please leave comments in the comment section below and subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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February 21, 2019
IBM THINK 2019 Day 2 Recap: The Next Frontier
In this video, learn 5 key takeaways from day 2 of IBM THINK 2019 on the topics of finding more AI/ML talent, the use of personas in an AI work, digital transformation and its relationship to AI, finding new opportunities for innovation, and perhaps the meaning of life itself with quantum computing.

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In today’s episode we are recapping day two of IBM think so, so much happening yesterday it’s tough to narrow it down to just a few things but for things really stood out that were just mind bending. Number one

there was a great presentation by IBM Chairman genuine Maddie on where you can operationalize getting new talent that has data science and machine learning and AI experience. She highlighted three examples of returning parents with IBM is real tech re entry program where they look for people who were very successful before leaving the workforce for any number of

reasons. The example cited was a woman who wanted to be a full time mom for a number of years, found that after her kids were grown, she want to re enter the workforce, had the technical chops the aptitude and was able to re enter after a essentially what sounds like a an intensive boot camp to get her skills more up to date, but still functioning mind. So the second was veterans, looking for people who have transferable skills, who are just leaving, they’re just exiting the military and getting them into the civilian workforce, but still letting them use the discipline and the experience they had in the armed forces. And the third, of course, is any kind of minority population like persons of color

people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds. The example cited was a pipeline of charters

schools that IBM runs in essentially taking over really poor performing charter school. If we really poor performing public schools and trying them to detect charter schools that they can then accelerate the growth from your standard for your high school diploma to a six year program, it would you also get an associates degree and then immediately enter the workforce working for obviously, in this case, IBM. So really good presentation there on

where we could all be looking to get new talent, especially if we’re not able to either find or in some cases afford the the existing top shelf talent out there. Rather than trying to poach talent from

other competitors may be able to grow our own. The second was by Hyundai card, which is the credit card division of Hyundai

CEO, Ted Chung, who was talking about the way they’re doing personalization and what was fascinating was not

But they would do that, because that’s relatively straightforward. But the way they were using artificial intelligence at one point, he said very briefly, this presentation, we’re doing personas, but not in the way you think we track personas for multiple personas per person,

per person. And he went on to say, You are a different person. When you’re at work, when you’re at home, when you’re out playing sports, when you are at the bar with your friends. And instead of assuming that you are going to behave the same in each environment, they have multiple personas dependent that are context dependent, and thanks to artificial intelligence machine learning, they’re able to keep track of that. And that was one of those ones like wow, that’s would take some building to do but that makes complete logical sense that you would want to be able to be more granular in your messaging to somebody in your chat bots and your text messages and everything with the

interactions to say, this is where you are right now and what you’re doing right now. And this is how our product or service can help you do those things better.

The third was a segment again from the chairman’s keynote on digital transformation, which is still very buzzword. But Chairman remedy said something very interesting. She said that digital transformation as the process of helping the company to come digital first is sometimes a prerequisite of AI. If you look at a lot of the popular literature about digital transformation, a lot of people are talking about how

AI helps you achieve digital transformation. And and she said, That’s not always correct.

In a lot of cases. If you use AI to power a digital transformation, you will in many cases, be using new technology and new techniques to automate or make more efficient the way you’ve always done

stuff. And so you won’t read the full value of AI as opposed to the much more intensive, lengthy and expensive

process of blowing up the existing processes and building them from the ground up to be digital first, which is requires a lot more effort, but can then reap the full transformative value of AI by saying, instead of just making old stuff go faster. It’s, it’s doing things in a completely new way. So the joke of trying to, you know, put a motor on a horse as opposed to, you know, reinventing and reengineering a car. So, that was, I thought, a refreshing take on on the way that to think about digital transformation and a digitization of organizations. You have to reimagine that first

which was actually also the topic of a long in depth conversation I had with one of IBM is distinguished engineers and master inventors, yesterday Dr. Mandy yourself.

About how she as someone who has more than 50 patents to her name at how she finds new opportunities to to innovate, to invent, and we got a long conversation about

looking at how customer feedback all circles around something, but

there it’s though no one’s asking the next logical step question. So how do you find that part of it is experienced part of its imagination part of it is

seeing where things are going and part of its knowing the technology and what you what you can and can’t do with it. But she was very helpful. One of my favorite reasons to come to shows like things are those one on ones where you get to sit down with a subject matter expert and just ask your burning questions to somebody who actually has the answers that has built a lifetime career out of out of making use of those answers. So I was very helpful.

Last one, and this is not relevant to marketing yet

was a quantum computing session on current applications of quantum computing and where it’s going, and it’s, it’s too long to get into the explanation of it here of the technology. But they said that digital twins, the idea of taking a device anything and you have a digital representation of it, your digital twin, have a coffee pot or an airplane engine and be able to simulate and run exercises on it is, is the hot use of a lot of what’s happening in Internet of Things. Right now, quantum computing, the use case they’re looking at is creating digital twins at the atomic level. So a digital twin of a pill or a cell or something microscopic but fully represented that allows you to run simulations, real accurate simulations of the world representing it at the atomic level as opposed to to sort of get

What a compound might do when it reacts to something else you could model the actual electrons and things and there was a an interesting line on that the presentation that said that digital twins at the atomic level may

let us answer the most pressing are the most important question of all human civilization which is what is life if you can simulate with accuracy and fidelity

life itself you may discover what actually causes life I was one of those moments were like wow this could radically change how we understand everything to work if we could finally say this is what life is this is we’re using digital twins and quantum computing this is where your soul comes from so fascinating fascinating stuff today I am looking forward to a I’m doing a boot camp myself an intensive on the new offerings and Watson studio with with with a two

Our workshop this morning and a bunch of stuff today. So looking forward to all that there is to enjoy here at at IBM think as always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter will catch up with you tomorrow for the day three recap what help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. Visit trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you.

