Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Author: Christopher S Penn

The most frequent piece of advice I’m giving lately
Want to know the most frequent piece of advice I’m giving lately?

It’s a piece of advice I gave to the staff at a recent internal training.
It’s a piece of advice I gave to friends and colleagues who are crumbling under stress.
It’s a piece of advice I gave to DJ Waldow and Nick Westergaard for their recent Work Talk Show.
It’s a piece of advice I gave to anyone who has asked for “the one thing that will make a difference” for them, personally or professionally.

Learn to meditate.

I mean that in all seriousness. Here’s why: the dark side to the economy of attention, which is the wonderful, powerful economy that drives social media and digital marketing, is the abundance of distraction. Every time a content marketer publishes a new infographic, a new YouTube video, a clever Tweet, etc., they are attempting to grab your attention. That is, by definition, a distraction. They are making a withdrawal on your attention, presumably in exchange for something of value. But that interruption, that disruption, that distraction very often costs far more than you get in return for a cheap laugh at a graphic or a retweet of a cute status.

The antidote to distraction is focus. Focus comes from discipline. Discipline can be taught with meditation. While everyone and everything in marketing is looking to withdraw from your bank of attention, you can make deposits of focus with meditation.

How do you get started? Pick something that requires you to be in the here and now only. For some people, that’s the stereotypical image of a person sitting cross-legged on a mountaintop, inhaling the mists and chanting. That does work for some people. For others, it’s going for a run, painting, going to the shooting range, training at the dojo, singing… whatever activity or practice that requires you to be fully invested in the here and now only, activities that tolerate no distraction and in some cases have adverse consequences if you allow your attention to waver.

Incidentally, what do we call someone who takes unfairly, returning little or nothing?

A thief.

Stop letting thieves steal from your bank of attention. Create focus with the meditation practice of your choice so that you build up the vault walls and strengthen the door by disciplining your mind to keep the thieves out. Once you learn how to do this, you will find that you’ll get more done, be happier, have less stress, and be more effective at everything in your life.

If you’re still looking for a way to get started, I strongly encourage you to drop the 99 cents for my teacher’s guided meditation on iTunes. Stephen K. Hayes will take you through a 9 minute basic practice to get you back to the here and now, and the ROI of increased focus is enormous. Give it a try.

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April 4, 2013
Be proud to sell something worthwhile
Here’s an unusual quirk I’ve noticed that’s especially strong in the marketing and PR worlds: people don’t like to sell, and they definitely don’t like to think of themselves as sales professionals – even if a majority of their time is spent doing that. We have awkward titles like Business Development Executive or New Business Representative to avoid calling ourselves sales professionals. We prefer to think we’re doing consultations rather than sales calls.

We claim we’re not selling, but if you look at the three part funnel, a marketer generates leads. A sales professional turns the leads into revenue. If any part of your job ends with the bottom line – new customers or new revenue from existing customers – then you’re in sales.

Why do we have such distaste for thinking of ourselves as salespeople? It’s partly because unprofessional, inept, or unethical salespeople have blackened the profession’s name by selling poorly. Sometimes they’re selling features that don’t actually come with the product. Sometimes they’re trying to cram a product down a prospect’s throat because they’re more focused on the sales quota than the customer. Sometimes it’s a lack of skills that makes for uncomfortable presentations that we’ve been on the receiving end of. Whatever the case may be, we don’t generally want to be associated with the profession of sales.

Here’s a head changer. Until about 1000 CE, sell (from the Old English “sellan”, to give) had no financial connotation. It meant to give, to hand over, to deliver. Think about that for a second. If someone sold you something in old times, they were giving it or delivering it to you. It wasn’t until 1000 CE that you gave something in exchange for money. Ask yourself this: when you are performing the selling role today, what are you giving to your customers? What are you delivering? What are you offering first?

If you’re giving them something of legitimate value, something that you believe in (a product, a service, a brand), something that you know will legitimately make their lives or their businesses better, then be proud to sell it. Be proud to be able to gift them with the benefits of what you have to offer and ask for appropriate recompense in return. Be eager to improve your selling skills so that you can get your product or service into the hands of people who need it, who need you, with more skill. I happily and proudly sell the services of my company, Trust Insights on a daily basis, not just for a paycheck, but because I truly believe in and am proud of the company I co-founded and the people I work with. Even at past companies where I might not have been proud of the product or even the company, I was proud of the work I did and the value I delivered to customers, and I sold that.

If you believe in yourself, if you believe in the work that you’re doing, if you believe in the company and the people you work with, then be proud to sell it. If you don’t believe in it, you might want to consider changing jobs until you’re doing something you can be proud to sell.

