Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Author: Christopher S Penn

  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Evaluate Influencer Marketing Software?

    You Ask, I Answer: How to Evaluate Influencer Marketing Software?

    Jim asks, “What should we be looking for in influencer marketing software? We need a BS detector for all the sales pitches.”

    Influencer marketing software has to fulfill at least one of three functions:

    • Identification – finding influencers through proven methods.
    • Outreach and management – managing the outreach, assets, contracts, etc. of influencers like a CRM.
    • Analytics and measurement – measuring campaign performance against goals.

    Right now, the market has a few all-in-one solutions, but they tend to do one thing well and be terrible at the other two. Your best bet in the near-term is to look at best-in-class point solutions for each category. Referenced in this video is Talkwalker software.

    How do you tell one influencer marketing product from the next? Here’s my BS detector for influencer marketing software and frankly, any marketing technology software:

    • Data export – what are the limits? The best companies will let you export massive quantities of unrefined data. Anyone imposing strict limits either has a scale problem or is sampling data and not able to see the full spectrum of data.
    • Insight into algorithms – how does it make decisions? Anyone claiming “proprietary algorithm” with no details is BS – and dangerous. There are only a handful of credible mathematical algorithms for influencer identification at the core.
    • Network reach – the more social networks, the better – but there’s a catch.
    • Integrations – how easily does the software integrate with the rest of your marketing technology stack?
    • Training – it should be offered but not mandatory – the UI should be self explanatory. Beware any product that requires you to take their training, as it means their UI is not intuitive.

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    Jim asks.

    What should we be looking for? An influencer marketing software.

    We need a B s detector for all the sales pitches.

    Influencing Mark Influencer marketing software has to fulfill one of three functions.

    Identification finding influencers.

    Can you find influences effectively using the software that are the good ones? Outreach in management, which is like a C arm, you have a list of influencers that you’re reaching out to.

    You have the status of those pitches.

    You have a contractual stuff.

    If you need, you have assets to send them.

    LINC.

    Tracking and possibly payment management depending on the type of influences you working with, And third is analytics and Measurement influencer marketing software.

    I should be doing analytics and measurement.

    You’ve done a campaign or you’re doing a campaign and you need to know how it’s going now.

    Not every package of influence of marketing software is going to do all three.

    In fact, the few that attempt to offer usually do one thing well into things badly.

    So right now your best bet is probably assumes a point.

    Solutions that integrate with your central marketing systems to manage that when it comes to disassembling sales pitches to see what’s real and what’s not.

    There are five B s detectors that I use God and asking these questions will help you understand what kind of software company you’re working with.

    Number one Data Export.

    What are the limits of what Influencer marketing software will let you export? The best company is the best influence of market packages Will let you export massive quantities of UN refined data.

    You could, for example, I use a product called talk Walker.

    Put a link on the show notes.

    If you want to take a look at it.

    No.

    I’ll put in a hashtag for like, a major conference, and I want to be able to export all of the conversations about the conference.

    And so what? Their software? I could pull out a couple hundred thousand or even half a million mentions at a time, because I want to do my own data processing on it.

    I used to work with other influence of marketing platforms, and they had very strict limits.

    You know, you’re only down with five thousand records of ten thousand records.

    Well, if you’re working in an event like, you know, VM World or CS or Dreamforce, it’s like tent.

    Pick me ten thousand mentions in an hour.

    So having those export limits be very, very high is a good indicator that the company knows what it’s doing and has a robust data pipeline.

    And the reason for that is if a company won’t let you get past a certain number of records, there’s a good chance they’re sampling on.

    They’re not able to pull all the actual data s, so it’s it’s a It’s a hint that things might not be as as robust on the back end.

    Number two insight into their algorithms.

    This is a big one.

    How does especially for influence identification? How does the software make decisions? Anyone who makes a claim of this is our proprietary algorithm powered with machine learning but provides no details.

    Is selling ups right? Because anyone could make a proprietary algorithm? I could make a proprietary already involves throwing darts in my wall.

    Ah, pendant.

    That’s no good to me.

    That’s no good to you.

    They don’t have to give you every aspect, every detail of the secret sauce, but they’ve got to be able to explain the algorithms.

    And here’s the thing.

    Influencer marketing analysis Use is very, very common mathematical algorithms.

    On the back end, there are probably four five major ones that that they use and you can do little tweaks and adjust the formulas.

    But the course of the same it’s like, you know, making an omelet.

    Fundamentally, structurally, there’s only so many ways you can make a an arm and still be able to call it an omelet.

    You’ll have your own secret herbs and spices, but still omelet.

    Same is true with influence or marketing algorithm, says four five core algorithms, that that pretty much anyone who knows what they’re doing has to be be using.

    So be ready to ask those questions and get a data science friend to talk to about what those algorithms are so that you could get some some clarity into them to number three network.

    Reach the more social networks, the better you want.

    Influencer marketing software that does identification and management and analytics.

    To be able to see into multiple social networks someone bets only has just a Facebook tool or just a instagram tool or whatever is going to be less useful to you that something that can see across a bunch of networks.

    The catch is this.

    Make sure that they’re doing in an above board away.

    What you don’t want is a company that is scraping data against the terms of service of a network, because what can happen is that companies can get shut down.

    There was a tool a number of years ago that was fantastic and instagram.

    It was called Majin metrics, and Instagram said, You’re violating our terms of service and they were completely cut off, and they’re like, Oh, sorry, we got to close up shop.

    We could no longer access any part of Instagram.

    So make sure that companies were doing that date access the right way through the approved AP Eyes number four How many integrations does the influence of marking software support on the identification side? What other data inputs doesn’t take in on the management side? Doesn’t you know what serums and packages doesn’t work with on the payment side, which payment gateways and payment platforms doesn’t work with And on the analytics? And measurements aside, if it doesn’t talk to Google Analytics, I’m probably not the best analytics and measure platform, right? That’s it.

    Would you like to be a very straightforward thing? Doesn’t integrate with here.

    You are all short now.

    Does integrate with your asset management library all the the more integrations that are relevant to you, the better that software is going to be.

    And finally, and this one’s a fun one.

    Training training for an influencer marketing for any kind of of SAS base software should be offered, should be accessible should be free or included with the price of the product.

    But it should not be mandatory if training is mandatory in a product that tells me that you the you I or the logical system is so complex, so messy that they can’t they know you’re not going to get value at a party if you don’t sit through one of their demos.

    I’ve worked in the marketing automation software company a number of years ago, and they’re like, No, no, you have to do it our way and the secrets like, I know what I’m doing with this software and if I can’t figure your software out is not very good software, you know, I could use part dot with my eyes closed, and they’re like, No, no, you have to do it this way and you have to watch his twenty minute video on how to set up MX records in your DNA.

    I know how to do that.

    Anyone who’s done marketing automation suffers had to go through that.

    You don’t need a twenty minute training to tell me howto copy and paste two lines of text.

    And so we have actually ended up canceling their contract, saying, Okay, if we’re not allowed to set this up the way we want has paying customers, I don’t want to use your software.

    So for influence of marketing software, take the demo.

    Take a better yet, take a trial of it and see if how much of it you can figure out without the manual.

    If you don’t need the manual and you can get core tasks like him, I want to log in and see who is most influential at VM World, and you could do that.

    That is a good chance that the software is well designed and well thought about and easy to use, and which means that any training you do take is going to amplify your capabilities.

    But you’ve gotten the basics down because the software so intuitive as it is.

    So those are my five big B s detectors for influence of marking software and, frankly, for a whole bunch of any, any kind of marking software.

    Can you get data out? Can you get data in? Can you doesn’t do what you want to do on the places that you care about.

    Do they tell you how it works and is the training available but not mandatory? Use those five tests to figure out who’s who in influence or marketing, and you’ll have a much easier time of weeding out the wheat from the chaff.

    And some of these questions it it will challenge the salesperson they’ll need to probably bring in like a systems engineer, something particularly on the algorithm aside, if they’re unwilling to do that.

