Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Author: Christopher S Penn

  • Stop trying to go viral and start being symbiotic

    Think about what going viral means to you in the marketing sense.

    virus

    Now think about what the most successful viruses have in common in the biology world.

    1. They’re ubiquitous. The most common viruses are rhinoviruses, which cause the common cold. At any given time, there’s a cold going around.

    So far, so good. Marketers like ubiquity.

    2. They’re easily transmitted. Most rhinoviruses spread through aerosol transmission – tiny droplets of liquid that are airborne and can take hold in a new host simply through breathing.

    Marketers like transmissibility.

    3. They’re mostly harmless. For example, the herpes simplex virus (the virus that causes cold sores) is one of the most successful viruses ever, because it does very little harm to its host organism, which ensures it a lifelong infection. If you think about it for a bit, a dead host can no longer support the virus, so the ideal virus does almost no harm at all, or does so over an exceptionally long period of time.

    That’s actually fairly contrary to what a lot of marketers want. Most marketers want something very hard hitting and impactful, not something that’s “mostly harmless” and nearly invisible.

    Or is it? If you’re thinking strategically and very long term (which most people don’t), you actually do want marketing that’s mostly harmless. If you give more than you ask for, if you willingly turn down the “BUY BUY BUY” dial to the lowest setting that can still sustain your business while providing value over the long term, then you’re not “killing the host” in the sense that they no longer want your marketing. They won’t tune you out, and indeed may even welcome you, in which case your relationship with the host changes from being parasitic to symbiotic.

    For example, in the biology world, Lactobacillus Acidophilus bacteria lives inside your guts, literally, and helps not only to kill off the more harmful Escherischia coli (e. coli) bacteria, but also helps to metabolize vitamin K and lactase. How successful is the acidophilus bacteria, biologically?

    Stonyfield Farm, NH

    That’s right. Healthy symbiosis has managed to get a simple bacteria to be part of major corporate marketing campaigns. A life form incapable of sentience is getting sentient lifeforms to not only willingly consume it, but to sell it to others. Now that’s some serious influence.

    Stop trying to go viral with short-term thinking and short-term campaigning in your marketing, and start thinking about how to behave symbiotically, giving more than you take. You might just find that your prospects and customers will want to consume more than ever from you.

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  • My daily content reading workflow

    Todd Chandler recently asked:

    Twitter / trchandler: @cspenn what's your daily

    Good question! My daily reading workflow starts on the iPad with Mr. Reader and a big pile of blog feeds. Generally speaking, I try to add one new blog a week to my Google Reader subscriptions and take one blog away a week. It’s my way of challenging myself to stay fresh, a sort of “weakest link” competition. I have about 15 different pure marketing blogs I read, another 15 economics blogs I read, plus an assortment of others. Along the way, I’m hitting the Star button and storing noteworthy pieces for #the5 and my newsletter.

    Mr. Reader

    Once blogs are done, I flip into my inbox, where I look for news updates from Help A Reporter, Bloomberg News, and a select few other newsletters, reading those when they’re there. I also have a few people who send me stuff from time to time to look at. It’s during this time that I populate my Google Calendar for the day with appointments as well, which is my de facto task management system.

    After that, I scan through a few lists on Twitter, a few circles on G+, and a few lists on Facebook for folks I know who share good stuff (and not too much of it).

    All of this takes about an hour a day, give or take a few minutes. It really depends on kind of news day it is. Some days, there are a dozen articles that all deserve a close read and careful analysis. Some days, it’s skimming right past the Kardashians at warp speed. This morning, for example, the marketing blogs section was really light, but the economics section had some massive posts that required reading in depth.

    So there’s my content consumption workflow in a nutshell. Thanks, Todd, for the question!

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  • Method matters as much as ingredients

    I was making grilled chicken yesterday and realized that my chicken was reasonably good. It’s kind of a funny method, but one I discovered after years of eating other people’s bad chicken. Here’s the thing about chicken: as a meat, it tends to dry out really fast, especially on the grill. Having thoroughly cooked chicken also tends to mean having dry, tough chicken unless you specifically focus on chicken that isn’t dry or tough.

    So, to prepare chicken well, here’s how I handle it. First, I use chicken thighs rather than other parts. Thighs are inherently higher fat, about 6% fat rather than breast meat, which is about 1% fat. The higher fat content means that it takes longer to dry out and is more forgiving of mistakes with heat. It also, at least to me, has a better texture.

    Typically I mix some barbecue sauce with an equal volume of water and let it marinate for a minimum of 4 hours. After that, it goes in a baking pan and on the grill over low heat for 12 minutes, 6 minutes per side. The goal here is to get the sauce and chicken to a simmer, about 170 degrees with a thermometer. This is essentially poaching the chicken to achieve sterilization and cook it thoroughly without denaturing the meat proteins (which causes toughness).

