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  • You Ask, I Answer: Statistical Significance in A/B Testing?

    You Ask, I Answer: Statistical Significance in A/B Testing?

    Wanda asks, “How do I know if my A/B test is statistically significant?”

    Statistical significance requires understanding two important things: first, is there a difference that’s meaningful (as opposed to random noise) in your results, and second, is your result set large enough? Watch the video for a short walkthrough.

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    In today’s episode, Wanda asks, How do I know if my AB test is statistically significant? This is a very good very common question, particularly with things like web page optimization, and email marketing and even social media marketing.

    What happens is we’ll get results back in fact, let’s do this.

    Let’s, let’s show you an example here.

    This is an AB test I did yesterday.

    And what we see here is I sent out an email to different subject lines, subject line a was eight steps to improving your LinkedIn profile and B was a question is your LinkedIn profile working working for you? And we see in my marketing automation software here, this a here has been marked as a winner right? Let’s look at the stats.

    When we look at the stats, we see a was sent to 330 9000 574 people B was sent to 39,573 people.

    So far so good.

    A got 3990 opens, which is what I was measuring on B got 3873 opens.

    So A is the winner, or is it? To answer Wanda’s question.

    This is a very common scenario.

    What we need to do is we need to do some statistical testing we needed to do what is called a proportion test versus a two sided test.

    And then we need to do a power test to figure out whether our sample here is large enough.

    Some basic stats, what we’re talking about these statistical significant tests, significance tests, what we’re talking about is is there enough of a difference between a and b, that it could not have happened randomly? It could not have happened by chance.

    You know, is there a difference enough in the audience that you could measure it and say, yeah, this is not chance this did not happen by accident was a real impact.

    Or could this have been noise is there enough of a difference that that’s so small that it could have been random.

    And that’s really what we want to find out.

    Because if we want to make a judgement about his subject line A or B better, we need to know if a, in this case, which is the winner, really actually one was luck of the draw.

    To do this, there are a number of different ways that you can tackle this in every math and stats program available, I’m going to use the programming language are here.

    Again, there’s there’s even web calculators for some of the stuff I just like to do, because it’s super compact.

    I have my a population, which is the number of people sent it to and the number of opens that a got.

    I got my B population here and the conversions and I’m going to run that proportion test.

    What I’m Looking for is this number right here, the p value, a p value of under 0.05 means that there’s a difference.

    There’s a big enough difference between the two, that, gosh, something has happened that is meaningful.

    Here.

    It’s above point 05.

    It’s at point 164.

    So there, these two audiences maybe have behaved the same, which means that a didn’t necessarily win.

    Now, just to show you an example, what if I take B down to 3400 conversions? Right? If I do that exact same test, and run it, we see that the p value shrinks to an infinitesimally small number, ie minus 10.

    Right? That’s a you know 10 zeros before the decimal.

    That is a clear difference that the the result was not random luck, but when in doubt, crank up B to 3900 make us super close, right? Watch what happens.

    Point 851, that that P value has gone up even higher.

    And so just with this very simple mathematical test, we can determine that in this case.

    The the test itself was not statistically significant.

    Now, here’s the other catch.

    One of the things that goes wrong with a lot of AV tests, particularly with social media marketing, is that there’s not enough of a result to know.

    So in this test, we see here about 10% of people opened the email in each in each category.

    Is that big enough? Is that a meaningfully large enough size of the audience to tell.

    To do this, we’re going to run this power test.

    And the power test says that out of 3900 people in order to achieve a minor measurable effect of some kind, I would need to have at least 200 People take action, which is that n two number there.

    If I did this test and you know 39 people clicked on a and 38 people clicked on B, would that be enough to judge whether there was a winner? The answer is no, because there’s not enough people who have been sampled to give that determination.

    I need to I need to have at least, you know, call 200 rounded up 200 people in order to know Yes, this is a real significant value.

    This is really important, because why don’t we talk a lot about you know, smaller population, smaller populations need bigger samples.

    So let’s say that I want to talk about the fortune 500 how many people know how many CEOs in the fortune 500? Do I need to survey in order to get a meaningful result? 322 of them, right, because it’s such a small population, that there’s a variation.

    That could be another variation and just a few people to really throw things so in this case, I would have to survey basically 60% of this very small population to know, yep, there’s a real thing here, the larger the population gets, assuming it’s, you know, well sampled, the smaller my sample size needs to be with regard to that population in order to get a statistically meaningful result.

    Because again, that could be small variations in a very small population that could have a really big changes, as opposed to a bigger population, where you’re going to have more of a evenly distributed result.

    My friend Tom Webster likes to call this like soup, right in a large population.

    If the POTUS stirred well enough, a spoonful can tell you all he needs to know about the soup, but if you’ve got like a gumbo or a stew, you know once we want to have like a huge chunk of beef and then the like you would draw the conclusion this pot is full of beef.

    Well, no, it’s not just happen to have a very lumpy sample there.

    And so because it’s smaller, that those lumps could could be more confusing.

    So the composition of the entire soup pot.

    So these are the two tests you need to run.

    And again, there are plenty of web calculators out there that do this stuff.

    The challenge is here, a lot of them don’t do the second part, they don’t do the power test to determine whether your sample was big enough in the first place, they just do the first part.

    So know that.

    And in this case, if you can use the programming language, or SPSS or SAS or Stata, or any of these stats tools, do so because you will get better answers out of them as long as you can know what you’re interpreting.

    But that’s how you know if your test is statistically significant, it’s big enough sample and meaningful enough difference.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Content Marketing Topic Research?

    You Ask, I Answer: Content Marketing Topic Research?

    Erika asks, “What are your tips and best practices for topic and keyword research in content marketing?”

    It depends on the size of the content and how much domain expertise you have. Scale your research efforts to the level of risk the content poses and how important it is that you get it right.

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    In today’s episode, Erica asks What are your tips and best practices for cop topic and keyword research and content marketing? So this is an interesting question because the answer is dependent upon a couple things on the size of the content, but more importantly on the domain expertise and how much risk there is in the content.

    Remember that while we are writing to be found to be seen, we are also writing to have our information be used by people and that means that there is an inherent level of risk in content.

    The level of risk is proportional to the amount of domain expertise we need to have.

    So if I’m, I’ve been asked to write a piece of content on I don’t know, number of characters in the tweet or you know how to emoji in Influence tweets.

    That’s a relatively low risk piece of content, right? It doesn’t require a ton of research.

    And identifying topics and keywords and things for it is pretty straightforward.

    I’m probably not going to screw that up.

    And even if I do, it’s going to be very low impact, right? If somebody uses the poop emoji instead of the heart emoji, it’s not going to be probably the end of the world.

    On the other hand, if I’m being asked to create a white paper, or a video series about important steps to take for protecting yourself against a pandemic, that piece of content could literally be life or death for somebody and so I would need to have much greater domain expertise.

    I would need to invest a lot more time in understanding the topic overall first, before even trying to cobble together keywords and things to understand all the pieces that are related to it.

    And I would want to take a whole bunch of time to get background, academic papers, books, videos, studies, research, all that stuff that will tell me what is the shape of this thing? What is the? What are the implications? And mostly what is the lexicon? And what is it that experts in the field think Who are those experts? What else do they talk about? What are the related topics? So that’s the first step is to assess your level of risk and what level of domain expertise you’re going to meet.

    Then you look at the size of the content.

    How much are we talking about? We’re talking about like five tweets.

    Are we talking about a 1500 word blog post, a 10 minute video, 45 minute class, a four hour workshop or a white paper, something that you intend to be in an academic journal, a book on Amazon? What is the size of the content, the bigger the size The more research you’re going to need, the more data you’re going to need.

