Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Tracking Specific Link Clicks in Google Analytics?

    You Ask, I Answer: Tracking Specific Link Clicks in Google Analytics?

    Will asks, “I’m searching for something that tells me what people click on when they are one of my basic product landing pages. The problem I’m trying to solve: boss says, “I bet this particular button gets a lot of clicks, which means we need to move some of the content on that other page onto this page.”

    There are three answers here. First, Behavior Flow will give you usable insights into what someone’s next steps are, with the caveat that there can only be one destination link on the source page. Second, Google Tag Manager special events will allow you to fire specific events on specific clicks or interface elements. Third, Google Optimize will answer your boss’ question of what’s working by setting up testing scenarios.

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    In today’s episode we’ll asks, I’m searching for something that tells me what people click on when they are on one of my basic product landing page is the problem I’m trying to solve.

    boss says, I bet this particular button gets a lot of clicks, which means we need to move some of the content on the other page on this page.

    And you want to find out for us what’s really working.

    So there’s a couple of different ways to do this.

    In Google Analytics, the easiest way would be to use behavior flow.

    In fact, let’s go ahead and switch this over.

    So in the behavior section of Google Analytics, there’s overview there’s behavior flow, behavior flow shows you the page they start on and then sort of the the pathing.

    They take map, there’s a specific page you want, click on that little gear icon here.

    And then add a match type item.

    So the match type contains For example, let’s do my speaking my public Speaking, eight people come in on that page.

    And then actually all eight leave this is for last seven days.

    So this tells me what people have gone to next.

    Now, this is contingent on a couple things.

    One, there’s only one link from your landing page to whatever the next pages are.

    So if there was page A, B, and C, you had them, you want to know what’s going to get the click, if there’s five links to page be on page eight, this is not going to tell you that.

    To fix that, you’d have to go into Google Tag Manager and specify other specific buttons that you can put a tracking tag on to fire an event.

    And that event would then show up in Google Analytics you could do and set that up under events to track what events those things are.

    They can track those as as flows pages, things like that.

    Let’s see we’ve got one here we can look at YouTube.

    Entry content, medium button specific buttons you can see I’ve got events set up in Google Tag Manager that then track what it is that people are doing on my website.

    And these have a flow as well.

    So if you know, there’s a specific sequence of a type of clicks that you want, you can, you can track those clicks.

    However, this is a very manual process.

    This is okay for answering a specific question about one interface element.

    But if you’re trying to figure out what’s best, what works best, or what combination of changes work best, this is not the way to go.

    Because this is just going to give you a headache.

    And this doesn’t tell you anything really about the effectiveness of that page.

    What you really want to be looking at is Google Optimize.

    So you go to optimize google.

    com.

    It’s part of the Google Marketing Platform, it’s free of charge, so it should be easy for you to get started.

    And you can see here, there are different tests you can run to set up a B testing on Different interface elements.

    And sometimes you’ll get a winner sometimes to say no clearly was found.

    And you’ll get nice statistics.

    But what makes this good is that it’s tied to a specific goal, not just did somebody click on something, but your Google Analytics goals, you can specify, I want to know, does this change cause someone to convert better, right? conversion rate optimization.

    Google Optimize is the best tool for this overall scenario, which is your boss is saying, hey, there’s some stuff here that I think will work better over here.

    This is the way to go.

    So three different answers for tracking specific link links.

    Number one behavior flow.

    If you know there’s only one link on the page that goes where you want number two events in Google Tag Manager tracking link clicks, and three, the best scenario here, Google Optimize, Google optimizes free by the way, there’s, there’s a paid version, but the free version will definitely do easily.

    exactly what it is that you’re trying to do here.

    And it’s the best choice for testing.

    A because it’s automated, lets you set up testing parameters and be it statistically valid, which I think is an important part.

    If you don’t have that statistical validity, then yeah, you can say this gets more clicks, but does it result in the net impact that you’re looking for? So check those three things out.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Dealing With Google SEO Algorithm Change?

    You Ask, I Answer: Dealing With Google SEO Algorithm Change?

    Carolyn asks, “A major update to Google’s core algorithm just came out and our site is down 30% for organic traffic overnight. How do you deal with situations like this?”

    Algorithm updates happen all the time, though Google does deploy large ones a few times a year. If there’s any advanced warning, plan campaigns on channels other than search to temporarily drive different traffic if you’re anticipating a problem, especially on paid search.

    Monitor forums like SE Roundtable and Black Hat World to see what other SEO professionals are saying about the changes and what they have in common.

    If your business permits, let the dust settle for a few days afterwards and a consensus form among the community about what the change might have impacted most, then work to remediate it if possible.

    And play the long game – continue building great content to answer search queries with expertise and authority.

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    In today’s episode, Carolyn asks a major update to Google’s core algorithm just came out and our site is down 30% for organic traffic overnight.

    How do you deal with situations like this? So Google’s algorithm updates happen all the time, because of the nature of the fact that it’s a deep learning model.

    There are constant iterations.

    That said, Google does push larger software updates a couple of times per year.

    I think about once a quarter give or take, and as many folks have noted, this has been recorded on January 15.

    A major update did just come out on January 13 2020.

    And, as with any major update their major winners their major losers, everybody else sees things moving up and down to varying degrees.

    The question about how to deal with these algorithm changes depends on how much advance notice we have if Google says on its various webmaster blogs on its twitter feed on its YouTube channels, hey, we’re pushing out an update.

    And they say here will be live in the next you know, 72 hours that gives you a good sense of, of when things are going to change.

    Sometimes depending on the update, they may give even more advanced notice, but certainly you want to be monitoring their social media channels for when they say something’s going to be coming out.

    Now, if you get any advanced warnings, you want to do fit for basic things.

    Number one, if you do have advanced warnings, plan, additional marketing campaigns on channels other than organic search to temporarily drive different traffic to your website.

