Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Author: Christopher S Penn

  • You Ask, I Answer: Choosing an AI Strategy – Vendor or In-House?

    You Ask, I Answer_ Choosing an AI Strategy - Vendor or In-House_

    Dennis asks, “How do you find the balance between choosing a vendor that provides AI-based solutions versus developing AI capabilities in-house?”

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

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    In today’s episode, Dennis asks,

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

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

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

    So a vendor will get you to that

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

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

    But fundamentally, digital transformation is about

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

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

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

    as it applies to digital transformation, it’s about

    data applications, processes, intellectual property technologies.

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

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

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

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

    then take that model, take that data,

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

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

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

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

    or

    are we approaching a is a transformative technology,

    if we’re just doing utility,

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

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

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

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

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

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  • You Ask, I Answer: PPC Learning Resources

    You Ask, I Answer_ PPC Learning Resources

    Alessandra asks, “Any tips/resources to learn PPC? Who to trust?”

    Watch the video for the order of resources I recommend, including courses to take, blogs to follow, and events to attend.

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    In today’s episode of you ask I answer. Alessandra asks any tips or resources to learn Pay Per Click marketing? Who do you trust? Well, great question.

    There are a ton of resources on Pay Per Click marketing. Where you should start I would recommend you start is start with the networks themselves. So that’s going to be Bing and Google are the two biggest Pay Per Click systems. And especially Google has a

    Google Ad with use called Google i O. It’s now it’s Google Ads Academy, take their free course to it as an extensive course and get your certification in Google ads. That certification is going to help you learn the in depth nature you’re going to need to make pay per click advertising work really well for you.

    Had a former colleague,

    she went through the AdWords course it was called AdWords time. And she had 85 pages of notes just from the course that’s not even getting to the exam that is just going through the course. So take those courses first. They are essential. There are a number of books published, but again, by the networks themselves, like Google and Bing about how to use their products. They’re typically free books, you can download them, the ebooks and things. Those are great places to start, because they will they are intended to help you learn the basics of advertising. And in a way that is promotional. Only for the network itself. It’s basically presuming you’re going to spend money on AdWords Anyway, why don’t you do it right. When you sign up AdWords and Bing Ads, typically, especially if you spend over a certain amount or you’ve got a new account that and that new account you’re going to have an account manager reach out and talk to you about your program in your first 90 days.

    Go through that training go through that introductory phone calls if it’s worth your time just to get a sense of what their perspective is and how they think the platform has changed. Now, a lot of these folks are not going to be advanced PPC practitioners, they’re going to be basic mid level folks who can help you get the basic setup and help you not spend too much. One of the most important things you need to do before you embark on any kind of pay per click advertising is have very clear goals set up what

    metrics and KPIs are you after, for example, you may be after cost per acquisition, click through rate cost per click effective cost per click cost per action. There’s a bunch of different numbers that you should have that all lead to a business impact of some kind of new need to have that written down first. So as you start thinking about and start taking different courses about pay per click advertising from the networks keep those numbers in mind. What goal Are you actually after? Are you after sales are you after

    Lead Generation are you after traffic

    and those different goals are perfectly appropriate it’s okay to have you know there’ll be some folks in the PVC will say you should only be only be selling well if awareness is your goal then guess what you should be using the advertising tools for that once you’ve gone through the courses then it’s time to take a look around at the landscape. And there are a few different blogs that I would recommend you definitely want to keep an eye on the search engine marketing blogs. So those are going to be blogs like search engine, land search engine, watch

    marketing land, for example would be some, some good blogs, look at and then look at a couple of the consulting agencies now the consulting agencies are going to obviously be trying to sell you their services. Hey, you’re on our blog, you’re reading about our free advice would you like to pay for some advice and have us manage your account those big companies like word stream though?

    blogs are still worth reading. They are still worth reading. Because they do share a lot of useful information. skyward is another one that is a good PPC resource. Subscribe to them. Subscribe to the AdWords blog and read read through what was being published on a weekly basis. What’s new in the search engine marketing space, because you’re going to find a whole bunch of new things as stuff comes up look to at some of the SEO tool websites because remember, SEO and search engine marketing are different disciplines. But in the content marketing world because folks are constantly starving for content, there is a there is some overlap and it’s never a bad idea to understand the space as a whole. So some of the search engine tool blogs would be things like sem rush this blog, Rs blog,

    the MAS blog and so on so forth will give you some additional insights but

    tip pay attention more to the the overall general search blogs like the search engine lands of the world those would be

    The resources I would say, are great starting points.

    The most important thing you can do though,

    is to actually run campaigns. Actually, as you go through the, the AdWords course of the Bing course, or whatever

    be doing the thing, it’s very, very difficult to gain proficiency at a lot of this stuff. If you’re just reading about it, you need to be pushing the buttons and actually, you know, clicking the mouse and deploying these campaigns in order to get the most out of them in order to really understand what it is you’re reading what the how the software works, the impact that it delivers, because if you don’t, you just have a bunch of theory and if you never actually practice the theory, it’s very very difficult to to understand where the theory breaks down. So read about something on Search Engine Land, you’re trying Oh, that didn’t work or I got no clicks at all on that and that’s where you

    Start to separate out this advice works for me and my company. This advice does not even though it may all come from reputable sources, equally true, you may hear something like at a conference or an event and you’re like, Yeah, I don’t know if that makes sense or not. But you go back and you run a very small test and you find out that something that sounds dodgy actually works really well for you. So that would be the I think the third leg of the stool is you have the networks you have the blogs to keep up on and then you have conferences and events go to things like SM x,

    which is a fantastic

    search marketing conference, you’ll hear a lot you’ll read a lot, especially if you’re just getting started out can be overwhelming. What I would suggest is go through go through the courses offered by the networks get that lockdown. spend about six months reading blogs and after really after your first year of getting a get your basics

    Strong then look at going to a conference, I would not go to a conference with less than a year of experience under your belt because it’s going to be too overwhelming, maybe too many shiny objects and you won’t have put in any time actually practicing. So

    courses, blogs, events, those would be the ways that I would go to make the most out of all the information that’s out there and consistent practice throughout your journey, consistent practice to bring the concept to life and to understand what doesn’t doesn’t work what makes sense and doesn’t make sense for you and your company. Great question. Please leave additional questions if you have them in the comments and subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care what help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai and listen to how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: 2019 Marketing Trends

    You Ask, I Answer_ 2019 Marketing Trends

    Stephanie asks, “What are the marketing trends you’ve got your eye on for 2019?”

