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  • You Ask, I Answer: How To Become an Instagram Food Influencer

    You Ask, I Answer_ How To Become an Instagram Food Influencer

    Stacy asks, “How do I become a more influential personality on Instagram? I don’t want to go the automated route, but I don’t have much of an audience. My goal is to be a food influencer.”

    As with all things, we tackle – in order – strategy, tactics, execution, and measurement. First, strategy. Does the world value what you’re good at? And are you really good at something? You need a concise way to explain your value in two sentences that’s unique and obviously valuable to your audience. Don’t worry about the sponsor side – a large, highly engaged audience is the value to them.

    In terms of content, follow YouTube’s hero / hub / help model. Focus on the why, what, and how – and then laser in on one of the three. A key question is – is Instagram the right network for you?

    Finally, for execution, you’ll need to invest in some monitoring software for both your brand and Instagram overall. For a small business application like this, I recommend you check out Brand24 for broad monitoring. At your current scale, the native Instagram app is good enough. Monitor food hashtags and do some data analysis to find the intersection between what you’re good at and what the world values.

    Watch the video for the full details of the suggestions including tactics and software.

    FTC Disclosure: Brand24 has provided me with a free copy of its software for review purposes.

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    In today’s episode Stacey asks How do I become more influential personality on Instagram I don’t want to go the automated route but I don’t have much of an audience My goal is to be a food influencer alright

    as with all things

    will follow simple strategy model here strategy tactics execution first let’s talk about your strategy your overall Instagram strategy or social media strategy which is

    are you good at something so if you want to be a food influencer or you’re really good at something within food like baking or Friday or

    Japanese cuisine or low calorie or paleo or what have you get the idea I really good at something and second does the world value what you’re really good at and that’s the hard part the intersection between to what the

    World values what you’re good at what how much overlap is there if you’re really good at making, for example,

    really expensive

    Russian caviar dishes,

    there’s some value to that the world is very small part of the world does value that very highly but for the most part for building an audience, it’s not the best segment to go after. On the other hand,

    you know, being a fast food connoisseur as well doesn’t really value that even if you’re really good at it. So

    So those two questions are really important. Does the world value what you’re good at and are you really good at something you need to be able to explain that concisely in two sentences just two sentences what you’re good at and what is valuable to the to your audience Don’t worry about it on the sponsor side on you’re looking for sponsors and stuff like that that’s going to take care of itself because all

    media company

    Want right now is basically a large highly engaged audience

    at their analytics are so far behind that that things like you know a million Instagram followers still do matter and to be perfectly frank a million followers of anything is by definition somewhat influential but in the media world for influence purposes a lot of people are buying audience just like any other advertising platform so your value in two sentences for example

    my company trust insights we are a data science consulting firm for marketers we help marketers make more money with their data two sentences

    pretty obvious what we do

    you need to do the same with whatever it is that you do with food and influence now going from strategy to tactics first question is Instagram the right platform for you it probably is because it’s a very consumer angle and influencer Instagram is very much the

    the pulse of the consumer these days.

    But it may not be the only platform, YouTube, for example, maybe a great platform for you. Pinterest may be a great platform for you. So do some research. Make sure that Instagram is the right platform choice. The second thing you want to do is look at a content production model. And that model is the one I think makes the most sense here is YouTube’s model, which is hero hub help, which is infrequent, big ideas, the hero ideas, once a quarter have ideas, which are more campaign level ideas, their hub, you know, and once a month or so, and then help lots and lots of help content. How do you do this thing? How do you make this thing how’s this, what kind of ingredients to look for? What’s the best dish for this and so on and so forth.

    Focus on one of those segments. Generally speaking, when it comes to appealing to a broad market. The Help segment is the lowest cost of producing also generally the easiest one to attract people because by putting out helpful information

    Automatically proving your expertise so there is that aspect hero Help. Help also breaks down into why what, how, why is something important? What is the thing? How does the thing work? And if you’re talking about, again, something very specific, like

    low budget paleo would be an example of something that paleo something very people are very interested in. Can you do it on a very small budget than all the how content is like how do you find this how do you find this kind of produce How do you find this kind of protein etc. affordably,

    finally,

    is the execution phases and this is where everybody falls down.

    You’re going to need two things. Three things. Number one, you don’t need a heck of a lot of time to do this. Probably if you’re doing this as your side hustle.

    expect to spend between the time after dinner and the time when you go to bed to be doing nothing but this so three, four hours a day for example, I have I usually stop working at the end of

    The day around for 4:30pm, make dinner, have dinner with my family.

    Get everyone settled in for the evening, around seven o’clock, from seven to 10 is when I work on what used to be my side hustle now is my main business.

    And so you’re gonna need to invest that time you’re going to need to invest in some monitoring software, you’re going to need software for Instagram overall, because Instagrams built in analytics are terrible for this application for where you are, I would suggest looking at to like brand 24 because it is affordable. And it allows you to monitor Instagram for very specific hashtags.

    And you also want to want to spend a lot of time on Instagram at your current scale. The native Instagram app is good enough right later on you may want to look at something like a tool like agro pulse for example, but for now where you are is fine.

    You’ll want to be monitoring Instagram food hashtags as many as you can conceivably, you’ll get your phones or start typing in, you know, food, food porn. All these different hashtags, any specific food ingredients or diets, Caddo, paleo etc

    and what you need to do is use that data of what people are right are posting on the app and the intersection between that data and what you’re good at to find new angles and be creating content A lot of it

    easily you know 10 1520 posts a day if if you can manage that frequency and then interacting and engaging with as many other people that are using that hashtag on a on a daily basis so following people like crazy no out no automation on that because their algorithms gotten a real good about the direction the bots so literally just have the native app in your hand and just you know, start following people one by one do 25 a day

    Think about when it comes to building your audience don’t go after the big dogs because it’s unlikely that you’re going to get much engagement with people with a million followers do the red paperclip route, which is if you have 100 followers start engaging with people who have 101 followers start following people have 101 followers. Then we have 101 file. Start with people who have 102

    so that you are building a cohort of peers rather than trying to reach up to people who frankly are out of reach.

    You got 1000 followers, great. Go to someone who has 1001 followers and look for different ways to do collaborations, do combination things. Experiment with different formats I ggV experiment with see if it works for you stories. You’re going to spend a lot of time on stories you may want to look at some story creation software, at the very least.

    Have a good photo editor I use camera plus version two on my iPhone for that and that should disclose I am not an Instagram influencer. I’ve only got 2000 followers. And it’s not my platform focus. I focus on Twitter and LinkedIn, because that’s where my audience is

    your audience. Being a food audience is going to be in different places. And I instinctively believe don’t have the data audit, but instinctively believe the Instagram is the right choice. So but it’s going to be all about monitoring, engagement, creation,

    monitor things that are popular, engage with those things, create your own stuff to go along with those things and expect to spend three hours a day doing this for a couple of years, a couple of years. So no easy answers, but having a framework and having processes and a and a repeatable method will eventually get you to that point we can get to, you know, 10,000 followers. So, especially if you’re doing something really valuable and hot so give that a try, Stacey, as long as you have questions.

    Please leave them in the comments. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel. In the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you.

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  • Fun Fact Friday: Just How Much Data Is A Zettabyte?

    Fun Fact Friday_ Just How Much Data Is A Zettabyte_

    One of the starting points for my keynote speech on artificial intelligence is that, as a civilization, humanity will create approximately 30 zettabytes of data in 2018 according to IDC. But just how much is a zettabyte? Watch this video to learn what a zettabyte is in Netflix terms, plus other stunning Internet usage facts.