    Grilled chicken

    Once I’ve gotten the chicken simmered for about 12 minutes, I move it out of the pan and crank the burners to OMGHOT, 3 minutes per side, while dumping the contents of the pan in the flowerbed. This puts a nice sear on the chicken, giving it that “barbecue” look and taste, but 3 minutes a side isn’t long enough to toughen it up.

    Grilled chicken

    After it’s done, it goes in the now-empty pan and rests for 5 minutes to normalize the heat and let the meat re-absorb moisture that it would lose if you cut it open right away. After a rest, it’s ready to eat and is a wonderful flavor and texture while still being safe from food-borne bacteria.

    What does any of this have to do with marketing, besides possibly making lunch for your team? Simple: if you looked at the final product, there’s a very good chance that you would be unable to reverse-engineer the process. You could definitely copy the ingredients, but the method is largely invisible. That’s what makes a successful marketing secret recipe.

    Everyone has the same marketing ingredients. We all have websites. We all have social media. We all have SEO. We all have email marketing. Some marketing ingredients are slightly better than others, but it’s not the ingredients that matter as much as it is the proficiency of the chef and the methods that you use to cook with. Great ingredients in the hands of an incompetent chef are just wasted. Great tools in the hands of an incompetent marketer are wasted or worse, are abused and cause damage to your company.

    Conversely, mediocre ingredients in the hands of a great chef sing to as much potential as they can offer, and will often make a memorable meal even if they’re not top quality. Even on a relative shoestring, a terrific marketer will be able to generate some results, enough to pay for additional investment (better ingredients) in a virtuous circle.

    If you want to be a successful marketer or a successful chef, get what you can afford for ingredients, but spend the majority of your time and efforts focusing on improving your methods, how you use those ingredients, for maximum results.

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  • Why I force myself to blog daily

    One of the discussion topics recently at Blogworld was, “How often should you blog?”. As you know if you’re reading this, I force myself to blog daily both for work and for myself. A lot of people including some very good friends flat out tell me that I’m doing it wrong, that I could easily get away with blogging twice a week. Chris Brogan mentioned during his keynote that he didn’t notice a significant change in his analytics by switching down to twice a week. Jay Baer said that he’s able to do once a week with help from his team, freeing up his time.

    Making the podcast fresh every day

    So why am I intentionally doing it wrong when there are so many others doing it differently? It’s because I have different motivations. There are 3 simple reasons that I learned back in the day when I was doing a financial services podcast.

    1. Forced learning. When you start in on a daily content creation rhythm, you exhaust your existing knowledge very fast. You find out just how smart and knowledgeable you aren’t, and the only way to be able to keep creating content that often is to keep learning, to be constantly reading and researching. The fastest way to becoming competent and knowledgeable about something is to force yourself to learn a whole lot every single day just to keep the content machine fed.

    2. Forced creativity. When you do content daily, you run out of low-hanging fruit very fast as well. That’s why it’s easy to blog in the beginning and then it suddenly feels like you hit a wall. You run into your own limits. Forcing myself to a daily content scheme forces me to be creative, forces me to think outside the box, forces me to look at old things in new ways to see if there are additional avenues to extract value. Half of the posts I’ve done on analytics were me staring at Google Analytics and wondering what else I could make the tool do.

    3. Forced discipline. Blogging daily is the anchor on which I build a whole bunch of other content routines like #the5, my newsletter, etc. It’s the rock on which I plant the flag daily and that in turn makes all of the other disciplines easier to implement. It’s the hardest part of my daily content routine, and that in turn means that once I’m done blogging, everything else feels like easy stuff by comparison.

    I’ll also say this: forcing yourself to create reasonably good quality content on a daily basis is painful. There are days when it’s a struggle, when it physically hurts to try to come up with a new look at ground I think I know. The idea of creating content daily isn’t for everyone, and if you don’t enjoy the above challenges, don’t subject yourself to it because it’ll make you really unhappy. I don’t force myself to do this stuff daily for anyone else except myself and the benefits I know it brings me internally.

    I can’t emphasize that enough. Please don’t take this post as a challenge that you should start blogging daily just because I do. If you want the above benefits for yourself, then yes, give it a try, but if you know that your motivations aren’t aligned with the reasons for doing it, then find some other way to fulfill them that won’t result in very deep unhappiness on your part.

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  • How to clean up audio from iPhone video interviews

    My friend and colleague Mark W. Schaefer shot a fun video with me at Blogworld NYC talking a bit more about influence. However (and no fault of his own), the iPhone he shot it on did a great job with the video and a lousy job with the audio. That’s the nature of the iPhone, unfortunately. Let’s look at how you can fix this with iMovie and the Levelator, a free package from The Conversations Network.