    If they’re unwilling to answer any of these questions, run away.

    They’re not a very good company, so thanks, Jim, for the question it leave your follow up comments in the comments below.

    And please subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter, and I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Content Marketing Quality and Quantity

    You Ask, I Answer: Content Marketing Quality and Quantity

    Marije asks, “Do you think it is worth it to put a lot of effort into one piece of content or is one better off focusing on making more and smaller pieces of content?”

    Quality is job one in content marketing, but the ideal state is to produce high quality content at scale. There’s a catch: quality doesn’t mean what you think it means. Watch the video for more details.

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    In today’s episode Murray asks, Do you think it is worth it to put a lot of effort into one piece of content, or is one better off focusing on making more and smaller pieces of content. So this is the age old quality and quantity of content marketing

    today, quality for the marketer is job one, your content has to be high quality. And the reason why is this thing, these devices give us unlimited access to infinite amounts of information, or nearly infinite in nearly unlimited more than you could consume in your lifetime. More, you’ll run out of years before you run out of content. So as a result, the customer, the consumer, b2b or b2c, doesn’t matter. The customer never has to settle for anything less than the best when they are on this device. And they’re on YouTube, or blogs, or LinkedIn or wherever, they don’t have to spend any time on anything that is less than great, right? So good, or mediocre or good enough or Okay, doesn’t cut it anymore, your content has to be great, your content has to be worth spending the time which means that generally speaking, your content has to follow the three he rule has to be either engaging, entertaining, or educational. Engaging means that it is something that they’re emotionally invested, they get some kind of emotional benefit political news, for example, people are very emotionally engaged, and not necessarily to their benefit. But they are educational, they’re learning something, they’re improving themselves, they’re getting, they’re becoming a better person and entertaining, they, they are deriving satisfaction or enjoyment or contentment or something from that content, your content is got to be one of those three, ideally, it’s all three. But it has to do one of those things that has to do it really, really well as to better than then the other choices that the customer has in that time frame. So it doesn’t matter what the content is, if it’s a podcast, if it’s a blog, if it’s an email, if it’s a video like this, you have to be entertaining, educational or engaging. And if you’re not going to do for example, like the videos I try to publish every day are focused on education. And so I have to provide educational value better than what you’re going to get somewhere else, hopefully. And since I’m not particularly funny, and I’m not going to say outrageous, outlandish things, or swear at you know, for 10 minutes straight, I have to double down on the education aspect, because it’s not going to be that emotionally inciting.

    So that’s quality. Now,

    here’s on the question of where you should spend your time, you have to figure out how to get automation and technology working for you. So that you can create great quality content all the time.

    And you could do it at scale. So instead, it is not enough to publish one great piece of content per quarter, right? That’s just not enough people’s attention spans, they forget who knows what they forgot who should come to top of mind. And, and humans. We know this through the power of advertising. Humans remember more through repetition. When you seen that car insurance commercial 44 times

    in the last five days, you remember the brand you remember who it is. And there’s a good chance that by just saying just by saying the words car insurance, commercial, pretty much one of two companies has come to mind, right?

    Or

    you saw an ad your news feed for that Coffee Company, right? And it’s always there for for a month straight, there was nothing but pumpkin spice latte ads, pumpkin spice this right.

    Again, I say that Coffee Company. In your newsfeed. This probably one of three companies is going to come to mind because of the power of repetition. So in your content marketing, you do need to have frequency, you do need to be doing stuff often.

    So you need great quality content, and you need a lot of it, which means that you have to figure out how to make your content marketing processes faster and better. Now, here’s the catch about quality content quality content does not mean expensive. Content quality content does not mean a polished production, unless your company’s product is that content. So for example, if you are a video marketing company, yes, your videos should look expensive, they should look highly polished and publish, right? If you are in a podcasting company, your podcast should be like a spa massage for somebody ears, right? It should be that good for everybody else who’s core competency whose product is not the content format itself. Quality means that you’re providing education, entertainment, or engagement. That’s the definition of quality. So you can do something shot right on your smartphone like this with, you know, an inexpensive Mike like this in a basement like this. As long as you’re fulfilling the brand promise and creating entertainment engagement or education.

    How do you produce great quality content on a regular basis produce stuff that people want through stuff that people have asked you for? Go into your customer service inbox and pull out all the questions people ask you. And guess what? There is your content because, you know, people want to know the answers to those things.

    They wouldn’t email you about it if they didn’t.

    They is the whole reason that this series which is named after a book that Marcus Sheridan wrote called, they ask you answer. That’s the reason this series exists because

    I can inherently provide and you can inherently provide more educational, entertaining or engaging content by simply answering questions people have asked you or giving them what they want to know, in yesterday’s trust insights newsletter, I asked a question

    asked Would you be interested in a webinar or some content around personal branding? And so just don’t don’t worry about form just hit reply in your email client and reply Yes, I’d be interested to know it wouldn’t be interested in and a dozen people applied. Yes,

    I would like to know more personal branding. Well, guess what.

    Now I have a mandate from the people that I serve our customers that they want more content on personal branding. So it’s no longer I don’t have to guess what quality content is going to be for them. They told me they want stuff on personal branding. Cool, we’re going to do that.

    Ask your customers if you if your inbox isn’t full. Ask your customers

    What do you want?

    Our advisor Ginny Dietrich who runs spin sucks, calm has this fantastic one question survey that we sent out following her advice.

    If you read my newsletter, or you read the trust insights newsletter, you got this question, which is if we were to

    talk for an hour sit down to talk for an hour, what would we discuss?

    And I had over 300 replies to sort, categorize, filter, tag, etc. to categorize what you want.

    So ask your customers ask your audience

    that exact question. If you can’t think of a better question to ask

    that question. What would you what would we discuss for an hour people will tell you that some people give you silly answers. And that’s fine. Some people will complain if especially if your

    brand isn’t hasn’t done the best job but for

    the most part, people will tell you what they want. So that’s where you create quality content. And when people are asking questions like Maria asked

    if she could send me 15 questions to answer Sure, I’m going to answer questions, because that’s a great way

    to give you what you want. Because there’s a very good chance that you have very similar questions that Maria did. So great quality content just means being educational, entertaining, or engaging, and giving people what they want. At high frequency. You don’t need a lot of money. You do need a lot of knowledge in your industry, which I hope you have. And you do need to invest the time to create content and have a system put together to do it.

    Unlike some folks on you know, who have 10 or 15 or 20 person teams. This is a one person show literally the in the sense of what happens and I’ll put a link if you want to see how I produced the show every day is 45 minutes total to produce this show, you can do the same thing so I’ll put a link in the show notes to that as well. Thanks for the question. If you haven’t already, please subscribe to the YouTube channel the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon one help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Digital Marketing in Recessions and Predictive Analytics

    You Ask, I Answer: Digital Marketing in Recessions and Predictive Analytics

    Lisa asks, “What are your thoughts on the evolving nature of digital marketing and predictive analytics for the next year?”

    Marketing will be dealing with economic headwinds in 2019. Anyone looking at leading economic indicators sees the writing on the wall – a recession in 12-18 months driven in part by inept economic policies. Thus, marketers will need to be focusing on ROI and results. This will be an interesting time; marketers have had it easy over the last decade with sustained economic growth and ever-cheaper software and services. If we think back to 2008 when the last headwinds hit and we had the great recession, there aren’t a ton of marketers who were working in the space at that time – certainly no one under 30 as a full time marketing professional.

    Predictive analytics will be a keystone of marketing for the savvy marketer, because few things help conserve budget and resources like knowing what’s likely to happen. But there’s a catch that we’re investigating at Trust Insights. Watch the video to find out what.

    I’ll be covering some of this in my talk at Social Media Marketing World 2019. Be sure to register for Social Media Marketing World 2019 with us and get a bit of a discount.

