Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Author: Christopher S Penn

I’m rolling out an auto-DM campaign!
Consider this your fair warning: I’m rolling out an auto-DM campaign to my Twitter followers.

/waits out the inevitable fit of rage

You’re probably wondering why. I’m testing a belief that many people on Twitter would engage more, would get more value, would be happier followers, if they actually saw half of what I published on Twitter. I suspect that people miss just about everything because it’s very noisy. My audience consists of many folks who are marketing professionals. They in turn follow and subscribe to lots of people, which means that even blocks of updates like #the5 are gone within minutes of them logging into Twitter, so they miss the good stuff.

I firmly believe that things like newsletters are the antidote to this. Newsletters are a better archive than hitting the favorites button, they’re a more lasting archive, and they’re a more convenient archive that’s portable and self-contained.

Here’s the campaign details and how I’ve set it up to work. Everyone following me should get one and only one auto-DM. Each day, my TweetAdder software will send the maximum allowed number of daily DMs (250) out to everyone who is following me with this tweet:

Thanks for following. May I please ask you to subscribe to my newsletter so you don’t miss useful marketing news? https://bit.ly/twadm

It will get you to this Twitter landing page, which I just wrote. If you inspect the URL in the tweet closely, you’ll find that it contains a referrer field that will flow into my CRM, which will give me an idea of what percentage of the 43,000+ people following me have decided the DM was of enough value to subscribe. Of course, it also contains the usual Google Analytics tracking codes too.

Naturally, I’ll be able to track analytics as well, following down the chain of actions:
- How many DMs did I send?
- How many were clicked on? (bit.ly data and GA data)
- How many “converted”? (newsletter subscriber data)
For those who do subscribe and fill out the form completely, I’ll also be able to cross reference Twitter handles and when you started following me; this should give me an idea whether newer followers are more interested in engaging in this way than older followers.

Stay tuned in! I will publish semi-regular updates about the experiment, which according to my math, should conclude in 175 days or roughly on April 16, 2012. At or after that time, I’ll share some rollup statistics on how it went. If you’re a data junkie who likes to crunch this sort of information, please check back in around mid-April and I’ll gladly share an anonymized data set with you if I can.

As I said at the beginning of the post, consider this your fair warning. If getting a single auto-DM really, really upsets you (and it honestly does to some people), please take a few moments to unfollow me now. I won’t be offended, since that’s effectively the equivalent of opting out. I’ll tweet out this post, too. However, if you miss the tweet, you definitely prove the point that the auto-DM campaign is trying to make, yes?

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October 24, 2011
The Little Things Bring the Good Life
- When your bed at home is more comfortable than any hotel’s…
- When you look forward more to your kitchen’s creations than a restaurant’s…
- When you’re more eager for vacation to end so you can get back to regular life than you are for regular life to end so you can vacation…
… you are living the good life.

And if you’re not living that life right now, look around to see what resources you can move around to help you get there. Think about it for a minute. Is it wiser to spend $500 on a vacation that will last a few days, or spend$ 500 on an incredibly comfortable mattress that you’ll spend 6-8 hours a day on for the next few years? Is it wiser to spend $50 on dinner out or$ 50 on the freshest, best quality ingredients you can find and make something even better at home – and likely have leftovers to spare?

This works professionally, too. Are you better off spending $2500 to attend a conference or to upgrade your computer and monitor? One will last a few days and might have some professional benefits, but the other you might be sitting in front of for 8-12 hours a day, and the faster and more capable it is, the faster and more capable you are. Are you better off spending$ 500 on a new logo or faster Internet access for a year? One will have intangible benefits, to be sure, but the other will make every online interaction more productive.

Here’s the last word on this: the more that you can make your everyday life a bit better, a bit more comfortable, a bit more relaxing, the more that your everyday life will support your quest for increased prosperity and happiness. Little things matter! Every day in your normal life puts you a little closer or farther away from your goals in life. If your daily surroundings are working against you, making you less relaxed, less focused, less productive, then your goals will simply drift out of your grasp. If your daily surroundings recharge you, focus you, take away unnecessary discomfort, and let you unleash more of your potential, then your goals will suddenly seem a lot more achievable.

Are you living the good life?

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October 21, 2011
How to set up a Google Analytics dashboard
Want to save yourself a ton of time each day and get your basic reporting stats in one location? Try setting up a Google Analytics dashboard. You must be using the newest version of Google Analytics to do this; check by looking at the top right of your screen to see whether you’re on the old version or new version.

