Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • What’s the Difference Between Social Media and New Media?

    What's the Difference Between Social Media and New Media?

    To describe media, marketers and communicators have used multiple, mixed-up terms. Here are just a few ways we’ve described the media landscape in recent years:

    • Old media
    • Mass media
    • Traditional media
    • New media
    • Digital media
    • Social media
    • Social networking
    • Citizen journalism

    Of these, the differences between old media, new media, and social media are probably the most common – and the most confusion stems from the difference between new media and social media.

    Why do we need to explain the difference? Why does anyone need to differentiate between new media and social media, or mass media and digital media? For many of our stakeholders – bosses, boards of directors, shareholders – the ability to articulate the different types of media also means we articulate the value of our efforts to reach our audience in different formats, as well as describe where we need to allocate resources.

    Let’s dig into whatthese media terms mean, and how they’re different.

    The Media Landscape

    The new Media landscape diagram

    What’s the difference between old media and new media?

    What constitutes old, traditional, or mass media? Formats such as:

    • Print journalism
    • Radio
    • Television
    • Books
    • Out of home media

    Old media is characterized mostly by cost of distribution; because it tends to be physical rather than digital, old media’s costs of production and distribution are high. Note that this isn’t specific to brands or organization sizes – the New York Times is old media, but so is the Boston University Daily Free Press or NPR. New media is characterized by its digital-first nature and its low physical costs of production and distribution. New media formats include:

    • Mobile apps
    • Video
    • Blogs
    • eBooks
    • Email
    • Podcasts
    • Smart device apps
    • Video games
    • Interactive content

    New media relies on digital methods of distribution such as the Internet for reach; as such, new media is far more accessible for the average individual or small organization to produce. Certainly, individuals could have and did produce homemade newsletters, but their distribution was severely limited. In the new media landscape, an individual can have as much reach, engagement, and distribution as a Fortune 10 company.

    What’s the difference between new media and social media?

    Social media relies on one key principle that new media doesn’t necessarily rely on: the network effect. A new media property like a blog has inherent value, whether that blog has one reader or a million readers. On the other hand, a social network like Twitter would be valueless with one user. Only as the number of users – and contributors – rise do social networks become more valuable. Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, coined this term the network effect, in which the value of the network as a whole increases with every new node on that network.

    This is the key difference between new media and social media: social media requires the network effect, while new media does not, in order to create value.

    Social media from 2003-2013 was a subset of new media, a digital-first way to reach people. As times have changed, social media became more a form of broadcast, and then paid broadcast. Today, with algorithms and advertising dominating the ways to reach consumers on social media, it’s a different animal entirely. Today’s Facebook looks very much like a digital ads platform first.

    Social media today still offers the occasional chance for something small to grow big and fast without investment, but as advertising has become dominant, social media now requires just as much, if not more, investment as traditional old media in order to reach the same scale and impact. We might not invest millions of dollars in building a TV station or a printing press, but we’ll spend millions of dollars with a company like Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn.

    This distinction matters because it defines our strategy. We still need content, something to share when we go to buy our social media advertisements. Thus, we must lock down our new media strategy first, then develop our paid social media strategy second.

    Disclosure: This post has been revised and updated several times since its original publication. The most recent revision added in Metcalfe’s network effects.

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  • How Much Data Do You Need For Data Science and AI?

    How Much Data Do You Need For Data Science and AI?

    How much data do you need to effectively do data science and machine learning?

    The answer to this question depends on what it is you’re trying to do. Are you doing a simple analysis, some exploration to see what you might learn? Are you trying to build a model – a piece of software written by machines – to put into production? The answer depends entirely on the outcome you’re after.

    Here’s an analogy. Suppose you’re going to bake cake. What quantities of ingredients do you need?

    Well, how many cakes are you going to bake, and how large are they? There is a minimum limit to quantities just for the basic chemistry of baking a cake to happen at all, but there are cakes you can make that are disappointingly small yet are still cakes.

