Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Author: Christopher S Penn

  • You Ask, I Answer: Determining Facebook Ads Effectiveness?

    You Ask, I Answer: Determining Facebook Ads Effectiveness?

    Jen asks, “How can brands find out which kind of Facebook Ads work best for them?”

    You’ll need to do a content assessment in 4 layers:
    – Audience content
    – Your own content
    – Competitive content
    – Landscape content

    Once you’ve done all 4, you’ll have an understanding of what the different concepts and media types are that resonate with your target audience and can determine the ad format and content.

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    In today’s episode, Jen asks, How can brands find out which kind of Facebook ads work best for them? So this is a important question for not just Facebook ads, but any kind of ad.

    The advantage of Facebook is that it’s a closed ecosystem so that you can do apples to apples comparison of the different types of content.

    The starting point for this is content analysis is understanding what resonates with audiences.

    So you’re going to need to brush up on your Facebook data analysis skills, and getting data out of Facebook so that you can analyze it.

    There’s four different buckets of content that you need to understand.

    The first is audience content themselves.

    If you have a list of people that are customers at face, customers are your company on Facebook, looking at at their stuff, what do they share? What do you They post What do they talk about? And this can be qualitative.

    This does not have this step does not have to be strictly quantitative.

    It’s just trying to get an understanding of what stuff.

    Do people find compelling? What stuff? Do they post on Facebook? What are the things that they share? And then we share and comment on.

    Getting that sense of who the audience is, is really important.

    And you can also get some of this information, not all of it, but some of it from Facebook Audience Insights, if you have a page, and that page has at least 1000 likes, then you can start to really dig into the data and understand what are the aspects of the audience that are important, what other pages Do they like? What were their demographics, things like that.

    If you have access to Facebook data tools like Facebook, Audience Insights, Facebook, CrowdTangle, etc.

    You can pull a lot of this data and start doing it.

    Very large scale topic modeling to understand.

    For example, if your audience in Facebook Audience Insights your audiences there, you can look at the top 50 pages that that audience also likes, and examine, again, examine their content.

    Second step is you have to understand your own content.

    So again, this is this is going into Facebook analytics, and doing an analysis of the stuff that you’ve posted, what content has gotten an engagement, what content has got has performed? Well, understanding that is critical for your ad content.

    Because what you don’t want to do is just kind of create ads randomly.

    You want to create ads on things, topics, concepts, ideas, that have already done well for you for your Facebook page.

    If you haven’t done that, if you have no content that resonates Well, well.

    Facebook might not be the place for you then.

    If you’re posting and posting, posting, just getting nothing Maybe do a week of boosting posts just to see if anything resonates with your audience you might have to pay to play just to even be seen, and then make some judgments based on that.

    The third data segment you need is competitive content.

    So what are your competitors sharing? What are your competitors? What ads your competitors running? And what kind of engagement do they get on them? This would be direct competitors.

    And again, you want to see what’s popular.

    The fourth bucket is what I call landscape content.

    This is looking at companies that are functionally similar to yours, but are not competitive.

    So let’s say you own a Chinese food restaurant that delivers you, you might look at other Chinese food restaurants, you might look at other pizza restaurants, restaurants that deliver in general, you might look at instacart you might look at the coffee shop You might look at Whole Foods, basically, for people who get consumer items delivered to their house, what content is engaging with them? Are there things that are relevant to the product or service that is being shared in this landscape of behaviors? If you’re a b2b company and you sell SaaS based accounting software, what do other SaaS companies not in accounting software doing? What is working for them was like SAS based email marketing, software marketing automation software.

    Again, we’re not necessarily looking for the exact topic for those non competitive but similarly structured companies.

    What we’re looking for is audience behavior of a group of people who are receptive to the type of service that you offer, and then trying to figure out what resonates with those people.

    Once you’ve done all four analyses, you have a you should have an idea of the different concepts different media types, different topics that your audience is interested in.

    I would also suggest using a social listening tool, some guidelines, we used Talkwalker for all of our stuff.

    And again, getting a sense of those topics and keywords and related conversational things in order to understand your audience better.

    Once you’ve got all that down, then you can start creating ads, you should be able to see if in your Facebook data that videos about cats always seem to do well or videos.

    Behind the scenes videos always seem to do well.

    Even if they’re not yours.

    Even they’re competitive.

    That should give you a sense of Okay, if we’re going to run ads on a video, the video that we run ads on or the video that we put in our ads should be behind the scenes or maybe you know behind the scenes video with cats in it right.

    If content that talks about How your product works has resonated well with your audience.

    Try running some ads on that as well.

    The key is to try and align your ads as best as possible with what the audience already likes.

    Because with Facebook, you don’t get many shots at engagement, right? The algorithm works in such a way that content that gets engaged with does better content that doesn’t get engaged with get does worse.

    And it becomes very much kind of as virtuous or vicious circle of feedback, where things simply you get less and less engagement, which means you get shown less, which means you get even less engagement.

    And obviously, the only way out of the vicious cycle is to pay your way back to getting some eyeballs.

    That’s why the competitive analysis and the landscape analysis is so important because your own data may say, hey, nothing’s working.

    And if that’s the case, you need to look at other data sources to calibrate your ads on so that’s it How you can find out what kinds of ads work best for you.

    I would strongly encourage, as you do that, to test to test a lot of different stuff, if you have the budget to do so, test a lot of stuff to see what different types of content are.

    So when you do this analysis, we have four or five or six major topics.

    If you got the budget run, you know, two to three ads in each topic and see again, which one resonates the best, which one gets people to engage even with the ad itself.

    If after all this, you still not getting ad performance, it’s probably because Facebook isn’t the place for you, for your audience, even if they’re there, they may not want to engage with your kind of business on Facebook because that’s not why they’re on Facebook.

    They’re on Facebook to stay in touch with friends, to complain about politics, you know, all the things that we usually use Facebook for And so doing business with you may not that may not be the place you may be better off on a LinkedIn or Twitter or YouTube, or even an email newsletter, right? So do the analysis.

    But understand that Facebook may not be the place for you.

    The easiest way to make that determination is check how much unpaid traffic you’re already getting from Facebook.

    If it’s zero, or very close to zero, or you know less than 1% of your site’s traffic.

    Facebook might not be the place run some tests to verify it, run some ads to test that assumption.

    And if the ads don’t perform, you know, it’s not it’s not the place for your audience.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What Grade Level for Website Readability?

    You Ask, I Answer: What Grade Level for Website Readability?

    Tiff asks, “At what reading level should website copy be written? Is it the same as print?”

    The answer to this question depends on two things: your audience, and what readability score you’re using. There are 5 major readability scores:
    – Flesch-Kincaid grade level – words/sentences – syllables/words
    – Gunning-Fog index – words/sentences – complex words (3 syl)/words
    – SMOG index – complex words / number of sentences (minimum 30 sentences)
    – Automated Readability index – characters/words + words/sentences
    – Coleman-Liau index – character-based, letters / 100 words – sentences / 100 words

    Most tools use FK, but FK isn’t always the best choice – often, for marketing copy, SMOG is a better choice, or Gunning-Fog if your software supports it.

    The secret is this: measure the media diet of your audience and determine it from that grade level. Watch the video for an explanation of how.

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    In today’s episode tip asks, at what reading level should website copy be written? Is it the same as print? So the answer to this question is dependent on two things.

    The first is, what readability tool are using, what measure are you using? And second, what audience reading level do you have? What does your audience read at? So there’s a bunch of different ways to tackle this.

    Let’s talk about the algorithms.

    First, there’s five major algorithms for readability.

    There is the flesh Kincaid grade level algorithm, which is essentially the number of words divided by the number of sentences minus the number of syllables in the words divided by the number of words.

    All these algorithms by the way are done in software.

