Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Author: Christopher S Penn

  • Old social media strategy is new again

    With Facebook’s recent algorithm update that favors news from friends over organic updates from brand pages, the unpaid reach of brands has been hit yet again. We are in a place where social networking has returned to being a useful tool for keeping in touch with friends and family. As marketers, the easy button days are over.

    Social strategy now looks like one of two basic models. First, there’s the broadcast model: pay money to spread your updates. This is an advertising and broadcast model, and it looks very familiar to anyone whose media background is television or radio. You pay your money, you get your distribution. It’s easy, it’s clean, and it’s well understood. It also works no matter what quality of content you have, at least in terms of getting eyeballs. For brands with average or good but not great content and financial means, this is going to be the default choice.

    Second, the friends and family model. If you are a brand that has a strong base of fanatically loyal customers, those individuals can still share things at scale that will be seen by their friends and by their friends in a ripple effect. This is no different than any other word-of-mouth strategy that you’ve used in off-line word-of-mouth or influencer strategy. The goal in the friends and family model is the activation of as many friends as possible on behalf of your brand. Particularly for small businesses with loyal followings, this will be the default choice.

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    The model that is truly dead, and has been for quite some time, is the build it and they will come. Those days are over.

    Whether we like it or not, this is the state of social media today. We can broadcast and pay for reach, which is good if we don’t have insanely great product, service, or loyalty. Or we can cultivate and nurture our most rabid fans. Either strategy will work; it’s just a question of which is the better fit for your brand and the resources you have. 

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  • Cost equivalence is a poor marketing metric

    One of the ways you can measure goals and goal values in Google Analytics (or any marketing analytics system) is through cost equivalence. This is the least best way to measure the impact of your marketing, but in some cases, it’s better than nothing.

    What is cost equivalence?

    Cost equivalence is giving a goal the valuation of what it would have cost you to achieve the same goal by other methods. For example, let’s say you have a newsletter signup box on your website. Every email address you collect through organic means (SEO, unpaid social, etc.) is an address that you don’t have to pay for from a list broker.

    Thus, if working with a list broker costs you 55/CPM (a not uncommon rate), a single email address is worth about 5 cents; 100 email addresses is5.50 of value you don’t have to pay for.

    The same cost equivalence measures can be used for things like Twitter Followers – who follows you organically are people you don’t have to pay for with a Promoted Account.

    All of this seems logical, doesn’t it?

    Why is cost equivalence bad?

    Cost equivalence fails to take into account impact. It only calculates the money you saved. Let’s look at the email example. If every email address is worth 5 cents because that’s what you pay a list broker, it doesn’t take into account the value of the email addresses. For example, I’ve been selling my book Marketing Blue Belt. Email is one of the many methods I’ve sold with, and email is one of the top ways people have bought the book, accounting for 30% of sales.

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    I would have vastly underestimated the value of email addresses if I’d gone the cost route, rather than going with the actual value created.

    Now kick it up a notch. Let’s say you’ve got a complex B2C or B2B sales cycle. Each sale is worth thousands or millions of dollars. One email address could be the first touchpoint in a value chain that eventually results in a 7-figure sale. Would you still value that email address at 5 cents? I should hope not.

    The only time cost equivalence is appropriate as a goal value in Google Analytics is when you’ve got absolutely no other monetary outcome. These situations are exceedingly rare. Even non-profits and politicians seeking office need donors to keep the lights on, regardless of the fact that their ultimate mission has a non-monetary outcome (common good and election, respectively).

    Avoid using cost equivalence whenever possible in your marketing analytics.

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  • Marketing optimization is never done

    One of the most peculiar things a marketer can say is to refer to optimization as a discrete event.

    “We got that search engine optimization project done last year.”

    “We optimized and cleaned our email list at the end of last quarter.”

    “I’m looking to hire a consultant for a two month social marketing optimization process.”

    These are all phrases I’ve heard this year. It’s astonishing that marketers believe any form of optimization is a one-and-done task. Optimization is never done. Your website should never stop getting better. True, once you’ve reached compliance on certain standards, there’s less work to do, but as long as you’re creating new content, your work is never done. The same is true for email, social media, direct marketing, call center scripts, etc.

