Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • ContentTech Summit 2019 Day 1 Recap

    ContentTech Summit 2019 Day 1 Recap

    In today’s show, we look back on day 1 of the ContentTech Summit 2019 Day 1. From stats like the average value of an email address is $35 to 29% of companies spend more on technology than staff, the first day of ContentTech Summit (formerly the Intelligent Content Conference) had a lot to offer. Watch the video for all the key takeaways.

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    In today’s episode, let’s talk about what we learned at content tech, the first full day after the

    workshops day,

    content deck, if you’re unfamiliar, is the show that used to be called the intelligent content conference. It was rebranded this year, and is about the technology surrounding content marketing. If you think about the martek conference, and how martech has changed so much content, tech is, is a

    sliver of or a perspective on or a lens on many of those tools, but focused on of course, just the world of content marketing, which admittedly is still very large world.

    But this is with a much more refined focus on just

    all things content marketing. So

    content advisory founder, Robert rose started off the event, looking at

    what sort of the the State of the Union is for content marketing,

    one interesting stat that he threw out that was

    surprising in CMOS and CEOs they interviewed

    about content marketing, 29% of the companies that they surveyed, are now spending more on technology, and they’re spending on human beings, which

    you can take a couple of different ways. One there that does speak to companies being able to be more efficient with their money, and putting that money into the the systems and the processes of marketing.

    But it also means that companies are spending a lot of money on vendors. And the question is,

    are they getting a good return

    of companies being able to get the

    kind of a trend that they are looking for based on

    on that kind of spend when you you’re spending more on the machines than other people and that’s, by the way, this is not going to be an uncommon thing. That number will go up.

    When you look at Scott’s martech 5000 Scott Brinker, martek 5000 from the martek conference, which is now 77,040 companies. According to Robert, about 80% of them

    are our content marketing related tools either other creation management, the deployment or the promotion of content. So there’s still a lot of overlap between those two worlds. Andy questions and then of course, did did his talk from also social media marketing will on basic and advanced analytics, which is always fun, really fun to listen to. Their obviously wasn’t a ton of new stuff, because it was literally just the the talk we’ve seen previously. But a couple of quotes, I thought were really funny.

    One was the way there’s hope, where there’s traffic, there’s hope. Which means that as long as you’ve got the attention of the audience, and you can achieve your business objectives with it, it may not be exactly what you intend. But as long as you’ve got attention, you’re you you’ve got something to work with. And his big tip and the one I think is probably the most valuable for everybody is that

    link your best cheese to your best mousetraps, meaning that if you do an assessment of the best converting pages, on your website, can you do an assessment of your best traffic generators or traffic attractors, where traffic is coming from?

    Take two minutes a month to put you know, you might also be interested in links hard coded links if you have to, into your website to move traffic from where it’s coming in to where you want it to go. So is a incredibly obvious simple tip that probably none of us do.

    Some of you may have content marketing systems, CMS is that do that for us. But even that I’m not entirely sure that that there are that many companies are doing that. So that’s that’s one that I’m certainly going to

    deploy on the trust insights website and on my personal website, and something to think about to

    Meg golden, talked about rebranding and the importance of the way we do content. And

    she had a funny stat

    Tropicana in 2009, rebranded itself,

    they changed the logo from the you know, the orange with the straw sticking out of it, and their font into something much more upscale

    it like a champagne glass of orange juice in it. And she said within five weeks, it was 50% of their market share and revenue.

    And they very quickly readjusted, but

    in what was the quote from

    her talk, brand is pattern recognition. And if people, people don’t understand the pattern, they won’t know your brand. So your brand has to be a consistent pattern that tells people

    who and what you are, and burns into their minds so that when they go to look for it, whether it’s on a grocery store shelf, or in an email or

    Facebook group, whatever, wherever it is that you’re deploying your brand. Definitely,

    that level of recognition is essential for to stick with people for people to go okay,

    I recognize this, this is something that I want in my in my world.

    Shortly thereafter,

    a shiver. Male Hasani

    gave a interesting, very process driven talk about how it does, its marketing, one of the more interesting stats out of that talk was that the average value of an email, at least in their world consumer or business,

    it’s around 35 per valid email. So

    if you’re looking for a

    very, very basic benchmark, value of viewer, email lists, that is a usable stat, you will still have to do that computation yourself use, you can do it with things like Google Analytics with goals and goal values. If somebody signs up for a newsletter

    for mine, then

    you can assign1 value to that or to other forms of business that that they participate in the afternoon kicked off with a panel on artificial intelligence was a panel on the contact technology in general, and it was with some of the vendors and

    one of

    the things it’s so challenging for people night I get this because it’s challenging for everybody is that

    in order

    to do do the best job you can, with things like AI, you need to stay current, you need to know exactly what’s happening in the market with all the different technologies, and that’s not a small task, it requires a ton of reading a ton of scanning a ton of paying attention, connecting with

    with influential thought leaders and scientists and things within the AI community. And

    it’s a full time job. So this panel, their belief was that natural language generation wouldn’t be usable by content marketers within, you know,

    a decade, so maybe 10 years away, I don’t know, it’s you, it’s usable now. With open AI and GBT, who it’s usable now. It will get better over time, but it is not a decade away. Commercial implementations are probably a year away at most being able to crank out a million blog posts at

    the touch of a button that are coherent, that are readable,

    that are ok quality.

    And of course, the systems will just get better as time goes on.

    And finally, the last sessions I attended was Amanda told her which is from the Cleveland Clinic about prod product type your content marketing from a process perspective where your content marketing is a product, not a project. And she said it really useful. me my guess keep keep in mind. Projects are about getting things done products, again, things to people to eat for use. And if you focus on making a product that somebody can use, your content marketing will do much much better. So lots lots to digest from the show. Going back for round today speaking today on a I sit here at the show hope to see you in my session. If you’re not stay tuned to where can I get the slides calm for the materials. And as always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. want help solving your company’s

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How To Measure Personal Brand?

    You Ask, I Answer: How To Measure Personal Brand?

    Bruno asks, “What is the channel that most impacts your personal branding?”

    That’s an interesting question and is contingent on a couple of things:
    – How we measure our personal brands
    – How we align that data with our channel data

    The statistical technique you’d use to find the answer is something called driver analysis, which is a fancy term for multivariate regression analysis. Watch the video to find out how to measure your brand.

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    In today’s episode, Bruno asks, What is the channel that most impacts your personal branding?

    That’s an interesting question.

