Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • How to Audit Your Google Analytics UTM Governance with Google Data Studio

    How to Audit Your Google Analytics UTM Governance with Google Data Studio

    In this 7 minute tutorial, watch and play along to build a Google Data Studio dashboard to audit your Google Analytics account and find out whether you’re using UTM codes incorrectly.

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    Christopher Penn 0:05

    Today, let’s walk through an exercise for improving your Google Analytics governance.

    So one of the challenges that we’ve had and seen with clients is that their data going into the Google Analytics instances, not particularly clean.

    And when your data is not clean, what happens is it ruins your attribution modeling ruins your ability to understand what’s working, and what you should be doing more of what you should be doing less up.

    So today, let’s walk through some ways to diagnose that to see just how bad the problem is, when to go into Google Data Studio to do this.

    Now, you can do this programmatically, I’ve written some code that does this for a bunch of Google Analytics counts all the time at once.

    But for you, no coding, no, like crazy math or anything like that, just very straightforward.

    One Data Studio dashboard that you can assess, like what’s going on with your Google Analytics account.

    So let’s go ahead into Data Studio Now, pull up a fresh new dashboard here.

    First thing we need to do, of course, is we need to connect to our data.

    So let’s go ahead and connect to Google Analytics here.

    Okay, so we’ve got our Google Analytics account, loaded up here, and the table is going to start building itself.

    Now.

    This is not what we want to start with, we want to start with our source medium, because when things go wrong with Google Analytics, it’s typically because of source media, the UTM codes are either not there or they’re incorrect, or, and we’ve seen this a lot, you’ve been using UTM codes on links on your website to your website, which is a terrible thing to do.

    Because it basically deletes the previous attribution data.

    Never ever use UTM codes on your own website, linking to yourself.

    So let’s find source medium in this list.

    Drag this in here, replace our page title there, great.

    And for the metric, who’s going to use sessions, from a scope perspective, and Google Analytics three, which is what this data is.

    what somebody does, in any given visit to our website, is a session right? No matter how many pages they go on how it is a session, and where that person came from during that session, is the source mean that we care about when when somebody came to our website for that particular visit? Where did they come from, so I’m going to use sessions as my metric here, instead of new users.

    I’ll just expand this out make this a lot bigger.

    Christopher Penn 2:57

    Get that 25 on a page here, so let’s just change the the selector there.

    And maybe just for visibility, for ease of viewing, let’s change this to bar to bar graphs were the metrics and put a number on that.

    Great, so we’re done.

    This is essentially the report that we care about this is our traffic to our website.

    And what source mediums it’s used.

    Now, if we want to make this a little bit more user friendly.

    If we need to show this to other folks, we might want to, for example, shrink this down a little bit here.

    And maybe add a date control so that people can choose what date range let’s go ahead and do that.

    And then get switched our date range.

    Let’s do year to date, see what I’ve done on my website.

    Now, what I see first source, medium email, cool second, organic search cooled.

    Third is direct none.

    This is a category which basically Google says we don’t know what it is.

    And so we’re going to assign it this this bucket.

    Fourth is my social media shares in my emails, the fifth is not set.

    So this is a problem here.

    This one shows me that something’s gone wrong and my UTM tracking when I have a not set like that, so I need to hunt down what where this is happening and fix it so that I stopped getting this not set.

    I suspect I think it’s in my social media shares but I’m not Sure, so I need to go and check to make sure.

    The six one is clearly spam.

    Right? This is something that this is randomly generated garbage.

    And this is probably not me.

    So I don’t know that I have a problem here, but it is definitely coming in.

    Not great.

    We have organic search from Bing Twitter clicks, LinkedIn clicks, clicks from my website, my link shortener DuckDuckGo.

    That’s interesting.

    That’s not a search engine I spent a whole lot of time on.

    But clearly it is showing up for some percent of your audience, Facebook, and so on and so forth.

    So already know, here’s a bot traffic one, that’s clearly garbage.

    Here’s another one where I’ve got a not set, that’s a problem, I need to go hunt that down.

    And just looking down through the list here, there’s like this one menu drop down, not set, that means I’ve got something in one of my menus on my site that shouldn’t have UTM tags at all right? Breaking my rule, no UTM tags to your site, on your site, ROM your site.

    And we can keep going.

    So this is what you look for.

    You look for things are clearly wrong, and you want to buy sessions because the the worst something is like this one here.

    Number five, what is not set, and it’s the number five refer of traffic to my website, this is a problem.

    This is a really bad problem.

    And I need to fix this sooner rather than later.

    Because so many sessions come with that faulty attribution.

    So this is a very simple, straightforward report, build it for yourself, then start going down the list and say, do I recognize this? Do I know where this is coming from? Is this something under my control like this is clearly under my control, and I need to fix it.