    References: Data Never Sleeps 6.0 by Domo

    Fun Fact Friday: Just How Much Data Is A Zettabyte?
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    In days, I was gonna call it Friday feelings, but I don’t really like the whole feelings thing. So let’s call it Fun fact, Friday,

    we’re chatting in a Facebook thread on Mark Schaefer his facebook wall about data. Eric Decker’s had raised a point that I had said in a keynote talk

    that we create 30 zettabytes of data which is a staff from Cisco. And IDC I believe from 2017. But it dates back to 2015, and it’s already

    out of date. And

    someone as well just how big is is that a bite and it’s really difficult to get your head around that

    a Netflix video.

    It’s about 30 minutes, right? You say

    a single dish on Netflix, 30 minutes. That’s about a gigabyte of data. If you were to start watching the world’s longest binge watch

    in the EEOC. An era when the first modern mammals and merged

    and evolved 57 million years ago when you binge watch Netflix all that time, you would just now get around to using the one zettabytes, right so that’s that is a lot of

    of data.

    And this year we cranked out I think around 30 was the forecast by 2025 according to Cisco forecasted by Cisco and I believe

    also IBM

    we were expected to crank out

    220 zettabytes

    just from connected devices so not even all the data just those things

    and it got me thinking and want to look up Domo

    has great

    now in its sixth year visualization called Data never sleeps, how much data do we generate every minute.

    And there’s some fun fun numbers in here. So for example, every minute of every day, YouTube users watch 4.3 million in videos. That’s up from 4.1 million previous year. So that’s a tremendous amount of video. If you’re watching this at all. Thank you. Because you political even watching any one of other

    4.3 million videos.

    Twitter users send 473,000 tweets, which is interesting,

    because that’s up from 426,000 previous year. Meanwhile, 12.9 million texts are sent down from 15.2. A big chunk of that is because of all the different messaging applications that are out there, messenger WhatsApp, WeChat line, kick Tango, you name it. There’s a billion and a half messaging apps now.

    And so there is there’s much more choice than just texting Instagram users post almost 50,000 photos every 60 seconds up from 46,000 previous year.

    And Google searches 3.8 million Google searches

    per minute, as opposed to 3.6 the previous year, there is just so much data that is being circulated that we are creating that we are using that it is impossible to keep up with, I think the over the last five staff members Netflix, Netflix us watching 97,000 hours of net of Netflix every minute or equivalent of

    whereas previously with 69,000 hours.

    The other thing was interesting was that there are 3.8 million

    boots are 3.8 billion people on the internet. And as of 2012, when this series got started, it was 2.5. So

    we’ve added almost

    a billion and a half old, about point 1.3 billion people to the internet

    in just six years. That is the stunning number anyone, though, I would assume that really, really out of touch. But anyone who says that the internet is still fat is clearly not about paying attention to the data. But when you think about where all the growth is happening, almost all the growth is in the non Western world. So take a take it America, North America, in particular and Europe out

    all the growth is happening in Middle East Africa, South America, the South Pacific region of the planet. And that’s where there’s so much more opportunity now.

    So give some thought to this.

    When you’re talking about your marketing, when you’re thinking about your marketing and your digital marketing in particular, and where you’re spending your time and where you’re chasing after customers.

    Have you given thought to what your international audience looks like, have you given thought to who your international audience is, and are you prepared to do business

    outside of your home country, wherever, wherever you are. Where if you’re in the UK, if you’re in Russia is you’re watching this,

    if you’re in South Africa watching this, I would assume that if you if you don’t speak English as a first language, and probably not as a second language, you’re probably not watching this video. Although I actually learned back in my podcasting days that people in non English speaking the language language regions love YouTube videos and podcasts because it’s a way for them to learn English easily from native speakers. You can hear someone like I have a for some strange reason I have a central Ohio accent

    would just basically the absence of a discernible accent.

    But yet people watching YouTube videos and podcasts

    to learn how native speakers speakers of that of those languages speak. I’ve done the same thing I watch. I’ve watched and listened to it really interestingly, Ukrainian and Russian videos and to hear how those different accent sounds so that even if I don’t recognize the language,

    I will know just the tonality of the the words how the words sound general to be able to hear that and tell the difference between someone speaking Russian, for example, and someone say speaking Latvian there’s there are very clear differences. We have to listen to the videos. So

    but yeah, there’s from from a marketing perspective

    of these people watching 4.3 million videos per second, where are they coming from? Where your audience members coming from? And when you look at it, we didn’t go inside Google Analytics. And you go into the audience menu on the left hand side and you click on geography does behavior geography?

    What countries are you

    getting visitors from? It’s probably not just your home country, wherever your home country is. It’s probably not just there.

    I live in America

    and 20 ish percent of my blog traffic is from outside of America now. Like, I think 11% is from Canada, and 7% from the UK. So it’s still very English centric regions. But there’s India is most after that. And then Germany.

    Now, unlike David Hasselhoff, I am not huge in Germany. So there are people there watching and reading the content. And

    there might be a market opportunity there

    might be, I don’t know, but there there’s clearly already at least one person

    and so

    look in your own data. Where are you getting traffic from? Where are you getting visitors from? Look on your YouTube data. If you’re posting videos on YouTube, YouTube has some of the best analytics for any video. Any rich media platform, right podcasting analytics are horrible by comparison.

    Look at YouTube videos where your audience is coming from. Where are they watching from? who watches longer does it the people in your home country or people outside your home country?

    Take a look and see if you can come up with some of your own fun facts on this on this Friday. So as always, thanks for watching the comments and the comments and please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • Solicited Review: TechSmith SnagIt 2019

    Solicited Review_ TechSmith SnagIt 2019

    In this review, learn the two features that matter most to me as a marketer, one which protects personally identifiable information, and the other which makes design feedback much easier.

    FTC Disclosure: I was provided a review copy of the application at no cost.

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    In today’s episode a solicited review of campaign of text myths, new snag at 2019 product be screen capture product, full disclosure, I was provided a review copy to take a look at this thing. So if you’re not familiar with screenshots, software, it’s really elementary stuff, you take a screenshot of your screen or a portion of your screen. And then you go ahead and you use that picture as you would any other graphic things for like presentations and stuff like that, in this regard, snag it really no different than the default functionality on your computer. What makes it interesting are all the things you can do with the the shots afterwards, and the post processing. So let’s take a look at this. First, I’m going to take a screenshot of some blog comments here got the lovely stuff here enough, I was going to just use this, let’s take a picture of it.

    This in and of itself is I would say probably not the world’s most interesting picture, right, this is just comments on the blog. One of the things that I might want to do. And one of the coolest features I think, is the ability to simplify it down to screen and or mask PII, personally identifiable information. Now, in this case, it’s already been obscured by the common thing software. But this is there still may be more information than I would like. So I’m gonna hit the auto simplify button here. And it’s going to go through and essentially use a bit of machine learning to identify with the types of content that are on screen blocks of text, things like that. And then as you can see, simplify it down, it has reduced a lot of the screen down to this very basic stuff. And then this could go in a screenshot. This is cool again, because the PII aspect I think, is cool, let’s take take any kind of screenshot from any kind of application that you use for work. And you can mask out anything that doesn’t belong, but still get a sense of the interface still get a sense of the layout of the design. One of things you look here, it’s it’s done a really good job of just blurting out stuff that is not the most relevant things. And then, of course, additional things you can just simply draw on. And it will, it will attempt to detect an N remove additional pieces. So that’s cool. I think that is a very, very helpful

    particular type of tool. The second thing, and this is where if you

    if you ever provide tech support for your relatives,

    this is an essential feature, it is the ability to record not only short tutorials as videos, but and then turn them even to end to animated gifts. So let’s look at this, I’m going to again, take this year,

    let’s say we were working on our blog, I hit the video record button, turn on recording. And you can see the us a little count down here. And then I’ll go ahead and click on things like is this a pending comment, cleanup, comment, spam, comments, things like that, I will turn off this the recorder here.