    I’ve got my eye on a few trends for 2019; stay tuned for a much more in-depth look in a couple of weeks from Trust Insights (with full data). For now, watch the video to learn which three I’m paying most attention to.

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    In today’s episode, Stephanie asks what are some of the trends to pay attention to for marketing as we head into 2019 Of course it is that time of year this is being recorded in late November 2018 when people are starting to already crank out the 2019 predictions. So let’s look at a few things that are likely to happen number one, in terms of all the channels that are showing growth in terms of what people search for when people have conversations about the two trends that have been on fire in 2018 and will continue to accelerate in 2019 number one is Instagram marketing which is eating the world largely because

    people are not there is this sentiment that that Facebook is entirely where you go to have arguments with people and with the continued propagation of questionable sources of information

    a lot of consumers are spending a lot of time on Instagram because well they could just look at pictures of stuff

    rather than have lengthy debates with people about the correctness of a one piece of information or another so Instagram marketing itself

    is growing by leaps and bounds and will continue to grow well into next year with Instagram marketing of course comes the the massive thing that is influencer marketing influencer marketing continues to be on fire will will be even more on fire next year we forecasted

    trusted insights forecast

    this year that would see something like a 40% increase this year and the 70% increase the next year in Search interest for people looking for information about it. And of course, the is turned out to actually be somewhat of a conservative estimate. It was close to 50%

    this year. So we will have to go back and revise those friends to

    to account for the fact that this thing is on fire. The other

    thing that is surprisingly on fire is programmatic marketing, programmatic advertising, programmatic marketing people moving to particularly business to business marketers, moving to programmatic advertising, it is more efficient, it is more cost effective it is faster. This is of course, advertising that has driven almost entirely by algorithm where a machine is doing a lot of the work in terms of what ads to show what creatives to show when to whom and it’s working incredibly well in the marketplace. So there is a tremendous amount of interest there and continuing to grow social media marketing interestingly enough social media marketing as a trend has kind of leveled off a people are not looking for significant growth we’re not looking for significant growth because it is mature it’s a mature space

    now that

    said that doesn’t mean that it is that no one is looking for a more quite the contrary in fact people are looking for Social Media Marketing at a pretty substantial rate let’s take a look here and just go through the data it’s currently the third most searched type of marketing right now affiliate marketing is the first top of search but it is on the decline digital marketing the category overall social media marketing is the third most followed by network marketing and then influencer marketing so we see these channels these methods these techniques continuing to grow influencer marketing is growing where social media marketing has leveled off and things like affiliate marketing are beginning to to show some decline that’s said there’s you’re still talking about thousands of people every single week looking for information about these things.

    So

    is it Don’t be putting out a post saying that such as such as dead, it’s not dead. Nothing, nothing in the top I would say 100

    terms that are most searched for is dead. If you have thousands of people searching every week for them for information about them.

    In terms of what I would expect to see more of I would expect to see more of not only Instagram marketing but am Instagram advertising as people realize not only do you have to get on Instagram but then you also have to get be seen and of course Instagram is a Facebook property Facebook loves to turn the screws on marketers and and ratchet up the pay angle. We know from Facebook’s earnings calls that Facebook the ecosystem, not the the core

    network itself is so saturated right now that

    they’ve actually run out of inventory. That’s why you see things like stories popping up everywhere you see on TV Instagram TV, Facebook was looking for any angle A confined to offer more inventory to advertisers. Because there’s actually a

    supply shortage of advertising space. It’s one

    of the reasons why and messenger marketing has been pushed to market as quickly as it has

    just there’s more room to show ads

    which means that what used to be inexpensive attention is is going to be much less inexpensive expect the Facebook ecosystem to cost you much more in 2019. So if that is a core part of your strategy, it’s probably time to have a plan B and what that plan B is nobody knows quite yet I would suggest just a personal experience that you diversify that you have if you’re a b2b marketer you should absolutely be spending some time on LinkedIn if you are a b2c marketer you should absolutely be spending a lot of time growing a list actually I would say for both b2b and b2c marketers

    it should be apparent based on the trends that we’ve seen over the last five years that rented land Facebook Twitter Instagram so on and so forth rented land continues to have price increases you know what has it increased in price your email list your email list if anything has probably gone down and prices as platforms have gotten cheaper

    email marketing itself the software has gotten cheaper so if you’re not spending a lot of time using your email marketing list as a defensive hedge

    now would be the time to start five years ago as the time start now would really be the time to start as your backup option

    to protect yourself from massive price increases on the most popular platforms

    when it comes to influencers one of the things that you need to look at very carefully is employee based influence programs that is turning your employees into influencers investing the time in them but particularly subject matter experts particularly company executives especially if they have any kind of golden handcuffs where it was difficult for them to leave because as Facebook and Instagram and the platforms the rented land gets more expensive influencers will charge more because their costs are going to go up so if their costs are going up your costs are going up to work with them and what used to be you know a 10,000 a month influence or something20,000 a month influencer or 40,000 month influencer and if you think top to your talent is expensive now wait until Facebook makes it significantly more expensive to run promotions and you can be talking like quarter million dollar engagements with certain influencers so your employees can be those influencers to some degree and as an added advantage you can send them to do things that would be cost prohibitive so sending employees to say smaller conferences and events would be a huge bonus for a brand but not if it was there was influencers were paid influencers like regular paid influencers where they had cost you100,000 is get someone to take a five photos on Instagram so lots to think about last to consider as we move into 2019 look for and subscribe to the trust insights blogs and podcasts and stuff because we’re going to talk a lot more about this as we pull more of the data going into 2019 but for right now influencers Instagram an email are going to be the things that you need to pay a lot of attention to in order to take advantage of just the way the market is moving. Great question, Stephanie.

