Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • Marketing Over Coffee: Google, Skynet, and more

    In this episode of Marketing Over Coffee, check out Twitter retargeting, Skynet, and the telegraphing of moves ahead of time by major companies.

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  • Pain tolerance and marketing methods

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    One of the often-quoted sales adages is that people make a change when the pain of the same situation exceeds the pain of change, of doing something different. The thing is, as with individuals, organizations have different levels of pain tolerance when it comes to making change.

    Some organizations tolerate only a little pain before they’re willing to make a change, while other organizations can tolerate absurd amount of pain before finally deciding that enough is enough and switch things up.

    Marketing to organizations with a low tolerance for pain is easy, but the flipside is that they are just as likely to abandon you if you cause any pain whatsoever. At the first trouble ticket that goes unanswered or the first crisis in the relationship, they are likely to flee.

    Marketing to organizations with a high tolerance for pain means that getting them to switch and change is very difficult, but they are also likely to stick with you in times of trouble or difficulty. They’ll tolerate many more errors.

    So how do you identify an organization’s pain tolerance levels? From the outside, you can’t beyond very perfunctory surface measures. Do a reputation search of the organization on sites like GlassDoor to see what kinds of complaints (because almost all of the reviews of any company are complaints) people have. If complaints are about constant change, then you know you have an organization with low tolerance for pain. If complaints are about stubbornness and refusal to change or adapt, then you likely have an organization with a high tolerance for pain. That should give you insight into what kind of business relationship you’ll have with that company.

    The next logical part of this from a marketing perspective is to reduce the pain of change. You can’t adjust an organization’s pain tolerance levels, but the less friction and pain there is to change, the easier it will be to get a prospective customer to make a change. Use every technology at your disposal to ease the pains of change. Give free trials or a certain dollar amount off at the beginning of a relationship.

    For complex sales, use transition processes to assist in change. For example, if you’re a real estate agent selling houses, throw in the cost of movers into the sale to ease that change. If you’re a SaaS business, make the best data importer ever to make transition to your service seamless. If you’re a burger and fries joint, have a kids eat free night or other transitional deal.

    Whatever you do, make change as painless as possible. The lower the pain you cause, the lower you can do the limbo under a prospective customer’s pain tolerance levels.

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  • Solicited Review: Personify Live

    I’m not sure there’s anything more boring in the world of marketing than a disembodied voice talking over static slides as a webinar, except maybe a sales demo of a disembodied voice talking over static slides. Either way, it’s boring, which means that people tune out almost immediately. If you had two-way webcams, I’d bet more than half of your audience would be crushing candy or updating Facebook with “This webinar is boring”.

    That’s why I was eager to test out some gear from SHIFT client Personify. Their product is dirt-simple: slap a video image of you, green-screened, over top of your content, like so:

    Simple Personify Demo
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    As long as you can turn stuff around in your brain so that your gestures are mirrored appropriately on-screen (think like a weather forecaster on TV), you can make much more interesting videos.

    I used this yesterday on the webinar I was doing for work and the feedback I got was that it made the webinar much more compelling to watch, since people could see both me and the content. There was a reason to do more than just occasionally glance at the slides.

    The product has a couple of odd quirks. First, the Mac version is significantly behind the PC version in terms of features. If you’re on a Mac, you’ll need to do some interesting workarounds to deal with some of the issues, like recording and streaming. For the webinar yesterday (watch it here for a full demo), I used a Google+ Hangout on Air to screencast my entire screen. The software also does NOT work with the Mac implementation of Full Screen for an app. In order to use it on the webinar, I had to render my slides as a PDF, slap it in Preview, and turn off all the navigation so that it was as close to full screen as you could get:

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    That said, I’ve now used it with Microsoft Lync, Citrix GotoMeeting, and Google+ Hangouts and it’s been smooth sailing each time on my Mac.

    Second, because it essentially imposes a layer on top of your content, it interferes with your ability to click on stuff near/under your avatar. If you need to be doing highly interactive stuff in a product demo, that could get annoying quickly. You’d have to move your avatar every so often in order to click on buttons or make things go. For what I’ve used it for – webinars and sales demos of relatively static content – it works great. I could see it being an annoyance with a software demo.

    Third, and this isn’t a quirk of the product but something to keep in mind, you’ll want to think carefully about your setup. For the webinar yesterday, I had dual screens running, with the slides and Personify avatar on one screen, the control room for my Google+ Hangout and Q&A on the second screen, my speaking notes on my iPad, and the live Twitter chat on my iPhone:

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    That’s indeed four screens controlled by one person, which could be a little overwhelming for some people, but I needed that many to ensure that all the content was working as intended. You could probably get away with two screens fairly easily, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend using the product without a second screen of some kind (even a smartphone), just so you’re not tabbing through your email or other stuff you don’t want people to see. I also was using a USB headset for better audio quality and a battery-powered LED light so that I was lit properly. Again, you don’t NEED all that gear, but if you have it, use it.

