Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Author: Christopher S Penn

  • You Ask, I Answer: AI-Enabled Parenting Tools?

    You Ask, I Answer: AI-Enabled Parenting Tools?

    Donna asks, “Super curious to hear your thoughts on tools like AI-enabled baby monitors and other AI-enabled parenting tools. What do you think?”

    The challenge of tools like AI-powered anything are twofold: what happens to the production data? And how was the model trained that the tool is built on? Most products and services don’t reveal the training dataset, and without that information, you have no idea how biased the model is – which makes relying on such a tool inherently dangerous. Watch the video for a full explanation.

    Disclaimer: I am not a qualified medical professional and this post is not medical advice. Seek a qualified healthcare professional for concerns about the health and welfare of your children.

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    In today’s episode Donna asks what I think of this AI powered baby monitor? My thoughts on it? Well, there are two things on the topic of any kind of AI based child care solution or any AI based solution period, which is the production data and the training data.

    So production data is pretty straightforward in terms of what things I would be concerned about.

    Number one, of course, is privacy.

    What happens to your data? Particularly if it’s if you’re your child, when it is uploaded to a service? Is it stored securely? Is it How is it processed? How does the processing occur, what information is being gathered? How is it encrypted etc.

    And those are all things that Any reputable solution providers should be able to give you answers to about how they treat their data.

    That’s that’s easy stuff.

    The more difficult thing and particularly in this use cases, this is a product that is claiming to do image recognition from live video feed and identify when your baby has turned over to to what is considered to be an unsafe sleeping position.

    Here’s my challenge with this type of analysis.

    I feel like it can low parents into a false sense of security and is not a substitute for actual parenting.

    So that’s one side second side is the training do any AI solution has to have a training data set that is that info is important by Footage samples that tell it like this is what to recognize this solution is a supervised learning solution, right? You’re looking for a specific use case, a human being in a certain position, and you want to recognize it and then use that to trigger the basis of some kind of alert.

    So how does it do that? What was the basis for comparison? What is the model trained on? And was the model trained on a robust enough data set? So the classic textbook error in this kind of case is the the folks who wrote a simulation to wrote a model to identify wolves to differentiate wolves and dogs.

    did all this testing all this training data and they loaded in and then in the lab, it worked perfectly, but when they rolled it out, it failed miserably.

    Why when the scientists decompose the model, it turns out it wasn’t recognizing the wolf that all was recognized whether there was snow or not in the in the pictures, all The pictures the walls had snow on the ground.

    So it was a case where the model was not well supervised.

    When it comes to something like this, think about all the different environments that you can have in a crib.

    Yes, in theory, a crib should be a plane background, with no toys of distractions not but this is human humanity we’re talking about everybody’s environment is set up differently.

    lighting setup differently, and most critically when it comes to human beings.

    There is a tremendous amount of bias in AI data sets of images and videos of human beings.

    Most training data sets tend to skew heavily towards Caucasians people with lighter skin and of European descent, which means that if you if a company does not disclose their training data, then there’s a good chance that they did not train on people of African descent, people Asian descent, children with differentially abled, and so, to make the broad claim that the oldest product is going to help, you know, save your kid’s life without having detailed information about how the model was trained, I personally would not feel comfortable relying on such a thing now that said, Unless you own a like a 10,000 square foot house where, you know your kids literally all all the way on the other side of the, the the facility, and you can’t hear from one room to the next.

    As as a parent of two kids.

    We have a real small house Our house is like 1200 square feet.

    It can hear, you can hear everything whether you want to or not.

    And so I would question the need for this product in general.

    If you’re there, and you’re you can hear your kid crying and moving around, okay.

    infants are not quiet.

    And if you’re not there will if you know if the product is to try and stop Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, if it’s anything like a heart attack, you have a couple of minutes to react before you need to go and do something before the damage becomes irreversible.

    And so I don’t know how much youtility this product is I I my opinion, my feeling my emotion about it is that I think it’s taking advantage of parents in some ways, in the sense of, well, you know, you’re you’re deathly afraid that your kids going to roll over and die.

    And certainly, as a parent, nobody wants to lose, John.

    No matter what the statistics are, if it’s you.

    It’s awful.

    But I feel like it’s Probably product is a solution in search of a real problem.

    And it takes advantage of those fears that parents have, particularly these days where people have become so incredibly risk averse, that they will buy stuff that may or may not be helped them out.

    I don’t think this product will do any harm, right, you install it.

    As long as you don’t abdicate your parenting responsibilities, it’s not going to do any harm.

    But I don’t know that it will provide any help and I don’t know the cost is worth it compared to a traditional baby monitor if you want to use just a traditional old fashioned one.

    That is just sound when you wirelessly transmitted on a standard radio frequency, no cloud, no internet involved just good old fashioned radio transmit that you can get at Target or Walmart or wherever for 3040 bucks.

    I feel like that’s probably just as good a solution in this case.

    If that is a serious concern, and if you believe that, and if you’re able to be a present parent and and unless you yourself have a medical condition which you just can’t hear things you see, the AI monitor is quite not going to help either way.

    So the key things, though, are what happens to the production data? What happens to the test data? The training data, how well was it trained? How diversity was it trained? And does it solve the problem that you’re asking you to solve? I would, I guess I don’t think the money’s worth in this case.

    But if you got extra money and you have no idea what to do with it, I guess it doesn’t hurt.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: The Fading Utility of Facebook?

    You Ask, I Answer: The Fading Utility of Facebook?

    Darlene asks, “How have you adapted to the fading utility of Facebook? I’m sure we’ve all shifted energy and dollars into other social networks, but what’s been really worthwhile for you, regardless of your industry?”

    At the end of the day, I focus on what I own and control to the best of my ability. That means a website with video, audio, and text, an email newsletter, and a Slack community, with three goals: capture audience, build trust, and direct attention to things that are mutually beneficial.

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    In today’s episode Darlene asks, How have you adapted to the fading utility of Facebook, I’m sure we’ve all shifted energy and dollars into other social networks.

    But what’s been really worthwhile for you, regardless of your industry, things like video and podcasting, etc.

    At the end of the day, I focus on what I own, and control to the best of my ability.

    I don’t own Facebook, I don’t own Twitter, I don’t own I don’t even know my own YouTube profile, right? I own the ability to access those properties.

    But they’re not mine.

    I don’t have control over them.

    I can’t change how the overall strategy of those platforms work, right.

    They’re just not mine.

    So what is my website? Right, that’s mine.

    Yes, there’s a hosting company.

    But am I email newsletter.

    So on the website, there is video, which right now I do host with YouTube because if nothing else, it is useful as a utility to host these enormous video files.

    And any traffic I get from YouTube is a nice add on.

    But it’s not were not my place where I build and focus all my promotional efforts, audio.

    I do have a podcast several of them actually, which I host through Lipson.

    But the website is still where that’s based and of course, the text the the notes plus the transcripts, go on the website.

    And so that’s that’s really where my attention goes through my attention has gone for a really long time because, again, we don’t have control over these platforms.

    The expression is never build on rent land.

    Great for those of us Have a lot of gray hair, remembering back to the early 2000s.

    And people spending crazy crazy crazy money customizing their MySpace profiles company spending no joke and hundreds of thousands of dollars on design and building it out and all this stuff to make it appealing to the crowd that was on Myspace at the time.

    That money was not money.

    I mean, it served its point in the day did what was posted in the day, but you do not have an enduring platform that was yours from that time period.

    Right? It is largely faded from existence and is the butt of people’s jokes.

    Same for you know, Google Plus, they were people who made huge professional bets on Google Plus, and they probably got some utility out of it out of the time.

    That’s fine, right you, you don’t buy a meal to save Forever, right you buy a meal to use it to eat it, and then you move on with your day.

