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What will kill email?
Greg Hyer asked an interesting question in the Marketing Over Coffee LinkedIn group: what will kill email?

The short answer is: nothing. The slightly longer answer is that anything based in an open standard is likely to be around for a very, very long time. Back in the day – and I’m talking 1995 here – the dominant form of public file sharing and discussion was Usenet, based on the open NNTP protocol. Usenet was notoriously difficult to use, from getting a desktop client set up to finding newsgroups that you wanted to participate in. When the World Wide Web and its HTTP protocol crashed onto the scene, Usenet began its long, slow decline into relative obscurity.

End of story, right? Not quite. Usenet is still around today. Google Groups is probably the best known interface for it, but there are plenty of others, and there are still plenty of users active on Usenet, with over 110,000 still active groups. Why hasn’t Usenet gone away, when there are so many easier and better ways to get at the same information? Because the NNTP protocol is an open standard, and because it provides some basic utility, it’s still around.

The protocols that make up email – IMAP, POP3, SMTP – are equally open standards. Anyone can get a cheap piece of hardware set up with Sendmail or Postfix and have themselves a fully standards-compliant mail server up and running as fast as you can build it. There’s no one you need to buy software from or get approval from – you just build it, connect it to the Internet, configure your DNS records, and you’re in business.

This is why email will likely never die, at least not for a very, very long time. You can’t set up your own Twitter server. You can’t set up your own Facebook server. In fact, of all of the major social networks, the only one that promised any kind of protocol-based service with independent ownership was Google Wave, and that was killed off in just three years by Google after it failed to gain any kind of traction.

For social marketers, this is why we’ll be on the conveyor belt of “shiny new networks” that rise up, blossom, and then die, but will not have a stable platform. Each company in the social space is unwilling to open its code for independent implementations because their business models require exclusivity of ownership. As a result, the rapid birth-death cycles of popular social networks will continue, from Friendster to MySpace to Facebook today. On the bright side, it means that for many of us in the digital marketing space, we’ll have continued opportunities to find and seize early mover advantages from nascent networks as they catch on.

Be ahead of the curve: watch the referrers in your Google Analytics carefully. Look for new referring sites and check them out, perhaps on a monthly basis, to see what’s sending new audiences to you. The next big hit might be in there already.

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February 26, 2013
What real-time marketers should learn from Frost Mages
Over the weekend, I finally got around to leveling my frost mage again in World of Warcraft. She’s by far my oldest character, the one I’ve played (and in frost spec) since I first started playing World of Warcraft in 2007. One of the challenges over the years of playing frost is that playing the class well is highly dependent on what’s happening. There are best practices, but there’s no cookie-cutter rotation like there is with some other classes like my rogue.

For example, frost mages have an ability called Ice Lance. Under normal circumstances, Ice Lance is a fairly lackluster ability. Most of the time, it’s not even worth using. However, when a bonus named Fingers of Frost temporarily appears, Ice Lance suddenly goes from being a weak ability to a knockout punch that you have to use within 12 seconds.

Thus, much of frost mage strategy revolves around trying to get Fingers of Frost to happen and then using Ice Lance, and reprioritizing whatever you’re doing on the fly so that you can hit as hard as possible.

That means there’s no falling asleep at the wheel, and no cookie-cutter recipe you can rely on to mindlessly win. If you want to top the charts as a frost mage, you have to be ready to drop everything else you’re doing and hit Ice Lance when that narrow window of opportunity appears, then switch to other abilities when the window closes. Likewise, you can’t just sit around pressing the Ice Lance button all the time and hoping that the bonus window opens up, or you’ll be at the bottom of the charts (because it hits so weakly most of the time).

This describes the essence of good real-time marketing, of good social strategy. You’ve got to know what abilities you have, what they do, and be able to take advantage brief windows of opportunity when they appear. As Jay Baer aptly pointed out about some of the very awkward brand tweets from the Oscars, companies who saw Oreo’s success during the Super Bowl were trying too hard during the Oscars. They were doing the social equivalent of hitting Ice Lance without a window of opportunity to hit hard, hoping to get a lucky shot in rather than seeing a legitimate opportunity to make the most of a moment. As a result, they hit weakly for the most part.