    Other things like the spam here, that’s not under my control, I can’t fix it, the best I can do is, you know, just leave it there and maybe filter out or ignore it if I don’t want to be reporting on it.

    But I would bet you if I ran a full attribution model, it would probably show zero conversions because it’s junk traffic.

    Do this and then start hunting down where you think those problems are.

    And this will help clean up your Google Analytics attribution data incredibly, like overnight, the much much better.

    We can talk another time about things like how do I identify and isolate your direct traffic because that is important, but get the basics down first.

    So thanks for watching.

    I’ll talk to you soon.

    Take care.

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  • Is Your Content Marketing Worth Stealing?

    Is Your Content Marketing Worth Stealing?

    How do you know when you’ve created something valuable? How do you know when your marketing has really hit the mark? It isn’t just when your leads increase or your traffic goes up or your inbound links improve. Those are good measures, of course, with tangible business outcomes, but there’s another benchmark that I think says even more about your content:

    How often it’s being stolen.

    It’s fundamentally true that people don’t steal things which have no value. Almost every robbery in history has been about taking something of value to someone, be it art, gold, money, or resources of some kind.

    Almost no one steals the boring, small pile of rocks at the end of your driveway. Almost no one steals the dandelions that grow in the public park. Almost no one steals a clearly broken appliance, or a clearly broken down car. (I say almost because there’s always some kind of exception to the rule.)

    The same is true of our content marketing. When was the last time anyone stole from you?

    By steal, I mean to misappropriate in a way you didn’t intend that causes you some economic harm, however minor.

    For example… someone who fills out a contact form with false information sees at least some value in our content, enough that they value filling out the form – just not with their actual data. The economic harm, of course, is in fake data that at a minimum you can’t use for marketing purposes.

    Another example… someone who scrapes our blog content and reposts it without our permission sees enough value in our content to make it worth scraping for their own site. The economic harm is someone else leveraging your efforts and content to benefit their marketing.

    A third example, someone who downloads our stuff and reshares it outside of the ways we normally distribute it sees value in our content, enough to pirate it. The economic harm is a reduction in visible demand for traditional marketing efforts like lead generation form captures.

    In all three cases, someone sees enough value in our content to misappropriate it.

    Here’s the twist: that’s a good thing, in moderation. Let’s face it, our content marketing probably isn’t a massive revenue generator unless we’re literally a publisher. While people stealing our content might diminish our marketing metrics a little, it’s probably not going to ruin our KPIs entirely. More important, it’s a useful proxy for the value people see in our content. As we started out saying, almost no one steals anything that has no value.

    So, if no one is stealing from you… it might be time to revisit how valuable your content really is. Make it so good that people can’t help but to help themselves to it in a way that you didn’t intend.

  • Almost Timely News, 28 November 2021: The Roundups Are Coming, Temporal Vectorization in SEO

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    What’s On My Mind: The Inevitable Year End Roundups

    Every year, just before the Thanksgiving holiday, the emails come in. “We’re doing a roundup/trend forecast of what’s hot in marketing and would like you to contribute.”

    The Roundups Are Coming

    While I’m always pleased that folks ask, the reality is that these roundups tends to be one of two things when they finally make it live.

    1. They’re tired rehashes of the obvious. Mobile has been a trend since 2007. Privacy has been a trend since the early 2010s. VR/AR has been a trend since the mid 2010s.
    2. They’re sales pitches for whatever the brand is selling. The CDP company will publish roundups and trends saying CDPs are the next big thing. The AI company will do the same for AI. Popular speakers on Clubhouse will say social audio is the thing. NFT sales folks will say it’s NFTs.

    So, how do we do this better? Unsurprisingly, I’m going to suggest instead of asking for people’s opinions, we look at data. (shocking, I know) Here’s a couple of different ways we could slice this. Let’s say we’re all about content marketing. So we’ll take the top X headlines this year by organic traffic for the content marketing keyword space and slice up our data. What are the words and phrases that the top 25% (the upper quartile) use that are different than the words and phrases that the bottom 25% (the lower quartile) use? That’s a way of picking apart the data and showcasing what really stood out this year.

    Content Splits

    While many of these terms also suffer from the curse of the obvious, there is one angle that I think is interesting and might bear more digging into. When we look at both the words overall and some of the articles that make it up, 2021 was the year ad and PR agencies started admitting they weren’t especially good at content marketing and started getting more help from outside parties. Larger agency conglomerates simply vacuumed up content marketing agencies, while smaller agencies sought to add specialists when possible, albeit in a tight job market.