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February 13, 2019
You Ask, I Answer: Marketing Tips for Home Service Businesses
Jordan asks, “What are some marketing tips for home service businesses to know in 2019?”

Home service businesses like cleaning, maintenance, moving, etc. are first and foremost local businesses. Everything you do in marketing should be focused on location. Watch the video for full details.

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In today’s episode, Jordan asks, what are some Marketing Tips for Home service businesses to know in 2019, so home service businesses, we’re talking junk removal, movers, cleaners, maintenance, power, house painting, anything that fits in the category of, hey, somebody’s got to come to your house and do something at your house. These businesses as a category are all about location, meaning that they are concentrated in a geographic area. And because they are in the physical world, there is not a ton that you can do from a marketing perspective, that should be not global or national, in the sense that of there’s no point in marketing to an area that you can’t service, right? You can’t if you cannot service the state of California, because your business is based in New York that why would you market there now, for thought leadership and inbound marketing, content marketing, for example, it would be silly to put restrictions on your content. But anything that you pay for had better be within the area that you’re focusing on. And your organic efforts should be focused on those areas as well. So what are the different ways to do this? Well, think about all the different channels that you have available to you. If you open up, for example, Google Analytics, and you look at the default channel groupings, what do you see there, you see search, you see social media, you see referral traffic, you see email marketing, affiliates, display advertising, pay per click advertising, this is essentially your blueprint for the channels, the types of things that you could be doing on a digital level. And then there’s, of course, all the local physical world level things as well. Real simple

thing people forget with, with local businesses with and with businesses based in the physical world, physical world, analog marketing still works, and in some cases may work even better. So real simple example, if you are a home service business that does like, you know, cleaning take, imagine taking out an ad

literal sheet, a physical paper that gets taped to the top of pizza boxes that says, hey, if you don’t want to throw this pizza box out, let us come do it for you. And, you know, it’s, you know, maid service, or whatever the thing is, it’s an obvious logical product tie in, right, this box is about to become trash. If you don’t want trash in your house house, come take it away. So don’t discount local things, especially anything that’s local direct, because these days, when you look at how much junk mail you get in your inbox, versus what you get in the postal box out in front of your, your residence,

you will probably get more actual eyeballs on a piece of direct mail. Because it’s relatively rare compared to the swamp that is your inbox online. Now, in terms of the digital things you should be doing, if you are not set up with Google My Business, which is the Google local business listings, that’s kind of stop number one, right, make sure that your company is listed, that you’ve got your hours and all that stuff, make sure you do that across any platform that allows you to declare where your business is located. So on your Facebook page, on your Instagram profile, on your YouTube profile, and on Google My Business on any of the local business directories, you have the yelps of the world, and whatever other services that are the providers of information about local business, make sure that your businesses everywhere, just go through, spend a couple days googling for a local local business directories, don’t pay for anything. But anything that where it is free, like Google My Business, for example, you got to go do it on your website. One of the most critical things you can do for your website is to optimize it for local search means that you need to have content about the areas that you serve. And not the cheesy, you know, I’ve seen this on like a plumber’s page where just put the long list of every city. But he says that that’s like 1990s SEO,

you want content that shows that you serve an area and the easiest and best way to do that is actually testimonials from your existing customers within that area. So

let’s say you run up a plumbing company, right. So you would have a page for one of many on your testimonials like Waltham area resident plumbing testimonial, you have the video of that your customer, you have the the text of the testimonial, you have maybe the location, or at least the general neighborhood of where in that city that they are, and you’re optimizing content and the testimonial at the same time. So you’re kind of getting two birds with one stone, you get to promote the work that you’ve done. But also you get the location benefit, make sure that you’re using things like schema data and metadata to indicate to sites like Google and Bing and all the other search engines what your pages are about. If you go to schema.org, you can look up how to reference specific geographic traits on your website. Like this is our postal address. This is our phone number of things, anything that you can do that tells a search engine, here’s what you need to know about us, our geography, our services, all that stuff, you want to do that on your site, it’s essential to do that if you’re a locally based business, because that’s how search engines populate those like the call one boxes where especially on Google, if you type in your company’s name or plumbing company near me, and you click on a result or a brand will tell you all the information like the hours and then the reviews and stuff like that. You want to solicit reviews, make sure that you’re asking people who are satisfied customers and emphasis on satisfied customers to review your site and give them links to do the yelps and the Google rules and stuff for the world

make sure they’re satisfied customers first one of the things I the dumbest things I’ve ever seen is

hotels will send you a guest survey form with no logic in it and then it will immediately send you TripAdvisor so I just one hotel I was staying at had an unpleasant experience there and reviewed their hotel went through their survey feedback and said you know on a scale one to 10 how satisfied are you 111 over and over again and then at the end of the thing is is now please leave a review on on TripAdvisor. I’m like you should have had some logic on there. That said, if if you read anything under eight, don’t send them to TripAdvisor. Call them and see what you can do to make things better. So instead I left them a scathing review on TripAdvisor.

So again, make sure that you some logic you some brains, if you have an unhappy customer, fix that first before you ask them to write a review.