    If you believe that you’re done with optimization, your competitors are going to eat your lunch. Why? If you just do optimization tasks infrequently, chances are an algorithm out there somewhere will catch you by surprise. A competitor who is continually optimizing and learning will take advantage of the change, while you remain unaware of it for weeks or months. Only when you see the drop in your metrics in your reporting will you realize something’s gone wrong.

    On the other hand, if you’re continually optimizing, if you’re continually learning and refining, then you may be the competitor everyone else fears. While many advantages are temporary, you swing from advantage to advantage like a digital marketing Tarzan, and your competitors never catch up.

    How do you develop a culture of continuous optimization? Take a cue from your computer. In the background of all modern computers are silent optimization tasks that run daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. Make a simple spreadsheet of all your marketing methods, and then categorize tasks by when you need to run them.

    For example, one of my tasks weekly is cleaning and updating my Almost Timely newsletter list. I run this every Sunday night.

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    One of my monthly tasks is verifying that the number of pages on my blog matches the number of pages indexed in Webmaster Tools. Another monthly task is removing or fixing link errors that Webmaster Tools finds.

    Make yourself a series of recurring tasks for optimizing your marketing, and then set calendar appointments to do them. Your marketing will never be out of date!

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  • Use Big Data Remarketing in Google AdWords and Analytics

    Here’s a tip about a powerful, under-rated Google Analytics feature, “You’re bad at Big Data”, aka Smart Remarketing lists. Google rolled out this feature to all Google Analytics accounts last year. Smart Remarketing Lists attempts to process massive amounts of conversion data and identify those visitors to your website who are most likely to convert if you were to remarket to them.

    This option, relatively unpublicized, is an interesting twist, especially for smaller businesses who don’t have dedicated PPC and Google Analytics analysts to crunch big data for them about massive conversions. That said, I wouldn’t leave this solely in Google’s hands, since there’s limited flexibility to the tool. Instead, what you’ll likely want to do is A/B test your ad spend for a little while.

    Here’s where to find it, in the Admin section of the application:

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    When you go to create a new audience, it’s one of the options:

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    Simply pick how long of an observation window you want. This should be mapped to your sales cycle, ideally.

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    Once you’ve got your lists set up, head over to AdWords and start building out your ad campaigns. I recommend you run 2 parallel campaigns with equal budgets, ads, and keywords for both campaigns so that you have a completely fair A/B test and see which performs better, a hand-built list or Smart Remarketing List. Remember that in order for the best outcome, you’ll need to link your AdWords account to your Google Analytics account and have goals and goal values already defined.

    Try this feature out and see if it works for your business!

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  • Sign up for my free Google Analytics webinar, 4/21 at 2 PM ET

    Join me on Tuesday, April 21 at 2 PM Eastern Time for a webinar about how to use Google Analytics for public relations and communications.

    Public relations is notorious for being difficult to measure. That said, it’s not impossible to measure, and tools like Google Analytics can be a powerful ally for understanding the impact of earned media. You’ll learn what Google Analytics can and can’t measure in PR, how it integrates with other measurement solutions, particularly around social media, and where you should get started in your own measurement strategy.

    For example, social media has a funnel of its own:

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    Google Analytics can and does aptly measure part of this funnel, but part of it is outside the scope of what the application can do directly. We’ll talk about what does and doesn’t work out of the box, and if there’s time, we can always discuss

    I will also cover the #1 thing people do wrong with Google Analytics in general, how to calculate the ROI of social media, and answer any questions you might have.

    Who should attend? You do not have to work in public relations to get benefit out of this webinar. Almost all the ideas are applicable to anyone in marketing and communications. You definitely do not need to work in an agency to gain benefits; if you work in-house, there will be plenty for you.

    The webinar will be free of financial cost, but you’ll get email from SHIFT. I can promise there will be no annoying sales guy who will call you every day for two months until you block him on Caller ID, because we don’t have any dedicated sales guys, period.

    So click on the annoying button to register now:

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    I should add as a disclaimer, in case it’s not obvious, that no one at SHIFT’s creative services team had any part in the creation of that button. I made it intentionally ugly and mildly annoying all on my own.

