Author: Christopher S Penn

  • Why I’m Leaving SHIFT Communications and What’s Next

    I'm Leaving SHIFT Communications. Learn What's Next!

    I’m leaving SHIFT Communications.

    What's Next: Life After SHIFT Communications

    Background: Figuring out Public Relations

    In late 2012, I joined SHIFT Communications with a burning question. I had mastered the basics of digital marketing, of the middle of the funnel. I was a proficient email marketer, web marketer, and social media marketer. But I had a challenge. I didn’t understand the top of the funnel. I wasn’t strong in 2012 at digital advertising, and I had no exposure to the art and science of public relations. Frankly, I thought PR was BS.

    So I sought out Todd Defren and SHIFT Communications to broaden my horizons, to deepen my knowledge of this industry that companies pay millions of dollars for. Todd and I agreed that I would introduce digital marketing and analytics to PR, and I would learn the PR industry to complete my understanding of the top of the funnel.

    Over more than half a decade, we’ve done just that. SHIFT Communications became the first PR firm to earn certification as a Google Analytics™ Certified Partner, years before anyone else. SHIFT Communications became known for high-impact PR and measurement capabilities that are second to none. I’ve personally learned that with the right people, PR isn’t BS at all, but a vital corporate function. Ask any company that’s had a PR disaster how much it matters.

    During my time at SHIFT, I noticed something, especially among the largest clients. Companies were sitting on treasure troves of data, data that was locked away in digital filing cabinets and digital desk drawers, never to be used. Dark data. Everything from marketing analytics to ERP data to customer experience to product development – companies generate enormous amounts of data that goes unused. In the right hands, they could unlock that data and create tremendous business impact; in some cases, even save lives.

    What’s Next for Me: Co-Founding Trust Insights

    That’s why, after five years and change at SHIFT, it’s time for me to move on. I am forever grateful to the team at SHIFT Communications and especially to Todd Defren, Jim Joyal, Amy Lyons, and Paula Finestone for taking a chance on a new idea in 2012 and helping grow the agency to be so successful, it was acquired four years later. I still believe that SHIFT is the foremost data-driven PR firm, especially with my marketing technology colleagues at the helm.

    I’m leaving SHIFT Communications and the world of PR to co-found a new company, Trust Insights, whose mission will be to light up dark data. We’ll be using predictive algorithms, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to help businesses make better decisions, faster, to transform companies, and ultimately, to make the world a better place.

    For example, suppose you ran the operations for a major retail store. Using predictive algorithms, wouldn’t it be great to predict just how much staffing you’ll need at a given set of stores based on what your customers are likely to do?

    Trust Insights will help you build that prediction.

    Suppose you needed to understand the customer experience, the customer journey of high net worth individuals as a financial institution. Wouldn’t it be great to digest and understand everything these future customers are saying to align your products and services with what’s on their minds?

    Trust Insights will help you develop that understanding.

    Suppose you managed employee relations within a large, distributed corporation. Wouldn’t it be great to connect what employees say inside with the performance of the company to find what the real issues are that diminish productivity?

    Trust Insights will help you connect your data sources and find insights.

    Would you like to save time and resources in managing your data? Would you like to make more money with your data?

    Come chat with us at Trust Insights, and we’ll help shed light on your dark data.

    See you there.


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  • IBM THINK 2018 Attendee Planning Guide

    IBM THINK 2018 Attendee Planning Guide

    IBM THINK 2018 promises to be one of the largest, most rewarding technology conferences on the planet, in Las Vegas in March 2018. Getting the most out of this massive show requires advance preparation. For first-timers (and forgetful veteran attendees of other IBM events), here are a few suggestions to enhance your THINK 2018 experience.

    1. Stay hydrated. You’re going to two deserts for the price of one: Las Vegas, which tends to be a hot, arid climate, and the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, which runs air conditioning and thus remove even more water from the air. Drink water copiously. As the US Army expression goes, if you don’t have to use the restroom frequently, you haven’t had enough water. Consider bringing or buying a reusable water bottle on site.

    2. Bring COMFORTABLE SHOES. You will be walking a TON. See this map? That’s the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. It is one MILLION square feet – and IBM THINK occupies it all. From the Mandalay Bay hotel to the farthest ballroom is two-thirds of a mile – one kilometer – one way. Now imagine you walk the floor a few times a day – you’ll clock 6 miles or 10 kilometers each day easily. Wear shoes suited for that much walking.