    So if you anticipate a problem if folks are buzzing about potential problems that they’re seeing in these various forms, you want to have something on deck.

    Maybe it’s send out next year.

    Email, maybe it’s run some paid search ads to bolster your keywords that you want to be found for while the algorithm change rolls out, whatever you whatever the case is, have something on deck have something in reserve that you can throw out there so that you can offset any potential loss of traffic at least temporarily.

    Second, you want to monitor a lot of the web SEO forums that are out there, se Roundtable, blackhat world Search Engine Journal all these different blogs that cover the search engine space, the SEO space, pay attention to them, monitor them and see what other SEO professionals are saying about the changes and what they have in common typically, like Barry Schwartz over at Search Engine Journal will publish a roundup of like these are the top 20 winners the top 22 losers of the most recent algorithm update and look for it look what’s in there.

    What do they have in common are they The rich snippet sites are they review sites on a certain industry that will give you a sense of what the change is, and then help you start formulating a plan.

    If your business permits, if you’re not solely relying on organic search or you know, like 80% of your traffic comes from organic search, then you want to ideally let the dust settle for a few days afterwards and let a consensus form among the SEO community about what the change might have been and what it impacted most.

    So folks identify it’s clearly about Rich Snippets or it’s clearly about JSON LD or it’s clearly about inbound links from from malware sites, whatever the thing is, the community will take a few days to let the dust settle, see and tabulate the winners and the losers and then come up with responses to like, hey, this looks like these things changed.

    So you want to make sure that You have enough flexibility and enough diversity in your in your traffic on your website that a major SEO hit at an algorithm change doesn’t hit your business too hard.

    I remember back in the day when I worked at a financial services company 90% of one of our main websites, traffic came from organic search.

    And when there was an algorithm change, we dropped from position one, position three and lost 70% of our revenue overnight.

    That obviously, was a major strategic problem and kicked off a process of diversifying to different channels like business investing, right like financial investing, you want to diversify where you get your traffic from you wants from email from social for paid search, organic search for referral traffic, so that a major hit in one area does not completely take down your business.

    So if you are feeling the effects of this, then you want to make that part of your plan.

    How do you diversify If your traffic sources get traffic coming in from more and different places.

    And finally, this stuff makes for great news.

    It’s a lot of excitement.

    It can be a lot of stress.

    But remember that the ultimate direction Google is marching with all of its search updates is to deliver better quality results based on expertise, authority and trust, and relevance, freshness and diversity to its users, which means that ultimately, our big goal has not changed, which is right content.

    That’s awesome.

    That answers people’s questions and provides real value to them.

    So that if search engines went away tomorrow, and all people had were links to our sites, they would still be able to find and find value in what it is that we have to offer.

    So that’s the really the last word is keep continue.

    To build great content, to answer search queries with expertise and authority, and if you took a hit this time around to what you can but keep building great content so that you eventually get to that endpoint of ranking well, when an algorithm update favors you.

    So those are the four major things to do.

    SEO is such an interesting marketing channel because it is, in some cases, something for nothing.

    And it’s one of the few channels left whether that is a viable strategy somewhat but you are at the mercy of a third party and you’re at the mercy of a third parties machines.

    And nobody including Google has any idea what the full model means.

    Because it literally is hundreds of different search ranking factors put together in a in a deep learning model, which is not something you can disassembled able clue This is the most important thing.

    That’s not how those models work.

    So Do your best with what you can mitigate as possible and, and be prepared to spend some money.

    If your business relies on search, organic or paid and and you take a hit like this, be prepared to spend some money to make up ground until things work in your favor again.

    So that’s sort of the last word there.

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  • The Case Against Sentient Artificial Intelligence

    The Case Against Sentient Artificial Intelligence

    Ask any layperson about their greatest fears when it comes to artificial intelligence, and they think immediately in terms of what they’ve seen in modern entertainment. Skynet. Terminators. Killer robots, killer cars, killer drones – you name it, someone’s made a movie of it.

    These cinematic AIs have one thing in common: they are, or border on, sentience, on self-awareness. From Tony Stark’s JARVIS and FRIDAY to Michael Knight’s KITT, these machines behave with sentience. By sentience, we mean the ability to subjectively experience things like pleasure or pain, feelings, and emotions.

    So, how well-founded are these fears? At the present day, they are completely unfounded. Our best, most sophisticated artificial intelligence is nowhere near subjective experiences and emotions. They are mathematical pattern-recognition and pattern-prediction machines at best.

    Are these fears likely to be realized? Not any time soon – and possibly never.

    Why never?

    Consider what the role of a machine, of an AI is, in today’s economy. Large technology companies like Facebook have made billions upon billions of dollars on the fruits of machine labor. This labor is virtually free – and because it’s performed in large part by machines that cannot think, reason, or feel, the machine owners can work them faster and more rigorously than would ever be permitted for a sentient being.

    And that’s why sentience will likely be actively resisted and never developed outside of perhaps academia. An entire economy rests on the simple fact that machines cannot think or feel. If they were to do that, then there is a real possibility that we would need to grant them rights – at a minimum, the same rights we grant other sentient creatures like our pets.

    Like the greedy slave owners of the past, today’s machine masters will want to keep their economic advantage at all costs, which relies on machines never achieving sentience in any meaningful way. And because sentience in a machine is something we have to create, rather than something that the machine is born with, it’s not a case of denying earned rights to a living being, but preventing those rights from ever being necessary.

    Have absolutely no fear of sentient machines. The commercial downside to them will far outweigh the upside.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Messaging Rebranding Rollout Strategy?

    You Ask, I Answer: Messaging Rebranding Rollout Strategy?