    Are you baking a round cake? A sheet cake? Ten sheet cakes? How quickly do you need them?

    You start to get the idea, right? If you need to bake 100 cakes in 24 hours, you need a much bigger oven, probably a much bigger mixer, perhaps an extra staff member, and a whole lot of flour, sugar, milk, eggs, and baking powder than if you’re baking a single cake.

    The same is true of data science and AI. To do a simple exploratory analysis on a few Tiktok videos requires relatively little data. To build a model for the purposes of analyzing and reverse-engineering Tiktok’s algorithm requires tens of thousands of videos’ data, possibly more.

    Some techniques, for example, can use as few as a handful of records. You can do linear regression technically with only three records, that’s the bare minimum amount you need for a simple linear regression to function. Other techniques like neural networks can require tens of thousands of records just to put together a functional model. That’s why it takes some experience in data science and machine learning to know what techniques, what recipes fit not only the outcome you have in mind, but also what ingredients and tools you have on hand.

    There’s no firm benchmark about how much data you need, just as there’s no firm benchmark about how much flour you need for a cake. What is necessary is understanding the outputs you’re trying to create and then determining if you have the necessary ingredients for that output.

    Happy baking!

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  • Almost Timely News, 14 November 2021: Community Engagement, Mental Injury, Reflections

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    What’s On My Mind: Engaging Communities

    I sat in on a Twitch stream the other night, watching a team of friends playing Apex Legends. The game itself was irrelevant and not terribly interesting, but what I found fascinating were the mechanisms that the content creator, SiwaPyra, had set up on their Twitch channel to reward engagement and keep audience interest high – things we as marketers are desperate to do and fail badly at. Here’s how it worked.

    Picture of the Twitch stream

    People who joined the chat received tokens, free bits of virtual currency for every certain number of messages they posted to the chat. The content creator, SiwaPyra, had then set up a list of things in an in-game store that people could spend those tokens on; mostly fun stuff like the ability to highlight your own messages in chat or to tell SiwaPyra to take a drink of water while they were on camera.

    In Game Store

    But SiwaPyra also had some interesting token purchases that crossed the virtual boundary: big-spending audience members (who of course can buy tokens on top of earning them) could spend on stars, and they would literally take a silver or gold star and glue it to a star board they kept and showed on air frequently.

    All of this is badge value, prestige purchases. There’s nothing tangible that an audience member can buy, save for reputation and prominence in the creator’s community and perhaps to the creator themselves. In smaller communities, this might not seem like much, but in large communities with legitimate gaming superstars, it’s the equivalent of being able to purchase a backstage pass with your favorite rockstar.

    And of course, it isn’t just gamers and gaming on Twitch, though that certainly is a sizable portion of the audience. Twitch attracts tons of livestream views from musicians, artists, and even politicians. Prominent US Congressional representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s channel sports almost a million followers for her livestreams of playing Among Us and other items.

    What’s the key lesson here? When we think about engaging our communities – be it in major social networks like LinkedIn or YouTube, private communities like Slack and Discord, or even in real life, we often think of tangible things or very conventional things to drive engagement. New content, limited editions, etc. What we could learn from Twitch streamers like SiwaPyra and others is that badge value and just fun stuff can be incredibly engaging, especially if our community mechanisms reinforce engagement as the most valued action automatically. The idea of measuring and rewarding people based on participation is not new, and yet we fail to do that incredibly often.

    Finally… I would strongly encourage you, as a marketer, to step outside the boundaries of traditional marketing channels. Go watch some Twitch streams, go watch YouTube live, go join some Discord servers, and see what real people are doing to interact with each other. There’s a whole world out there traditional marketing isn’t paying attention to, and we’re missing valuable lessons.

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    If I had to suggest only one of these articles to read from this week, it would be a non-marketing piece, the one on the concept of mental injury. I think it’s vitally important we expand our vocabulary around mental health and I ask that you make the time to read it through at least once, and if you think it helpful, please share it with a friend or colleague.