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    Lisa asks, What are your thoughts on the evolving nature of digital marketing and predictive analytics for the next year? Hmm. So, um,

    there are going to be some

    substantial economic headwinds in the next year, year and a half, two years, anyone who’s doing any kind of investigation, any kind of watching of economic indicators, leading economic indicators, sees the writing on the wall, a recession in 12 to 24 months, 12 to 18 months, probably driven in part by natural market cycles, and in part by inept economic policies on the part of

    more than one government, but certainly in the United States government

    and its economic policies, not doing great things for global trade.

    So what’s the impact of marketing? Well, my marketers are going to need to focus very, very heavily in the next year on ROI, and results, what’s really working, what’s putting money in the bank, what’s putting customers in the door, what’s feeding sales,

    and this is,

    you know, I’m, I’m in my 40s, I’ve got some

    great here, this is kind of a really interesting time, because

    marketers over the last decade

    for the most part have had it pretty easy. We’ve had sustain economic growth since the really, I mean, since 2011, when,

    when a lot of the economic measures to counteract the Great Recession really started accelerating. We’ve had very good sustained economic

    growth we’ve had good times,

    marketers have enjoyed ever cheaper software ever cheaper services

    for a number of years, marketers had it super easy with organic reach on social media being said, ridiculously easy to

    get it is much harder now. But it used to be a lot easier. And so, you know, folks who are under 30, I have not had to deal with

    the a recession in their professional careers. When you think back to 2008 and the Bear Stearns crash, and Lehman Brothers, and all that stuff.

    Digital Marketing wasn’t a very different space, it was still very problems. Seo was by far the most common channel and I was working, I was working in the financial services industry at the time. And SEO was the only thing that really kept us fed MySpace was space was the hot thing at the time.

    But there are not a lot of marketers, and certainly no one under 30, who has the experience of trying to market in a recession when people don’t want to buy things. Or when they do you want to buy things price, they come much, much more price sensitive all the sudden, as opposed to being brand sensitive.

    And so marketers are going to need to focus very heavily on ROI and results, what’s going to get results. And in some cases, what’s going to get results in a timely fashion.

    If you are in marketing. And you’re not investing time learning all the different paid media systems out there from native retargeting to display to, you know, whatever the the, the new story format of the week is YouTube stories now

    you’re missing an opportunity to, to build those skills and those those skill sets in your toolbox.

    Marketers,

    especially when you go into a recession, when you know you’re going into a recession, you need to focus very, very heavily on your personal brand on your name on your reputation. Because when and it is a when, when it comes to when when when the economy slows down. And companies start making staffing changes, aka layoffs.

    You need to have share of mind with people who can hire you, you need to be present in people’s minds when they think Gosh, who do I know that would be a good Facebook marketer

    who do I know that would be a good Google Analytics person,

    if they don’t think of you, then they’re going to go the traditional recruiting route, which means that will be that much harder for you to get a land a new position somewhere else. So make sure you’re focusing personally on your personal brand and building your professional network. And really building and not like randomly following people on Twitter. But actually having conversations with people

    on the front of predictive analytics,

    predictive analytics is going to be the Keystone for the savvy marketer, it is going to be the secret weapon that a marketer will deploy to make the most of the budget and their resources, because nothing helps you plan like knowing what’s pretty likely to happen. If you know that, you know, the fourth week of January is going to be your company’s week in your industry in your vertical, you know, you have to invest heavily there. And you know, you can pull back budget from say, like the the second week of July, when no one in your industry is going to be searching for anything, no one for you’re interested in talking about anything. So using predictive analytics will help you plan your social media plan, your paid media plan, your search campaigns, plan, your your email marketing,

    it will be the cornerstone, and companies that have got a handle on what’s likely to happen

    will outperform

    those companies that are just going by gut or by instinct, or by past experience. Now, on that note, past experiences, really, really,

    it’s a double edged sword

    with two really sharp edges. On the one hand, relying on the immediate past

    has the potential to be risky, because when a recession hits, people’s behaviors change very, very quickly. Consumer attitudes change,

    business, attitudes change, purchasing cycles change. And so using the last five years of data, which is what most predictive analytics

    software

    looks at, you know, a year, two years, three years, you know, within that five year span is making the assumption that the conditions under which people were doing things the last five years are consistent. And that’s not necessarily true. Once a consumers behavior changes, you need to model the new behavior. So

    one thing I’m looking at, in my work of trust insights is modeling the data from 2006 to 2008 as well to see how did how do we account for changes in consumer behavior, when the consumer knows, oh, something’s, something’s different here.

    And the good news is that there are data repositories out there like Google’s news database, like the trends database, some SEO tools have data that stretches back to 2004. So we have the data available to model with we just have to get it but be very careful in your predictive analytics models to account for is something like this, like a recession, likely to change how customers behave in our segment. And if so, look back at the last recessions data to see how, for example, if you are in a charity that serves,

    say, the homeless,

    your search volumes, and search queries are going to spike really fast as as more and more people lose

    the ability to pay for their housing.

    On the flip side, though, the amount of corporate donations coming in are going to drop off pretty substantially, too. So by predicting and forecasting both of those transition you could be able to do to plan and account for them for what’s potentially likely to happen. This requires data science, it requires advanced modeling. It’s not something that you can do with a spreadsheet in a way it’s going to give you good results. But if you are a savvy marketer, you can take advantage of this and I hope that you come to see my session on events analytics at Social Media Marketing World is where it leaves it works there’s a link below in the notes to register there’s a bit of a discount right now. So if you go to trust insights.ai slash s m m w, Social Media Marketing World, you can register to attend for an all access pass and you get to see my session on a lot of the stuff and we’ll walk through bits of this at Social Media Marketing World full disclosure, my company trust insights is an affiliate of Social Media Marketing World. So if you buy something we’re getting a nonzero amount of compensation for it. So predictive the key to the future with Academy let your models have to account for the recession. recession is coming digital marketers who are under 30 talk to the folks have a little more gray hair but what they did last time to get through and to be successful thanks for the questions please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon one help solving your company’s

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Content Marketing Strategy and Company Size

    You Ask, I Answer: Content Marketing Strategy and Company Size

    Marije asks, “Do you think that a small company should use a different content strategy than a large company? If so, what is the main reason for that?”

    At a macro level, every company’s content marketing strategy is and should be identical: use content to improve the experience along the customer journey, from awareness through loyalty. The difference will be in implementation, driven by budgets, resources, and one key factor that 99% of companies do completely wrong. Watch the video to find out what, and one way to avoid making a disastrous content marketing mistake.

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    In today’s episode, Murray Hey. All right. asks,

    Do you think that a small company should use a different content strategy than a large company? If so, what is the main reason for that? Yes. So well, let’s back up. The big

    overall content strategy remains the same for pretty much every company, which is we want to use content to build awareness, build trust, in our brand, get

    us content, influence, consideration, evaluation and purchase, right, the standard buyers journey content helps make that journey move along more seamlessly. And so from that perspective, from the big picture perspective, yes, every company’s content strategy is roughly about the same thing, which is use content to help power marketing and sales and customer service.

    Now, the Why is the same, the what the How are going to be different, the what and the how are what choices you’re going to make in terms of channel budget method

    format. And then the How is you do that stuff. And that’s going to be different for every company, every single company is going to be do their content differently. Every company should do their content differently than every other company. Because otherwise, your content is just as much of commodity as your product is, and no one’s gonna buy it, no one’s gonna pay attention to it, no one’s going to use it. So the big differentiators for the content production strategy are largely around resources, what do you have the ability to create the content. So for example,

    my company trust insights were a three person company, there is only so much content we can create every day,

    we create good

    podcast content about once a week, we create video content every day, I use the video content that I do for my personal blog. Also, for the company as well, we create a newsletter once a week, we create blog posts couple times a week, depending on what’s going on. And what we have to share this important that is, and that is useful to our audience. So

    you’re talking a three person company can credibly crank out about one to two pieces of super high quality, useful content a day.