    It’s going to

    depend on a couple things. Number one, it’s going to depend on

    how do you measure your personal brand? Or how do you measure any brand? And then to how do you align your channel data

    with your,

    with your personal brand data. So

    to begin,

    measuring a brand

    is probably one of the most complex and difficult things you can do in marketing because

    brand is in a Morpheus term, there are so many definitions of of what a brand is.

    My personal favorite definition is by a comedian named a frank who says,

    brand is the emotional aftertaste

    of a series of experiences and he goes on the site. That’s why the term grandma’s cookies gives you a certain emotional

    sense, but old people’s cookies, not as much, even though they’re synonymous terms.

    There’s definitely a cognitive dissonance between the two.

    So that’s a good example of brand. So what is your brand? What is your personal brand? I would, I would argue it’s the the

    ability for you to be known. Mitch Joel has a great expression for this as well. It’s not who you know, it’s who knows you.

    And I think that’s a great starting point for the measurement of a personal brand.

    It’s not who you know, it’s who knows you.

    So

    you may have things like social media audiences, or email lists of things. But at the end of the day,

    if no one remembers you, if no one knows who you are, if no one knows what you do, then

    I would say that you have you don’t have a strong personal brand.

    So how would you find that? How would you get that information, but easiest place would be

    if you have a personal website, and you really should. These days,

    if you

    have a personal website that has Google Search Console setup,

    what you would want to do is look in Google Search Console for branded organic search, which means people searching for you by name.

    Now, if you have a common name, where you share a name with someone who’s famous, that can be tricky, believe me, I know there’s a a deceased actor who shares my name, and I’m still trying to outrank him and search and it’s been 12 years since he died. Sorry for the family. Still working on that.

    But

    using organic search data, branded organic search table data, the number of people who search for Christopher Penn

    and and click

    through to my website, because that clearly indicates that I was the person they were searching for, not the actor,

    measuring that over time as a

    great proxy for that

    brand. And then long tail queries about your name too. So Christopher Penn

    analytics Christopher Penn and data Christopher Penn and Google Analytics Christopher Penn and machine learning Christopher Penn and AI, those are all things that I

    would want someone

    to be searching for,

    that are relevant to me that are relevant to what I do. So

    think about

    your own brand terms. What are the brand terms that

    you have?

    That you’d want to track? To see how, how are people finding me? How are people finding what I do.

    So that’s part one,

    is getting your branded search data together, your render organic search did together

    to part two is alignment that data with your channel data, which means extracting out all of your

    Twitter data, your Facebook data, wherever it is you’re posting your email marketing statistics, your LinkedIn stuff, your blog, and putting it all in a giant spreadsheet

    with your branded organic search data as

    sort of the outcome of the goal that you’re

    after.

    And you would run

    something called driver analysis would you can learn a whole lot

    more over if you watch any of the webinars, trust insights,

    Ai, my company’s website, the whole bunch of things on predictive analytics, look for predictive analytics talks. But what you’re essentially doing this what’s called driver analysis, which is a fancy way of talking about multivariate regression analysis. And what you are

    doing is trying to figure out

    what combination of variables

    like number of tweets per day or

    new signups to your news letter, or

    any of these things that you do, what of the of all things that you do have a relationship to branded organic search

    have a mathematical relationship that you can then go and test so you find out that tweets on Tuesdays plus

    emails longer than 1000 lines, that’s a really long email. But

    if those combination of things really

    seem to have a highest mathematical relationship with personal brand searches,

    then you have the opportunity to go test that it’s okay. If tweets on Tuesdays is one of the things that that the analysis says is really important. Guess what I’m going to

    double the tweet, the amount of tweeting I do on Tuesdays and see if the branded organic search number goes up by proportional amount.

    So it

    really is, you find the relationships, and then you test the relationships for causality. If If emails are the thing, tried doubling the number of emails for a short period of time does the amount of branded organic search and double

    as well.

    Make sure if possible in your calculations that you account for lag.

    So knowing how long it takes for your brand to become known, if someone receives an email from you, how long does it take for them to search you?

    That’s something that you can also compute within the data.

    So that’s

    the

    answer to that question.

    Your answer is going to be different than my answer. When you run this analysis, it is going to be very, very different. The way we do things what we do how we do all will vary. So there is no good answer that you could pick up from me and apply to your own marketing Do you have your own personal market just doesn’t work. You are a different person. You have

    different

    channels, you are effective in different places, and it’s not going to work

    the same.

    So keep that in mind.

    So what channel most impacts my personal branding,

    I don’t know I haven’t run the analysis yet. This will take some time. But that’s how to do it. That’s how to end the by the way this is same method

    goes beyond personal brand it works for your company’s brand it works for your products or services and their brand. So

    try this out with your own data

    and see what answering you and your analytics teams come up

    with.

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  • When Marketing Data is Counterintuitive?

    Ryan asked at Social Media Marketing World for cases where data goes against intuition:

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    In the time since this post was written (2015), so much has changed. Data is more counterintuitive than ever. Why? We have so much more of it, and that complexity is what creates counterintuitive situations.

    Intuition is, in many ways, our brain’s perception of correlation. When we see things happen together, we associate them together, and intuition is more or less our back-of-the-envelope calculation that things belong together.

    What happens when we exceed our brains’ abilities to correlate at massive scale, or see interactions that involve many variables? We stop perceiving correlation. This is the situation marketers find themselves in more than ever.

    Consider just some of the data you have access to:

    • Web analytics data
    • CRM data
    • ERP/customer data
    • Social media data
    • Advertising data
    • Public relations data
    • Survey data
    • Macroeconomic data

    This list could go on for quite some time, and highlights just how overwhelmingly complex marketing data is today. If you consider even just two of the variables in this data gumbo, it would be difficult to see a correlation – such as the Baltic Dry Index (macroeconomic data) and customer lifetime value (ERP data).

    Only the powers of machine computation can overcome this massive amount of data and find relationships among variables that we simply could not. How do different variables interact? What variables predict the outcome we care about?

    Here’s a simple example: we’ve long said, as marketers, that obsessively counting the number of followers you have in social media is pointless vanity. We tell people to focus on real business metrics instead. However, in a recent Trust Insights client engagement, we built a machine learning model to calculate what variables predicted revenue and we were shocked to see social media audience size as one of the variables for this particular customer. Talk about counterintuitive!

    Yet, when we used the exact same technique on a different customer, social media audience size dropped to be a completely irrelevant predictor of the business outcomes the customer cared about.

