Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Author: Christopher S Penn

  • Searching through 2012’s Digital Marketing Zeitgeist

    Google and YouTube did a wonderful wrap-up of 2012 in their annual Zeitgeist:

    Year in Search 2012: Year In Review
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    However, beyond the general pulse of the world, we didn’t get a chance to dig into just the world of marketing. Let’s take a quick tour through Google Trends to see what things gained ascendancy during the year in a zeitgeist of our own (sans classy video). Fair warning: this is a data dredge. First up, let’s talk about social networks. Facebook was crushingly dominant in search for the year:

    Google Trends - Web Search Interest: twitter, facebook, linkedin, pinterest, google+ - Worldwide, 2011-2012

    Once we remove the 800 pound gorilla from the room, we can see a bit more into the other social networks’ search popularity:

    Google Trends - Web Search Interest: twitter, instagram, linkedin, pinterest, google+ - Worldwide, 2011-2012

    Twitter is the distant second to Facebook, with Pinterest popping this year but ultimately losing search interest to Instagram. LinkedIn kept chugging along, and Google+ didn’t even show up to the party. (The graph looks identical whether you use Google+ or Google Plus as the search term).

    In terms of search momentum, if you had to place your bets on where to be in the coming year, Facebook and Twitter are still the kings of the hill. More interesting to me is that Twitter’s search stock is rising. Pinterest’s ability to catch attention appears to have leveled off, while Instagram is ascending now. Both are as popular in search as LinkedIn.

    How about our marketing? What were we looking to do?

    Google Trends - Web Search Interest: mobile marketing, search marketing, content marketing, email marketing, social media marketing - Worldwide, 2011-2012

    This year was content marketing’s year to break out and become a rising star (at least in the number of people searching for information about it). Search marketing declined a bit, and our other forms of marketing more or less stayed the same for the year. Email’s decline in 2011 leveled off in 2012, presumably because marketers realized people are still using an awful lot of email.

    As for what we call ourselves, while inbound marketing has been publicized heavily, it’s not what people go looking for. Want your resume to be found? Be a digital marketing person instead:

    Google Trends - Web Search Interest: internet marketing, inbound marketing, digital marketing - Worldwide, 2011-2012

    And what will your boss be knocking on your door about in 2013? You can bet the words big data will be in the conversation:

    Google Trends - Web Search Interest: mobile marketing, big data, content marketing, lead generation, marketing roi - Worldwide, 2011-2012

    What’s on your digital marketing zeitgeist for 2012? What’s on your marketing horoscope for 2013?

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  • Have you tuned into Marketing Over Coffee lately?

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  • The ninja mind control method

    Still frame from Everybody Needs a Ninja

    In class last night, one of the white belt students asked me about whether the ninja mind control stories he’s heard were real or not, what the secrets to ninja mind control were. I laughed a bit and explained that the ninja mind control method is fairly straightforward: gain control over your own mind and other people lose the ability to control you.

    For example, let’s say you’re deeply offended by a particular political position or idea. If you reflexively get angry when you hear that, then someone can make you angry, get you to behave irrationally, and take advantage of you. Maybe they goad you into a fight at the local watering hole that you had no intention of being in. Maybe they convince you to give them money in support of a cause that you’d never rationally support. Whatever the case may be, your buttons got pushed and you reacted.

    The ninja mind control method is designed to help you find out what buttons you have and reduce or remove their effects. Through lots of physical training, meditation, study, and practice, you can eventually figure out how to become less angry or scared or enthralled by other people, places, or events. Remove or reduce your weaknesses, give people fewer buttons to push, and you win.

    This doesn’t just apply to the individual. Corporations, organizations, and groups are just as susceptible to having their buttons pushed as individual people. Have you ever worked for someone who was obsessed with the competition? Have you ever seen a company chase another competitor, copying every product or service fruitlessly? (look no further than all of the iPad clones in the marketplace) If these companies focused more on mitigating their own weaknesses and strengthening their products and services, they’d be far better off than chasing the tail of the pack leader – and they might even figure out a different path to take that would let them be a leader, rather than myopically following.

    Even as marketers, we fall prey to the same human foibles. We allow envy and jealousy of someone else’s brilliant campaign to cloud our minds, forcing ourselves to imitate them rather than fix what’s wrong in our own shops and build our own unique campaigns.