    And then you can look at things like, you know, keywords.

    One of the best sources for keywords, and for topics and understanding the topic is actually speech, people talking, because in things like podcasts, and videos and interviews and stuff, you will get a lot more extraneous words, but you will get you will also get more of the seemingly unrelated terms.

    So let’s talk for example, about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid 19.

    In listening to epidemiologists and virologists talk about this thing.

    Yes, there are the commonplace topics like you know, wearing masks, for example, would be something that would be associated with this topic.

    Washing your hands would be something you’d be associated with this topic, keeping a certain distance away from people.

    But you would also see things like co2 measurement How, how much co2 is in the air around you, because it’s a proxy for how well event ventilated space is, the better a spaces ventilated, the less co2 will be in, compared to, let’s say, the outdoor air.

    And so you’ll see measurements like you know, 350 parts per million 450 parts per million.

    And these are not topic, these are not keywords that you would initially See, if you’re just narrowly researching the topic of COVID-19.

    These are important, right? These are things that you would want to include in the in an in depth piece of research, you might want to talk about antigens and T cells and B cells and how the immune system works.

    Those are equally be things.

    So, again, this is a case where you have a very complex topic which requires a lot of domain expertise.

    And mapping out though, the concepts will be an exhaustive exercise as it should be because again, you’re creating content that is If you get it wrong, and you recommend the wrong things, you could literally kill people with it.

    So that would be the initial assessment, domain expertise, how much content you’re going to need? What are the risks? after that? You need a solid content plan, how much content what’s the cadence? What are the formats, it’s going to be distributed in a topic and keyword research list is less important.

    still important, but less important for something like a podcast, right? Unless you’re producing a transcript, in which case, it’s you’re back to creating, making sure that you’re mentioning certain specific terms.

    And you’d want to make sure that you you do that in the context of the show.

    One of the things that Katie Robbert and I do before every episode of Trust Insights podcast is look at the associated keywords for a given topic and see other things that from a domain expertise perspective, we are lacking.

    That would want to augment and verify and validate that we’re going to mention in the show because we also publish it as a video, though, that means those keywords and those topics make it into the closed captions file, which means that YouTube can then index it better and shorter video more.

    In terms of the tools that you would do this, use this for this, it depends on the content type.

    So some things like PDFs are not natively searchable.

    In a text format, you have to use a tool like Acrobat or preview or something.

    So there are tools that will export a PDF to a plain text file and then you can do your normal text mining.

    Text mining tools will be essential for digesting a body of content in order to understand the keywords and topics.

    There are, there’s a library I use in the programming language are called quanta.

    That does an excellent job of extracting out here the key words in context and the keywords that are within this large group of documents.

    So you would take for example, blog posts, Reddit posts, academic papers, cover them all in plain text, load them into this piece of software, as a piece of software would digest them all down and say here are the, here’s a map of, of words that exist in this universe and how they’re connected, which is really important because a lot of tools can do you know, a word cloud, that’s easy, but you don’t understand necessarily the connections between terms.

    So for example, you know, a T cell and B cell would be connected terms within the immune system.

    In a paper about COVID-19.

    You’d want to know that to see how those topics relate to each other social media posts, transcripts, from YouTube videos, transcripts, from podcasts, all those things.

    That level of text mining will give you greater insights into the universe around the topic.

    In addition to the core keywords themselves, one of the problems with a lot of keyword software is that it’s very narrowly restricted like you can use you know, all male contains these terms or This phrase, but again, something about COVID-19 is not necessarily going to have a key word like antigen, or a key word like dexa, methadone, right? Very important concept, but not necessarily going to be immediately related, which is what a lot of more primitive keyword tools do.

    So I would use some text mining tools to extract out and map the universe of language around a topic.

    Then you can start creating content from and lining up, you know, if you’re going to be doing a top a piece of content about espresso and what are all the terms that go with espresso, and then you can see the how they clustered together.

    And that creates your anchor content to cover each of the major concepts.

    So a lot in there a lot to think about, but do that risk assessment and that domain expertise assessment first that will govern the size of your project and how much research you need to do? If you have follow up questions, leave in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Attribution Modeling for Facebook Campaigns?

    You Ask, I Answer: Attribution Modeling for Facebook Campaigns?

    Hannah asks, “For attribution modeling, what model do you use on your Facebook campaigns?”

    Facebook offers substantially similar attribution models as Google Analytics; most of these will fail to give you an accurate picture of every digital channel. Unsurprisingly, Facebook’s models tend to paint Facebook in the best light possible; their data-driven attribution model, for example, only looks at Facebook performance. Which model to use depends on the length of your customer journey.

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    In today’s episode, Hannah asks for attribution modeling, what model Do you use on your Facebook campaigns? So, Facebook offers substantially similar attribution models as Google Analytics.

    If you’re familiar with the models in Google Analytics, first touch, last touch linear time decay, position based, data driven.

    Most of these models are have a Facebook analog, Facebook’s attribution models are unsurprisingly all centered around the social network and the advertising you do on it.

    If they are, okay.

    They tend not to take into account all the other things that their campaigns could be doing and they tend not to take into account you interactions between campaigns outside of Facebook Just be aware that there are some pretty substantial limitations, especially if you don’t have the Facebook analytics, pixel setup and properly working on all of your other digital properties.

    Unsurprisingly, Facebook’s attribution models tend to pin paint Facebook in the best light possible.

    If you look at how things like the data driven attribution model works, it only works for Facebook’s properties.

    So Facebook, Instagram, the and the campaigns that you run on those platforms.

    And so, again, you don’t really get a very good picture of what is happening in terms of all those models.

    which one to use, if you have to use Facebook’s attribution modeling is going to depend on the the type of customer journey you have and how how long the path To conversion, when you look at models like first touch and last touch, if you have a very transactional relationship with your customers, they come in, they do their thing and they’re gone, right and they don’t hang around, they don’t engage, they are not loyal to you, you are a commodity to them, then you know, first and last ditch work fine.

    You know, if 99% of your transactions have a customer journey length of like one, meaning they come from one source, they do their thing and then they leave, then last touches fine.

    You also don’t actually need attribution in those cases because you know that 99% of your transaction is coming from one thing they come in and they do their thing and they leave.

    If you have a more complex sales cycle, and one in which there’s a lot of decision making, maybe multiple stakeholders, maybe a lot of consideration then out of the box time decay is the least bad model, as long as you set the window long enough to accommodate almost all the transactions that are possible.

    So if it takes 60 days for someone to make a purchase your your window of attribution should be at least 60 days, ideally 120 right to cover all the outliers.

    That said, again, Facebook is not going to give you a comprehensive look at how it functions with the rest of your stack.

    For that you’re better off using Google Analytics attribution models and looking at Facebook’s performance in that, you’ll want to make sure that you are separating out paid social media traffic from unpaid in Google Analytics, get that set up in your analytics settings first so that you don’t mix organic and paid traffic yet together.

    That’s a critical flaw that a lot of folks overlook.

    And then use, again the Google attribution models.

    choosing one of those, again, same idea.

    The first and last touch are, are great if if you are transactional linear models, where it’s just even credit distributed across all channels, is appropriate in environments where you have absolutely no idea what’s working, what’s not.

    And it’s a good way to start experimenting and to see like, you know, is there a substantial difference in credit given in a linear model compared to say a time decay model? If there is, then you may be starting to suss out that some channels are more important than others.

    The best models to use are ones that are not built into these pieces of software.

    There’s one, Google offers it in their attribution products.

    But The useful part is really only an attribution 360, which is the paid version of the product.