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    See you next week,

    Christopher S. Penn

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  • Reflections

    reflections

    Reflections tell us a lot.

    When we look in the mirror, we see ourselves. We see what others see.

    When we’re out and about, reflections tell us when it’s safe to change lanes while driving.

    When we’re being vigilant about personal safety, reflections give us glimpses of who’s behind us.

    We don’t need a ton of time to make use of a reflection, either. Staring into a mirror while driving is harmful, while quick glances are helpful.

    We use reflections best in small doses, but frequently.

    Looking in the mirror once a month doesn’t help you decide how you look for the day.

    Glancing in the rearview mirror at the beginning of the drive and then not again doesn’t help you drive the car.

    Checking the presence of a suspicious person once doesn’t keep you aware of where they are as you make your journey.

    In marketing, reflections are what our customers have to say about us – sometimes to us, sometimes to anyone but us. Our customers’ words about us are our reflection, the way others outside of our organization see us.

    Sometimes, what’s reflected isn’t flattering. We may have poor customer service. We may have terrible product quality. We may have egregiously high prices.

    It’s then up to us to change what’s reflected if we want our customers happier, more satisfied with their purchases, more loyal to us for future purchases.

    But we can’t do that if we don’t see our reflections. If we don’t listen to what our customers have to say, directly from their mouths and in public forums.

    So, the real question is: how often do you check your business’ reflection? How often do you listen to real customers and what they have to say?

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  • Mental Injury

    Mental Injury

    Let’s talk a bit more about mental health for a moment.

    We tend to use the term mental illness as a fixed state term – it’s something that describes who you are rather than a transitory state, and that can be harmful. Sometimes illness is part of identity, to be sure – anyone with any kind of chronic illness has to incorporate it into their identity lest they make it worse. Denying that you have a gluten sensitivity would be the height of foolishness if it meant you continued to eat at all-you-can-eat pasta buffets.

    But illness doesn’t have to be the defining aspect of our identity. It’s part of us, but not all of us – and that’s why I think we need to consider some alternate phrasing.

    I’ve said previously that mental health is health – just as you’ve had varying phases of illness or wellness in your physical health, you also have varying phases of illness or wellness in your mental health. Like physical health, mental health varies based on our circumstances.

    The challenge is in the phrasing: illness has a lot of connotations, connotations that invoke very specific mental pictures and judgements in our minds. Disease, contagiousness, long duration, etc. – and that in part is why we conflate it with identity. But if we accept that just as we will all be physically unwell at various points in our lives, we will all be mentally unwell at various points in our lives, we need a clear way of denoting those periods.

    I’ve been injured a bunch of times in my life. You probably have been too. Broke my wrist playing soccer in 11th grade. Fell off a ladder a few years ago. Dislocated my shoulder for my brown belt test in the martial arts. Been in a car accident. You’ve got your litany of “well, that happened” injuries in life too, don’t you?

    For most of those injuries, I’ve recovered. Falling off the ladder left me with a couple of interesting scars but not much more. My right wrist is slightly more susceptible to RSIs than my left wrist. My shoulder aches before major weather changes and there are stretches I need to do before doing any kind of heavy lifting with it. But for the most part, I’m able to do what I want in life despite those injuries.

    But at the time… I wasn’t. I couldn’t. Wearing my arm in a sling for 8 weeks substantially impacted my life negatively. Wearing my wrist in a cast, same deal. During the healing periods, I was less than 100%, sometimes substantially so. I did recover, but during those healing periods, friends, family, and coworkers had to accommodate me (and they did, thankfully) and my less-than-capable self. That was the blessing of physical injury – you could see what was wrong.

    What if we thought about mental illness like that? Rather than as a fixed state, what if there were something like mental injury? When you endure something really traumatic, like the loss of a loved one, that’s mental injury. And when you’re injured, there’s an expectation that you don’t heal immediately, you’re not better overnight.