    Now notice, I didn’t say professionally polished or expensive looking content. Because today,

    you don’t want to get to elaborate and too fancy with your content creation, it’s better to provide useful content frequently, then polished content infrequently. And the other thing that tends to happen with very polished content is that

    the more people who are involved in the creation of it, the more the less useful it becomes to the end user. Because as you do more content by committee, more and more people wanted to be about the company and less about the audience. There are not a lot of content programs that survive a committee and create useful content at the end. So it is better, you are better off doing something like this, recording something on a phone with a $40 microphone or something. And publishing frequently. But making it all about you, the audience and not about the company.

    The channels will vary as well. If you are if you are a company that has a difficult time conveying information, a certain format, don’t use that format. So you really have what four major channels, you have text, your audio, you have video, and you have interactive, those are the four ways you can get someone to do something up with you.

    Most companies don’t have really good interactive capabilities, because it requires a very specific skill set that is very, very difficult for most companies to do. For example, creating your own app, creating your own apps and maintaining the midst of a software business in and of itself, it is content.

    But it’s difficult to do

    videos relatively easy these days, thanks to the prevalence of smartphones and things. So if you are comfortable on video, or even if you’re uncomfortable in video, but you’ll do it is a good way to provide content depending on your audience. Audio is a fantastic way to reach people. Because audio is the only format that you can

    that somebody can consume while they’re doing something else. So you can listen to a podcast while you’re at the gym, or driving a car or making lunch or whatever, it’s very difficult to read. Or even to watch a video. If you are doing something else. You absolutely should not be watching videos while you’re commuting, for example, just a terrible idea. It’s highly unsafe,

    but you can listen. So if your audience

    is an audience that is busy,

    and they listen to audio sources already audio content, maybe the way to go. A lot of people have jumped on the podcasting bandwagon the last couple of years, which is, is good as long as again, the content you’re creating is useful.

    The last thing I’ll say on small versus large company is that a larger company because of its budget, and resources can create more content. But it doesn’t necessarily mean it is better content. The

    number one challenge every single marketer faces is creating content that is actually useful to the audience.

    It is

    instinctive

    for marketers to

    to make very self centered content, say, hey, check out our awesome products in our awesome company. And our here’s a picture of our lobby, and you know,

    stuff that

    is makes the CEO of the company feel better, or it makes the board directors feel better, but doesn’t do anything for the customer. And so

    the biggest struggle you’re going to find is how do you create content that the audience actually wants? And the number one way to do that is to ask people, what do you need help with? What questions would you like to have answered? The entire reason I do this show you ask answer, which is based off of Marcus Sheridan’s book they ask you answer is because it is inherently audience centric, you have a question, I’ll try to answer it as opposed to me just putting stuff out there that may or may not be of interest to you. If you’re if you marry his sent me this entire document of like 15 questions, and I’ll answer the ones that are relevant

    by default. I’m making content for the audience for you for her this case, because this is what she wants to know.

    So what questions do you get? And you feel like I don’t know where to get questions. I guess what I can tell you the number one source of year of questions for your shows for your blogs, podcasts video is your customer service inbox guarantee you if you get at least one email a day from customer service

    to your customer service inbox, you have questions to answer that customers that audience members want answers to. And by the way, if you create content that is answering the questions that people have that you have received, guess what the next time that question comes in your sales team, your customer service team, your marketing team, your PR team, whoever can grab the link in the content that you made and say, Hey, here’s a 10 minute video answers your question aren’t we so helpful to you?

    Like, hey, I’ve got you know widget w x 42 and I don’t know where the flow goes for why to have the W x 41 and if someone’s got that question you can provide them a serious well thought out answer that will provide real value to them and to anybody else who has questions about your stuff. So great question at the macro level everyone’s kind of strategy the same at the execution everyone’s is going to be different and it should be different. As always, please leave your questions you can send them to the link in the show notes below and please subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter and we’ll talk to you soon

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What to Read Before 2019

    You Ask, I Answer: What to Read Before 2019

    Jon asks, “What, if any, will be the number one,”blow your socks off," marketing trend for 2019? If nothing comes to mind, what existing technology or tactic will see major growth in 2019? What is going to fade away in the coming year? What book(s) or blogs would you say will be must reads to stay competitive in 2019?"

    For the first question, I answered this in the Trust Insights 2019 Key Marketing Trends Forecast, so grab a copy of that. In this video, I answer the trends that are taking a nosedive, and what books you should re-read in 2019.

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    In today’s episode john asks three questions about the upcoming marketing season what’s gonna blow our socks off marketing trend or 2019 read the new trust insights 2019 key marketing trends report but influencer marketing going to eat everything but read that report link is at trust insights.ai slash 2019 trends number two what’s going to fade away in the coming year now this is an important one because it’s not in the trends report I mean we have the data but it wasn’t in the trends report is as important what’s going to get chewed up this coming year according to our data only pull up our data here to do we’re looking at a couple of big things that are likely to drop number one Snapchat stick a fork in it it’s it appears to seriously be done in terms of things that people just are not going to be searching for as much not

    Because they’re at saturation like Facebook but because Instagram pretty much eight that launch

    the app kick also is is on the ropes not doing not doing so hot there and then the there are a number of decreases This is one we have to be careful the number of decreases in the names of the the old names of Google’s was now Google marketing platforms that’s more of a rebranding change showing that they’re actually have done a good job rebranding the marketing suite

    is now called Google marketing platform. It used to be called analytics 360. Yeah, so they renamed it a bunch of times but that’s the big ones Snapchat unless your audiences like a die hard Snapchat audience if there isn’t there there anymore. It Instagram has just done such a good job of taking away all the features and putting it into a network that

    Frankly, as much, much larger on the third question, what books or blogs would you say will be must read to stay competitive in 2019, there are

    a bunch of books that have been very useful. One that I really liked

    that was a good read was a j bears talk triggers, which is a good it’s it’s not just a book it’s also got a workbook and a framework in it of stuff that

    you should do. It’s a six step process. And if you follow that, if we actually do the framework, it’s a really good book but the one I think that is undersold and people have forgotten about where people have forgotten how to apply the lessons of is not a business book at all, it is this one. This is Sun Tzu’s Art of War.

    I have the clear addition you can find any number of

    versions online. I like the query edition because in the query addition you’ll get the individual text and then you’ll get

    A bunch of commentary by other

    contemporaries about what about possible interpretations for the phrase so for example in there’s a whole section in here on doing battle and

    it says those who use the military skillfully Do not raise troops twice and do not provide food three times and then the the commentary goes into essentially if you’re really bad at war then you’re going to have to to raise a whole bunch of resources that you didn’t need

    or you didn’t need to expand the yen in traditionally when you when you raise troops, your conscripting them from the population when you when you send food every ounce of food that you send the military is taken away from the rest of your population. Now this was written in ancient China

    when you apply that lesson to your marketing to your business. It is it

    emphasis that you need to be really smart and really good about what it is that you do with your marketing. The equivalent of raising troops and sending food is hiring and consuming budget, right? You only have so much budget to work with. And if you are bad at marketing, you’re going to expand the whole bunch of that budget

    in ways that are not efficient. So that requires a lot of strategic decisions like testing stuff like should we attempt this avenue in the same way that you would do so in a military campaign where you would, instead of just randomly committing to one action, hoping it works out for the best you would use scouting, you would use espionage you would use surveillance to determine the strength of the enemy and what they’re likely to do you use the knowledge of the enemy general and what personality weaknesses they have that might get them to to make a poor choice

    and ensuing in doing so give you a strategic advantage that

    You could use

    it as a way to to save your troops, save your your your budget, save your resources, and be able to win the war. Now, these are not one one comparisons. For example, there’s in a war people die in failed marketing campaigns. Nobody dies.