    The actual ninja mind control method – gaining control over your own mind – lacks the sexiness and coolness of what you see in comic books and movies, but if you get good at it, it sure does make for a better life. If you’re interested in getting started, I’d recommend these two audio meditations from Stephen K. Hayes in the iTunes store:

    https://cspenn.com/skh1
    https://cspenn.com/skh2

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  • Keeping the fires burning

    Backyard burning

    Ever managed or maintained a fire in a hearth or campfire?

    If you’ve managed to get a fire going, then you know that continually feeding it is the best way to keep it going. The flame never stops, so you never have to relight the fire. This, of course, requires frequent attention and care.

    Somewhat harder is restarting a fire from hot coals or embers. As long as you’ve got tinder, kindling, and fuel, you can get it going again with less effort than starting a fire from scratch. Letting a fire die down to coals and then relighting it lets you take some time off from it to go do other things, but does require you to check in and rebuild it.

    The hardest is restarting a fire that’s gone cold. You’re basically building a brand new fire, with all of the difficulty that entails. When you go to sleep overnight, often you’re faced with a cold fire pit in the morning – when you need the fire most, when its warmth and utility would be most comforting. The chill you feel is the price of negligence.

    Companies and marketers are no different.

    If you take great care of your customers, giving them frequent attention and service, then you never have to worry about the fire dying out.

    If you only take good care of your customers, then you have to relight from the embers, which requires more marketing resources to get the flames burning again.

    If you take poor care of your customers, then you’re starting from scratch – and the chill you feel won’t just be your customers, but the emptiness of your coffers when your company needs the profits most.

    How cold does your company let its fires get?

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  • Should you have a 52 week content strategy?

    Michelle Quillin asked in the comments:

    “I’m a big advocate of editorial calendars for planning, strategy, and a source of inspiration. I really need to do long-term planning myself. Some time ago, Laura Roeder recommended a 52-week strategy. What do you think of planning out that far ahead, with a marketing strategy in place?”

    I think a framework is a generally good idea; that’s what I do with my stuff. I also think that it needs to be a framework, a scaffolding, onto which you can hang other stuff, and in which there’s enough space that you can be incredibly flexible.

    For example, I think you’d have a very hard time staying fresh and relevant if you had a content calendar that looked like this:

    August 3, 2011: 22 Reasons Why Instagram Is Awesome For Selling My Little Pony Toys

    That’s far too confining and limiting to me. Look at this Google Trends chart.

    Google Trends - Web Search Interest: pinterest, instagram - Worldwide, Jan 2011 - Jan 2012

    What happened around then? Pinterest became the new darling of the image world.

    If you had a framework that looked like:

    August Blog Posts
    Week 1 – Image-based selling blog posts
    Week 2 – Photography tips for image-based selling
    Week 3 – Sharing images
    Week 4 – Driving traffic with images

    Then I think you’d be talking about something a lot more useful. It’s more flexible, and it lets you adapt to rapidly changing conditions.

    Here’s my final suggestion with a long term strategy: be prepared at any moment to throw it out. I can’t emphasize that enough, because whenever we as individuals or as companies develop these long range plans, they have a habit of calcifying until they’re immutable laws written in stone tablets that the VP of Marketing brought down from the mountain. That’s dangerous on a couple of fronts. First, it’s predictable, and predictable isn’t necessarily good in an environment where your competitors are looking for any advantage. A predictable content strategy can inadvertently let them scoop you on nearly any topic. Second, a written-in-stone attitude means you can’t pivot. You can’t adapt. When something major happens, you can’t change or newsjack or anything.

    If you approach the content strategy with the feeling of, “let’s be ready to toss this if it’s not working out”, and you can maintain that attitude, then you’re going to be much more successful and adaptable when it’s called for.

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  • Identify your marketing bargains

    In every company, there are going to be marketing bargains – programs that offer incredible ROI. The problem we often have as marketers is that we’re focused on paying attention to the biggest and loudest – the programs that bring in the largest number of leads, even if they’re woefully inefficient.

    With the advent of Google’s Cost Data tools, you can now upload custom click data from other programs and the cost of those clicks into Google Analytics. Run a press release? As long as you’ve used campaign tracking, you can upload your costs to those analytics campaigns. Running ads on a different PPC network (like Facebook ads)? Grab your campaign spend and upload it into Google Analytics.