    You don’t have to implement any of them yourself, but you do need to know which algorithm your software is using a lot of the time.

    software will not necessarily tell you up front, you may have to ask the developers, but you’re going to get different answers depending on the on the algorithms been used.

    And different algorithms are appropriate for different use cases.

    Second is the Gunning-Fog index.

    This is a words divided by sentences minus complex words, which are three syllables or more divided by the number of words.

    Gunning-Fog was intended for things like health care, and the same for the following measure.

    Because you’re looking for it, trying to reduce the number of complex words, to make something more readable.

    The next one is called smog.

    And this is a simple measure of gobbledygook, which is a simplification gutting fog.

    It is simply the number of complex words divided by the number of sentences with a minimum of 30 sentences.

    And there’s actually a bunch of tuning parameters that go into each of these but again, the software you’re using, done that I’m just giving you the basic idea behind each of these algorithms.

    The fourth is the automated, readable to index, this is the number of characters divided by the number of words, plus the number of words divided by the number of sentences.

    And the last one is the Coleman-Liau index, which is character based.

    And that is the number of letters divided by the number of letters per 100.

    Words, minus the number of sentences are 100 words Coleman-Liau was invented for machines, essentially machines, reading scanning of these different measures, the one that folks tend to use a lot in when they’re developing tools is the flesh Kincaid grade level score.

    But it’s not necessarily the best choice.

    And the reason for that is that if you’re trying to reduce word, complexity of reading, it’s those big polysyllabic words, those overly complicated words, long syllable words that can sometimes mess up reading level and with that, Gunning-Fog or smog are probably the two indexes that are the better choices for reducing the complexity of something that you’re trying to read.

    smog is used a lot in healthcare Gunning-Fog was used.

    It was built for the US Navy, to, to reduce the complexity of technical manuals to the field manuals that soldiers are given is to make it easier for them to use.

    So both of those indexes are good for marketing content because good marketers like to be fancy, right and use big words and stuff to make their their copy sound more sophisticated, especially b2b marketers.

    We all love our flexible, scalable turnkey inter integrated solutions, etc.

    As opposed to software that does the thing and that those complex polysyllabic words are the ones that make readability more difficult so for marketers Gunning-Fog and smug are probably the the two algorithms to use.

    So you’ll want to check which what algorithm your software uses.

    Now, how do you determine your audience? There’s a couple different ways you can do this.

    Number one, if you have access to like your customer service inbox, or reviews written by your audience and things like that, you can copy and paste a whole bunch of them together and get an overall average readability level of the way that your audience writes.

    The other way is to use social media monitoring software.

    If you have a list of known customers, for example, like a Twitter list, you would put that into social media monitoring software, and then extract out from that data, the publications that your audience shares the most.

    Go on to the Ito’s publications take a sample random sample like 10 articles from those publications.

    Put that through your readability software and that will tell you like your audience is consuming and sharing content at say a sixth grade level or an eighth grade level.

    That way you can dial in on exactly where your audience is based on the stuff that they’re already sharing.

    If your audience isn’t active on social, then you’re gonna have to, you know, solicit content from other places.

    A good way of doing that, again, is asking people in on intake forms or on customer service calls or in surveys.

    You know, hey, what publications do you read? What newspapers or news sources do you read? What books do you read, that will help you again, dial in and calibrate on where your audience’s reading level is based on their media diet.

    Once you’ve got that, then you can start making content that’s appropriate to the grade level that people are at.

    The other thing that you’re going to want to do is you’re going to want to measure carefully.

    readability is is a metric it is not necessarily an outcome.

    So one of the things to do is to look at you run a, an attribution analysis at at the page level, across your web copy and look for the pages that convert the most.

    And then measure the readability scores, and then do just a simple regression analysis to see Is there any relationship between readability and conversion capability? There may be there may not be if you run that analysis, and there’s no correlation, then is readability a problem? It wouldn’t hurt to dial things into where your audience is most comfortable.

    But if you find that say, your top converting page is written at a substantially different grade level than the like your least converting page and there’s no logical relationship between the two then don’t invest a huge amount of time in changing the readability the rest of your site.

    The thing to do is would be to set up a a have actual experiment like a clinical trial, take 10 pages of no take 20 pages, 10 of them have a gonna be ones you’re gonna modify the reading level 10 of them mean, you’re not going to modify the reading level, they should all be roughly about the same level of conversion power within your analysis.

    And then once you’ve made the changes, observe and see if the conversion power changes over time.

    Because you have you made those readability changes, don’t change anything else.

    Just make sure it’s, it’s, you know, 10 and 10.

    each one’s a control one’s the experiment and see if readability changes make a difference.

    If they make a difference.

    Great, then, you know, even after a couple of weeks, right, that readability is actually important to audience.

    If nothing happens, you probably don’t need to spend a whole lot more time on it, but I would run that test.

    So your steps are First, identify the media diet, choose the algorithm that you’re going to use, then assess your site, look for that relationship and if there is relationship of some kind, then set up a test and and test and approve 10 pages and leave 10 pages alone and see how they interact.

    readability is is part of natural language processing.

    There’s a lot of fun things you can do with it but that’s for another time.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Measuring Content in the Customer Experience?

    You Ask, I Answer: Measuring Content in the Customer Experience?

    Stephanie asks, “How can marketers measure if their content is improving the customer experience?”

    In the buyer’s journey portion of the customer experience, measure by pipeline acceleration; what content is moving people towards conversion? In the owner’s journey, look to your marketing automation data.

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    In today’s episode, Stephanie asks, How can marketers measure if their content is improving the customer experience? So really good question.

    When it comes to the customer experience, we have to remember that the customer experience is divided into fundamentally two parts.

    There’s the buyers journey, which is the experience the person has up until the point of purchase.

    And then there’s the owners journey, which is the, the experience you have after ownership.

    And each half of the customer’s journey has four stages to it.

    You can make an arbitrary and divide them in more granularly if you want, but the generally accepted at least by like all the big consulting firms is that there’s going to be for three or four stages in each.

    On the buyers journey side.

    That’s awareness, consideration, evaluation and purchase.

    So awareness is do I even know what the thing is considered? is a big vendor set evaluation is you know, winnowing that down to a choice and then purchases the actual making the decision on the owners journey side there is ownership, satisfaction, retention, loyalty and evangelism.

    And each of these stages has behaviors that you would expect a person to be doing so for example, in the loyalty phase and of the owners journey, is this person buying add ons? Are you able to upsell them? Are they engaging with your content, your your marketing on the evangelism phase a very important one are people really sharing and recommending your stuff even if they’re already customers? This is especially true important for businesses where there isn’t a lot of repeat business.

    Example real estate, when you buy a house, you won’t buy another house and you know if days, right? You will buy a house and weigh three to seven years.

    So that relationship and that loyalty and that evangelism is so important to the real estate industry to be able to say to somebody, you know, who’s asking, Hey, I’m thinking of selling my house, who should I talk to, and you come up with a name that you want to recommend a person to as as an agent.

    That’s the important part of the owners journey.

    So when it comes to measuring the content throughout the customer experience, there’s two different ways to do it.

    In the buyers journey portion, there is the ability to look at the content you’re creating, and see how it accelerates pipe the pipeline.

    There’s a bunch of different ways that you can do this.

    The way that I like best is using what’s called Markov chain modeling is a machine learning technique.

    In fact, I’ll bring this up here.

    And what you’re seeing here is a model from my website, my personal website for the month of August and what pages accelerated somebody towards a conversion like they were on this page and this page played a part in their path to conversion.

    The way the mathematical technique works behind this is that it’s like the old archetype, archetypical story of a college that didn’t pave any sidewalks then they let students walk around on campus for a year, and then paved over where students walked the most.

    If you can imagine something on your website, where what is the content that people walk over the most on the way to conversion in this case, is a few blog posts in here, there’s a few landing pages in here.