    We could do the same with tweets, or Google News articles, or blogs just from a selected group of companies. But whatever it is, instead of purely self-serving opinion or the blatantly obvious, we’ll at least come up with something slightly more based in reality.

    So please, as you do your year-end recaps and prognostications, use some of the bountiful, inexpensive or even free data available to you to spot trends and find what stands out in a crowded media space.

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  • What Is Temporal Vectorization in SEO?

    What is Temporal Vectorization in SEO?

    I’d like to introduce you to a concept I haven’t seen anywhere else in the SEO world, something I’ve talked about a few times now on Marketing Over Coffee and the Trust Insights podcast: temporal vectorization.

    What Is Vectorization?

    First, a bit of background. Vectorization, in the SEO context, is the process of identifying related words and phrases using machine learning. What words or phrases statistically appear most near each other? For example, if I say “keynote”, the first words that probably come to mind are “speech”, “speaker”, or “address”. This is essentially what vectorization is, and it’s a proven, effective strategy for identifying and building out content.

    Vectorization can occur in multiple dimensions and levels, from words to phrases to sentences and beyond. Machine learning tools generate vectorization analysis using popular, well-known libraries like FastText to vectorize and analyze billions of pages of text, identifying the words and phrases most likely to co-occur.

    What Is Temporal Vectorization?

    But the one dimension I haven’t seen anywhere in SEO yet is what I call temporal vectorization.

    One of the most critical components of SEO that almost all SEO tools, software, and agencies overlook is the component of time. Time matters a great deal to actual searchers; there are periods of time when people are more likely to buy, and periods when they’re not.

    In a study earlier in 2021, Ehrenberg-Bass Institute’s Professor John Dawes found that on average for B2B buyers, 95% of buyers are not in-market at any given period of time. This holds true for a lot of complex sales, purchases of anything that requires extensive consideration, from mortgages and college educations to server appliances and jet planes.

    Temporal vectorization is identifying keywords, phrases, and topics by using the dimension of time instead of co-occurrence in text. What words and phrases occur together over the same periods of time?

    Why does temporal vectorization matter? Many, many SEO tools are still linguistically based, meaning they find words that are structurally similar to each other. For example, if you type in the keyword analytics, most tools will pull up searches containing that word or variations of that word as recommendations for SEO – and that’s fine and sensible. It’s a good start.

    But words and phrases that are semantically-based but linguistically unrelated will go missing. For example, if your keyword phrase is Google Analytics, web analytics might or might not show up. Google Data Studio is conceptually related, but contains none of the words that a linguistically-based tool would use. Modern, machine-learning powered regular vectorization will pick up some of these, but not all.

    What we tend to do as marketers is then type in and pull together every keyword and phrase we can think of, ending up with keyword lists that are gigantic, with thousands or perhaps even tens of thousands of keywords. Again, that’s normal and natural – as you move towards the beginning of the customer journey, as you move away from buying intent, the number of topics and keywords balloons dramatically. How do we narrow them down? How do we focus on what’s important?

    This is where temporal vectorization shines. By looking at our data over time, with a handful of the most important keywords we care about in mind, we can reduce the number of keywords we need to focus on at any given point in time by those that co-occur during the same period of time. This is especially useful when doing competitive keyword research, because keyword tools can and do spit out hundreds of thousands of keywords sometimes for competitive research.

    Instead of trying to tackle everything all at once, we focus on the topics, phrases, words, and ideas that occur together.

    Temporal Vectorization Example

    Let’s look at a straightforward example. Suppose we have a flower shop; let’s call it Happy Camel Flowers. Unsurprisingly, our flower shop sells flowers. First, we should break down our understanding of our topics and keywords by intent:

    1. Branded intent. These are searches for us by name; someone searching for Happy Camel Flowers is searching for us.
    2. Unbranded intent. These are searches for the solution we offer – namely, flowers. Roses, lilies, carnations, you name it – if it’s a flower, we’ve probably got it.
    3. Precursor intent. These are searches for the problem we solve – gifts, tokens of affection, what to do after a first date, etc. Precursor intent is important because it’s a person searching for how to solve their problem, but they don’t have a solution in mind.

    Next, we gather the keywords and topics for each of these categories. For this example, I’ll focus solely on unbranded intent – specifically informational intent. Our keyword list will be names of flowers and the searches for what they mean using United States of America search data.

    One look at our keyword list of unbranded terms shows how important time is; without looking at any single keyword, we see distinct peaks and valleys when flowers of all kinds are of interest:

    Log scale chart of flower searches

    That said, there are a ton of words, phrases, topics, and ideas here. How do we prioritize? How do we use time to our advantage? Instead of trying to tackle everything, we look at what’s important in any given slice of time.