    That’s the great challenge for marketers: not only is data counterintuitive, but what works for one company is almost certainly not likely to work for another company. Best practices are a great place to start (and certainly better than just making things up) but once you have enough data, only true analysis will help you take your marketing beyond the basics.

    Disclosure: this post was written in 2015 and updated since then. It was completely rewritten in 2019.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Can Companies Automate Culture?

    You Ask, I Answer: Can Companies Automate Culture?

    Alex asks, “Can you automate culture? Corporate culture and automation are two of the most prolific terms in the business lexicon, but what is their relationship?”

    HJ Leavitt’s 1964 framework for people, process, and platform shows how these different areas interact. Culture is very much a people thing, while automation is a process and platform thing. If we look at the definition of culture – the customs, habits, traditions, social institutions, and achievements of a social group – there’s almost nothing there you’d want to automate.

    Businesses tend to be bad already at fostering culture – it’s one of those things baked into your business DNA, guided by your values and how well people embody them – which is in turn driven by hiring and what people are held accountable for. You can certainly automate individual processes, but not the culture as a whole – and even there, beware. Automation will tend to get you more of what you already have. Watch the video for details.

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    In today’s episode, Alex asks, Can you automate cultural

    culture? corporate culture and automation are two of the most prolific terms in the business lexicon, but what is their relationship?

    Um, can you automate culture know.

    So here’s why.

    In 1964, hJ love, it came up with a framework, the diamond of productivity, or something along those lines, I can’t remember the exact term. But that has since been distilled down by many, many expensive consulting firms into people process and technology, or people process and platform. The three P’s,

    when you look at the intersection of those automation and culture live in different

    sections of that diagram. So in fact, let’s bring up the lovely diagram.

    People this who’s doing stuff, right, the people part is where culture lives.

    When we talk about automation, we’re talking about the the integration of process and platform,

    how you do stuff and what you do stuff with.

    You can see there’s really very little overlap

    between platform

    and process. And people is that little section in the middle, which is, I guess, winning or general strategy, but for the most part,

    the intersection of process platform doesn’t hardly touch people. What is culture? When if you look at the dictionary definition, which I like, let’s bring that up here.

    The customs, habits, traditions, social institutions, and achievements of a social group.

    There’s almost nothing there, you’d want to automate?

    Not realistically, I can’t think of

    anything at that macro level that you would want to have machines doing. I mean, can you imagine having machines automate weekly staff meeting if that’s a

    if it’s a cultural institution at your company, or beer cart Friday having a robot driving around the beer cart that that would be efficient, but it would not be

    very human. And and when we’re talking about culture, we’re talking about human stuff.

    businesses in general already tend to be really bad at creating culture, it’s one of those things that happens I it’s kind of a nice overlap with the idea of culture as like bacteria, a bacterial cultures I’m lips grows, based on the environment, that it’s in

    your culture, as a business is typically baked into your DNA as a company, it’s guided by your founders. It is guided by your values, the values that this founder set, and that the founders live. And it is guided by who you hire.

    But and how you hold the people that you hire accountable for to and for those values. That’s the short definition of culture. And there’s not much you can automate at that macro level, you can absolutely automate individual processes, but not the culture as a whole. And even there, even though you’ve got to be careful. automation, by definition, is making what you already have work better or faster, right. So it tends to get you more of what you already have. Which means that if you have a bad culture,

    you’re going to automate pieces of it like you know, parts of the hiring process that will get you what you already have, but more of it pastor.

    A really good example of of where this went awry, last year was Amazon got itself into a whole bunch of hot water because they train the machine learning system and artificial intelligence system to

    extensively speed up the hiring process. And they fed it a whole bunch of training data and said, I want you to take these pilot 500 resumes and give me the five people that I should call. And to no one’s surprise, except there’s apparently, it didn’t select any women. Why? Well, because all the training data they fed to it was heavily biased against women. So of course, the automation is going to get them more what they already have.

    No one said, from a diversity perspective, hey, we may need to make sure this is gender balanced or ethnicity balanced or sexual orientation balanced or any of those things, it was not part of the computation, it was just a sort of almost blind automation, which is really, really bad. So automation will get you more of what you already have. If you’re not happy with what you already have, then automation is not going to be the answer for

    creating or or pitch the culture cultures, cultures, a lot like a battleship, right takes a long time to change, it takes a long time to turn to go into new directions.

    Even at small organization, it takes time. At our company trust insights, you know, we added one person, one person, one headcount in 2018.

    And that changed the culture and the dynamics among the three of us, but not substantially, right, it took a while for us to be a slightly different company. And now. And part of that’s because when you have things like values,

    you want to make sure that everyone adheres to those values. And so unless you’re radically changing your values, and not going to radically change your culture, particularly if you

    if those values are are very people based things like here’s what we believe are here’s what we will not do.

    So,

    can you automate culture? No, I don’t think so. Hey, you can automate individual processes, but funding mentally, culture is a

    human, human centric function in the company. And you can create opportunities for people to express that culture in new ways.

    But it is it is human first and foremost, it’s not something that the machine is going to do. And it’s not something you want the machines doing, at least not right now. Maybe has our technologies that natural language generation and our ability to get better at natural language recognition improve. We will see more thing more opportunities for machines to work with us.

    But not soon.

    Great question. super interesting question because,

    yeah, it is a heavily overused term,

    but they dine at separate tables for now. all bets are off for the future. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Tracking Google Ads Performance to Amazon?

    You Ask, I Answer: Tracking Google Ads Performance to Amazon

    Clarissa asks, “Question: I publish a book and set up a series of ads using Google Ad Words and the link goes to the Amazon Page. How do I set up tight tracking for the success of the ads, where success = book sales?”

    This is a challenging situation because Amazon gives you very limited analytics. There are a few ways you can handle this kind of tracking. You will need the assistance of a programmer to do this – it’s not something that’s possible with off the shelf tools. Watch the video for full details.