When you’re doing stuff on social media, make sure that you are doing stuff that is location relevant. So if you’re ideally if you’re you can be creating content that is relevant to your business, and also relevant to the area that you work in. So you could be putting up YouTube videos, for example, about problems that Boston area residents face with

plumbing.

Guess what, there are plumbing challenges that you have in Boston that you will never have. For example, in San Diego, San Diego, you probably don’t ever have to worry about your pipes freezing in Boston, you share do so it creating content that is relevant to the area that you serve. And that is sort of the top concerns that your customers have easiest way to do that. Take your smartphone, right? When you’re out on the road, doing your service, whatever your service is, take photos, take video, record yourself doing your work and use that as your content for your marketing. So you have your phone out and you know you’re doing your video thing and say like, okay, here is exactly what happens when you put silverware by accident down your garbage disposal and your sink, right

how to clear it safely and all that stuff. So you’re teaching people as you’re doing the work because, you know, in a lot of these home based home service businesses, you can tell people how to fix the problem and they you know, they’re not going to do it. 99% are not going to do it. That’s why they’re hiring you so you can publish the information to be helpful to show that you know what you’re talking about the demonstrate expertise well, full well knowing Yes, one or 2% of people like cool I don’t need to call it a plumber to fix this thing. I’ll do it myself. Awesome. You probably don’t want those people as customers anyway, because they’ll nickel and dime you to death you want. The person goes

Wow, that’s exactly the problem. I don’t want to get my hands dirty in the suppose I’m going to call this plumber

and ask them to come to it for me. They clearly know how to do it because they’re showing me on the video. Have them do it. So a lot of different Marketing Tips for Home service businesses. But focus on that local infrastructure work first, get your tags your analytics and your site and your channels all configured create content that demonstrates that you know what you’re doing. And don’t forget about the real world. The real world is incredibly powerful when it comes to marketing because a lot of marketers have gotten lazy and have had let the real world go. So great question Jordan fun question and hopefully you find this useful leave any comments you have in the comments box below and please subscribe to the YouTube channel. The newsletter i’ll talk to you soon one help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems.

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January 11, 2019
You Ask, I Answer: Choosing an AI Strategy – Vendor or In-House?
Dennis asks, “How do you find the balance between choosing a vendor that provides AI-based solutions versus developing AI capabilities in-house?”

This is a fantastic, complex question that has many different answers. We look at three pillars for this decision – time, money, and strategy. Watch the video to learn which is the most important, and how to make the decision.

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In today’s episode, Dennis asks,

How do you find the balance between vendors bringing in boxed AI technologies into business and building AI capability in house? It’s a really good question. And it’s a very complicated question. Fundamentally, there’s three pillars and what you have to make this choice, there is time, money and strategy.

Now, at a very basic level, if you’ve got

money, and you don’t necessarily have a lot of time, a vendor is probably the way to go. Because you want to get up and running quickly, you want to start reaping the utility benefits of artificial intelligence as quickly as you can you want which is acceleration, accuracy, and automation, you want things to go faster, you want them to go better, and you want them to be cheap, that we’re free of resources.

So a vendor will get you to that

if time is the priority. If money is is tight, you don’t have a lot of money, you’re gonna have to build a lot of capabilities in house using open source software, my company’s trusted insights, that’s that’s what we’re doing. Because we’re a startup, we don’t have a million dollars to drop on this or that, it’s it is let’s, let’s do the best we can with open source technologies with development platforms like IBM Cloud things that help us get up and running with a minimum of expense. We trade that off in time and, and knowledge instead.

And those are two easy ways to think about vendor versus and house. But there’s a third point, I think the biggest one, which is what is your overall company strategy, there is this popular buzzword right now digital transformation that promises everything those unicorns and puppies and all this stuff.

But fundamentally, digital transformation is about

as the name says, transforming your business to make it a digital business to make it a digital first business. And what that means is that

you’re looking at stuff like overall strategy, corporate responsibility, acquisition, performance, conformance, and humanity.

One of those topics, the acquisition topic is focused around your marketing technology balance sheet, which is an accounting term, but

as it applies to digital transformation, it’s about

data applications, processes, intellectual property technologies.

And what this means is that the things that you use to do marketing from a data perspective, from a digital perspective, our assets, they are things of that heavy, intrinsic value, that

may become a strategic imperative and may even become a line of business. So

a lot of the times we approach AI from a utility perspective, like, Oh, can we just make things better? faster? cheaper? Yes, we can. But we don’t stop to think should we turn this into a business on its own? Let’s say we have your coffee company and euro coffee trees and, and make coffee? Well, sure, you can use AI to, to analyze the results forecast, predict and understand, yep, this is what makes for a successful harvest, where this is what makes for, you know, less access to harvest, you have data, you have a model, and you can use that to grow better coffee trees, awesome.

You could, if you were a digital first business and AI first business,

then take that model, take that data,

extract it, abstract it and apply to other industries apply to anything else that is a growing thing. So you could make a line of business

around selling the data about what makes trees grow? Well,

you could make a line of business around that model, that machine learning model, pick it up and say, okay, maybe want to sell this model to people who grow corn, maybe you want to sell this model, the people who grow rice, maybe one sells model to people who play video games, where they’re growing things in a video game, like Farmville, which is it and it’s and those types of games are incredibly popular games.