Look at all of the tools in your arsenal of marketing methods. Look at what they do, look at the context in which they function best for your audience. When does an image work best? When does a video work best? When does a podcast work best? What tools rely on windows of opportunity? What tools require a specific condition to be present to be most effective? Use the right tools for the right opportunities and you’ll top the charts, both in Warcraft and in marketing.

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February 25, 2013
Go where the competition isn’t
I noted with interest the other day on LinkedIn how many people are now using digital marketing in their job titles, like digital marketing executive, digital marketing coordinator, digital marketing manager, etc. Compared to older terms like Internet marketing, social media marketing, and social marketing, digital marketing’s star is ascending:

With the ascendance of digital marketing, that space is getting crowded. Where are the spaces where your competitors aren’t?

Consider now what will make you stand out in the crowd. I haven’t received a really nice piece of paper junk mail in a really long time. I still the occasional trashy “fake government letter” mortgage offers, but in terms of a nice glossy piece of collateral, I haven’t seen one in a couple of years. I read paper catalogs that I get in the mail (and proceed to order from the company’s website when I do order) because occasionally, there are times when it’s just nice to have something to hold that doesn’t glow.

Where else can you be that your competitors aren’t? A lot of folks have rightfully questioned the value of trade shows and conferences. What if you threw your own conference? It’d probably be about as cost effective as sponsoring a booth at a bigger one, but you’d be the only brand exhibiting, sponsoring, and speaking.

A lot of folks have noted that print publication advertising costs are prohibitive or the ROI isn’t clear. Why not start your own niche publication, where the only advertiser is you, and measure on your input forms and calls how many people have come from the print edition? As a sales tool, handing someone a glossy magazine would certainly be a different, surprising way to present rather than a staid Powerpoint.

Do what others aren’t. Be where competitors aren’t. Only then can you stand out from the herd.

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February 22, 2013
The enduring rule of SEO
I was tinkering with my LinkedIn profile the other day and realized that I’ve been doing SEO in some fashion now for close to 20 years. My first website went up in 1994 and back then, SEO was all keyword stuffing, all the time (veterans, remember white text on a white background in 1996?), and Yahoo was the only game in town. Then came Altavista, and then Google a few years later.

via The Wayback Machine

Throughout that time, one enduring rule has powered SEO, one rule that is as close to timeless as anything in our industry can be called such:

Create stuff that people want to share.

Look at how all of the search algorithms have changed over time, from the three-way wars with Altavista, Yahoo, and Google early on to today and what search engines value. Look at how newer forms of search, from mobile to Facebook Graph Search to Twitter all work. Everything works on the same fundamental idea that a useful search provides some form of value, and that value is indicated by people sharing. Inbound links are nothing more than a technical indicator of shareworthy content. Mentions on Twitter are an indicator of share worthy content.

Even the newest twist in SEO, where the person is part of the ranking factor (and their content over time is ranked higher) is still rooted in this fundamental idea, that they are creating stuff that other people want to share.

When people find value in your stuff, when people share your stuff, you immunize yourself against SEO algorithm changes better than any other tactic you could do in the short-term. Every algorithm in search in the last two decades has at its heart been about finding the good stuff, and as long as you’re creating it, you will do well in the long term search marketing game. If you’re going to invest money in search marketing, invest it in content creators that make brilliant, amazing, funny, helpful, inspirational, or insightful content.

Create stuff that people want to share.

For the most part, the rest will attend to itself.

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February 21, 2013
Which conferences should you be attending?
With the coming of mega-events like SxSW and other large events, one of the natural questions to ask is, which events should you be going to in order to further your business and your knowledge? The answer is surprisingly simple: whichever events have the people you want to see. Let’s look at a couple of ways you can use simple tools to help make that decision easier.