    Mandalay Bay Convention Center

    3. Bring a portable power strip and power banks. Outlets aren’t always nearby and you will burn down your phone battery being social as well as trying new technologies on the floor. I’m partial to the Anker 20,000 maH power brick. It weighs as much as a small brick but will keep a tablet and smartphone charged all day. I also carry a Monster travel 4-port power strip, which I love. It’s a friend-maker – bring it out and make friends.

    Be aware that some devices may be restricted if you’re traveling from overseas due to various travel bans, so check in advance.

    Also, don’t forget your device cables. Bring 2 of each.

    4. Arrive with a BURNING question that you ask everyone you meet. What one question MUST you get answered in order for IBM THINK to be worth it? If you don’t have a burning question, you’ll enjoy the show but you won’t get the most out of it.

    5. Plan your sessions in advance. Got that burning question handy? Plan your sessions with the Watson Session Planner to ensure you get the most out of the event.

    Watson Session Planner

    6. Party responsibly. If we speakers are doing our jobs right, your brains should really hurt by the end of the event. You want to get the most out of the event, so pace yourself when it comes to entertainment options. That business-changing insight you’ve got a burning question about may happen on the last day of the event, and you want to be sober enough and awake enough to catch it. There are plenty of opportunities for entertainment and amazing bands, but remember why you’re there – especially if you want to be able to justify attending in future years.

    7. Bring earplugs. I always travel with ballistic earplugs. They’re great for reducing that screaming baby on the airplane to a dull roar, and priceless for major events like IBM THINK. Loud convention centers and concerts and parties are awesome… for a short while. Enough loud noise will tire you out. Bring a bottle of earplugs and you will end up much less fatigued. If you plan to attend any of the major concerts or go out to eat at the local restaurants, you’ll want lots of earplugs in your kit.

    8. Bring business cards. Lots of business cards. IBM THINK will have hundreds of thousands of attendees.

    9. Bring space. As in, pack lightly so you have room for all the fun stuff the various exhibitors have to offer. The people at the office or at home love a good souvenir.

    10. Bring a day pack/bag. There will be times you won’t want to lug around heavy luggage or a full laptop case. A small messenger bag will fit the bill perfectly. I’m personally a fan of the Osprey Nano, but any small bag or pack will do.

    11. Bring healthcare preventative measures. As stated above, IBM THINK will attract hundreds of thousands of physical attendees who eat together, stay in the hotels, party together, shake hands, and share the same air, water, and physical proximity. This year, influenza is especially bad. Bring hand sanitizer packs, wash your hands frequently, and consider purchasing an NIOSH-approved N99 face mask, especially if you’re arriving by airplane or other form of mass transit. Consult your physician/qualified medical practitioner about taking a multivitamin and/or other immune-boosting supplements.

    12. Grab snacks! Keith Brooks recommends grabbing snacks because you never know when you’ll next have a chance to sit down and eat something – especially if you’re from another time zone.

    13. Plan for cold! Volker Weber reminds attendees that conference halls are always cold, so bring a sweater or jacket.

    14. Bring a headset and hotspot. Keith Brooks also recommends headsets and hotspots to deal with conference wi-fi and being able to hear conference calls well.

    See you at IBM THINK!


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  • The Importance of 3 Buckets of Digital Marketing Analytics

    The Importance of 3 Buckets of Digital Marketing Analytics 1

    In order to know what to fix, we need to understand the relationships between our metrics. We have so many to choose from. How do we make sense of any of them?

    The Importance of 3 Buckets of Digital Marketing Analytics

    If we don’t understand the relationships between our metrics, we spend time fixing things that aren’t broken or ignoring the things that are.

    Building an understanding

    How do we simplify? How do we analyze in a coherent way?

    Three buckets of analytics

    • Awareness
    • Engagement
    • Action

    We categorize our metrics in one of these three buckets, then run analyses to understand how each bucket is performing relative to the goal we’re trying to achieve.

    Example of Twitter analytics top to bottom

    I exported all my Twitter analytics, plus Google Analytics data for Twitter traffic and Twitter-sourced goal completions. Once exported, I put everything in a spreadsheet, then ran a correlation matrix in the free, open-source R software to understand how the variables related.

    In my example, I found that my awareness and engagement buckets were fine. I saw no relationship between those two buckets and my action bucket, which is really bad.

    Knowing this, I now know what I have to fix. Awareness and engagement are strong, so I keep doing what I’m doing there, but I add more asking, more advertising, more pulling from the audience to boost action.