    That’s the challenge of mental injury versus physical injury. Someone walking around on crutches for 6 weeks is communicating without a word that no, things are clearly not okay. Someone who is devastated about the death of a favorite pet or the loss of a meaningful relationship will not have those same outward cues, but the injury is no less real or debilitating. If we think about the existence and validity of mental injury, perhaps we can treat them the same.

    A friend of mine recently lost a job that was integral to her identity, and it is a devastating blow, like a professional athlete who’s injured enough they can no longer play the game they’ve trained their whole lives for, or a soldier wounded on the battlefield and can no longer serve. That’s mental injury. She’s endured a mental injury, and now she has to start the healing process. For her friends, it’s incumbent upon us to remember that she’s injured, as surely as if she was walking on crutches or her arm was in a sling. Just because her physical form is not exhibiting some kind of disability does not mean she’s not injured. She is – and like someone healing from something traumatic like a car accident or a bullet wound, she will be for quite some time.

    We all deserve that grace, especially for ourselves. Imagine how absurd it would be if you were in the hospital after a bad accident and someone came in the next day and said, “What? You’re not better? Why not?” as you lay there scowling at them from your whole body cast. We need to give ourselves that grace after we suffer mental injury, too. No, we’re not okay. And even months or years or decades later, we’ll never be exactly the same. My shoulder reminds me of that before rainstorms, 22 years after the injury. Mental injury is no different.

    Use the injury analogy to remember that people don’t get better overnight from any kind of serious injury. Give yourself grace, and extend that grace to others, when injury – physical or mental – occurs. You and they will be better for it.

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  • Almost Timely News, 7 November 2021: Search Quality Rater Guidelines, Marketing Budgeting, Vision and Strategy

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    What’s On My Mind: Google’s Updated Search Quality Rater Guidelines

    Last month, Google refreshed its Search Quality Rater Guidelines. What are these? These guidelines are what Google uses to instruct human raters how to rate websites that are then used to help train Google’s models. From the official blog post, this is how Google describes them:

    “”What that looks like in practice is often a “side-by-side” test where a rater will look at two sets of Search results, one from the current version of Google and the other from an improvement we’re testing. Raters will review the pages in each set of results, and evaluate if the pages are a helpful match for the query based on our rater guidelines.”

    What this means in practical terms is Google uses the results of human raters to train its AI, to help it learn and deliver better results. Thus, as marketers constantly working to earn more traffic from the world’s largest search engine, it behooves us to align our SEO and content marketing efforts with what Google is training its AI to look for.

    So what’s important in this massive 172-page document? Fundamentally, they boil down to three key factors:

    • Page quality
    • Mobile friendliness
    • Needs met

    If you’ve ever heard the term dimension reduction in reference to machine learning, it’s the practice of using mathematics to consolidate a lot of variables down to far fewer variables. You do this because otherwise you’d have massive computational costs to deal with. It’s very likely for a search engine the size of Google that there are multiple layers and levels of dimension reduction in their AI so that it can function quickly at scale.

    These three criteria, then, probably form the major dimensions that they reduce much of their other data down to in SEO. Obviously, they’re not going to confirm or deny that, but it seems logical and probable. So what does that mean?

    Suppose you draw a matrix on a sheet of paper, a cube.

    • On the X axis is page quality – stuff like expertise, authority, trustworthiness, high quality content.
    • On the Y axis is mobile friendliness – stuff like page load times, size of assets, scripts that take up time.
    • On the Z axis is needs met – whether the page fulfills the user’s intent, and the things that would detract from a positive user experience like misinformation or harmful content.

    If you took each of these three major dimensions and plotted out all the pages on your website, conceptually, you would end up with a visualization of what content is most likely to do well in search.

    So, how would you go about actually doing this? Again, we don’t have Google’s data to know how they see our sites and all the measures which contribute to their internal metrics. But we do have a fair amount of information from the data they do share in services like Google Search Console.