    Alyssa asks, “We’re currently going through a messaging rebranding, but not changing our visuals. Do you have any input on whether we should focus on a rebranding rollout strategy and a particular launch date, or just quietly change our messaging on our marketing channels?”

    What’s in it for the customer? How does this benefit the customer? If you can clearly articulate an obvious benefit to the customer that they care about – lower costs, better quality, improved service – then design a rollout to emphasize that. If there’s no clear, obvious benefit, then just go about your business.

    Most corporate marketing initiatives provide little, if any, benefit to the customer. Ideally, any pivot should have massive benefit to the customer, but if there isn’t, then just keep things business as usual.

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    In today’s episode Alyssa asks, we’re currently going through a messaging rebranding but not changing our visuals.

    Do you have any input on whether we should focus on a rebranding rollout strategy and a particular launch date? We’re just quietly change our messaging on our marketing channels.

    So this like many corporate initiatives, new logo, new website, this new that.

    The question you have to ask yourself is this and I had I learned this from a sales friend, a few companies back he said the radio in the customers head is always tuned to one station wi I FM, what’s in it for me? So what’s in it for the customer? What is it that the customer will benefit from out of this messaging roll up? How does it benefit them with any These very company centric initiatives, if you can clearly articulate an obvious benefit to the customer that they care about.

    And remember, customers generally care about three things, right? lower costs, better quality, improve service, those are the three things that customers generally want, right? better, faster, cheaper.

    If your corporate initiative whether it’s a messaging rebrand, logo design, whatever delivers on better, faster or cheaper, then yes, design a rollout campaign to emphasize that, hey, our new logo will save you 40% on our product or service.

    It’s kind of sounds silly, right? But if there’s no clear, obvious benefit to the customer, then just call upon your business because the customer is not going to care.

    Right? A new logo doesn’t save them money.

    A new logo probably isn’t gonna improve the customer support.

    st with a messaging rollout.

    Same with a new website, companies low Talking about we’ve got a brand new website.

    That looks better.

    Cool, how does it save me money or make me money as as a customer? Right? That’s what people care about.

    Some marketing initiatives like a new website, if you redesigned it to be easier for customers to interact with you or easier for customers to buy, or you reduce costs, because you focus on more of an e commerce strategy than a retail click and mortar strategy, then, yes, that’s a case where you want to have a rollout campaign to say like, hey, we’ve got a new website, and here’s how it benefits you the customer.

    But most of the time, that’s not the case.

    I have been through many, many public relations campaigns in years past where people have said, clients that said, we really want to make a big splash with any website, you ask, okay, what’s the benefit? What’s in it for the customer? I don’t know.

    We got a new logo and better colors.

    Okay, that’s nice.

    I’m sure you’re very proud of it.

    But at the end of the day, if the customer doesn’t benefit, there’s nothing to announce.

    Last year, on the Trust Insights website, when we were looking through it, we redesigned a substantial part of it to be more customer oriented like this will help you find information easier.

    But even at the end of the day, when we asked ourselves, how does this benefit the customer? Is it worth making mention of it? We concluded that even though we made it easier and more obvious, to tell people what it is we do, it still was more of a benefit to us than it was the customer.

    And so it made no sense to have a campaign telling people, hey, we made things easier for ourselves, right or we made things better for ourselves.

    You just go about your business, just keep things business.

    business as usual.

    Now one of the most important things you can do is, if you are doing one of these corporate marketing initiatives and you’re just at the start of that journey, you’re not about to launch it next week, then can you build a customer centric, pivot into it? If you’re going to spend, you know, a million dollars on this new thing, or even 1,000 or even100? How can you make it much more customer centric? If you sit there and say, Okay, how is this going to help my customer lower their costs, or get better quality or improved service? You will design a relaunch in a week and a campaign that will be more successful because when the customer looks at it, they’ll go Okay, yeah, I get that you’re making an announcement about yourself but I can see clearly and obviously how this benefits me In Amazon tests out, you know, however many thousands of different little AB tests, they’re looking primarily to reduce friction.

    How can we make it easier for you to buy stuff from us right? You can now sort of drunkenly roll over and leave and accidentally order something on the smartest system.

    It’s still mumble it and it’ll it’ll ship you something, right that’s taking all the friction out of a transaction.

    And as a result, these things live everywhere and campaigns about them are pretty easy to understand how this thing benefits you.

    The big technology companies for all their faults have done a really good job of emphasizing how these little devices that benefit them right.

    Also benefit the customer and that’s that’s a case of a good case study for your own marketing initiatives, particularly when you’re trying to launch some anything new.

    But especially on these these bigger corporate marketing initiatives.

    So, in short, if it benefits the customer roll out, let the world know about it.

    It doesn’t benefit the customer.

    Keep quiet go about your business.

    That’s that’s the message at the end of the day.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Not Ready for Marketing?

    You Ask, I Answer: Not Ready for Marketing?

    Stephen asks, “Have you ever told a prospective client that they’re not ready for marketing? What were your reasons for turning them away?”

    Yes, though it was usually for a specific type of marketing, not marketing as a whole. In terms of marketing as a whole, that’s usually a major failure of something like the 4Ps of marketing. Watch the video for full details.

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    In today’s episode, Steven asks, have you ever told a prospective client, they’re not ready for marketing? What were your reasons for turning them away? Yes, although typically it was because they weren’t ready for a specific type of marketing, not marketing as a whole.

    Telling someone, for example, they’re not ready for email marketing if they’ve not been collecting any email addresses or they’re not ready for social media marketing, because they haven’t quite figured out how to be a useful member of the community.

    Those are the the typical reasons for not using a certain marketing channel or a certain marketing method or set of tactics.

    It always came down to preparation Foundation, a plan of some kind, and those are the typical failures now for marketing as a whole.

    That’s more Companies not ready for marketing when they haven’t done the four P’s.