To begin, pick 3 metrics that you care most about. For the average site manager, chances are these are going to be:
- Where did people come from?
- What did they like?
- How many of them converted to help me achieve my goals?
Start on your home tab, choose Dashboards, and select New Dashboard. (GA comes with a default one that isn’t super-helpful)

You’ll be asked to start a blank canvas and name it. Next, your first widget will appear for configuration. Let’s follow the standard metrics above. Our first widget will be a metric. Choose metric from the top, then choose Unique Visitors.

Next, add another widget. This time, choose a pie chart, choose Unique Visitors by Source.

Add yet another widget. This time, choose a table, then set it to Page by Unique Visitors by Goal Conversion Rate.

Two final widgets. This time, choose Timeline by Unique Visitors and Goal Completions.

Then add the metric of Goal Completions.

Drag the boxes around to make them look nice and voila!

You’ve got yourself a nice dashboard that lets you quickly see how your site is doing on any given time period in a tight, compact fashion that doesn’t require you to jump around to all of the different reports in Google Analytics. It neatly answers “where did they come from, what did they like, what did they do” in one page. On top of that, this is a great summary report to give to executives and other folks who are busy and just want a general overview of what’s happening.

Obviously, you can add tons of additional widgets and data points to best suit your needs, but remember that the point of a dashboard is to give you a very fast look at things and focus only on the most important pieces of data. Avoid cluttering it up at all costs.

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October 20, 2011
Frameworks: a place to hang your hat
One of the topics that’s come up repeatedly in the last couple of days is a misunderstanding of the role of frameworks. You might call them theories or models or concepts, but they’re mostly the same thing: a place to hang your hat, a starting point. A great many people tend to look down on academic models like SWOT, 4P, BCG Growth Matrix, as being useless, antiquated, ivory tower theory with no real world basis. While it’s true that the world changes very rapidly, these frameworks exist to help us solve marketing problems by giving us a place to start.

See if this sounds familiar: sales are down, traffic is down, and the business is struggling. You as a marketer are brought in to help turn things around, and people look to you as some sort of magician, able to wave a magic wand and bring customers through the door. Where do you start? Do you just start throwing things against the wall and hope something sticks before the company goes out of business?

This is where using the basics comes in handy. Take any of the frameworks you have access to and start matching up the metrics (and the deficiencies) against those frameworks to illuminate where the company is weakest, where the processes are most broken, especially the ones that you have control over. Maybe you start with a basic marketing funnel and map out all of the stages in it, noticing that the gap between lead and customer is especially large. Aha! You’ve found where you need to start. Or maybe you pull out a Growth Matrix, map out the company’s product lines, and realize you’re marketing and investing most heavily in the dogs and not the stars. You now know what you need to change.

Frameworks and academic models aren’t intended to be cookie-cutter solutions or “just add water” recipes. They’re starting points, places for you to hang data, so that you can start to solve the problems your business is facing. If you choose to not learn them, or worse, dismiss them as being useless theory, you will likely find yourself struggling to solve many of your marketing problems, reinventing the wheel every day until your competitors drive you out of business.

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October 19, 2011
Beyond the Toolbox
This morning I had the pleasure of keynoting the University of Toledo’s Internet Marketing Conference. Here’s what we talked about:

My thanks go to Dr. Iryna Pentina and the entire UoT staff for having me be a part of a fantastic event! Stay tuned to the UoT website as they may be posting video from the event in the future.

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October 18, 2011
It’s not the camera
Take a look at this photo taken with an iPhone 3G, one of the old models that can’t even run iOS5.

Now take a look at this photo shot with a Nikon D90 with a 50mm f/1.8 prime lens on it.

They’re both lens cap photos (or in the case of the iPhone, intentionally shot with my thumb over the lens). Whether the camera costs nothing or thousands of dollars, if you lack the skill to use the gear, quality and cost of your gear is irrelevant.

Now let’s contrast with this photo taken from the Flickr Cameraphone group by FedeSK8:

At a recent event, someone repeatedly commented to me that my camera took incredible photos. No, it didn’t, otherwise all those times I left it on the table in front of me, it would have been shooting and I could have retired to the bar instead. The camera certainly helped, but in the end, it’s the skill of the photographer that makes the gear powerful, not the other way around.

This week, I’m keynoting the UoT Internet Marketing Conference and this is one of the key points of my talk. Social media doesn’t make us more powerful, more effective, or more profitable. Social media is just intangible “gear”. What makes us more powerful, more effective, and more profitable are our skills in using the gear that we have. The sooner you get beyond the toolbox, the sooner you will focus on what’s going to move the needle for you and get you the results you want.

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October 17, 2011
On recycling blog posts
I’ll gently disagree with Chris Brogan’s idea about recycling blog posts yesterday. Go read it if you haven’t.

Welcome back.