    • Build a model of clicks to sales – what percentage of clicks turn into sales?
    • Set up a value per click and make that click a goal in GA
    • Set up a script that redirects users to Amazon after counting the click and sending it to GA via the Measurement Protocol
    • Send the conversion / ad conversion data back to Google Ads through Measurement Protocol and postbacks
    • Set up bit.ly to validate clicks
    • Set up Amazon Associates to track clicks

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    In today’s episode, Clarissa asks question, I publish a book and set up a series of ads using Google AdWords and the link goes to the Amazon page. How do I set up tight tracking for the success of the ads or success equals book sales? Oh, this is a challenging situation for a couple reasons. One, you don’t own amazon.com and therefore you can’t put tracking links on Amazon itself. And Amazon gives you as a as an author gives you very limited analytics, right? If you’re in the Katie portal, which is where I assume you are Kindle Direct Publishing,

    you’re going to get roll up numbers, not great granular numbers. So how do you track a situation like this? Well, the answer is going to be a series of technology pieces that will help you

    value, what a click is worth, essentially. So the first thing you need to do is build a model of clicks to sell. So you’ll need to put together a spreadsheet of how many clicks, and then how many sales. And you’ll use the Katie p data for that for a lot of that information. Now, the second thing is going to be in your Google Analytics account, you’re going to set up a value per click and make that click a goal. So you’ll set up in in your goals, your clicks to Amazon as a goal, we’re going to pencil in a value per click. Now you can do that based on the spreadsheet data you’ve already put together. If you’ve got if your books, for example, our costs, say 1. And it takes hundred clicks to sell one book that obviously a click is worth a penny, right? That goes into Google Analytics as a as a value for your goal completion.

    Now that’s

    the easiest part. Here’s where it gets messy. You’re going to need

    the help of a programmer to create a script that lives on your website. And what that script is going to do is it’s going to redirect users from the link on your website like Christopher s pen.com, slash book, write that script, or redirect users to your Amazon page.

    You will use that script in all of your Google AdWords ads. So all your ads will be you know, Christopher S Pen, comm slash book.

    And it will send people to the Amazon page. But in that script, and this is what your program is going to have to help with. In that script. There is a way to send, essentially click data directly into Google Analytics without loading a web page. It’s something called the Google measurement protocol. And it is a very powerful system that Google Analytics has that allows you to to directly interact with Google Analytics with its API and poor data straight into it again without seeing a web page. So the script

    will

    intercept it will take that click that you get from your ads, it will send it to Google Analytics. And by the way, if you’re using

    in that script, you’re going to specify all the UTM tracking tags, you know, you source medium campaign, all those things, that’s going to go into Google Analytics as well.

    And then it will bounce the user to Amazon. Now my suggestion would be to actually have the script. This is going to get convoluted, but had bounced a Bitly. To have it bounced to Amazon. And the reason for that is you want

    essentially three layers of tracking you want the your Google Analytics, click tracking Bitly click tracking, and then Amazon click tracking and here’s yet another layer of abstraction. You will want to look at setting up an Amazon Associates account which is their affiliate program, which will allow you to create a trackable link to that to your books page. And by the way, it will give you like an extra 1% Commission on a new book sales. It’s a good way for authors to make

    tiny amount of incremental money because like if somebody is on Amazon and they buy your book, and then they go and buy a frying pan at the same time you get you get credit for the frying pan purchase and you get like an extra one to 4% on the purchase the frying pan as well.

    So we now have a script that is essentially four layers deep. What it will do is to click comes in and tells Google Analytics Hey, his conversion happened. This click event happens send it to the Google measurement protocol. It will then send bills then say okay now user automatically go to Billy Billy will go to your Amazon Associates Link. And the Amazon Associates will finally send it to your book page.

    This will help you establish the value of

    that that those users that you send which can help in some ways. inflate your book price value a little bit because if people only buy your book cool, we like that. And Katie p will

    will give you that, but associates will give you very granular hour by hour tracking of exactly what people bought. So you can get much better, more granular data for building that, you know, what is the value of a click model. So

    to sum up, you need to build the model first, what percentage of clicks terms of sales and by the way, you’re going to revisit that going to return that. You’ll then set up the value per click and make that clear goal and Google Analytics. They’ll set up the script with programmers help to do that for way we direct and the more requiring associates count a Bitly account a Google Analytics captain, of course, your Amazon account, your Amazon book page, and then you’ll be able to track this once it’s all done, you’ll track it inside of Google Analytics, you’ll be able to see as a goal number of clicks sent to Amazon and the estimated value. And that will be a proxy for the book sales themselves. The reason you would do this crazy convoluted thing is that you can also in when you interact with Google Analytics, the Google Analytics measurement protocol

    You can signal AdWords conversion data with what’s called post back. And again, this is something that your programmer is going to have to this is not something that you can do is use while you can do does use if you learn how to program.

    But you’d want to send you that post back or that add conversion data back through the measurement protocol, tell AdWords Hey, conversion happens this ad is working.

    Once the script is built, you could actually set up multiple versions of it for different types of ads if you wanted to build a track the performance of different kinds of ads like search ads versus display, ads vs. Video, YouTube video ads, the hard part really building that script the first time around. So

    it’s probably not the easy answer you’re looking for. But it is most definitely the best way to get the correct data. And to turn that data into something that’s actionable and usable. Because by using that script, you’ll be able to track the different performance of all your ads show up in Google Analytics as value

    And show the economic value. So again, if you if 1% of your clicks turn into book sales in your books worth1, then click is worth a penny. And if you drive 1000 clicks, guess what, you know, you’ve made $10 based on the likely performance of this ads, revisit that formula every I Gosh, depends on how important it is to you. If you’re if the book is incidental, meaning you just wrote the book and it’s out there, you may revisit that formula and adjust those numbers every 30 days or so. If being an author is your lifeline is your life hood, then you probably want to do it maybe every week even really analyze the data. So good question, challenging question. There are technological answers to do it. You will just need the help of a programmer to pull it off. As always, if you have additional questions, put them in the comments. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel. The newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. want help solving your company’s data analysts

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Monetize Followers?

    You Ask, I Answer: How to Monetize Followers?

    Neha asks, “You have a large number of followers on LinkedIn. How do you monetize them? I am looking for ideas to monetize my followers.”

    Two rules to keep in mind:

    • Gary Vaynerchuk: When you give, give. When you sell, sell. Don’t mix the two.
    • Chris Brogan: Any opportunity to be helpful is an opportunity to do business.

    These two rules will help you decide how to create and trade value with your audience – and that’s a key turn of phrase. If you want your social media efforts to create long-term value, you have to trade value with them – and the value equation will be tilted in their favor most of the time.

    • What do you have to sell?
    • Does your audience want it?
    • What do you have to give?
    • How does what you give align with what you sell?
    • Sell infrequently, give frequently.
    • Manage your audience in a platform you own – like email. Get your audience off rented land as quickly as possible.