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April 3, 2013
Productivity Tip: BANT on the inside
Those people who are familiar with the world of sales know the term BANT intimately. For those who have not done selling as a profession, it’s an acronym from enterprise B2B sales that helps sales professionals assess a lead’s quality. The term stands for:
- Budget: Can the lead afford our product?
- Authority: Is the lead the decision-maker?
- Need: Does the lead actually need our category product?
- Timeframe: When will the lead buy from someone?
BANT has been through its twists and turns over the years, but now I want to put a twist on it for different purposes. Most project management software I’ve used recently has been very good at setting deadlines, but beyond that, there’s very little in the way of project scoring to help you sort out what’s important from what’s merely urgent. As my friend Chris Brogan says, the inbox is the ultimate delivery mechanism for other people’s priorities, and those tend to be urgent rather than important.

So what if we scored projects simply and effectively using BANT? Rather than just leaving it in the hands of sales professionals, why not make use of it for yourself? Suppose you had a project management system that looked like this?
- Budget: What is the revenue impact of this project?
- Authority: Is this project needed by a superior, a peer, or a subordinate?
- Need: How important is this project?
- Timeframe: How urgent is this project?
Suppose you made a simple spreadsheet that, instead of an ambiguous HIGH PRIORITY or LOW PRIORITY mechanism, you actually scored your projects? Here’s an example of how this might look:

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This can then map more closely to the way your team or organization works. If Authority is the true deciding factor in what needs to get done, then you sort by authority. If Timeframe is how things get done, then you sort and manage by timeframe, with the ability to sub-sort by other fields that are part of the decision-making process.

Try it out – see if BANTing your workload is as effective for your productivity as BANTing your sales leads has been.

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April 2, 2013
4 Guidelines for an appropriate April Fool’s Joke
Inevitably today, someone will go horribly off-brand and make an April Fool’s joke that does more damage than good. Someone will publish something that either is woefully unfunny or insulting. To help avoid this, here are four quick tips if you want to do something for April Fool’s that won’t set your brand on fire in a bad way.

1. Know what your brand is first. What does it actually stand for? What does it mean? If you don’t have a crystal clear understanding of your brand, your mission, and your vision, your jokes will not advance your brand, or may actually damage it.

2. Make a joke that’s an extension of your brand. If you’re Google, Google Nose or YouTube Winner makes total sense. It takes what people know about your brand and extends it into comedy territory. If you’re Blizzard Entertainment, Molten Core console edition makes sense – it’s taking an existing part of the brand and extending it in a funny way.

3. If you’re going to make a joke at someone’s expense, make it at your expense. Inevitably, if it’s at someone else’s expense, that someone may not be very happy with you.

4. Make a joke plausible enough that it could actually happen. The masters of this are the folks at ThinkGeek who invariably come up with joke items for sale in their store that customers actually demand they sell:

After all, who wouldn’t want an Eye of Sauron desk lamp? What was a joke becomes a profitable line of products. Blizzard Entertainment joked about having the Pandaren as a playable race in Warcraft and today we have the Mists of Pandaria expansion.

Good luck, pranksters, as you navigate the rocky waters of comedy today. One final tip: don’t count on the date or timestamp of your post to indicate it’s an April Fool’s Day joke. Tag it in the post itself, because when someone catches up on their reads in a couple of days, there’s a good chance they’ll take it seriously.

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April 1, 2013
When to use boring email subject lines
Christoph Trappe asked:

“I prefer email newsletters with a specific subject line. Not something generic, for example: ‘Today’s email from CT.’ @cspenn, what do you do with your subject lines?”

That’s a great question, and there isn’t a bulletproof answer. Generally speaking, there are two classes of emails, emails you’re not expecting and emails you are expecting. When it comes to outreach, to solicitation, to showing up on someone’s doorstep unexpectedly, you generally want to go for attention-grabbing subject lines, something that will make a person sit up and take notice (or at least not immediately hit delete). You’ve got to grab their attention in the inbox.

However, when it comes to newsletters that someone actually signed up for, I have found in my own personal experience that a consistently formatted From address and repeated subject line delivers consistently good results. Why? It’s brand recognition. When you see “From: Christopher Penn” and a subject line of “Almost Timely News from @cspenn for 4/1/13”, you know without a doubt what the email is and what’s inside of it. When I started to get clever with naming conventions, recognition went down and open rates went down.

Of course, that’s predicated on having a great email newsletter first. If it sucks, then the brand recognition will work against you and people will delete you first, so you’d better have an awesome, amazingly great newsletter to make brand recognition work in your favor.

As always, I remind you to test, test, test. What works for me and my audience is likely not to work for you and your audience.