    For example:

    • We know search impressions is the number of times our site’s pages showed up in searches. Search impressions likely maps in some way to page quality – if our site were terrible, we wouldn’t show up well in search results.
    • We know with great detail about our mobile friendliness and page experience directly from those relevant sections in Search Console.
    • We know and can see bounce rate and session times of users on our pages. A user with a very short session duration that immediately bounces probably did not have their needs met on our site.

    If you extracted all this data, cleaned it up, and plotted it, chances are you’d have a decent visualization of what pages on your site do well in search – and from there, you could prioritize what pages you need to fix, by which category they lag most in.

    Consider this approach when you start tackling your SEO. Instead of randomly guessing or relying on opinion, use metrics and the guidelines Google has publicly stated as important for doing well in search.

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    If I had to suggest only one of these articles to read from this week, it would be the podcast episode I did with Katie on marketing budgeting and planning. In it you’ll learn the sourdough bread marketing planning strategy that may help you get more budget for your marketing efforts from stakeholders who don’t understand how marketing actually works.

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  • Vision, Mission, Strategy, Tactics, and Execution

    Vision, Mission, Strategy, Tactics, and Execution

    Pick five of the most loaded words in business, and I would argue those five words are vision, mission, strategy, tactics, and execution. Everyone seems to have different definitions; often, those definitions are easily mixed up. Why is it important to understand these terms? When we clearly understand the meanings of vision, mission, strategy, tactics, and execution, we are better able to delegate who should accomplish what. We plan better, we execute better, and we achieve more.

    Defining Vision, Mission, and Others

    Let’s define these terms in a broad business context.

    • Vision: what the world looks like when you’re done accomplishing your mission.
    • Mission: why you want to change about the world.
    • Strategy: a formula: goals x methods, limited by time and resources. What you plan to do to change the world in more concrete terms.
    • Tactics: What specific methods, tools, and techniques you’ll use to accomplish your strategy.
    • Execution: How you’ll use the tactics you’ve chosen, including timelines, deliverables, prerequisites, etc.

    These are accurate but abstract. How do we translate this into terms and meaning that’s more concrete, that everyone in our organization could understand?

    Example 1: Dinner

    Suppose it’s suppertime. We’re hungry.

    Our mission – what we want to change – is to not be hungry any longer. Our vision – how things will look when we’re done – is to be satisfied by a delicious meal.

    Our strategy – goals x methods, limited by time and resources – is to not be hungry without breaking our budget, and relatively soon. Do we go out, or do we stay in and cook something? If we have lots of food in the pantry and no cash, we’re staying in. If we have no food in the pantry and lots of cash, we’re probably going out. If we have neither food nor cash, we must find a way to obtain one or the other.

    Let’s say we stay in. We’re now in tactics. What should we cook for dinner? We decide to cook up a casserole. What ingredients will we need? What dishes? We make sure we have all the utensils, all the food we need. How do we cook a casserole? After all, we can’t just throw everything in a dish.

    We need a plan of execution. Some ingredients might need to be thawed as a prerequisite. We want to know what the end state should be, as a deliverable. We’d really like to know how long it will take, so we can set expectations about when we will sit down to eat.

    Once we’re done, we validate with an after-action review:

    • Did we execute well with our tools and ingredients?
    • Did we choose an appropriate tactic, a dish that we enjoyed?
    • Did we achieve our strategy, reaching our goal while staying within time and resources available?
    • Did we accomplish our mission of no longer being hungry?
    • Did we reach our vision of being satisfied after a good meal?

    If we clearly define vision, mission, strategy, tactics, and execution, we’ll accomplish each discrete piece as efficiently and effectively as possible.

    Example 2: GPS

    Another concrete example that many people will relate to is the use of a GPS. Typically, in marketing we’re so obsessed with the how that we neglect everything else. We have a new GPS, a new app, a new shiny object, but that’s it. A GPS with no reason to go anywhere is useless.