First, go to Twitter itself. Look at the people who are using the event hashtag of your choice, such as #SxSW:

Are any of these people folks you want to meet, people you want to prospect, teachers you want to learn from? Do your homework and figure out if this is your crowd or not. For some people, it’s 100% on target. For other people, it’s 100% irrelevant.

Next, go to the speakers page of any event.

Look at the speaking roster, then start visiting individual speakers’ blogs. Try to read the last 3 blog posts that each speaker has written. If you’ve gotten through 3-5 speakers and not gleaned anything useful from their blogs, then they probably don’t have a great deal to share with you on stage, either.

Third and finally, ask your customers what events they’re attending this year. If you’re considering an event and zero customers mention that event, then there’s a good chance that future business isn’t likely to be found at that event, either. If you have a limited events budget, go to the events where existing paying customers are going, because birds of a feather tend to flock together.

Deciding what events to attend is relatively straightforward: if an event fails all three of these tests, you probably shouldn’t go. If an event nails all three of these tests, get out your credit card and book it.

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February 20, 2013
Even canned kindness helps
If you’ve ever wondered whether automation of some content, of some customer experiences (not all, obviously) is a bad thing or impacts your brand negatively, one answer can be found in pick up groups, or pugs, in World of Warcraft. These are randomly assembled groups of 5 or 25 people who are given the task of clearing a dungeon or raid. Pugs are notorious for bad manners, inconsiderate people, and foolish behavior, but they’re also a necessary part of the Warcraft experience if you don’t belong to an aggressive raiding guild, since they’re the only way you’ll ever see most of the dungeons or raids.

Here’s the difference that even a bit of automated kindness can make: if you have pre-scripted, helpful language ready to go for in-game chat, you can transform what are otherwise at best silent affairs (and at worst, the worst language of humanity) into relatively pleasant dungeon crawls.

For example, I have a series of basic quotes that I use on my Death Knight that help to explain what a boss does (and what to avoid) plus simple pleasantries like hello, goodbye, and generic group thanks. These are bound to macros so that I don’t even have to type out the sentences, just a few letters and the canned text appears. It’s not necessarily sincere, authentic communication because it’s all canned, but it never fails that more people become talkative in-group, more people do their jobs better (like not standing in fire), and more people say thank you at the end of a dungeon crawl when you use canned, scripted kindness than not.

Why? Because the general experience is otherwise awful. The general experience is oppressively silent or consists only of people berating each other for screwing up. The general experience is a lot like the general public. Some nice folks, some bad folks, and a lot of folks in the middle. Whoever speaks up first sets the tone for the rest of the run, so if the first comment is something along the lines of “WTF NOOB” or like comments, the rest of the pack tends to follow along. If the first comment is a mildly entertaining introduction like this:

“Hi there! I’m your duly designated meat shield. A few basics: don’t stand in bad, we go only as fast as the healer can go because dying slows us down more, need if you really do need (even off spec), everyone needs on lockboxes. Ready to have some fun?”

Then the tone is set for the otherwise silent majority to go along with.

Your marketing, your management of groups, your handling of the general public is no different. The tone you set, the comments you make, the language you use set up the experience you are likely to have, assuming you can do what you say you can do. If you choose language in your marketing that is condescending, brusque, or unhelpful, don’t be surprised when your customers treat you that way. If you choose language that is helpful and kind, even if it’s canned, automated, or scripted, you’ll set the initial tone much more tuned to the success you want to generate.

Here’s an exercise for you to try. Grab any piece of marketing collateral, from an email auto responder to a product page on your website, and examine it. Is the language helpful and kind, neutral and boring, or condescending and potentially insulting? If this is the first interaction someone has with you, does the marketing collateral set the tone you want to have set in their minds?

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February 19, 2013
Credibility means an end to anonymity
In the age of the instant online review, the instant online recommendation, the instant product discussion, something funny has happened.