    If you’ve got visually boring content that requires voiceovers (webinars, sales demos, etc.), you might want to pick one up. It’s 199 for the camera (which is essentially a professional version of an Xbox Kinect) plus20/month for the service, but it’s a heck of a way to make your content more interesting.

    Full Disclosure: Personify, Inc. sent me a review unit to test out. Personify did not directly compensate me, but is a client of my employer, SHIFT Communications. I do not receive compensation for any purchases you might make (but I’m hoping for an affiliate program).

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  • When bad data can be okay

    As marketers, and especially as marketing technologists, correct data, correct metrics, correct information is prized by us (or should be). Incorrect data, faulty data, and misleading data are anathema to our profession and our ability to do our jobs. So it might seem absolutely absurd, even heretical, to make the statement that sometimes, bad data can be okay.

    When could wrong data, bad data ever be okay? Here’s a thought exercise for you.

    Office clock

    Imagine for a moment you wanted to know what time it was. On the wall was a clock that was clearly the wrong time. You know for sure it’s noon but the clock says 3. When you check the clock later that day as you head home, you know it’s 5 o’clock but the clock says 8.

    Is the data bad? Yes. Can you still use it? Yes, as long as you know the clock is three hours ahead. The data is bad but predictably and reliably bad. You can develop a mental model (just subtract three) to compensate for the error.

    Now imagine the clock shows 3 when you know it’s 12. In an hour, it shows 5. Then it goes backwards and shows 11 within a few minutes. Is the data bad? Yes. Can you still use it? No. In this case the data is bad and unreliably, unpredictable, seemingly random. It’s not something you can develop a model on, and thus it’s totally useless.

    Many of the measures we use in marketing come from other derived sources, such as Klout scores and other social influence measures or estimated web traffic. When you’re looking at metrics and tools, the question you should be asking yourself isn’t necessarily whether the data is right (though that’s an important question) but whether it’s reliable.

    You can model reliably wrong data that you understand. You cannot model correct data with surety if you don’t know what it’s made of, because things could be changing behind the scenes that you can’t see or compensate for. One day you wake up and what seemed like right data became wrong data overnight.

    No better example of this exists than Google’s algorithm. No one knows what’s in it, and thus trying to “win at SEO” is an impossible task because what you think is right today may be wrong tomorrow, but you have no way of knowing it until you lose search rankings. Even worse, because you don’t know what’s in it, you don’t know how to fix what’s wrong except by random experimentation.

    Ask how reliable your data is!

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  • My most important content marketing idea from Demand Success

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    On an excellent, fun, energetic discussion panel I participated in at the Vocus Demand Success 2014 conference, there was one point I made that, to me, represents my most important idea in content marketing, the idea that I would like to see every content marketer embrace:

    Content marketing cannot fix a bad product or service.

    In fact, no form of marketing, PR, or advertising can make up for bad products or poor service.

    Content marketing can help strengthen a relationship, unquestionably. It can buy you time while you get product or service issues worked out. Content marketing can give your customers additional reasons to stay engaged with you. But it cannot fix core problems with your products or services (unless content is your product/service).

    In the worst case scenario, as brands attempt to become publishers and media, content marketing becomes another product that suffers from the same problems and issues that the core products and services suffer from.

    Let’s say you had a million dollars to spend on marketing. If your product or service is lackluster, spend $950,000 on improving your product or service to the point where it was excellent, where people wanted to talk about it, and then content marketing will begin to take care of itself. Instead of you having to astroturf the perception that people like you, your product or service would be of such quality that people actually would like you and talk about you.

    Think about the brands you already buy from. How many of them have a crap product that you willingly overlook because they are excellent content marketers? I’d venture to say that number is fairly close to none. We all like great content. We all like great marketing (defined as marketing that is helpful or entertaining). But at the end of the day, we all want a brand to fulfill its promise to us by delivering the product or service that we paid for.

    Disclosure: Vocus is a client of my employer.

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  • There is no difference in B2B vs B2C marketing

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    Marketers make a big deal out of the supposed difference between B2B marketing and B2C marketing. B2B is more complex, some say. B2C is easier, others say. B2B requires more software. The perception that B2B marketing is different than B2C marketing has, in turn, created entire sub-industries of software and services that are needless, expensive distinctions. As a result, an awful lot of people believe one form of marketing is better or worse than the other, and that artificial distinction can cost your company a lot of money.

