Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Author: Christopher S Penn

Do social shares correlate at all with SEO?
Rand Fishkin of Moz wrote a fascinating Whiteboard Friday article recently, making the claim that except for the top 10% of content producers, social media sharing appears to have no impact on SEO. Go read the article first.

This struck me as a very broad claim. I wanted to see how I might find that out for my site. As with so many things in digital marketing, your mileage may vary, and I felt instinctively certain that my experience is different from the aggregate.

Using one of the many SEO tools at my disposal thanks to SHIFT Communications’ data-driven marketing technology toolkit, I took a look at my website’s inbound links vs. social shares. I did a Spearman regression with Rand’s hypothesis that there should be absolutely no correlation between social shares and inbound links.

What did I find?

Above, we see a modest positive correlation between social shares and referring domains (which are the domains that contain inbound links to my site). While it’s not amazing, it’s also not zero.

I even took a look at Rand’s own site, Moz.com (and Rand, that link with equity is on the house):

Above, an R value of 0.445 with a p value less than 0.001 is far from no correlation. In fact, it’s a moderately strong correlation.

What we’ve proven is that the aggregate statement “social has no bearing on inbound links” is an extremely broad statement. As with anything in metrics, analytics, and statistics, there is no substitute for doing your own work, with your own data, and analyzing for yourself. You can start with a hypothesis derived from a broad, aggregate statement, but do not make the fatal mistake of assuming the aggregate whole also represents your business. You’ll drive your business into the ground.

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October 2, 2015
What A Single Email Address Unlocks for Marketers
Email marketing is now undisputedly the most powerful marketing tool in your toolkit. Not only does it provide one of the only sources of reliable reach for the average marketer, your email marketing program is now the most powerful advertising tool you have.

For years and even today, connecting your social media accounts to a Gmail account with your contacts list has been the fastest way to jump start any social media account.

For years, we’ve had access to email-based remarketing in Twitter and Facebook. In case you missed it, social networks have allowed you to upload your lists, such as Twitter:

and Facebook:

which by default also includes Instagram…

and with Google’s latest announcement, now includes Gmail, AdWords, and YouTube ads.

A properly collected, opted-in email address opens up new worlds for you as a marketer. You get access to the customer’s inbox, which has always been the case. But now you have access to social media, to visual media via Instagram ads, to video via YouTube ads, to remarketing lists for search ads, display ads, and so much more.

If your marketing strategy doesn’t include plans for a robust email marketing database, stop what you’re doing and refine your strategy until email capture is built into everything you do.

Build email address collection into everything you do.

Skill up on your basic best practices.

Clean up your lists.

To paraphrase Glengarry Glen Ross, always be capturing!

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September 30, 2015
Marketing Plan Framework Template
What if you could put together a marketing plan, a strategy, and a budget rooted in reality that gave you the resources you need to succeed?

In my Marketing Planning Framework, we do exactly that. Step by step, we’ll look at the data you have, compare it to the model companies in your industry, and engineer a plan for the future that helps you catch up to your competitors in key marketing channels – then surpass them.

In less than an hour, you’ll walk through the construction of a data-driven customer journey and emerge with a plan in hand, the resources you’ll need to succeed, and a clear budget ask to achieve the goals you’ve been given.

When you download this Marketing Planning Framework, you receive:
- A video screencast in HD MP4 format, enhanced to show clicks and keystrokes in applications for true step-by-step instructions
- Sample data files you can practice with if you’re not ready to use your own data
- The actual planning framework Excel spreadsheet so you can slot in your own numbers for an out-of-the-box strategic plan by marketing channel
- A short PDF of key images and slide material
Purchase your copy now, and get what you need to succeed in your 2016 marketing planning!

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you need Google Analytics?

You need access to a Google Analytics account for the benchmarking data. It doesn’t have to be what your company/office uses; you can use your own personal account. For the customer paths to conversion, many other analytics packages have similar features. For example, Omniture SiteCatalyst calls them customer funnels.

Do you need Microsoft Excel?

No. You can use any spreadsheet software that can read an XLSX file, including Apple Numbers, Google Sheets, Open Office, etc.