    I won’t go all-in on asking alone; I still have to provide more value than I take. But the data indicates I’m out of balance.

    Do the same for all your marketing analytics and metrics to understand what’s working and what isn’t.

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  • Measuring YouTube and Video at Social Media Marketing World 2018

    Measuring YouTube and Video at Social Media Marketing World 2018 3

    At Social Media Marketing World 2018, I sat down with live stage host Sunny Lenarduzzi to talk about measuring the impact of video marketing, especially on YouTube. We have so many great ways to measure video today, but I strongly encouraged her and the audience to use the tools already at hand, such as:

    Watch the 12-minute video below:

    Social Media Marketing World 2018 Live Stage: Christopher Penn

    I’ve been doing a ton more with YouTube lately; if you’re interested, please go check out and subscribe to my channel – and ask questions! I’m happy to answer them.


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  • You Ask, I Answer: Gating High-Value Blog Posts For Content Marketing Attribution

    You Ask, I Answer: Gating High-Value Blog Posts For Content Marketing Attribution 4

    Stedman asks,

    Many companies publish e-books and whitepapers that require you to sign up before you can read them (“gated content”).

    I’d like to apply this to blogs more generally: gating certain blog posts until the user has provided their email address. If readers are willing to give their emails to get access to useful content, then they’re revealing themselves to be high intent prospects. And once you have their email, you can retarget them with emails/ads specific to the pain-point that they revealed by reading that blog post.

    The reason this makes sense to me is that content marketing funnels are very leaky, and attribution with content marketing is very difficult. I think this solution solves both problems.

    That’s the thesis. I’d love for you to tear it apart 🙂

    Should you put high value blog posts behind a wall?

    Transcript

    Well, challenge accepted!

    So there’s two major problems with this. Number one is gating high value content automatically closes it off from Google. Google can’t see it, then it has no value, at least from a search perspective. You need to have enough content that is high value, high keyword terms that are indexable, findable in order for Google to create value.

    The second problem – and I think this is the bigger problem – is I’ve tried content lockers and they haven’t worked well for me. Here’s why they don’t work for me. When someone’s looking for a blog post or a piece of casual snackable content, they are very early on in their intent; when someone downloads a white paper or webinar, they’ve done some research already. You’ve established your credibility and they say, “ok you you seem to know enough from your public content that I’m gonna go ahead and and put my business card into the slot”, if you will, knowing full well they’re gonna get calls, they’re gonna get emails, all that stuff.

    Blog posts are not the same. Blog posts are discovery; they’re much earlier on in the customer journey most of the time; locking it away, people see that and say, “nope I’m out, I don’t trust you, I don’t know you ,I only found you because of search; if it’s locked, I’m just gonna go to the next search result.”

    Then you have two harmful aspects from that. Number one, we know Google’s algorithm has behavioral components to it, so if the user comes back and goes to the next listing, guess what happens to your rank, right? And two, you’re turning away people who are there to be educated.

    Remember the three E’s:

    • educate
    • engage
    • entertain

    You have to do one of those three; ideally, you do all three. If something is locked away and there’s only a teaser, you’ve done none of the three and you have not proven your value to someone very early on the customer journey. So the idea of content lockers, locking up content like super high-value blog content on the surface makes sense, but once you get into how people behave, how people think about things online, that’s when it kind of doesn’t really work.

    It’s a fine idea and I would say, prove me wrong – there are good content locker plug-ins for WordPress, like 30 bucks, test it out. Do a/b testing, use Google Optimize, see what happens when you lock some content.

    I guarantee there is an audience out there for which this will work, especially if you have a strong brand already. For the average corporate marketer, we don’t have the brand strength to do that. Could The Rock do it? Could a Kardashian do it? Sure, because they have such a massive brand halo that anything they put out, you’ll get some audience participation. If Beyonce said here’s my grocery list, put your email in address in here, I’m sure there would be hundreds of thousands of people saying, “yep I want to see, I want to see the grocery list!”, but most of us don’t have that much brand strength to pull that off.

    That would be my other condition – if you have super-powered brand strength people may do it, but for the most part, if you nobody knows who you are, nobody trusts you, or not enough people know you, trust you, it’s probably gonna be an ineffective tactic. Give it a try, test it out, see how it works, but accept that it’s probably not going to generate the results you think it will.

    Thanks for the question, and we’ll see you next time on “You Ask, I’ll Answer”.