    They use what’s called Shapley game theory, it is a machine learning model that looks at how models how channels change, based on when a new channel enters the mix.

    And the analogy that is often used for that is a poker game.

    You have four players sitting on a table, they’re all betting certain amounts, and then a fifth player sits down on the table.

    Not only do you look at how the fifth player bets, but you also look to see the behavior of the other four players to see if how their behavior changes.

    You know, some guy who shows up clearly the sucker and a whole bunch of the other channels will start, they’ll boys will start betting more heavily chaplet game theory is applied to your digital marketing channels.

    If you add a new channel in, do all the other channels performance change in a positive or negative way.

    The model that I have found works the best Again, this is something that requires a lot of technical experience to do is called Markov chain modeling where it behaves like a basketball game.

    You know, if if Steph Curry is on the court, you know, he’s going to, you know, shoot the free pointer, and he would be the example.

    So the last touch, but the question is who assists him to get the ball to him? Right? In those cases, when you’re looking at who’s valuable on the team, you need to figure out who assists him the most, who assists the assist, etc.

    And you can build a model of who is most effective and where the same thing is done in Markov chain modeling in machine learning for marketing channels.

    Is there a channel that assists more? Even if it isn’t, what gets the last touch in Now again, less helpful if 99% of your conversions are One touching done.

    But if you have steps if your product is something that requires consideration, then it’s a really good model to use.

    So time decay, good for, it’s the least bad of the models that are in the box.

    Facebook’s data driven attribution model.

    Nobody knows what algorithm they use.

    So I would be very reticent to recommend that first and last touch if your product is purely transactional, and there’s no customer loyalty whatsoever, nobody ever comes back to your website after after visiting once.

    And use the machine learning models if you have the technical and statistical capabilities to do so because that will give you the best answers possible based on what’s happening, when you can use Google Analytics and Facebook analytics and see how it goes.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: In-Person Conferences and the Pandemic?

    You Ask, I Answer: In-Person Conferences and the Pandemic?

    Stephanie asks, “What will in-person events need to think about, implement and communicate for you to feel comfortable returning to some of your favorite conferences?”

    Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional. For professional advice about COVID-19 please consult a qualified virologist or epidemiologist.

    For in-person conferences to be safe, a vaccine needs to be broadly available and attendees screened for it. That’s the necessary level of safety, period. End of story.

    There are some measures you could take now to make things less risky, but there’s still an unacceptably high level of risk for large, in-person gatherings. No sane insurance company will insure an event without a vaccine, and no conference should be having an event without insurance. Having an event right now, absent a broadly available vaccine, is willful negligence, and insurance won’t cover that.

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    In today’s episode, Stephanie asks what will in person events need to think about implement and communicate for you to feel comfortable returning to some of your favorite conferences.

    Disclaimer, I am not a medical professional.

    I am a marketer.

    I do follow a lot of the medical journals very carefully, but I am still not a medical professional.

    So, if you want professional advice, please seek someone who has an actual medical degree in biology or epidemiology.

    Now, that’s it.

    For in person conferences to be safe.

    It’s an important word.

    A vaccine needs to be broadly available and attendees screened for it.

    That is the necessary level of safety period End of story.

    If there’s no vaccine available, a conference isn’t safe.

    That’s it.

    We know from hundreds of medical professionals from papers and research, etc.

    that COVID-19 is an air airborne disease is an aerosol based airborne disease.

    As of the time of this recording, which is July 24 2020, there is some consensus that airborne may be the primary method of spread that vectors like droplets and fomites may not be as important as the aerosol components.

    So, you’re breathing all the time, you’re going to an event where the primary method of communication is talking.

    And conference spaces are not particularly well ventilated.

    Which means that you are being exposed and there’s no responsible way to have an event in that atmosphere literally in that atmosphere in that air right.

    I have on my desk here a co2 detector, that is detecting the amount of co2 in the air.

    Fresh air about 450 parts per million indoors poorly ventilated, it’s going to be higher than that, that a meter like this will tell you very quickly how dense an airspace is if it’s not being ventilated, it will be above 450.

    I am sitting here talking at my desk and this is not a large room is a, it’s my basement.

    But it’s not a ton of airflow.

    It’s very much like an indoor space is an indoor space.

    My current co2 from me talking just now is 852 parts per million.

    Right? This is a really good proxy for measuring the level of infectivity of the air.

    Right.

    This is devices like 40 bucks on Amazon.

    This is not good, right? This fundamentally means if I was in an office space, this whole space would be unsafe, because I’m talking and I’m spraying particles to micro microscopic particles into the air as I speak.

    Now if I’m on stage and I’m yelling and I’m you know, talking Allow them as attendees talking to each other.

    This mute is going to go to 1000 to 1200 or 1500.

    Right? co2 itself is not harmful unless like there’s no other oxygen, but it is a proxy for how much I am emitting into the atmosphere.

    And even with really good masks, you’re still getting some spread, right? We know that cloth masks do cut the risk down from, you know, 80% down to, you know, 1.5% on a per person basis.

    Right now you put 500 1000 1500 to 4000 people into an airspace and you’re still going to get spread.

    There’s there’s no way around that there’s just too many people particularly when you have morons who can’t put a mask on properly.

    They were does a chin strap, right, you know, they have their nose exposed and they’re still breathing out, unfiltered air at an event, you cannot control people’s behaviors.

    You just can’t Now if you would have an event where it was just presentations only, and people were spaced out, and they would no parties, no meals, no anything, no social gatherings.

    Yes, that would be safer.

    But also, you may as well just have a virtual event at that point because you’ve taken all of the things that people like to do at events and remove them for their safety, to stay home.

    There are no measures that an in person event can take that’s going to create an unacceptable level of risk in person until a vaccine is available.

    More important, no insurance company that sane is going to insure an event without a vaccine, right? And no conference should ever be having any kind of event without insurance because having an event without insurance is crazy, right? You just been sued if you lose everything.

    When there are legal directives in place, that from government officials, whatever that say, no large gatherings and you host a large gathering You can very easily be sued for willful negligence, right? Could you could someone prove that they caught the virus at your event? Maybe, maybe not.

    Can they prove that you had the event in direct opposition of orders from a government health professionals? Absolutely.

    And you will get sued.

    And even if you win, you still are still getting sued, which is an expensive process.

    Right now, without a vaccine having an in person event is willful negligence.

    insurance will cover that.

    Right.

    So there’s really no easy way for events to do this.

    When a vaccine is available, the number one thing that events will need to do is is to ask, have you been vaccinated.

    And you’ll want to talk with your health professionals and your legal professionals about the legality of denying people entrants who are not vaccinated, because again, it’s creating risk.

    Now, there there is There is some precedent for you know, not having to do that.

    Obviously you go, we have flu vaccines and people do a no get it.

    And then if a vaccine is available to everyone, and it’s been in the population, and there is a likely probability that everyone has had the chance to get it, then that relieves your legal obligation, right? Because like the flu vaccine, if you don’t get it, and it’s broadly available that’s on you, the attendee, it’s not on the event.

    But for example, again, this is no July, United States just ordered 100 million doses of experimental vaccine from Pfizer.

    Some biologists believe that you’re going to need the initial and then a booster sets really only 50 million treatments available to a country of 330 million.

    That’s still a very high level of risk for everybody involved.

    Can events mandate masks? Yes.

    And they should, even with a vaccine ability Because, again, not everyone’s going to get vaccinated, not everyone’s going to, you know, have the opportunity to do so.

    But you can absolutely mandate masks still.

    And I think that’s gonna be part of the culture for a while.

    And you can still recommend that people avoid, you know, close gatherings and things after parties, etc.

    Should you be having a party as an event? Now that vaccine? Nope.