    But if you are trying to invest in the long term, building on rented land is never a good idea.

    So website with your stuff, if you’re going to spend ad dollars, point those ad dollars at your stuff unless you have something you know, a one off that does really well, because social posts does really well.

    Obviously pay to lean into those things that do well.

    And fundamentally, you need to have three different goals.

    And you can call them top, middle and bottom of funnel or whatever but the goals are you have to capture audience you have to capture attention, right? That’s Goal number one.

    And the easiest way to measure that is by the people that you can get to the website even once.

    You have to build trust.

    That’s Goal number two and that is easily measured by enrollment in other digital activities that are yours.

    So signing up for that newsletter, people need to have a minimum level of trust in you and minimum level of belief that you’re providing something of value in order to be willing to hit that.

    Yes, I want more Email button, right? Because that’s what that button means I yes, I want more email.

    And three, direct attention.

    You have to take the attention that you have and directed at things that are mutually beneficial that may be buying something, doing business with somebody.

    There’s all sorts of different things that directing attention can mean but those are the three goals that you want to measure from those owned media properties.

    Everything else is ancillary.

    Right? The number of followers you have the number of engagements you get all that stuff.

    It’s not unimportant, but it’s not the end game state.

    Right? That’s not where you’re trying to go.

    So I don’t worry too much about the feeding utility of Facebook.

    It’s an ad platform.

    And and I will I measure it like every other ad platform, how good is it at capturing attention or re engaging people build trust or directing attention to what I want people do.

    It’s just not where I’m spending most of my time and money.

    And I’m not moving to another social network because still not mine with the exception of slack.

    I run a slack community if you go to Trust insights.ai slash analytics for marketers.

    That slack instance is one that we run and as as close to owning it as you can get without actually deploying your own server right? That is an owned community as well, in the sense that we can see it you have control over it have total control of what gets published in it.

    And so there’s, there’s that as well.

    So, website, email community, be the three things I think that every marketer should be focusing on now, rather than Facebook or Twitter or Tick Tock or whatever.

    Those are billboards.

    You don’t stop to eat.

    At the at a billboard when you drive, right? You stopped to eat at the restaurant.

    The same is true of social media, right? Don’t build the restaurant on the Billboard, build the restaurant, at the restaurant and use the billboard to get people to the restaurant.

    So good question.

    It’s important question.

    It’s a question that I know a lot of marketers are struggling with as we get to the end of the year and people are setting strategy and trying to figure out what to do.

    build on own land, use rented land to direct people to the owned land.

    That’s the best strategy that will serve you well now and will serve you well in the long term.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Marketing Automation Solutions for SMBs?

    You Ask, I Answer: Marketing Automation Solutions for SMBs?

    Dan asks, “What are your suggestions for an inexpensive marketing automation platform that integrates with SalesForce and either scales well or can easily be migrated to a more powerful platform down the road.”

    This depends on what you mean by inexpensive. How large a marketing budget are we talking? At Trust Insights, we use self-hosted Mautic because in the early days of the company, we literally funded everything out of our own pockets. We chose Mautic because we had the technical knowledge to operate a server. Choose based on your budget and skill level – watch the video for some guidelines.

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    In today’s episode, Dan asks, What are your suggestions for an inexpensive marketing automation platform that integrates with Salesforce? And either scales well or can easily be migrated to a more powerful platform down the road? This is a good question.

    There are no surprise hundreds if not thousands, of marketing automation platforms, if you refer to Scott breakers, infamous martech loom escape or the martech landscape.

    There’s 8000 solutions on there, and at least a couple of marketing automation.

    So there’s no shortage of choices out there.

    The question is, what do you have for resources and resources with marketing automation comes in two forms one, technical knowledge to money.

    Most people are pretty familiar with money right? So My guideline on that is it should be, you should spend on marketing automation, approximately 25% of your data and analytics budget, remembering that from the most recent cmo survey, most marketing departments have spending somewhere between seven and 11% of their overall marketing budget on data and analytics.

    They should be spending a lot more but can’t fix that.

    Right.

    So let’s be generous and call it say data and analytics should be 15% of your marketing budget.

    Right? That’s that is optimistic.

    Of that 25% of that number should be your marketing automation budget.

    So that you have money left over to help you with other things you don’t have specifically knowledge.

    When Katie am I started Trust Insights two years ago now almost Wow, that went fast.

    We Show is a platform called Monique Monique is an open source marketing automation platform.

    They have a cloud hosted version that looks and works very similarly to, you know what, what all the other major cloud marketing automation providers have.

    But the pricing on that is comparable.

    We chose the self hosted version because the early days of the company, we were literally funding everything out of our own pockets.

    But we were literally paying for stuff out of our personal funds to get the company going, that’s startup life.

    So we chose Baltic because it was the least expensive solution for which we still have the technical knowledge.

    In order to deploy a self hosted model means you have to start a server somewhere virtual server someplace on a VPN or whatever.

    You have to install the software, yourself.

    You have to configure the server yourself and you have to firewall and do all the things that you’re supposed to do in order to make sure that the server is working correctly.

    That is a pretty heavy lift for a lot of companies.

    But the trade off is that our total costs for marketing automation are somewhere around $8 a month, right? In the beginning days of the company that is manageable, that is affordable when you have no cost at all.

    That is that is great news.

    Now, that system does integrate with Salesforce, no better or worse, I would say than any other platforms.

    But it is super easy to migrate because you have the server, right.

    So as long as you have some idea of what you’re doing when it comes with to databases, you can literally work directly in the database.

    You don’t need to go through the software, the interface and all that stuff.

    You are as close to bare metal as possible.

    And that is a wonderful thing when you’re talking about migration.

    Because when you look at every other platform out there like HubSpot Hard on Mark Hedo, Eloqua, you name it, they don’t let you get direct access to the server ever get a it’s a security risk and be there is some incentive to make it more difficult to migrate to move on.

    When you run your own systems and servers, you have the total control over the environment for good or ill now that the ill side means you have to maintain that environment yourself and you’d better have some technical knowledge or your server will end up getting hacked sooner rather than later.

    And that’s not a good thing.

    So, my recommendation if you are literally like rummaging through the couch cushions, looking for spare change to run your business, your marketing department, things like that.

    My recommendation would be Monique, it is the best overall choice for super affordable startup environments to to run marketing automation.

    Now, depending on scales and issue with Monique in the sense that when you provision a virtual server, you get certain limits like disk space and things like that.

    And you would better be working with a hosting company that allows you to scale up your instance, I’ve had to do this on my own personal Monique server.

    I have my my email list is now like close to a little more than actually has more than 40,000 subscribers.

    Guess what, that generates a tremendous amount of data, which means that it takes more disk space to store more record, the database has to be optimized more often.

    And the bills will start to increase as scale goes up.

    That’s okay.

    You would, but you need to be working with a hosting company that allows you to scale up your server otherwise, you’re going to be in a really bad situation.

    In terms of if you don’t have the technical skill.

    And you do have the money.

    My second choice, really, I mean, it would have to be HubSpot.

    HubSpot Software is expensive for a small business 800 bucks a month for the pro version.

    But it is seamless.

    It is well engineered, it works.

    It offers all the usual compliance stuff everything you want it you need and want for compliance.

    So if you’ve got the cash, go with HubSpot.

    There are other providers you know Flavio and Active Campaign drip and all these other providers.

    I have not used them.

    I can’t speak to them, whether they’re they’re good or bad.

    Most of the review sites put those companies in reasonably good standing with each other.

    It’s actually funny.

    Monique is in pretty poor standing because again, it’s extremely technical, to make it work well.

    We were making the trade off we have the knowledge we don’t have, we didn’t have the cash at the time.

    If you don’t have the knowledge or the cash, you’d better figure out which one to go after.