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  • Does a daily social media ask help to sell more?

    One of the social media marketing tactics that I’d always been opposed to in the past is high frequency repetition of an offer on social media. I made the assumption in years past that your audience was relatively static, and peppering them with offer after offer would eventually make them flee.

    Then the era of social media churn began, wherein your audience comes and goes. On top of that, algorithms changed, and you could no longer count on your social content being seen simply because you posted it. Suddenly, it was no longer guaranteed that even a majority of your audience knew about a one-time offer post.

    I began a test on March 11, 2015 to do a daily social promotion. My usual schedule of 5 items of note remained the same; the social offer was simply tacked on later in the day.

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    Because I have 3 books for sale, I was able to present a new offer every day, repeating only every 4th day.

    Other important things to note were that I wasn’t running any other promotions concurrently. My cadence of other posts and my weekly newsletter did not change. As best as possible, testing conditions were held stable and normal for the duration of the period.

    What have the results been? Here are my sales numbers:

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    To say the least, worthwhile. In the chart above, the blue bars represent daily sales of all books. The red line is a 14 day moving average of book sales. By incorporating a daily social media ask, it’s brought my 14 day sales average as high as it was during the initial launch.

    Does this mean you should adopt a daily ask? As with all things, you have to test for yourself. Try it out, see if you generate similar, better, or worse results. Keep what works, leave behind what doesn’t work.

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  • How do you know which content to reshare?

    Which web pages are your most popular?

    Which tweets are your most popular?

    How do you know which content to reshare?

    These are not infrequent questions asked by content marketers. How do you decide what’s popular? One of the simplest methods is to use quartiles. If you’re unfamiliar with quartiles, they are a basic statistical analysis method in which a normally distributed data set is split into 4 even pieces. For the purpose of this post, we’ll want to focus on the upper quartile, the top 25% of anything you do.

    To make this more concrete, let’s walk through an example. Go to Google Analytics. Go to Behavior > Site Content > All Pages.

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    Set the list using the dropdown box in the bottom right to 50 pages, then export into the spreadsheet software of your choice. Eliminate all of the extraneous columns until you’re just left with pages and views:

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    In a column next to the views, write this formula: =Quartile(B2:B51,3) (assuming you have 50 lines of data from B2 to B51, otherwise adjust):

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    It’ll come up with a number that represents the third quartile boundary, or where the upper 25% of your data is. These are the most popular posts. The third quartile represents the upper 25% of traffic you’ve obtained. If I make a chart with this data, it looks like this:

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    What do you do with this information? If you’re re-posting content on social media, use this as the boundary line for what to retire and what to leave out. It’s a great place to start. Bear in mind you can use this method for any marketing analytics data set you have.

    Consider paying to promote some of the posts in the top quartile. They’ve already proven themselves, proven their worth – what if you took it up a notch with a few dollars?

    If you do any bylines or content syndication, consider these your A-Team. These would be the posts you might want to excerpt only, or write alternate versions for other platforms (at the very least attributing your content back to you).

    By using a simple statistical method (and yes, it has its flaws, but that’s for another time), you’ve now got a starting point for identifying popular stuff. There’s nothing overly magical about quartiles themselves; you could use any quantile you wanted (10% brackets, 33% brackets, etc.) but quartiles are baked into most spreadsheet software, and they’re easy to explain to non-math inclined people.

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  • How to get better answers to tough questions

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    When studying with a master teacher, one of  the most important things you can do is to arrive with your burning questions. Your burning questions are the questions you must get answers to. This is something that I learned from my teacher’s teacher, Stephen Hayes.

    However, some questions are better than others. Some questions will get you an answer, but not an answer that you can use to make advancements in your own growth. Your task as a questioner is to devise questions that yield real, usable answers.

    How? The way to devise a great question is to know what a great answer looks like. 

    A great answer has in it not only the overall knowledge you need, but what immediate next steps you need to take in order to bridge the gap between the question and the big picture.

    A good answer is efficient. It does not contain lots of information you already have.