But the point is that you’re selling data and assets derived from that data that shows up on your balance sheet that has real revenue, real dollars for your company. And as part of that whole idea of digital transformation, that you’re changing a business to being a digital business powered by artificial intelligence. And so when you we asked about buyer build, when we asked about vendor versus in house, the real question, the big strategic question is, are we going to be using artificial intelligence as a utility application only, I just want to make things work better about more time, I want more better results,

or

are we approaching a is a transformative technology,

if we’re just doing utility,

go over the vendor round, let them handle all the complexity that goes with building models and cleaning data and all this stuff, you’re gonna have to do some of that, obviously, it’s not magic.

But the utility aspect allows you to just offload the development of the AI technology to the vendor.

If you’re going for a transformative approach. If you want your business to be transformed to be a digital business, you’re going to have to go in house because only going in house allows you to develop the model that you want that you have very fine grain granular control over that you can change around that you can update that you can re prioritize if you even when you go to sell that model. You can return it for other people. You can’t do that with a vendor, the vendor would do that and then obviously reap the rewards doing that. But you as as the company would not be able to reap any significant rewards from doing that.

So that’s the answer is is it a utility or transformative

that should determine buyer build for artificial intelligence? To really good question. It’s a very complicated question. Wow. Das so it’s a good one. So if you have additional questions, please leave them in the comments. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care one help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and lesson on how we can help you

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November 27, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: Essential Skills for Mid-Career Marketers
Liz asks, “How can mid- career marketers prepare for the coming technological advances in marketing? Are there classes/ courses you recommend? What skills do you foresee as essential 5, 10, or 20 years from now?”

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In today’s episode, Liz asks, How can mid career marketers prepare for the coming technological advances and marketing? Are there classes courses, I recommend What skills do I see as

as essential in 510 or 20 years from now. So

on the future forecasting thing, I will say this right now, no one has any idea. The reason for that is that the technology is changing so fast that forecasting on even more than a year is very, very difficult because of the way technology changes and what is possible. And breakthroughs that we didn’t even think we’re within reach are within reach significantly faster. A really good example of this was

in 2015,

some folks who are experts in deep learning predicted that deep learning would

eventually solve a classic game like go the strategy Asian strategy game in maybe 15 or 20 years when when the technology improved. And of course, 18 months later, Google’s DeepMind won the game of Go and beat least with all the reigning world champion at the game. And so that prediction straight out the window.

So it’s very difficult to predict that stuff. However,

one of the maxims that I follow is by Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. This is focused

on the things that don’t change in b2b, what are the things that don’t change,

people want to save money, they want to save time, they want to make more money

and they want to prove the value of what it is they did they do in the b2c world what are the things that human beings want more right they want stuff faster they want stuff that’s better quality and they want stuff cheaper and anything you can do that helps them achieve those outcomes it will will will get you the business so as a mid career marketer think about the landscape of the different marketing technologies that are available right now if you look in fact let’s bring up Scott Brinker martek landscape, this is a fantastic landscape in the sense that it gives you a sense of how big the marketing technology world is, from a vendor perspective. And it’s broken up by category

of like, what each of the broad categories you to the tools

do, here’s the thing that’s the landscape does not address and it does not just have to address it, there’s, there’s really no good way to do it. But think about those outcomes that I just mentioned, save money, save time, make things faster, better, cheaper, none of these tools on their surface to help you understand how they get you to that the answers. And so as a mid career marketer, one the most valuable things you can do is to help connect the tools, which is the platform with the processes within a company and the people who you work with to create those outcomes.

Go back to the classic consulting

from HD love it’s diamond of innovation, that the 1964 framework people process platform

as marketers, particularly mid career marketers get more and more stuff in the platform container, we don’t have corresponding increases in our processes. And we don’t have corresponding increases in how we work with the people within those things. So

what should a mid career marketer be focusing on obviously continue to grow your people skills obviously continue to grow. And this is where

marketers are really deficient is in the process side of things. I know I’m one of them. I am

my CEO. And I’ve been working together for three years now. And and she’s constantly reminding me that processes, how you scale processes, how you repeat success. So whatever you can do to build process around the people in the technology work with will help you succeed more. And then as a mid career marketer, the important thing with all these technologies to understand is how, how, what what is it that it does, and how well does it do it right, you don’t necessarily need to learn how to code or how to create deep learning architecture or how to

set up link retargeting. Although certainly those are things that help

but you do need to know what the tools do, how they work conceptually and where they fit in.

If you look at any one of the categories in the martek landscape, there’s probably 100 to 200 vendors within them. Being able to be a good bs detector and to train your staff to be a good bs detector is essential. Because you’ve got 100 vendors competing for your time, your attention and your money in each of these categories.

How do you tell them apart because they’re all going to sound like you look? It’s just ad retargeting alone. There’s like 150 vendors in there. What’s the difference? They all say? They have better performance, they all say they have lower costs. They all say that they they don’t do vendor lock in and stuff like that. They all bash the the incumbents. So what’s the difference? How do they differentiate each other?

Can you as someone who is a

mid to senior level practitioner or

manager

develop a really good bs detector that says no, this is actually what the difference is between vendor x vendor, why vendor z, or this is what’s after the difference between these different strategic

concepts.

The further you get in your career, the less you the less it is that you are probably going to be doing hands on, the more it is that you’re going to be training guiding, and advising. And so judgment

and discrimination of the different technologies and strategies are really the, the essential skills and there there aren’t classes or courses for those.

That’s a lot of experience. And there is some training

but really focus on from a from the platform technology side, what does the thing do? How does it do it?