    Thanks. Please add additional questions if you have them to the comment box below and subscribe to the YouTube channel on 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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  • MarketingProfs B2B Forum Day 2 Recap

    MarketingProfs B2B Forum Day 2 Recap

    A recap of the second day of MarketingProfs B2B Forum, and a question: has B2B marketing gotten stale or just mature? The holy trinity of white paper, webinar, and eBook has proven effective, but where’s the innovation?

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    In today’s episode, we look at the second full day of marketingprofs b2b forum. And what what the audience got it. The big topics of the day were on improving b2b webinars. There was a lot of chatter about that a lot of people commenting and sharing tips from one of the sessions on improving b2b webinars. There’s a nother section on influencer marketing, using influencers for b2b and on Facebook chat bots,

    one of the most striking

    things to me between the content being shared by attendees. And the

    sum of the conversations and topics in the various keynotes that has me slowly, slightly concerned is that there does not seem to be a ton of innovation in the b2b marketing space. Now, this is not to say that they’re not marketers doing fun and interesting things and proving their webinars, but I don’t see as much

    that is new and different. One of the reasons why, for example, Eric Kim’s chatbot session is so popular is because it’s just a new format, it’s something new in the b2b space that

    otherwise we don’t see a whole lot of, of real

    widely adopted innovation. There are certainly individual companies, individual marketers, who are doing a great job being innovative and trying out new things. But

    the question I have is, is that because the things that we do

    our at this point in mature and proven and work, white paper, webinars, ebooks,

    email marketing,

    or

    do we have a blind spot in b2b marketing is something absent

    when we look at b2c marketing, there’s a lot more emphasis on things like

    interactive and video really rich formats,

    we see attraction methods that are much more impulse

    driven, understandably, things like experiential marketing,

    but I don’t see that and b2b as certainly not as a as widely adopted as, for example, say, the venerable webinar.

    So when we look at what’s been shared at marketingprofs, about making our marketing more human, making it more emotionally resonant

    building better webinars, I do wonder if we have

    missed something. If we’ve missed something. As, as marketers in the b2b space that is not

    that is a missed opportunity.

    Certainly, video, even just stuff like this

    video is relatively rare compared to be to see there are plenty of individual practitioners who are cranking up video,

    but I don’t see as much in the way of a coordinated strategy

    on the video front. And that’s partly because

    b2b brands tend to

    they tend to be very concerned about

    having bespoke quality as opposed to getting something out there.

    So video production has substantially longer times and higher costs, if you want it to look like professional broadcast quality. Obviously, if you don’t mind it being on somebody’s phone, it has the same speed and quality and budget as shooting something on someone’s phone.

    The other thing that

    is always interesting every year at marketingprofs is

    the new faces, tons of new faces in the field,

    which it itself, by the way, is great

    because you always want new talent, you always want new ideas. But the challenge

    I see is that the new faces and the new people

    lack good training and the basics. And so that inhibits innovation. If every time every six months, you’re hiring new people, and they’re like, what’s Google Analytics, we to train them. But in that period of time, we’re not advancing as quickly as we could be, because we’re losing an institutional knowledge as other people move up in the organization and move on.

    And so that may also be a contributing factor to

    a seeming lack of innovation in the b2b space. If every six months, we’re moving people around an organization,

    the only documented procedures, maybe around a handful of tactics like white papers, webinars, and ebooks.

    And so

    we need a better way of creating and we need a faster way of creating so that

    we don’t lose the institutional knowledge when someone moves roles within a company.

    equally true. We need to as marketers

    make sure that we are continuing to train and appeal to people who are wherever they are in their career life cycle,

    as opposed to providing just a certain type of content or certain type of point of view, it’s so funny looking through a lot of literature in this learning out everywhere on the on the trade, show floor, everything is being targeted towards the CMO. Although this this is this, the CMO and and it neglects everybody else in the buying decision process.

    Very often

    the CMO

    is not the one who is putting the shortlist together for the RFP,

    the CMO is not the one googling and reading reviews on G to crowd the CMO is making the decision but maybe making the decision with relatively sparse, highly filtered information. So for b2b marketers, another area that’s a bit of a gap is are you creating content that is applicable and appropriate for people throughout their career journey as marketers

    looking to gain information about

    products and services.

    So a lot to think about from this year’s b2b form.

    It was always it is always great to see old friends and make new friends and to all the people who showed up at the AI talk I gave thank you for being there if you were not able to make it but you want to catch some of the materials you can go to where can I get the slides.com will take you to the trust insights website where you can download them and

    will be keeping an eye on the space marketing process will be moving back to the east coast next year, Washington DC so I hope that he didn’t get chance to attend this year that you I will see you at the next marketingprofs event and the next events

    but thanks for watching. Thanks for submitting your questions. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel. My newsletter will talk to you soon. What help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems.