    First, I would strongly suggest you get the knowledge because the knowledge lets you build the infrastructure.

    You Need to Ben generate the cash.

    If you are a an entrepreneur and you don’t have the knowledge, either learn it before you launch your company or partner with somebody who does have the knowledge who can fill that gap because it’s extremely important that you have that.

    So I would say those would be my two recommendations for today.

    That may change.

    And if you’re a marketing automation vendor, and you want me to review your software, we’re happy to chat about that will at least test it out and see, see what’s under the hood? As long as you’re okay with feedback that you might not like? So, for the comments in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: RFM Analysis for Small Business with Google Sheets and IBM Watson Studio

    You Ask, I Answer: RFM Analysis for Small Business with Google Sheets and IBM Watson Studio

    CC asks, “What’s the most valuable analysis overall for a small business to perform?”

    If we define a small business as an enterprise with less than $1 million in sales and fewer than 10 employees, then from an overall business perspective it’s got to be RFM analysis. Nothing else comes close in terms of helping a business understand its customers better and find relatively quick, relatively easy wins to grow revenue. Watch the video for more details. Watch the video for a tutorial on how to perform this analysis.

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    In today’s episode cc asks, What is the most valuable of data analysis that a small business can do overall, what’s the most valuable analysis that a small business could perform? Now, if we define a small business as an enterprise with say less than a million in revenue and fewer than 10 employees, then from an overall perspective, you’re talking about like a storefront, a retail shop, a small consulting firm, startup software company, restaurant, the analysis that is make or break for that business.

    And I think the most valuable one is our FM analysis.

    Our FM stands for recency, frequency, and monetary value.

    That’s a way of analyzing your customers to understand what who are the most valuable customers.

    Because from that analysis, we can make several determinations about what to do next, to increase value for the business.

    Nothing else comes close to me in terms of helping a business understand its customers better, and find those quick wins to grow revenue.

    So let’s look at what this looks like because it’s on the is also a technique that I think is easy enough to perform in a spreadsheet.

    And obviously, if you have some visualization tools, and some more advanced data analytics, you can use those but you don’t need those in order to be able to do basic RFM analysis.

    So let’s let’s put this over here are Femina Alice’s begins by getting all your customer data and you need when was the last time somebody purchased something, how many purchases have they made, and the monetary value of those purchases now because those are three very different metrics.

    There are three different scales, recency is probably a date, range, frequency is probably an integer value, number of purchases, and monetary value is going to be a floating point number, right currency.

    You will need to scale that you need to to to normalize and scale them.

    And the best way to do that is within us within spreadsheet software, it’s easy to do, you can do it obviously and more advanced technology.

    But what you want to do is essentially rearrange those values to be consistently on a one to 10 scale.

    So you would say with reasons that you What’s the oldest possible date, what’s the newest possible date, and then have recency be a 10 is the most recent and a one is the oldest frequency again, you take that scale that min max and you can use actually use the formula min max in many spreadsheet packages.

    To do that same rearranging of most frequent purchases 10 least frequent purchases want and really scale your data back and saying for monetary value, when you’ve done that, you’ll get a spreadsheet that looks like this, your customer ID, you’ll have your recency one to 10 frequency one to 10 and monetary value one to 10, I would suggest adding in a total value column called total value, and just doing a sum across the table.

    Now I have these this is dummy data.

    So you’ll notice that values are changing because it’s it is simply just randomized numbers.

    But now I have let’s go ahead and copy this to a new sheet so that the numbers stop changing.

    All right.

    Paste Special values only.

    Now if I rearrange my table, a little bit Conditional Formatting here just to make it easy to see.

    Customer AA two is my most valuable customer, right.

    High recency, high frequency, high monetary value.

    Let me scroll down here, let me get into the into the service suburbs customer a 770 is my least valuable customer, right low frequency, low risk, low recency or low frequency low monetary value.

    Now from this, there’s a couple things that we can do.

    Number one, for those customers, which are the most valuable customers, and you may want to break this into core tiles or whatever statistical format you want to just do it in the third’s break the table into thirds.

    Your most valuable customers, you’ve got to keep them happy.

    So you know, your top 10.

    Those are the folks that you would want to invite to like a customer to a focus group or something.

    Let’s say you know your restaurant, right, those top 10 customers, you invite them in for a once a year, maybe twice a year, come in for a free meal.

    And tell us what you like and don’t like right because you’re here a lot we know you bye name Come on in.

    Same is true.

    If you are a SAS software company, customer advisory board, those are the people that you invite to your customer advisory board, because they’re the ones giving you all the money for those customers, you will then want to do a bit of segmentation on this.

    Who comes in who has comes in a lot, but isn’t worth a lot and rearrange the table and sort that and say okay, well, what can we do to get those people come in more, right or bought or buy more frequently from us as many more email marketing more retargeting ads? for those folks who are not monetary value, but come in a lot? What can we do to get you to buy more those people you might want to run surveys to and say, hey, what, what do you wish we had that we don’t have as as products and services.

    Now, again, there are there are straightforward ways of doing that sort of analysis.

    And then there are very advanced ways of doing that analysis.

    One of my favorite ways to do clustering.

    And this is something that you can do in software like IBM Watson studio.

    So I’m going to show you a quick example to overwrite that.

    And let’s go ahead and click in here.

    I want to refine this.

    I’ll do a quick visualization on this.

    Penn fun, let’s just do a little bit of 3d.

    We want our recency, our frequency, our monetary value.

    And then for our color, our total value.

    Right.

    So in this case, the red or the.is, the more valuable it is.

    So you can really see there’s some customers here, they’re just in the suburbs right there.

    These are the customers that are not great.

    If I have customers who are high frequency, high recency but low monetary value, like this person right here in the corner.

    That would be somebody’s customer ID on that.

    So recency, frequency, high recency, high frequency, low monetary value, this person right here a 94? That’d be somebody I’d reach out to and say, hey, what can we do to get you to buy more? On the other hand, we have somebody who has high monetary value, right? But low frequency they they were in recently, what can we do to get them to buy more so you can we can cluster our data with more sophisticated tools to really pull out segments and market to them.

    But that, to me is the most valuable form of analysis we can do as a small business.

    And again, you don’t have to use the cool fancy visualization tools, you really can do all this and just a very basic spreadsheet to understand who your customers that are most viable, who are the customers who you could increase their value.

    And then who are the customers who it may not be worth your time to focus in on them.

    So that analysis is something that every small business owner should be doing.

    I would say honestly monthly so that you’re staying on top of your customer base and you’re seeing the changes like are your efforts to bring back in frequent customers? Are they working and getting customers to come back more frequently? So great question, important question.

    I hope that you run this analysis for yourself, for your businesses.

    And if you have any further column comments, leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Teaching Advanced Topics in Social Media Strategy?

    You Ask, I Answer: Teaching Advanced Topics in Social Media Strategy?

    Dhariana asks, “I have to teach a 3 hour class on advanced social media strategies, but I’m having some trouble. What would you guys consider as ‘Advanced’?”

    There is no such thing as advanced. One person’s advanced is another person’s basics. Audit/ask for specific skills. I think using machine learning to do long-term time series forecasting of when topics will be popular for social posts is intermediate, whereas using LSTMs and feedforward neural networks is advanced. The average social media marketer would think both topics impossibly advanced. Watch the video for the answer to this question.

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    In today’s episode, Ariana asks, I have to teach a three hour class on advanced social media strategy, but I’m having some trouble, what would you guys consider as advanced? Oh, I feel your pain I have, I have run into this problem so many times over the years as a as a keynote speaker, as a workshop leader, there is no such thing as advanced or intermediate, or beginner.

    Because one person’s advances another person’s basics, right? I may think, for example, setting up Google Analytics to track your social media traffic, that to me is basic, to another social media marketer, that’s advanced right there.