    And what it’s done is record eight, a nice little video of this where this gets really cool, click the animated GIF button. Choose screen video doesn’t need to be super high fidelity.

    But by turning a screen recording into an animated

    GIF,

    this can then just go right inside of an email. So instead of having to call up your, your cousin, or your uncle, or your dad, whatever, and say, the walk them through the same procedure over and over again, for some of the solving technical

    just send them the gift. And then because it’s a looping gift, they can see it as many times as they want.

    This has enormous value, you know, not only for relative tech support, but also for any of those business emails where somebody’s got a question about something can just immediately throw that in there. When you are interacting as the consumer as the end user providing feedback to developers about an application. This feature is very handy when you are and these this is a gift file. It’s an animated GIF, which means that you can then drop that into any place that accepts a graphic. So slack email, instant messenger text messages, what it wherever the case may be, you can do that right from the application. Now, there are obviously are a ton of other interesting little features in here. One of the ones I thought it was kind of cool was in there. In the stepwise thing if you want to, again, do some tech support here. Let’s go ahead and just choose the red theme here. And you can then just click on here and say, Okay, this is step one, then this is step two, this is step three, this is step four, and put these little annotations to help people understand in the static graphics, this is the flow what it is you’re supposed to be doing.

    It’s a huge time saver. Because you can you absolutely can do this yet, like PowerPoint or whenever, but it’s going to take you a while. And there’s of course, all the other things, there’s stamps in here, which steps are

    I if I personally don’t clutter up my documentation on this kind of stuff. But I could definitely see for somebody where you wanted to include specific types of symbols, or you just want or you’re just a person who likes to communicate with images rather than words, you know, the Instagram generation, if you love stickers, and labels and stuff, and Instagram or Snapchat, you’ll love having this within your screenshots as well. I don’t know that I would use the I would do business communications that way. But whatever makes you happy. And then of course, there are other other relevant features that we’re all used to our was called out texts and things like that. But really, to me, the the standout features are that simplification feature. And then some of the stamps and things I think those are, those are really, really cool things, there’s one other thing you can do,

    you can do a what’s called auto detect lift, where you can identify if you want to, if you want to find something in the in the air drying to select, it’ll pull out the pieces and make it easier to grab individual pieces. I can’t do that with this one. Because it’s already been

    the handheld suit. Good to do this. So let’s take another screenshot here. Maybe we’ll just do the right hand side of this page for now.

    And now on in this drawing. If I wanted to move some stuff around, I can choose move to smart move here, it’s going to go through and again, using some basic machine learning, identify things that I can just pick up and move around. So if I wanted to, for example, UI purposes, do a mock up of have a take a mock up of a page and rearrange, here’s what this page would look like with this content move down. This is kind of a ridiculous example. But in the UI business in the ad business if you’re doing kind of any kind of ads ad comps, this would be invaluable for being able to rearrange a page and show what it would look like after changes were made while preserving the look and feel and you’re not having to recreate every single thing within a design tool. So lots to appreciate within the new snag at 2019. If you are working with screenshots if you’re doing any kind of technical documentation if you’re providing tech support to your relatives where you want to be able to show in motion graphics how these things work. This is definitely something to to grab the the free trial for trying it out and see if it makes your life easier. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What’s Working in Social Media Marketing?

    You Ask, I Answer_ What's Working in Social Media Marketing_

    Paula asks, “What’s working in social media in 2018? What isn’t?”

    In this video, learn the 3 things that aren’t working today and the more-than-half-dozen things that generate results in today’s social media marketing environment.

    Let’s start with what isn’t:
    – Broadcast only
    – Unpaid only
    – Automated only

    What is working?
    – Stronger points of view
    – Somewhat unpleasantly, politics
    – More broadly, a position or stance
    – Algorithms favor engagement most
    – Paid is an essential part, even if it’s just boosting posts
    – Holistic approach across channels
    – Source-level attribution analysis
    – T-shaped media plan

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    In today’s episode, Paula asks what’s working in social media in 2018? and what isn’t really good question. This is a moving target. So this is being recorded towards the tail end of the year. But anything can change relatively quickly. So let’s start with what’s not working right now. Today, things that aren’t working or practices like being in broadcast only mode where you just dump your stuff out there and hope somebody notices it.

    unpaid social media only is not working in 2018. It has been working in quite some time. Social Networks require you to invest actual dollars in them in order to get any kind of juice out of them and fully automated only social media also not working great that you can have partial partial social automation.

    But you can’t do it all the way

    you there’s simply no substitute for having a human doing at least part of the work in social media we can dig into that in a second. So what is working today number one in your social interactions in your social media work, stronger points of view matter

    for good or ill we live in highly polarized very opinionated times and

    as brands and companies are taking a position and having a very strong point of view does matter does get people to to engage with you and to remember you somewhat unpleasantly politics works really, really well being an active participant in the discussions that are happening it is extremely risky but if you want to if you want to have social working for you, it is some of the best stuff because it’s

    The stuff people

    don’t know if they want to talk about it, but they feel compelled to talk about it and participate in those discussions,

    having a positions and stances in general taking a position on issues of the day, things that are topics on social good environmental,

    social, and governance, the same things that are making people change, how they invest in the stock market are also things that

    get people to participate with you on social media. So e s, g is the name of a particular some field of investing. Environmental social governance. People want to know the companies that they want to do business with are governed well and are using their money appropriately. They are paying attention to the environment and they are paying attention to core social issues.

    So

    that’s one of those things when it comes to what the algorithms are doing.

    Right now, there is a tremendous focus on engagement, and particularly rich levels of engagement. So even take the three fundamental

    actions people can take, like, comment, share, right? Whatever the like, or favorite fan or whatever you want to call that type of engagement. The little push the button is one. That’s the weakest signal of engagement. Because literally, your cat could do it. There is sharing, which is when someone shares your content. And then there’s competent when someone actually types out a response to you. All of the algorithms as of right now

    tend to focus on foot to favorite commenting. And so

    to the extent you can foster those discussions, you’ll do better I have seen particularly on LinkedIn the moment a post gets at least one comment, it starts to be seen by more and more people until you get a substantial amount of visibility

    paid is an essential part even if you’re just boosting You know, one

    host today you need to be doing something with paid social media. One of the better deals if Twitter is your network, one of the better deals Is there a $99 a month, you know, promote mode.

    It’s not bad.

    We’ve been testing at a trusted insights now for a couple of months and stop bad. It relies on you posting content that people will find valuable anyway, but

    it does its job. And in terms of a consistent always on easy to manage program. It’s difficult to be only if your audience is on Twitter.

    Your approach has to be holistic across channels. So one of the things that

    is important to do is to set down what each channel is for mentally and then do that. So YouTube, which is where this video is posted is very much the video channels where people go to watch videos, LinkedIn, their video capabilities right now are excellent, but LinkedIn is where people go for professional information.

    Facebook is where people go to connect with their friends and their communities in the groups that they ran. And so that’s

    there’s there’s that functionality and to yell at each other about politics,

    Twitter’s where people go for the news

    Instagrams, where people go for images. So thinking about

    the media you create, if you want social to be really successful, and you’re willing to invest a lot of time and effort into it, you need to take a piece of content and idea and be able to split it up into all these different formats and then put them in the appropriate format on the appropriate channel. Now,

    I don’t do this personally, because I don’t have time

    and me personally, I’m unwilling to pay somebody to do that for me. Right now. I am working on some machine learning stuff to try and

    do that a little bit more. But for right now, I don’t do that unless if I was running this for a company.

    would absolutely say, yeah, this is how you need to divide up your content and have the same idea, but have a taking approach across channels, optimizing for each channel as appropriate. If social was a key driver, which, by the way, brings me to another thing you need to absolutely, positively be doing strong attribution analysis of social channels. One of the things that goes wrong when people do attribution analysis as they do it to clustered

    and what I mean by that is that they, they say, social media is a channel Okay, let’s, let’s figure out what’s working in social media as a part of like search and referral and email.