One of the things I think is a

a real benefit. And an easy way to learn this stuff is to actually do

if you have a personal blog, or even if if a company blog anytime you’re trying to evaluate a sector start interviewing the vendors, like for a blog post, and after a few you’ll start to

get the lingo start to get the language and go, Oh,

I don’t know if this vendor actually knows what they’re doing. Or Wow, this vendors really got the goods

you know, in this in the technology space in in

the SEO tool space. There are a ton of SEO tools. But there’s a reason why there are certain market leaders

and when you look at their software, you go Alright, this does what it’s supposed to do this this gets you to the answer better, faster and cheaper, right.

That’s where you can add value in the coming together logical advances and marketing is to help the companies you work at, make those decisions and make good decisions. Because I’m sure you’ve noticed companies are getting super risk averse and and people in general have gotten a lot more risk averse. So if you can be that trusted advisor within your own company who has your finger on the pulse of the landscape, you will have those timeless skills that will propel your career forward an ongoing basis. That’s it still learn the technology still study on your own. There aren’t courses to teach you how to study and and evaluate. That’s just a lot of experience. And like I said, tried doing that blog or podcast or email newsletter, whatever it is that you need to do to give you the excuse to reach out to these different companies and learn their technology and each of these sectors. Great question. As always, please leave any follow up questions in the comments and subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter. I’ll talk to you soon. Take care what help solving your company data

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October 8, 2018
#FridayFeeling: Technical Skill and Showmanship in Marketing
I recently re-watched the winning performance of Shin Lim on America’s Got Talent. What struck me is that he has the right balance of showmanship and technical skill. One without the other is insufficient; the unskilled showman is a buffoon, the skilled bland performer is boring.

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In this week’s Friday feeling some thoughts about

showmanship and technical skill

was re watching the America’s Got Talent finals were magician Shin limb did an amazing job

demonstrating sleight of hand skill and some interesting

daft pieces. And knowing a little bit about magic,

getting an idea of some of the pieces of the performance worked. And what struck me was that

compared to other magicians,

he has the right balance of

showmanship and technical skill.

And both are important in a magic act. Because a showman without technical skills can have a buffoon,

loud and boisterous, but not really fooling anybody. And a magician who is technically skilled, but has no showmanship is

kind of interesting to watch. But at the same time, a little boring, it’s like, okay, that’s cool. You can, you know,

make cards, dance and stuff like that. It’s is that blend of being able to do both? Well, that makes for a really compelling act.

And what that got me thinking about was

in the world of marketing, how

we approach it very much the

same way,

right? There’s that whole left brain, right brain, you’re either creative or your analytical. And we’ve been saying for a while, and you need to be both. But

I don’t think

I don’t feel like we’ve done a good job of emphasizing that

technical skill and creative skill in marketing are not added if they’re multiplicative, in the same way that technical skill and showmanship are multiplicative. In a magic performance,

you need to be able to do both. And the product of doing both well is many times more than having either one separately.

So when you look at something as simple as like website design, and website design is important. Having a design that’s not offensive to the eyes is a good thing.

Having a website that is intuitive, and people can find what they’re looking for really easily is important.

And to

get to that you also needs the technical skill

I have.

I spent the last week wrestling with

my company’s website, it was on a host that was underperforming. And so

the migration of the site was painful, fixed a whole bunch of little tactical things that in the end, make a a good experience much, much better. Because the user doesn’t have to wait things are, where they’re supposed to be, and so on and so forth.

When

you have technical skill, and showmanship, when you have technical skill and creative skill,

what you get is

a great experience and experience

experiences as much as emotional as it is factual.

having that experience means it’s something that’s memorable. It’s something that you feel like you enjoyed, and you would do again.

And what’s interesting is that pendulum on his serious fool us when, when the same magician she and limb did his performance on that show

said something very interesting. He said,

From a technical magical perspective, if one thing breaks down, the entire performance breaks down, because it reveals the laws the performance, but in that particular person’s performance, he felt, even though there were some things that they caught, it was still perfect, because the showmanship was enough to cover them very minor technical errors. And the same thing is true in your marketing. If you create a great customer experience through that creativity, it may be enough to compensate for slight

technical errors, not glaring ones,

but slight ones in the same thing is true in reverse, a website that is functional and fast

and clean and, and delivers what the customer wants, maybe enough to compensate for the fact that it doesn’t have world class design, it may be good enough to give the customer what they want.

But

it’s really important to have that balance

to staff that balance to hire for that balance as best as you can.

And to to identify where

your gaps in that balance are. Now the good news is, at least for technologists, is

you can find technological ways to identify where you’re out of balance. For example, if your website has if you’re looking at things like path analysis through your website, what path do people take through your website,

if there are not nice short paths between wherever person comes in and your key pages like about us services, your your team, your company, but the pages that indicate buying interest,

then you know that there’s something from a maybe a navigational and technical but also design perspective that may be off likewise, things like exit rate on certain pages or bounce rate on certain pages, I think that would indicate the technically

there some design optimizations you could make. And the same thing is true in social media. With a amount of engagement you get the amount of commenting you get

things like that, that

that hint at the quality of your content may not be as good as it could be.