    You do. You may not do well as a company, but there are there are obviously some some inept comparisons. But from a strategic perspective, classics like the art of war are

    a really important reads and the reads that people have not done. They are reads that people have skipped over or maybe read them once in business school and have long forgotten the lessons in them. And my friend Scott Monte calls this timeless wisdom and there is there is a

    an art and a science to reading it to be in requires, honestly it requires

    We’re here to be able to see how

    how these lessons apply to the modern day and to translate them and to know which ones don’t apply. But I would emphasize that in 2019, you get back to the basics

    as we have seen over the last 10 years, especially in SEO. But now in social media with all the algorithm changes, every algorithm change

    that happens. We just put up a thing on Instagram on Instagrams API change every algorithm and API change

    does more to take away the easy tricks the the ways to hack the system and force us all as marketers and as people to do it the right way.

    If you go back to the the timeless wisdom section of your bookshelf

    you’re looking at Okay, what are the

    lessons that we should be adhering to that have worked and will continue to work as long as people don’t change all that much. And that’s where I think there’s some opportunities for marketers in in 2019 or frankly in any year to to get competitive and stay competitive figure out

    figure how people work because behind all the technology at least for now there’s still a human being a good chunk of the time

    and so figuring out how the people work will let you take advantage of hacking the the wet were up here rather than trying to hack this thing here. Right. So

    great questions, lots and lots of different stuff to keep in mind as we enter a new year as budgets refresh and things like that.

    I certainly wish john and everyone the opportunity to have some great opportunities and then in the new year but a study up study up on those classics study upon the things that

    help you understand why people make the decisions they make and and keep an eye on those trends thanks for watching please leave your comments if you have any in the comments below and subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon one 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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  • Trust Insights 2019 Marketing Trends Report

    Trust Insights 2019 Marketing Trends Report

    I’m pleased to share the brand new, data-driven 2019 Marketing Trends Report from Trust Insights. Unlike other trends reports and forecasts which are purely qualitative in nature or just vendor promotions, this report looks at 3,627 popular marketing searches and forecasts them, using machine learning, over the next 52 weeks to determine what’s going to be on marketers’ minds in 2019. See the hard numbers behind the trends, too:

    Trust Insights 2019 Marketing Trends Report

    Learn why marketers might be missing the boat on brand new social networks, which marketing technology platforms have the biggest mindshare, and what questions you should be asking of your 2019 marketing plans.

    Get your copy of the report for free at https://www.trustinsights.ai/2019trends now!

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    Today, very pleased to introduce to you the key marketing trends forecast from trust insights. This is a report that is looking at trends in marketing over the next year. Now, the origin of the genesis of this report is the fact that a lot of the trends reports that we see online for a prognostications of the future are based either on purely qualitative perspectives, which there’s nothing wrong with that, because if you spend all your time talking to customers, clearly, you’re going to get a very good understanding what your customers care about, and would never dissuade anyone from doing that. But there’s not much in the way of quantitative about it. We as humans have selective bias we had humans have selective memory, we can only remember certain things and we tend to remember the things that we associate with most then there are the vendor report that as as my friend and pure Scott Brinker says there’s an awful lot of reports that conflict accompanies hopes and goals with prognostications about what the market will do independent of them, meaning your companies are promoting trends that benefit them and show that they’re on the right track. So we asked ourselves selves, what would it look like if we use actual data? What kind of data could we use? And then what would that tell us? So we looked at search data, because unlike social media conversations, which there is this thing, sort of a social bias there stuff that you don’t want to talk about, for example,

    there are not a ton of marketers who be thrilled to talk about, Hey,

    I still don’t know what I’m doing with Google Analytics in 2018,

    right?

    There’s, there’s a, there can be a social stigma to that. And certainly, if you’re working in a more conservative workplace, you would never want to publish it thing that admits to your boss or your stakeholders that something as basic as that is, is not in place. But marketers and people will search for that stuff like crazy. So what we did was we took some of the top marketing blogs, some of the top marketing websites, pulled all their keyword data, their SEO data, and built out a massive corpus of over 3000 search terms that are search for at least 100 times a month. And then we use machine learning technology to forecast forward based on the last five years of data, what would what will be likely to be the search volume for those terms going forward. And so in this report, you’re going to see things like we see Facebook’s giant dominance of everything follow the YouTube Instagram the major social networks we see marketing automation software like MailChimp, data analysis languages like are so you’ll get a sense in this report of what’s popular. But most importantly, when we go forward in time, what are the things that are going to be taking off or that people will be likely searching for most people search generally not for fun people search because they have a need, they need to fulfill the have an intent, I want to know what this thing is. I want to know why this thing’s important. I want to know how to do that thing. And generally speaking, that’s the order in which people do stuff is is what is it? Why is it important? How do I do it, because if they don’t know what it is, they clearly don’t understand the importance and if they don’t understand the importance, they’re not going to invest the time and learning how to do something. So when we look at what’s likely to happen in the next year, and the next 52 weeks, we see that the major social networks, frankly, they’ve got all the people right, there’s there’s not much room for growth. There’s not much room for

    beyond a certain amount of people saying, I need to know why is YouTube important. No one actually needs to be told why you do was important. However, there are other network other technologies. Other terms, other ideas that are trending like LinkedIn 28% forecasted increase in the next year discord 12.3% slack 43.4%. So in this report, you’re going to see the terms and you’ll see our analysis of what these terms mean

    for your marketing such as, for example,

    slack and discord are two sides of the same coin. For those of you who work in a b2b or

    modern company that uses an internal system like Slack, you know the value of that internal chat system. Are you on discord if you’re a b2c company, discord is the equivalent for consumers, especially younger consumers who are super into gaming and pop culture. It’s a tremendous social network, and it’s one that is very difficult to navigate. But if you know how to navigate Slack, you can probably navigate discord because the idea is very similar.

    Are you prepared for that? Do you know about that? Is that something that’s already your radar for the next year? Do you have a strategy plan for it. So a lot of these different trends of things will cover in the report. And then finally, we’ll look at the things that are going to be trending the most the stuff that may not be the most popular right now, but as likely, we’re likely to see massive increases such as audience analysis people, marketers want to know how do I do this thing? How do I What is this thing why is important? How do I do this thing some searches actually use the terms like what is what is digital transformation 290% projected increase in the next year what is influencer marketing 230% increase in the next year. And so in this report, you’ll get you’ll get all these terms you’ll get all of the the analysis of it and our recommendations about the questions you should be asking you, whoever your chief questions officer is, these are the things that they should be asking about and you coming up with answers to in order to take advantage of what’s going to happen in the next year. So grab your copy at trust insights.ai slash 2019 trends. It’s completely free of financial cost, just got a short form to fill out and read through it. Ask us questions about it. If you’ve if you’ve got any but make use of it. Take this report and start planning a 2019 strategy based on actual data of what people are likely to be searching for. And the next year. Thanks for watching and grab that report. One help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Measure Brand Awareness

    You Ask, I Answer: How to Measure Brand Awareness

    Ciri asks, “What’s the best way to measure brand awareness? Among all the searching I’ve done, it seems like people have a lot of different takes on measuring brand awareness.”

    The gold standard for how to measure brand awareness is unaided recall among your target audience, which typically requires a significant (five to six figures) but worthwhile investment in a market research firm like Edison Research. That said, you can begin to sort out brand awareness from a series of digital metrics that can inform your market research. The metrics to consider are:

    • Branded organic search, and the metrics it generates
    • Coverage, and the metrics it generates
    • Conversation, and the metrics it generates
    • Downfunnel metrics and business outcomes

    These three categories will generate something on the order of several hundred variables to process, which requires some data science techniques to properly process.