    They’re thinking about like, what should I put in my photos on Instagram.

    And, and so what I think is, for example, I think intermediate is using, using advanced statistics and machine learning based machine learning to do time series forecasting, predicting when certain topics are going to be of interest to your audience.

    So you can create a social media calendar around those topics.

    If you know that in 14 weeks, that left handed smoke shifters are going to be the most searched for thing in your industry, then you want to make sure that in the two to three weeks leading up to that, that you have content ready to share, that you have ads ready to run and so on and so forth that are reflective of what the audience is interested in.

    To me that’s intermediate.

    Whereas using something like a LSTM, or feed forward neural network, those to do the same kind prediction that to me is advanced, because it’s stuff that I’m working on stuff that I have trouble with, and stuff that I would like to learn.

    Ask the average social media marketer.

    And what I just said even and the average social media market be like that, that may as well be Greek, right, baby, what is a feed forward neural network? What does it LSTM? What is what is predictive analytics, even? These are topics that they wouldn’t necessarily view as part of social media.

    But these are techniques and tactics and strategies that can be used to make social media more effective.

    So the cure for this is to be very specific about the the skills that you’re presenting the techniques that you’re presenting the technologies that you’re presenting, and to be even more specific about asking people where they are in their journey.

    So if you take for example, strategy, social media strategy, you want to get a sense of your audience, what size businesses have they worked in? How long have they been working in business.

    So you know, someone who has someone who’s 20 has very different points of view, about social media and someone who’s 40, someone who’s 20 has different perspectives on what a company’s overall goals should be than someone who’s 40 or 60, or 80.

    And so you need to have a detailed audit as best as you can, of where your your class students are, and where it is that they want to go.

    What are the things that are on their minds, asking them for the broad topics first, and then digging down? So real simple example.

    Someone could say analytics they want? They want to learn analytics as part of the social media strategy? Well, that’s a big bucket analytics of what do you want social platform analytics? And and how to work with that data? Like how do you make the make sense of Instagram’s? various types of reporting? Do you want mid funnel data? Like how do you connect a social network to web analytics software or to a marketing automation platform? Do you want full funnel analytics? Do you want to be able to see the ROI of social media all the way down to the CRM? Those are different types topics, those are different classes, I would even argue those are parts of a different profession in a lot of ways.

    Because if you’re going to be very rigorous about your use of analytics, you’re less doing social media and more doing data science at that point, if you if you want the best possible answers.

    So what I would consider advanced is probably not even on some people’s radar, what I would consider basic as some people’s advanced where other people consider advanced in their as their part of social media would be would they consider basic I would consider advanced, you know, there are some people who are so good at things like digital ethnography being able to decompose and audiences psycho graphics.

    And that’s not an area of specialty for me, that to me, that would be a novice topic would be what even is digital ethnography? And and how does it apply to social media? whereas an ethnography would be like, Oh, my God, I have to teach that again, like, okay, just follow the framework is who, what, where, when, why and how.

    So it’s, it’s difficult.

    Assessing by the actual skills and how people use those skills, is the only true way you’re going to get a benchmark of what people want to learn what people are ready to learn, and how far you can push them out of their comfort zone.

    If you send someone a survey and say, tell me about solving business problems very strategically, and they say, well, you don’t offer coupons, right to solve a very thorny problem that gives you a sense of where that person is in their journey.

    And you know, they’re not ready to deal with, say, like a multi year multi prong strategy.

    I remember I was at in a CEO Roundtable, and there was this one gentleman who was a retired CEO is in the late 70s.

    And we were all going around.

    And so asking about difficult, interesting solutions to problems.

    And this one problem his company ran into, they had to close a factory to refit it for environmental reasons.

    And they were, you know, looking at at 12 to 18 months shut down.

    And so his solution to that problem was to offer existing customers a massive incentive by two years of inventory now, and you won’t be impacted by the the shutdown, and will give you a real sweetheart deal on the on the purchase price.

    Customers lined up, they bought, they they bought and bought and bought, so much so that they didn’t even have to take a loan out to refit, the factory for the proceeds from that alone was enough to pay for the renovation.

    And so they were able to conquer two business problems all at once.

    That’s sort of the advanced business strategy, which again, that requires life experience and a lot of ways.

    So that’s advanced to some people.

    So benchmark where people are asked them to tell their stories, ask them to bring their problems, and you have a much better benchmark of what it is you need to teach in your class.

    Good luck.

    It is difficult.

    It should be difficult because if it’s not, then you’re not delivering exactly what the audience needs.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Fixing GMail Email Marketing Deliverability?

    You Ask, I Answer: Fixing GMail Email Marketing Deliverability?

    Janet asks, “what newsletter service; aweber, activecampaign, mailchimp, whatever, has the best deliverabilty within gmail? I’m having some nasty delivery issues.”

    So here’s the thing – it’s not a question of service (as long as the service is minimally reputable) – it’s a question of your configuration within that service and within your DNS. Watch the video for a full explanation of GMail’s Postmaster Tools and how to use them to diagnose deliverability issues.

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    In today’s episode, Janet asks what newsletter service like a Weber Active Campaign, MailChimp, whatever, has the best deliver ability within Gmail, I’m having some nasty delivery issues.

    So here’s the thing, it’s not a question of the service, within reason, I’ll give you using some sketchy on dollar a month service, then yeah, it’s probably that service.

    But as long as you’re using a couple minutes, that’s minimally reputable, like a MailChimp and Active Campaign and a Weber a melodic par dot, whatever.

    It’s much more question of your configuration within that service.

    And within your DNS, your domain name service, that’s where you’re going to see massive deliver ability, advantages or challenges, particularly within Gmail, because Gmail does things slightly differently than every other ESP out there.

    However, this, Google has, as they do provide tools for all of us marketers to be able to assess the health of our Gmail instance, and understand how is our marketing reaching Gmail users that’s service called Gmail postmaster tools.

    So let’s take a very quick to what that brings up here.

    Alright, so what we have with postmaster tools is, once you sign up, you get to and you register your domains, which have to do the domains that you’re sending email from, you have this little console here, I’m going to click on to mine, the Christopher Penn one.

    And I’m going to set my look back here to the last 90 days.

    And what you’ll see is, you’ll get some detail about all the things that are happening with your email list.

    So in this case, for when I’m sending Gmail users, I get a point 00 point one 0.2% reporting on spam, right, which is good, anything under 5% is good, anything under 1% really good.

    And anything of a half percent really, really good.

    So you want to keep that nice and low.

    Anything that is for a lot of email service providers, like Amazon, for example.

    You get dinged, if your if your delivery bill, if your spam rates go above, I think 1% for more than a certain number of messages, you’ll get a drop down menu here that shows you all the different health metrics of your email marketing.

    So spam rate is tells you the quality real lyst.

    Like if people are hitting the spam button, your list quality is not very good, or you imported a whole bunch of stuff and you shouldn’t have IP reputation is the reputation of the service you’re sending from.

    And so this you always want to be medium or high.

    If it’s bad or low, then you should talk to your email service provider about like a dedicated IP that’s fresh, that is only yours, run or run your own server or something like that, but you’re sending from a bad box, essentially, that’s something that you know, the reputable service does matter.

    The domain reputation is your sending domain your reputation as a domain.

    So again, you want this higher medium through over time.

    This is a lot of this is controlled by you.

    So what you’re sending from your domain so I send from like newsletter at Christopher penn.com.

    That’s my domain.

    I also send autoresponder emails like a fill out a form on my website, you got an email from that one of the keys to domain reputation is making sure that your your your domain is configured properly.

    And you’ve got you know, MX records in your DNS and things, fairly technical stuff on email delivery ability, you want to make sure that is in place on your domain to ensure that essentially you are who you say you are, and you’re sending good stuff.