So use the technological tools to help you understand both the technology and the creative and then use things like market research and focus groups and things to help you get a complete picture of your creative side when when gauging people’s reactions. When you show them a piece of collateral or piece of content and their reaction is not a wow they’re actually like That’s nice. Then you know you have a tech they have a creative deficit. So

if you want to see a good example of this there’s another magician you Hogan who is a Korean mission it is a fivesome 2012 performance which is a winning performance but is a much more understated performance than Shin limbs performance and and when you vaccine went on America’s Got Talent. He didn’t go very far because it was not what the audience was looking for. It had supreme technical skill but it didn’t have the kind of showmanship that they were after. So watch those two performances side by side you’ll go okay there’s there’s clearly a difference between the two and aim to be

that technically proficient showman

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October 5, 2018
#FridayFeeling: 6 Principles Protecting Your Job from AI & Robots
In this episode, learn who’s most likely to lose their jobs to robots and AI, and what the six fundamental principles of great customer experience are. By embracing the six principles, you’ll be less likely to lose your job to a robot. Watch the video for details.

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In this episode of Friday feeling

I was at the local fast food restaurant the other day

and went to the drive thru ordered

two burgers and fries for my kids. And it took 14 minutes now these were not complex orders This was number eight number number two on on the menu so pretty canned orders and they’re not known for me burgers fresh.

So

I took 14 minutes and there were no was one of the car in front of it at the drive through.

And the restaurant itself was relatively on ground. There’s like four or five dinars that I could see from the windows. And yeah, 14 minutes. By the time I actually got my

order, there were cars lined up around the entire franchise. And wow, it took a really, really long time

for two burgers.

When you think about

where companies are going to want to use artificial intelligence and robotics and robotic process automation. And all these things.

It is it follows the same rules as all essentially all b2b marketing, right? Which is save money, save time, make money, or prove the value of someone or something. When you have a customer experience that is mediocre or poor.

That is the first candidate for replacement.

Because saving money is fine. Saving Time is better. Because in this in the world we live in now time is is more valuable. Well, the money but making money is the most important when you look at how companies are judged, particularly on Wall Street, they are judged on their ability to make money to the ability to crank out revenue.

And

some of that is cost savings. Absolutely. But a good chunk of that is focused on our customers getting what they want

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has a great saying says focus on what does it change what doesn’t change, particularly in in an example like this, the restaurant example is that customers want faster, they want cheaper. And then what better, fast, cheap, good, faster, cheaper, better, is is timeless. When you look at what has made Amazon successful, faster, cheaper, better,

where humans will lose jobs is if they are not faster, cheaper, better.

So in the context of this fast food restaurant,

they weren’t faster. That’s for sure. I mean, 14 minutes for two burgers is it is a fairly long wait particular for the drive thru line.

They are cheaper because it’s it’s a fast food chain. And the service was not better

The service was certainly I would describe it as

So where will this company optimize more faster means taking more slow humans out of the mix and replacing them with faster robots. We already see this at some fast food restaurants. Some fast food restaurants have things like kiosks and mobile apps where you can order ahead and there’s no human taking in the order at all. It’s the the customer specifying it. And while the customer individually may be slower to order, then human pushing buttons on the screen. The customers got to push buttons on the on a similar screen on their phone or on a on a big kiosk. It shifts the burden of time to the customer. And the customer feels like they’re more in control.

So that sort of front end job starts to be reduced

cheaper.

There are some operational things that could be done to make it cheaper for the most part, it’s already pretty food, but better

when the customer experience when when what the human is delivering to the another human is is certainly an unfriendly

a robot is at least courteous even if it’s fake courtesy. And when every time I I talked to one of my smart assistants they always say you know thank you where you’re welcome or something like that

they don’t mean it you know, it doesn’t make this little smartest feel better when I say thank you. And it says you’re welcome. It’s a it’s a transactional conversation with no actual empathy or depth to it. But at least it remembers at least it remembers to do the thing and it does the thing flawlessly if emotionless Lee

thing about customer experience as a scale, a bar a

set of bars, right? There’s terrible, mediocre good, great, great is not in danger from AI great is not in danger from robots. Because part of the customer experience is that greatness

is is going to a restaurant and having the front desk person the the concierge or or the waitstaff recognize you and say hey how you doing good to see you again haven’t seen in a while, the sushi restaurant but I go to nearby, they remember being my kids. I mean, so remember names, but they remember us. Same for the Korean restaurant. I go to the remember who we are. And they are generally pleasant.

So there’s good or great customer experience. When you have mediocre or terrible customer experience. That’s a candidate right there. That’s

that’s a candidate right there for replacement because the robot and the machines can deliver a mediocre,

guaranteed mediocre experience,

it will be bloodless, it will be emotionless, it will be satisfactory, but when but when satisfactory is a step up from terrible

customers are going to choose satisfactory even if there’s not a human involved.

So think about those dimensions, right? customers on the company’s on the b2b side want to save money, make money, save time or prove value. And on the consumer side, customers want faster, cheaper, better,

if you’re not delivering on the b2c side with faster, cheaper better

your your candidate for replacement and the more things you don’t deliver on, the faster that job is going to go away.

If you are delivering fast

and your cost effective and the experiences terrific experiences noteworthy, then you Your job is reasonably safe.

On the b2b side, if you’re not saving money, saving time and making somebody money

you’re in trouble, right. Marketing automation and, and sales CRM, automation chat bots and things. If they can deliver

me make money faster, or save time faster. That job where at least that task will go to the machines. And that’s okay. One of the things I think is interesting is looking at

looking at the way people behave. There’s a company called momentum machines that has a burger machine now in San Francisco as massive 14 foot machine that makes custom burgers to order five minutes from order to to fresh burger, guaranteed five minutes because machines making him

and what do the humans do? Well, they actually get a chance to deliver the food and talk to customers. And so that relationship building is where they spend their time now, as opposed to flipping the burger and taking forever to to get a trio.