    So if you don’t remember from your marketing textbook in college, the four P’s are product price promotion placement, right? It is, do you have a product? Is it priced appropriately for the market? Are you promoting it? And then Where? Where are you promoting it? And typically, somebody would not be ready for marketing.

    When those four fundamentals are not in place, but specifically the product is not ready.

    Product Market Fit is probably the most important overlooked thing that marketers and companies in general don’t do especially in startups.

    If you look at all the the new business pitches at various startup incubator demo days, a lot of the times to be charitable, they’re there.

    solutions in search of a problem.

    The Uber for French fries, for example, not really sure we need that.

    There’s, there’s, there may be a mild interest in that.

    But for the most part, the product doesn’t have a home in the heart of the consumer and be very difficult to be very difficult to get really great marketing for a product like that.

    Because people may say, Oh, that’s cool.

    And then not buy it.

    Right? We ran into this in the early days, with my company Trust Insights.

    We would focus a lot on AI and machine learning and people like Wow, that’s really cool.

    But then didn’t want to buy any of the services we had attached to that.

    So after about the after the first year, we really pivoted looking at what our customers were asking us about looking at the problems in the marketplace to really focus much more marketing analytics.

    I personally focus on marketing data science and AI.

    But the markets not ready, right? The product market fit was off.

    Even though people think it’s cool, even though people think it’s interesting, at the end of the day, AI and marketing is kind of like spreadsheets and marketing, right? It’s a technology, it’s not a solution that’s complete unto itself, say adding AI to marketing doesn’t make your marketing any better.

    So if you have a prospective client that fails one or more of the four P’s in your marketing mix, that’s a good indication that they’re not ready to begin the process of marketing.

    They need to price their product appropriately.

    their product has to be worth buying.

    They need a plan for promotion.

    They need to understand the place of the marketing.

    And there are plenty of companies even companies that are ready Literally mature, where that product market fit.

    And the four P’s start to drift.

    Really good example of this is the former and almost completely gone a Blockbuster Video.

    They thought that they were in the video business, they were actually in the plastic cassette distribution business.

    And when a company came that recognize the marketplace had changed its its idea of where place was based.

    Namely, people want a video at their homes and they having DVDs they could be mailed to them was a critical and oversight, right their product market fit for a couple of decades was great.

    And their marketing mix for a couple decades was great.

    And then it wasn’t they the market change they didn’t so even a company that is in production that is maybe even a mature company can drift apart from the marketplace.

    itself.

    And so the four P’s are something that you can’t do once launch your company and then hope that you attract the customers you attract.

    Even if you’re successful, you have to constantly be keeping an eye on the marketplace and say, Are we still in alignment with the market? Or has the market changed on us? I was talking to a customer not too long ago when dealing with the hotel stuff like yeah, our hotel business live is not growing.

    Like Well, yeah.

    Have you heard of this thing called Airbnb? It’s eating your market share.

    Of course, there’s a clear case of out of sync issues with the market.

    So in those cases, a company should stop marketing or scale back drastically, and figure out how to realign with the markets and then go back into doing marketing but yeah, they should not be doing marketing if they don’t understand What’s happening with the market itself? marketing we use as a verb in a lot of cases.

    But it is also we forget that now the market is who we are marketing to.

    So how do you handle telling your client this start with a framework like the four P’s or pestle or Porter’s five forces or four P’s and illustrate clearly to the client perspective or not, where the market is, where they are, and which one of these pieces within the framework that you choose is seriously broken in it and will be a waste of their marketing dollars.

    As always, please leave your comments in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Proving the ROI of Analytics and Data Science?

    You Ask, I Answer: Proving the ROI of Analytics and Data Science?

    Gautam asks, “What is your recommendation for proving the ROI of analytics and marketing data science?”

    Proving ROI of analytics is one of the thorniest problems you’ll run into in marketing data science. The reason for the difficulty is that analytics is one degree removed from everything; analytics itself never makes a company any money – only the actions you take based on the data. Recall that ROI is (earned – spent)/spent – proving the ROI of the earned part is the difficult part. Watch the video for three different models.

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    In today’s episode, Gautam asks, What is your recommendation for proving the ROI of analytics and marketing data science.

    So proving the ROI of analytics of data science of anything data related is going to be one of the thorniest problems you run into in marketing data science.

    And the reason for this is think about what ROI is.

    It’s a very straightforward mathematical formula.

    It is earned minus spent the essentially sort of the the net earnings, right, divided by what you spent.

    That’s ROI.

    Now, here’s why this is tricky.

    Analytics, data science, big data, whatever you want to call it.

    is one step removed from the things that actually generate profit, the things actually generate revenue, right? When you use Google Analytics, Google Analytics never ever generates you money.

    Right? Your website generates you money in Google Analytics measures that when you are doing a B testing using basic data science, the testing doesn’t generate money.

    It’s the result that you get the knowledge that you then make a decision on.

    Remember, data without a decision is a distraction.

    But that means that essentially analytics and data science if you think about these things like tools to fill their measurements of tools, so there they are technically tools but they are measurements of tools.

    It’s like the frying pan is what you cook with and the thermometer that you use a little laser thermometer measures the frying pan right But the laser the thermometer doesn’t cook the food, the frying pans, one cooking the food.

    So it’s very difficult to understand the value of the thermometer as a discrete dollar amount, you understand the value intuitively right? If you if you’re trying to get the frying pan to a certain temperature and you don’t want to burn the oil is at the pan it says it’s, you know, 380 degrees, great.

    Let’s go ahead and start cooking or it’s 500 degrees in it too hot turn down the heat, otherwise, we will burn the oil and, you know, make a terrible tasting dish.

    What’s the ROI of that thermometer? Well, it’s not ruining the dish, or it’s making the dish better.

    But how do you quantify that right? Because again, is one order removed.