    • Ingestion and cleaning
    • Centering and scaling
    • Variable importance measurement
    • Outcome modeling
    • Intermediary KPI modeling

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    In today’s episode, Ciri asks, What’s the best way to measure brand awareness? Among all the searching I’ve done? That seems like people have a lot of different takes on measuring brand awareness. Absolutely. People have tons of different takes on measuring brand awareness. A lot of those things being done at and put out there are by individual vendors promoting their software. There is there are a couple of different ways to measure brand awareness. The gold standard for measuring brand awareness is unaided recall surveying among your target audience. So if your target audience is Chief Technology officers, you would commission a market research firm to check in with them once a quarter or whatever and say hey

    in your experience, please name five vendors who provide I don’t know email marketing services and see what these people remember. unprompted unaided. See if they recall Hall your brand and they do great, you’re you have brand awareness within your target segment. If it never name your brand at all. Is it okay, well, we’re not reaching the target audience. Now, market research. Proper market research requires significant investment. The firm I recommend typically is a company called Edison research. They do top shelf market research. And they do it properly.

    There are a lot of companies to call themselves market research companies. But

    market research like that should be the my friend Tom Webster who works at Edison research calls it reassuringly expensive,

    you should be planning on your mid five figures to low six figures for the budget to do something like that. Because you’re you’re going to want to check in with these people frequently. And you need somebody if your audiences like senior executives, you’re going to need credible market research companies. To get to those executives. You can’t just spin up a survey monkey and email them and you’ll get like a completely statistically insignificant response, right.

    So

    the second way, which is a precursor to the market research is to use some of your digital metrics to start to assemble a score that will inform your market research, it is not a replacement for market research, it is a a prerequisite of the market research to make sure that you’re doing the things you need to do in order to get people in the door. And

    that digital metric

    combination really comes out of four buckets. bucket number one is a branded organic search the number of people who search for you by name over time, and then the conversion metrics that go along with that. So the brand number of brand organic searches, returning users to brand organic searches, etc, etc, etc. That’s going to be you know, 2030 variables

    if it was a spreadsheet, like 20 columns coverage, so public relations, media relations, influencer relations, whose

    writing about you, what are they writing? What’s this sentiment? What’s the tone? What’s the importance? What’s the SEO value, what are the number of clicks on articles, social shares, all those metrics around coverage are a second big bucket that’s you’re gonna you’re talking

    potentially another spreadsheet of 50 or 60 columns. The third is conversation, people talking about you, and this could be influencers, but it could also be regular people, your target audience, and then all the subsequent metrics that those generate likes, comments, shares,

    pro profile clicks, all the works, that’s going to be a gigantic spreadsheet. And finally, in the fourth bucket, you’re going to need off your down funnel metrics. So you have your awareness sort of top of funnel, then you have web traffic, new users, returning users time on page by segment, goal conversions, and then you get out of web analytics. You go into marketing, online system, your

    marketing, qualified leads, sales, qualified leads, opportunities, deals, one deals, loft, etc.

    You’re going to need to put together the spreadsheet and the spreadsheets going to have

    probably several hundred columns,

    you will need data science

    techniques to properly process this data.

    There is no there’s no human way to do this, at least not in anything that would take you less than two years are you doing nothing but that

    because it is a massive undertaking

    the it’s a five step process you need to do ingestion and cleaning mean take all the data info the sources, clean it up, fixed, missing, or broken data, remove anomalies, and so on, and so forth. So that’s step one. Step two is what’s called centering and scaling where you need to normalize the data so that you can do apples to apples comparisons a little more cleanly. For example, if you are looking at branded organic search, and you’re looking at social conversation, this is going to be have very different scales. So it’s very difficult to do a comparison of those metrics without normalizing them scaling sent to them, scale them, make them more like each other. The third step is doing what’s called variable importance identification. And that is that a lot of cases that’s going to take actual machine learning to run

    every possible combination of those variables against a, a, an outcome, a target, like

    sales,

    and figure out which metrics in combination have a high correlation to the

    actual outcome you care about.

    We know that, you know, there’s, there’s a sequence within the funnel, people don’t necessarily, you know, they don’t follow linearly, but they there is a path from awareness to purchase, people don’t make a purchase without awareness. That’s a, that’s a logical. So the variable importance measurement helps you identify the variables, a mathematically high relationship,

    once you’ve done that you’ve gotten rid of, you know, 80, 90%

    of the variables that don’t have any mathematical relationship to the outcome you care about, you’ll want to build a couple of models, you’re going to build an outcome model which says, Hey, we, if we want more sales, we need to test doing more of these things. And then you’ll go back and rerun variable importance to do what’s called intermediary KPI modeling.

    And this is especially for bigger companies.

    There are a lot of dependencies on a sale

    problem. I used to have it at a company just to work with was that marketing kept being asked for more and more and more leads every quarter more leads, more leads, more leads, and sales was closing at something like a 1% closing rate. So benchmarking off of sales, as the only outcome meant that a lot of marketing data got thrown out. Because the salespeople were incompetent. They they couldn’t have sold fire to a freezing person, and

    so intimidated KPI modeling says, okay, for your department, what outcome Do you have responsibility for if you work in corporate communications awareness, maybe the variable to measure for if you’re the web guy or the web girl, you know, new traffic to the website is your KPI. And so you’ll want to rerun that variable importance for each departmental outcome so that each department understands, hey, these are the things that

    we know contribute to the outcome that we care about. And again, build models for that. And then the last step of the process is, once you’ve got these models, you have to test them. If, for example, tweets on Tuesdays, that contain a poop emoji have the highest mathematical correlation to the outcome you care about. You cannot assume that correlation equals causality, you have to build a testing plan to say, Okay, now let’s do five more tweets on Tuesdays and put three poop emoji and the tweeting instead of two and see if that commensurate increase in activity

    yields to the command a commensurate increase a proportional increase in outcome. And so there’s that testing plan to bring to life that model and and validate that the model either works or does not work it this is the scientific method, just using a lot more math and data, you come up with a hypothesis, you test it, you analyze it, you find your hypothesis, until you’re you have a proven model. And that’s how you develop a working model, a working measurement model for brand awareness. You can’t just throw a bunch of numbers on a spreadsheet, average them and add them all up and call it brand awareness. Because you don’t actually know what does and does not contribute. You have to go through this process of testing. And you need to use data science and machine learning if you want the model to be credible and proven and and develop a testing plan that is workable because again, if you’ve got a spreadsheet with 500 variables, testing each one and then testing each combination of one you have run out a lifetime before you you get through you. One testing machine has to help you do it. So great question is a complex question and it requires data science help. It’s not something that you can build a credible model for by yourself just with a spreadsheet. If you have follow up questions, please leave them in the comments. And of course, subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter

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  • You Ask, I Answer: The Best Marketing Conference To Attend

    You Ask, I Answer: The Best Marketing Conference To Attend

    Ben asks, “If you had to recommend a single general digital marketing conference to attend, what would it be? Where can i get the most takeaway educational value?”

    As with anything, the answer to this is highly dependent on your needs. What do you need to learn the most?
    – B2B marketer? Go to the MarketingProfs B2B forum.
    – Social media marketer? Go to Social Media Marketing World.
    – Content marketer? Go to Content Marketing World.
    – In the Hubspot ecosystem? Go to INBOUND. Likewise, if you’re in the Salesforce ecosystem, go to Dreamforce. IBM shop? Go to IBM THINK. Whatever vendor you use the most, go to their event.

    That said, a conference is also not always the best choice for takeaway educational value. Take a strong look at all the online course offerings available to you – conferences are great for surface dives, networking, and big picture landscape perspectives. They’re less good at a deep dive into any one subject.

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    In today’s episode, Ben asks, If you had to recommend the single general digital marketing conference to attend, what would it be? Where can I get the most takeaway educational value? Well, that is a difficult question to answer. Because there is no one best there is no one best of anything for anyone. There is what is best for you, and what your needs are, what your educational needs are. There are dozens of really good marketing conferences from the biggest of the big little boutique conferences, their conferences specifically for executives, I was just at one called the fuse digital marketing conference, which was excellent.

    If you’re a b2b marketer, you should be going to the marketingprofs speed before him. If you’re a social media marketer should be like the Social Media Marketing World if you’re a content marketer.

    should be going to content marketing world. And then most importantly, if you are using a vendor heavily and the vendor has an event, you should probably go to that event because you’re going to get a lot of useful

    tactical, hey, here’s how to use more of the thing you’re already paying for. So you know, for example, if you’re in the IBM ecosystem, you should be going to IBM. Think if you’re in if you sales force going to dream force. For use HubSpot, you should be going to inbound there’s all these conferences that are focused around the tools that you use.