Is there a trial or demo?

No. It’s a video and workbook, plus supporting materials. It’s not software.

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September 29, 2015
Sometimes you do need better tools
On September 27, 2015, we got a chance to experience the Super Blood Moon, a full lunar eclipse while the moon was at perigee, its closest point to Earth. This is an event that happens infrequently; prior to 2015, the last occurrence was 1982, and the next occurrence will be 2033.

More than a few people remarked online that their smartphone wasn’t cutting it. This is absolutely correct; think of the smartphone as more or less a great landscape camera. It’s good at wide angles. Smartphones are what photographers refer to as sneaker zoom cameras – to get a better close up, walk closer to your intended subject.

Obviously, when the subject is in outer space, this is significantly harder to do. That’s when you do need better equipment.

Normally, photographers of all stripes – myself included – will say that the best camera is the one you have with you, and that’s generally sound advice. There are rare occasions when only good quality, specialized equipment will do, however, and a super blood moon is one of them.

However, even in the case of a super blood moon, the equipment is not enough. The equipment is the table stake, the bare minimum you need to get in the game. You also need the knowledge of how to use the equipment properly. The super blood moon – and many other astronomical events – require knowing about exposures, shutter speeds, apertures, and ISO settings to get the most out of the equipment.

The super blood moon required significant changes during the event, going from capturing only some of the light (because the moon was so bright, it was easy to overexpose) to capturing every last photon available at the peak of the eclipse.

The super blood moon required the right tools and the right skills in order to maximize the opportunity. Obviously, if you had only a smartphone, you did your best. If you had a DSLR with a zoom lens, you could do more. If you knew the inner workings of your camera, you got the most out of your setup. When opportunity arrived, the results you got were proportional to the investment of resources and knowledge you had.

This is also true of your marketing, and anything else you do. The better prepared you are, the more you can leverage every opportunity that comes your way. Always do your best, but recognize that sometimes,

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September 28, 2015
End of Q3 Economic Check-In for Marketers
Once upon a time, when I worked in financial services, I checked charts and quotes daily. I watched the world’s markets like a hawk, because macroeconomic issues that could impact my work often had leading indicators days, weeks, or months in advance.

Even today, I still check in, though not nearly as frequently because my day to day work doesn’t depend on it. It’s still important to have a general sense of what’s going on in the marketplace – and even better if you know why.

Let’s see where things are, now that we’re at the end of the third quarter of the year. The economic indicators I pay attention to are listed out here.

So how are things? First, let’s look at the broad exchanges, the DJIA…

and S&P:

Broadly, the markets had mostly a good year until recently, with the dislocations in China spreading. If you’ve got overseas exposure to China, you’ll continue to feel it.

We see this in the CBOE VIX:

Any time the VIX goes above 30, it means that confidence is uncertain, things are less stable than markets would like. For the majority of this year, things were predictable. The China shock is what caused the large spike in September. The VIX is what you keep your eye on if you want to gauge market sentiment.

On the lending front, interbank rates are still quite low thanks to the Federal Reserve keeping effective interest rates at zero. We see the 30 day chart:

and the 90 day chart:

We see that these two lending rates are marching in virtually lockstep pacing, and the spread between them is healthy. While there may be unease in the stock markets, the impact to banking and lending has been a flight to quality. It also hasn’t impacted mortgage rates domestically:

Overseas, no surprises here as emerging markets have taken some punishment:

Again, if you have overseas exposure in your business, in your marketing, you’ll want to carefully watch indices like the MSCI Emerging Market index to see how exposed you are. Weakness in the market tends to spread to B2C in a quarter and B2B in two quarters, historically.

We haven’t seen the China shock show up yet in shipping:

As you may recall, BDI, the Baltic Dry Index, is the price to ship a container overseas. It’s expensive to do so; companies don’t speculatively purchase space.

We also haven’t seen China show up in gold prices, which typically spike vigorously when investors are truly spooked:

Instead, gold is still relatively cheap at the moment, less than half of what it was during the Great Recession.