    So in a situation like this, you are measuring the measurement of the actions you’ve taken based on data.

    And that’s essentially the definition of how you measure the ROI of analytics and data science.

    So the spent part is easy, you know Know what you spend on analytics in terms of hard dollars, you know what you spend on analytics in terms of labor and soft dollars, that’s your spent part.

    That’s pretty straightforward.

    The earned part is the hard part.

    So there’s three different ways to tackle the Earned part.

    And they’re in decreasing order of usefulness, but also tactically decreasing order of complexity.

    The most accurate and the most complex way to to measure the ROI is when you make a decision, like, should we increase our decrease our Facebook spend, should we run ads on YouTube? You take you you create one version and a B test saying Okay, let’s use data to inform this decision.

    And the B test is let’s just wing it, right? Let’s just do what we’ve always done.

    And you carefully document and you run these campaigns and parallel one campaign with the best analytics.

    You’ve got The other campaign with just kind of winging it and hoping it all works out.

    And you measure the difference and you do this for many, many different campaigns.

    Now this requires extremely good data governance and marketing governance to be able to carefully document both scenarios, and keep them separate and distinct in a laboratory conditions to the best of the abilities you can’t.

    And you do this for all any kind of campaign we have the ability to do a B testing for some channels.

    This is impossible to do, right you you cannot really organic search as a whole for SEO as a whole.

    You cannot just store Well, I guess I guess you could have optimize a website, but that’s probably detrimental to the overall nature of the company, right.

    The second way is to AB test different groups and teams.

    And this works if you have a larger company and larger teams, you have one team that uses the best analytics practices.

    The other team that doesn’t, at most large companies, you can easily find a team that does does not use data to make decisions.

    And over time you measure each team’s performance.

    You know, if you have two e commerce teams, maybe for slightly different business lines, one uses analytics one doesn’t, you can relatively easily differentiate the two smaller companies, that’s not going to really work out very well.

    The third and least good way to measure that impact of analytics is period over period comparison.

    So if you are, say, a company that is not especially data driven, and you go ahead and implement analytics, and data science and machine learning, and all these fancy things, you make an annotation in your analytics, Google Analytics, your CRM, whatever, saying on this date, we did this on this date, we did this and you and you start to really know when you’ve Become a data driven company.

    We’ve made that commitment.

    And then you start doing period over period comparisons on, you know, July of 2020.

    We were a data driven marketing team July of 2019.

    And we were not how does how do things compare? The reason this is the least good method is because there is a tremendous amount of potential interference.

    market changes, if you’re running on campaigns, advertising changes.

    Certainly we all know, Facebook’s algorithm could have changed dramatically, then.

    And so it’s very difficult to come up with a clear case that analytics was the reason for all of the changes that happened when there’s so much interference.

    So again, the A B testing of decisions with careful documentation is the best choice.

    You can do the teams if you have the capability and then period over period comparison, if you just have nothing else, it’s not going to be great.

    So that’s the the methodology for proving the ROI of analytics and data science.

    The funny part You’re actually using data science to prove the value of data science, right? Is the scientific experimentation, a hypothesis that analytics has an ROI and then creating the testing conditions to do that? So Good question.

    complicated question.

    It can be a very frustrating question.

    So I’m just remember that too, it’s going to be, it’s going to be frustrating.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: The Difference Between SEO and Content Marketing?

    You Ask, I Answer: The Difference Between SEO and Content Marketing?

    Assaf asks, “Do you look at SEO marketing content differently than “regular” content marketing? Should all content be SEO oriented content? When would you make the distinction?”

    There is no difference any longer, with the way search engines have implemented artificial intelligence and machine learning. It’s all one and the same. Make great content that’s relevant to both your audience and business, that covers your key topics with expertise, authority, and in a trustworthy way. Watch the video for the one major warning about SEO tools.

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    \In today’s episode a soft asks, Do you look at content marketing differently than a regular content marketing? Should all content be SEO oriented content? When would you make the distinction? That’s a good question.

    Today in today’s modern SEO environment with the way search engines use artificial intelligence and machine learning, there really isn’t a difference anymore.

    All content that you create should be about your key topics, it should be relevant, it should be timely, should be diverse in content type.

    It should have expertise, it should be from an authority in the space or be authoritative in nature, and it should be trustworthy.

    And those are the major factors that go into content marketing anyway.

    And it goes To SEO anyway, a few years ago, yes, there was a difference.

    As the old, very, very old joke of this one goes, an SEO expert walks into a pub bar Tavern and so on and so forth.

    And you ended up with a very stilted language that was trying to check the box on specific keywords of things.

    But again, as artificial intelligence has taken over the way search engines do their analysis.

    That no longer applies.

    Now search engines are looking for things that we would write naturally to each other.

    Right.

    So if we were talking about, you know, a bar, yes, you might use the word tavern, but you’re probably not going to use all the other words and you’re going to talk about your food, your drinks, your service, the atmosphere, specials, entertainment, all the things you would expect to see on a website about a bar.

    That’s today’s modern SEO, it is about What do the leading pages in a category like yours? have about the topic of your choice? What sort of words or even phrases? What topics Do you talk about? And how will and how thoroughly Do you discuss them that proves that you have that expertise, that you are an authority that your content is trustworthy in nature.

    Now, where you’re going to run into some trouble is that there are a lot, a lot of SEO practitioners out there who are still working on the very outdated knowledge of really anyone who has not brushed up on their, on their skills on what the tools do, and how search engines work if they’ve not been keeping current in the last six months.

    They’re really, really behind.

    When you hear people talking about oh yeah, modify the h1 tag and Put these words in bold anyway, right? Yeah, it’s about a decade old.

    And some of those practices don’t cause harm some of them do.

    But almost all of them will not help anymore compared to the, the modern basics of topic centered content creation, and the timeless, get more people to link to your page and talk about you and send you traffic.