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  • MarketingProfs B2B Forum Day 1 Recap

    MarketingProfs B2B Forum Day 1 Recap

    A recap of three key themes shared at MPB2B Day 1, and why one of them stands out so much.

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    In today’s episode, a summary of and thoughts about the first day of marketingprofs, the marketing boss, b2b forum had the opportunity to attend a bunch of sessions yesterday, and also run some topic modeling. So machine learning on the conferences content. So far, it’s been really interesting looking at what people are talking about what they’re sharing,

    it boils down into really sort of three things. Number one,

    the most powerful topics of conversation, at least in terms of using this one keyword tool that I use that I built is Facebook ads, people want to figure out how to get more attention on Facebook realizing the organic algorithm that says you’re not getting any attention. So how do these Facebook ads better split tests A B testing all this stuff on Facebook ads

    So that’s number one. Number two. The second biggest topic is content marketing. In general, how do marketers create better content

    and we see everything from like white papers and webinars and all the usual stuff that you would expect to see from

    people talking about content marketing and the content marketing experience. The third thing, which I think is really interesting is that

    attendees are talking about the the human side of marketing, empathy relating to people building relationships and stuff like that. And I find that interesting because

    for a lot of marketers,

    automation for decades has been the goal to make marketing more efficient, to make it more effective to get to your results faster. And now with the advent of things like machine learning and artificial intelligence, we can do that really well.

    And at least from

    what is in the data from what people have shared on Instagram shared on Facebook shared on Twitter about the event so far the

    the thing that people care about now is

    having lost that human element having automated in May, having taken automation too far and I would agree that there are aspects that people do wrong so on when it comes to automation and artificial intelligence and machine learning and stuff,

    there are processes the processes of the things that you should be automating first How do you make the process work faster work better the crafting the I guess the

    not the how, but the what you send people

    if you get

    How, right? And if you get the how fast then you’ll have more time to spend on the what what should we send to people? What do people want? What can we deliver, that is a value to the audience. And that seems to be where

    I think it could be a good thing with b2b marketing and marketing in general, is if we, if we finally gotten the how functional now we can start moving up the value chain. Remember that

    it’s how, what, why, how do we do the thing? What is the thing? Why are we doing the thing and certainly,

    as Simon cynics said, You should have started with why why we doing nothing. Not every organization does not every organization to set down great strategy. So in the absence of that great strategy, folks who are just trying to do their jobs have defaulted to try and figure out how well if we have for the most part largely figured out how

    or least somewhat competent at, then we’re into the what? And that’s where a lot of these existential

    conversations are revolving around what do we send them via What are we doing? What are we, what are we telling people? What What does our brand say to a customer?

    Those are all what questions so it could be a, a healthy indicator of where marketing state is now if if people have gotten to the what stage and hopefully that is the case I’ll be talking today about artificial intelligence and and AI and its use in marketing and things. So it’ll be interesting to see how folks see the a fully quantitative perspective on marketing and how and how we can use AI to make stuff go faster, get better results and reduce drudgery but that those are first impressions from day one of

    marketingprofs and will be will be keeping an eye on what people share throughout day two and do some analysis of it with artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to to let you know how the event overall goes.

    Be curious to hear your perspective about if your marketing has succeeded at the how and is now and you’re now tackling and grappling with the what? As always, please lose stuff like that in the comments. Subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter will talk to you soon. What help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trusted insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Undervalued Business Trends

    You Ask, I Answer_ Undervalued Business Trends

    Jon asks, “What’s the most undervalued trend in business that marketers aren’t grasping?”

    There are two answers here in terms of business trends. One of them should have you a little worried. The other should either make you cheer or scare the crap out of you, depending on your business model. Find out what they are by watching the video.

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    In today’s episode, john asks, What’s the most undervalued trend and business that marketers aren’t grasping a really interesting question. I’m not a futurist in any way. I tend to be more of an analysis because the future is becoming increasingly difficult to predict as technology in particular changes more and more rapidly. But there are two trends that I believe marketers aren’t paying attention to which one should have your little word and the other should either be making you jump for joy or

    scare the hell out of you depending on your business model and how you how you personally interact with the world. So the first one which pretty much everybody should realize,

    but aren’t taking into account

    Count when I listen to people talking about their annual planning stuff is that a recession is on the way.

    There are increasingly softening economic indicators. There are

    little bits and bubbles and froth and all that wonderful stuff that indicates that things in the economy at least in

    I should say, at least in America

    are about as good as they’re going to get and maybe turning down already. So if you’re planning for the next year, two years, three years does not have a scenario in which the economy takes a slow decline and economy takes a fast decline, then you haven’t done a good enough job with the planning because there is absolutely scenario where things stay as they are for

    another 12 months or so. It’s possible I don’t have a lot of confidence that possibility, but it is possible

    The slow decline is one in which I think is probably the most likely outcome based on all the current indicators, things will just sort of taper off. And and business will get a little bit harder, but not like disastrously harder. And then of course, is the third option, which I see is less likely, unless there’s some major geopolitical shock

    where things just come to a screeching halt.

    The slow decline to me seems

    to fit historical trends and patterns. So that’s number one. I don’t think markers are paying attention to that everyone is assuming that the good times will continue being good times. That easy will keep being easy and there are no plans in place to adjust for that. The second trend is a much more macro trend and that is a trend of disintermediation, people aren’t

    seeing disintermediation happening as

    And I don’t know why. Because it’s obvious

    everywhere you go companies, businesses, brands are all trying to get to the customer

    going direct to the customer, how can they remove

    friction, and how can they remove

    things that impede profitability and profit margins.