Geopolitics are also playing a role in commodities. WTI Crude Oil still remains low:

The reasons why oil is cheap are varied and complex. Some believe that Saudi Arabia is flooding the market to deprive the Islamic State of needed revenue (which comes from oil fields they hold). Some believe that it’s an indirect economic sanction on Russia. Some believe that renewable energy is finally beginning to make a dent in carbon fuel usage. Whatever the reason is, the net effect is cheaper gas at the pump and lower heating costs. If you’re a B2C marketer, this is welcome news because the consumer should have more disposable income not being consumed by energy.

Finally, in looking at corn, wheat, and rice commodities, only the latter is under some pressure:

Which should be no surprise – when one of the largest economies (China) is feeling disruption, its principal commodity should show that as well.

What does it all mean?

So what does all of this mean for us, as marketers and business people? Right now the world is in fairly unsteady shape, except for America. Between conflicts and refugee crises in Europe and Asian contagion, the flight to quality is coming to America – and that isn’t a good thing in the long term.

In the short term, marketers will find more dollars in America, but no country is an island. In rougher times in other markets, use the opportunity to build and grow your audiences. Ad dollars will stretch further and you may be able to negotiate better deals outside America, especially if your business is being bolstered by American profits. Strategically, make the money in America and invest it in weak markets to seize marketing advantage while you can.

Take advantage of relatively good conditions for the American consumer, with lower energy and food prices. The upcoming holiday season has the potential to be a good one. Consumers tend to spend what they have without a ton of foresight or planning, so if they have more money in their pockets on the days they go to the mall, they’ll spend more of it. Leverage hyperlocal advertising in real-time to make the most of this trend!

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September 25, 2015
How to build your customer journey, part 4
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We’ve established what a customer journey is not (even if we wish it were), how to use data from Google Analytics to understand our customer journey, and how to identify and create a plan for improving our customer journey. What’s next?

I once had a manager who was overly fond of the phrase “take it to the next level”. I was asked in my early days in marketing, “what can we do to take this website to the next level?” and “what is your plan for taking our traffic to the next level?” Years ago, I would struggle with this answer; today, we have the tools to answer that question and then some. If we can identify what the next level looks like in terms of customer journey, we can begin to provide that today, paving the way for bigger, better, and more customers.

Let’s begin with Google’s Customer Journey tool. You’ll note that each industry also has a size selector. Whatever tier you’re at, look at and investigate the other two tiers (small, medium, and large):

In the medium-to-large example above, we can see conceptually how the channels change as a site moves from a medium business to a large business in this sector. The journey becomes longer and more spread out; social media moves to the forefront of the journey rather than stacked in the middle of the pack. We see paid search move further forward, while referral and email move back in the journey.

We’re now armed with a general sense of what order we might want to do things in that’s different from what we’re doing. What sort of resource requirements are we going to need? For that, we turn again to Google Analytics benchmarking. Note that at the top of the screen, Google selects the tier of competitors that our site traffic belongs in, based on the data our site has provided to Google. Instead of going with what Google selects as our default, select the next tier up – the literal next level:

What will happen is that most of your benchmarks will turn red and look scary. That’s okay: instead of telling you how your peers are doing, you’re now learning what it’s going to take to get to that next level. Here’s my site:

Sure does look scary, but that’s okay. This is aspirational, where the site needs to go to compete at a higher level. The easiest way to understand this chart is to export it and do a benchmark vs. actual calculation to see how much more the benchmark is than your actual:

Above, we now have a sense of how much more time, effort, money, and people we’ll need to dedicate to each channel to hit that next level. To reach the next level of SEO, I’d need to invest 121% more effort than I am now in building links, in creating link worthy content, etc. I don’t have to do a huge amount with social media. My public relations efforts are quite terrible; it will take 8x the amount of resources to reach that next level, so I’d better be prepared to invest heavily in talent or contract out to a PR agency. Let’s not even get started about my email game.

Once we build a new strategy to get to that next level, keep a close eye on your paths to conversion. Look for new paths or paths that previously were in the cheap seats to suddenly take prominence. In the example of medium to large from the customer journey tool, we saw that overall path to conversion lengthen. Validate this in your analytics to see whether your unique path to conversion lengthens as you reach that next level:

Above, we see paths going past 10 steps at line 2, a sign that the path to conversion has gotten longer.