    So this is what events need to think about.

    for the foreseeable near term future until a vaccine is available, you should be a virtual event.

    There’s no other way to do it.

    That is safe.

    That is not willfully negligent, and that it does not pose an unnecessary risk to people and their health and to the people around them.

    So that goes back to the previous episode we had on what can event what should businesses be doing in place? Maybe we’ll tackle that in the next episode.

    What kind of events be doing Instead, to still offer value and then frankly for event companies will still stay in business.

    There are ways to do that.

    Having in person events is not one of them.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Driving Leads Without Conferences?

    You Ask, I Answer: Driving Leads Without Conferences?

    Stephanie asks, “The pandemic has led to the cancellation of many conferences. If in-person events are a cornerstone touchpoint for a brand, how should marketers pivot? What can they do now to drive pipeline activity?”

    It depends on how you got your pipeline from shows. Was it as a sponsor and you got the list? Was it from the stage? Was it private parties and dinners? Once you understand the mechanism, you can find analogues for today’s world.

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    In today’s episode, Stephanie asks the pandemic has led to the cancellation of many conferences in person events are a cornerstone touch point for a brand.

    How should marketers pivot? What can they do now to drive pipeline activity? So it’s a good question.

    The answer depends on how you got pipeline from shows.

    So for example, if you are a silver or gold or platinum, whatever sponsor of a conference, you may get a portion or all of the attendee registration list, right.

    So your pipeline essentially came from the conference gathering up names, emails for you, and handing them over in exchange for a big pile of money.

    If you got leads from the stage, you had one or more speakers, you’ve paid to have them be up on stage, or they were just good enough speakers that they merited on their own Then that’s a different mechanism where there’s some call to action from a, an educational benefit to your users to your audience.

    If it was private parties and dinners, you know, the ability to take 10 prospects out to an expensive steak dinner somewhere as a different level of engagement.

    Once you understand the mechanism by which a conference fed you pipeline, you can find analogues for the world as it is now at inside the pandemic.

    So, let’s think about this.

    If your thing was the steak dinner, right? What are some things that you can do to replicate a part of that experience? The whole point of a steak dinner kind of environment is it gives you and a handful of prospects the ability to have a discussion for a long time, they may or may not be a guest speaker of some kind.

    Give me Maybe like a panel discussion or something, but it’s it’s a more intimate event, right? It’s usually not going to be more than like 20 people in a room and even at one table, it’s gonna be, you know, eight to 10 people at a table.

    What happens if you start doing things like zoom calls but with some kind of tangible added benefit, I’ve seen a number of brands do this very successfully, where they will send out like, bottles of wine to a select group of people and say, Look, you know, be online at this time.

    And we’ll have a wine tasting together or another sampler probably will actually cost you less than the steak dinner because steak dinners you know, so run easily 100 bucks a person get to have you bottles of wine and then get them all shipped out and you can meet the same essentially cost.

    And you can replicate a lot of the discussion part of the experience you know, you have your subject matter expert, maybe a guest speaker of some kind and through the the hazing you To kind of hang out for the hour or whatever, if you’re getting leads from the stage itself, again, that one’s a fairly obvious one to replicate, you do webinars and instead of, you know, just large scale webinars, maybe you have a very focused webinar, maybe you do some innovative advertising to drive attention to it.

    But the webinar one is pretty straightforward.

    There’s a almost a one to one replacement from speaking with a stage in a webinar.

    If you are having trouble attracting people to your webinars, because your brand is not well known.

    And or you have not had the greatest track record of webinars, you again may want to bring in a guest speaker, a panelist, somebody that can bring some of their own audience and eyeballs with them to the event.

    expect to pay for that expect and depending on the size of the audience expect to pay more for that, the larger the audience gets, but It’s a way to access the same crowd that you would access if it was at an event.

    Because when you’re at an event, particularly for the larger speakers, or speakers who are known for your topic, people are in that room to, to see that person talk and hear what they have to say.

    So when you see somebody like Ann Handley on stage, you are there to listen to and talk about writing.

    If you see somebody like crystal Washington on stage, we’re there to learn about tech futurism.

    And so if you engage those speakers in your webinar, there’s a good chance they will bring some of their audience with them.

    And that’s what you want.

    You want net new audience.

    You don’t want to be just the audience you currently have.

    Although there’s there’s nothing wrong with nurturing them.

    If you’re trying to build a new pipeline.

    You need to bring in some audience when it comes to just big lists.

    That is is a little bit tougher, but not not insurmountable.

    Essentially, at that point, you’d start looking at co registration.

    So co registration on white papers, on ebooks, on on webinars or other events, newsletters, whatever the case may be sponsoring a newsletter would be a great way to do that, because again, you’re going to be trying to get a large number of registrations that you can then put into your marketing automation system.

    So if you as an example, I did a paper with Talkwalker, my company Trust Insights and Talkwalker collaborated, we worked out a a, an arrangement and we had a custom built piece of research that we did and published and generated about 1200 leads for for them.

    And so that was a for your reasonable investment, a good way to draw a lot of new pipeline for them to work with now, is it all qualified? No, but neither is you know, everybody who attends a conference.

    Whatever the mechanism is that the conference delivers for you, you can find digital versions of that now, it’s just you have to get away from the idea of thinking that it’s going to function exactly like a conference, you have to look at the techniques that are available, let’s say which techniques map to the the, the benefit we used to get from the event? Are there other things that you are missing? Yes, there’s always that absence of serendipity.

    Right? No matter how good a virtual event is, it just cannot seem to replicate that, you know, randomly bumping into somebody in the hallway or hanging out at somebody’s booth and meeting a new friend.

    That’s very difficult to do digitally.

    I’ve not seen anything that comes close to that other than curated communities.

    So for example, if they’re joining us slack instance, about a specific topic, you can meet new people there in a in a conversation.

    But running out and building community like that is not something you can just stand up for an event and then let go.

    I mean, you can do it, but it’s kind of tacky.

    You have to invest the time in that community to make it work.

    We’ve been running the analytics for marketers community, if you go to Trust insights.ai slash analytics for marketers.

    I’ve been running that for well over a year, and only recently passed about 1000 new people in there.

    It’s one of those things that it takes time to build and grow and nurture community and you have to put a lot more into it upfront, then you’re going to get out of it a lot more.

    But that can replicate that serendipity experience if you’re trying to attract people who might not otherwise want your newsletter or attend your webinar, or hang out on a zoom call with you.

    And they can get to know you in a way that is not less threatening, but I guess less they perceive they will perceive as less than Likely for you to try and sell them something immediately.

    And they know they can, you know, punch out if if things are there’s no benefit for them.

    So think about the the benefits you got, map them to digital analog, that’s a terrible catchphrase, match them to their digital equivalents now, and you can replicate most of the benefits of a conference.

    But remember that unlike a real conference, you’re breaking them into different pieces, so you’ll get less of a synergistic effect than you would in a real world event.

    But you can still do it, you can still meet your deadlines, you can still meet your goals for events for the year.

    Just think differently about what those tactics look like to achieve the same strategic goal.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Data Visualization Courses?

    You Ask, I Answer: Data Visualization Courses?

    Dasha asks, “I want to take some classes on analytics and visualization skills – what would you recommend?”

    I’d start by learning the principles of data visualization first. Edward Tufte’s book, The Visualization of Quantitative Information, is the classic textbook to start with. Then look at Data Studio’s introductory course, followed by Microsoft’s free EdX course, followed by IBM’s Statistics 101 course.