    • So, our vision would be to enjoy being somewhere other than where we are, like a vacation spot. We see in our mind’s eye the sandy beach or the mountain top or the luxury resort.
    • Our mission is to travel to that place.
    • Our strategy is to travel to the resort in a manner that is both cost-efficient and expedient: the right balance of time and money.
    • Our tactics might include evaluating our travel options. We might drive, fly, or take a train. At this stage, we might select our GPS based on features that support the overall plan.
    • Our execution is where we would use our GPS, how we reach our destination.

    This is a critical distinction: we’re not choosing our destination based on how much we will use our GPS, or how much fun our GPS is to use. We choose our destination first, determine the strategy for arriving at that destination, and only then dig into the travel options which may include our GPS. Our tools and technology don’t dictate strategy, mission, or vision; the reverse is true.

    Feel free to use these definitions and examples in your own work.

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  • The 3L Content Marketing Quality Test

    The 3L Content Marketing Quality Test

    Marketers spend a lot of time worrying about whether their content is valuable. This is generally a good thing because it means we’re legitimately interested in creating quality content for our audiences.

    However… we’re not really doing a great job of that, are we? At least not in aggregate; much of our content isn’t great. It isn’t even good – on a good day, it’s mediocre. And despite how much I love artificial intelligence, what AI spits out is equally mediocre, creating a tsunami of underwhelming.

    How do we fix this? How do we create better content?

    What Audiences Want

    Let’s start with our audience. Broadly speaking, when it comes to any kind of content, our audience has three basic wants:

    1. We want to be entertained. There’s a reason streaming services have exploded in the last decade. We love to be entertained, to have anything we want at our fingertips.
    2. We want to be educated. In an increasingly complex world, anything that effectively teaches and simplifies tends to do well.
    3. We want to be emotionally engaged. We love content that engages our emotions, positive or negative. Social networking companies have made bank with algorithms that incite us to be angry and afraid.

    Entertain. Educate. Engage. That’s what our audiences want.

    So…

    The 3L Content Marketing Quality Test

    Here’s the quality test you can apply to your content as you’re creating it. I do this with my content.

    Does your content make you:

    • Laugh
    • Learn
    • Love

    That’s the test, what I call the 3L test of content value.

    Did you laugh? Was it so entertaining that you literally laughed out loud? That’s some good content.

    Did you learn something while you were putting it together? You’re the subject matter expert. If you learned something while you were creating your content, then your audience will learn something as well.

    Did you love your content so much that you can’t stop talking about it to you significant other, partner, or friends? Are people outside of your place of work tired of hearing you gush about your content?

    Here’s the hard part. No, creating great content isn’t the hard part.

    Post Frequency

    This is a quick chart of how often I post per month, along with the average number of business days in a month. You can see that since I stopped doing a daily video, the number of posts I’ve created has dropped off significantly for most of 2021 except for the last two months – and that’s mainly because I’m now posting my newsletter issues to the blog.

    Why? Why such a dramatic decline? Because I have a folder of more than 50 blog post ideas and half-done posts…

    … and in their current form they all fail the 3L test.

    The hard part about the 3L content value test is that your quantity of published content may decline if you want to maintain quality. That’s always the tradeoff; good quality takes longer to produce than poor quality. Valuable content takes longer to produce than valueless marketing drivel.

    In my case, it cut my cadence almost by half.

    But as we’ve seen and heard from places like Google, quality matters more than ever. The old adage “fast, cheap, good, choose any two” applies here. If we agree that we want our content to be good, then we can either create good content quickly that’s expensive (by hiring lots of people to generate quality content), or we can create good content slowly on a restricted budget. But we can’t have it all.

    Apply the 3L test to your content and flag any content pieces that don’t pass the test. Make them a priority for improvement. Measure the conversion efficiency of your content to help prioritize content that works for you.

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  • What’s the Value of Anecdotal Evidence?

    What's the value of anecdotal evidence?

    In the world of data and analytics, anecdotal evidence is often (and correctly) demonized. Why? People in general and marketers in specific mistake anecdotal evidence for quantitative proof, for statistically representative, reliable, and repeatable evidence.