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  • Social Influence Network Graphs Improve Social Media Marketing

    Social Influence Network Graphs Improve Social Media Marketing

    Madalyn Sklar asked how the various network graphs I make work. They’re based on a few different components and ideas, but the big idea is using a centrality algorithm to determine influence.

    What is Centrality?

    Centrality is a way to calculate how one node – like a Twitter handle – interacts with other nodes. The more a node is referenced, the more important it is.

    Why Does Centrality Matter?

    Centrality is, for me, the best way to judge influence in social media. Why? Because it’s easy to be loud and relatively easy to build a large audience (especially if you have dollars to spend). It’s less easy to organically convince a lot of people to talk about you (bots aside). The more other people talk about you, the more they reference you (whether or not you talk a lot), the more important you are in an influence network graph.

    As mentioned above, there are certainly ways to game centrality mapping, such as the use of bots; however, the average social media marketing practitioner is unlikely to deal with them in any substantial way on a day-to-day basis.

    How Do We Build Influence Network Graphs?

    I walk through the process from beginning to end in this video. The only caveat is that my data-processing middleware is confidential. The data source used in the video is by Brand24, and the network graphing software package is an open-source package named Gephi.

    How Do Network Graphs Identify Social Media Influence?

    Don’t see anything? Watch the video on YouTube.

    What Do We Do With Network Graph Outputs?

    Once we’ve built our graph, we use the data to:

    • identify influencers
    • identify influencer precursors
    • perform outreach to connecting nodes
    • identify trends
    • find unexpected connections among groups
    • build influence key topics
    • build advertising lists

    Properly done, influence network graphing provides us with nearly unlimited uses to turn our analysis into action.


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  • Four Failures of Social Media Marketers

    Four Failures of Social Media Marketers 5

    I’ve just returned from Social Media Marketing World with a list of things we social media marketers should be doing better. Here’s a summary in about 7 minutes:

    Followup Thoughts from Social Media Marketing World 2018

    Social media marketers face four major obstacles to their success:

    1. Failing to create audience-centric messaging.
    2. Failing to create and give value first.
    3. Failing to measure what matters.
    4. Failing to focus on what’s practical and applicable.

    Most of all, we have forgotten the basics. We have forgotten how to execute the basics of social media, and we’re seeing the performance penalty for those lack of basics. Get back on track by fixing the four failures above. These are my key takeaways from speaking with dozens of marketers at Social Media Marketing World.


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  • Business Strategy: Don’t Be This Toilet Paper Dispenser

    Business Strategy: Don't Be This Toilet Paper Dispenser 6

    This toilet paper dispenser inspired me to share some thoughts on customer experience, business strategy, and what companies do most wrong: put themselves before the customer.

    A brief rant about toilet paper and business strategy

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  • Marketing AMA: Which Version of Google Analytics Tags Should We Use?

    Marketing AMA: Which Version of Google Analytics Tags Should We Use? 7

    Recently I had the opportunity and privilege to address the corporate marketers community with MarketingProfs in an Ask-Me-Anything forum. We spent an hour together tackling every manner of marketing question; by the end of the hour, we still had 50% of the questions left to address. I promised the community I’d get to the rest, so this next series of posts will be the answers to those remaining questions.

    Today, let’s tackle this interesting question:

    How can you tell if you have Classic or Universal Analytics? Also can you change Classic to Universal and not lose the historical data for that site?

    Google Analytics has four versions of tag implementation:

    • Classic Analytics
    • Universal Analytics
    • GTag
    • Google Tag Manager

    In this short video, learn what the differences are and which we should be using – and how to tell the difference:

    Which version of Google Analytics tag should you use?

    Click here if you can’t see the video to watch it on YouTube.

    Stay tuned – we’ll cover more of these AMA questions over the next few posts!


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  • Marketing AMA: What Metrics Go Into Marketing Reporting Meetings?

    Marketing AMA: What Metrics Go Into Marketing Reporting Meetings? 8

    Recently I had the opportunity and privilege to address the corporate marketers community with MarketingProfs in an Ask-Me-Anything forum. We spent an hour together tackling every manner of marketing question; by the end of the hour, we still had 50% of the questions left to address. I promised the community I’d get to the rest, so this next series of posts will be the answers to those remaining questions.

    Today, let’s tackle this interesting question:

    What metrics go into marketing reporting meetings?

    What metrics go into marketing reporting meetings?

    If you can’t view the video for some reason, click here to watch it on YouTube.

    Stay tuned – we’ll cover more of these AMA questions over the next few posts!


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