    Tufte’s book: https://amzn.to/3juckXq

    Data Studio course: https://analytics.google.com/analytics/academy/course/10

    Microsoft course: https://www.edx.org/course/data-visualization-a-practical-approach-for-absolu

    IBM course: https://cognitiveclass.ai/badges/statistics-101

    IBM course for R: https://cognitiveclass.ai/courses/data-visualization-with-r

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    In today’s episode dosha asks, I want to take some classes on analytics and visualization skills, what would you recommend? So really good question, a very common question.

    There’s a learning path or progression I would suggest taking, starting with.

    Let’s go ahead and bring this up here.

    Starting with Edward tufte, his classic textbook, the visual display of quantitative information.

    This is probably one of the oldest textbooks in the field.

    And it’s probably one of the best to get started in terms of how do we think about the information we want to convey? How do we format how to different charts and graphs and types, communicate information visually to somebody else.

    A lot of the basic principles of data visualization are in this textbook.

    So I would start by getting this textbook I’ll put a link in the show notes, which you can get just down here.

    If you want to click on through and get that disclosure to Amazon Associates think so that’s the first place I would start because you want to get that basic knowledge that foundational knowledge first and Toughbook is one of the best in the field.

    From there, start looking at some of the courses that are available.

    So the first one I would start with, and I think it’s probably the most practical for the average marketer is going to be the introduction to Data Studio.

    So Google Analytics Academy has a number of courses for free.

    Data Studio is a great basic course that teaches you the interface of Data Studio, but also applying some of those best practices for data visualization.

    You’ll see that in unit four data visualization basics.

    Also, bonus, when you complete this course, you’ll have the ability to do use Data Studio well.

    And it’s a very powerful free tool, plugs into Google Analytics plugs into Google Search Console a bunch of other things.

    And that really is is practical.

    applicable information right away.

    After that, take the data visualization practical approach for absolute beginners from Microsoft.

    So this is available on edX it is free.

    You’ll notice it’s an archived course, which means that like the instructors are not online.

    The the discussion forums are closed and stuff for you.

    It’s a course by itself.

    But it’s an excellent course of about a four week course, that teaches you visual literacy, and, again, applying a lot of data visualization practices.

    And I think the most important module in here is thinking about the things that you’re going to do wrong with data visualization.

    If you’ve ever, ever seen the average business dashboard, they’re usually a hot mess, right? There’s stuff laying all over the place.

    Someone’s trying to cram too much information on it.

    And this is a really good course for getting into think about visual literacy right? What needs to be communicated what doesn’t need to be communicated.

    After you’ve got this down, it’s time to kick things up a level.

    One of the challenges with data visualization is the data itself may or may not be any good.

    And what data you want to communicate, also may not be available outside the box out of the box.

    So really good example, Google Analytics has a ton of data in it.

    But virtually no transformations of any kind.

    So if you look at like your website traffic, there’s no mean there’s no media, there’s no basic statistical approaches to it, you get what you get in the tool itself, and that’s fine.

    To start.

    It’s not fine if you want to add a quick value added insights.

    To do that.

    You need some statistical knowledge.

    So the next course I recommend taking is over at IBM is cognitive class, go to cognitive class AI.

    This is that’s one on one course.

    And this is actually Of course for teaching you the basics of statistics, right? So things like descriptive stats, variants, probability correlation, the one on one stuff that, frankly, we should have all taken in college, I did take a stats course in college, I did not pass it.

    Because the teacher wasn’t great.

    We now have the opportunity to go back and fix those mistakes of the past and taking stats 101 so that we learn how to think about the data that we’re presenting.

    And make sure it is valid and and clear and obvious what it is that we’re doing before we slap it into a visualization, right? Remember that visualization means nothing if the data that makes it up is wrong.

    So stats one on ones that is I would say the fourth thing that you should take.

    The final thing that you should take and this is now kicking things up a notch is data visualization with R so the programming language r again, this is a cognitive class, IBM To also free.

    This is on how to do the actual visualizations in the programming language are.

    So if you are doing any kind of really heavy statistical or data science work, including stuff like, you know pulling social media analytics and Google Analytics data into an environment that you can analyze it, R is the language to do that’s one of the languages to do that.

    And it has a visualization library built in that is a little tricky side.

    But if you want to be able to programmatically do visualizations, meaning once you’ve done it once, and you want to rerun the airport, the next month or next week, whatever, you can literally hit you know, execute code and it will redo everything for you.

    So you don’t have to do it.

    Again, that’s the value of programmatic visualization.

    This is the course to teach you how to do that.

    Now you’ll note that one of the prerequisites there is a an r1 on one course if you have not taken that one, I would take that one as well because that will get you all To the bare bones basics of how to use the our programming language.

    Now, except for toughies book, all of these courses are free, right? So there’s no financial cost in taking them.

    The only cost is your time and your effort, your willingness to study.

    If you take all four of these five, if you count the r1 r1 on one course, if you take all five of these, and you are diligent about it, you will have a, I’d say a great working competency of data visualization, and the ability to apply it to whatever marketing data you’re looking at.

    This makes you something of a unicorn.

    Because this is not a skill that a lot of marketers have, right? A lot of marketers kinda shy away from the math side of things, the quantitative side of things, but if you have these skills, then you can apply your creative abilities and your quantitative abilities and drastically increase the amount of value you Bring to an organization, drastically increase the amount of money you can earn.

    And you might find that you really enjoy it.

    I certainly do, despite having a rough start in statistics.

    So that’s the order.

    And I would do this these in that order so that you if you try and jump in our one on one right away, it’s not for everybody.

    Right? And it can be a little discouraging.

    So get the foundation’s down first, and then elevate into the more technical stuff afterwards.

    Really good question.

    Good luck with the courses, I find.

    They’re all very good.

    They’re all taught by legitimate subject matter experts.

    I look for that.

    in evaluating courses.

    I look for people who are actually qualified to be teaching them.

    And remember that a good chunk of the education for this is going to be practice.

    So once you’ve taken the courses, you then have to put it into practice and keep putting into practice.

    It’s like anything else, you know, working out, whatever.

    You got to keep doing it to keep yourself strong.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Explaining the Value of Marketing Strategy?

    You Ask, I Answer: Explaining the Value of Marketing Strategy?

    Jake asks, “As a marketing agency owner, we frequently run into the issue of clients not wanting (or simply not understanding) to pay for “Strategy” … Since it’s a grey area and hard to measure. How do you articulate or show the value of marketing strategy?”

    Strategy tends to be amorphous for people because we don’t explain it well, and because they have their own preconceived ideas of what strategy is. To get answers to this question, we need to define strategy first.

    What’s the value of an incoherent menu?

    What’s the value of the wrong destination?

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    In today’s episode Jake asks, as a marketing agency owner, we frequently run into the issue of clients not wanting or simply not understanding to pay for strategy, when quote marks, since it’s a gray area and hard to measure, how do you articulate or show the value of marketing strategy? Well, so here’s a question.

    How do you define strategy? Right? This is this is critical to the understanding of the answer to this question, because if the definition of strategy is one that is out of line with what your client understands strategy to be, of course, they’re going to have trouble paying for it or justifying the value of and if you’re not clear about what strategy is.

    And its value, then, obviously, it’s gonna be hard for you to articulate as well.

    Based on the question, strategy, being a great area and hard to measure.

    I’d say there’s a need to explore some definitions.

    So strategy tends to be a morphus.

    Because we don’t explain it well, right.

    And because in our clients minds, they may have a totally different idea of what we’re talking about.

    I remember I used to work for this one company where the CEO would talk about strategy all the time.

    But they would not be talking about the formal definition of strategy.