The phenomenon of astroturfing has exploded. Not the fake grass itself, but the practice of buying reviews and buying mass approval. Why? Tools like Fiverr and Amazon Mechanical Turk make approaching and building a paid crowd simple. Here’s an example:

Fiverr folks in the online marketing category will pimp your Amazon book. (professional marketers and PR folks face palm at the fact that there’s an online marketing and PR category at all on a $5/job website)

What this has done among the socially savvy is created a perverse counter effect, in which a product that only receives 5 star or top reviews is perceived as suspect, thanks to the prevalence and ease of gaming online reviews. Anecdotally, I know that I and others I’ve asked consider a four star review to be generally more credible – a few people who had bad experiences (which you’d expect of any product or service) and a larger number of people who had good experiences.

What a crazy world where something that could legitimately be stellar has to be perceived as less stellar in order to be credible, huh?

Luckily, the ground may be shifting in the favor of more honest marketing. Amazon already has the Amazon Verified Purchase review system, which gives additional weight to reviews by accounts that have actually purchased the item being reviewed. On February 1, 2013, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said:

“Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.”

While seen by many as an endorsement of AuthorRank itself, Schmidt’s comments presage the larger trend that is happening now and will only get stronger: if you want authority or influence, you must have credibility, and that means an end to anonymity, a willful effort to end your obscurity.

Remember, the future is all about you. Build your platform now, because the low-value, low-cost tactics like the Fiverrs of the world are squarely in the gunsights of the big companies and search engines, and only those with platforms will thrive.

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February 15, 2013
Marketing with no used cooldowns
One of the longtime jokes in World of Warcraft is that the only thing worse than ending a fight with all your cooldowns blown is ending a fight with no cooldowns used. For those who don’t play, the term cooldown refers to any ability of a Warcraft character that has long durations between uses. Typically, these are powerful abilities, and when you use them, you can’t use them again for a while so that your class of character isn’t overpowered or unbalanced.

If you play your character well, you should be able to time your cooldowns in big fights to do the most damage possible, which often means coordinating with other members of your group and knowing when one of the bad guy bosses is especially vulnerable. If you play less well, then when one of those special windows of time opens up, you can’t throw the kitchen sink at the boss and your damage per second metric (or your tanking survivability, or your heals per second) craters:

See how a good number of the buttons at the bottom have timers on them? There’s nothing left to throw besides the basics.

The only situation worse than that? Not using them at all, for fear of them not being available – a fairly frequent occurrence:

In fearing the risk-taking completely, you never reach or even approach your potential. It’s impossible to see on the small versions of the pictures, but the difference between throwing the sink and playing it safe is a 10x difference in damage per second.

Now think about your marketing. How many cooldowns do you have? How many buttons can you push for maximum effect? How long does it take them to come off cool down and be ready to use again? For example, an email marketing list will only tolerate so many sales pitches. A social audience will only deal with so many posts a day. A pay per click ad budget only has so many dollars to spend.

What are your marketing cooldowns, and more importantly, are you using them to their maximum potential, or are you playing it super safe and never even touching your marketing potential at all?

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February 14, 2013
You are the future of marketing
Let’s take a look at a few recent emerging trends.
- Google is rolling out Author Rank. This favors giving search authority to authors who have built up a reputation for quality content.
- Facebook is rolling out Graph Search. This favors giving search recommendations to your friends based on things you’ve engaged with.
- Twitter’s new search algorithm rewards originators. This favors you sharing things first and/or being authoritative about your content.
- Bing is testing out listing search results based on Klout. This favors giving search recommendations to people who have platforms and strong networks of friends.
Sensing a theme here? The world is transforming from a “what” world to a “who” world. The reason for Google’s dominance in search was because they mastered what. They mastered being able to answer what questions – what’s the best this or that, what’s the most reputable company for this or that.

Social changes the what equation, however. We first saw this with Facebook ads and LinkedIn ads that targeted the who. Who matches the job titles for the product you’re selling? Who matches the interests of your product or service?