So as long as again, as long as you’re focusing on faster, cheaper, better. And for the human side. As long as we focus on better we have jobs.

So think about that.

If you’re thinking and you’re concerned about who’s going to get the jobs replaced. are you delivering faster, cheaper, better in the end customer experience? are you delivering make money, save money or save time on the business to business experience. If you’re no matter what side of house you’re on, if you’re not delivering those unchanging things, figure out how to pivot so that you are because that’s the only way you protect the work that you do and the employment that you have.

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September 28, 2018
#FridayFeeling: The End of A/B Testing
A/B testing is a relic of a time when we couldn’t personalize at scale. Find out why A/B testing is going away, what we’re all doing wrong in our thinking about testing, and what will replace it in this video.

#FridayFeeling: The End of A/B Testing
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In today’s Friday feeling I have a feeling we are heading towards the end of a b testing

will explain what I mean

a B testing is

a an idea that

there’s a right answer

that given two choices between a red button, a blue button or a subject line with emoji, or without emoji, that there’s a right answer. Like, this is the answer.

The reality is most A B tests are not. When you look at the data, most A B tests are not like an overwhelming land sites like 99% of this and 1% of this, there’s usually like 6040, maybe 7030 fair amount of time 5050,

when you use something like Google optimized Google optimized will say, Hey, there was no clear answer on this test that happens more than you think

what that means is that

there’s more than one right answer. and that in turn means that a B testing as marketers traditionally approach it, which is, we’ve got to find the right answer. We got to find the

answer. Well know there may be many answers

up until now, up until the last couple of years, we went with a B testing because we wanted to try and optimize for

the answer that was easiest for us as marketers to to do so. Okay, red button versus blue button. Well, 60% of people like the red button. So we’re going to put the red button up

and we’ll hopefully that will get us more conversions.

Okay, what about the people who like the blue button as 40% of them? Do you just flip the burden to 40% of your audience say,

I’m sorry, guys, your choices don’t matter. We’re going with the majority.

Here’s why. I think we’re heading towards the end of a b testing

systems and software

combined with machine learning and automation

give us the ability to create personal profiles and personalization at scale in a one to one way. So if you click on the blue button, we run a test, you click on the blue button, but you don’t click on the red button. We save that information and say, okay, you like the blue button. So let’s make future buttons for you. Blue.

Somebody else who clicks on the red button, we save their profile data,

guess what? Now that person sees

red,

you open subject lines with emojis. Somebody doesn’t open subject lines without emoji.

We save that information. We’ve helped build that profile so that

ultimately you get what you want.

There is no wrong answer. It’s the answers that you like best.

And we can ask for some of those answers. Certainly,

do you prefer red buttons? Or blue buttons? Do you prefer mode? You’re not emoji? Do you like social shares with cute puppy pictures, whatever. The thing is, whatever you you want,

our software should give to you.

And we do this over and over and over again. Until you build a solid profile of what works for you what ads you click on what links you click on,

that’s taking a B testing to its logical conclusion, which is give you what you want

now requires marketers

to think

and say, Well, you know, what, we need to have machinery and, and, and algorithms and support that say, yeah, whatever this person wants, they get within reason. I mean, there’s, we’re not going to, if you sign up for, for example, my personal newsletter, you’re not going to get a newsletter, it’s customized to be entirely Pokemon links, right, even if you love Pokemon, because that’s, that’s not the point of the newsletter. So there are guard rails, but

we should start being able to offer that level of personalization. Our software has to do it. We can’t do it as, as marketers, there’s no way we can do one to one personalization, unless you literally have like two customers, if you only have two customers. And yet, you can do one one personalization very easily. But if you have a mailing list one, five people on it,

you need machinery to do that. But once you do,

then it gets interesting, then it gets then we start being able to engineer systems that can

that can serve the needs of the person and get away from this idea of there is a right answer.

Because every person who

makes a choice is giving us the answers that work best for them.

Now, what else this gives us is a lot more insight, a lot more behavioral insight.

One of the things that a lot of marketers are struggling with right now is like, what do we do in the wake of California consumer privacy law GDPR and this and that, and, you know, we can’t collect this data anymore. And, well, no, you don’t need that data.

And a lot of cases, not for machine learning. One of the greatest quotes I heard from a recent IBM event was that the more specific a piece of data, the less useful it is for modeling,

knowing that my name is Christopher Penn, you can’t build a model on that, knowing that I’m male, knowing that I’m

in my 40s, knowing that I live in the northeast, those are things that are more useful data points because they’re bigger data sets and then can build better models with them.

But even that did is not as interesting is what I do behaviorally. If you sign up for say, a an email newsletter, and you say, I want to see more topics, more content about AI, and I want to see less content about politics.

newsletter software will eventually know what to send, you will send you a version that contains less of one more of the other but now with retargeting audiences and things I can send out and say, Yep, I

I want to make sure that this person

gets has their preferences in the system, or the system collects preferences for them. Behavioral preferences based on what they click on, on what they express.

And now we’ve got a new I know new ebook on politics,

don’t send it to this person, they’re not going to enjoy it,

send it to this person who like people, that’s all they want. And so it’ll help us make more sales and better sales by directing content and goods and things to where people need them. And it’s also free market research. If you set up

trainable machine learning based personalization systems, you get to look at your audience say, Okay, what are they interested in and something See, wow, everybody over here is really, really interested in I don’t know, the internet of things for dairy farms.