    And these are the pages that are helping nudge people towards conversion, this may not be the last page that they visited, but this is one of these are the key pages that people visited in their path to conversion.

    And so we will use this analysis to determine Yeah, is this page is this content, helping improve the customer experience on the buyers journey? The answer Yes, the fact that the number one piece of content there is a blog post tells me that blog post needs to be constantly optimized and improved, so that it continues to help convert people.

    So it continues to help push people forward.

    Now, on the other side of the coin is the owner’s journey.

    And you could do similar things like this.

    restricted if you have the data and user ID turned on in Google Analytics to just people who are already customers.

    But it’s probably easier to use either your marketing automation software or your CRM software.

    Most good Modern Marketing automation software tells you what pages people visit on a website.

    And so for the people who have converted who who are customers, you absolutely should be tracking the same information.

    What are the pieces of content that customers engage with that help them remain loyal, that helped them evangelize if you’re depending on how good your marketing automation software is, you made Be able to determine that piece of content to something that customer is sharing with others.

    And that is a lot of value in that and that information knowing that this is the content that customers find valuable.

    With your marketing, if you’re following customer centric marketing, meaning that you’re trying to help people solve their problems, the best content you have, should be almost equally applicable to a prospect as to an existing customer.

    If you sell coffee, and you’ve got you’re in the middle of a pandemic, maybe you’re not fully open.

    You can absolutely be sharing content like how to prepare the perfect cup of coffee at home, how to store your coffee beans at home safely, and in doing so you’re helping obviously prospects, you’re demonstrating your expertise, but you’re also helping existing customers, customers who have bought your stuff and you want to help them get more out of it.

    Their purchase.

    And so you can solve the problem for both audiences and create content that’s valuable to both of them.

    But the measurement part is the key.

    Depending on your marketing automation system, and how easy it is to export data out of it, you may be able to even construct a similar kind of model.

    You just have to figure out what the objective is that you’re tuning in for.

    At the very least, you should be able to export all the URLs of all the content that your marketing automation system is tracking, this is in the owners journey.

    And just do a quick tally month over a month.

    What are the what are the pieces of content that customers go to visit more often? And that will help you match it up.

    Now, where there’s going to be interesting value is when you compare the two data sets you say okay, what are the prospects like what a customer is like, how much overlap is there? If there is very little or no overlap in these two datasets? That tells you that you have content serving very different audiences and you may Want to think about is there a point where there should be more intersection? And if so, that may be a blind spot in your content marketing you can feel.

    On the other hand, if they are completely converged, you may have opportunities at the edges of each section of the customer journey, that you’re not fully fulfilling, right? You’re not you don’t have enough content maybe on the far and the awareness side of the customer experience in the beginning of the buyers journey, or you may not have enough content that is suited for evangelism that people are sharing that people want to be sharing.

    So you use this data to help identify gaps in your content marketing for improving the customer experience.

    But that’s the measurement system that I would recommend is using a marketing automation software data using Google Analytics data to fill in the blanks for both sides of the customer experience and delivering a better overall customer experience with improved content marketing.

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

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Staying Ahead in AI and MarTech?

    You Ask, I Answer: Staying Ahead in AI and MarTech?

    Buyan asks, “What habits do you do on a regular basis that help you learn and stay ahead in the AI and MarTech space?”

    Staying current means doing two things: learning and practicing. You need both, in equal amounts, to be able to stay current and fresh.

    Listen in for details on how to approach this.

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    In this episode Brianne asks, What habits do you do on a regular basis that help you learn and stay ahead in the AI and Mar tech space? So it’s a good question.

    Any kind of progress requires you to be doing two things to build a third thing.

    And those two things are you need to be learning, which is the academic knowledge act, acquiring information, processing and understanding what it is that you’re reading.

    And then two is practice.

    implementing what all the things you’re reading so that it’s not just theory.

    You understand how it works, make your own discoveries, and more importantly, discover what doesn’t work.

    Those two things combined get you experience or wisdom if you’d like.

    And they are required in equal amounts.

    One of the challenges we see happen a lot is people who are over leveraged in one of those two areas, they are spending so much time doing the thing, that the knowledge gets stale.

    I meet a lot of practitioners at corporations who are so heads down on getting the job done getting that to do lists cleared and stuff that they lose track of what’s happening in industry, they don’t know that, you know, this new model came out or this new technique is available, or this new software has happened.

    Because it’s just one of those things.

    They’re trying to stay afloat, which I totally get.

    I had experiences like that and agency life where you’re working 60 7080 hours a week, just to get things done just to keep things moving along.

    The academic knowledge without practice, is armchair theory, right.

    You can read about something go well, it could do all these things.

    But you never actually understand how the work so you don’t understand the limitations.

    And you may not even understand what it is you’re talking about.

    When I was in graduate school, I remember this one class where the professor was talking about OLAP cubes, online AP application processing, take notes on it, the type of database.

    And he was talking about the theory of OLAP cubes and transaction processing, and had never actually used the technology.

    So in class one day, I said, Okay, well, let’s just set one up, because at the time, Microsoft SQL Server supported that.

    I said, let’s just set one up.

    And we did.

    And it turns out that most of this professional theories about how OLAP cubes worked, didn’t hold up because the practical application was very, very different.

    And he really was not aware of that.

    Now.

    In fairness, It wasn’t necessary for his job to do that.

    And the theories themselves, I think were starting points for people to try to figure out how to implement them.

    But that’s why you need that practical application and the academic theory in tandem, they can’t have one without the other.

    And so for what I do, to stay current is those two things on the academic theory side, I put together newsletters, I read a ton.

    In order to do that.

    I have software that helps curate a list of the top things I need to pay attention to in martagon, marketing data science and AI.

    And as I’m putting together these newsletters, I’m reading through what the machines have have assembled as my reading list.

    I go Wow, I didn’t know that happened or I didn’t realize that happened or this was the thing.

    That’s like 1500 articles a week and just going through this.

    Wow.

    There’s a lot That’s happening that was not aware of and as I go through and put together my newsletter, I go that’s useful that’s useful that’s useful.

    Go and read those things.

    I also belong to a number of communities I run a slack community as part of Trust Insights.

    If you go to Trust insights.ai slash analytics for marketers, that’s the community I run but I’m also in two dozen other slack communities about half a dozen discord communities.

    I’m subscribed to I can’t tell you how many newsletters voluntarily that all bring in new information, new academic information to learn Hey, did you know this thing was happening? I was reading Elisa Solis is Seo FOMO newsletter the other day and this is how core web vitals are going to be part of ranking download, okay, I need to know that.

    But then the other side, the practice side is doing the thing.

    Now, a lot of I get a lot of practice doing stuff for, you know, clients at Trust Insights and things, but I also So you’ll run my own website, my personal website now Christopher Penn calm, I test a lot of things out on it.

    Because it’s a safe place to test.

    I’m not going to destroy my company’s revenues to fight to take down a website by for an hour by accident.

    I do.

    I’ll just a lot of testing in general, I used to do a live stream show called Saturday night data Party, which was more just messing around with stuff, playing with things.

    As new models come out, or as new pieces of software come out if I can run them in an environment like Google Collaboratory run in there, see what happens.

    I’m actually got another window open over here, trying to run a model called jukebox, which is going to do generative music creation, which is interesting stuff.

    So it’s just picking up things as you read about them saying, I’m going to try this.

    How does this work? What does it involve? And can I make the thing work and generate the result that’s promised result and you find out really quickly Some things live up to their promises, other things, not so much on a good day, you might be able to get them to work on a bad day.

    Just immediate and hilarious failure.

    So that’s the process.

    The challenge is, you have to build time and your schedule for it, you have to make time for professional development.