While this method isn’t completely foolproof, it’s a far better, more informed answer to the question of “what can we do to get to the next level” than shrugging your shoulders or simply making things up. Try it as you begin your next year’s marketing planning and see what answers you get.

This also brings us to the end of our customer journey series. Thanks for reading!

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September 24, 2015
How to build your customer journey, part 3
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We’ve now established what the customer journey is not, and what your customer journey currently looks like. Now what?

Let’s begin where we left off in the last post. We’ve established our specific customer journey and noted where our journey differs from the generic journey:

In the example above, we see that direct counts much more up front in my website’s customer journey than it does in the generic model. The generic model, however, hints at what else we may want to be trying. In the direct model, there are channels I’m not currently using, such as generic paid search, display advertising, and branded paid search. These channels might be good opportunities for me to explore.

The other thing the generic model doesn’t talk about is how well each channel should perform and what percentage of the marketing mix I might want it to occupy. Fortunately, Google Analytics’ benchmarking feature gives us answers to these questions. You’ll find Benchmarking in the Audience menu in your Google Analytics account; depending on your setup, you may need to enable it. For a detailed walkthrough of the basics of benchmarking, see this post first.

Above, we see from my benchmark against other marketing sites of similar size that social media and organic search are performing well already. I’m far above the baseline for the marketing space. What we also see is that other channels aren’t doing quite as well. Based on the customer journey we’ve mapped out above, I need to be doing a better job with email, and as my custom customer journey above shows, I’m not doing anything with paid search.

Now, not only do I have a customer journey mapped out, I know which parts of my customer journey are working well and which parts need help. I can work on improving email and adding paid search and display advertising to the mix if I want to make the journey as comprehensive as possible.

The benchmark also tells me at what levels I’d need to invest. Look above at line 7, paid search. Sites comparable to mine get almost 10,000 visitors from paid search, where I get 10 (likely accidental/bad data, since I’m not running any paid ads). If I needed to get 10,000 visitors in a month, that’s roughly 333 a day. Based on this, I could go to Google’s AdWords keyword planner and see what 333 clicks a day would cost me:

To reach the levels of my peer competitors, I would need to invest $300 a day, or$ 9,000 a month.

You can perform the same assessment for any channel in which you have performance data. For example, I know what efforts are needed to achieve the social media numbers in the benchmark above. If I want referral traffic to match those numbers, it’s a reasonable starting point to experiment with investing the same amount of time and effort as I do in social.

In another example, I know what time and effort I currently put into email, and I see the results above. I’m at half of what my competitors are doing. Thus, it’s a relatively small leap of logic to test doubling my effort to see if I can double the results and get on par with the industry averages for peer companies.

With these tools, I can now make the necessary changes to my customer journey to improve it, to reach customers where they are, in the right order. My marketing effectiveness should substantially improve if I fit the journey to the way customers actually behave and adapt quickly when I’m out of alignment.

In the next post, we’ll talk about taking your customer journey to the next level, quite literally.

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September 23, 2015
How to build your customer journey, part 2
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In the previous post, we emphasized what the customer journey was not. It’s not just another name for the funnel. It’s understanding how your customers act, not necessarily in a linear fashion, on their way to becoming customers.

Let’s look at a model of a customer journey, using Google’s Customer Journey tool as a starting point. If you’ve never used it before, it’s a handy tool to understand the basic customer journey model.

Let’s say I wanted to see how a website like mine, which is a medium-sized site, should be expected to perform:

According to the generic model for sites like mine, we would expect to see generic paid search and organic search leading the way, followed by referral traffic and display advertising. These would be the front end, the early ways audiences find me. After that, they’d engage with social media, email marketing, and branded search, and respond as customers to direct marketing.

The output of the tool gives a good general concept of your customer journey, but you might have noticed that the tool’s categories lack specificity. Business and Industrial is technically the category my site fits in, but I’m being lumped in with things like industrial concrete manufacturing, and I’m fairly certain my audience differs from a concrete manufacturer’s audience.