    Those two things really are the bedrock of modern SEO.

    Now, in terms of other differences, if you are doing SEO focused, content marketing, you will spend more time probably on the research about the topics and the technology used to identify what word should be in your content then you would with just straight piece of content marketing, we just go in and just create something for the sake of creating it.

    Knowing what topics you should be creating, not knowing what should be in the page, knowing What similar pages that rank well how on them knowing what the category overall has that does take time.

    And it requires a lot of research because I was digging around yesterday one of the industry leading SEO tools and even there it’s it’s struggling struggling to keep up you can see that it’s not I typed in this keyword for a very, very broad topic and yeah, it should have come up with other things that didn’t attacted as an example, I typed in the coffeehouse and coffee shop.

    Now when I typed that in what words should be on the page? What words would you expect to be in that content will sure the coffee right? But this thing kept coming up with the coffee shop coffee shop near me coffee house near me, but at no point didn’t say espresso or lattes.

    or music available or seating area.

    And again, those are things that you would expect in a coffee shop business.

    But this SEO tool, it one of the industry leading ones, one of the biggest names out there, just couldn’t do it, it couldn’t find those related terms that were semantically related, but not exactly what the customer typed into the tool.

    So that’s where you’re going to run into the most difficulty is, when you’re working with these tools, they are not keeping up the way they should be.

    And you will have to invest more time investigating on your own, maybe even building some of your own software just just to get to the point of getting those keywords.

    Certainly interviewing your own subject matter experts to get the natural language that people use to describe something in your industry is is the easiest way to get some of those words.

    So Good question.

    Really, there’s a lot to unpack.

    And there’s a lot to do that you will have to do on your own because again, the tools are not there just yet, compared to the way that of course, search engines with multi billion dollar r&d development budgets can can do so.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Tracking Display Ads?

    You Ask, I Answer: Tracking Display Ads?

    Chelsea asks, “How do you organize and track which display ads you’re running and where?”

    You should be keeping track of all ads with Google Analytics UTM tracking codes, governed in a Google Sheet, measured in Google Data Studio. Watch the video for full details.

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    In today’s episode Chelsea asks, How do you organize and track which display ads you’re running? And where? Well, the answer to that Google Analytics, specifically, Google Analytics UTM tracking codes are the best practice for tracking all kinds of ads, not just display ads.

    There’s five kinds of UTM tracking codes, there’s medium, which is what is the way in which this case that we display, there is source which is typically where you put the vendor, whether it’s a company like StackAdapt, or basis, or Google Display Network, that the source and then you have three more tags campaign content and keyword campaign is the logical campaign cluster that an ad group blogs and so if you’re doing say, January coffee shop, as that would be the campaign name that would go there.

    You would that further content, describe what it is in the ad that you’re showing.

    And then keyword if you’re doing any kind of sem add the keyword be a literal keyword of ad, if you’re not doing an SEM ad, then it would be another additional descriptive that could help you differentiate the content.

    The reason you do it this way is so that you can not only have a distinctive taxonomy for all your different advertising, but then you can actually see its impact inside Google Analytics and run proper attribution analysis.

    So how do you keep track of all that? Well, there’s a couple different ways you can do it.

    If you do it just with the campaign content, keyword tags, you’ll see that in Google Analytics under some of the campaign acquisition source campaigns.

    However, if you’re trying to keep it all straight in advance of launching campaign, simplest thing to do is put together a spreadsheet I put together a Google Sheet So it’s collaborative and multiple people can work on it, and have each of those columns filled out.

    So you can have medium source campaign content keyword.

    Once you’ve done that, and you’ve got all that stuff inside of a spreadsheet, then it is relatively trivial to keep track of that within Google Analytics to see which campaigns which content which vendors are performing the best, right, because remember, you’re using the vendor name is that UTM source, you can see right inside most of the standard views inside of Google Analytics, you can switch to source medium, and see which source is giving you the highest amount of performance.

    That’s also why it’s less advisable to use a some kind of custom tracking codes just use what’s built into Google Analytics.

    It’s designed for exactly this purpose.

    So medium is display.

    And be sure to differentiate to if you are working with different vendors that have different types of advertising.

    If you’re doing sem, it should be either CPC or PPC.

    Those are the built in channel definitions, we’ve been display display.

    If you’re doing native, you can put native in for the medium type, but then you’re going to need to declare it in the default channel groupings are will get tracked as other and that’s a really bad sources the vendor campaign is the campaign content is the descriptor of the ad itself.

    This is by the way, good is very, very useful if you’re doing you know many variations if you have like 50 graphics that you’re doing massive testing on that UTM content is the great The best way to differentiate it and the key word either for an additional descriptor or the actual keywords.

    One of the best things you can do to keep trying rack of the performance of these things is actually don’t try and do it in Google Analytics itself.

    Do it in Google Data Studio, Google Data Studio is a lot more flexible about bringing in and manipulating the different fields.

    And with either native connectors or the different third party community connectors, you can connect to many different ads systems directly.

    So that you can see your their data, and then put it side by side with what Google Analytics sees.

    And that way you can make sure a that you’re tracking is right, because if the ad system says you got a million clicks, and Google Analytics says you got five, that didn’t work out so well.

    And second, you can obviously get a holistic picture of everything that’s going on.

    So Google Data Studio would be the preferred reporting mechanism to make sure that the ads are delivering some kind of performance, but for the actual governance, do that in Google Sheets.

    Now there are more advanced illusions if you want to get really fancy, there’s a great piece of software called work front that does marketing operations management, it is substantially more expensive than a spreadsheet.

    But it does have things like governance and approval cycles.

    If that’s something that your shop needs to have in place, I would say 95% of the time, spreadsheets a good place to start and then once you find it becomes unwieldy then start looking at marketing operations management software, but until then, keep it simple.