    Here’s the catch, and here’s the thing I think it’s important.

    A conference is not always the best choice for educational value for takeaway educational value. If you want to do a deep dive on something you probably going to be better off taking an online course

    if educational value is the things important because conferences conferences are great for

    Surface dives into a lot of different areas or landscape view of something. They are great for networking. They are great for building your professional network and learning from peers, having conversations with other peers.

    They’re not as good at deep diving into just one thing to say, I want to learn all about

    logistic regression, right? I want to, I want to master that. Well,

    in my experience, you’re not going to get that out of a conference, you’re going to get a whole bunch of ideas and a whole landscape of different things to try.

    But you’ll then have to go back and do the research yourself to teach yourself those things. I was just at an event in Minneapolis, the mini analytics conference and I saw some folks put up some slides. So as case studies, here’s the technical infrastructure that we use and and

    they showed their machine learning algorithms for every

    Step of the marketing funnel of this particular company’s marketing funnel was fantastic. It was a road map of the different techniques they use. They didn’t teach the techniques, they didn’t teach their implementations techniques. They just told you what they use is kind of like

    if you were to open a cookbook, you would see

    just the ingredients to the recipe, but no instructions on how to cook. It is now my obligation as a conference attendee to take those slides to take those learnings and to teach myself any techniques I don’t know and to use my knowledge of the techniques that I do know to reverse engineer their recipes and apply them to my work at trust insights and then work for our clients.

    So for someone like me, who is

    a self learner as I hope you are

    that one conference presentation

    was good enough to give me a roadmap for the next year maybe two years of learning

    but none of it is take away educational value that I can immediately start using that’s not what a conferences for.

    So it depends on your needs if you need to learn is like a for example if you deeply need to learn how to do drip campaigns

    yeah in your marketing automation software a conference will give you some ideas

    it gives some best practices and may fill some gaps or expand your knowledge of drip nurturing. But if you don’t know how to use the feature, you are better off spending investing a lot of time in the tutorials to help guides and then if a vendor or third party provides it taking courses on those things. If you look at some of the courses that are available for free out there right now, Google Analytics Google has a whole analytics Academy they have an AdWords Academy it’s not

    called afterwards anymore. I still call that words just of habit. HubSpot has its inbound Academy and they’re these, you know, all these different trainings that you can get for free. If you assemble for yourself what you need to know, MIT’s entire curriculum is is open and available for viewing and download. There are dozens of other universities that have published their content in things like iTunes University. So it’s more What do you need to know? And how deeply do you need to know it? They’re like I said, I think there’s a tremendous an important role for conferences and in exposing attendees to new ideas into expanding our understanding of a of a landscape and seeing those best practices or those case studies that

    give us the ingredients list for what other people do are doing so that we can do the same so that we can learn the same

    and then reverse

    engineer own solutions

    if you are and this requires himself or if you are the kind of person who is not a self starter with learning We need someone to be guiding you through

    a subject again at conferences and the best place for that because what you’re going to get will be

    tactically usable as is. But if you don’t know how to adapt it, you’re going to need to invest time in taking those courses and trainings that will supplement those ideas and expand on them and teach you the ins and outs of them. And that’s that that’s totally okay. There’s nothing wrong with saying hey,

    I don’t have the the inclination or maybe I don’t have the time to do to teach myself you know,

    machine learning. I was reading it was funny I was reading an evaluation I got from the marketingprofs comments one attendees

    Well,

    I didn’t get any, any tactical takeaways from this session. I was like, well, you shouldn’t have because there weren’t any to take away. It was a talk. That was a why talking to what talk, not a how talk,

    teaching somebody how of machine learning would be like trying to teach someone, the how of neurosurgery. Like,

    it’s a discipline it requires, it’s a profession. It requires more than 45 minutes

    getting imagine trying to teach somebody but how of marketing and 45 minutes really difficult to do. So know your goals, know what you need to learn the most and know which educational vehicle is going to give you the outcome that you care about the most. It may be a conference,

    they may be a course maybe a book, maybe however you learn best it may you may end up hiring a mentor.

    And that’s a great approach to especially if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t learn as well from you know, sort of

    At course you need that one on one relationship. It will be expensive, but you can absolutely hire mentors to to coach you through things. So lots of opportunities, lots of different ways to learn stuff. But again, focus on what you need. There is no one best answer for any educational vehicle.

    Thanks for asking the question Ben. You have any follow up questions, leave them in the comments. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai de unless you know how we can help you.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: 2019 Marketing Trends Roundup

    You Ask, I Answer: 2019 Marketing Trends Roundup

    In the last day, I’ve received no fewer than 8 inquiries asking for quotes for 2019 trend roundups. So, in the interests of efficiency, here’s my take on 2019 trends using data from Trust Insights. Stay tuned – we’ll be releasing a full report very soon. In the meantime, watch this video and please feel free to borrow from it with full attribution to TrustInsights.ai and me. Enjoy!

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    In today’s episode about eight different people all had the exact same question and what do you mean the exact question which is what are the top trends for 2019 to watch.

    So this is a very popular questions a very, it is the time of year when everyone’s trying to crank out their info, their their 2019 trends. And so let’s take a look at some of these trends. Now, a couple of caveats. The trend data that I’m going to review is my company put together trust insights put this together based on five years of search data weighted towards the last 12 months projected forward 12 months because based on search data, this is what people are looking for. And it’s filtered to at least 100 inquiries a month so you’re not going to see a massive transpire for some but when from one search to five and as with all forms of predictive analytics,

    you can’t

    predict the unpredictable if I don’t know Parliament arrests the entire senior staff of Facebook then obviously it would have a substantial impact on the Facebook ecosystem but barring the crazy things like that the data that we’re going to go through is based on what people are looking for

    so just just know that in terms of what people are most interested in going into 2019 the top of the list by far is around influencer marketing the influencer marketing is the hottest thing we’re looking at for people looking for influencer marketing we’re looking at a 990 percent increase in year over year and people searching for influencer marketing

    particularly

    around influencer marketing agencies they are looking for for that it’s a substantial jump there we are looking at also a very, very big jump in interest in Google’s Data Studio product. And 50% jumping Google Tag Manager product both of these are part of the Google Analytics suite. So emphasis on measurement emphasis on the basics emphasis on influencers and Instagram is is topping the charts in terms of the thing that people want to know the most about. People want to know Instagram analytics, they want to know YouTube Analytics that’s interesting. And even Twitter analytics we’re seeing an increase year over year and so

    people looking to measure stuff now out of these disparate pieces what we can extract from this is an understanding of the bigger picture trends which is that influencer marketing is on fire going to continue to be on fire for the foreseeable future. And it is something that everybody in their cousin is looking for more information about so if you are in the influencer marketing space and you haven’t already made your mark, this would be the time to do it. Because you need to be in position to capture this wave. If you are in the influencer analytic space as

    evidenced

    by the number of queries here, there is a substantial opportunity for your company

    to

    to grab some market share, because that’s where the as the the hockey quote goes, that’s where the puck is going. People need to be measuring this stuff.

    When we look inside the measurement world itself, the emphasis on Google Data Studio with its hundred 25% increase year over year and data visualization as a practice 54% increase year over year,

    we have no shortage of data, we do have a shortage of insights, we do have a shortage of of useful analysis, we do have a shortage of taking action with our data. So looking carefully at these terms, and looking carefully at what people are searching for, we can see pretty quickly people need to measure stuff better, people need to do better analysis and people need to be able to present their findings in easier ways. And so tools like Google Data Studio are going to be the the tools to do that with so those are some of the big broad trends when we look at that what’s likely to happen I’m still stunned at the whole influencer marketing thing. It’s just it’s just crazy off the rails

    the channel to pay attention to in the new year is Instagram followed by YouTube, Instagram, on fire, YouTube, also on fire, YouTube, people looking for a site that’s what was founded in 2005. So 13 years old, almost 14 years old. Now, it is still a massive, massive opportunity. But you have to get gotta spend some money to to really drive traffic to it. And you’ve got to optimize your videos to do things like get people to subscribe to channel get people to participate in your channel. And I was reading an article recently that was talking about how YouTube’s engagement algorithms are much more time sensitive than Google’s meaning that when you publish a video and you’ve got to have some action

    on it right away in order to take advantage of the algorithm as it stands today.