    Finally, a good answer cuts to the heart of the matter immediately. Some people ask questions just to talk, or to show off in front of others. You’ve likely been at marketing conferences where someone’s question during Q&A is a 30 second ad for their business before they finally get around to asking something. 

    Based on all of this, what does a great question look like?

    A great question has three parts:

    • Create a little bit of context by stating the specific problem you’re encountering
    • Concisely indicate what information you already have
    • Ask for the big picture and next steps

    Here is a mundane example using email marketing. 

    A mediocre question would be, “I am having some trouble with getting my emails delivered. How would you fix this?”

    A great question would be, “My emails to consumer domains like Hotmail on not getting through. I have set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC in monitor mode. I’ve checked my Sender Score and it is clean. What should I do next? Is there a trend in deliverability that I missed?”

    The quality of answer you’ll get to the latter question should be significantly more helpful than the quality of answer you’ll get from the former question. Use this 3 part format when you’re asking speakers questions at conferences. Use it when asking questions of your teachers and mentors. Use it during sales and business development meetings to advance the sale.

    Ask better questions to get better answers!

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  • What’s Your Best Day in Marketing?

    DemandBase (a SHIFT client) asked the following question:

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    A fine question for a lighter Friday blog post.

    What’s the best day for me as a marketer? It’s not a big win, though those are certainly nice. It’s not a hire, a promotion, or a bonus. Again, those are nice things to have, and I certainly would never spurn them.

    No, the best day for me as a marketer is a day when I learn something new that I can use, or I create something new that I or others can use. In modern marketing, applied knowledge is power.

    When you get a new customer, that’s a temporary increase in your revenue. Customers come and go. Money comes and goes, too.

    When you learn something new? That’s a nearly permanent increase in your marketing power. There’s something you can do that you previously could not do. There’s some advantage you now have, even if it’s just leveling the playing field with your competitors. When you create something new, you have a distinct, tangible advantage that few others can match, at least for a while. This is why innovation is so important.

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    Innovation is about making something new, about creating something new. True innovation is hard to come by, but once you have new knowledge, you have new power.

    Those rare days in marketing? Those are the best days of my career.

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  • How answering questions proves authenticity in marketing

    One of the questions asked recently at Social Media Marketing World was how much authenticity matters. How much does it matter if you don’t personally write your own social media posts and content, especially at a brand where it’s assumed that a social team will be at work anyway? For example, when I write for the SHIFT Communications blog, does it actually matter if my name is on the post?

    If your audience is only consuming content and not interacting with the brand, then it doesn’t matter whose name is on it. You could be reading Seth Godin’s intern or Chris Brogan’s robot army, and as long as the content was still genuinely helpful, great.

    Here’s where non-authenticity bites you: the moment someone asks you a question. If you’re doing a webinar or speaking onstage and someone references a blog post you wrote, it’s awkward and telling when it reveals that you don’t even know what you’ve written. “Hey Chris, in your post on Bitly URLs for social media analytics, why didn’t you address the JSON array from the API instead of using Google Sheets?”

    If I hadn’t written that post, I’d be at a loss. Imagine responding with, “Oh, yeah, um…” I’d have to make something up or guess. In that moment, any credibility I have with the questioner would evaporate, and if that questioner was a potential business lead, my lack of authenticity could cost me thousands or millions of dollars.

    Instead, if I know what I’ve written, if I actually am who I say I am, then I could say, “Absolutely you could, and in fact, a good portion of Bitly’s API is accessible ONLY by JSON, but that’s outside the scope of the blog post. You’d have to build the custom ImportJSON function from Trevor Lohrbeer to do that.”

    The answer to the question often tells you more about what level of knowledge you have than the posted content itself.

    This is why authenticity – meaning that you are who you say you are – is so vital. Answering insightful questions are the absolute best way to demonstrate the depths of your personal expertise.

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    If you are who you say you are, you welcome questions rather than avoid them, and you ask for the hardest questions people have so that you can expand your own knowledge and growth.

    To quote Oscar Wilde, be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. That includes what you post on social media. It’s fine to automate. It’s fine to schedule. But know what you’re sharing so that when someone asks you a question about it, you know the answer. In the words of friend and mentor Tom Webster, “Do your own work.”

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