    It will, in almost every place I’ve worked, there’s been a lot of lip service to professional development and like maybe an organizational send it to a conference like once a year.

    But that’s it, they will not create the time for you.

    So you have to do that.

    And if you can do that in your working hours, great.

    Sometimes you have to do it outside your working hours.

    If you care about your professional development, you will have to make that time outside of work.

    You’ll have to take time away from something else like you know, whatever series you’ve been doing on Netflix, in order to give yourself time to research and grow and that’s the hardest part for you.

    But people are not willing to make the time for themselves personally, even if it’s a benefit to them professionally and to their careers and to their their income, all that stuff.

    I don’t know why doing stuff that is for professional development has just been something I’ve always been part of doing.

    I think it comes from either whether whether you like the process of learning or you don’t.

    But I think is a learnable thing.

    I don’t think it’s something you’re born with.

    It’s just overcoming perhaps bad experiences in the past.

    So that’s the process, academic knowledge, practical application, put the two together to get experience and make the time for it.

    Make the time for it.

    Dedicate two hours a week, wherever you can find them.

    To do that one hour reading one hour of doing your follow up questions, leave in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How Often Should Ads Be Changed?

    You Ask, I Answer: How Often Should Ads Be Changed?

    Jen asks, “How often do you feel like ads should be changed out and freshened up?”

    I don’t feel anything. I look at the data. Look for diminishing returns, and use that as your determinant for when to make a change. How do you calculate that? With a moving average change indicator.

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    In today’s episode, Jen asks, How often do you feel like ads should be changed out and freshened up? Well, I don’t feel anything.

    General.

    I mean, when it comes to decisions like this about your marketing, you shouldn’t be relying on your feelings.

    Because your feelings, frankly, are a little on the bias side, you may have seen the same ad over and over again.

    Or you may be looking at the same website design over and over again and you get tired of it, but you are not your audience.

    And that’s an important part to remember here is you are not your audience.

    What you do in your marketing, probably, unless you’re very much in the market for what your company sells, and not the customer.

    And so your feelings about things like advertising really should be put to the side and focus on the data.

    The data will tell you what’s going on whether your ads are working, whether your ads or not.

    Working.

    And for this particular question, there is a very specific technique that I recommend, that can help you make the determination about when it’s time for a change.

    The technique name is something called a moving average change indicator.

    And it is exactly what it sounds like, tells you if something’s changing when you look at your moving averages.

    So let’s look at a practical example of this.

    We’re gonna flip this around here.

    What I have here is basic ad data, right? You have the date of the ads, and you have the ad performance, could be clicks, could be conversions could be any number you want.

    And this is important point.

    When you’re looking at something like this, this can apply to pretty much any kind of marketing data, Facebook ads, Google ads, email marketing, you know, list performance, it can look at website traffic, whatever it is, it can help you understand sort of the diminishing returns.

    So the first thing you want to do when you’re looking at any kind of data set like this is just to get a sense of What is the data tell us? I want to do a very quick chart here.

    Now we’re using Google Sheets.

    But obviously you can use the the tool of your choice.

    And already we can see without doing any substantial analysis that there is a general down into the right line, right, we can tell that things are not going well.

    Now, here’s the catch.

    When it comes to ads, this particular look is fine and retrospective.

    But if you started your ads at the beginning of the month, wouldn’t it have been nice to know that like ads performance was not great, before we got to the end of the month and spent all that money and didn’t get the results? So how do we do this? We’re going to do what’s called again, a moving average change indicator.

    So let’s make a new column here called moving average.

    And a moving average is nothing more than exactly what it sounds like.

    It’s a window of time.

    Let’s do this.

    We take the average of the previous seven days.

    And why is this important? Well, as you just saw from the chart earlier, there’s a lot of ups and downs in this overall series.

    So let’s go ahead and chart this now.

    And you can see, but by using a moving average, we smooth out a lot of those ups and downs, and get a much closer look at what’s actually happening with a seven day lag.

    And again, you can choose any window you like, I typically like seven days, because for a lot of businesses, and in my business, in particular, Trust Insights.

    We’re a b2b company.

    And so weekends will always throw off a shorter window moving average in seven days, just because people do less stuff on the weekends.

    So here we see the moving average, and it’s changed over time.

    Now, what we really want to do is next, we’re going to create a moving average change indicator.

    And this one’s a real simple calculation.

    It’s actually the same formula as our Hawai new minus old divided by old.

    So in this case, we’re going to take the new, which is the second in the series minus the old, which is the first in the series, divided by the old.

    And drag that down.

    And now let’s go ahead and get rid of this and just chart these two columns.

    What we see here is the zero line, which tells us when our change, our rate of change has gone into negative territory.

    And then everything below this.

    Now, what does this tell us? What is it telling us? Well, it’s telling us that the moment our indicator goes below zero in this thing, it means our ads have really stopped being effective, and the longer it stays under zero, the worst performances or the worst performance has gotten by having this indicator in place.

    You You could have you could be monitoring for, you know, changes in your ad performance and know that, yeah, you hit diminishing returns, you hit diminishing returns pretty early on actually.

    And in this analysis, then you can see there’s not a whole lot that’s going on that’s, that’s good.

    This is how you tell that you hit diminishing returns.

    Once this indicator goes below zero, and it stays there for maybe two or three days, it’s time to change reds and freshen them up.

    Ideally, what you’re doing is you’re doing this sort of computation, a calculation on a bunch of different ads, and that as an individual ad drops below this line, and you say, Okay, it’s time to retire you It’s time to try you, you’re still going well, you’re still going well, you’re still showing growth, but and and so on and so forth.

    And you can cherry pick the the ads that are just have run their course they’re there, they’re out and done.

    Now, how do you implement this, practically if you’d have no other technical capability And then maybe you download your ads data, once a week, say Friday afternoons and you do exactly what we did here and just run those computations.

    And then you change up the ads and freshen them up and get them ready to go for Monday morning, if you don’t run them on the weekends, or if you do, depending on your business cycle, change the ads out whenever your slowest a typically is.

    If you have more technical capabilities, what we just did is relatively straightforward to put into a piece of software that you write something like in Python or R, that can connect to your different ad systems, download that data, and then run those computations.

    That’s a more sophisticated way of doing this maybe even sends you an email saying like, hey, ad 23 has hit diminishing returns, it’s time to retire.

    That would be the the ideal solution.

    So you don’t have to manually do this every Friday afternoon.

    And it just alerts you Hey, something’s going on with this ad.

    This ads just lost steam.

    And likewise, you could even configure it to say like, hey, this ad Picking up on usually maybe add some more budget to it, maybe do something else that is a, you know, can reinforce, maybe make some copies of interesting variations, you would think that ad systems would have this technology built in, but they, they don’t really, I can’t think of any vendor that includes this level of analysis.

    And so it’s really important to be doing it on your own.

    However you need to whether it’s manually or with, it’s a more sophisticated way of doing it.

    But this will get you improve return on investment of ads substantially over time, because, again, once it adds run its course you take it down.

    And more importantly, to the original question, just because you’re tired of it doesn’t mean it needs to be changed, right? If the performance data is still great, you leave it alone.

    You let it do its thing until it does start showing diminishing returns.

    And ideally, you’re running many variations and tests so that at any given time you’re pruning those ads that are hitting diminishing returns and you’re putting up new ones to see how they perform at Zillow, See how they run? That’s a really good question.

    Avoid using your feelings to make decisions about when to change things.

    It’s it’s not a good indicator.

    Yeah, the data is a much better indicator of follow up questions leave in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What Makes a Good Content Marketing Idea?

    You Ask, I Answer: What Makes a Good Content Marketing Idea?

    Stephanie asks, “How do you define what makes a good, quality content idea?”

    The easy answer is whether it provokes emotion. Measure your emotional writing with a service like IBM Watson Tone Analyzer.