Here’s why this is a bad idea. Senior master instructor Ken Savage of the Winchendon Martial Arts Center likes to compare life to a wheel on a wagon. Each year, the wheel turns around and you’re back to where you started. What we often fail to take notice of is the distance that the wheel has traveled in that year. Each year, we’re further down the path than the year before. Each birthday that rolls around is another year of travel, and a lot happens in that year. You learn a lot. You change. You grow. The wagon is in a different place, too. The terrain is different, the environment is different.

If I write a blog post in, say 2008, about something “evergreen” and then just repost it as is or link it up without changing it, I’m giving short shrift not only to my readers, but also to myself. By doing that, I’m failing to acknowledge that a lot has happened in 3 turns of the wheel and who I am today in 2011 should have even more insight, even more value to add.

If you want to recycle older stuff, especially stuff with no interactions or comments on it, take just a couple of minutes to polish it up, rewrite parts that have changed, and add in anything that you’ve gained from your experiences as the wheel has turned. Then take your old post, redirect it to preserve any inbound link juice, and let the world know about your newer, more updated perspective on things.

When you think about it in terms of real world recycling, the exact same thing happens. The old is crushed into raw materials, melted down, impurities extracted, and then reformed into something new. Don’t just hand someone a “used bottle” blog post – truly recycle it and give them something fresh.

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October 14, 2011
Where have your heroes gone?
At a certain point in your life, you’ll notice that your heroes are vanishing. Some will vanish from old age, illness, or death. Others will, in the words of Harvey Dent, live long enough to become the villain. Our earliest heroes, our parents, eventually leave us. Others, such as our cultural icons, succumb to death or perversely, we destroy them.

No matter how you choose to view it, the places in your life for your heroes will slowly become emptier and emptier. What do you do about it? Who is supposed to fill those places, fill those shoes?

You are.

If your life feels as though there’s an absence of heroes, it’s because the role of the hero was meant for you. Once you reach a certain point of capability in your life in any area of skill, you are supposed to turn your abilities, capabilities, and powers towards helping others, towards energizing your abilities with compassion. You’re supposed to step up, transcend your limitations and the boundaries of an ordinary life to become more, to brighten your world a little more.

Are you a marketer? After you’ve become proficient, you’re supposed to turn those skills towards more than just asking people to buy crap.

Are you a social media community manager? After you’ve learned how to manage a community, you’re supposed to direct it to more than just reducing customer complaints.

There are consequences if you don’t.

I recently had the chance to talk at length with Lama Samten Gyamtso about how we deal with heroes, especially in the online world where developing a following and influencing others en masse is relatively easy (compared to the pre-Internet age). Without some guiding light, some kind of guiding direction, corruption is inevitable. When 10,000 (or 100,000, or a million) people are following you on Twitter, listening to what you have to say, giving you approval and encouragement, it is almost natural that you’re going to end up deviating off the path into trouble if you don’t have something guiding you.

Sometimes the trouble is financial, where you stop seeing friends and start seeing monetization opportunities. Sometimes the trouble is carnal, following the path of music rockstars in a very literal way. Sometimes the trouble is much deeper, to the point where you lose yourself and then wake up one day wondering who it is you’re looking at in the mirror.

The way back to where you’re supposed to be going is driven by compassion and ideal.
- Who are you supposed to be?
- What are you supposed to be doing?
- Are you using your skills and abilities to those ends?
If you use these questions as a lens to focus your efforts, you’re more likely to mitigate or eliminate corruption, as you’ll be working too hard to be diverted away from your most noble goals.

Then a funny thing will happen. One day, you’ll wake up, look in the mirror, and find that the hero you were looking for in your life is staring right back at you.

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October 13, 2011
Two obvious iOS 5 marketing tips
Today marks the rollout of Apple’s new iOS 5, the operating system that drives its devices such as the iPhone and iPad. Among the new features are a voice driven assistant named Siri and significant updates to the Safari mobile browser. Let’s talk about these two changes.

Siri provides, among other things, a voice interface to many of the common functions in iOS. As with all voice recognition systems, there’s a good chance that the easier something is to pronounce, the better the system will do. As this sort of voice interface becomes more widespread, it will impact your marketing in a few ways.
- Your business needs to be recognizable by voice. You know all those clever companies that decided to start omitting vowels from their domain names? A voice interface won’t necessarily realize you meant an intentionally misspelled brand name, especially if it’s not well known.
- If you have hyphens and other oddities in your domain name, now might be the time to buy an alternative. If you want someone to get to your site by voice navigation, the odds of a computer getting MarketingOverCoffee.com spelled correctly vs. i-want-2-make-ur-marketing-1337.net are pretty good. Pronounceable domain names matter more than ever.
- Search queries will get longer on mobile devices. If Siri works as advertised, queries could become entire, full sentences. Watch your queries like a hawk to see how things like query length and complexity change.
The second major change incorporates Read-it-later/Instapaper functionality right inside of the Safari browser. Among other things, this standardizes fonts, cleans up text, and removes navigation and advertisements from web copy. Take a look:

A few major impacts here:
- Sites that rely heavily on AdWords and other advertising programs? You just got pantsed. Reader cleans up all of those ads.
- If you’re not coding to standards and learning HTML5, there’s a good chance that your site will get chopped up in new and unpredictable ways. Part of HTML5 is incorporating tags like <article> inside your content, which then lets the browser find the relevant stuff and display it.
- When you’re blogging, you absolutely, positively need to be adding calls to action to your body copy. That’s what’s going to get seen. That wonderful template with the exquisite call to action buttons in the navigation? Look at the picture above. They’re going to fade away when someone uses the Reader feature. Here’s a quick sanity check for you right now: go subscribe to your blog and read it in something like Google Reader. Your ads, your navigation, your calls to action – all of them are gone and you’re left just with the core copy itself. The way around this is to be placing vital calls to action in the body copy itself so that it’s seen no matter how you slice and dice. For example, in my blog posts, I use a WordPress plugin called Shortcode Exec PHP that executes a snippet of text at the end of each post. Every platform I know of syndicates all of my calls to action at the end of each post, and chances are very good that iOS 5 will as well. Consider doing something similar.
So, that’s iOS 5 in a nutshell for marketers. Oh, there’s just one more thing…

… Twitter is everywhere. If you’re not currently active on Twitter, you’re going to miss out on the interactions with all the iOS 5 users who are. Get going.

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October 12, 2011
Where are the advanced conferences?
One of the questions that crops up all the time in social media and new media events is, where are the advanced conferences? Where are the events tailored to the veteran practitioners, the folks who have been doing it forever and are already good at it, beyond the basics? The answer may surprise you: there aren’t any.

Why?

The answer comes back to teaching and learning, and how teaching evolves throughout your educational process. At the most basic levels of learning, a one-size-fits-all methodical approach works extremely well. Memorize this multiplication table. Learn the periodic table. Execute this set of procedures. Follow this recipe to make a cake. Move your hands like this and your feet like this.

After a certain point, however, you achieve proficiency in the basics. You know how to Tweet. You know how to post items on Facebook. You’ve sat through the same “How to build your brand” session at every conference. This is the point where most conferences stop, and understandably so. At this point in your education, you need to start experimenting.

Experimentation, testing, breaking things and seeing the results – this is the essence of more advanced education. There isn’t a single conference in the world that can give you this experience. You have to go out and do it. Test things, play around, vary stuff, until you find what works and what doesn’t work for you. The problem is, no one can teach you this in a conference session.

At this point, you need to be working with a mentor, a guide, someone who has gone before you and has made their own mistakes and learned from them. You might get a few ideas about new things to test or new tools to experiment with at a conference, but there is no substitution for the journeyman’s path at this point in your education. It’s up to your mentor to give you more advanced cases to learn the intricacies of your craft. For example, they might suggest building different kinds of Facebook pages to see which works better for you, a brand page or an organization page.

Once you’ve gained proficiency, once you’ve gained a certain degree of mastery, then conferences and events really become useless. At the most advanced levels, you and your teachers are simply explorers on the path together, sharing discoveries, learning and teaching each other. You’ve transcended the basics, transcended the need to have someone give you different scenarios to test, transcended the need for going to conferences entirely unless you’re there for the social aspect or to teach as a presenter.

Can you, as a veteran practitioner, still get value out of conferences? Absolutely, but it’s value you have to create for yourself. Here’s an unpleasant truth: most conference organizers in the social media space aren’t veteran practitioners of social media themselves, so they have no idea what would be of benefit to you. Find other veteran practitioners and go grab lunch or coffee while you trade ideas and your own research, so that you can get fellow explorers’ input on what you’re doing. Find the local coffee shop near the venue or the diner or other places where you can create meetings and brainstorming sessions for yourself.

If you’re a conference organizer, try to create as many open spaces as possible such as lounges and alcoves with open seating so that veterans can get together outside of sessions. One of my favorite facilities in this regard is the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, where we hold PodCamp Boston 6. There are tons of little alcoves that are wired up with displays and pervasive Wi-Fi, so veterans can gather in impromptu meetings to share and discuss, some of which are out of line of sight to ensure a little more privacy.

The bottom line is this: once you no longer need to sit in conference sessions about the basics, the rest of your journey is largely your responsibility. Find mentors, find fellow explorers, and see what you can create together, but understand that there is not and likely never will be a conference for you.

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October 11, 2011

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