    If you want to simplify things even further, make yourself a spreadsheet and start lining up your programs very simply. Here’s an example using SEO and email in a Google Doc.

    The Really Simple ROI Sheet

    It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to look down a list of ROI percentages and identify which programs are performing at their peak. The big question is, can the bargains scale up? In the example above, if you put 1 into SEO, you get it back plus5.94 more. If you put 10 into the machine,59.44 comes back. That’s a prime candidate to see if 20 returns118.88. Keep adding money into that box until the ROI diminishes below your next most efficient program.

    As you wrap up for the year, look at a comprehensive list of your marketing programs and identify the bargains, the programs with the highest ROI, even if they don’t necessarily have the highest lead generation numbers. You might find that some programs are worth investing far more in than you’re currently doing, and some programs that you might be able to afford to throttle back on if their lead volumes can be replaced by more efficient sources.

    Bonus: download a copy of this spreadsheet for your own use by clicking here.

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  • International Day of the Ninja: How the ninja worked

    December 5th, of course, is International Day of the Ninja. Aside from the usual frivolous fun of wrapping a t-shirt around your head, here’s a fun opportunity to watch how the ninja might have operated, featuring both a SEAL team using lethal force, and senior master teacher Stephen K. Hayes, completely unarmed. Watch and enjoy:

    Steven K Hayes vs LA Security Professionals
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    If you’re interested in studying actual ninja training, I’d strongly recommend visiting:

    In the Boston area: the Boston Martial Arts Center

    Around the US & Elsewhere: Stephen K. Hayes’ Quest Centers

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  • The vital importance of marketing baselining

    When it comes to measuring the impact of social media or any form of digital marketing, one of the most complicated problems you’ll face is the indirect influence. For example, let’s say you run a Facebook campaign. Let’s say that the campaign seems to do reasonably well in terms of likes, shares, and comments, but when you look in your analytics, you see only a modest bump in visits, conversions, and sales from Facebook:

    Chart 1

    Oh well, looks like social media was a waste, huh? Not so fast. By measuring just the Facebook channel, we’re pretending that people don’t speak to each other, don’t share news outside of Facebook, don’t tell friends and family in real life at the water cooler or dinner table. We’re pretending that sharing on Facebook happens only on Facebook, and that’s simply not true.

    That said, how would you know what the impact of your Faceobok campaign was outside of Facebook? There’s no such thing as click tracking across the dinner table. To answer that question, you’d need to know what your web analytics looked like before and after your campaign.

    Suppose you had looked at and measured the overall traffic, conversions, and customers to your website for the last 30 days and gotten a reliable baseline of activity, a comprehensive look at everything happening in your digital world:

    Chart 2

    This is the process of baselining, of getting a reliable sample of what’s already happening on your website and digital properties so that you can tell the difference between normal activities and your campaign.

    What if, in the absence of anything else simultaneously new, your web analytics suddenly looked like this after your Facebook campaign?

    Chart 3

    That delta, that change, is the effect of your Facebook campaign outside of Facebook. Multichannel funnels can account for some of it, but the other aspect that multichannel funnels can’t track is the online to offline (and back again) sharing, which is very real. In the absence of high quality surveying and primary research, baselining is the next best alternative for figuring out what really happened.

    There are two important caveats for baselining:

    1. Ideally, don’t start anything new during the baselining period. If you’ve got campaigns already running, keep them running, but try not to kick off anything new during the baselining period.

    2. Vitally important, don’t start anything else new during the campaign test period. If you launched a Facebook campaign at the same time you kicked off a PPC campaign and an outbound cold calling campaign, how would you know which campaign to attribute the growth to? Isolate one and only one new thing to test in order to get an accurate measurement.

    If you’re struggling to account for the impact of any of your marketing campaigns, look at baselining as a way to assess their overall impact to your marketing.

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  • Shift happens

    Shift happens

    Shift happens.

    After 3 years in the email marketing industry, I’m departing WhatCounts as Director of Inbound Marketing and moving over to SHIFT Communications as Vice President, Marketing Technology.

    Why the change? For almost a decade, I have been focused on the bottom half of the sales and marketing funnel. From the moment someone comes into the audience – via search, newsletter subscription, PPC, etc. – I’ve developed ways of converting them into prospects, leads, customers, and evangelists. I’ve got a fairly good handle on the process and have now replicated it for 3 different companies with good results.