    The feedback loop is the spam rate.

    Essentially people saying not only set flagging a spam, then how well do you address it? How well do you honor unsubscribed.

    So we have here else? zero percent.

    So essentially, you want this always to be zero percent, the feedback loop spam rate, you want to be zero percent because it means as people unsubscribe, you are honoring their unsubscribe, if people unsubscribe and hit unsubscribe again and again.

    And again, that’s going to show up in your feedback loop and essentially say you are a non complying sender.

    And that’s really, really bad, you’re going to get your butt kicked for that.

    authentication is one where I discovered I have some issues of my own that I fixed last night, you have three different authentication methods for email DDKMSPFND, Mark, de gamma domain, key identification, SPF is Sender Policy Framework and D Mark is don’t I can’t remember what the mark stands for all three of these, essentially, our DNS records that you put into either your your hosting DNS, or if you use a service like cloud flow, you do it there.

    And this encrypts your email and certifies that email that you’re sending out is from you.

    And and and it’s not somebody posing as you, it’s not somebody sending fake email, because I mean, you can, anyone can put in a fake email into a spam bot.

    But if you don’t have these authentication records, they can be just as legitimate as you are.

    By having those records in place, you can make sure that you’re the only you can send from your IP addresses your email services and things like that.

    Every major email service provider like an Amazon, Amazon SES, like a MailChimp like a medic or part of that has the ability for you to configure those records.

    But you have to do it yourself in your own DNS to this two halves and matching, but you have to sign up in the service for those things.

    And then you have to do it in your DNS for those things as well.

    And those two things combined essentially say, I am who I say I am, and I’m sending stuff that’s from me.

    And and this will tell you your success rate you want your success rate to be as closest to 100% as possible.

    You can see in this case, my SPF records were Miss configured, I had to go back in last night and fix them because I don’t know I when I moved to cloud Ville I copied and pasted incorrectly.

    And so hopefully in the next next report from Google will say yes, your SPF authentication is fixed.

    encryption, essentially, is you want to make sure that you’re using TLS on your mail server, this is again, some that mostly your provider will be handling for you.

    So this is not something you need to worry about a setup.

    And then delivery errors, you want your error rate to be nice and low.

    This is essentially traffic that you’re sending that gets rejected.

    So if you bought a crappy list, you bought a list from somewhere that you shouldn’t have, you’re going to have a lot of delivery errors, you want that to be super, super low, as close to zero percent as possible.

    So the big things that you have control over, you have control over your domain reputation, make sure everything is configured to be sending as you you have control over your feedback loop, honor those on subscribes immediately.

    never send a an email to somebody who has unsubscribe after they’ve unsubscribed or they hit the spam button, you will just get hammered.

    and configure your authentication, SPF DKMND.

    Mark, if you’re not sure how to do that, go buy drinks for your IT department.

    If they’re not sure how to do that, then you need to bring in a consultant to talk to Joe to walk through the process of setting up all three types of encryption and you and you are authentication, you need to have it in place to be doing email marketing well, set of your encryption.

    And those delivery areas.

    Don’t buy lists, right? Do not buy lists.

    Because what happens is you create delivery errors that impacts all of your other reputation.

    And things just go downhill.

    So that’s postmaster tools.

    And you may have to watch that again, because it went really fast on purpose.

    There’s a lot in here.

    But this Google tells you exactly what’s going on with your email marketing so that you can fix it.

    And you’ll see it takes about seven days for data to appear in here.

    So it’s not immediate.

    So make sure that you’re checking back in.

    I recommend checking monthly, just stop in check, make sure that nothing’s gone wrong.

    Especially if if there’s been a DNS change, you want to check a lot.

    After any major it change.

    If you move a website, if you move an email service if you change your hosting, you want to be checking every day for like 14 days to make sure that things are stable in here.

    That’s how you use postmaster tools.

    And again, this configuration in the product to use the SAS software, this configuration your DNS that you or your team must do your provider can’t do it for you.

    But that’s that’s how to get started.

    Great question.

    important question super important.

    If you’re doing email marketing, you must have all this stuff right? As always, please leave your comments in the comments below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Custom Attribution Models in Google Analytics?

    You Ask, I Answer: Custom Attribution Models in Google Analytics?

    Dee asks, “With regard to your attribution models in your AI talks, do you need to create custom reports to get this data into your google analytics? If so, how do you go about doing this and/or anything you could provide to help?”

    The short answer is that the Trust Insights attribution models exist outside of Google Analytics, produced with custom machine learning code. It’s not something built into the platform because it’s too computationally costly. As you evolve in your own analytics journey, you’ll notice you spend less time in prepackaged software and more time with custom code.

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    In today’s episode D asks, with regard to your attribution models in your artificial intelligence talks, do you need to create custom reports to get this data into Google Analytics? If so, how do you go about doing that and we’re anything can use to provide some help.

    So this is in reference to the talk that both I and my business partner Katie Rivera give on five applications of AI for marketing, one of which is doing attribution analysis with Google Analytics data.

    Google Analytics has attribution models built in.

    It has the the five standard ones first touch, last touch, linear time decay, and of course, your own custom models.

    But the custom models are largely position based models.

    That’s not bad, right? That’s okay.

    Well, I mean, first touch last touch of worthless, but time decay is an okay model, and then customize it with your own weights, isn’t it? Okay model.

    But that is relatively.

    They’re the models that both Google Analytics and and other companies like Adobe analytics and stuff provide are built for efficiency and speed, they are not built for accuracy, because the better models for attribution analysis are very computationally costly.

    They take minutes, sometimes even many minutes close to an hour, depending on the model to run.

    It is not something that a vendor is going to offer it, you know, click this button and come back in an hour, come back in, you know, in 30 minutes or go get a sandwich.

    That is a very unsatisfying user experience.

    And so vendors do not offer that.

    But if you want the best possible answers, those are the kinds of models you need to do.

    So these models are things you have to essentially build with your own custom code, or obviously, hire a company to do it for you.

    So that you can get access to the best possible data.

    One of the things that is a natural evolution in your analytics journey is going from a pre packaged product like Google Analytics, being the source of all of your information to more and more those applications being data providers, and then you yourself having to do the computation, the analysis and stuff offline outside of the application, because the application just doesn’t support the kinds of requests that you want to be doing.

    That’s not to say that there’s anything wrong with Google Analytics, or Adobe analytics, or any of these companies, there’s nothing wrong with their software, it’s just that at a certain point, your sophistication as a data driven marketer rises above the feature set that’s in the application.

    And that’s a good thing.

    If you find that you’re getting fewer and fewer answers from the built in software, and you need more and more work outside of the software, that means you’re getting probably means you’re getting to tougher questions, with more valuable answers, right? It’s super easy to look and say all how many goal completions did we get? or How many? How much traffic did we get? Or what percentage of people use a smartphone to get to our device? And those are important questions.

    Those are questions you need the answers to but they’re easy, easy questions to answer.

    harder questions or things like? What are the behaviors of specific segments? Which attribution model works best? How do we do attribution modeling at the individual channel level rather than the groupings that are built in? And those are things that require more processing outside? And then you start getting into the really complex stuff? Like what about taking into account activity data that is offline? What about taking into account activity data that doesn’t have a direct line of sight to our goal completions? What about blending in our CRM data, all those things exist outside of the application, because that’s not what Google Analytics is for.

    And you have to use third party software, third party tools, your own software, your own tools to get those answers.

    So when you find that you are at that point, that is a, that’s a moment worth celebrating, because you have reached a level of sophistication as a digital marketer, that indicates you are creating real value for your company, you are asking tougher and tougher questions demanding tougher and tougher answers.