    Social isn’t a channel every individual network as a challenge. Each network performs differently. So when you’re doing your attribution analysis, it’s really important to differentiate among the different channels. How does Twitter work for you, how does Facebook work for you? How does YouTube work for you? How does medium work for you and do it by source

    Rather than social media, it’s too difficult to get an idea of what’s working from that broad grouping. So make sure you’re doing an attribution analysis correctly.

    Finally, if you don’t have a ton of time, go for what I would call the T shaped media plan you’ve all heard in in in marketing the T shaped person who’s broadly good at a little bit of everything but focused on one thing for you

    if you are if you don’t have time to be good at every channel, pick one and said that’s the one I’m going to be really really good here I’ll check the box acknowledging I get terrible results on the things you’re just checking the box on but I’m the one that you’re great on double down on that triple down quadruple down on until

    you’re making stuff for that channel so my to that I focus on because the format favor that our LinkedIn video and YouTube video that’s where my focus is right now and I’m getting great results out of that.

    We’re getting less good results out of things like Facebook, I’m getting almost no results. But I’m acknowledging I checked the box on it to make sure that I’m there in case somebody looks, but it’s not my focus. And as a result, I don’t get the results. So

    lasting or leave you with is you unless you are dedicating a person to each channel, you cannot be good at everything.

    Because there’s so much different about every single channel. And the channel has gotten so deep now that you need to have specialization, so you can’t be at the Instagram and Facebook star and a Google star and a Twitter star and a YouTube star, you have to be good at one place first, and then branch out as you have the revenue and to end the awareness to support it. So that’s what’s working and social media at the end of 2018,

    your results may vary. And I guarantee you in three months this video will be out of date, but these are things that are

    broader trends. So I would say most of them, particularly things like

    engagement and that T shaped person or safe bets for at least a year. As always, please submit your questions below in the comments and subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trusted insights.ai today and listen to how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Amazon Alexa vs. Google Home for Marketers

    You Ask, I Answer_ Alexa vs. Google Home for Marketers

    Drew asks, “What’s your take on Amazon’s smart assistant and devices versus Google’s?”

    As a consumer, use cases depend. As a marketer, both platforms are valuable; in this episode, learn the trick for marketers that puts your content in both places with a minimum of re-work.

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    In today’s episode drew asks what’s your take on Alexa versus Google Home

    two different takes one as a consumer certainly you want to

    choose the smart assistant that matches the ecosystem You are the biggest participant in so if you have amazon prime and you have amazon music and all these different services there then obviously you choose and Amazon device if you are much more tied into the Google ecosystem and you choose your Google devices it’s pretty straightforward for use cases if you’re going to use the device for things like education and search it is 100% Google Amazon’s searches appalling and and for found that helpful

    if you are going to be doing things like commerce, obviously having the ability to have Alexa drop ship things to your house is is the way to go. So it really depends on the use case on the consumer side, for the marketer. The question is a little more nuanced and a little more interesting. It depends on who your audience is, if your audience is in the Amazon ecosystem as consumers, then obviously it makes sense to go there. And the market share right now I’m taking a look here looks like it’s about two to one still were twice as many consumers have Alexa devices as they do Google Home devices. But Google critically has something that Amazon does not Google has a smartphone base, thanks to Android. And so the number of people who couldn’t use the Google Assistant overall, is substantially larger. So that said, when you’re developing branded skills for these platforms, Amazon has skills and Google has what’s called actions, they are different, they are different in terms of the ability to do things like development and burgeoning and stuff like that,

    if you are a b2c crowd, I would definitely say that prioritizing development on on Alexa would make the most sense, because again, it’s it’s the end consumer crowd, if you are heavily invested already, in things like search engine marketing and search engine optimization, it is relatively trivial to use that experience to help crossover on google home when coming up with actions and things like that, for have a Google Home device to take

    Google Home, particularly now that it has screens, devices, devices with screens, that gives it access to things like YouTube, which if again, if you’re already publishing content like this on YouTube, it is a trivial step to get that content to show up on a screen device. Google’s home devices, seven shipping since March of 28, I think.

    But their official

    Google branded devices just started shipping at the end of October 2018.

    If your customers search if your customers interact with your brand via rich media,

    I would argue that Google’s devices a little bit easier for a marketer us if you have a podcast and you’re not listed with Google podcasts, you’re missing a massive opportunity because Google Home and it’s an and all the smartest distance connect to the Google podcast directory. And so you can say, hey, Google, play the latest episode of marketing over coffee, or Hey, Google Play police episode of in here insights. And it will obviously go through the podcast directory, find those things, fish them out, and, and and start playing audio for you. Some folks have taken to making branded skills

    that you can install on either platform. And I think that’s a perfectly fine idea. I don’t know if it’s the best use of your time if you don’t have a lot of budgets. Because developing a skill is no different than developing something like a

    mobile app. It requires programming experience, it requires you to

    put together a smart back end the SDK is the software development kits that exist for these platforms are good for assembling simple stuff. But if you want to have a a rich conversational bought, for example, you need to hook into one of the machine learning platforms and IBM, you can hook into, into Watson assistant, you can hook into Google’s Cloud Platform, AWS, etc.

    One of the interesting points that a developer on media made was that your chat platform, your conversational platform should not be tied to any one ecosystem, you should have

    that code abstracted and running somewhere else. And then use the the relevant SDK to connect to your your chat platform. But that way your chat platform uses its own machine learning can power Alexa compiler, Google can power a chat bot on your website can power of social media chat pod, so you want to have that abstract today, a level up from and as opposed to building something custom only for each platform, you want to have that logic in that investment be spread across multiple different locations. So there’s a lot of things to consider when you’re looking at how do you want to work with the smart assistant

    environment. One thing I would say, if you want to get started relatively easy. Again, make sure that you’re listed. If you’ve got a podcast already, make sure that you’re listed in all the relevant podcast systems. Like if you use a hosting company, like Lipson. For example, they can post your podcast to these different directories that will get indexed by Google Home, and I believe by Alexa as well. And there and it can push to and Alexa skill for your podcast. So

    to the extent that you can leverage the media, you’re already that’s probably the easiest way to get into that environment and get people listening to what you have to say the chat bots stuff a little bit harder. And then

    for the screen devices, one of the one of the serious drawbacks of Amazon is that it cannot access YouTube. Google has blocked it. And they have their own little walled gardens and stuff. And so there’s no simple way to get your video content directly onto an Alexa device the way you can on a Google device. So that’s something worth considering as well. If you’re already publishing video, it’s probably going to be on the Google side. So good question. Tough question. And the ecosystem is, as everyone knows, rapidly evolving there is it’s estimated by analysis, marketing that by 2022, when in four short years, you may be looking at anywhere from 300 to 400 million of these devices, possibly more, depending on if the price points keep coming down. And the features keep getting more distributed.

    With Amazon’s announcement about the echo drive, the ability for your device to sit in your car would not surprise me to see Google come up with an equivalent device very shortly as well, that will

    continue to change contexts. But think about how people use these devices. Audio is probably your best bet because people can listen and do something else. So if there’s a device in the kitchen, the device in the car, treat it like podcasting and have content that is great, that is worth listening to. And that is

    that is something that people can tune into while they multitask with something else. So great question. As always, please leave comments in the comment boxes and subscribe to the newsletter and the YouTube channel. Talk to you soon. Take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Choose a Data Science Course

    You Ask, I Answer_ How to Choose a Data Science Course

    Sherry asks, “What sets apart a good data science course? What should I look for in the curriculum?”