    If you think about it, in terms of strategy is sort of the Why are you doing something tactics, though? What are you gonna do? and execution is how you do the thing, right? So your strategy might be you’re going to do social media marketing for lead generation, that’s why what are you going to do? We’re going to post on Facebook, how you’re going to do that we’re going to do these at this ad copy and these images, etc, etc.

    And then your measurement is did you achieve the goal that you set out the why you were doing things in the first place? What why what how framework makes it very easy to To break down what someone’s talking about, but also highlights where their their gaps are.

    For this company I used to work for in the past, the CEO was so fixated on the tactics, but kept calling the tactics strategy, like so what are we going to do with this? What are we going to do with this? What are we going to do with this thing? How are we going to do email marketing better? How are we going to get a higher open rate? All those those are very tactical and execution based things? They’re not strategic things that question for example, why would you want to do email marketing the first place or why wouldn’t you want to do email marketing? Once you achieve that level of clarity with somebody to say this is what we’re going to use as the commonly accepted definition of strategy, then you can start exploring analogies that help them understand better what strategy means for their company.

    If you think about I often like to say with strategy it’s it’s the difference between cooking and planning a menu strategy At the planning on the menu, right? The actual cooking is the the tactics execution.

    You know what dishes? Go on the menu is strategy.

    Do you put fried ice cream and sofritas next to sushi? Maybe Maybe not depends on the name of the restaurant.

    If you are a pancake restaurant, probably none of those items belong on your menu, right, that strategy, what belongs on the menu.

    And if your menu is incoherent, it becomes very obvious very quickly that people don’t die in that they’re like this.

    This place makes no sense.

    I came in here for a cup of coffee and an omelet and you’ve given me some artists and herbal tea, and a pile of raw fish.

    This is not what I had in mind for breakfast.

    Now, if you were say a Norwegian restaurant, you might have a lot of like pickled herring and stuff, but if you’re just a standard pancake place, not a whole lot of pancakes involve pickled herring.

    Once you illustrate it in those terms, then it becomes clear that the strategy itself, the menu plan itself is wrong.

    Right? So in marketing, what is on the menu of things that you’re going to do, when you look at your strategy and you look at what customers want from you, it should be abundantly clear that if if you are on big mildy, a just a comparison here, if you’re serving people, say, my age and their 40s, and your strategy is all in on Tiktok, I don’t even use Tiktok.

    Right.

    So clearly what’s on your menu and what’s on my desired to be on the menu are completely out of sync.

    Right.

    So that’s a that’s a strategic judgment that what’s on the menu.

    A second way of explaining it to people is, what’s the value of the correct or wrong destination in your GPS? Right.

    Strategy is, what’s the destination? Where are we going? tactics are things like What are we going to use to get there? And executions? How do we do that? So a strategy could be, I want to go from Boston to San Diego tactics, or what method of transportation Am I going to take? Because a trains car, making a road trip, I’m gonna fly there.

    And then how do i do those things like real? What are the driving directions? If I’m going to make that a road trip? What’s the value of the wrong destination? What’s the value of the correct destination? When we’re trying to illustrate the value of strategy to somebody, we’re trying to illustrate the value of going to the right place, which again, requires us to have some insights.

    So where the audience wants to go where we want to go and are those two things align, if they’re not aligned, how do we align them up? proving the value of this is it’s it is difficult to measure.

    It is difficult to measure because it requires you to have things like really good attribution models.

    Really good tracking really good ROI.

    Need channel tracking so that you can see what’s happened with customers really good.

    A really good perspective on on the customer as a as a whole person and not just as a collection of individual data points.

    But it is apparent when somebody has the wrong destination is apparent when somebody has the wrong menu.

    When you look historically back in the mp3 player space, it was apparent that Apple had the winning destination, which was an mp3 player with a really easy to use understandable interface and great design, the Microsoft Zune not so much, right.

    That’s a clearly a case where you can see the value of the correct and the wrong destination when you can see the value of a coherent menu versus an incoherent menu.

    So the question is in your industry, with your clients, or your customers, what is a coherent menu look like? What Does a correct destination look like? This is where competitive analysis really is important because you may or may not be clear on your menu on your destination.

    But when you look at what your competitors are offering, and you look at what seems to be resonating with those customers, it hints at the direction that you need to go.

    If customers know, again, looking at the electronics market, customers really gravitated towards a a smartphone, a phone that had no physical buttons on the interface with just a touchscreen.

    And it became apparent very early on that that was the way to go.

    And if you were Blackberry, you didn’t figure that out.

    You need to figure that out and you lost a sizable amount of market share.

    And that experience had to be a good experience.

    Right? So that was what kind of doomed the Windows Phone but cost awesome.

    matters, which is why the Android operating system has become the dominant mobile system because it is substantially cheaper and customers find that it’s good.

    It’s close enough to the iPhone experience, but substantially less cost than the iPhone experience.

    So that’s the value of strategy and the way to measure it to weight the way to talk about it with clients.

    It is valuable, but only if the client understands its value and can see based on competitive analysis based on their own experiences in the past, what that strategy gets them, right, it gets them a coherent menu, it gets them to the right destination on their GPS.

    It makes the trip easier, if you will.

    So give that a shot with clients.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Affordable Stock Footage and Photos?

    You Ask, I Answer: Affordable Stock Footage and Photos?

    Leah asks, “What do you recommend for an affordable stock photos / stock footage site?”

    You get what you pay for doesn’t necessarily apply to stock photos, because sometimes you get a lawsuit and those are fairly expensive. What should you do? Roll your own, for legal reasons.

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    In today’s episode Lee asks, What do you recommend for an affordable stock photos or stock footage site? So stock photos and stock footage are a tricky area.

    There are a lot of companies out there that are selling a lot of stuff.

    But we have to remember the whole purpose of stock photos is well is twofold.

    One is to get imagery or video that we would not otherwise be able to get.

    And two is to get it in a licensed manner so that we’re not violating anyone’s copyright or getting ourselves into legal trouble.

    As such, the challenge with affordable and I’ll put this in quotes of your affordable sites is that because it’s affordable You don’t know the provenance you don’t know the lineage of the of the data you’re working with, you don’t know where it came from, how it was generated, and whether the site that’s selling it has a legal license to use it.

    There are not a ton of stock photo houses that are cheap, that shoot their own stuff.

    A lot of them are aggregators, they pull data from all sorts of other places like unsplash, for example.

    And more often than not, their data pools are contaminated.

    By that, I mean, they’ve got imagery that is licensed to somebody else, and that they will get themselves in trouble if it’s discovered, but more importantly, you will get in trouble if it is discovered, and by trouble, I mean, slapped with enormous fines and lawsuits.

    When I was working at a financial services company many many years ago.

    There was one image on our website that was reused from Getty Images.

    Which is a very well known images clearing house and definitely one of the most well known and one most expensive.

    And a single 300 by 250 picture, earned the company, a whopping lawsuit of $60,000 for violating their copyright.

    And where did that come from? came from one of the the inexpensive stock photo sites on the web.

    And so that was a very eye opening lesson that you don’t mess around with any of these licensing companies.

    Their job literally is to just Sue people all day long.

    They collect users from they collect money from users, they pay a very small portion of it to the actual photographers.

    And mostly they just Sue people.

    And you do not want to be on that list.

    Because as you can tell, it gets really expensive really fast.

    So what’s the solution? How do you know that you’re getting licensed appropriately stock photos and stock footage, the answer is this.

    Your phone, as long as your phone’s got a decent camera, you should be generating your own stock photography.

    You should be generating your own library of photos, images that you can use, you have a legal right to use that are yours.

    And that at no point anyone can contest the ownership with because it’s literally yours and you know where you got it from? Bonus, you can actually register your images with some of the stock photography licenses, licensing companies and then have them Sue other people if they use your stuff.