    We see this, for example, in b2c where we have things like kiosks now for doing customer service for doing order taking them this week, I’m in San Francisco for the marketingprofs b2b forum conference and local McDonald’s no front end staff for order taking it’s all kiosks and this is becoming a more and more the trend

    here in in this in this city. There is

    burger shop that’s going to put McDonald’s

    through its paces. It’s completely automated humans stopped by to

    to refill the machines, but the machines do all the work, they take the order, they cook the meal, they assemble it, and that spits it out and you get your, your, your burger and fries. Now

    that’s those would be to see examples. What about b2b examples.

    Business businesses want to get to the customer to

    there’s a term in business in the b2b world, especially. And it’s really in the tech world, the value added reseller and it’s become something of an oxymoron because a lot of resellers don’t add value. All these was add markup and cost in a fair number of businesses have realized that either they need better partners or they need to go direct to the customer themselves. And technology gives them that ability to go direct to the customer and completely skip the reseller and that is a trend that trend of disintermediation has has been a trend for 20 years.

    It’s accelerating now because

    Artificial Intelligence because of automation, because of machine learning

    things that were too difficult or extremely tough to scale in the past, because of the constraints of human beings, and people are now much easier to scale. We see marketing automation software, having chat capabilities, chatbot capabilities, we see natural language processing really being used well in production to do analysis. We see

    advanced analytics, deep learning, being applied to analytics by the big leagues by the biggest companies and that trend will continue and it will accelerate because that’s what

    delivers great profit margins, right when you can scale and the scale of value that you deliver is accelerating and is greater than the scaling of your

    costs.

    That is a trend that will only pick up because every business wants better, faster, cheaper, every consumer, every customer wants better, faster, cheaper, and every b2b business wants to save money, save time and make money. Those are the core benefits. Those are the things that don’t change. And as a result, anything that helps a business achieve those things faster

    is going to be the trend that’s going to be the thing that everybody wants.

    So those are the two undervalued trends,

    the economic decline and then the disintermediation powered by artificial intelligence. The disintermediation

    macro trend picking up steam

    what makes the latter one undervalued is that people don’t have a good grasp of what is possible or not possible and machine learning and as a result, they can’t

    wrap their brains around the value of that trend or the inherent risk it poses to,

    if not their jobs, certainly their role within a company people need to be prepared to adapt to to be flexible and to be lifelong learners who can

    change with the times and do new things as machines pick up the tasks that you they don’t do as well or they don’t want to do

    when you look at what is in marketing as a whole bunch of tasks that are low value in that not fun and frankly we don’t add any value to the machines could do better faster cheaper so what are the things that we do what are the things that you

    what do you do that a machine has difficulty doing and that adds value that’s a real question for for you and I both think about in as time goes on,

    but certainly I would strongly at

    advise you if you are not already planning for the recession plan for it because that will push machine learning to the forefront. Machine learning is cheaper than people. And if you are in a recession, you want to cut costs everywhere you can so make sure that you are doing your best to be that lifelong learner and to be ready for the downturn, and to be ready to provide even more value to your company and to your customers and the downturn. So those are the trends we’d love to hear your thoughts about the trends? leave them in the comments. As always, subscribe to the newsletter and the YouTube channel. I’ll talk to you soon. Take care 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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  • You Ask, I Answer: 2019 Social Media Strategy

    You Ask, I Answer_ 2019 Social Media Strategy

    Jenny asks, “What’s the best resource for 2019 social media strategy development?”

    The same as 2018! The overall strategy, the why – use social media to accomplish business goals – doesn’t change. What changes is the what and the how. Watch the video for details about how to build your 2019 social media strategy.

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    We begin with clear, measurable business-level goals. This data has to come from a CRM and/or marketing automation software.

    Next, gather three sets of social media data – your company’s data, your competitors’ data, and your industry or niche.

    Run a statistical analysis of your data and the data from your CRM and marketing automation to determine what social media activities, if any, drive business outcomes. Use statistical techniques like variable importance calculation to do this. ML will be very helpful.

    Once you’ve identified the variables that potentially drive performance, compare your performance to your competitors and industry using the same variables if possible, minus the marketing automation and CRM data, which you won’t be able to see.

    Identify what works and what doesn’t. Begin qualitative research to answer the “why” for all the “what” questions you ask.

    Do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.

    If you’re concerned that your industry lags behind, it’s fine to compare to a different industry, but make sure that industry has the same functional buying process.

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    In today’s episode, Jenny asks, What are the best resources for

    social media strategy development? Well,

    so the same as 2018 and 2017 and 2016, the overall strategy of social media the why why you’re doing it doesn’t change. You’re using social media to accomplish business goals, What changes is the what what are you going to do and the how, how you’re going to do it.

    The way that we do it at trust insights is with a multi step process based on data. So you begin with clear measurable business goals. What is the business goal that you’re trying to accomplish in a business goal is going to be one of really

    six right

    On the b2b side, it’s going to be make money, save money, save time, those are those business goals on the b2c side, for the customer, it’s going to be make things better, faster, cheaper, so that the customer is more likely to buy it. So, but for the most part, companies are going to ask social media to to help them make money. Now, this may be expressed in terms like building brand or awareness and things like that, which is fine, but it still has to tie back to a a measurable outcome. And the way you get to that is you take all of your data from your CRM from your era p system, perhaps for your marketing automation software, and you extract that out into in a format that you can analyze. After that you gather your social media data and anything that sits between social media and the system. So chances are your web analytics are going to be in there.

    possibly even things like email marketing data, maybe if that’s an integral part of how your company communicates its business proposition to its customers.

    Once you have that, you want to gather three sets of social media data, you want to gather your data, you want to gather your competitors data, and you want to gather your industry’s data.

    After you have those, that set of data you’re going to want to your data and then all of your down funnel data. So that is web analytics CRM, marketing automation, CRM, etc. And you’re going to run a statistical analysis complex statistical analysis to determine using I recommend the certain machine learning techniques I recommend looking into one called variable importance.