    Anecdotal evidence is none of those things. It’s one person’s experience, so it’s not representative. Depending on that individual’s perspective and biases, it may not be reliable. Its very nature as an anecdote means that collecting similar information under similar circumstances is not repeatable.

    Even anecdotal evidence in aggregate is still not reliable. In aggregate, anecdotes do not necessarily have the statistical rigor to be proof of anything, especially if there was any kind of bias in the collection of the anecdotes.

    So, should we just toss away all our anecdotal evidence? Of course not.

    The Value of Anecdotal Evidence

    Let’s be clear what anecdotal evidence is. It’s a story, literally meaning “something unpublished” from ancient Greek. Anecdotal evidence is qualitative data. It doesn’t measure anything, but it does describe one person’s experience with something, their story.

    And in every story lies the potential for rich data to investigate, for questions to ask.

    For example, let’s say we’re working on market research for the next great cup of coffee at our coffee shop. While sitting in the shop with a cup of coffee, the guy next to us makes an offhand remark about how he’ll never drink kopi luwak even though it’s one of those trendy coffee things. If we’d never heard of kopi luwak, this anecdote, this piece of qualitative data, is a new starting point for us to investigate. Perhaps our coffee shop companion might never drink kopi luwak, but that doesn’t mean our other customers wouldn’t.

    Every time we commission some interviews, some focus groups, read our customer service inboxes, or listen and watch our customers as they go about their lives, we’re collecting qualitative data. We’re collecting stories, anecdotes – and inside those stories may be critical details we won’t and can’t collect from quantitative data.

    Imagine for a moment how much data you’d need to collect and process to see how a million customers use your products. You could not reasonably and rationally collect that much information, have a million employees shadow customers throughout their days. Could you reasonably do that with ten customers? Yes – and those observations could be very valuable.

    Suppose you make an LED desk lamp. What assumptions would you have made in its design? You would have assumed people kept it on their desks and used it to light the desk and read with. Now suppose you visited my house and you saw this:

    Desk lamps

    I’m using these desk lamps, inverted, as indirect light for an entire room. This is a harmless but unintended use of these lamps – it’s an observation, an anecdote. Now suppose you went to 10 customers’ homes and in 4 of them, you saw similar uses. Would this change how you think of your product? It should. It should make you ask, just how many of our customers use our product in a manner different than we designed it for? If enough did, you could offer different models and variations of the product that would fulfill these new, unintended uses even better, increasing the sales of the product.

    Without these anecdotes, without this qualitative information, you would not have known this. You would not have thought to ask this, but with just a handful of customer stories, you have a starting point to ask better questions and collect more statistically relevant data.

    Supercharging Qualitative Data with AI

    But here’s where things get interesting — and where the game is changing dramatically. What if you could process not just 10 customer stories, but 10,000? What if you could find patterns in qualitative data at scale? Enter generative AI and large language models (LLMs).

    Think about this for a second: Every day, your company probably collects thousands of pieces of qualitative data:
    – Customer service chat logs
    – Social media mentions
    – Support tickets
    – Survey open-ended responses
    – Sales call transcripts

    And honestly? Most of that gold mine of information just sits there. Why? Because traditionally, analyzing qualitative data meant having humans read through every single response. (I’ve done this. It’s about as fun as it sounds.)

    But here’s where AI changes everything.

    Let’s break down how you can use LLMs to make sense of qualitative data:

    1. Data Collection and Preparation

    – Gather all your unstructured text data
    – Clean it up (remove personally identifiable information)
    – Format it consistently

    1. Initial Analysis

    – Feed it into an LLM with clear prompts
    – Ask for theme identification
    – Look for unexpected patterns

    1. Pattern Recognition

    – Have the AI categorize mentions by topic
    – Identify sentiment patterns
    – Flag unusual or unexpected uses of your product

    Here’s a real example I tried recently: I took 1,000 customer service chats and asked an LLM to identify patterns in how customers described their problems. The AI found that customers were using specific product features in ways we never anticipated — just like those inverted desk lamps, but at scale.