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    In today’s episode, Stephanie asks, How do you define what makes a good quality content idea? Fundamentally, a good idea is one that provokes some kind of emotion.

    Right? It makes you care about it, when you’re creating it should provoke something and then when you send it out to a beta tester, it should provoke something in them.

    For years, I’ve had a what’s called a three l framework.

    When you’re working on an idea, if it doesn’t make you laugh, if you didn’t learn something, when you were building it, if you don’t love it so much that you’re talking to, you know, your significant other or a friend who’s not involved in the company or the industry, he just can’t stop talking about you know, you’ve got a good idea.

    You know, you got something that is exciting to you.

    It makes you happy.

    You engaged with it.

    And those are the same criteria as well from the readers or the consumers perspective, right? It should be educational.

    It should be entertaining, possibly it should be engaging.

    Did did you laugh? Does it make you does it provoke some kind of reaction? Did you learn something? If your content doesn’t fulfill any of those criteria, it’s not a good idea.

    Right? On the other hand, if Phil’s at least one, there’s some sharpening of the pencil you could do to make it better to elevate it, but at least you’ve got that one.

    If you can get all three, you’ve got a piece of magic I enhance and that is something that is very difficult to to create without a lot of work.

    I was writing a piece of short fiction not too long ago, and in the first version of it, I had a beta reader read through it and be like, okay, Good.

    Good isn’t what I’m going after a good as good isn’t great, right? So I rewrote the ending for it, I handed it back to this person.

    And I said, Give it another read through.

    And we’re back.

    Oh my god.

    fpu because I, there’s a twist at the end of the story.

    And that’s what I knew I had a great piece of content.

    It provokes such a strong emotional reaction in the person they like, I feel like that’s the winner.

    I know.

    That’s, I know, that’s something.

    There’s a there there.

    And when other people have read it, like okay, yeah, that’s that that was the thing.

    You have to figure out which emotions you write well, because it’s not always going to be ones that are necessarily appropriate all the time.

    And it depends on your creative abilities right? Some people can create humorous content really well consistently all the time comedians do this all the time.

    And yes, they have you know missus and they will take stuff out like a small comedy club and test it out for small crowd and you know some stuff just bombs, but other stuff does really well depending on the audience.

    You may not be able to do humor if it’s not one of my capabilities to create consistently humorous material.

    You may be good at creating material that makes people sad, right? There are any number of really good writers that can create you know, angsty stories that are just heart wrenching tales.

    That may be the emotion that you’re good at.

    You could be somebody and you have to use this power judiciously.

    You could be somebody who’s really good at making people angry intentionally by design, writing content that makes people angry.

    If That kind of person, there are a number of political campaigns that would like to help.

    And, you know, there’s, again, one of the basic core emotions, you may be good at making people afraid.

    Again, a lot of marketers do this not well, either.

    Microsoft for years was known as, as the company of fun, fear, uncertainty and doubt being able to create content that created those emotions and people and made them purchase Microsoft products as the safe haven as a safe haven from all these, you know, crazy new things, they would say could ruin your company rarely ever did.

    But they were really good at that, that writing style.

    So when you’re creating content, figure out what emotions you’re really good at writing.

    And there’s are a number of tools out there suddenly, like IBM, Watson has Watson Tone Analyzer and Watson personality insights but Tone Analyzer is the one that will can take a piece of text and and tell you what you meant.

    motions appear in the language and centers around was it? anger, fear, sadness, anticipation, joy.

    Gosh, I’m missing two.

    But there’s eight emotional directly directions are vectors that it measures your text on.

    Take some of the content that you’ve written in the past, your best pieces that you that you feel are the best way to perform the best feed into a service like you know Watson Tone Analyzer.

    It is a free demo, you can try and see what emotions you’re really good at writing.

    Even if it’s not necessarily once you think that you’re you’re good at writing it, if the they’ve performed well, you have the objective measurement, they’ve performed well.

    And the software says hey, you’re really good at writing joyful pieces.

    Great.

    You know that and then you can double down on that and working on improving the language that you use to bring out even more more of that.

    So what makes good quality content is emotions, provoking them, eliciting them from people.

    And the most important thing you can do is to figure out which emotions you’re good at writing.

    The challenge you may run into, is that what you’re good at is what your company is not aligned with their brand, right? If you’re really good at writing content that engages fear, and your company is like a yoga, there could be a bit of a mismatch.

    And in those situations, you have to figure out how do you write in such a way, and maybe you partner with somebody else on on your team if there’s someone else available that can write in those other styles.

    Again, using the tools like Watson Tone Analyzer, you may be able to analyze pieces that other folks on your team have written or in your company, and see what are the companion emotions that you could do.

    Team up with somebody else and collaborate and create content that strikes a good balance between those two emotions.

    It’s, you know, the the, they’re not negative, but they’re associated with being negative emotions, like anger and fear, are good as part of a piece of content.

    Because in your standard marketing copy, you’re looking at what state the problem, what the impact of the problem is, what the solution is, and then how your company fulfills that solution.

    That fear and anger right and goes in the problem and impact right, you know, this is the problem.

    This is what happens if you don’t solve the problem.

    And if the writing that someone, a joyful person would be like, I don’t know how to express this in, you know, the impact in a compelling way.

    Like, if you don’t solve this problem, I don’t think so.

    Okay, that won’t sell anything.

    That’s where you as the writer who’s like adding to these terrible things will happen and you’ll lose your job and someone will come and take your dog away.

    That will allow you To use those skills there and then you have your your, your colleague who can write in the emotional release of the solution in the second half of the content it will Delta work on making a unified voice.

    But knowing the emotions you’re good at and then figuring out how to artfully weave them into pieces of content is important.

    So again, yep, questions, leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Centralizing Content Marketing Ideas?

    You Ask, I Answer: Centralizing Content Marketing Ideas?

    Stephanie asks, “Is there a good system for centralizing ideas? What tools do you use?”

    For images, I store stuff in Camtasia’s SnagIt. For other stuff, I used to use Evernote, but I’ve since switched to the open-source package Joplin because of its full support for Markdown, one of the most powerful markup languages a marketer could learn.

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    In this episode, Stephanie asks, Is there a good system for centralizing ideas? What tools do you use? It depends.

    It depends on what the type of idea is.

    There’s so many different formats and things that you can use to store ideas.

    But there’s a few tools I think, are really essential.

    The first one, I’ll bring this up here is Snagit.

    So this is by techsmith.

    They make the software screen capture software, and the ability to just take screenshots include parts of your screen and store them in an X that was really helpful.

    And you can see here, I’ve got, this is the interface.

    And then you flip this around.

    What you can see is it has a library of all the screenshots you’ve taken in the past, which is, again, super helpful to be able to look at what you’ve done, what you’ve taken photos of, and catalog them things like that.

    When it comes to images in general, though, the absolute best tool by far is Google Photos.

    Because when you upload images, including like screenshots to Google Photos, it’s AI has automatic image recognition.

    And it’s going to automatically analyze and scan what is in the photo.

    So you could have been typing into the search box in your Google Photos account, you know, conference, room, table, dinner car, people smiling your dog.

    And in doing so, it gives you access to a huge essentially catalogue of your own stock photography and your own ideas.

    That includes having the Google Photos app on your phone.

    Because again, if you’re out and about and you see something cool, we take a photo of it.

    And obviously, all your phone is recording things like your location, the time, the day, all that stuff, but more than anything, it’s indexing it so you see a great idea on a billboard to take a photo of you does, you know some fun things happening outside I was going to say at an event, but those shouldn’t be happening.

    Take a photo of it and it goes into Google Photos for indexing.