    You’re going to run a statistical analysis to say okay, what an of the social media variables drives business outcomes.

    Any and you’ve got to be prepared for the answer to be none Do you have to, you have to be

    prepared for that potential outcome.

    However, once you’ve identified the variables that potentially drive performance, you’re gonna want to compare that performance to your competitors. And then the industry using the same social media variables. If possible, you’re not going to get the marketing automation and CRM data, not legally. So you’ll want to identify your own variables, the things that matter the most, perhaps it’s dates or times or particular types of content or

    actions that users taking its comments, for example, on Instagram,

    whatever the variable is, you then want to do the competitive competitive analysis with the your competitors and the rest of industry to determine

    is somebody else doing a better job with those things? And if so, what is it that they are doing that allows them to to win within your space?

    Identify what works and what doesn’t work.

    Now, here’s a tricky part which a lot of people get wrong. No amount of data mining is going to completely answer the question of why something works. You have to do qualitative research. You have to do focus groups. You have to do

    interviews, maybe do some surveys, something that once you understand why you don’t want to understand what is happening, you can ask the audience Why do they make those choices? Why do you like this brand? And why is this brand was brands, coffee, the one that you go to

    that will help you make more sense of the data and inform your strategy

    ultimately for every what

    variable you have, whether it’s comments, whether it’s likes, whether it’s

    follows you want to have a companion why question you’ve asked a sample of the population of

    Your population, why they made those choices. And then your strategy is you do more of what works and less of what doesn’t work. Now, one thing that people will say when you’re doing a social media audit is that in particularly will say

    my industry lags behind it, or my competitors are lagging behind. I’m concerned that following best practices, it’s totally fine to compare it to a different industry, but the industry that you compare to has to have the same functional buying process. So suppose you work in the car industry, the purchase of a car is a long expensive complex sale, if you were to use social media strategy from like a chewing gum manufacturer. Well,

    people are going to react differently to that product and and they will make different purchase decisions. It is a much smaller purchase than a car. And so things like awareness, consideration and evaluation.

    compressed

    the and the way audiences by is compressed. So you may want to compare the buying of a car to maybe what’s working in the mortgage industry or what’s working in the college industry because again, choosing an education is a big

    cumbersome and very expensive purchase. And so the purchase decision, the the purchase deliberation that people will go through it will be very different other other prized expensive possessions because people take a lot of pride in the vehicle. Do they own other other prized possessions that are expensive that people purchase that they would interact with a brand on social media perhaps, you know, certainly some laptops and very high end phones are very expensive and you might be able to get some comparative data about that. But even that the laptop purchase process even if it was several thousand dollars for the best ones is still different than a cars purchase. There’s no title there’s no paperwork

    Bring your credit card. And then you’ll marveling at the bill when you get it. So be aware. If you want to do competitive industry look for something that has the same functional buying process so that you are doing apples to apples with how a customer is going to interact with that brand.

    So that’s your social media strategy for 2019 or any year it’s the why the what and the how,

    where you will run into trouble is

    not doing enough with your data or especially when you do that statistical analysis trying to do in Excel trying to do it by hand. There is no time

    there’s there’s no convenient easy way of doing that without using some sort of machine learning technology because there’s just too much data you’re going to want to look at, you know, a year to date or or possibly a rolling year

    if you’re

    brand has five or 10 or 20 social media accounts or is on 15 platforms or you get the idea. That spreadsheet starts getting real big, real fast. And it becomes very difficult to analyze without the assistance of machine learning technology. So know that that is going to be something you’re going to have to have in your arsenal. If you want to use the method, we use it trust insights, you’re going to need to have machine learning on your side to pull that off. But great question. It’s a fun question. And this is the time where you’re when everyone’s starting to do the Hey, what worked, what didn’t work you want to answer those questions and do it with data so that you have the best possible answer for your planning. Thanks for watching. Please leave a comment in the comment and 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 trusted insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you.

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  • Fun Fact Friday: Feature Engineering

    Fun Fact Friday: Feature Engineering

    In this episode, we talk about feature engineering and text, especially social media content. Social media text is often accompanied by very little data, so what can we do to enhance and expand it? That’s feature engineering. Watch the video for details about what kinds of features we can add to social media content to make it more understandable.

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    In today’s episode of Fun fact, Friday this week at the trust insights annual summit, which

    was held in my dining room, because we’re startup

    we were talking about some of the different ways you can do

    data tasks like feature engineering because the ability to use topic modeling and text mining and all these different machine learning algorithms is contingent upon what you put into the algorithm.

    The more data that you have that’s valid, clean, compatible, chosen, well, the better the algorithm will perform.

    When you think about it from that lens, then

    the average piece of texts that you feed to

    an algorithm, it isn’t very rich,

    for example, take a tweet, right? 280 characters at most probably 1015 words

    that in and of itself, this not a lot in that it’s just a bunch of words, what are the things that you can extract from that that could help you to better understand it better quantify it and and build better predictive outcomes around

    it?

    feature engineering is a data science term, which means, well, it’s engineering features. A feature is a dimension if you think about

    putting a tweet in the first column of a spreadsheet, right? And you put all your tweets in one column that is one feature the text itself, what other columns could you add to that spreadsheet that would be meaningful, that would describe the data that you could engineer out of that single tweet you can get from Twitter, for example, the author, you can get the date and the time, those are useful meta attributes that could provide some clarity about

    the tweet itself, you know, tweets sent in the middle of the night might have a different point of view, different language than a tweet sent in the middle of the day,

    if you run automated sentiment analysis, you can start to pull out things like specific emotions that are tagged from

    very well known libraries like UD pipe,

    you can get this the sentiment numbers plus one minus one and the scale along that line. And you can start you can extract things like character count, word count, number of capital letters, number of emoji in in

    in a tweet, for example,

    why would you want to do this? Why would you want to add more columns, given that we’re already talking in many cases about all this too much data, and there’s too much they have for us

    to analyze? Well, the reason you want to do feature engineering is

    you want to be able to start chipping away at the why now, no amount of this very clearly no amount of feature engineering can substitute for good qualitative research, no amount,

    but it can help enhance your qualitative research.