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    In today’s episode Neha asks, you have a large number of followers on LinkedIn, how do you monetize them? I’m looking for ideas to monetize my followers. Okay, so

    a couple of things. There are two rules that I would strongly suggest that you adhere to when it comes to the monetization of social media audience. Rule number one comes from Gary van der Chuck, right? Who says when you give, give, when you sell, sell, don’t mix the two don’t do a little bit of each are trying to sneak things and just give value when you give it unreservedly. And when you sell, let people know hey, I am selling and and you will probably get better results because it will be clear what your intentions are and if you’ve given enough value

    You should be able to sell into it. Second Rule is from my friend Chris Brogan. any opportunity to be helpful is an opportunity to do business. So when you are giving and when you’re creating value, look at those as a way of market research when people are asking you questions about what it is you do and how you do it or problems that they have guess what that is the market telling you this is what people value this is what people want you to do. This is something that I certainly am you know, looking at with with the company with my company trust insights.

    What is it that people need help with? Is not things like artificial intelligence right now because that is predicated on so many things, so many precursors that people need help with those first, so certainly a lesson I have learned recently.

    Now these two rules will help you

    Decide how to create and trade value with your audience. And that I think is probably the most important turn of phrase.

    You are not monetizing your followers do not monetize your followers. Because they are not a passive resource that you can simply farm like, you know, get out the Reagan and start. I clearly don’t do a lot of farming because you don’t use a rake all that often.

    You’re not monetizing. You’re not extracting a resource from a passive thing and not drilling an oil well.

    Your audience is composed of other people, and if you want those people to give you value, you have to give them value in return. And it’s called this I forget who came up with that. Thank you as the business networking group, it’s called givers gain you have to give first you have to be giving

    Value first in order to earn the right to trade value with your audience. And even when you have earned that right, you still have to trade value and you still have to give more value than you receive most of the time. The value equation will be tilted in your audience’s favor most of the time if you want long term value. Now, if you’re just trying to make a quick buck,

    then yeah, you can do some some pretty straightforward things that will give you a few dollars very quickly. But then you’ll burn that connection with your audience. And your audience will not be around if you are trying to.

    If you’re trying to build a community

    for the long term, then you have to think in terms of trade. So what do you have to sell?

    Does your audience want what you have to sell? Right? Those are two really important questions. If your audience doesn’t want what you’re selling, then you’re not going to be able to trade value with them won’t happen. I can be selling a skunk flavored coffee all our audience doesn’t want skunk flavored.

    Coffee, no amount of value I give is going to create a long term trade benefit trade relationship.

    Second, what do you have to give? What values you have to give? And how well does it align with what you have to sell?

    If I am, over here talking about, say, email marketing,

    and

    my company’s products and services are not email marketing related that I can give all the value I want, but it’s not going to result in economic value. But back to the company. I had this happen a number years ago, when I worked in financial services. I was sharing a tremendous amount of information and ideas and things about podcasting. This is back in the the goal, the first golden age of podcasting, I guess you could call it.

    And

    I worked with a financial services company that that they especially was not podcasting. Right. The specialty was student loans and financial aid. And so

    what I had to give

    not aligned with what we sold and so there was not enough value created. So what do you have to give what you have to sell are they aligned?

    Your general rule of thumb is just like social media you know curation and and sharing, it’s at 20 give 80% of the time 20% of the time,

    sell, so give frequently sell infrequently. And the most important thing you can do by far is

    as quickly as possible by exchanging a lot of value, get your audience off, rented land, get your audience away from platforms you don’t own. So your Facebook page for example, you don’t own it and you have no control over what somebody sees. As a result, it will get harder and harder to extract value from Facebook itself right? I same is true of Instagram. The same is true of LinkedIn. These are great places to to meet new people, but then you need to get them to something you own like an email list like a slack and

    You like some private forums some place where

    there is no algorithm throttling what people see. And you have the ability to reach out to people as you need it for those infrequent times when you are going to ask to trade value, right? You’re going to give, give, give and occasionally asked to trade. For example,

    I run a I help run a slack community analytics for marketers. We want you to come there, because there’s no algorithm blocking you. And in return,

    we give away lots of stuff in the community. Like last night, I posted the thank you pages for two talks we recently published so you don’t have to go fill out a form anymore because you have your email, right? You don’t have to go fill out forms and jump through hoops, you can go straight to the good stuff. So

    there’s a value proposition even in that we know that you’re valuable. We know that you’re important and we know that you’ve taken time and effort to go to this community.

    This separate from what you spend most your time like on Facebook and stuff. And so

    how do we give value by giving you shortcuts and, and and things that are not available to the general public?

    So, the short version of a very complex question is, think about trading value, give more than you take, give a lot more than you take and get people to channels you own your email list and your your text, your mobile number, text list. Those are invaluable resources, you own them, no one can take them away from you. No one can suppress the pieces of content you send once you get beyond basic deliver ability and you know, prove that you’re not a spammer. You

    have the ability to reach out to people and give them value, but also trade value with them. So make sure that you are doing that.

    Email is is

    As an Hanley says, it’s the Oh gee of social networks, but it’s also one of the few assets under your control that you truly own. I lost you don’t pay your bills to your your email service provider. But But yeah, you want to make sure that you own that. So those are some guidelines for the monetization of social media networks, and trading value with your audience. But please stop thinking about monetizing followers and start thinking about trading value with and what can you trade that is aligned with what your company does that in the long term will help you build the best, most sustainable strategy. And if you are so inclined, please subscribe to my YouTube channel and join the newsletter. Join the newsletter and join our slack group where we give lots of stuff all the time and have some fun discussions alongside so thanks for watching. I’ll talk to you soon. want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today

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  • Public Service Announcement: Mark All As Read Day is April 2

    Public Service Announcement: Mark All As Read Day is April 2

    It’s the day after April Fool’s Day, but thanks to news readers, inboxes, and social networks, we’re not consuming information in chronological order. Be sure to mark as read every news and information gathering system you use to prevent you from mistakenly sharing April Fool’s pranks as real news.