    Let’s reframe the discussion instead about complexity. The main supposed difference between B2B and B2C marketing is that B2B sales are more complex, which means that there are typically a lot of decision-makers, the sale process takes place over a long period of time, there are multiple rounds of proposal, negotiation, and pricing details, and ultimately a deal is contracted and invoiced. This is in contrast to the average B2C sale where the consumer identifies a product, takes it to a point of sale transaction, and walks out with the product in hand.

    The distinction we need to make isn’t about who you’re selling to. The distinction you must make is how complex your sale is. There are B2C purchases that have the same level of complexity as B2B purchases: cars, college educations, houses, mortgages, etc. These sales take long periods of time, they have multiple decision-makers, and there’s typically a third party involved in the financial details.

    There are also B2B sales that look like B2C transactions. Hundreds of thousands of apps live in the Apple Store and Google Play Store that are B2B focused. There are web analytics apps, business management apps, dashboarding apps, accounting apps, etc. and they all look like frictionless B2C transactions. Just pick an app, tap Buy, and it’s yours in literally seconds.

    The distinction we should be making is whether a sale is complex or transactional. The tools for each kind of selling and marketing are significantly different. Any kind of complex sale is inevitably relationship-driven because the sales cycle is typically long, the time between purchases is long, and thus the value of repeat sales as well as referral sales is high. This in turn makes managing a relationship very valuable.

    Any kind of transactional sale can be made more profitable by reducing friction in the buying process. The fewest barriers you can place between the buyer and their product will result in the greatest conversion.

    Understanding how your sales process actually works in terms of complexity of transaction (regardless of the artificial B2B vs. B2C distinction) opens up doors for you to improve your marketing processes. If your sales process is complex and relationship-driven, then you should be considering marketing automation software even if you’re a B2C company. If your sales cycle is transactional, it should have a strong digital component and you should be heavily investing in eCommerce optimization tools to refine and hone those processes, even if you think of yourself as a B2B company.

    Reframe your thinking about how your business does business and you might find a whole new world of marketing tools and methods suddenly available to you that will make you more efficient, more profitable, and better able to serve how your customers want to buy from you.

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  • Understanding Dimensions and Metrics in Google Analytics

    If there’s one set of controls that has confused more marketers in Google Analytics than any other, it’s the controls that report on dimensions and metrics. What do they mean? What do they do? Why can’t you get reporting on the things you want to get reporting on, like what Twitter users do on your website?

    Let’s bring some clarity to the air when it comes to dimensions and metrics. In virtually every report in Google Analytics, the top half with the charts and graphs are the metrics, and the bottom half of tables are the dimensions.

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    Metrics are anything that can be charted, graphed, or turned into a percentage.
    Dimensions are attributes, characteristics, or qualities.

    This also explains why you can’t just ask Google Analytics for Twitter users as a metric. Counts of users is a metric, but Twitter (or any other source) is a dimension. So how do you use this information?

    Metrics tell you how you’re doing.
    Dimensions help you understand what you’re doing to generate the results you’re seeing in metrics.

    If you were cooking in the kitchen, metrics would tell you how the dish tastes.
    Dimensions would tell you what the ingredients are.

    From here, you can begin to make improvements. If you aren’t getting the metric outcome you want, you know you need to make changes in the dimensions.

    Let’s say you’re looking at the above report on your audience generation efforts, on growing your audience. Let’s say the metrics are going in the wrong direction. The metric tells you that things aren’t going as well as they should be. The dimensions tell you what you’ve been doing, so if you’ve got Twitter as a cornerstone of your new audience acquisition strategy and you’re not getting new audiences, you know that you need to make some changes to get things back on track.

    Hopefully, this clears up some of the confusion around dimensions and metrics!

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  • Does competitive analysis matter?

    Does competitive analysis matter?

    One of the questions I get most often is how a company is doing versus its competitors. People want every manner of competitive analysis, from social media to SEO to insider business information. The question I have in return is, does any of that actually matter?

    The short answer is yes, competitive analysis does matter, but only secondarily. It’s not the most important thing you should be focusing on as a marketer or a business.

    Our first priority is, and always should be, making sure that we are improving ourselves to the greatest extent practical. If you have an extra dollar to spend, 95 cents of it should be on R&D, staff, or service, and maybe 5 cents on competitor watching. In the long run, making yourself better always delivers more value.

    It does not matter what our competitors are doing if our product is terrible or service is an unpleasant experience.

    It does not matter what our competitors are doing if our employees hate working for us.

    It does not matter what our competitors are doing if we are unprofitable.