    One of the things that you’ll have to change that and also is giving consideration to what vendors you use.

    Because if you use the built in software less than less, then paying for an expensive, fancy user interface becomes less and less important.

    And the quality and quantity of data you can export from an application becomes more important.

    There are services out there.

    We are partners and strong friends with the folks over at talk Walker, they have a nice application.

    Yeah, it’s good.

    But I don’t use it all that much.

    I use it for the data export, they have some of the richest, most robust data that you can have access to on social media and listening and stuff like that way more than I was ever able to get out of other competing software packages by 10 x.

    And that means that I can build better models, I can run more complex reports, I can do better analysis.

    So for you and your journey, you’ll have to once you start running into things like hey, that wasn’t me, there’s a 5000 row export limit.

    That’s no, that’s no good.

    That’s again, another sign that you are you are reaching the increasing levels of sophistication with your digital marketing.

    Same for SEO tools.

    I’ve used Mas, and RS and sem rush and spy foo and all these and bright edge all these tools.

    And I like RFS the best not because their interfaces beautiful and it’s okay gets the job done.

    But their data export is second to none.

    I mean that millions of lines of data every month, which you need to be able to do modern day SEO, modern day SEO is all powered by machine learning.

    So you better be building your own machine learning models for these things.

    So can you build back to these question, can you build this technology yourself? Absolutely.

    And in fact, in both my talking Katie’s talk, we explain the methodology use it is Markov chain modeling.

    So if you are familiar with Markov chains, do an implementation with the data from Google Analytics.

    If you’re not familiar with Markov chains, it’s a good starting point, for your line of inquiry for your area of study to figure out how you can use that.

    One area that I’m personally looking at right now is taking up level two hidden Markov models, because there are some things that are hidden, and some data that’s visible.

    And I’m trying to figure out how do I build software that can answer that question of what’s hidden? Because what’s hidden for us as marketers is? What’s in somebody’s head? Right? The classical example is, if you don’t have windows, new office, but your coworker comes in and they’re wearing a raincoat, and it’s all wet, you can make an inference with strong probability of probability that it’s raining out.

    Right? So you have a known piece of data, but you have the unknown data about what’s going on outside.

    The same is true for data in Google Analytics, right? You see organic searches, you see conversions, you see some things, but you don’t see why somebody made a decision, you don’t see offline, you don’t see word of mouth.

    But you could infer those things potentially, with a technique like hidden Markov models, or some of the more advanced deep learning methods.

    And so that’s my own personal line of inquiry, taking the data that we do have access to, and trying to infer the stuff that we do not have access to.

    So that’s where my journey is going.

    And we’re, I hope your journey is going as well, because the technology now exists for us to be able to get answers to some of these really difficult questions and marketing.

    And that’s, that’s exciting.

    It is exciting times.

    So unfortunately, the what we can do to help you if the customer reports in Google Analytics because that report does not exist in there.

    It’s it’s our own custom code.

    If you have a company and you would like to engage Trust Insights to run those reports on your behalf by all means please hit us up.

    We’re here.

    We’re happy to help.

    Otherwise, leave any other comments below.

    Subscribe to the YouTube channel into the newsletter, I’ll talk to you soon.

    Take care.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Lightweight Content Audit Tips?

    You Ask, I Answer: Lightweight Content Audit Tips?

    Fiona asks, “Any tips for a light content web audit? Ever magic’d up something quick based on little information or objectives?”

    If we consider the purpose of a content audit, it’s to understand the value of a content marketing opportunity. That means a few things:
    – How large is the conversation space? That we determine with social and search tools to find all related terms.
    – How large is the audience opportunity? That we determine with keyword search volume.
    – How well does the website map to the audience? That we determine with rankings for the selected keywords.
    – What’s obviously broken on the website that needs repairs in the ranked pages?
    – How much competition is there? That we determine with competitive rankings.
    – Finally, where are the gaps in competitive rankings? Where is the opportunity?

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    In today’s episode Fiona asks any tips for a lightweight content audit ever magic up something quick based on little information or objectives? Yes, all the time, especially my old agency days, when a client literally had no idea what they were doing, and and we were not allowed to go outside certain boundaries and things, obviously much less of a problem now that I run a company of my own.

    So if we consider the purpose of a content audit, it is to understand the value of a content marketing opportunity, right to understand is there there there? Is there something that we can take advantage of, is there something that we need to protect in order to be able to do our marketing most efficiently so this is really is a six step process that can be done with you can scale the level of sophistication, right, so the framework remains the same as how much effort you put into each step, you could spend five minutes on each step, you could spend half a day on each step really digging in? So it depends on what you want to do.

    So six steps, number one, how large is the conversation space itself, and that’s something that you would determine with social media tools, search tools to find all related terms.

    So real simple example, if I’m looking for Irish beers, right? I would start with a search my social media monitoring tool for like Irish beer.

    And then for whatever brands that you can remember, like Guinness, for example, is gonna say, I think it is Irish.

    I clearly don’t drink a lot of Irish beer.

    And that would give me a set of keywords, phrases that are highly co occurring around that, that I would want to then use to assess the space.

    So what are the terms that are on target for the brand, and then related terms in discussions that people have, and in content out there on the web, that indicate these are also terms you’d want to rank for? This is more than just SEO, because in a lot of cases, you’re looking for co occurring terms that may or may not be keywords that a brand is thinking about this is goes back to the yesterday’s episode on modern day SEO.

    If you’re talking about Irish beers, you’re probably talking about certain types of pubs, certain types of glasses, certain types of serving temperatures and things like that.

    All those are related terms that are not necessarily the best Irish beer in Ireland.

    Right? That that’s that’s old, SEO, new SEO is all topics related.

    Second, how large is the audience opportunity.

    So you take that keyword list, and you feed that into the SEO tool of your choice, and you get keyword search volumes, discard anything, that’s obviously irrelevant.

    But that gives you a sense of like, are 10 people a month searching for this stuff? Or that 10,000 people or 10 million people searching for this, this area of interest a month? And that, that sort of your your addressable market space for this particular type of content is really important.

    Third, how well does the website map to the audience? Right? So easiest way to measure this would be search rankings, right? So if you have a keyword list, how well does this website in question rank for these top terms, right as it positioned one, some SEO tools, like our reps, which is the one I use, give you actual traffic percentages as well, which is really handy.

    Because just because you rank well doesn’t mean anyone actually clicks on it.

    So you can use that traffic numbers and estimator, forth.

    technical stuff, real simple, real lightweight.

    Again, almost every SEO tool does this, what’s broken, what’s not working on the website, fours broken links.

    And this can just be wrong numbers, but focus on the ranked pages, focus on the pages that are ranking for those key terms, so that you’re not like nobody cares if the the, you know, when we were founded in our building has a lake and all that stuff.

    Nobody cares about those pages.

    But the pages that you rank for in content, blog, pages, anchor content, pillar content, all that stuff, those are the things that you really want to pay attention to, from a technical perspective.

    That said, remember that, in modern day SEO, once you’ve got the basics done, there’s not much else you can do on site.

    In terms of technical things.

    It’s now all about volume and quality of content.

    Number five, this is where you do your competitive assessment, how much competition is there? So for those keywords that you already pulled, you know, where the company ranks? Who are the competitors? And how do they rank, right? I have an Irish beer startup.

    Game, this is probably the you know, the the market leader, which means that I’ve got a long tough hill to climb in order to to rank up there.

    And so you need that assessment.

    You need to know, all that addressable market, how much are you likely to get? If you’re familiar with Sequoia capital’s Tam, Samsung model? total addressable market? serviceable addressable market? service obtainable market? Right? So in this example, you’re a total addressable market, everyone’s searching for Irish beer, your service addressable market is in the area that you serve, right.