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    is public service announcement time Today is April 2, which means it is clean your inbox day. This is not an official day. Of course, no one has tells you to clean your inbox. But there’s a very, very important reason why you want to make today mark all is read archive, inventory, everything. It is the day after April Fool’s Day, which means that you will no longer thinking I should be looking for funny, humorous, prank things in my content. But if you’re still looking at yesterday’s news feeds yesterday’s inbox and things, guess what, you’re going to get whammy. So just a quick look here at my family. We’ve got stuff from today. We got this from this morning. And then of course, there’s things like Google tool up April Fools. And there’s a whole bunch of stuff in here that may or may not be relevant. So in the software of your choice, whatever tool you use, make sure that you mark as read

    At the very least stuff old and then a day, but even still there, you’re going to get things like that were 21 hours ago. So there’s some potential that you could get some some stuff. So I would say just to be safe in all your fields mark all is read everything that is frankly old from all it’s 7am as I record the say everything that was that that is, after midnight, your local time market read, do the same for your Gmail inbox to the same for your pocket reader or Flipboard, your family, your whatever it is read it later. Instead paper and all those applications that you used to gather news and read it today will be the day to market and market right and clear it out. By the way, if you use any kind of content curation automation, where you have software that is pulling in content to reshare it later there, we have software of our own. Their companies are curated that do the same. You’re going to want to do the same on those feeds to go through

    At the very least inspects to make sure that when you publish your, your weekly wrap up or summary of the content that you’re going to share this week that either you market this was an April Fool’s Day thing, or you just clean it out and maybe do a shorter edition this week just so that you don’t share something that you or someone in your audience misinterpreted as being legitimate news, when in fact, of course, it’s not.

    The other thing is that there were a couple of brands that released actual news yesterday. I don’t know why you would do that. Because no one knows whether to believe you or not. So maybe try re releasing that news today.

    But anyway, it’s market all is read slash archives. Read it later slash clean out all the inbox is you have access to and double check when you’re on social media for the next few days because services like Facebook and Instagram, don’t obey a chronological feed, which we’ve been asking them for that so I don’t know what

    Five years now,

    you can still get caught unaware. So just be on your guard. Clean out everything you can clean out and enjoy the rest of the year when we can be certain that any fake news is actually fake for malicious reasons and not because of a prank day. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Removing AI Bias by Removing Data?

    You Ask, I Answer: Removing AI Bias by Removing Data?

    Tammy asks, “There was a talk this week about AI and ML and I was disturbed by a claim a speaker made at the CXL conference. He basically asserted that we should not be concerned about bias being trained into AI because we can just ‘remove the variable from the model that causes the bias.’ Essentially if we don’t want the model to bias against race then we should take race out of the model. What do you make of this?”

    This person has no business building AI models, as they have no understanding of bias. They will create models that are inaccurate at best and dangerous at worst. Watch the episode to find out the correct way to deal with bias and how systems like IBM Watson Studio and IBM Watson OpenScale correctly help you manage bias in your data.

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    In today’s episode Tammy asks, there was talk this week about AI and machine learning and AI was disturbed by a claim a speaker made at the CFL conference, he basically said that we should not be concerned about bias being trained into AI, because we can just quote remove the variable from the model that causes the bias. Essentially, if we don’t want the model to bias against race, then we should take race out of the model. What do you make of this? This speakers an idiot, this speakers at it who is completely unqualified to be doing artificial intelligence and machine learning? There is no polite way of saying that this person, I’m assuming it’s a guy because you use the heat pronoun but this person has no business making artificial intelligence models. And this is one of the reasons why people talk seriously about things like certification or qualification. Because if this person deploys this modeled in the wild input

    They are going to create her randomly biased models. Here’s why removing a variable from a model because you don’t like the effect it creates is functionally like saying I don’t like that my car is going off to one side because of the right we also want to remove the right we’ll, we’ll know what if that we also important, what if it is? Is it a critical piece of the model? That is that philosophy so I’ll just remove the thing is causing the problem was completely wrong.

    The reason why, in addition to the variable right that might be important is that

    just because you remove the explicit variable does not mean you remove the bias from the model. machine learning models, particularly deep learning models, but even ones like gradient boosting models can create what is called inferred variables. This is when you engineer or the machine auto engineers variables together

    that move in sync

    For example, suppose you have Facebook data, and you have collected, books you like and movies you like and music you like. Guess what that combination of data is so good a predictor of age of race, of religion of gender, that when the machine creates an inferred variable from that, it will rebuild age and race and gender and then discriminate on it. And because you’ve removed or you’ve removed race, from the model, you make the assumption that the model is no longer biased, when in fact, it has rebuilt those biases right in and now because you think you’ve removed it, you’re no longer looking for it, you’re no longer trying to detect it. And that means that the model can go wildly off course.

    So this person’s an idiot. What’s the right way to do this? The right way to do this is to do

    What IBM does,

    which is to in your systems and your modeling software and your production software and your monitoring software for AI, you declare protected classes, you say age is a protected class and must fit the natural demographic skew of the population you’re targeting against race is a protected class, you may not discriminate outside certain variances, gender is a protected class. For example, if you were to say that your gender of the gender split between male and female should be roughly 5050 or 4545 and 10 for for non binary folks, whatever the case may be, you declare to the system this is protected, you may not deviate outside of these norms beyond like one or 2%. And then what the system does is it holds those those variables as anchor points and when it builds a model around them. It does

    does not allow the model to pull those variances in any direction. It’s kind of like again the example of a tire on your car that’s out of alignment.

    This essentially puts a you know, additional hands on the steering wheel to keep the car going in the direction it’s supposed to be going and not allow that that one walkies hired a pole the car in the wrong direction

    by using protected classes as as part of the model and declaring that they are protected classes, you ensure that the model will not be biased because the model cannot use those variables for determination. For as as targets as as as as inputs beyond a certain point, and you also make them targets you say you must meet this qualification you must stay within this lane.

    Watson’s open scale product does this really well in production, which by the way is really important because after you deploy the model if you’re not monitoring

    For biases creeping in as the model is in production, you risk very serious consequences Amazon found that out the hard way when their HR system started systematically discriminating against women nobody was watching the system in real time to say um let’s that’s that’s know yet the 5050 in our, in our test data, our training data has become 9010. And in our in our production data

    you want you want systems in place in production that are monitoring and holding those predictive classes in place and alerts you and says hey, something is going awry. Microsoft found that out the hard way with their tail Twitter bot which got turned into a racist porn button 24 hours nobody put guard rails on it. Nobody said these are the things you may not do. And had somebody thought that through that might have been a slightly more successful experiments. So

    know removing the variables from the model

    Because the bias does not eliminate bias, if anything, it makes it worse because it reduces the explain ability to interpret ability of the model instead, the right way is to protect the variables that are protected classes that are protected aspects. And then be keeping an eye on your models be keeping an eye on your data be keeping an eye on the results that system puts out. And be fact checking it. This is a critical career and a lot of ways right now. And for the next couple of years of someone supervising the machines and saying machine that is not an okay, output. Explain yourself, tell me why you made those decisions. And that’s another critical point that this person clearly has no understanding of.