Why? I suspect that in terms of search quality that who is somewhat harder to fake. Sure, you can have dummy accounts but if search marketing platforms are rewarding long term quality then even those dummy accounts must provide value. The who matters. Back in the really bad old days of content marketing, it was trivial to take any database of information and simply republish it. If you did that today, you’d need to provide significant added value in order not to be penalized in search, and one of the most straightforward ways is to add people, from reviews to social engagement to socially generated content.

Who is the platform. You are the platform. Digital marketing will increasingly reward both who you are and what you do, rather than just the stuff you create.

So what does this mean for you? As a company, start thinking about platforms in your recruiting. Imagine two employees of roughly equal capability, but one has a platform. They have a social community of peers that goes with them. Who is more valuable? All other things being equal, the one with the platform is more valuable. Why? They bring more resources to bear. This is true even outside of marketing and sales. For example, imagine two PHP developers. A developer with his or her own platform is more valuable because they have that many more peers to engage with and ask questions of when they encounter difficult problems to solve.

As a person, you need to build out your community and platform. Have a personal presence, have a network, be a resource or become a resource. Grow yourself into a hub that generates new business for whoever you work for. Participate in others’ hubs, from interacting with them socially to creating content for their platforms. Be a powerful connection for your community (whatever that community is) and you’ll add powerful influence to any place you work.

To quote Mitch Joel, it’s not about what you know. It’s not about who you know. It’s about who knows you (and why).

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February 12, 2013
Welcoming the yin water snake
For those who follow such things, yesterday marked the new year for billions of people as the year of the Yin Water Snake, exiting the year of the Yang Water Dragon. The year of the Yang Water Dragon was to have been marked by the dragon’s energy shaking itself out in our world, and we certainly saw that, as some of the largest storms (Hurricane Sandy) struck the United States, along with manmade ones such as the political election cycle and the Newtown shooting. On the flip side, the energy of the water dragon propelled the markets to new heights and brought bountiful opportunities for those prepared to take advantage of them.

What does astrology portend for the year of the Yin Water Snake? Yin years are contracting in energy. Water as an element in the wu xing can either be expanding or contracting, creating or destroying. This year’s signs and portents are for the destructive influence of the element, which puts out the fire element. These are, of course, metaphors for how energy moves through us and the world around us, and are based in pre-industrial legends from agrarian times. In the old days, a yin water snake year would have cautioned farmers to prepare for a lean year, with disease, accidents, calamity, and natural disasters (yin water). Farmers would have needed to be prepared for a lot of travel over long distances (black snake).

Does this have any relevance to the modern day? That depends on how much faith you place in pre-industrial long-term forecasting. I enjoy these forms of divining as more ideas to think about, rather than literal warnings or to-do lists. In a yin water snake year, to ward off the energies involved, spend time being more introspective and cautious. This is opposed to the previous yang dragon year, where you jump at opportunities that present themselves and figure out the details later. In yin water years and in snake years, it’s a good time to think about defending what you have, investing safely where you can, making sure that you stand on a firm foundation. The countering element in the wu xing for water is earth, which is symbolic of foundations, earthen berms that stop floods and channel water’s destructive potential.

More than anything, these sorts of belief systems are excellent for enhancing our focus on particular areas of our lives. If you spent all of the past year leaping at opportunities and it’s worn you out, the concept of the yin water snake year, with its retreating energy and focus on rebirth, compromise, and patience might be an appealing change of pace for you. If you’ve taken lots of risks in the past year, this year might be a good time to take a break and evaluate the choices you’ve made to determine which ones need to be pruned and which ones you should keep. The idea of the snake is that it’s a long-traveling creature in Chinese astrology. If you’ve been thinking about doing some traveling to change your pace, this might be the inspiration you need to go do it.

Looking around at my friends, my colleagues, my coworkers, I do see ample evidence that we’re all burned out from the year of the yang water dragon. We surfed the surges of opportunities, some of us wiped out, but people around me definitely feel fatigued, stressed out, and fried. Thus, the yin water snake, while it might have ominous portents, also might just be the right prescription to get us all to slow down a bit, be a bit more introspective, and restore balance in our lives.

May your new year be filled with health, happiness, and prosperity!

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February 11, 2013

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