    The other thing on the Instagram front that’s going to be real interesting is today the day I’m recording this which is December 11, 2018,

    Instagram is deprecating a substantial part of its API which means that things like the ability to extract data on hashtags and the ability to use third party tools to like comment and and follow people are going away today those those actions will will be eliminated what that means for a lot of folks it very importantly an influencer marketing space is that third time bots, third party tools, spam bots influencer marketing bots are getting a kick in the shins, they will no longer be able to do things like like every post that mentions a hashtag for example if you’re wonder why do some people put like 40 hashtags and their posts because they’ve been told that to attract new followers on Instagram you need to stuff your posts with hashtags Well now that these bots are are not going to be able to do that

    it is likely that that practice will diminish somewhat so

    influencer marketing the influencers who have cachet on Instagram are going to have to continue to do well anyone looking to jump into the space on Instagram specifically is going to have to do a lot more work either manually outsourcing with an assistant but you’re gonna have to use first party applications only meaning the Instagram app. And a lot of it’s going to be human driven for for the foreseeable future until somebody automates a way around that and there are some ways to do that. But they all violate the terms of service so we will not discuss them.

    So that’s that’s where things are going right now for

    again, this is all subject to change. This is all based on what people are searching for. As of the day I ran this analysis which was yesterday But things changed overnight technology changes overnight so if you have not already subscribed to the YouTube channel and the newsletter please do so. So that you can stay in touch with this stuff and if you go to the trust insights website and subscribe to the trust insights newsletter you’ll get news that is machine analyzed to be the the most useful, the best of the best so please subscribe to our newsletter over there. And for everyone who’s asking for quotes for 2019 these are the trends for right now stay tuned. There’s a it’s gonna be a rocky road ahead as

    as a as the calendar flips over.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Email Marketing Tools in 2019

    You Ask, I Answer: Email Marketing Tools in 2019

    Roger asks, “If you could only use 3 marketing tools for your email list in marketing campaigns which 3 would you choose?”

    There’s an easy answer and an answer which will give you a competitive advantage. The easy answer is a solid martech stack – comprehensive web analytics, great marketing automation (which includes email), and a rigorous CRM. But that’s table stakes, the table minimum as we head into 2019. There’s something that will give you a competitive advantage. Watch the video to find out what it is.

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    In today’s episode, Roger asked if you could only use three marketing tools for your email list in marketing campaigns, which through would you choose? Oh, that’s kind of an

    interesting question. There’s easy answer to that question. And then there’s an answer that will give you a competitive advantage. So rather than the just restrict ourselves to three, let’s dig into this a little bit. Now, the easy answer is a solid marketing technology stack, which means you need great web analytics, a great marketing automation platform, which includes email marketing capabilities, and a rigorous CRM that tracks your data appropriately, and gives you thorough reporting about what’s happening with your business,

    those would be the the basic three marketing tools that you would need in order to be able to do marketing effectively, or at least today. But that’s, that’s the table stakes, that’s the

    bare minimum that you need. As we head into 2019, if you want a competitive advantage, you’re going to need to do something that none of these tools currently do. And that is you’ll need to extract the data out of all of them, and do rigorous statistical analysis, rigorous data science on them on all that data to figure out what’s actually working. So consider for a moment what you know, about a name and an email address, which is probably what you have a fair amount of in, in an email marketing system, what can you know, just from that, you can assess the probability and I emphasizes probability of gender, you can know in some cases, depending on the type of name

    I probability of age, because there are names and you can go to France, baby name sites, see the rising and falling trends of different types of names from the email address, you can get the top level domain.com.org country level code.uk.us, you can get the company name itself, and there are certain email providers that you’ll know that you can determine our our nonprofit or for profit,

    there are the webmail providers, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, things like that. And then there are domain lookup. So you can do if you are skilled at extracting data out of public systems, you can query any number of the domain name servers to ask for the company name. So what is, you know, who runs gmail. com, who runs trust insights.ai. And these are examples of ways you can pull data out of the domain name registry system, if it’s publicly if it’s allowed, if it’s publicly disclosed, to get a better sense of what is the company and then from there, you can do feature engineering to figure out are these companies reasonably good companies to have in our database for the purposes of marketing, that is data science, that is the investigations all it’s almost dated

    detective work to take what is a very thin list a very thin

    amount of data and augmented to engineer it and augment it to bring in the lots more data that you can then look at outcomes. If you’re doing your email marketing. Well, you should have a score next to each email address, for example, number of opens number of clicks, if you’ve done a good job of if it’s if your email marketing is being run through your marketing automation system, you should have great data about the number of times and the value of those conversions that in any given email address has done in your database. So downloaded a white paper, a webinar book came to a trade show event booth,

    put something in their shopping card, walked in the store, sign up for the loyalty program, you name it, there’s any number of interactions that you could be tying back to the email address. If you’ve done that, then you can run an analysis to say, okay, we know these email addresses have all converted, we know these email addresses of all not converted, what do all the email addresses have converted, having common, what did all the email justice who have not converted have in common? Are there things that are traceable, that you can get out of your marketing automation software out of your CRM that was that say, this is the profile of who converts and this is important or to do this is this is important work to be able to assess and say, Yep, we now have a better idea of the type of person that type of customer the type of business that is likely to convert and turn into real dollars. The exception of course, and this something my CEO Katie or various that is that if you’re if you don’t have enough data, if your company is brand spanking new, and you don’t have enough data, you’ve got three customers, right, that’s not a statistically significant number of conversions. So you’re not going to get great data out of that. But you can get indicator data to test so you may not be able to have a million conversions. But you might have 1000 or 2000 website visitors, you might have 1000 or 2000 newsletter signups that would be ways that you could augment that data until you have the final conversion data.

    So the question of what email

    tools or

    or techniques should be powering your your marketing campaigns has to be more than the obvious ones in order for you to build competitive advantage. And competitive advantage is going to come through your data that you clean and

    prepare

    the analysis of that data to figure out what happened, what’s working what’s not at a very deep level. Remember, we just talked a whole bunch about feature engineering the insights which is potentially why the things happen, and you’re testing plan for them, and then changing your strategy to mirror that’s how you’re going to get competitive advantage in 2019 for email marketing, web marketing, Facebook marketing, whatever kind of marketing you’re doing, if you’re not approaching it from a rigorous data science perspective, a, you’re leaving money on the table and be you’re leaving opening for competitors take advantage of you. If you are using data science,

    you are potentially pulling further and further ahead of those competitors who are not using data as a competitive advantage. And you may be able to see as much more market share your disproportionate amount of market share.

    Now,

    if the market takes a turn in 2019. So there’s a possibility that it will but if a market if the market takes a turn,

    you’ll be important double down on your data science capabilities. And here’s why. What happens at every downturn does that a bunch of vendors and companies and competitors all go kaboom. Right, they go bust.

    And that means there is opportunity to take up market share, to take customers away from companies have gone under or vendors that have gone under and use that to seize an advantage.

    So you can

    acquire new talent very quickly at lower costs. You can

    double down on the customers you already have and deliver more value to them. But you’re going to need data for that. So make sure that you’re using the start down this path of using data detective work within your data today so that no matter what happens with the economy, you have a competitive advantage that very few other people are willing or able to get. Thanks for the great question. Roger Lee. follow up questions below in the comments. And as always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today unless you know how we can help you.

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