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March 29, 2013
Marketing Over Coffee: Measuring PR, Hearthstone, Scott Monty saves Ford
In this week’s Marketing over Coffee, we discuss the Ford kerfuffle with a rogue agency, measuring PR, Blizzard’s Hearthstone game, mobile audiences, and so much more. Tune in now:

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March 28, 2013
Oppression begins with inequality
“You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work… when you go to church… when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth, that you are a slave. Like everyone else you were born into bondage, into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.” – Morpheus

I believe in absolute equality of opportunity, of which marriage equality, gay rights, and due process are a part of. Getting people to believe in absolute equality is a hard sell, mostly because the various powers that be greatly oppose absolute equality in any form. Here’s why.

Throughout the course of human history, we can roughly group every human society into the Haves and Have-Nots. Throughout the course of human history, the Haves have been figuring out how to keep what they have, and the Have-Nots have been figuring out how to take at least some of the good stuff away from the Haves. Sometimes this takes obvious forms, like totalitarian governments that oppress dissent through fear, or monarchs and warlords pressing the peasants into armies to kill each other off as frequently as possible.

The less obvious way for the Haves to keep the Have-Nots from gathering them up in the town square and killing them all (which has happened a fair number of times, too) is to get the Have-Nots to oppress each other. Think about it for a second – what could be easier than crowdsourcing your fear tactics? The way to do this is easy, so easy that it’s got a psychological phenomenon named after it, the granfalloon technique. It’s the process of creating a separate identity out of largely irrelevant differences. Ask any Yankees fan about the Red Sox and you’re seeing the granfalloon effect in full swing.

The Haves in modern America, and you can call them whatever you want, the 1%, the elite, or as George W. Bush so colorfully said, the Have-Mores, use this very much to their advantage. How do you get a population of 300 million people, many of whom are not going to be successful, many of whom are not going to to ever be in the Haves, much less the Have-Mores, from revolting (again)? You leverage your old friend, inequality.

Look back at American history. When slavery was abolished, poor blacks and poor whites were effectively in the same starting place. The plantation owners realized they were in for a potential revolt, so they played the racism card and managed to get the two classes fighting each other, rather than have them turning an eye towards the wealthiest. Every generation of immigrants has been demonized by the scions of the previous generation’s leaders, from the Irish being demonized by the Italians to Mexicans and Hispanics today. I always have a cynical, bitter chuckle when I read racist remarks about Hispanics coming out of the mouths of folks with Irish heritage.

World history provides even more stark examples. All you need do is look at the various Holocausts through a different lens – after all, the Nazis who exterminated millions of people certainly didn’t let the victims’ possessions just lay around. There are still disputes today over ownership of works of art and other family heirlooms almost 70 years after the war ended. The Haves took, and brutally killed off the Have-Nots in the process.

Marriage equality, racial parity, gay rights, etc. are just a few of the many different ways we’re being told by the Haves to fight each other. Republicans and Democrats are told by their party bosses to fight. Liberals and Conservatives. Christians and Muslims. Blacks and whites. Hell, as evidenced by recent events (like last week), we’re still fighting each other over gender, the oldest of divisions.

The antidote to this, from marriage equality to racism to gender stereotypes, is absolute equality of opportunity, the certain belief that we are all equal in opportunity (but not equal in result), and the realization that any form of inequality not only is wrong from a moral perspective, but is a tool of oppression being leveraged against us, by us. The moment you fall victim to believing in someone else’s inequality – “Oh, they’re a Republican, I hate them” or “Oh, they’re a Jew, I hate them” or “Oh, they’re a feminist, I hate them” – you blind yourself to the truth that the other person is probably working just as hard for the same things you both want – happy home, happy life, happy spirit. You’re doing the work of the Haves for them (and unpaid!).

The practical antidote is to keep that simple mantra in your mind every time inequality rears its head in you. “I am not a tool of the 1%” or “I am not a tool of the Haves”. Every time you see or hear something that creates that knee-jerk response in your own mind, recite that mantra and resolve to overcome your own prejudices in order to give the other person a chance to prove that they are your equal or not as an individual. Vow not to do the work of the Haves for them.

Equality of opportunity also doesn’t mean equality of outcome. The fastest runner should win, no matter what race, gender, or sexual orientation they are. But the situation today doesn’t call for equality of outcome. It calls for equality of opportunity.

We must recognize that equality of opportunity means everyone starts the race at the same start line.
No one starts 50 meters behind.
No one starts with an anvil tied to their leg.
No one is shot dead halfway through the race just because they showed signs they might win.

Inequality is a virus that spreads from mind to mind. Inoculate yourself, and inoculate others. Support all forms of equality of opportunity. Once you open your eyes to that truth, not only will your life be filled with less anger and hate, you’ll start to see how the world really works.

Or, you take the blue pill, you wake up in your bed, and you continue to believe whatever the Haves want you to believe. Your choice.