    If you work on a content marketing team, setting up a generic gmail account for your team and having it linked to Google Photos is a super powerful way to have your own stock photography library, right? If you have people taking photos around the office and things loaded onto Google Photos, make sure they’re loading all of the stuff they intend to and not all their stuff.

    You don’t want people’s personal stuff in there.

    And then you have an index, you have a huge index that you can use for your own stock photography for writing, the tool I use, I used to use Evernote and I still do somewhat but when it comes to idea storage or retrieval, this one’s open source package called Joplin.

    I love Joplin for a couple of reasons.

    One, it’s free and it’s open source, which is cross platform to Joplin allows you Joplin allows you to sync with the cloud service of your choice.

    So drive Dropbox, etc.

    But most important, Joplin supports what’s called markdown.

    markdown is a scripting layer.

    It’s a markup language.

    So what you do is you write in plain text than these specific characters to denote things like typography changes like that.

    This is a bold word, this is an italic word.

    You can break things up like headers with a pound sign before a word and make, you know headers, header one, header two, header three.

    But it’s all in plain text, which means that there’s no formatting challenges.

    If you go to open up a markdown document in 20 years, you will still be able to read as plain as day as if you had written it, you know, 20 years ago, it would still be just as compatible and that’s what’s so powerful about it.

    There are rendering engines like Joplin has one built in pandoc, colbray, all these different free open source engines that can take a markdown document and then transform it into the format of your choice HTML Word document PDF EPUB or mobi for screen readers, latex and bibtex for no formal academic papers.

    having that ability to to write in an easy to use format that is always readable, but then transform it into the format’s you want is super powerful.

    So in Joplin, you can see here I’ve got folders or notebooks called and then text in those.

    And you can see that in this example here, we have this one, my pandemic newsletter.

    So there’s the markdown on the left side, and then there is what it looks like rendered on the right hand side and that’s really it right? Being able to store ideas in different folders and and driving down is super helpful.

    The last thing for centralizing ideas is all of the tools that we have with these smart assistants and the ones on our phones, there is nothing better than being able to just literally yell out in the air.

    Hey, smart assistant, remind me about content marketing vectorization that may not necessarily get the words right.

    But being able to just yell out into the air, hey, this is the thing I’m trying to remember.

    And then having the system dump it onto, you know, an app either on your phone or on your desktop is super powerful, because you don’t have to write anything down.

    You don’t have to remember to carry a piece of paper with you can just open up.

    Either a reminder, if it’s a short idea, or a voice memo app for longer ideas again, hey, hey Siri, open up a voice memo, start a new voice memo.

    And what the system will do then is start recording and then you can speak your idea out loud.

    That is really, really helpful for when you’re walking out and about, especially if you’re driving somewhere and an idea comes to you and you don’t want to be doing something other than like safely operating the vehicle.

    Having that handy is is just invaluable, especially if you wire it up to a system like if this, then that or Zapier, that will allow you to take ideas from one system and move them to another system, there’s a If This Then That routine that lets you take your Amazon reminders and sync them to your Apple reminders so that all your ideas still flow into one area where that you can you can get at them.

    At the end of the day, it’s just having tools available that can capture ideas as you have them because as we all know, they don’t last a whole lot.

    Long time they they come in and they’re gone like that.

    A lot of folks will keep like a journal or something right by their bed in order to be able to do the same thing.

    And you know, certainly if that works for you great.

    Again, being able to yell out into the air Hey, smart assistant.

    Now remember this idea, or remind me of this idea allows you to do that.

    In terms of being able to index it all Google’s photos is probably the best overall indexing solution.

    And then again, one of the things that’s nice about Joplin is that because it writes essentially markdown files to your computer’s disk.

    Any of this the things on your whatever your operating system you’re on to just find content in files will help you will find those Joplin documents.

    If you’re not, you don’t have them in the interface and identify the specific document and then again, because it’s all plain text to go in, you’ll look at it and go, that was the idea was working on.

    So those are the big tools that I use.

    Would love to hear about what tools you use for centralizing your ideas how you capture all these ideas together, and turn them into content later on.

    leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Focus on One Content Marketing Format?

    You Ask, I Answer: Focus on One Content Marketing Format?

    Stephanie asks, “If someone only has the bandwidth to create in one format, where should they focus their time?”

    Video. Why? Because a transmedia content strategy permits you to spin lots of assets from one video.

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    In today’s episode, Stephanie asks, If someone only has the bandwidth to create in one format, where should they focus their time? So for content marketing purposes, the answer to this question is really easy.

    The answer is video.

    Here’s why I bring up our video first content tramp transmedia content framework.

    One video video is the richest format.

    It contains moving images, it contains still images, it contains audio.

    And from that, we can turn that into many, many pieces of content.

    It’s much harder to turn other pieces of content into video than it is to turn video into other pieces of content because it’s the most dense.

    I mean, you know this, if you’ve ever worked with video files, they’re huge, huge files, that they’re just information dense.

    And so we can use video and transform it to all sorts of other stuff.

    Just like I do every day with you ask I answer I do the simple stuff this video, we pull the audio out the audio becomes the podcast that goes along with that the audio then gets sent to otter.ai that transcription services, I’ll link in the show notes below.

    And you will get from that text and suddenly, instead of just making a video every day, and having to make a podcast and then having to make a blog post, I get three for the price of one video is the center.

    So from video you get you get you take little clips.

    And those are great for Instagram stories, Snapchat stories if you’re still doing that, I suppose reels if you wanted to add some music to it and some fun stuff, animations animated GIFs being able to send stuff to like giffy if you wanted to, from the audio, like I said, you get the podcast, get a transcript out of it.

    And that transcript can be content then you can clean it up and turn it into blog posts, ebooks, white papers, newsletters, anything like that you could put together an entire set of transcripts as a book effectively.

    So if you’re doing a video show every day Every week, you could be writing your next book.

    From the video, you can also take still images right screen captures.

    Those become things like Instagram content, you can put them up on Flickr 500 pixels pixiv, all these different image sharing sites if you’re depending on the industry you’re in.

    And of course, the video itself, the native video, you can load that to YouTube, obviously, is the number one choice because of it.

    Functionally, just a giant search engine, LinkedIn, if you’re in the b2b side, you should be loading your videos natively to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, depending on the length.

    You can load your videos into systems like webinar Ninja, or go to go to webinar or any of this any service that supports pre recorded videos.

    And then, depending on the type of videos you have, you could put together an entire webinar.

    But even if you didn’t, just by having those videos on on say, YouTube, you can then go into a YouTube Analytics, look at them.

    It’s okay, which of my 250 videos I do a year? Which of the top 10 what the top 10 topics are just getting the views getting the views over time, like consistently racking up views, guess what that tells you, it’s time to do a webinar on those things.

    So it’s time to do a something virtual there a live stream or something like that.

    But whatever it is, that helps you understand, you know, this is a topic that is hot, and that that can webinar.

    If the webinar does well, it can become a conference talk.

    There’s not much of a difference these days because, you know, pandemic.

    But for events like content marketing world, for example, you might want to, to look at your video catalog and say, Hmm, what’s done really well, what’s done so well that I could turn this into a session that people would actually want to see.

    And if the idea continues to grow and grow and grow, that could become a keynote.

    So video encapsulates so much of this information and does so well that I can’t think of a better format for a marketer to really focus on if you only have the bandwidth to create one format.

    Create video because you’re creating multiple formats by default, especially if you do it.

    You don’t over produce it.

    Right? So you asked to answer yes, we’ve got a decent microphone got a decent camera.

    But there’s other than the question, text and a few notes.

    There’s not a whole lot that goes into these.

    It’s not like some long, elaborate script.

    It literally is just answering questions and it’s not over produced.

    Once I’m done with this video.

    It goes into Camtasia Camtasia renders it and read up to YouTube.

    So it’s not like it takes hours and hours every day.