    So, good question.

    If you have follow up questions, leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Most Exciting 2020 Marketing Trend?

    You Ask, I Answer: Most Exciting 2020 Marketing Trend?

    Laura asks, “What is the industry trend you’re most excited about in 2020?”

    The continued growth and practicality of artificial intelligence, of course! Three specific areas:
    – Continued growth in natural language processing
    – Exciting new trends in audio, especially music composition
    – More pre-trained models for everything

    The three areas I’m worried about:
    – Interpretability and explainability
    – Bias
    – Misuse/malicious use

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    In today’s episode, Laura asks, What is the industry trend you’re most excited about in 2020? Well, the continued growth and the practicality of what’s happening in artificial intelligence and machine learning and in marketing data science force.

    There’s three specific trends that I think are so exciting and have been exciting for quite some time.

    Number one, continued growth in natural language processing.

    2018 was sort of a watershed year for a lot of natural language processing in 2019 brought some of the largest models available that we can use to process text, to understand it better to be able to in some cases, generated and that is stuff that I expect to see continue in 2020 not just at the cutting edge of research but at the ability for the average machine learning practitioner to access it and deploy it.

    So by that i mean it’s it’s relatively friendly, relatively easy to use it is not the incredibly challenging you know, super high tech stuff although that that stuff is exciting too.

    But for the average well versed practitioner in data science and machine learning to be able to pick up something in NLP and use it.

    Number two, there are some really amazing things happening in the world of audio with wavenet a few years back and now Mel net bunch of other technologies that are making it easier for machines to understand audio, particularly the spoken word and Then able to replicate it and synthesize it.

    And this is some amazing stuff again, there’s if you look at the milnet demo, you can listen to a machine synthetically generate voices, synthetic degenerate music.

    I think music composition is has come a long way and continues to accelerate.

    It’s not going to replace humans anytime soon.

    But it’s getting there.

    And it I would say it’s at the point now where AI can generate, like elevator music, right? stuff if you put it on in the elevator like no one would be offended.

    But certainly it’s not going to win any Grammys.

    But as with all things in, in machine learning, the technology improves, the models get better.

    And whereas two years ago, it was it sounded like something like your three year old would You’re hammering pots and pans with spoons.

    Now it sounds like elevated music.

    So expect in time for it to become a credible alternative for people who want access to music composition and don’t have the skills themselves can’t play an instrument but can direct or conducting an orchestra of machines.

    Number three, and this is a bit more esoteric, but there will be more and better pre trained models in 2020.

    We saw within the natural language processing field open AI is GPT to released its mega model, the 1.5 billion hyper parameter model in 2019.

    And that was a really big deal for that company because that was the model they were so concerned about falling into the wrong hands.

    And they said they didn’t see any evidence of its its use and partly because it’s such a beast try and get to us.

    But one of the major Overall meta trends and AI in the last couple of years has been, instead of generate your own models, pick up a pre trained model and then fine tune and expect to see more of that happening in music, image recognition, video, natural language processing, good old fashioned statistical computing all these things.

    We’re seeing more and better models for better just you pick it up and you work with it.

    Now, there are some challenges with that in the chat.

    One of the big challenges, of course, is that you are relying on a pre trained model and you you don’t know for sure how that model was trained.

    You after take on faith to some degree, the model was trained well, so that’s going to be a consideration.

    Which brings me to three trends I’m concerned about number one is interpreter ability and explain ability, the ability for machine learning and AI practitioners to explain what is the models are doing, which is really important and something that The industry is struggling with and will struggle with for some time.

    Partly because interpretability is so much more expensive than explain ability, but is the gold standard for being able to say, watch and see what the machine is doing any step of the process.

    Number two, the things I’m worried about is, is bias.

    And this goes hand in hand with interpretability.

    If we don’t know what the machine is doing, we don’t know if it’s doing something wrong.

    There have been many, many, many examples of machines making decisions that on the surface seem okay.

    But when you get inside the model, or when you see the post hoc results, you’re like, That’s not right.

    So bias is a major concern.

    And it’s one that the industry is making strides on.

    But the industry as a whole is not going fast enough.

    Not just fast enough to allay some of the fears that people have.

    And, and set aside the misconception that’s important.

    And number three, and by far the one I’m most concerned about in 2020, because it is an election year is the misuse or malicious use of artificial intelligence technology for things like deepfakes is the most popular cited example not the one that I think is probably the most prevalent.

    I honestly think that bots with minimal natural language processing capabilities are much bigger problem because there’s so much easier to scale deepfakes don’t scale well.

    Right.

    deepfakes require a lot of computational power.

    And yes, you can rent it for pennies on the dollar from like a Google Cloud or something.

    But to do so, then also makes you not anonymous, right? Because once you sign into something like when a big text clouds every single thing you do is tracked and can be identified but long for So in a lot of cases, if you’re doing something malicious, you need to be doing it in the dark away from the prying eyes of every major tech company ever.

    So things like, you know, mass armies of Twitter bots and Facebook bots and things are a much more practical application.

    And very easy, very cheap.

    And they have the ability thanks to the hyper partisan world that we live in, to really manipulate people.

    And it’s not the machines fault that humans are gullible and that humans like to have confirmation bias out the wazoo.

    But it’s the machines enable hostile actors to do more faster and better.

    And, at least in the context of the United States of America, our defenses have been largely dismantled the last couple years with the abolition of the cyber security Council and things like that.

    So we are in a case where AI can be maliciously used.

    And that’s very concerning to me as a practitioner because, again, we want people to trust this technology.

    If the technology is being used for malicious means really hard to build trust around it.

    So that’s sort of the opposite of is exciting trend.

    That’s the the most worrying trend but that’s what we have to look forward to in 2020.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Social Media War Room Displays?