    I would not recommend that as a revenue stream.

    It’s fairly it doesn’t happen all that often which is good for content creators.

    It’s not predictable.

    But in all seriousness, you have video cameras and decent regular cameras in your pocket right? Most people have phones that now have a five megapixel or better camera in them.

    The newest like iPhones, I think and androids have like 14 megapixel photos, which is a resolution that is large enough for a billboard, right? Most stock photography particularly used on the web doesn’t need to be much more than two megapixel.

    Right? That is literally about a 720 p video.

    For videos, you know 720 P is is is the the current standard for a lot of stuff 1080 P or HD is ideal.

    And again, that’s what these devices can do really, really well and you can get dedicated devices like this one is the DJI Osmo and if you’re doing video stock footage, I would recommend this device because it has motion stabilization built in.

    But fundamentally, you have the technology To create your own stock photos, stock video, and if you need the things that most most marketers need, you have a random conference room full of people, you shouldn’t be doing that anyway in in the middle of a pandemic.

    But you can certainly take a series of photos and composite them together if you if you need if you need that look.

    And if you need pictures or frying pans or other random things around the house, you can certainly do that and have other people within your company also generate the same photos and then stick them all into a place like Google Photos as on a private account, and that has that Google Photos has one of the best photo search engines available it does image recognition on all the pictures you upload to it.

    And then you can search them like you know conference room frying pan money, you know, beer, whatever the the theme of all the photos is.

    That way for marketing purposes, when you need a stock photo, something you just go into And then search in your own repository, find the photo you’re looking for and you’re off and running.

    That’s the best way to achieve photos that are distinctive because you won’t find them anywhere else.

    And be there are you have 100% guaranteed legal license for and see it’s it’s really affordable because it’s just you and your time generating the stock photography now.

    There is a smaller learning curve with learning how to take usable stock photography right you’re not going to be a professional award winning photographer overnight with with your phone and things but you also don’t have to be if you’ve you know looking for a picture of like a credit card or something you can put a sheet over of any flat surface, put your credit card down, take a photo but then blur out the number obviously but putting together your stock photography Four common themes is pretty straightforward.

    You would be amazed at the amount of stuff that you or a friend or colleague have laying around your homes, that makes for interesting photos just have to get in the habit of taking them.

    Likewise, if your company has some kind of theme, as you’re out and about in daily life, be on the lookout for it.

    If you are an employee of a company, you may want to have a chat with HR about intellectual property ownership.

    Make sure that you’re not turning over photos that would be usable to you outside of your current position.

    Obviously, if you’re a company like Trust Insights, our current logo is a light bulb.

    So most of the light bulb photos I take are obviously for work.

    But anything else is is is not necessarily fair game.

    I was the case that for me at a past few companies too, but it’s a great way to build up a huge library and avoid the licensing issues and keep the costs too to nearly zero so that’s what I recommend, instead of a site, go with one of these.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Learning New Systems in MarTech?

    You Ask, I Answer: Learning New Systems in MarTech?

    Bob asks, “What’s the best way to quickly get your mind wrapped around how new software works and to come up with a strategy for applying it to your projects?”

    It comes down to classification. If I put a new appliance in your kitchen, and the appliance is any good at all, should you be able to broadly tell what its function is, even if you’re not sure of the specifics?

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    In today’s episode, Bob asks, What’s the best way to quickly get your mind wrapped around how new software works, and they come up with a strategy for applying it to your projects.

    In the end, it comes down to classification and understanding where that piece of software fits in your marketing technology stack.

    The easiest analogy I can make is that if, if you look around your kitchen, and there’s all these appliances, and I put a new appliance in the kitchen, if that appliance is any good at all, its form should hint at its function, right? You should broadly be able to tell like, you know, like, kinda looks like a coffee machine or kinda looks like a toaster or kind of looks like a frying pan.

    And then from there, even if you don’t know the specifics, you know, broadly what it does.

    If you have this thing or you’re trying to evaluate this thing.

    You can kind of get a sense of what it’s supposed to do, you know, a bread machine, for example, looks low, but it opened up looks like an oven inside.

    Right? If the you can’t tell, like he opened the things that look like doors and stuff, and he just can’t tell what the thing does.

    It’s not a very good appliance, right? If you think about software, and you think about these lovely devices, right? You can hand this to a five year old.

    And they can open up apps, they can do stuff.

    They can play games.

    And there’s no manual.

    They don’t need a manual.

    They don’t need anything at all to get going.

    It’s very intuitive for them.

    That’s the hallmark of great software is you can open it up and it’s intuitive enough that you have a sense of what it should be doing.

    Again, you may not know the specifics.

    But you know, broadly, this is a video editing software.

    This is lead management software.

    This is email software.

    If you can’t tell that there’s not Very good software, it’s not well designed at all.

    And chances are, it’s probably not going to be not going to help you deliver results.

    I think there’s an exception to that rule on the generally speaking, until you get to writing software.

    That’s not that’s, that’s generally true.

    Once you get to writing software, like in a development environment, then that’s when things do start to get a little less user friendly.

    But for the average user, the average marketer, the form should dictate the function and it to you should be apparent what the function is.

    And if it doesn’t, it’s not very good software.

    Now.

    If you were trying to find new software, and you’re trying to evaluate new software, that’s, that’s a different bucket of worms.

    But just because something, somebody publishes something new, it says, Hey, here’s the thing.

    That’s how you evaluate it.

    Say what does it do and if they can’t explain it, without resorting to a bunch of buzzwords, and jargon, then it also probably doesn’t do anything that’s helpful or new.

    If you think about software kind of like the phases of clinical trial, it’s not a bad framework to adopt.

    So the phases of a clinical trial, broadly speaking on phase one, does it cause harm? phase two, does it work at all? And phase three? Does it work better than an existing solution? When you look at a piece of software, number one, it does does it cause harm? Is it is it damaging to your systems? Certainly, you don’t want to ever integrate something in your Mar tech stack, that’s gonna start like accidentally deleting data.

    I’ll be really bad.

    Step two, does the software do anything at all that’s productive or useful, right? Somebody says this is lead management software and there’s no lead scoring, right? Okay, that’s not very helpful.

    And then stage three is does it work better than an existing solution? Right? That is the The in pharma it’s called the standard of care in software, you can call whatever you want.

    But if you have a CRM, and it doesn’t do a better job than your existing CRM, you have a pretty clear idea that like, yeah, this this package is not for us.

    And it can be tricky, particularly with more complex pieces of software, it may take, there may be an evaluation window that takes a little bit longer.

    But at the end of the day, those three phases are not bad benchmarks to evaluate really anything on but especially software, does the harm.

    Does it help it all? Does it help better than the existing solution? For new software where there is no existing category, like you know, maybe you’re deploying for your very first time in integrated machine learning environment.

    It’s going to be harder to make those determinations because you literally have no prior experience and that’s where having a subject matter expert or domain experts to come in and evaluate with you will be helpful you You want to be able to buddy up with somebody and say, Hey, this is, you know, IBM’s new development environment, what do you think of it? And they can, they should be asked you Okay, well, what would you do with this thing? What kinds of problems would you be trying to solve that would need an integrated machine learning environment? Oh, well, we have all these leads, and we want to build a better lead score.

    Okay.

    So they could take the data, put it into the system and say, Well, here’s what it came up with.

    Is this at all accurate? And is this is this better than the scores that you’ve got? And you as the the subject matter expert in in marketing could go well? No, I mean, like, there’s a whole bunch of people here who are college students who are not qualified leads in any sense of the word.