    Great question, and an important one in today’s world when companies are offering “crash courses” and “become a data scientist in X weeks”. Would you feel comfortable going to someone who did the “crash course in surgery” curriculum or “learn trial law in 10 weeks”? I sure wouldn’t. In this video, learn what data science courses and degrees should contain, and a semi-secret indicator that you’re looking at a great course.

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    In today’s episode Sherry asks what do you look for in a good data science course? What’s an indicator that of course is worth paying for and and what isn’t as really good question

    because there

    are a lot a ton of these crash courses and instant courses and and learn data science and five weeks now

    just for a moment consider data science is a profession just like any other profession,

    would you feel comfortable going to say a doctor who learned surgery in 10 weeks I crash courses surgery taken, you know, learn everything you need to know in 10 weeks,

    I don’t know that I would feel comfortable going to a doctor like that I would like to see the doctor have you know, some time some extreme taking a full education as opposed to just the the fastest way to become a search equally true I if I were on trial, I would not think to look for like who became a lawyer if you took the crash course in in trial law

    not that doesn’t make me feel super reassured that the same thing is true for data science for analytics for machine learning,

    there is more than just a course or if there’s going to be a course there should be tons of prerequisites, and tons of follow up work to surround that data science portion with

    all the other things that are important to know in order to be an effective data scientist. So keep that in mind when you hear instant or fast results and stuff like that.

    I don’t know that I would feel comfortable trusting my company data to somebody who tried to get the basics down in 10 weeks, can you learn something in in 10 weeks? one course? Absolutely. You can learn some things. But could you reasonably call yourself a full time professional data scientist with the same credibility that someone who is a doctor, a lawyer, a an accountant, with just a course Probably not. So keep that in mind. So what are the things that you should be looking for in a data science curriculum? Number one, there should be very heavy emphasis on statistics. Statistics is the core of data science. It is you know, statistics and probability are basically everything that happens in data science happens with those foundations. The second thing you should spend a lot of time on our algorithms and the math behind them,

    but not

    like using particular pieces of software not like the the IBM way or the Tablo way or the our way. But the algorithms themselves. What is the algorithm? How does it work? When do you use it, when do you not use it? So everything from basic linear regression, you know, what is it when you use it, how to use it all the way up to things like, you know, Pretto multi objective optimization,

    big, you know, big 10,

    your curriculum should be focusing heavily on learning the techniques learning when they’re appropriate learning when they’re not appropriate, learning how to do them. And that’s where you should be using some of the tools and technologies chances are, you’re going to use either our or Python because those are open source languages. And they are sort of the the gold standards in data science and machine learning especially are because if it’s statistical background, another language you will probably run into, certainly in the corporate world will be SPSS.

    But

    avoid looking at courses that promise very specific technologies. We all know that the technology landscape is always changing, that something that is is hot today may be gone tomorrow.

    And you don’t want to be the the data science equivalent of that person who specialized in my space, right person who specialize now in Google Plus, you want to be the person who knows how to do things like regression and prediction and clustering and all the techniques and that’s tool agnostic. So of course, is leading with, you’re going to learn these technologies, these hot market technologies, okay, as opposed to, you’re going to learn the fundamentals of how to do the thing and how to do it intelligently, no matter what tools on the market when you look at something, for example, like IBM Watson studio is drag and drop modules from SPSS and the neural network modeler and all these different techniques and you look at this long list of techniques like the all the Basie and clustering you have in the neural model, you have boosting and all this stuff.

    If a data science course has prepared you. Well, you should look down that list of techniques of all the things you can drag and drop in the interface and go Yep, I know what that one does. Yep, I know what that one does. Yep, I know what that one does. I know I know when to use it. I know when in what sequence to put these blocks in. And that’s the most important thing is knowing conceptually what order to put the things in where to put a when to use them when not to use them. And so of course, that’s heavy on the algorithms heavy on the techniques. The third thing that you definitely want to look for is you want to look for a course that has a at least one if not a complete standalone course on ethics. Data ethics is one of the most critical pieces of data science, it is one of the most overlooked and it is the quality indicator, of course, so

    for example,

    when you go to a sushi restaurant, there are three things you look at number one, you look at the color of the tuna, if a tuna is kind of a bright red

    tuna should generally be a dark red, we look at the color of the avocado, the color is anything other than vibrant green, yellow,

    it’s been sitting out too long. And he’s so you know, the, the, the food doesn’t turn over that fast, or they prepare their stuff way in advance and shouldn’t have third and this is the the, the quality indicator of a sushi restaurant Do they have fresh rosov, the best sushi restaurants have fresh wasabi fresh from Warsaw real wasabi, not colored horseradish. And as well, there’s little gimmicks you learn. But it it tells you very much about that restaurant based on

    that one will ingredient. The same thing is true in data science.

    If there is an ethics component that is prominent in the course description, you know, you got a winning course, you know that you got a course that has been well thought out. Because someone who wants to get up to speed as fast as possible in 10 weeks or less

    ethic. Ethics isn’t their thing right there, they want to

    kind of person that attracts is someone who just wants to ride the wave and get up and running as fast as possible, not someone who wants to learn it thoroughly and have thoughtful consideration about what techniques to use. And therefore they’re not going to sit through an ethics course. But someone who really wants to know the thing is going to take the ethics course and be okay with having that be a part of the curriculum part of the time that they invest. So look for that. That’s the indicator of a great ethics of a great data science courses. Having that that’s that little is that little sushi moment right there within the courses. So those are the things to look for now, are there good courses to

    take? Yes,

    look at the the statistical courses within the mathematics department at major universities, MIT, Stanford, all these things. And by the way, a fair number of the actual classes are available for free. You don’t need to pay 510, 15,20,000

    in order to learn the stuff what you paid for, when you take a course or a degree like that is you’re paying for the name, you’re paying for the certification, basically, the MIT or whoever says, yep, you know, the thing, you passed our exams, we validate that you know, the thing, but to actually get the knowledge itself. So many of these these individual classes on things like statistics and probability and such are completely and totally free. They’re available online. So if you want the knowledge, go get the knowledge first. And it’s a good way, by the way to test yourself to see like, Okay, I’m going to go and take stats one on one, if you just can’t stomach it is Oh, my God, what did I do? You didn’t pay money for it, right? You didn’t shell out five or 10 grand for the for the certification, you know, just from the first course thought my thing and and you can go and focus on something that you do want to be good at. So make sure that you try out some of those courses. But yes, definitely look at reputable schools that have strong stats and math programs like the MIT Sullivan Stanford’s of the world as a starting point. So great question, important question, very important question about what is real and what is not in the data science. Well, thanks for asking. And as always, if you have if you have questions your own leave them in the comments here or leave them on my website and subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Choosing a Marketing Career Specialization

    You Ask, I Answer_ Choosing a Marketing Career Specialization

    Joe asks, “I am currently considering a specialization in e-commerce or social media. At the same time, I’m open to any field in marketing as long as I can gain experience. What advice do you have?”

    At the end of the day, marketers need to consider three key factors in choosing their career paths. Learn what the key factors are, how to evaluate them in your own career, and consider your options ahead.

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    In today’s episode, Joe asks, I’m currently considering a specialization in e commerce or social media. At the same time, I’m open to any field in marketing. As long as I can gain experience, what advice would you offer for someone who is changing out or or looking at at becoming more of a specialized marketing specializations? a really good idea, because marketing has gotten to be too big of a field to just be a general marketer unless you work in like a startup environment where you have to be a little bit of everything, but the world and what companies value today really is specialization and expertise being really good at something now,

    in terms of what to specialize and

    consider what

    accounting for a job and marketing is all about. It is essentially a b2b sale right? You are selling your services to a company

    And then that company will hire those services to do whatever it is they need you to do, even if it’s a b2c company, that sale process is a b2b process, which means that you need to provide really four or five values to that company. You have to be able to demonstrate to a company that you can save them money, save them time, make them money,

    help the person who’s hiring you demonstrate their value, aka help them not get fired or reduce or mitigate risk. Those are really the things that when you’re a hiring manager, marketing or otherwise, those are the things that you’re looking to actually hire for.