    It can give you more interesting questions to ask in your qualitative research. And it can eliminate things

    that are might be questions you would ask and qualitative research if you can show that there’s no relationship whatsoever.

    So for example, time of day, if you do feature engineering, and you have the data and you run it through

    an algorithm that says, hey, time of day, it’s not important to the end result that you care about,

    then you can eliminate questions in your in your focus group about time of day if there’s

    complete lack of statistical significance about time of

    day because say, okay, we don’t need to ask that question. It can make your

    your qualitative research more focused. The other thing that

    feature engineering does is it helps you

    start to, to understand

    hidden relationships within your data

    that you might not think to ask. Otherwise, if you use a

    user, build your own feature engineering library,

    you can have it do very specific things like how many capital letters do something using that’s, that’s not something that a person who’s analyzing, say, a book might think about, because it’s not helpful. But think about the people in, for example, social media conversations, if you got a tweet, that’s all in caps, either the caps lock key was stuck on a keyboard, well, that person’s really angry and wants to yell really, really loud, well, then us angry, they want to yell really, really loud.

    That’s a feature that knowing how many capital letters, or what percentage of a social media post is all capital letters is

    actually could be a distinguishing feature, especially when you pair it with something like emotion.

    And if you have a target variable, like number of clicks, or

    number of retweets, or shares or comments, or whatever it is, you want to use your endgame

    metric, then creating all these additional features could help you understand what are the little subtleties within that text that

    indicate the up there’s a there there, there’s something else to dig into this deeper to dig into. So

    give some thought, when you’re doing your social media analytics, when you’re doing your marketing analytics, when you’re doing

    your blog analysis, your content marketing, give some thought to how you analyze text, how you extract features, what features you look at, remember, features or columns in the spreadsheet,

    and ask whether you’ve done enough

    on the feature engineering front to find hidden meaning. Now, a a prerequisite of feature engineering is that you’ve got to have an algorithm that allows you to analyze all these features in combination and figure out which ones that matter the most

    trusted insights this we use three or four different algorithms depending on the type of data set and what’s in it.

    But all of that software is free. It’s open source software, academia has done an incredible job, the academic world of sharing working code for all of us to do enjoy and use important to make sure that academia remains well funded for

    that very reason.

    But the answers are knowable. And I think that’s probably the most important thing of this entire Fun Fact Friday is that

    the code is available, the data is available, we have to be the ones to engineer the features

    unless you use deep learning, in which case it can do automated feature engineering.

    And

    it’s just a matter of putting the pieces in the right order and having everything prepared well, to do this extraction, what do you get out of it, at the end,

    you get a model that says these are the top five or 10 things that create

    should not create that have a high statistical correlation to the end metric you care about. So if it’s retweets, for example, these are the five or 10 things that matter most out of this library of

    of data

    for example, I am working right now with a data set

    that is medium posts 1.4 million medium posts and

    the this is a massive massive data set

    and there’s an end target

    collapse and then there’s not much else right so I have to engineer

    about 15 new variables in order to do the feature engine but at the end of the day I want to know what has a high mathematical relationship to collapse and then we use that as the basis for

    our testing plan to say okay let’s go and test to see if we do more of X y&z do we get more claps

    at the end on medium

    that’s what you do with this that’s the value of this is gives you a much more focused testing plan. and that in turn means that your marketing can get more effective. So

    feature engineering is the name of what you do in data science to get

    at this stuff, try it out

    dig into your data you already have and see what’s in there see if it if there’s value that is hidden within your data and see if you can use feature engineering and then some machine learning statistical techniques to

    to unlock that

    value. As always, please please please leave comments and questions in the comments box below and subscribe to our YouTube channel and I newsletter and I’ll talk too soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How To Be a Confident Public Speaker

    You Ask, I Answer: How To Be a Confident Public Speaker

    Jim asks, “Do you know what are the best tips for confident public speaking?”

    This is a great and tough question. Many, many people are terrified of public speaking. At the end of the day, public speaking is just another form of content marketing. Learn the three basic rules and public speaking tips for being a confident public speaker in this video.

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    In today’s episode, Jim asks, Do you know what are the best tips for confident public speaking,

    public speaking, is it really in many ways, nothing more than a form of content delivery, right. So if you are good at content delivery, in some format, you will be probably good at public speaking, there are two fundamental things that create great confident public speaking. Number one, you need to have content that the audience desperately wants, and to, you need to know your material cold. So let’s unpack these a little bit

    most public speakers in order to in order to feel like they’re, they’re getting kind of energy of the audience, they want

    to all sorts of stuff. And, and there’s three basic at aspects to the performance itself. If there’s entertainment, there’s engagement, and the education or the sort of the three things that you can do as a public speaker, to get the audience to, to respond to you. So being entertaining as one being provocative and saying things are doing things or dressing a certain way to get a rise out of the audience. And being educational teaching people something,

    but at the end of the day, your content, your speech, or talk your whatever else has to be what the audience desperately wants to learn about to get something from, especially if you’re talking about professionally speaking,

    as in the business world,

    the audiences are there to be entertained to some degree to be motivated, because there’s an enormous number of people who, who actively look for things like motivational speakers, and to learn something that they can use to make their own lives better.