    And yet the system has scored them you know, a plus leads so clearly the the system does not work or would say, Here’s it managed to dig out all the CEOs who Have Signing Authority and our previous system scored them bs This is going to a is that’s that’s pretty good.

    So classify, and then test the ways that you wrap your brain around new software and figuring out how it applies to existing things.

    When it comes to applying into existing strategy.

    The question you have to ask is, where does it apply? And how easy is it to drop in? One of the criteria I have for marketing technology software, is how easy it is to integrate.

    If it doesn’t have API’s, if it doesn’t have built in integrations, if other products in the stack don’t support it, there’s a good chance that it’s going to be more of a pain than than not, right, that kind of goes back to you know, not causing harm if you’ve got something that is going to require a whole bunch of extra development time and a whole bunch of extra resources.

    That’s taking away from resources that you probably don’t have a whole lot of.

    So, in that evaluation Look at what it’s going to take to swap this piece in for an existing piece or add it to your existing workflow.

    How well does it connect with us? How well does it play with others, if you will.

    So classification, clinical trial phase integration, those three steps should get you most of the way towards understanding how any piece of software works, and strategically where it fits into the existing system so that it improves the system.

    There are cases where you’ll have multiplicative effects from a piece of software that will do multiple things in your existing system.

    And those are the gems to keep, you know, visualization software.

    Some types of data science software can amplify impact at multiple points within your technology stack.

    And those are the ones that you definitely want to keep because they offer a lot of extra value.

    So really good question.

    If you have follow up questions, leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Prioritizing Your MarTech Stack?

    You Ask, I Answer: Prioritizing Your MarTech Stack?

    Ted asks, “How do you prioritize building an organization’s MarTech stack? How do you build a foundation that you can add to over time?”

    One of the biggest pieces is going to be your database environment, followed by your overall tech platform. Many companies have a major tech provider, and that puts some constraints on what you have. Follow that with a thorough analysis of your marketing ops funnel and identify where your biggest gaps are.

    Look for partners with strong interoperability and data interchange. That’s the ultimate key to a strong stack. Vendors will spend a lot of time trying to lock you in.

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    In today’s episode, Ted asks, How do you prioritize building an organization’s Mar tech stack? How do you build a foundation that you can add to overtime? So really good question.

    The biggest challenge for a lot of companies when they’re building out their marketing technology stack is dealing with constraints that they have, particularly in their environment.

    So most companies have a major tech provider of some kind, you know, you’ll hear people say like, this is a Microsoft shop, a dotnet shop or Google shop.

    And that major technology provider can provide some guidance but also some constraints on what you can and can’t have.

    That’s not to say that, you know, marketing can’t work with multiple platforms.

    certainly plenty of organizations do but to increase the collaboration, to reduce the headaches that come along with compliance and audits, you It is generally a good idea to be aligned with whatever your company’s major tech provider is, especially if your industry is a more highly regulated industry, you may not even get a choice, right? If you are 100%, Microsoft shop, you may be using Microsoft Dynamics as your CRM, even if Salesforce is considered the gold standard in your industry, the CIO, the platform and the environment provides one major constraint.

    The thing that to do next after that is to do a thorough analysis of your marketing operations funnel.

    If you remember, customer journeys are how we look at essentially marketing to consumers, whether they’re b2b or b2c.

    But from an operational perspective, we still have a funnel, we still have to have a funnel because you can’t just have people working on things willy nilly.

    You do have to have some sense of order.

    So you want to do an audit of your office.

    Operations funnel and figure out where are your biggest gaps in terms of technology? Where are you seeing a lot of inefficiencies? Where’s your headcount? Where is your performance lagging? And most of all, if you look at your funnel numbers, where is your biggest fall off? Right? Is it lead generation? Is it demand generation? Is it awareness, what’s what’s most broken in your funnel? They can’t just go out and start buying things.

    But you do want to have that mapped out.

    I mean, put it on a whiteboard in a conference room or something and just every stage of your operations funnel, have, what the performance numbers are, and what technology pieces you have in place.

    The next thing you want to audit is data interchange and interoperability.

    So of the pieces you have, how interoperable are they? Do they have good API’s? Do they have robust data export? How well do they play with others? What kind integrations Do they have built in, the more interoperable a piece of software is, the more likely it is, it’s going to be a good and long standing part of your operations funnel, the more of a walled garden, a piece of software is, the less likely that you should be spending a whole lot of time with it.

    Once you’ve got that operations funnel, whiteboard it out, and you’ve got a little post it notes detailing the performance of each piece and stuff, then it’s time to start looking for vendors to patch the holes where the things that you have the biggest gap, that’s going to be your budget priority because you can’t buy everything all at once.

    And you got to make a list of vendors in that space.

    And in that particular space, whether it let’s let’s say for example, its prospect nurturing.

    You have marketing automation software that helps with that.

    Gonna make a list of what its interoperability features.

    What is its data interchange features? What kind of API doesn’t have what kind of data export does it have And ultimately, how compatible is it with the rest of the stack.

    That’s going to be a key part to understand how pieces map together.

    And again, you want to focus on the interoperability because you may change pieces downstream.

    Right? You may be on, say Microsoft Dynamics today, but in a year, sales is moving to salesforce.com, you want a piece of software that is in your marketing automation section that is compatible with both as compatible with as much as possible, so that when the time comes to change out, it’s not a big deal to simply pull the plug from one, CRM, one, plug it into another one.

    If on the other hand, you have a vendor that is narrowly tuned to one piece of tech downstream, that could be a problem.

    Right? So you want to have that map laid out the connections between layers.

    Because remember that there’s some tools like Google Analytics Google Analytics plays mostly well with others.

    But it more than anything mandates others play well with it because of its market position.

    So things like setting up user ID, you want a marketing automation system that’s robust enough to connect back upstream as well.

    Those interconnections between nodes in your Mar tech stack are the defining feature of what you will and won’t be using.

    So that’s the process.

    After that it’s vendor selection time, it is RFP time and is evaluating the vendors and making sure that they do what you want them to do.

    Again, with that focus on interoperability, I literally cannot say that enough.

    It is the most important thing for making sure that you have a platform that you can build on over time.

    Vendors some, not all spent a lot of time trying to lock you in trying to make it easy to onboard and difficult to leave.

    Take a look at the vendors that you currently have.

    Take a look at the vendors that you’re evaluating in the marketplace and ask yourself, How easy is it to swap this piece of technology out? The best pieces of technology in your Mar tech stack will be the ones that would be the easiest to replace, because again, of that strong interoperability, the the vendors that try to lock you in, those are things that you want to try to avoid.

    Because if you do need to change upstream or downstream pieces of technology in your stack, in six months, a year, two years, and you’ve become so dependent on one vendor that it doesn’t play well with others, it’s going to be very painful to make a change.

    So even though vendors have sort of a self serving incentive to make it difficult to leave in your selection process, look for those vendors that make it easy to leave.

    Knowing that that will actually work in their favor.

    Because the technology is good, you don’t want to leave.

    But if if you need to swap out for some reason, it’s not, you’re not completely locked in.

    Those are all criteria for selecting martech vendors in your stack.

    So that’s the summary.

    First, figure out what your constraints on your environment are.

    Second, do a funnel operations analysis to figure out where the gaps are.

    Third, evaluate the partners you do have already and how interoperable they are.

    And fourth, select partners to fill the biggest gaps with an eye towards interoperability.

    It’s tough, it will take a long time, and there will be some less good choices you’ve made over time that happens.

    The good news is there are a lot of middleware pieces of software that can help bridge some of those gaps, Zapier or If This Then That can help provide a little bit of digital glue.

    We want to try and avoid that as much as possible because it just complicates things.

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