    At the end of the day you have what you do has to fulfill one of those roles. When you look at the different subsets of marketing through that lens

    in terms of where you should spend it. shouldn’t spend your time is helping a company helping a company do those things so

    We look at something like e commerce ecommerce for example is very much bottom of funnel

    let’s you know make the sale, let’s get the sale let’s let’s improve the conversion rates let’s make some money, right? So there’s a very much a, a, a an easy direct connection to make some money

    when you look at something like social media social media is as evidenced by the number of books and and talks and things about social media ROI is harder to prove the value of social media it’s not impossible. Yeah, with really good attribution and analysis. You can draw a very good line between the work the social media practitioners do and the eventual outcomes as long as you’ve got great data and great attribution tracking and great analytical capabilities

    that there’s a lot of value in that as well. So when you look at the different disciplines within marketing, ask yourself how does this discipline

    Save money or save time, or making company money or prove the value of a hiring manager or help reduce or mitigate risk. For example, within even social media, things like crisis communications and reputation management are essential skills and you can specialize in those things specifically that falls in the category of reducing mitigate risk. If you are really good at helping somebody mitigate the risk that they’re they’ve they’ve incurred, you will have a long and fruitful career as it were. So what are the other things you could be doing a little bit there’s email marketing, social media, as you mentioned, there’s content marketing, there is general online marketing they are is marketing, analytics, marketing, technology, marketing automation,

    what should you What should you do then becomes a question once you’ve identified How easy is it to draw a line between that and one of those five core benefits is which of those

    thing to do actually enjoy doing e commerce is very different than social media on a day to day level, it is substantially a different type of work. It is much more technical. Typically it is

    much more procedural meaning like there’s a, there’s a clear defined set of processes that you’re doing, hey, we’ve got these 500,000 items we need to get into the store. We need to set pricing set, sk use

    deploy sales, get things listed in Google product manager, and so on so forth. So there’s a there’s a very clear

    recipes and not a huge ton of surprise. So if you like that kind of work, that might be something that aligns well with your interest.

    Conversely, crisis communications and social media is

    every day is different, every day’s a new dumpster fire

    depending on the organization you work for. So if you like that variability, if you like talking to

    actual people, if you like

    unpredictable situations and taming chaos, that is clearly a, a specialization for you. If you have an aptitude for statistics and mathematics, focusing on marketing analytics, it will be a long and lucrative career for you. Because as much as machine learning and AI are advancing our abilities to do rapid computation, there is no substitute for having that human in the loop to help manage the process and validate the outcomes. So there’s a lot to be done in the analytics field. So what are your aptitudes is the second consideration? So is it profitable? Do you have an app or is it important to the business? Do you have an aptitude for it?

    And then the third thing which is I guess a the third consideration is

    when you work with people in those fields are those people you like working with, right? So it is

    even if you have

    Have an aptitude for statistics and analytics there are the people who practice that as a discipline they may not be your tribe they may not be the kind of people you want to spend literally a third of every day with and probably most of your waking hours so get a sense for who those people are go to meetups go to

    conferences and events as you can as as time and budget permit and get a sense for who you might be working with because your tribe the people that you want to hang out with and invest a lot of time and a career with

    will in turn somewhat dictate

    the how good you get it the work that you do and and and what Layton aptitudes you’re taking advantage of so there’s those are the three things that I would save on a focus on you want to focus on

    Funny enough, it comes down to the process right

    for the platform. I guess the

    You want to be doing the process of doing it and the people that you’re with, right? So people process platform,

    there’s no easy answer. It is solely dependent on who you are as a person. And it may take some time. It may take some time to calibrate. It took me

    Gosh, I was at it for years. And it took me probably close to a decade to figure out that actually, I wanted to be in marketing technology, not information technology.

    That was a long decade. But in making that transition,

    I tried out a whole bunch of things. I worked in startups, I worked in big corporations, I worked in financial services. I worked in agencies and things and eventually I figured out that marketing technology and analytics and stuff was what I enjoy doing, which means I had the aptitude for it was valuable to the business and the people I hung out with were my kind of people. And so that’s sort of how

    figure that out for myself

    expected to take some time is not going to be an easy answer. And you may have to try a few companies a few different types of careers to see which is right for you. But look at those three branches and look at that and see how your choices fit into those things. Thanks for the question. If you have other questions, leave them in the comments and please subscribe to the YouTube channel the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights AI today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Human Roles in Predictive Analytics

    You Ask, I Answer_ Human Roles in Predictive Analytics

    Nathan asks, “Do you see a place for human contributions still in predictive analytics even with A.I. taking over?”

    There are indeed still reasons for humans to play a role in predictive analytics. Watch the video to learn the three most important reasons, and especially why more seasoned, experienced professionals are essential to the data science and machine learning process.

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    In today’s episode, Nathan asks, do you see a place for human contributions still in predictive analytics, even with AI taking over? This is a great question and a very interesting one. Because the short answer is yes. The long answer is predictive analytics as part of the world of analytics and analytics is really, really good at answering the question of what happened, what is this? What happened? What’s going to happen

    by

    implication analytics is not real good at explaining why especially when you start looking at complex variables and multi variables, things that you would have to build

    enormous amounts of predictive

    landscape data in just to be able to explain things and so there is absolutely a role for human beings and human contract.

    And predictive analytics and there will be for quite some time until you get

    AI that can look across large numbers of variables. So let’s take a look at what this might look like I’m going to use let’s let’s do a prediction here let’s bring one up on Dunkin Donuts, which is the, the chain here that is prominent in New England within the Massachusetts the boston massachusetts DMA. So this is DMA 506, which is Boston Manchester basically the Boston metro area only, so it’s not predicting anything outside of that. And what we’re looking at here is what is the likelihood of people searching for Dunkin Donuts near me. So they’re using a localized query

    over the next 52 weeks. And I ran this this has been running in October 2018. So look forward here and what we see our peaks happening anything above that dark gray bar is in the Upper 25 percentile range.

    We see okay, let’s it looks like it’s going to be real.

    Popular here around the

    end of end of October actually mid November we see another spike they’re just before the holidays and get super quiet until you get to about may and that you know once you get into the middle of May searches for Dunkin Donuts near me It reaches its next peak its next big volume now

    what does this tell us? Well it tells us if I happen to work for Dunkin Donuts, which I don’t currently

    it tells us when Duncan should be doing certain campaigns to maximize the interest in their brand specifically for people within the Boston metro area looking for their brand near them. But it doesn’t tell us why we don’t know why this chart won’t explain it. And even if I were to select other things here like lingo, select coffee shop the generic term we see a similar curve but not identical term. Let’s look at a competing term Starbucks near me. Starbucks looks a lot more like coffee shop and

    Dunkin Donuts does interestingly enough,

    and so

    what’s going on here? Well, we don’t know that’s the thing is we don’t know just from this prediction Justin this forecast why these things look the way they do we would need qualitative research we would need to be running focus groups and surveys in market at peaks and valleys to explain what’s going on in people’s heads. Analytics is going to tell us this predictive analytics isn’t going to tell us

    we could attempt to use some things like

    social media text mining, but even that’s going to give us a very incomplete picture we need actual market research in order to be explained to to explain these peaks and valleys within the Dunkin Donuts brand as to why people within the Boston area search for it at specific times a year that don’t look like Starbucks and don’t look like the generic term coffee shop.

