Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Author: Christopher S Penn

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
Threads of your life
In the digital marketing world, one of the most difficult tasks we face is determining our own personal brand. Much has been made of promoting it, of sharing it with the world and being known for being remarkable, but much less has been made of actually finding it within you.

How do you know what story to tell about yourself?

One of the ways to find your story, to find your brand, is to look for threads that are consistent throughout your life. Take the time, as Mitch Joel urges, to write out your own life story.

Once you’ve written out your story, look for common themes. Look for the ways in which you’ve helped other people, made contributions to their lives. Chances are, you’re going to find some threads that run throughout the tapestry of your life.

For example, when I was 7 years old, I was in the local bowling alley youth league. The bowling alley was run by a retired ex-Marine who loved his sport and his business, but was deeply averse to technology. That year, in order to stay competitive, he had installed automatic scoring machines on his lanes which caused him no end of trouble. Each Saturday morning, I’d help him get his scoring machines up and running. In return, I’d usually get a slice of pizza and some soda for my time, making it my first paid technology gig.

This is a theme that would recur over and over throughout my life. I earned money in college working at the help desk, built a persona reputation for knowing what I was doing with technology professionally; heck, at one point my graduate school created an award (The Boston University MS/MIS Outstanding Technology Service Award) to acknowledge the work I had done in my program.

That was one thread. There was a second thread running through the years of my life. I vividly remember giving many speeches throughout high school and being fairly good at convincing people to follow a course of action, so much so that I ended up being class president, which for a nerd in a school with a popular and strong athletics program was no small feat. Along the way, I helped a few other like-minded nerds work on their “election” campaigns, doing everything from copywriting to graphic design. For one year, the various student bodies at my high school were all run by nerds.

This thread continued throughout college and graduate school as well. I remember being one of the first students to make use of the all-school email list (much to the annoyance of the system administrators), setting up one of the very first web sites for my martial art on the Internet in 1994, running discussion boards, doing banner ads, and much more. This thread of marketing runs through my life fairly constantly as well, showing up over and over again.

It’s no surprise, then, that I’m finding happiness in using these two recurring themes together professionally and that I’m fairly good at doing so. The story of my life indicates that these are core strengths of mine, things that have been with me since my earliest years. They’re the things I’ve been doing for longer than nearly anything else, so it makes sense they’d be strengths.

What are the common threads that run through the tapestry of your life? What is life constantly tapping you on the shoulder about, reminding you of the compelling message of your life, indicating and pointing, perhaps even shoving you towards the work you’re supposed to be doing?

Your life is not an accident!

Look at it again through this new perspective and see what life keeps telling you that you should be doing!

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October 10, 2011
It’s all about “with”
I was talking recently with a friend who is a job seeker, someone who has been out of work for more than a little while and was trying to add some new skills to their portfolio to improve their chances of finding work. His strategy was simple: learn PHP and MySQL and attempt to enter the Web 2.0 economy after leaving a biosciences background.

During our conversation, he indicated they’d be completely leaving behind the biosciences field as they pursued their new field and I suggested that was a huge, critical mistake. Why? PHP/MySQL folks are a dime a dozen. It’s one of the first combinations of platforms to be taught to aspiring technologists and as a result, nearly everyone has it on their resumes. It’s so common, in fact, that you can find an experienced developer overseas that will work for less than the guy flipping burgers at your local fast food joint. Unless you are the very best of the best, pursuing it by itself is not a formula for winning.

So what is the winning formula? The ability to code in PHP and MySQL in combination with something else. I said in conversation that these platforms by themselves are somewhat uninteresting now, but if you can combine them with something else, bridge the gap between different areas of expertise, then you’ve got something relatively rare and valuable.

For example, in my friend’s case, knowing how to write and extend web services while having a biosciences background and knowledge of the field means he can write very specific solutions for that field, knowing the ins and outs far more than an overseas outsourced contractor ever would. He knows what people in his field are looking for, what their problems are, and how they prefer to solve those problems.

The future for the successful job seeker follows one of two routes: either be the very best of the best, or find a niche that allows you to combine different areas of expertise together in combinations that are rare and valuable. Pursuing a commodity skillset or degree by itself will not guide you to the success you seek.

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October 7, 2011
Insanely great
There are two lessons of vital importance we must take from Steve Jobs’ legacy:

One man can change the world. His life and work touched as many lives as Edison, Ford, and Rockefeller, perhaps more. Steve proved that it can still be done, from a garage in California with nothing but intelligence, resilience, and an uncompromising vision of how the world could be if we set our potential free.

The time to be remarkable is finite. Every day counts.

Ask yourself this as a simple exercise: when it’s your time, what will be written about you? If you don’t like the answer, then get started doing the things you need to do to change your world, even a little bit, for the better.

Farewell, Steve. May we all strive to leave a world changed for the better even a fraction as much as you did.

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October 5, 2011
Differing perspectives on reality
What a fascinating couple of days it’s been. Over the weekend I was at New England Warrior Camp, an annual gathering of ninjutsu practitioners to explore, challenge, and develop our warrior spirits, and now I’m at the WhatCounts Email Summit at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.

Both places, both locations, have very, very different takes on reality. Warrior Camp focuses on reality in the here and now. You have to be in the moment, undistracted, or something as simple as walking to a training location can be hazardous, since you’re in the woods and a misstep on a rocky pathway can lead to a sprained ankle. Las Vegas focuses on avoiding reality at any cost, avoiding everything that might lead to the acknowledgement that reality might have some unpleasantness to it.

What’s even more fascinating is the way each location tries to set itself up to reflect its philosophy. Senior master instructor Ken Savage hosts Warrior Camp in a “rustic” Boy Scout reservation in metrowest Boston. There’s not a lot of comfort to be found, to better make you aware of your surroundings and not lull you into distraction. Usage of mobile devices is discouraged and there’s barely electricity, much less Internet access. You rise early and train late into the night to experience all of the different conditions in which you might need your skills, and you train rain or shine. At Warrior Camp, everything is structured to make you focus inward, to help you find and focus on your own goals and self.

Las Vegas casino resorts go the opposite route, trying to provide as much comfort as possible. Bright lights and game sounds provide ample distraction, and not a clock or window is to be found anywhere on the gaming floor so that you lose track of time and your surroundings. Games themselves harness every possible addictive behavior, from animation and primary colors to randomized rewards. Alcohol is provided freely or at very low cost to better dull your senses and judgement. Nearly endless buffets sate appetites and scantily clad cocktail hostesses distract and divert even more. In Las Vegas, everything is structured to make you focus elsewhere, to distract, divert, delude, and ultimately to serve the goals of the casino.

Each accomplishes its goals admirably. The reactions of the people in each place shows the length of their successes. Warrior Camp participants emerge recharged, ready to face renewed challenges in their martial training and lives. Las Vegas visitors emerge entertained, distracted, diverted, and in many cases, much, much poorer.

What’s of interest to me is the startling contrast between the two, going from one to the other. The choice of surroundings and the way that each environment is set up changes the people in those environments drastically, and in both cases can leave lasting changes.

The question for you as you read this is: what does your environment set you up to do? Are you set up for greater awareness or greater distraction? Does your daily life focus you towards your own goals or towards the goals of someone else? If your environment and surroundings aren’t focused to accomplish what you want to accomplish, how can you adjust them so that they are better aligned with your goals?

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October 4, 2011

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