    The whole process of this process for me every morning takes about 40 minutes from beginning to end.

    Some mornings a little longer than others depending on on on how tired I am.

    But you can be doing the same thing, right? You can borrow.

    I mean, the idea of us can answer comes from Marcus Sheridan from his book they ask you answer.

    And you can do the same thing for your industry or the same thing for you for all the questions that people are asking you go into your customer service inbox, go to your social media channels start pulling out and restoring every single question that comes in and answer them.

    You don’t necessarily have to tile it as you know, on the nose as you asked to answer.

    But you absolutely can just spend time answering people’s questions, doing it either by yourself or with partners or customers.

    But just do lots and lots of video.

    Another thing you can do is video if you want to create a lot of it.

    But you don’t necessarily want to do it as a regular process every day is do subject matter expert interviews, inside your company outside your company.

    If you can grab 45 minutes of questions that you have that for an expert, you ask them the questions then you take that video, slice it up, you know, maybe in five minute chunks, right? That’s going to give you nine videos.

    That’s a lot of content.

    They could be nine weeks if you want to do a weekly series could be due to nine, nine days, so almost almost two weeks to business to business weeks of content for weekdays.

    But then again, take that video and splice into all these different pieces.

    And instead of creating one piece of content or one social poster, you’re going to create a tremendous amount of assets from one core asset.

    So if you only got time to focus on a format, do a video.

    You don’t have to spend a lot of money this device if your phone is you know less than two years old, the likelihood that the camera on is good enough to do high quality video is pretty good.

    More importantly, you’ll probably need to get something for better audio because the audio on the is just terrible.

    But this is a good enough camera.

    Even if you it’s a little bit more work if you don’t have video editing software, you should get some there’s there are a number of free open source package.

    As well as the paid ones out there.

    Open shot I believe are open cut, shot cut as one.

    So there are some really good free tools that you can use and there’s obviously even what your computer comes with, you know, Windows Movie Maker, I think that still exists iMovie on the Mac, they’re good enough to generate decent quality video because you’re not gonna be doing fancy effects and Hollywood stuff, you know, it’s it’s just a lot of times just a talking head, you have a maybe some title to a title screen of some kind.

    And that’s it.

    It doesn’t have to be super fancy.

    Unless you work for a video production company in which case, you should be using a company’s full capabilities to demonstrate just how polished and professional you are, but anybody in any department can be creating video.

    If you don’t have a good camera and your phone as far away as it should be for a decent shot.

    You may want to have a little pocket recorder that can sit in your pocket or have a superstar super inexpensive, you know $9 lavalier mic that can record you talking and then you sync up the audio and video later in production.

    Really good idea to do that with subject matter experts because you want them to sound good.

    You want them to look good and sound good when you turn your video into other formats, so focus on video, and then we’ll make all the other content for you got follow up questions leave in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Causation Without Correlation?

    You Ask, I Answer: Causation Without Correlation?

    Vito asks, “Let’s assume we have the joint probability distributions of A and B. In that scenario, is it possible that A causes B, but A and B are not correlated?”

    This is possible and even probable when you have missing data, especially if the missing data is also partially causal.

    Some examples:
    – Distributions that are not normal, are causal, and have a Pearson R score of zero (like stress before a test)
    – Hidden data – A / B / C vs A / D / C – and B has no correlation to D
    – Unobservable data – like gravity, which is not something that can be measured at all because we have no quantum particle for it
    – Many causes of A > B and A is not the primary cause
    – Causes that collide – A > B and C < B, net R of 0, like treatment and illness

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    In today’s episode Vito asks, let’s assume that we have the joint probability distributions of a and b.

    In that scenario, is it possible that A causes B but a and b are not correlated? So this is a comment that was left on my website about a post I did a number of years ago on correlation and causation.

    It is generally accepted that correlation is not causation.

    Just because two variables are correlated, does not mean that one causes the other.

    The textbook example of this is ice cream and drowning deaths.

    Ice cream death, consumption of ice cream, and number of deaths from drowning are strongly correlated in a lot of datasets.

    Why? Well, logically, we know that there’s this thing called summertime and as people, the weather gets warmer, people eat more ice cream, people go swimming more Second years of pandemics, and you have an increase in drowning deaths.

    So what about the reverse which is what Vito is asking, Can the reverse be true? Can you have causation? Without correlation? The answer is yes, it is possible.

    In fact, it is probable in some cases where you have, you know, hidden data or missing data, things like that.

    So, let’s talk about a few of these situations, five of them.

    The first is, anytime you have a distribution of data, that is not a normal distribution, there may be something causal in it, but it may end up having a statistical correlation of zero.

    So, if you think about your typical plots, right, those dots scattered all over the places, or there may be a line of dots So, you can draw a line with the dots.

    That’s your typical Pearson correlation.

    If you have a shape, for example of dots that looks like a big square, guess what, you have a statistical Pearson score of zero, even though there may be something very causal in that data, you could have something it looks like a smiley face, right? Again, that would have a score of zero.

    But you could, that could very well be something causal happening there.

    So that’s an example where you have non normal distributions.

    And you still have a correlation, a mathematical correlation of zero.

    Even if those things are causal in nature.

    You can have hidden data hidden did that it is observe the unobserved you didn’t see it.

    There may be a pathway to because, but it’s not.

    But if you’re used to measuring in stages, it may not make sense.

    So for example, let’s say you have a, b and c column look at past conversion, your Google Analytics, a leads to b b leads to C and you may have Carlin’s Along those, there may be a D in there somewhere, right and maybe a D, C, and then B has no correlation to D, you may end up having a break in correlation, even though that fourth interfering factor there that you didn’t measure, or you didn’t know about, was playing a role.

    That’s where things like, especially with analytics, like propensity score modeling come really handy to be able to tease out Oh, there’s something else at play here.

    Even if the regression score is zero, net across your chain of conversion, they may be interfering factors along the way.

    A third way this can happen is when you have some bits on observable that cannot be measured.

    Again, textbook example here.

    We know there that gravity exists, right? Who’s the debate about this? by anybody who has even grade school education I’m sure there’s some people out there believe that because the earth is flat, there’s no gravity, but they’re idiots.

    Gravity has no particle that we’ve been able to find yet in quantum physics.

    So even though we know it exists is causal, we cannot measure it.

    And therefore, there is no correlation because there’s you can’t correlate something that you don’t have data for.

    So that’s an example that’s very obvious.

    Oh, there’s there’s a cause gravity, but there’s no data to back it up.

    A fourth situation, what happens a lot in marketing is when you have say A and B, and you’re looking for a relationship.

    And B has many, many, many, many causes.

    A, maybe causal but very weakly causal, it may not show a relationship, especially there’s a lot of noise.

    Again, in marketing.

    This is you see this a lot with attribution analysis was the impact of Facebook of Twitter of email of referrals of direct traffic of SEO of SEM All these different channels and any one channel may have a very strong or weak relationship to the the outcome that you’re looking for that conversions, you may not be able to show a, a correlation between A and B, because there’s like D that’s just making all the noise.

    But that doesn’t mean that a is not causal to B, it just means you can’t measure it because it’s you’ve got too much interference.

    And then the last situation where this is likely to happen is when you have causes that collide.

    Again, the textbook example is here is things like illness, right illness and mortality are two variables and there may be a negative correlation there and then a positive correlation and you may have treatment and mortality, you may have a negative karma And the more treatment, the less mortality.

    And if you put those together, if you were grouping them together, you would get a net of zero, right? Because the effect would cancel each other out.

    And so in that instance, you are zero.

    But that doesn’t mean that there’s no causal relationship.

    In fact, you would have to break up the data to figure out that, Oh, actually, the illness and mortality is positively correlated, the treatment and the mortality is negatively correlated, and you separate those two out, a and b and b and c should not be grouped together.