    So if you are based in the Netherlands, then you don’t need to worry about Irish beer searches in Ireland, right? And then finally, your obtainable market is, if you’re in Amsterdam, and for some reason, you’ll get this is the most popular, I don’t know if it is or not.

    What percentage of the Amsterdam search market could you conceivably rank for? So those those three divisions are very helpful? It’s a good framework from Sequoia Capital.

    And lastly, and this is where this is where you’re making your money.

    where the gaps in the competitive rankings? Where are the opportunities? Where did the competitor not do a great job of locking down certain content that you can take market share for right with your content marketing, with social with ads, all these things? And you can again, you can tell that by how well I competitor ranks for that stuff, search signals are really good proxies for how much effort accompanies putting towards any one piece of content.

    Because the more you shine a light on a certain piece of content, the more links it gets, the more attention it gets the better ranks, right.

    So though, if you take take one step back, you can say, Okay, these are the places where this company is not making a good investment or is not protecting, and then you and your, on behalf of your client can go after that, that unprotected space or less protected space.

    So that that’s the framework.

    Now the question is, again, how much do you want to throw out this you can example with a conversation space, spent half a day building a machine learning model for natural language processing to really dig in and get all the granularity or if you have five minutes, you press the word cloud button and you copy and paste the top words, right? It depends on how much time you have and how and how technically capable you are.

    All of these steps can go down very the rabbit hole.

    And after a certain point, you do hit diminishing returns.

    But I would say if you’re not spending at least an hour or two on each of these steps.

    That’s like the new like a super lightweight territory, right five minutes to an hour is super lightweight, you get some insights, but you’ll miss stuff, an hour, two hours, you’re probably investing a good amount of time to really dig in, and then more than two hours.

    At that point unless you’re doing the actual the machine learning modeling itself.

    You probably are going to start hitting diminishing returns but that’s the framework I would use for this.

    And good luck with it.

    It’s a it’s a lot of fun.

    There’s a lot of ways to slice this onion.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Keywords Per Page in SEO?

    You Ask, I Answer: Keywords Per Page in SEO?

    Hannah asks, “How many focus keywords are you using per page? Does the amount you focus on per page change depending on the domain authority?”

    This is a more complex question than it used to be. Fundamentally, Google now uses semantic clustering for all its topics, made with machine learning. What this means is that it’s no longer a question of a word or even a phrase, but a topic that you focus on which contains words, phrases, and even sentences that make a page more authoritative. This is also in combination with dozens of other authority signals that Google details at length in its quality rater guidelines:

    https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterhub.com/en//searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf

    To fully optimize, read this entire document, take notes, and follow Google’s guidelines.

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    Today’s episode Hannah asks, How many focus keywords are you using per page? Does the amount you focus on per patient change depending on the domain authority? This is a more complex question that used to be fundamentally, Google, in particular, search engines in general, all the major ones, but Google especially now uses some of the most advanced machine learning behind its search algorithms to do what’s called semantic clustering for all topics, and what this means is that Google’s not looking at words anymore, doesn’t mean I’m looking at phrases.

    In recent episodes, with their engineers on various machine learning podcasts, they’ve been talking about vector ization of phrases, and even entire sentences to figure out what pages are related to other pages what content is related to content.

    And so it’s now not a question of the word, the phrase, the key word, it is a question about the topic and does your content speak authoritative Lee to that content.

    This is one part of many, many parts that goes into modern search ranking.

    And it is very, very complex.

    The best way to get started wrapping your brain around this is to actually read Google’s search quality evaluated guidelines.

    So one of the things that Google does, is hires professional people, but not professionally, but hires people to go through a training and then rate pages, randomly selected throughout its index, and rate them on quality essentially, is a page that’s that fits the needs of the user that is high quality, etc.

    I’m going to actually bring this up here.

    This is the search quality guidelines document this thing is massive, right? It is a large chunk of text that Google explains in 167 pages, how it wants the people who are hired to evaluate web pages.

    So they talk about finding the website page quality, what constitutes high quality pages, what constitutes low quality pages, how to rate specific types of pages, understanding mobile needs, and the same whether a page fits the intent of its its queries.

    And that you might be saying, well, so Google uses AI.

    Why does Why does any of this matter? Well, this is how they train their AI.

    Right? This data is what forms a large chunk of the basis of how it understands the rest of its index.

    These are the are essentially training data sets that Google is creating from paid users.

    And so if you adhere to the guidelines in this document, you will have a much better, you’ll be much better prepared to rank well, for all the stuff that Google the algorithms that that then take the train and build these advanced machine learning models.

    So to optimize your pages.

    It’s now it’s now a lot more about psychology, journalism and and all these things that humans want, rather than rather than going after words and phrases, like the old joke is, you know, an SEO professional walks into a bar, comma, tavern, common pub.

    Because of that was SEO in the old days.

    Today, it is a lot more complex.

    So let’s look at one thing I think is worth pointing out here.

    Let’s go into what Google considers the highest quality pages, the pages that will rank the best.

    A very high quality MC main content is a there’s a high standard for accuracy and well established consensus where such consensus exists.

    It’s the creation of unique and original content for the specific website.

    What constitutes that content may be different.

    For news, original reporting that provides information that would not have otherwise been known had the article not revealed it, often very high quality news will include a description of primary sources and other original reporting weapons during the content creation process should be accurate and meet professional journalistic standards for informational content.

    accurate, original, accurate, comprehensive, clearly communicated, professionally presented presented as will reflect expert consensus as appropriate.

    That’s a lot of stuff in there just on the quality of the content that doesn’t even get into things like reputation.

    But think about your content.

    Are you just creating, are you creating stuff that is original content, hence of em, and highly credible using your subject matter experts at your company, if you’re not, you will not rank as well.

    The other thing I wanted to point out in here that’s really interesting, is let’s go past the lowest quality pages, medium quality pages.

    This phrase here is so important.

    Nothing wrong, but nothing special.

    How much of your content meets that standard of nothing wrong, but nothing special? That’s where I think most companies go wrong in their SEO, there’s nothing that’s wrong.

    But there’s nothing that makes it stand out as a piece of original reporting as a piece of high quality content.

    That’s one of the reasons why I advocate especially for that that hero hub health model that Google released in 2014.

    Your quarterly pieces that should be a quarterly piece that is hero content that is that exhaustive conference, handsome research paper or jury investigative journalism piece, that you put in the time, the effort, the money, the resources to build once a quarter that meets this highest quality standard.

    on a monthly basis, you try to aim for high quality.

    Right? So high quality pages, a satisfying amount of high quality content, including a descriptive helpful type title.

    Spend a few minutes examining main content before joining conclusion about it.

    What What is high quality content, who’s responsible customer service links, positive reputation, these are all things that Google says it is expecting to see.

    And it wants its readers to see on high quality pages.

    So your monthly content should be that that high quality content, those high quality pages.

    And Google uses this expression, expertise, authoritative ness and trustworthiness.

    Are these are these high quality pages? Are they produced with journalistic professionalism? Are they produced come from trustworthy sources? Do they have demonstrate significant life experience? That is something that actually shows that Google explains his everyday experience.

    If you you may not necessarily, for example, like your general contractor, you may not have a degree in anything, but you have 20 years building houses.

    And you can clearly demonstrate your expertise, and show little tips and tricks that might not otherwise generally be known.

    Just like if you’re a chef, and you explain to people that tomatoes contain natural glues, hammock acid, and when you add salt to debate, it forms a natural type of monosodium glutamate, MSG, that enhances the flavor of tomatoes, right? That’s one of those little things that the average person doesn’t know until they read your content.

    And then you go, oh, that totally changes how I cook tomatoes, for example.

    So worry much less about those keywords worry much more about creating high quality content, grab this guide, it is available, I’ll put a link in the notes here.