    The question that has been nagging me in the past few years, however, is this: how do people figure out you exist in the first place? In the past, I’ve viewed things like awareness, brand building, and PR as unquantifiable wastes of time, but I now view that as ignorance on my part, rather than being inherently flawed marketing mechanisms. How do people find out about you? Sure, you can buy lists and spam the daylights out of folks, but that has relatively little ROI. I realized that for all of the bad pitches I’ve received (and there have been so, so many) there must still be some value to brand building, PR, and awareness or that entire industry would have ceased to exist a long time ago.

    My mission, my quest if you will, is to figure out the top half of the marketing funnel. What effect does brand advertising have? What effect does PR have? What effect does brand building have? Most important how do you quantify it? How do you assess it objectively, intelligently, and efficiently so that you can pick the mechanisms that will work best for your company and grow the audience so that you can then use lead generation, demand generation, conversion, and all of the marketing tools that I’m comfortable with.

    To the PR world, I’ll be helping SHIFT offer my services to existing and future clients. If you’ve ever wanted to have me look at your marketing funnel or your marketing strategy, audit it, and give you a plan of action to fix things up, I’ll be offering that through SHIFT now. If you’ve ever wondered if your analytics are telling you the right information and delivering real value to you, I’ll be offering that through SHIFT now, too. Ever wanted a social media marketing agency? SHIFT can do that and you get me as a bonus. Everything you’ve come to know me for isn’t going away – rather, it’s being connected with the top half of the funnel as I learn and become proficient in it, in my quest to learn the totality of the marketing profession.

    I invite you to join me as the quest continues! Want to work with me at SHIFT? Click here to let me know!

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  • Weekend Foodblogging: Non-Toxic Waffles

    If you do a bunch of Googling, something as simple as waffles makes you scratch your head. Remember Eggo waffles, the brand behind the ad slogan “Leggo my eggo!”? Dig into the ingredients list:

    Ingredients: Enriched flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, vitamin B1 [thiamin mononitrate], vitamin B2 [riboflavin], folic acid), water, vegetable oil (soybean, palm, and/or canola oil), eggs, leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate), contains 2% or less of sugar, salt, whey, soy lecithin, yellow 5, yellow 6.
    Source: Kellogg’s website

    Looks pretty reasonable, doesn’t it, except for the aluminum? I was curious about the last two, yellow 5 and yellow 6. One is a food coloring banned in some countries in the EU (tartrazine, yellow 5) and the other is derived from petroleum (disodium 6-hydroxy-5-[(4-sulfophenyl)azo]-2-naphthalenesulfonate, yellow 6). On June 30, 2010, the Center for Science in the Public Interest called for the FDA to ban Yellow 5. Executive Director Michael Jacobson said, “These synthetic chemicals do absolutely nothing to improve the nutritional quality or safety of foods, but trigger behavior problems in children and, possibly, cancer in anybody.”

    Yummy. Who wants some petroleum distillates and aluminum in their waffles? I’ve leggo the Eggo.

    So with that in mind, I asked myself, how hard could frozen waffles be? Make a bunch all at once, stick ’em in the freezer, right? Turns out it was ridiculously simple. Anyone with a bowl and a spoon can make waffles that are significantly healthier than prepackaged food.

    DSC_0030

    Here’s the recipe, in case you want to make your own and stop spending big bucks getting a load of crap in your waffles.

    Non-Toxic Waffles

    Makes 3 large waffles, or 12 small ones.

    • 2 eggs
    • 2 cups of milk
    • 2 cups of flour
    • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
    • 2 teaspoons of sugar, maple syrup, or honey
    • 4 teaspoons aluminum-free baking POWDER (not baking soda)
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract

    Directions:

    • Mix everything in a bowl until smooth. To make life easier and less painful, use a mixer of some kind.
    • Pour into waffle iron.
    • Cook until done. (golden brown and delicious, no artificial coloring required)
    • Bonus: put them in zip-top bags and stuff them in your freezer.

    Here’s what I’m finding, the more I Google my food (and the ingredients of prepackaged versions): a fair number of foods are actually stupid easy to make. Not only that, they’re also less costly, you control the ingredients that go into them, and they taste better.

    Take some of your favorite prepared foods and Google for how to make them at home. I think you’ll be surprised at the number of them that require little to no cooking skill and can save your money and your health.

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