    Because if you’re trying to measure illness, and treatment and mortality together, yet, they cancel each other out.

    Correlation perspective.

    So those are five examples.

    And then they were just weird things.

    I guess the weird things would be like, stuff that fall in the first category, like if you if you’re trying to measure for example, performance on a test and academic test and you have like stress or fatigue or something like that is again not gonna be a normal a normal linear distribution, it could be all over the place and you might not find a a mathematical relationship even though there is a causal relationship like a little bit of stress for a test is good motivates you to study a lot of stress before tests that keeps you up all night.

    Not so good, right, because you go into the test a zombie.

    So, there are there are instances where causation and correlation mathematical correlation do not line up.

    They are much less rare and obviously the the case where correlation is not causation is much more common.

    But it does exist in cases where you’ve got pieces of data either missing or on observable or lots of interference, so be aware of them.

    A couple of examples talked about like an attribution analysis are real problems that marketers may have to face, especially if you’re doing more and more complex attribution.

    models, you may need to use different techniques than just regression analysis if you’ve got a lot of either contributing causes or cancelling causes, so being aware of how you’re doing your computations is really important.

    So that’s a set of answers.

    Interesting question a tough one to dig through hopefully made sense.

    You got follow up questions, leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Where to Find Data for Real Estate?

    You Ask, I Answer: Where to Find Data for Real Estate?

    Gina asks, “I’m in real estate and 2021 promises to be a very data active year for real estate, based on the market rise in 2020 and an expected fall in 2021. Would love to hear how and where you gain data for study – is it just via NAR? Other sources?”

    This is an important question because it’s not just the data itself that’s important – it’s also what we do with it. This kind of exploratory data analysis has three major components: the goal/requirements, the data, and the processing of it.

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    In today’s episode, Gina asks, I’m in real estate and 2021 promises to be a very data active year real estate based on the market rise in 2020.

    And unexpected fall in 2021.

    Would love to hear how and where you gain data for studies that justify things like National Association of Realtors or other sources.

    So this is an important question, because not just about the data itself.

    data by itself doesn’t really help us with anything.

    And one of the things that we say a lot around the shop is data without decisions distraction, we need to understand what decisions are we trying to make for the individual real estate agent? It could be things like forecasting and what’s likely to happen to your business.

    Is it a buyer’s market as a seller’s market what’s what’s likely to happen? For a firm like, say a Coldwell Banker, it could be macro economics, looking at the Market overall, what are the profitability? Is the market for the buyer or the seller? The individual homeowner? it’s things like probabilities, how easy will it be for me to sell a home or buy a home? will it cost me more or less.

    And one of the challenges with real estate, in general, but in in data specifically, is that there’s a lot of data that goes into real estate.

    So this is where you’re going to have an exploratory data analysis methodology that’s going to look at three major things, right? Number one, what’s the goal? Like, what is it what are you trying to prove? Or what do you find the research? Number two, what data do you need to prove that and then number three, what is the processing methodology, the algorithms you choose the tools, the techniques, the process that you go through to analyze the data, and it’s it’s gonna be an iterative process because there’s good chance that As you start digging further and further into all the different data that’s available, you’re gonna find a whole bunch of dead ends, you’re gonna find some things that don’t have even associations or correlations.

    And so causation is unlikely.

    And you may learn as you talk to people that there’s there’s some things that simply are unpredictable, they cannot be predicted.

    So, let’s talk about the data itself.

    Where would you go to get information like this, if you’re an agent, obviously, you have MLS, the Multiple Listing system that is probably going to be your best source of local data that you can find.

    Some of that information does get bubbled up to two sites that have API’s like Zillow, for example, realtor.com and realtor.com just started sharing its data with the St.

    Louis Federal Reserve Bank, their Fred database system which is really powerful because There’s about 200,000 other data sets in there that you can use to bring into your analysis.

    So think about all the things that go into real estate, there is the home, right the value, the vocal market, price of the of the listing, how many other listings are around it, those are all things that you would get out of systems like MLS, for example.

    Then there’s also the the economic aspects, what he has, for example, the mortgage rates 30 year fixed, 15 year fixed variable rate, etc.

    Those rates can have a causal impact on the market.

    If rates are low, people are more likely to buy because they can afford it.

    If rates are high, that tends to cool things down.

    So you’d want to find that data as well.

    And that’s something that again, is available in the St.

    Louis Federal Reserve Bank feeds.

    Their Fred database is fantastic.

    It’s one of the best sources for quantitative data, particularly anything economic the You can find, you’re going to look at things like okay in your area, then can you locate household income or real personal wages and stuff, all the things that would allow a person to buy a house? What effect do those have on the market? You’ll look at things like search data from places like Google and the SEO tools of your choice.

    Those will help you understand where people’s heads are in the marketplace.

    And you used to be able to forecast that from that data really well.

    Since the pandemic started, that date has been all over the place, it’s been really messy.

    And so much so that it’s not reliable for long term forecasts right now and probably won’t be for some time.

    For example, I’m recording this on August 23.

    It’s been about three weeks since government assistance stopped for employment share and stuff.

    And so that is starting to have real ripple effects in the economy.

    Depending on how long this goes on, you could have, you know, large scale bankruptcies, homelessness, all sorts of things that will that make forecasting the economic conditions, you know, any further up in a couple of weeks impossible.

    There’s just too many balls in the air.

    So those are cases where now we’re starting to get into the processing discussion.

    What do we do with the data? Do we try to forecast? I would say no, but I would say any real estate agent or agency worth its salt should be pulling this data frequently.

    And having near real time dashboards of what’s happening in your local market so that you can understand Oh, this is these are the conditions that are happening now.

    And how they might impact sales, how they might impact listings, how they might impact people’s even willingness to consider selling, or buying a home property value prices.

    One of the big question marks that’s going to happen at the state local levels in the next really two to five years, if not sooner, is what will municipalities have to do with taxes in order to make up for the huge shortfalls that they’re seeing everywhere, right.

    And it becomes something of a vicious circle as people lose their homes, you have a smaller tax base, so you have to raise taxes on those people who are still able to pay taxes to finance your local government.

    Again, these are all things that are very, very difficult to forecast.

    But the very straightforward I want to say easy but very straightforward to pull in, near real time data.

    And you can pull it in from the federal level, you can pull it in from the state level, depending on on your state, and how into the 21st century they are.

    And all of that can be boiled down into things like dashboards and indicators that give you a sense of here’s what’s happening and give you a chance.

    Two to four week horizon to look out and say, okay, job, unemployment rates in my region have gone up x percentage in the last two weeks that’s going to be a problem that’s gonna be a drag on the economy is gonna be a drag on home buying, be prepared for that and we’re working with sellers to say the sellers.

    Look, don’t be too picky right now on the offer because the local economy is softening, right? Or conversely you could say, hey, things have really picked up.

    It’s okay to be a little more choosy about your buyer.

    Because there’s gonna be more buyers coming out of the woodwork if you see that happens.

    So all of these processing aspects of the data are going to be really important.

    Where do you get started with something like this? Start with a business requirements, right? What do you need to be able to do and then start looking for the data.

    You don’t have to try and ingest everything all at once.

    You probably shouldn’t.

    But start trying to identify what are the key indicators that have driven Whatever KPI you’re you care about whether it’s home sales or price or whatever.

    What are the drivers, the top two or three indicators that drive that that’s, you’ll be doing a regression analysis for that.

    And then, based on that, start putting together your dashboards like maybe it is mortgage rates and local unemployment and recent sale prices.

    If that combination of variables is the is the magic number that says this really strongly predicts your KPI.

    That’s what you put on a dashboard.

    That’s what you start to monitor and you keep an eye on it.

    And you forecast as far as you can afford reliably, which again is like two to four weeks these days.

    That’s a good place to start.

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