    This is where human contributions matter human contributions would be able to bring in all that was

    Why are things happening? And is the reason why a valid reason if the market research is good or less than good,

    real simple example if we think about this Dunkin Donuts near me query,

    there are times a year like the middle of winter people aren’t thinking about either coffee or iced coffee or tea. Even though oddly enough, in New England, people drink iced coffee year round

    that people don’t do it as much. Well, obviously there’s a climatological difference here that you’re not going to get out of these analytics. But you know, as a human being that that is a very much a thing. Likewise, what are the other considerations that are happening in here? Well, Duncan just renamed itself. So now they also call themselves Duncan. So if we switch over to Duncan, near me,

    does a search volume change? Well, not really doesn’t change all that much. So

    there’s, that’s an interesting little factoid about

    itself is why,

    why is the long run the shorter brand name not different in any way is the brand? What is it? People getting out of the brand name itself that is so powerful that the prediction doesn’t really change when you use one brand name or the other?

    So for the human contributions in predictive analytics are all about why? Why are these things happening? Why do people make them the buying decisions? They do? Why

    climate not as much of a change, why are there these spikes in cold months? Now, some of these spikes for example, the ones in December

    we know as humans that there are things like holidays and when people around these holidays people go and get gift cards and because they can’t think of what else to get people so they buy their their relatives, Dunkin Donuts gift cards. Well, of course, then you’re going to see that spike to look for a store near you so

    So that you can go and buy the actual gift card for somebody. But you would not see this in the data. This is not something that the data or the prediction of the forecast is going to tell you. You have to know that being a human being so not only are there human contributions in predictive analytics, but

    there is a premium I would argue on human experience I’m life experience. And so folks who have a little more gray in their hair like I do who

    who are concerned about being left behind No, don’t worry as much about that double down on what you have that a 20 something data scientist fresh out of graduate school isn’t going to have, which is, you know, life you have no more decades under your belt and therefore you have more insights as to why people do the things they do. Now, obviously, you have to counterbalance that with understanding that you have biases in that life experience that you also have to account for as well. Again, this is something else to Nathan’s question that

    We’re human contributions will impact predictive analytics.

    If the data set your training your predictions on has any kind of bias or flaw or leaning or corruption of some kind, you have to be able to look at the data set will look at the macro situation around that data set and say, Yep, we can’t use this data. We can’t make a forecast or a driver analysis on this data because there’s a bias in it. And no, no amount of technological modeling is going to fix that. An example I gave on a webinar yesterday is African American healthcare data is highly flawed.

    Why? Because the macro environment discrimination against African Americans is such that all the healthcare data about that population is corrupted. If you are trying to balance for optimum outcomes. You have to use a different population because the discrimination against African Americans which is centuries long means no good data.

    exists that is unbiased. And until you get rid of or fully mitigate that human bias you’re going to have a real hard time getting high quality data in order to do predictive analytics. So human contributions and predictive analytics knowing why the general life experience and being able to identify and account for and me to remove or stop a project due to bias aware we will have contributions for a long time to come. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel. In the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Take care what help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights that AI today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: IBM Multicloud Manager and The Importance of Cloud Governance

    You Ask, I Answer_ IBM Multicloud Manager and The Importance of Cloud Governance

    Melissa asks, as part of IBM’s launch of Multicloud Manager, “How important is avoiding vendor lock-in with regard to cloud computing?”

    Avoiding vendor lock-in isn’t as big a deal today as it was 20 years ago, in the days when you would park millions of dollars in proprietary hardware in your server room and hope to the deity of your preference that you made the right choice. The benefit of cloud computing is that you can switch between cloud providers if one doesn’t meet your needs.

    From both a marketing technology and IT perspective, where cloud computing has gone wrong – and where Multicloud Manager as well as ICP for Data help remediate – is the lack of governance, policy, and security that cloud computing’s ease has created. When anyone can sign up for a free or low cost cloud environment, an awful lot of people do. Developers are spinning up containers all over the place, marketing technology vendors have hooks into multiple clouds with no clear governance, and executives are buying things they don’t really understand – as long as it has the word AI in it. The ability to set master policies in MCM and ICP for Data and have those policies translated and rolled out across the enterprise is vital, and the centralization means speed of reaction. I’d bet you an awful lot of money Facebook wishes they’d had the software to govern their enterprise and prevent a few data leaks.

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    In today’s episode, Melissa asks, as part of IBM launch of multi Cloud Manager How important is voiding vendor lock in with regard to cloud computing? Full disclosure My company is an IBM registered business partner and you should you buy something from IBM through trust insights I will indirectly benefit financially so now that we’ve got a compliance out of the way that’s actually kind of the heart of all of this

    avoid vendor lock in with cloud computing isn’t isn’t as big a deal today as it was 20 years ago because 20 years ago when I was working full time and it

    you would make a choice on a vendor right and the truck and pull up to the shipping dock and start offloading millions of dollars in servers and proprietary hardware and stuff into server room and up when you’re like, boy, I hope I made the right choice because

    That’s an awful lot of hardware and knowing it as it is going to stay parked in that server room for a very long time. So you had to make the right choice. And of course, we’re all human, don’t necessarily make great choices or didn’t understand the choices were being offered. And so you had to adapt around those choices. Now, the benefit of cloud computing is that you don’t have to do that anymore. You can switch providers, yes, there’s the infrastructure

    in terms of the code that you write, that’s whether it’s specialized to a particular platform or not. But today’s cloud computing environment is much more flexible you build your applications or your marketing technology or your whatever inside of a container like Docker, Cooper daddy’s and then you can literally pick that container up and move from one provider to another. You can say okay, I’ll take this from Amazon to Google, Google to IBM, IBM, Red Hat etc. and move this this container around and it should function

    identically no matter where you move it because it’s a little virtualized environment. So vendor lock in is not a huge deal. As long as you’ve architected your systems correctly now

    so that I guess the answer this question, it’s not very important, but from both of marketing technology and an IT perspective where cloud computing has gone wrong, and where a service like IBM is do multi Cloud Manager, as well as the ICP, for data platform will help fix is the lack of governance of lack of policy and the lack of centralization, which leads to security breaches and security problems. And this is

    this is a problem because of cloud computing.

    Cloud computing has made it so easy to spin up a new system, a new container and new software project, just try things out. You can sign up for free or very, very low cost cloud environments and say

    Let’s just try this thing out. And a lot of people do, particularly at larger companies, developers are just going to make stuff.

    And because it’s it’s very powerful computing extremely low costs. People don’t think about doing the preparatory work and the government’s work they need in order to do those projects securely. And in a way that will scale you figure out I’m doing it and Cooper 90s, so it will just scale up as I as usages scales up Well, I mean,

    kind of, you still have to write decent code.

    This gets even worse from marketing technology, because in marketing technology vendors are putting their hooks into all these multiple clouds and bringing all these cloud environments into your company without a whole lot of governance. I’ve talked to a awful lot of marketing technology vendors at the various conferences I’ve been, and they can’t even necessarily say like, what systems they’re built on, like, Oh, it’s so it’s all cloud computing. Okay, who’s cloud I don’t know Well,

    maybe that’s fine for a small

    business where you don’t really care. You just need to get a result but at a larger business at an enterprise, if the answer I don’t know, it doesn’t fly when you start talking to auditors.

    And then the third thing that’s happening with the cloud computing is that executives are buying things they don’t really understand. As long as it has today’s buzzword on what’s that’s cloud. That’s AI, that’s machine learning. We check the box, we bought the thing.