    For almost every business there is, the most broken thing is not a competitor’s focus. The most broken thing is something internal, and that deserves our focus.

    So what good is competitive analysis?

    Ultimately, competitive analysis is good for helping you find easy wins. For example, if you know the audience that your competitor has acquired, going after the audience may be an easy marketing win because you don’t have to convince anybody of the value of your industry or niche, just your company. Your competitor has done the hard work of convincing them that they need what you have to sell.

    A very simple example of this is for you to follow all the people that follow your competitors’ Twitter accounts. You know they’re at least marginally interested in the space if they’re following more than one other competitor.

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    (For the record, I don’t consider CC or Chris competitors in any sense, I just needed an example not under NDA!)

    Competitive analysis is also good for helping you understand what product features or service features you should have in your product that your competitors have. Be very careful with this, as it can be an incredibly dangerous trap! Your customers may loudly demand a feature, but then never use it, not derive any value from it, and cost you a lot of R&D money for no return.

    For example, at one company I worked at in the past, customers demanded that the product have an A/B testing feature. I heard that feature request on every channel imaginable. Prospects said it in sales meetings. Sales opportunities were lost because decision makers said all of the competitors had it. Customers said it through their reps. People shouted, we want A/B testing!

    When the product finally got A/B testing, and a very good, very robust solution at that, guess what percentage of the customer base used it? That’s right, about 1%.

    This is the danger of competitive analysis for product and service features. You can end up chasing things that don’t matter. If you’re just getting started with competitive analysis, go after audience acquisition first.

    Remember this above all else: competitive analysis is good and important but is always secondary to improving yourself. Make that your primary focus, invest the most time and resources into fixing what is most broken with you, and competitors will largely take care of themselves.

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  • 2014 Summer Reading List (w/accessories!)

    For many folks, summer is now in full swing. Pools are open, grills are dusted off, and we start scouring our refrigerators for fresh fruit to blend. Start off your summer right with this list of books and other goods. Here’s to a relaxing, educational, and fun summer.

    Full disclosure, in case it wasn’t obvious, everything here is an Amazon affiliate link!

    Summer Reading List
    Hey Marketers, Get Your Priorities Straight: Setting Marketing Communication Priorities at Startups, Small Businesses, and Non-Profits The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth: Entrepreneurship for Weirdos, Misfits, and World Dominators The Power of Visual Storytelling: How to Use Visuals, Videos, and Social Media to Market Your Brand
    Hey Marketers, Get Your Priorities Straight
    by Nicholas Scarpino and Avinash Kaushik    		 The Freaks Shall Inherit the Earth
    by Chris Brogan     		 The Power of Visual Storytelling
    by Ekaterina Walter 
    Duct Tape Selling: Think Like a Marketer—Sell Like a Superstar Social Media Explained: Untangling the World's Most Misunderstood Business Trend 101 Steps to Making Videos Like a Pro
    Duct Tape Selling
    by John Jantsch     		 Social Media Explained
    by Mark W. Schaefer     		 101 Steps to Making Videos Like a Pro 
    by C.C. Chapman and Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
    Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t
    Think Like a Freak
    by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen Dubner    		 Creativity, Inc.
    by Ed Catmull     		 Leaders Eat Last
    by Simon Sinek

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    $64.66    		 Cuisinart Portable Grill
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    BAFX Products (TM) - Non Contact - Infrared (IR) Thermometer (-58F - +1,022F) - W/ Pointer Sight - BATTERY INCLUDED! Blendtec TB-621-20 Total Blender, Black Google Chromecast HDMI Streaming Media Player
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  • Marketers seeking new audience should look here

    internettrends2014-052814-pdf-140528064345-phpapp02_pdf__page_155_of_164_Kleiner Perkins State of the Internet

    At 46% of its population with access, China’s Internet-connected citizens are more than double the United States’ citizen counts. In fact, China’s Internet citizenry is almost more than double than the entire population of the United States, period. Oh, and China’s mobile users? 80% of the population, or about 500 million users, from a CNNIC report late last year.

    Japan, Brazil, and Russia together account for another pool of Internet users that equals the current United States connected users – and Brazil and Russia both have lots more room for growth.

    We’ve made no secret over the past few years that you need a mobile strategy. If you want to maximize your marketing growth, you need a China strategy in specific and an international strategy in general.

    Here’s the catch: in order to do that well, you’re going to need feet on the ground. I’ve yet to hear of a long-term sustainable international strategy that didn’t have feet on the ground doing the work locally, immersed in the culture. If you’ve heard of any long-term international marketing success stories that defy this, please leave a note in the comments!

    Oh, and you should probably read the rest of the Kleiner Perkins report. It’s excellent, but packed full of info to digest.

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