    All of your model should have interpret ability built into them, all of your model should have the ability to spit out hey, here’s how I made these decisions. Here’s what’s in the black box. Deep Learning

    in particular has gotten so much

    Better and the last six months in showing how a machine made a model that there’s no excuse anymore for saying let’s just a black box and we know how it works but it’s the right answer Well, you don’t know that and regulations like GDPR require require you by law to be able to explain your models. So using software like IBM Watson studio and and Watson open skill will help you hit those benchmarks and make sure that you are compliant with the law. So what I make of this this person has no business building AI models this person is probably should take a course in ethics. I strongly recommend anybody who’s looking to get into this stuff to read Dr. Hillary Mason’s free, completely free book on Amazon called ethics and data science. You need to read it, use a checklist in it and then use use commercial systems from reputable vendors that has some of these checks and balances built into the so that you don’t make these

    mistakes because these mistakes will get you sued, they will get you fired and they will make society a worse place. If your model gets out in the wild. You can tell I feel pretty strongly about this.

    Great question Tammy.

    Be very, very be aware of that company. Wow. And for everyone else,

    as you’re deploying machine learning as you’re testing it out as you’re putting it in production as you’re supervising it.

    Make sure that somebody has done their homework and has thought through things like bias because you can ruin your company, your relationships with your customers. And as we see with some companies like Facebook, you can ruin society. If you are not thinking about what your AI does. As always, please leave your comments in the comments box below and subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Rising Stars of Marketing

    You Ask, I Answer: Rising Stars of Marketing

    Ashley and the LinkedIn team ask, “Who is one rising star in marketing that you’d like to recognize and why?”

    Without pause, I’d recognize my CEO and business partner, Katie Robbert. Here’s why: every chef needs a restaurant manager. In data science and machine learning within the marketing realm, I build lots of tools to accomplish these things. But all the tools and technology don’t matter without the other two legs of the stool: people and process. To be fully effective as marketers and as data scientists, we need effective strategies for people, process, and platforms. Watch this video to learn what to look for in your own people and process experts.

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    In today’s episode, Ashley asks, who was one rising star in marketing that you’d like to recognize and why. without pause, I would recognize my CEO and business partner Katie Robbert. And here’s why.

    Every chef needs a restaurant manager every

    every player in the orchestra needs a conductor. in data science and machine learning. Within the marketing realm,

    I build lots of stuff, I build lots of tools, I use all sorts of things from open source tools like our studio, to commercial tools, like IBM Watson studio,

    and can do some pretty interesting stuff. But that’s only one third of what it takes to make data science and machine learning impactful for marketers. Remember this, it’s a three legged stool, its people process and platform, you need all three in balance, in order to make machine learning beneficial to accompany building cool stuff is great, you need it.

    But if there’s no practical application, you just doing stuff to do stuff, it doesn’t provide an ROI. Or if it does, it’s because you got lucky because it wasn’t a strategy behind

    two of the areas where I’m personally not as strong management of people I’m terrible at. and rigorous discipline and process in terms of,

    instead of doing something, building a system around

    a thing, so that it can scale it can grow can be impactful.

    And so to be to bring the most value to trust insights, customers, to our audience, to our friends, you need to have the people process and platform all lined up. And because I have deficits in those areas, that’s where someone like Katie helps, helps me be able to be effective.

    as marketers, marketers, and not the most systematic people, marketers, and not the most disciplined in terms of that very left brain linear process oriented approach. But when you have the effective project manager, when you have effective corporate strategy and business strategy, when you align your business strategy with your technology capabilities, you can, you can do some pretty amazing things. And so her role in our company is to lead the company to lead that strategy to lead the people, and to help establish the processes that we need in order to grow.

    And that’s something that we all learn from at the company. But then we share

    externally.

    Every Friday, there’s usually a blog post from her from our partner and head of business development, john wall. And we have distinct documented processes for how we even market the company itself. What are the what are the recipes inside that we adhere to, in order to maximize the impact we have with what’s really a three person team plus a whole bunch of machines.

    Katie is also an accomplished public speaker, she’s spoken at multiple events, including selling out her room, twice over at inbound 2018 on the topic of predictive analytics, but not the technology.

    Instead, she focuses on how, what’s the process for it? What are the important things you need to know to make use of it? What are some examples that are practical?

    And again, this is because my focus is how do I make the thing how to build a thing? How do I how do I

    make the thing cooler?

    But not how do I deploy the thing in a way that’s as meaningful as possible to customers. So it the original version of Predictive Analytics code that we use, spit out a very unhelpful line chart. And that was it as all you got. But when you take somebody like Katie, who has that experience of thinking from the customer’s point of view, and thinking through how could somebody uses How could somebody misinterpret this? How could somebody not find value in this, and then you build that into the product, it becomes much more useful. Instead of a chart looks like somebody vomited, you know, multicolored spaghetti all over it, you end up with tables and calendars and planners that anybody anybody could pick up and go, Okay, I know what I’m supposed to do. Now, over the next four weeks, these are my tasks that I need to accomplish using predictive analytics, bringing it to life.

    The same is true. We were driving back yesterday

    from the helo conference in New Jersey, and talking through

    how do we use machine learning clustering techniques

    to make search engine optimization more valuable, instead of, hey, here’s just a bunch of data, which is what a lot of SEO tools give you and it’s fine. That’s that’s bad as an okay thing for them to do, because you want that data? How do we use machine learning techniques to make it more orderly, to make it more insightful, to make it more digestible for people? And so when I talk about someone being a rising star marketing, to me, that implies that they are bringing something to the marketing discipline that isn’t there yet or isn’t widespread, that is valuable. And that benefits marketers?

    Again, when I look at my background, I’m a tech knowledge, just

    the stuff that I create,

    as it is, is not inherently valuable to marketers, the outputs are, but the stuff itself isn’t. And so someone like Katie is an essential part of what we needed to have, as an industry to take the output of anything, and think it through how do we make this valuable to us? How do we use this to increase our impact, to increase our results, to demonstrate the value that we provide as marketers, to our companies, and to our industry. So that’s, in a nutshell, who I would recognize as a rising star and marketing. You can reach Katie at K to bear on most social channels, and of course, at the trust insights, website, trust and size.ai. And I believe, I think her websites got stuff on it, Katie Rivera calm. But more than anything goes to your speak, go see your speak, go see, take a webinar with her. We’re going to some interesting news, new virtual options available soon. Follow on social get to know her because she can help you understand the roles of people in process within marketing technology, which again, is something that marketing technologists and the martech space are really bad at

    we build all these cool

    tools, we create all these this, you know great marketing collateral, and we don’t do a great job of answering but so what why do I need this? What is the value of this?