    How to clean up audio from iPhone video interviews
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    Transcript

    We start by loading up the clip into the Timeline.

    Next, we export using the Quicktime function as an AIFF sound file.

    We run the Levelator on the sound file.

    After it’s done, we go back to iMovie, select the clip, choose Detach Audio, and remove the original audio.

    Now we drop the cleaned audio back onto the file exactly at the same place.

    The movie is just about ready. To ensure final quality, we normalize the audio clip, then export it to the format of our choice. In this case, I’m going to send it back to Mark.

    That’s it, in just a few steps, to get better sounding audio out of your video interviews shot on an iPhone.

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  • Marketing Over Coffee Live!

    This morning in place of the usual doughnut shop, John Wall and I did a Google+ hangout. It’s come a long way as a service and the ability to stream live on the air plus have it go to YouTube automatically makes it a wonderful content creation too with a minimum of editing. We obviously need to work on lighting and cleaning up our respective “studios” but the potential is immense. Take a watch of today’s show:

    Marketing Over Coffee June 13, 2012
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    If this format gets some heat, we may switch to it on a more regular basis.

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  • How pronounceable are your digital marketing assets?

    Here’s some food for thought. If you were watching yesterday’s WWDC keynote by Apple with a marketer’s eye, you might have seen a number of innovations coming to the IOS and Apple platforms. Bear in mind that Apple accounts for somewhere between 25 and 33% of all mobile markets worldwide and more than double that in the burgeoning tablet markets. The biggest announcements involved tighter integration with their voice recognition software, Siri. Also included was IOS and Mac OS X integration of Facebook at the same level that Twitter is integrated now along with Yelp on their mapping software.

    Talking to phone

    Ask yourself this – or better yet, find someone with an iPhone 4S and ask Siri – how easily pronounced your company’s digital assets are. (or go to an Apple store and ask her there)

    Siri, browse the web for [your domain name here].

    Siri, what is the address for [business name here].

    When the new Facebook integration rolls out, you can bet that it will be as tightly integrated as Twitter is. Are your Facebook and Twitter profile names easily pronounced so that an iPhone or an iPad can get to them by voice?

    Finally, there’s also a low-tech reason to go pronounceable. If your company name or domain name is so obscure that you have to spell it out to people, you can bet that no one is telling their friends about it. When was the last time someone shared by word of actual mouth a domain name like i-find-140-things-u-like-2-share.com? Never.

    The days of clever Web 2.0 names with missing vowels and peculiar spellings are rapidly drawing to a close as more of the world goes mobile with technologies like voice recognition. Unless you’re already a major name brand, choose clarity and pronounceability first and foremost to future-proof yourself.

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  • The golden age of Podcasting is now

    On the last day of Blogworld, one of the panelists in a “state of podcasting” discussion made this amusing comment while lamenting the lack of growth of his own show: “things aren’t like they were in the golden age of podcasting”. I nearly hit my head laughing at the absurdity of that statement. Take a look at this chart by Tom Webster of Edison Research:

    The Podcast Consumer 2012

    Look at those stats.

    • In 2008, 18% of the US population 12+ had listened to a podcast.
    • In 2012, that number is 29%.

    Now consider that the American population ages 12+ is approximately 260 million people. (source)

    Let’s put those percentages in absolute numbers.

    • In 2008, 46.8 million Americans had listened to a podcast.
    • In 2012, that number is 75.4 million Americans.

    In what world do you have 28.6 million MORE customers and the “golden age” of your industry is past to you? Other than a world that’s bad at math, maybe. That growth rate is also astonishing. If only our stock market portfolios had nearly tripled in 6 years.

    Podcasting is bigger than ever. It’s more powerful than ever. People are using it differently, as a source of Internet radio on demand rather than a time shifting mechanism. With 3G, 4G, 4G LTE, iPhones and Androids in every pocket, and ubiquitous Internet access, the audience has never been more ready for podcasters.

    Here’s the fundamental problem that most independent podcasters have failed to tackle in 6 years: they’ve been squabbling over the same tiny pie of people actively seeking new podcasts to listen to instead of making the pie bigger. In the years since podcasting’s shiny new object status came and went, we’ve seen the rise of social media, the ubiquity of email marketing, the insane power of SEO on all digital ventures, the tidal wave of mobile, and more. Each of these opportunities gave podcasters the chance to grow their audience, to grow their channel, to gain mindshare and market share.