    I mean, it’s like saying you bought the car, okay, what kind of car there’s a really big difference between a Toyota and a Tesla is this very, very big differences. And so

    it’s become the Wild West for

    marketing technology. And in particular,

    think of a CIO magazine said that as of 2017, and the CMO spends more than the CIO on technology

    and marketers

    have traditionally not been concerned about things like governance because

    Marketing Tools didn’t necessarily need now they do now that there’s such a core part of the enterprise now that there’s such an important store of very sensitive, very

    potentially dangerous data, like personally identifiable information, protected health information,

    marketers have an obligation to adhere to the same rules that it has had to play a by for the last 50 years,

    we have to have things like security and governance and policies and something like multi Cloud Manager and ICP for data. One of the most powerful features these platforms is that they’re sort of an abstraction layer and a governance layer. They can you put in, here’s our corporate policies, here’s how we’re going to protect this information. Here’s what information people are, are not allowed to have access to and then it reaches to the data stores where they are if you got stuffing and IBM Cloud at Google Cloud or AWS, or

    Maybe you’ve got Docker containers running locally. It will then take those policies that you specify and push them out across all these different environments is okay this is what you’re allowed to do and not allowed to. So real simple example suppose that you are a company and you are you’re in marketing and on your website you have a quiz

    ask people like you know this fun Facebook quizzes What’s your name? What’s your weight and what’s your zodiac sign name was protected information PII personally identifiable information that has to be protected someone’s Wait, it’s like a carnival game. But guess what weight is actually protected health information. It is it’s extremely dangerous data to have laying around.

    And so you now have a potentially significant governance problem being able to say in MC Hammer ICP for data, okay, we’re going to do identify the status we’re going to remove name entirely. So if you were going to build a machine learning model on this for marketing purposes, to predict who’s going to be a great customer to take names.

    TV that you can build your model. But you don’t need that. And we’re going to, to bucket the weights. So it’s no longer a specific number. Now it’s a bucket between, you know, 120 pounds, 130 pounds. Okay, now we’ve de identified that and your zodiac sign on, it’s fine. Because that’s, that’s fairly vague anyway.

    And by doing that level of the identification, now, you can say, Okay, now developers now marketers now technology teams, you can access this data and work with it, but it is now it has been governed, it is compliant with security policies. And if that data gets breached somehow

    it’s not going to cause a risk because it’s no longer dangerous in that format. And so

    vendor lock in is not as important as multi vendor security as as having that governance. governance is a pain in the butt. It’s not fun, but getting sued is much less fun working.

    Five days straight in your server room because you had a data breach is much less fun.

    And so for all of us in marketing in it in in the lines of business, just remember

    take a little bit of fun out on a daily basis so that we don’t have large periods of super not fun should things go wrong?

    As always if you have questions, please leave them in the comments. I’ll put a link to multi Cloud Manager in the show notes and please subscribe to the YouTube channel. The newsletter will talk to you soon. Take care what help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights that AI today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Machine Learning in Sales and Retargeting

    You Ask, I Answer_ Machine Learning in Sales and Retargeting

    Denis asks, “How will AI help marketers with retargeting and sales conversion?”

    The greatest challenge most marketers face is too much data. At any given time, we could be looking at hundreds, thousands, or even millions of data points, from retweets to bounce rates. No human can compute these, and even if we could, it wouldn’t be in a timely enough fashion to be usable. Learn about the 3 machine learning techniques that make our marketing data manageable.

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    In today’s episode, Dennis asks,

    how will AI help marketers with retargeting and sales conversion? This is a really interesting question because one of the things that marketers struggle with is what causes a conversion? Or what factors? What measures what metrics learners what dimensions lead to conversion, or contribute to conversion. A big part of this is a foundation of attribution analysis. What things what pieces of data lead to have driven conversions on the past. And then obviously with things like retargeting. You’re trying to focus on what things are likely predicting what things are likely to cause conversions in the future and the way AI and machine learning help with this is dealing with what are called week learners.

    A week learner is any dimension or metric who’s predictive power is just barely above chance. Just slightly more than that random chance. It’s, it’s a call a week learner because it’s a weak signal. It’s not a signal. That is that by itself is a very strong signal. So for example, number of times someone has retweeted your tweets, right? That’s for a fair number of visitors, that’s going to be a really weak learner. In fact, it may or may not even be statistically relevant. But the very least is probably a week learner

    that are things like

    how many times someone has opened an email the number of social channels, someone follows you on the pages they visited on a website, the amount of time they spend on a page when you think about all the data that we have access to as marketers and then we consider that most of these metrics are pretty weak. You get to sit start getting a sense of the scope of the problem like we have all this data

    None of it is the one answer that we’re looking for. The answer says, this is the thing, this is the thing we need to do more of it would be nice. If it didn’t work that way, we nice to know say you should always send email on Tuesdays, that’s going to cause all your conversions doesn’t happen. So how does AI help with this through techniques that aggregate week learners together and and make them function as a stronger learner, we can get a sense of what combinations of dimensions and metrics matter most like give an example let’s say that

    each one of these playing cards, what the thickness of it indicated the strength of that learning, right? So you have

    tweets and emails and

    Taiwan page and bounce rate and stuff and you see all these cards over and over again. Now by themselves. Each one of these cards is a signal and these signals are real thin right now if we just start doing what’s called bagging, we start putting similar cards together similar cards together.

    Similar cards together,

    we end up with a stronger signal do this enough and you end up with a very strong signal.

    And there are techniques like bagging and boosting that allow you to do this that are machine learning technologies that used to physics and use math to figure out how you go from pile random cards to block that indicates this combination of things is the thing that works

    and that’s really where AI will be used to help marketers with with the retargeting the sales conversion, by identifying through techniques like gradient boosting through techniques like random forests and stuff.

    This combination of variables, whether it’s time or attributes of the person or number of times they’ve done something or percentage of things that they’ve done something this combination is the combination that will lead the outcome now if you want to kick it up a notch.

    There is then a machine learning technique called multi objective optimization that says, hey, what do you care about? If you’ve done an attribution analysis or you’ve done the process of attribution analysis? You know that

    many times there isn’t that one answer. There could be a bunch of things that perform well or in your company. different teams may have different KPIs, but they’re all important. So the events team has registrations as as a KPI, the direct response team has opens, right, the sales team has Mark has has deals closed.

    One of the challenges that that folks working with machine learning and marketing data is, is not optimizing just for one metric, but optimizing for multiple metrics. And that’s where something like multi objective optimization will come into place to take

    all these signals that you’ve aggregated through bagging and boosting entry and forests and stuff and then use those

    blend them together and figure out okay, now how do we allocate both credit and resources across these different objectives to help everyone meet their objectives without causing significant harm to another objective. And that may mean that by the way that

    you may not get everything you want for your objective, you may have to compromise with other departments of the teams with other pools of resources. But the net effect the net computation will be that you’ll have the greatest overall benefit your company and that’s another that’s another part of machine learning. That’s super important. That is very difficult to do. Because the math behind it is crazy. It’s like huge, but if you’ve got it working, then you can understand better what you need to do, what combination things you need to do in order to get the outcome the overall outcome you want.

    This is all predicated on having a strategy with clearly defined goals because you

    Can’t do multi objective optimization if you have no objectives, so you have no clearly defined objectives. So that’s an important part is a prerequisite.

    But that’s how AI is going to help marketers with retargeting and sales conversion the most is by taking all these data points that market is simply are not as much as marketers, by the way, its people we are not able to do computations have 100 or 200,000 a million different variables at the same time, we physically cannot do that appear our software hardware just can’t do that. So we need our machines to do that for us. But that’s how marketers will get benefit out of these technologies that and relevant benefit to the performance. So this is all part of the fuse digital conference which I’ll be speaking at in November in Philadelphia. So make sure that if you’re interested in exhibiting or you’re interested in attending that you reach out to the folks there

    but good question. It’s a fun question and the and the technology behind it if you get it working is a serious competitive advantage. It is a competitive

    advantage like no other because you will know what works. For the most part you will know what works obviously still based on the quality of your data safe data if your data is terrible is not going to help you, but assuming good quality data, it is an advantage that few others can can put together to compete against you. So as always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai and listen to how we can help you

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