And you’re like, well, that’s a substantially

larger portion of our audience than I thought it was going to be. Why is this a thing with our audience now, you know,

now, you know, and I have that market insight, instead of saying, AB test, throw away those people who like dairy farms IoT, because that’s not what we do. Now, you know, now you have that market research. And you can go,

all right, maybe we need to offer

some kind of product or service or something there for those people because they will, they will want it they’re interested in it and the paying attention to it.

So a lot to think about a lot of stuff to think about

personalization one to one marketing with machine learning, doing the heavy lifting for you is the logical conclusion on the end of a b testing. So what we have to do is think differently about is a B testing something we should be doing or it should we be focusing on one to one segmentation I think that’s the future I feel like that’s the future and and a good way to pivot our thinking from the right answer to the answer suits each customer individually. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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September 21, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: Strategic Reasons for Content Curation
Jo asks, “Why are we sharing around this much content on social media in your expert opinion? What are we all gaining from it?”

We post high-quality content on social media for four reasons:
- Appreciation: sharing high-quality demonstrates our appreciation for our audience by giving them valuable information that educates, entertains, and engages.
- Algorithm: because not everyone sees everything we post; different content is shown to different people. Having multiple pieces of high-quality content available means people are more likely to see and engage with something.
- Amplification: when sharing high-quality content from others, we help amplify their message and share audiences.
- Authority: sharing high-quality content creates a perception of expertise for the sharing account.
Note the phrase that continually re-occurs above: high-quality content. To achieve the outcomes we care about, we must create and share only the best stuff. Sharing just anything will have no positive impact, and may be detrimental to our brand.

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In today’s episode, Joe asks, Why are we sharing around this much content on social media? In your expert opinion? What are we all gaining from it? she’s referring specifically to sharing a lot of curated content with a recent episode of we talked about the 8020 rule, how about 80% of what you should share on social media is high quality third party content, so not your own stuff. So it’s not me me me all the time. And her following questions logically, why? what’s what’s the point of sharing that much stuff this this four reasons, we post high quality content on social media to accomplish for things. Number one, I call them the four A’s of curation appreciation, when we share high quality content and meaning it’s valuable stuff, that stuff that entertains that engages, that educates our audience, this that is a demonstration from us to our audience to say, we value we value that you’re being here, we want to share with the best stuff with you. Because that might help you do your job better, or might make you laugh or something. But it’s that high quality content

shows our appreciation in a tangible way for the audience. It shows we respect them, we respect their

their opinions, we can we respect their presence, the fact that they’re willing to just hang out and, and and see our stuff when they do see it. The second reason is algorithm that not everyone sees everything, we post every social network, I think without exception, now

least the public networks

filters what we share. So

you know, Facebook has its newsfeed Instagram has its its algorithm, Twitter has its algorithm, and so on and so forth. And so different content is shown to different people having a lot of stuff to share. That’s high quality means that people are more likely to see something of value and engage with it. And of course, engagement is how

how these algorithms work. So the high quality stuff that you do share, if it engages people, it gets them to do something, then they’re more likely to see your stuff. In addition, the third reason is amplification. When we share high quality content created by other people, we help amplify their message and in some cases, share their audiences. When you share something that is from someone’s website, and and you tag them and you let them know that you did. So they may share your share with their audience and stuff. And they may be more likely to say, Well, I was nice of

Joe would go share some of her stuff and make it a reciprocal engagement.

And the fourth reason is perceptions authority. When we share high quality content, when we share the best stuff, we create a perception of expertise for ourselves for our brand. When you look at someone’s Twitter, Facebook page, or any of these things, and you see article after article of stuff that’s on topic that is valuable, that’s useful, like wow, this this person or this company really seems to have their finger on the pulse of their industry, they’re sharing highly credible content, they must know what they’re talking about. It’s amazing that

people have create this perception of authority based on what someone is sharing now

is that the only reason do it, of course not. There’s there’s all these other reasons as well. But appreciation algorithm amplification and authority. Other reasons, we share so much content that somewhat high quality content on social media, here’s the catch,

the phrase that continues to reoccur through this list is high quality content. If we want to achieve the outcomes we care about, we have to create and share only the best stuff sharing Okay, stuff or sharing stuff that you whipped up in a hurry

will not have a positive impact. And in some cases, may even have a negative impact on our brand. And our interactions with the algorithms on our audience audience saying, This is not valuable, I can get better stuff somewhere else and may dampen our perception of authority. We don’t want to do those things. So we need to make sure that we’re sharing the best stuff and using any of the content scoring tools that are out there to say this is what is the highest quality, highest engaging highest rate, most read stuff.

And so if we don’t have the ability to score that stuff, we probably should not have curation as it as a strategy because it’s not going to work out well, the exception being if you have a ton of time every week to manually curate to read through dozens or hundreds of articles and say up that was educational useful. I know that was not

I would strongly recommend the automated route because you’re going to you’re going to have a bad time otherwise.

So good question. It’s an important strategic question. Because is it’s rare that people stop this and take them out and say, why are we doing this thing? So the fact that now Joe asked that I think is an important thing, why are we doing something? Well, these are the reasons why. And if we, if you haven’t been able to codify why obviously you can use this explanation when you’re talking to your own stakeholders and your managers and stuff about why would we spend so much time sharing stuff on social media? Well, these are the reasons why the next step and this is a an exercise left to you is how would you measure this, how would you measure each of these areas

and quantify that you’re generating appreciation that you’re generating more visibility and now that you’re generating amplification and network reach and you’re generating authority that is an exercise left for you. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and to the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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August 16, 2018

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