    Take a look at how Marketing Over Coffee’s audience on LinkedIn has grown in 3 years:

    Statistics about Marketing Over Coffee | LinkedIn

    Here’s the bottom line: if you are podcasting, you are a media outlet. You are a publisher. You are competing with every other media outlet out there, from the New York Times to the blogger sitting in the next cubicle, for the same resource we are all competing for: attention. Without attention, we have no audience, and without an audience, we have no business.

    If you’re publishing anything for business purposes (as opposed to hobby) – a podcast, a blog, a Twitter stream, etc. – and you’re not advertising your publication, then you will get the same results as any media outlet business that fails to advertise itself: closed doors. Be advertising constantly, via word of mouth, SEO, social media, anything you can get your hands on and that you can afford in terms of resources and you will see your audience grow.

    The golden age of podcasting and of all digital marketing and media is now. The golden age is today. You’ve got more available audience than ever before. To paraphrase Toshitsugu Takamatsu, opportunity is sitting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not to seize it.

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  • Publisher 2.0 and the future of the book publishing industry

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    BEA12 was a fascinating display of the book world, as publishers, distributors, book sellers, and fans all mingled in a giant cavernous hall at the Javits Convention Center next to Blogworld. (Blogworld attendees got into the BEA expo floor for free) There was a grim attempt to highlight digital book reading technologies without showcasing the fact that most digital book technologies circumvent the publisher entirely, which was quite fun to look at. The contortions required to avoid using the words “Amazon Kindle” were worthy of a yoga expert.

    The elephant in the room was the fact that self-publishing (which is now apparently called independent publishing) is connecting authors directly to their audiences. Other than the promise of getting paper books on shelves in book stores, there wasn’t a huge amount of discussion or display on the expo floor about what publishers had to offer.

    Jim Kukral and Scott Stratten, on their panel, did a great job of summarizing the differences between publisher-signed book publishing and independent book publishing. The short of it is simply this:

    If you want maximum distribution and exposure, go with a publisher. This is the “book as business card” route.

    If you want maximum revenue and ownership of your works, go independent. This is the “book as revenue stream” route.

    Neither is wrong as long as you’ve aligned it to your goals.

    This poses an interesting question: what does Publisher 2.0 look like? The publishing world is struggling to remain relevant. Here are a few things that occurred to me as I walked around the Javits hall.

    1. Publisher 2.0 is a marketing house first and foremost. The promise to authors is easy: unless you’re really good at marketing, we’ll help you market in exchange for a cut of the revenues. This would mean the publisher has a robust audience that attracts authors who simply don’t want to market themselves. The more of the marketing services an author uses, the more the publisher gets of the revenue split.

    2. Publisher 2.0 is a skills house. Want your manuscript in iBooks, Kindle, and Nook, but don’t know how to do it? Publisher 2.0 has people who do the work for you, either at a set fee or a percentage of revenues if you sign with them. Want an audio book? Publisher 2.0 hooks you up and finds you a reader if you don’t feel comfortable on a mic. Want an iPhone app? Publisher 2.0 finds you a developer.

    3. Publisher 2.0 is a quality check. The downside of independent publishing is the same as its upside: anyone can publish. That means books filled with garbage, with incorrect data, with grammar that would make your third grade teacher put away her 12 inch ruler and slap you upside the head with a granite yardstick. Publisher 2.0 is a quality check that has editors, correctors, and proofreaders helping do what your friends won’t: if your book sucks, you will know, and then they will help you make it better.

    4. Publisher 2.0 is a service, rather than representation unless you want it. Rather than sign your rights over to them, you simply hire them like any marketing firm. It also means that they can work for a fee for service rather than be saddled with your works and vice versa. If you have the cash in hand, you can pay for the service outright, or you can take out a loan and be represented by them (which is effectively what a book advance is anyway).

    That’s where, in my admittedly amateur view of the publishing industry, where publishers must go if they want to survive and remain relevant. What do you think?

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  • Slides from Blogworld NYC 2012

    I enjoyed the chance to chat with everyone at the Blogworld NYC 2012 show. As I mentioned during my talk, my slides are available for you to peruse. Here are the top 10 takeaways, and the slides.

    Top 10 Takeaways:

    1. Define your outcomes.
    2. Value your outcomes and the actions leading up to them.
    3. Measure your outcomes with Google Analytics.
    4. Avoid the 3 biases.
    5. Identify where your funnel is most broken.
    6. Create routines around your social practices.
    7. Fine-tune the routines until the funnel step that’s most broken is repaired.
    8. Repeat until your funnel is working well.
    9. Vary up the parts that are working well to make them even better in the long run.
    10. Eventually reach proficiency and transcend best practices.

    Slides:

    Thanks again to the entire Blogworld team for having me at the show.

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