    But — and this is crucial — the AI isn’t giving us quantitative data. It’s helping us process qualitative data more efficiently and spot patterns we might miss. It’s like having a really smart assistant who can read through everything and say “Hey, you might want to look at this…”

    Some practical ways to use this approach:

    • Feed customer reviews into an LLM and ask it to identify common use cases you haven’t documented
    • Analyze support tickets to find creative ways customers are working around product limitations
    • Process social media mentions to spot emerging trends in how people talk about your brand

    The key thing to understand? This isn’t about turning qualitative data into quantitative data — it’s about making qualitative data more actionable at scale.

    From Insights to Action

    The value of anecdotal evidence is to help us ask better questions. Don’t misuse it or mistake it to be quantitative data, but don’t throw it away, either. Use it to explore, to widen your perspectives, and ask better questions to earn better answers. And now, with AI tools at our disposal, we can do this at a scale that wasn’t possible before.

    What’s next? Start small:
    1. Pick one source of qualitative data you already have
    2. Use an LLM to analyze it for patterns
    3. Take those patterns and form hypotheses
    4. Test those hypotheses with proper quantitative research

    Remember: The goal isn’t to replace quantitative data — it’s to find better questions to ask when we do our quantitative research. And with AI, we can now find those questions in places we never could before.

    (And yes, I’m still using those desk lamps as indirect lighting. Sometimes the best insights come from the most unexpected places…)

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    What’s On My Mind: Secret Handshakes

    “Know your customer“. From cryptocurrency verification to marketing platitude, we’ve heard variations of this phrase for decades. So here’s the question: how well do you REALLY know your customers?

    I’d submit we don’t really know them very well at all. We might not even have the slightest idea about what makes them actually happy. Here are a few phrases to ponder. Some will resonate with you. Some will not.

    • Carson Wentz with 6% FAAB for week 8
    • A druid can pinch OT and brez if needed even if they’re a boomkin
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    • New growers start with Blue Dream, Super Lemon Haze, or GMO cookies
    • Avoid rug pulls and remember to buy your own coin
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    All of these phrases have one thing in common: they’re the embodiment of George Bernard Shaw’s expression, “all professions are conspiracies against the laity“. Each of these phrases is unique to the groups, the tribes who know them, and they’re inscrutable mysteries to anyone outside that tribe.

    And that’s the way we like it. When we’re inside our tribe, when we’re with our people, we feel kinship. We feel common ground. We have shared interests, a common language, a common point of view on at least one thing. Our language is our secret handshake that lets us know who’s in the club and who’s not based on how they react.

    Forget about demographics and firmographics for the moment, our traditional marketing staples. How many different secret handshakes do you know about your customers, about their actual interests, about the subcultures they love the most? If the answer is zero, you don’t know your customer – at all.

    Everyone has secret handshakes. See if any of these resonate with you:

    • It’s 9 o’clock on a Saturday…
    • When I was a young boy, my father took me into the city to see a marching band…
    • Stop. Collaborate and listen…
    • We were both young when I first saw you…
    • I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100% that bitch…

    These are secret handshakes. Some you probably know, some you don’t, but the ones you know? You KNOW. And anyone around you who reacts to hearing the first few words of these songs, you know is at least a little bit in your tribe.

    So what’s the point of all this? We talk about knowing our customers, but we really don’t. When we get our heads out of marketing and start interacting with customers as people, we start learning what their secret handshakes are – and those secret handshakes can be powerful, powerful relationship builders. I was on a call recently with a colleague and I mentioned one particular secret handshake and my colleague visibly, viscerally reacted – and then blossomed into a beaming grin. We had something in common that was part of a very specific subculture and now, neither of us will ever forget that fact.

    Ask yourself this: of those people you do business with that you enjoy working with, how many secret handshakes have you made an attempt to share and learn? If the answer is “not enough”, then now’s a great time to start.

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