    That may be technical things like how to do a certain type of work better, it may be

    things to avoid risk, again, ton of conferences and events, which are all about risk and regulation, well, then they look dry on the outside. But if you’re in that world, those could be very, very compelling topics, new regulation, new IRS regulation, 127 a could be a keynote topic, if it is a value to the audience and the audience is all CPA is and they know all their customers are going to be knocking on the door in January, asking about this regulation, then, then that talk could be extremely viable, very compelling,

    but

    where a lot of people who are not

    great public speakers fall down is the content that they deliver is much too much about themselves or their company. And not enough about the audience. When the audience is there for their own benefit. They want to, they want to learn something, they want to be motivated, they want to be entertained, and the speaker doesn’t do that the speakers and said all about themselves. So that’s the first part.

    The second part is knowing your material cold. And what makes you a confidence speaker is not knowing the material itself rigidly cold, I can have just, you know,

    to read off the memorize the talk and read off it, but actually be an expert in your content in your field, having that expertise so that no matter what happens, you can deliver value to the audience.

    So for example, I talk a lot about marketing analytics. And I know it’s in my talk, I know the general layout, I’m about to do a talk in San Francisco on a is application and marketing analytics. And I have my presentation on all that stuff. But if the power where to go out, or the project didn’t work, or whatever, I could deliver the entire talk as it is without a single visual, because it would be harder for the audience to see because some of the things are highly visual, like, hey, imagine a chart

    of colorful blue squares

    with words in them. And the bigger the square, the more important the word, that’s what you know, a way of visualizing a certain type of analysis. It’s a lot harder without visuals, but

    because I know not only the talk itself, but also have the domain expertise in pieces that went into that talk, then I can speak confidently about it. Because

    no matter what the audience does, no matter what the venue does, I can still deliver value and

    one of the things I’ve started doing in the last few years is is leaving a third of the time, whatever time we have been a lot It is Liga third of the time for Q amp a because that is where as a speaker, you can deliver additional value and demonstrate your expertise because someone will ask you a curveball question, like it’s not really all that much of a curveball and you answer the question and and you deliver value to that person in the audience. And other people in the audience may have that exact same exact question. And so you can help the questioner. You help the people around the question. And

    you can show without telling that you know, what you’re talking about

    knowing your material cold and having the domain expertise is the way you get to

    enduring confidence when you speak, because after a certain amount of time, if once you’ve done the same talk 510, 2050

    times you know it all the questions are, you’re not going to be surprised by a question.

    And so you can be very confident in your talk in the q amp a in the audience in everything that happens within that performance.

    Confident public speaking.

    Guess the third aspect of it. And this is one that’s not changeable is whether you are comfortable and enjoy being in front of other people. A lot of people don’t, a lot of people are, do not enjoy public speaking, they do it because they have to work requires it or their position at work requires it. My old CEO and friend Todd Devon was very uncomfortable

    public speaking. But he did it because as the founder of his company, he had to

    until a lot of people

    don’t enjoy that.

    The one suggestion there is find a format that works for you. Maybe instead of standing up on the stage being the talking head for 45 minutes, and maybe sitting down on stage with a panelist and having a sort of like a coffee chat where you can interact with the person where you’re more conversational, rather than being a solo performer. So there may be different ways for you to perform. And

    if you are absolutely unhappy, public speaking, don’t do it unless

    circumstance dictates that you must, but you will not be a confident public speaker. If you hate it, it’s not something that you enjoy,

    because you will be uncomfortable on stage.

    And yes, you can hide it to a certain degree. But audiences know the difference between someone who’s there because they have to be and someone who’s there because they want to be and they love it. And that is their thing.

    So

    have content that the audience desperately wants. Number one, and the most important by far to know your material cold three want to be there. So those are the three basic tips for confident public speaking, there’s a whole bunch of other things that you can do. And the I would

    check out the book steal

    the show by Michael Port. It is a fantastic book if you want to learn more of that confidence. And that performance of public speaking is fantastic. So check that out if that’s something you want to dig more into. As always, thanks for asking the question, leave your question in the comments below. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter. I’ll talk to you soon. What help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems.

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  • LinkedIn Power Tip: 5 Daily Hellos

    LinkedIn Power Tip_ 5 Daily Hellos

    LinkedIn’s algorithm focuses heavily on engagement. We want our posts to be seen by our networks; however, getting seen means being engaged. Here’s a simple, powerful tactic you should add to your daily social media tasks to boost your visibility in the LinkedIn algorithm:

    Say hello to any first degree connection on LinkedIn that visits your profile.

    You’ll find them in this section:

    LinkedIn Power Tip: 5 Daily Hellos 1

    And then just say hello by sending a message.

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    My only suggestion on what to say is don’t pitch unless you know the person well and you’re already in the process of doing business with them. Instead, just say hello.

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    The catch is that you have to do this regularly. The easiest way to remember to do it is to set a calendar reminder daily for it.

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    Do this daily, and you’ll deepen the connection to your social networks and make them much more valuable to you than a largely faceless group of people that you only see reported as a number of connections. Unless you have a wildly popular profile, once a day should cover everyone and anyone who stops by. Of course, if you see someone who’s a second degree that you know, offer to connect with them while you’re doing your daily hello.

    Why else is this important? Someone visiting your profile on LinkedIn probably has a different intent than, say, someone visiting your profile on Facebook. By saying a simple hello, you’re opening the door to conversation that they might be hesitant to have – after all, chances are they don’t want to be seen as a stalker following you. Assuage that fear with a friendly hello, and see where the conversation takes you. At the very least, you’ll demonstrate to the algorithm that you’re a real person who’s highly-engaged with your network.

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