    It is from Google, read it, make exhaustive notes through it.

    And you got to read the whole thing, right? There are a lot of companies and a lot of websites that have done a passable summary, you know, of this document.

    But there’s a reason it’s 167 pages, it’s because Google wants you to be very clear about what you’re supposed to be doing with your content to make the most of it.

    But yeah, grab it, read it, download it, and then adhere to it when you’re creating your content and follow hero help help plan to make the highest quality content once a quarter, high quality content once a month, and then medium to high quality content as you can on a high frequency basis.

    Again, aiming to be helpful.

    As much as five Google talks a lot about content that is useful and helpful in here.

    So great question, leave your comments below or join us in the slack group over at Trust insights.ai slash analytics for marketers to discuss this topic and many more.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Balancing Privacy and Marketing Effectiveness?

    You Ask, I Answer: Balancing Privacy and Marketing Effectiveness?

    Dennis and Kim ask, “Is it possible to be an ethical marketer and still use data to inform the ways we interact with our customers? Or are we crossing a line that puts us in opposition to our audience?”

    In short, yes, it’s possible. A few principles come to mind:
    – Be clear and honest what you do with the data
    – Minimum viable data – collect only what you need
    – Specificity isn’t helpful to AI – the more specific a piece of data, the less useful it is for modeling
    – Encrypt and encode – protecting privacy and making data useful for machines
    – Delete what you don’t need and capture just the models (and watch out for model drift)
    – Most organizations will need a DPO – integrate them

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    In today’s episode, Dennis asks, Is it possible to be an ethical marketer and still use data to inform the ways we interact with our customers? Are we crossing a line? That puts us in opposition to our audience? Great question.

    It is absolutely possible.

    And the reason is possible is because we can do a tremendous amount with the data we have.

    For example, very simple example, Google Analytics for bids, personally identifying information for being inserted into the application, you are expressly not allowed to collect it.

    In Google Analytics, you’re not allowed to store it in Google Analytics.

    And if you violate the terms of service, your Google Analytics account consumer only be cancelled.

    So things like names, email addresses, all those things, those are things that cannot be stored in in Google Analytics at all.

    And yet, it’s the most popular the most well used, probably the most common web analytics, application and marketing.

    Almost every small website, most large websites use Google Analytics, even organizations that have another analytics solution, often run Google Analytics as a backup, alongside just a quality check and have a plan B.

    So with that, as our example, it is absolutely possible to have good customer data, good data about our audiences, and respect privacy.

    At the same time, there’s six major principles that come to mind that we need to do at bringing into our marketing operations.

    Number one, be clear and honest, what you do with the data, right? If you’re going to share it, just say that you’re going to share it say who it’s going to be shared with how it’s going to be shared.

    We recently did a joint promotion paper with talk Walker and on the bottom of the form it very clearly in the same size font, as the rest of the form, says, hey, you’re sharing this with both organizations, both organizations will be contacting you.

    And the information will be used specifically for marketing purposes.

    So just be clear and honest, it’s a it’s required by law.

    But be it’s also ethical be use and collect the minimum amount of data that you need.

    So one of the things that marketers should be doing is running an analysis of what variables actually matter for predicting or forecasting, what’s going to convert.

    So if you have a lead gen form, there’s 44 fields on there.

    You can run a type of analysis, called driver analysis, you have your conversions, and they have all the other data, and you say to the machines, show me what variables actually matter to conversion.

    So it has this called feature selection, or predictor estimator strength, whatever you want to call, there’s a number of different names in data science for it, that tells you what you need, and then stop collecting what you don’t need.

    Right? If it’s not useful for predicting an outcome, don’t collect the data, right? It is a storage cost, it is a security risk.

    And it is an efficiency drain if you have data that isn’t useful.

    So number two is be collecting only what you need.

    Number third, number three, B, and C is specificity.

    The more specific information you have, the less useful it is for building those machine learning and data science models for predicting and forecasting marketing effectiveness.

    Knowing someone’s birth year gives you a rough generation of what they’re in, right, knowing the exact birthday, that’s not useful from our predictive perspective, because there are going to be that many other people in that year that are going to have that exact birthday.

    And that’s not helpful.

    Right? Knowing someone’s job title.

    Sure, that’s helpful knowing the middle name, not really useful.

    In fact, their name itself isn’t really predictive, right, knowing my name is Christopher Penn does not accurately in any way forecast the behavior other people named Christopher Penn, right.

    So that’s not super useful.

    Now, knowing that I am a co founder of a startup, that is a useful predictor, right.

    It’s more general information.

    But there are going to be certain problems that you know, a startup phases that I will also have so you from a marketing perspective, that is useful information.

    So be less specific, and the data you collect.

    And it’s more useful for modeling within reason.

    Number four, encrypt and encode, protect users privacy by encrypting and encoding the data that you collect.

    there’s a there’s a technique called one hot encoding, that is actually very useful for not only changing how the data is represented in the database, but also what makes it useful for machine learning.

    You should be D identifying data whenever reasonable.

    And having clear access controls on who is allowed to see the personally identifying information.

    Again, when you’re doing advanced analytics.

    Most of the time, you don’t need the personally identifying information, you can have just the characteristics of the descriptors of the person and not the person’s data itself.

    Again, go back to Google Analytics, you know, an awful lot without ever touching PII.

    Number five, delete which don’t need and capture just the model.

    So when you’re making advanced analytics models, statistical models, machine learning models, capture the models, capture the interactions capture the data patterns, but you don’t necessarily need the data once you’re done with it.

    And if you can safely dispose of it, you should, again, unused data is laying around as a security risk and operational problem and an efficiency drain.

    So get rid of it as as quickly as reasonable, or at least put it in encrypted safe cold storage somewhere, you can encrypt it and stick it on a hard drive, lock it up in the office safe, please do not put it in an Amazon s3 bucket and just leave it unencrypted and password free for the world to find.

    It’s just a bad idea.

    Finally, you and most organizations are going to need or are required already to have a data protection officer, like the HR person at companies, the DPO has a tendency to be relegated to either a part time role, or, you know, sort of quarantine their own little corner.

    And nobody wants to work with them, because they represent essentially administrative overhead for a company to be compliant with regulations, particularly GDPR.

    Don’t do this, hire somebody who’s good at data to be the DP Oh, but also in that role.

    Ideally, you hire for somebody who can not just tell you what to do, and not to do but give you better go guidance about how to do it so that you’re not only regulatory, aligned, but you’re also making the use of their talents to get better data to work with better data.

    So again, most large organizations have this tendency to want to, you know, put the, the regulations person in the corner.

    Don’t do that.

    Think of that person as a resource to improve your business, not just from regulation, but also from how can they help you make your data better.

    So as more companies are facing regulations like GDPR, and CC, PA and all the different variants of privacy requirements, you’re going to want a person who can interpret those who has a background, obviously in law and regulation, but also a person who has experience in data so that they can say, hey, while we were doing the compliance review for this customer table, I noticed that it’s in second normal form, and it will be a lot more efficient, not to mention safer, but efficient.

    If we transition to the third normal form.

    Let’s get the DPA and the data team in here and see if we can do this and see what the efficiency game would be.

    And that person could lend performance increases to our marketing and to our data.

    The DPO, for example, is absolutely somebody who should be overseeing a customer data platform to make sure that you’re compliant, but also to help with the governance to like, hey, like, here’s where all our data lives, right, we need to define it in order to use a system like a customer data platform.

    So those are the six things I think are useful for informing how we can be privacy compliant as marketers, how can be ethical marketers and still be effective marketers.

    Again, I keep coming back to that example.

    Google Analytics provides tremendous value with no personally identifying information as long as you’re using it properly.

    How can your marketing do the same? As always, please leave your comments below.

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