    How do I explain this to my boss, and you need somebody in your own company like Katie who can be that.

    That truth teller

    that

    that skeptic

    who can constructively criticize your efforts, and make your products, your services and your marketing better, maybe don’t have somebody like that, your marketing will not be as good. You are marketing technology, for sure will not be as good. And if you are making the move into data science and machine learning is an absolutely essential role. So who is that person in your company? If you don’t have that person, you probably need to hire that person to help oversee and guide and align your martech and data science and machine learning strategies to the business to what the business needs most. So great question actually, and the LinkedIn team. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. One help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What’s Not On My LinkedIn Profile?

    You Ask, I Answer: What's Not On My LinkedIn Profile?

    Ashley and the LinkedIn team ask, “What’s one thing not on your LinkedIn profile that you want people to know about you?”

    Of course, there are tons of non-work related things like my love of cooking, my inability to sing, etc. but the reason for that is optimizing for the way LinkedIn works. In a series of interviews on the This Week in Machine Learning podcast, LinkedIn’s data scientists have explained in great technical detail how LinkedIn decides what you see. Watch the video for a review of those key concepts.

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    In today’s episode, Ashley asks, what one thing not on your LinkedIn profile that you want people

    to know about you? That’s an interesting question.

    There isn’t much that I isn’t already on there of them. The random hobbies, like for example cooking, or that I’m a terrible singer, or they practice the martial arts, which by the way, if you want to, like hear a really in depth look at some of these things. I did a lot of this in touch about a lot of this in Episode One of the punching out podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google podcasts, carrier shake, or grown. And Katie, Roberto, or did a whole season of interviews with people in the marketing space about everything except marketing. So it’s like all the hobbies, the music, the stuff that people like the the the after work kinds of like you were just sitting around having dinner with somebody, these are the kinds of things you’d find out. So check that out.

    But I think the question is, to make a fun question, not fun, which is something I do,

    the way LinkedIn algorithm works is there are it takes a look at who your connections are, who their connections, our first, second or third degree connections. And the text that is on your profile, the text is on their profiles, and so on and so forth, in terms of those into what are called vectors, mathematical representations of those profiles. And then there is a the content that you post when you share posts and updates on LinkedIn. All of this goes into a type of networking database called a graph

    network. I was listening to a bunch of episodes of this week and machine learning and AI, which is another great podcast, if you want to get you like super, super technical.

    This is the show to listen to.

    It is for the folks who are building machine learning. But one of the things that was interesting is that they’ve now had, I think, three or four different people from LinkedIn on the show, who explain in great detail how different aspects of the LinkedIn algorithm work. LinkedIn is the only social network that has gone on records. And here’s how our technology works in the back

    end, which has been a terrific for

    technical marketers like me to say, oh, okay, so here’s the things I need to do in order to make my LinkedIn profile more find able

    to understand the algorithm and in more depth to

    understand how people are seeing my content.

    And so that vector ization of your text that you create that you share, is used in matching algorithms, zoos and prediction algorithms for LinkedIn to say, Who should I show your content to

    write so I put up a blog post on LinkedIn or a link or if video or something, and it’s

    about my

    cooking hobby, for example.

    LinkedIn will look at my network. And we’ll look at the people within my network. And it will show that content selectively to people for where there is a a topical match of sorts of we’re predicts, hey,

    Katie would is also interested in cooking and she might

    find benefit

    from this post on LinkedIn.

    Whereas Chris,

    has known as never expressed any interest in and his network has never expressing interest in cooking. So let’s not show this content to Chris.

    And Tom only post look like cooking. So maybe we’ll show Tom one test post, see what happens, see if he engages with it.

    In one in another episode, Romero’s Alice, who is the head

    of LinkedIn AI group said that they do what’s called

    the technical term is multi parameter optimization. And that means that LinkedIn is optimizing for many different objectives,

    one of which is complaints.

    Dr. rozas was saying, this is a metric that we that they look at, to make sure that they’re delivering a high quality experience, which is really cool, which also means that if the algorithm shows something that is so out of touch, so attitude, with what somebody wants, they’ve done actually complain about the second, why am I seeing this kind this post, or, or block this person, those are forms of complaints.

    And so

    when it comes to what you put on LinkedIn,

    when it comes to what you want to share, what you want to talk about what you what other content, other people’s content, you share who you’d had all that matters, because all that is part of the graph algorithm. It’s part of getting your content in front of as many relevant people as possible.

    So

    give real thought to what’s in your LinkedIn profile. What do you want to be found for? That means not just one line job descriptions, but having keywords and phrases and ideas in your LinkedIn profile in your job descriptions,

    in your testimonials, your recommendations,

    what you are endorsed for so those endorsements that that seemed a little bit trivial, our topic indicators. We go on

    a whole the time about hierarchies and ontology and stuff within those topic indicates the endorsements do matter,

    for helping your content gets shown to other people. Because if somebody says, Chris Patten knows about machine learning, and AI

    post about machine learning, and somebody else has an interest in machine learning,

    there’s a much more much clear predictive predictive

    strength to that of they hated I’m going to show Chris’s machine learning post

    of what she’s an authority about machine learning to somebody who’s interested in machine learning who’s posted about it, but may not have it in their profile, and see if they engage with it.

    When you look at the stuff you can add your LinkedIn profile like your testimonials, the gear blog posts, would you publish on the publishing platform, when you post up a new post,

    all of that is relevant. All of that

    helps the graph network side how to make connections and predictions about connections in the people you may know section is a whole

    set of algorithms about

    how is your profile featured and people you may know

    it’s not a monolithic algorithm It is based on all these different factors.

    So

    yes, some of my hobbies and things and not in my, my LinkedIn profile. Why? Because I’m trying to optimize it

    to work with LinkedIn algorithm as best as possible.

    Obviously, staying within the terms of service

    being focused on because it is a professional

    network, the things

    that other people are looking for.

    Think of it is all this content that we share as like SEO for LinkedIn annoyed because LinkedIn is a search engine for people

    instead of what you’re looking for who

    so a very long Not at all, what was intended answer to the question that actually had on what’s not on my LinkedIn profile, I do a lot of a lot of cooking. Enjoy the science of cooking.

    Enjoy the

    science of making social networks work for us and hope some of these tips help you make your LinkedIn profile and the activities you do perform on LinkedIn

    more valuable.

    As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel

    and the newsletter. I’ll talk to you soon. What help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems.

    This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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