    At this very moment in time, the week I am writing this post, the meanings of lilies as well as flowers in general are the most searched terms:

    Lily meaning

    Here’s where we get into temporal vectorization. When someone’s searching for “lily meaning”, there are two kinds of time-based information that are helpful. First, what else are they searching for right now? We see generic searches for the meanings of flowers, along with blue roses and their meanings and daisies and their meanings.

    That’s helpful for what might be on people’s minds right now, and something we should consider creating content about. However, we could also take our top trend and see what else strongly correlates with it over a long period of time – this is the vectorization part, the part where we find out what things go together with this search mentally for people.

    Vectorized flower searches

    Here we see that roses, daisies, and peace lilies all have similar searches. Now, this is where domain expertise is essential – what do these different flowers have in common, in terms of meaning? And if there is something in common, we can start to tease out our precursor search keywords, keywords that might indicate why people search for this combination of items, which will lead us to better, more effective precursor intent capture. I’m about as much of a florist as I am a neurosurgeon, so I can Google for this sort of thing but an actual florist would be able to make better use of the information.

    This is how temporal vectorization works. We take our data, add the dimension of time, and then examine what concepts naturally move together, in the short term and the long term. If our data is good and our analysis is correct, we’ll identify greater meaning to our keyword lists, understand the underlying intent, and match that intent with our marketing so that we’re not just in the right place, we’re also at the right time.

    If time isn’t part of your SEO analysis, start incorporating it today. Right time, right place is essential for great marketing today, and we know the AI powering most search engines have a keen grasp of time already (and have for a while).

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  • Almost Timely News, 21 November 2021: The Widening AI Gap, 2022 Marketing Trends, SEO AMA

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    What’s On My Mind: What About the Gap?

    No, not the clothing store.

    The gap between the technological haves and have-nots. There are so many interesting problems, interesting challenges out there in the world to solve, so many applications of stuff like analytics, data science, and machine learning.

    And most of those problems will go unsolved. Not because the technology does not exist, or even that the data does not exist, but because the ability to access it is out of reach for a lot of businesses.

    In the era before popular, commercial use of machine learning, success in business was largely a combination of effort and luck. Effort encompasses the skill needed to make a good product and sell it well, and luck encompasses being in the right place at the right time, whether you’re the local burger joint or a multinational corporation

    Today, data science, machine learning, and AI have thrown a bit of a wrinkle into this. So much of our lives are intermediated by machines and machine learning. What products we see, what ads we see, what news we see, what friends we see in the digital realm – which is the primary realm now for so many of these tasks ever since the smartphone became our external brains – are all controlled by machines and algorithms.

    Those folks who have access to the technologies that can reverse-engineer these algorithms and find out what works will have a decided advantage over those folks who cannot. And that will mean larger companies, with more access to resources, talent, and budget, will have a greater advantage over most smaller companies. That’s a huge gap to close.

    Here’s an example. A friend of mine is starting to build out a Tiktok account for her florist shop. She’s a tiny, solo proprietor up against some of the biggest household names in her industry, but those household names aren’t doing a particularly good job of understanding or using Tiktok well. I’ve started extracting data from Tiktok with all the major floral hashtags and building a model for her that indicates what topics and hashtags to use, and I anticipate she’ll be able to get better than average results from that analysis.

    Figure 1. IBM Watson analysis of Tiktok data

    In the example above, IBM Watson Studio found that of the language features in the dataset, posts about tulips outperformed posts about other flowers – not something I would have expected! Frankly, I expected roses to do the best.

    But what if she didn’t know me? What if I didn’t have time once a month or so on a Saturday night to pull the data for her and process it? She wouldn’t have access to any of this data or technology, and thus the household names – despite their mediocre efforts – would be able to win more easily.

    This is the challenge that many, many businesses are going to face in the coming years, and I don’t have a good answer for how they can level the playing field. For a while, the Internet presented a level playing field where a small business could appear larger than it was, where relevance and not budget could win the day. That 20-year golden era of Internet marketing – 1997-2017 – has been supplanted by the AI-powered marketing era, and this is an era in which whoever has the technical resources to win will do so.

    To be clear, having great products, good prices, and phenomenal service will still be fundamental to succeeding at business. No amount of AI will change a crap product, prices that aren’t competitive, or abusive service and get people to buy, long-term, who would not have bought before. But becoming visible, being seen, will be harder for those without skillful use of AI.

    The only thing I can suggest for now is that if you have analytical skills, if you have data science and machine learning capabilities, and you have local businesses or small businesses that you really like doing business with (or are friends with), consider donating some of your time and skills to help those businesses keep a level playing field against deeper-pocketed competitors. AI represents a considerable advantage and early adopters prolong that advantage over late adopters, so if you have businesses you truly love, help them out.

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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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  • 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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