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March 27, 2013
2 Exercises To Strengthen and Grow Your Social Networks
We spend a lot of time in the world of social media talking about content. Content marketing, content is king, content rules, and rightfully so, since content is a vital part of many people’s work. It’s effective, it scales well with the resources you give it, and if done well, helps you and your community. That said, content is only half the equation. Remember that this is social media – content is the media. There’s still the social part, and that’s a part we pay very little attention to. In fact, if you believe some of the content marketing resources out there, the general idea is “build it and they will come”, which hasn’t really worked… well, ever.

So what’s the other half of social media? The social part. Your network, and the people in them. You can still make social media work well for you without generating much content. How? By focusing your efforts on your network. Recently, I shared a simple networking tip, saying hello to people who visit your profile on LinkedIn. That’s the tip of the iceberg. If you want to make the social part work for you, or your content marketing skills have proven to not be your strength, then look into networking. Here are two simple networking exercises for you to try.

Be a Broker

Of the people you know, try to connect two of them every week (or even every day if your network is large enough) who might benefit each other. Say you know someone who’s in the vacuum business and someone who’s in the pizza delivery business in your local town. Connect them, introduce them to each other, and maybe even make the suggestion that the pizza guy work with the vacuum guy on commission so as to get into more households.

Listen on networks like LinkedIn Signal or Twitter for people asking their friends to recommend new hires or new business partners, and then make the connections. It’s really easy – just go to Signal, search for the word hiring, restrict to your first degree connections, and see what’s out there that you can make happen for someone in your network. No, there’s nothing in it directly for you, but by doing so, you strengthen your network by increasing your value to the people in it.

Make Some Greatest Hits

Are you subscribed to Peter Shankman’s Help a Reporter Out (HARO)? If you’re not, you’re missing out on golden opportunities for earned press – but not for you. If you’re still not familiar with this free service, it’s a thrice-daily email of inquiries from press and media sources asking for sources to contact who are experts. Here’s an example query:

6) Summary: Financial Experts’ Tips
Name: S.Z. Berg High-traffic print/websites
Category: Business and Finance
Media Outlet: High-traffic print/websites
Deadline: 7:00 PM PST – 30 March

Query: I am looking for financial and investment experts to provide little-known strategies (and client anecdotes) on digging out of debt, buying a car, paying for college, and other big buys or investing in stocks or mutual funds for a book/Huffington Post blog. Requirements: Prefer experts who are socially networked.

Here’s the exercise: subscribe to HARO, and commit to finding one query per week for someone in your network. Read through the backgrounds of a dozen or so folks who are connected to you on LinkedIn or Twitter and then read HARO. Find someone in that group a single press inquiry, copy and paste it to them, and see if it can land them some ink. If you want to make an impression on someone, getting them free press is certainly one way of doing so.

Hint for job seekers: this is a KILLER way to make a pre- or post-interview impression.

Conclusion

These two exercises, if you do them diligently once a week, every week, will strengthen and grow your network. People will begin to seek you out because you’re constantly providing them with value, and as is human nature, they’ll do their best to return the favor and find you opportunities as well. Want the world to beat a path to your door? Do the hard work of beating a path to their doors first.

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March 26, 2013
How to create content for the junkweb
As much as I don’t like it, the junkweb (as termed by Chris Brogan) is supremely powerful. It’s one of those concepts that’s like pop-ups – you hate it, yet you cannot deny its effectiveness. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, it’s the phenomenon of slapping words on top of images and sharing them on social networks.

In a recent look at some of my stats and some client stats on Facebook alone, junkweb posts accounted for 8 of the top 10 most shared, most engaged items on Facebook pages. If things like EdgeRank are of concern or interest to you, then you have to consider the junkweb as one of your content generation tactics.

Here’s a simple way to get started with creating for the junkweb. First, find yourself a list of quotes or sayings about your field, about your industry, or anything else that’s on-brand. Next, go to the Commons on Flickr or the Creative Commons By Attribution, for Commercial Use section. Find an image for each quote that’s appropriate and has relatively empty or neutral space in it that can accommodate the quote. Using a program like Over on a mobile device or Skitch on a desktop, slap the quote on top of the image, and you’ve got a piece of content for the junkweb.

Here’s an example. We start with this quote:

“Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.” – Anthony de Mello

And now we find a picture on the Commons, in this case from the State Library of New South Wales:

We use Skitch to put up the words, and here’s our junkweb piece.

If you don’t believe in the power of the junkweb, I’d challenge you to try it for two weeks. Create a piece of interesting junkweb content every day that is relevant, targeted, and on-brand, and see how it performs in terms of engagement and sharing on networks like Facebook and Google+. Remember that these are not memes per se, and certainly don’t create anything that is inappropriate for your brand’s tone. Try it out for two weeks and see if it makes an impact on your audience.

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March 25, 2013
Marketing Over Coffee: How To Junkweb, Trouble Tickets, and More
How To Junkweb, using trouble tickets, and more marketing advice, in this week’s Marketing Over Coffee:

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March 22, 2013

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