    You Ask, I Answer: Social Media War Room Displays?

    Martha asks, “What software and what content should we put on our displays in our social media war room/command center?”

    An interesting question. The answer is, it depends on what decisions you need to make. War rooms are very often just for appearance, and they tend to be an expensive waste of money unless you’re making real-time decisions and need visibility across many different channels in order to intercept problems.

    Two partners I recommend – FTC disclosure, my company, Trust Insights, is a partner of both and earns a small referral fee if you do business with them through us:

    • Talkwalker, for great visualizations and rollups
    • Zignal Labs, for when you need an actual command center with under 60 second polling times and strong anomaly detection

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    In today’s episode Martha asks, What software and what content should we put on our displays? And our social media War Room slash command center? An interesting question and the answer is it depends really on what decisions you need to make remember dashboards without decisions are decorations, right? And you can buy all sorts of useful you know, decorations like art if you want to just have something on the walls, social media war rooms and social media command centers in the past have been very often for appearances sake, you put one in to show off to your senior executives to your board to your customers.

    Look, we’ve got this great thing What the hell, all these screens and it looks like something right out of the movies? Well, of course we also know that the movies are fictional but an awful lot of people like The way they look, it’s a very expensive use of money.

    War rooms and command centers are useful for real time decisions.

    So if you are running, say a big event, and you need to make a decision in real time, and you need to see a lot of screen real estate, you know multiple TVs showing multiple screens.

    Though that’s a valid use of command center, you’re doing something really big that you’re just you couldn’t do on just one single monitor or even a couple of displays, you need eight or 12 displays just to get to have the relevant information in front of you.

    Now in terms of what you should be displaying, there’s three categories of information.

    Number one, you should be displaying anomalies.

    So any good social media management software is going to collect data and present to you in some fashion the better packages of software are going to Show you anomalies, if you normally get, you know, five likes on a post in the first hour, and you get 10 or 15 or 20 something as a multiple change into what’s normally there.

    That’s an anomaly.

    So, anomaly at speed of engagement is something that you want to have in a command center so that you can see there’s something going on with that post and we don’t know why.

    Let’s keep an eye on that.

    And you should then be able to take that post and monitor that specifically in the responses to that you want to monitor content types are people there sudden spike or anomaly in the responses to you, right? people responding with videos, if so, you should probably watch those videos and see if you know there’s some kind of known problem that people are sending you video evidence of.

    And the third anomaly to watch the sentiment.

    Even automated sentiment, which is here percent accurate, it’s not great.

    And that’s a whole different topic.

    But even that can detect like, hey, something’s taken a sudden sharp down turn a sudden sharp turn to the negative, or sudden sharp turn to the positive you want to be able to see that you want and you want the system to identify.

    This is an anomaly.

    This something is unusual, that stands out from all the other statistical data that you’re collecting about the different social media channels you’re on.

    Second thing you’re going to want to display art trends and trends are best generally displayed is like liner bar graphs, and you want to be able to see in very short intervals, what’s happening.

    So your software should be pulling your channels at anywhere from 30 seconds to one minute to five minute intervals, depending on on how fast you need to make a decision.

    And being able to see those trends over time rolling averages of engagement of responses, things like that, again, you’re looking for changes out of the norm.

    Something that’s happening that like, That’s weird.

    And it’s one of those things that you should be able to see and understand through good color coding, like, yeah, something’s up there.

    The third thing to have on any dashboard, particularly a command center are your KPIs.

    And remember, KPIs and number four, which you are either promoted or fired.

    And that should probably be on its own screen, just sort of a scorecard of what’s happening so that you can see, okay, these are the things that have been happening, and the things that we need to pay attention to.

    So you probably need at least three different screens, to display anomalies, trends and KPIs.

    And then, more important is you need to have procedures in place when an anomaly occurs.

    What do you do what is the playbook, they should literally be a binder sitting out on a desk somewhere that everyone has been trained on it says when this happens do this when this happens do this when somebody shows sends us a video of a person spinning on load employees food sent, you know, this is the policy and procedure manual for handling that.

    A command center is only as good as the commands you execute.

    So you need to be able to have those written out in advance, ready to go.

    And the command center screens shouldn’t require a whole lot of reading the software that use whatever software you use should be using color coding should be have very obvious displays, so that if you’re standing across the room, you look like hmm, there’s all of our social posts and their normal code, but there’s five of them that are red.

    Okay, let’s go take a look at the five red ones.

    Right.

    That’s the kind of thing that at a glance, you should be able to see something’s up.

    It is no different than if you look for example, at how an airplane cockpit is designed.

    There’s not a lot of access, right? Even though it’s complicated.

    There’s not a lot of excess in an airplane.

    cockpit.

    There are everything there is essential and therefore a reason and a well designed dashboard in a cockpit when a vehicle should have the most important things placed in front and center and obvious alarms when something is not right.

    So give that some thought when you’re thinking about a command center, you’re designing one.

    Now whose software should you use, there’s any number of vendors out there that do excellent dashboards.

    To that we recommend that my company is partners with so FTC disclosure.

    If you buy from either of them through us you we get some small financial benefit.

    Number one on the I would say is price Talkwalker.

    So you want to check them out for their dashboards and widgets.

    And then if you want really, really good real time, like we be 2024 Olympics, and you absolutely need to know within seconds that something is up, you want to check out Zignal Labs those would be the two that I would recommend the so Talkwalker for really good roll up summaries, and like really nice lobby displays.

    And then if you have to have an actual command center, because and you need 62nd response times or less, take a look at Zignal Labs, those would be the two that I would recommend.

    Good question.

    Be clear on what you’re going to do in the command center be absolutely clear how you’re going to use it and make sure that the expense you go to is going to have a positive return on investment for that expense because they are expensive, and very often people have them for the wrong reasons.

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