How could we get more specific about our customer journey? If you have goals and goal values specified in Google Analytics, the tool provides you with much of the raw data you need to create your own customer journey. Let’s look at where to get this data. Inside Google Analytics, go to Conversions, Multi-Channel Funnels, Top Conversion Paths:

What you see here are the top customer journeys by channel grouping. This is a decent start, and indeed, you could make operational plans just from this information. However, we are never ones to settle, so export this data into the spreadsheet of your choice:

What we see here are our conversion pathways, broken down by conversion. However, what this doesn’t tell us are the individual stages. Using the text editor of your choice, break apart this data using the > as your delimiter and put some header labels up top of the sheet to make it easier to read.

Next, split up each step into separate tabs (for ease of viewing) and subtotal your channels. Repeat this process for the first 3 or 4 steps:

Move all your subtotals to one table and color code it with the Customer Journey colors, and you’ve now got a look at your specific customer journey versus the generic customer journey:

Above, we can see that in my customer journey, direct actually comes first, rather than last. That’s an interesting twist, and one that the generic tool missed completely. The rest – organic search, referral traffic, social, etc. are aligned with the generic tool.

You’ve now constructed your customer journey. Congratulations! In the next post in this series, we’ll look at how to improve it.

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September 22, 2015
How to build your customer journey, part 1
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The concept of the customer journey is simple: our customers may not follow a linear path to conversion, but they do have a logical flow. If we can understand the customer journey, we can improve it and increase conversion.

What the Customer Journey Isn’t

As marketers, we talk about the customer journey as though it were a generic process that everyone follows; I’ve seen many slides at conferences recently which explain the B2B customer journey or the B2C customer journey.

In reality, most people talking about the customer journey have simply taken their marketing funnel, filed off the word funnel, and replaced it with customer journey. We don’t change our marketing operations at all or make the journey any better by calling it a journey instead of a funnel.

Equally true, your customers’ journey to conversion is a unique, distinct series of processes which are hard-coded to your business, your marketing tools, and your methods. What I’ve said about benchmarks also applies to customer journeys: they are not generic. They are not categorizable by industry. The customer journeys for Smallville Community Bank and Golden Slacks MegaFund are radically different, even though they’re both financial services.

The irony is, customer journeys are easier than ever to understand, analyze, and improve. Tools like Google’s Customer Journey modeler are useful places to start, but they’re by no means the only way to understand your customers.

In this multi-part series, we’re going to examine:

– What the customer journey isn’t (this post)
– How to analyze your customer journey
– How to improve your customer journey

Stay tuned!

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September 21, 2015
Find your spirit, and no challenge will keep you from achieving your goals
There’s a quote of mine from a while back that’s become fairly popular:

“Find your spirit, and no challenge will keep you from achieving your goals.”

What does this mean, exactly?

In the Japanese martial arts, we often refer to mind, body, and spirit. We seek to improve each:
- To sharpen our minds to see answers under difficult, stressful situations
- To build endurance, health, and strength so that we can overcome challenges
- To develop our spirit, the energy that gives us resilience in times of trouble
The quote above reflects the latter. Our spirit is the essence of who we are and why we fight (when we have to). A strong mind and a strong body are largely unhelpful if your spirit withers easily under duress, if you give up too soon, if you can’t withstand difficulty.

How do you find your spirit? One of the best exercises I’ve done is a simple inquiry-based meditation, where you make a list of all the things you think you are. You are brave, you are strong, you are good-looking, you are smart, etc. as exhaustively as possible over the period of a few days. Then you start considering how true those statements are, whittling away at them.
- Are you brave? Are there conditions under which you would not be brave?
- Are you strong? Are there life circumstances that could render you not strong?
- Are you good looking? For how long?
- etc.
When you’re done, repeat the exercise with new inquiries. If the first round of attributes are transient, inquire within yourself for things that are less transient, things that have always been there, and then whittle away at those.

Repeat the process until there’s nothing further you can do, and what you have left is you, the essence of you.

That’s how you find your spirit; after that, you need only work on strengthening it by testing yourself (usually under the guidance of an expert teacher like my teachers Mark Davis and Stephen K. Hayes) until very little can shake you.

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September 18, 2015

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