Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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Marketing has P&L responsibility
I’m in the middle of teaching a private 2-day workshop right now, and one of the most interesting early takeaways from it was during the calibration discussion, figuring out where people were and what digital marketing challenges they are facing.

The top challenge facing nearly every marketer in the room is lead generation.

That’s fascinating to me and a huge sea change in the marketing world. Once upon a time, marketing was mostly just a cost center that did some advertising, some collateral, and attended martini parties. That was all, really. A career in marketing had a certain amount of both glamour and a reputation for not being especially difficult work.

Fast forward a few years and marketing is such a different animal now. We’re technologists, facing a myriad of different systems, software, and processes. We handle the web, mobile, advertising, social – if it talks to a prospective customer, it’s marketing. Most of all, most important, is that marketing has a P&L responsibility. We’re not just a cost center any longer, but an actual revenue generator through lead generation.

That may not sound like a very big deal, but in the corporate engine, it’s a huge deal. Why? Once a function has P&L responsibility, it has to deliver. It has to meet numbers, hit targets, achieve tangible goals that contribute significantly to the bottom line. That’s why you’ve seen an explosion of executives demanding to know the ROI of marketing’s various channels – and this is a good thing.

Why? In the past, because marketing was seen just as an expense (and a frivolous one at that), when times got tough, it’d be one of the first areas to cut in order to hit profit numbers. Today, because it has a measurable bottom line contribution, it’s easier to defend without a lot of logical contortion. If you know your marketing ROI, you can simply make the case that spending less on marketing will deliver proportionally less revenue to the company. If you know your marketing ROI is $6.51 per$ 1 invested, then you simply need to say, you will lose an additional $6.51 for every dollar you remove from marketing.

Take a moment to celebrate marketing’s much deeper role in any organization, and if you’re a marketer at a company that doesn’t have this worldview, then there’s a good chance the company will not be in business in the not-too-distant future.

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September 27, 2012
Can you successfully blog without lots of traffic?
A friend posted a fascinating question yesterday that are worth sharing publicly:

“Is it really possible to run a blog for the sake of financial independence and not write for traffic?”

The short answer to this question is yes. The long answer is that there are two fundamental models for earning money in publishing. The first is the media model, in which you go broad, gather up eyeballs, and sell them to advertisers. This is publishing as we’ve known it for ages and ages, and it does still work. Blogs, social media, and new media have broadened the formats that we receive this method in, but it’s still a basic model that works today.

The second model, the model to which my friend refers, is the publication model. In the publication model, subscribers simply foot the bill for the publication directly. No advertisers are involved, and thus, if the margins are sufficiently good, you don’t need a ton of audience to be successful.

In both cases, the core value must be the same: the publication must have incredible value. In the media model, it has to be information that is appealing and with a unique angle. For example, a blog covering celebrities had better have unique access or viewpoints that are valuable in order to attract audience. Blogs like TMZ have done this extraordinarily well at the expense of things like supermarket tabloids.

In the publisher model, it has to be information that is scarce and valuable, valuable enough to pay for. For example, Bloomberg provides a paid service for $1,800/month to investors. However, the information they provide is so valuable that investors with talent can make that investment back many times over, and thus people have no problem paying for it. Typically in the publisher model, lucrative niches are what makes for straightforward success.

What people get mixed up is that the medium isn’t the secret to success. The secret to success is the value of the message. A blog is inherently no more likely to be successful than a Facebook Page or a newspaper or an email newsletter or a cable TV show by itself. A blog will only be as successful as the value of information it provides.

Create a message of great enough value that people will pay you money or attention for it. The rest will come after people understand the value you provide.

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September 26, 2012
A glimpse of the future from Dreamforce
While this is very much a product pitch for the Salesforce Chatter application, watch this 15 minute excerpt from the Dreamforce conference to be blown away by what’s possible with great technology integration into your marketing and customer service. This exploded my head when I saw it.

Chatter – Featuring Virgin America
Watch this video on YouTube.

If this level of service becomes the gold standard, then many of us have a lot of catching up to do.

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September 20, 2012
Getting lost at the greatest show on Earth
This week, I’m at Dreamforce 2012 out in San Francisco. According to Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, there are 85,600 people on site, thousands more online, and hundreds, if not thousands of vendors and advertisers vying for our attention. There are hundreds of speakers at 730+ sessions to share knowledge.

So the question is, how do you stand out? If you were an advertiser, if you were a marketer responsible for bringing home some bacon from this show, how would you stand out, especially if you didn’t have the budget for a million dollar sponsorship?

What I’ve seen so far is largely an amalgamation of what doesn’t work. This show is very much a “go big or go home” venue – if you do a small or middling sponsorship, you’ll get lost in the crowd. You either have to go all in, or not at all. For example, I’m at this show mainly as a speaker. Yes, I’m representing my company as well, but I’m fully and wholly aware that if we didn’t drop $50K+, we’d get no lasting traction from it.

The other thing is that you have to have your message sharpened and honed like a razor. That’s true all the time, to be sure, but a show like this requires a few extra strokes on the grindstone for the most precise edge possible. You have fractions of a second as a speaker, sponsor, or advertiser to catch someone’s attention and communicate with them a reason why they should talk to you.

Finally, and this is a bit of a rant on booth staff, hire people and train them for the show. I’ve lost count of how many ultra-platinum elite sponsors’ booths I’ve visited that are staffed by people who are there mainly as greeters and eye candy. They know nothing, and their pitch is a total non-started. Here’s an example from yesterday:

“Hello sir, are you looking for software integration?” was the initial pitch. I responded immediately, “Actually, yes. What APIs do you support?” The response was an instant deal-loser: “Umm… I don’t know. I don’t actually work for this company, but let me go find someone who can answer that.” They lost me after that and I never came back.

It’s fine to hire extra staff to bulk up your presence at a show, but make sure even these temporary employees are given at least enough knowledge to be able to answer some reasonable questions. Otherwise, you’re likely turning away more people than you’re keeping.

Getting lost at the greatest show on earth is easy. Getting noticed is much harder.

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September 19, 2012
Influence creates change
This week, I’ll be traveling to San Francisco to speak and share at Dreamforce 2012. I wanted to share a bit of my thinking about the panel I’ll be part of on social media influence in advance so that those who are going can look at the topic from a slightly different angle.

What is influence? That’s the heart of the matter. What does influence mean to you? In my mind, influence is about change – change of behavior, change of identity, change of belief system. If someone is influential to you, then they can help to create change in you, or just outright force you to change. What they change determines their level of influence. A change of behavior is relatively straightforward, such as buying something you might not have bought. A change of identity or belief system is significantly more complex and shows much deeper levels of influence.

There’s a huge difference between likability and influence. What we’re calling “influence” in social media many times isn’t. You may really like Chris Brogan or Donna Papacosta, but if they don’t create change in you, then they’re just likable people. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s not influence. Conversely, you may not like or even know someone like Stephen K. Hayes or even the late Mother Teresa of Calcutta to be influenced by them, to make changes in your life, beliefs, or actions based on their teachings or examples.

Here’s an example of how this goes wrong in social media: let’s say Chris Brogan shares something on Twitter and asks you to retweet it. If you’re a fan of Chris and you would have retweeted it anyway, then no behavioral change has happened. By definition, that’s not influence. Yet many of our online influence measurement tools would declare that influence. You retweeted, therefore Chris has influence.

Ask yourself this about anything you deem influential: does it create change? If it does not, then it’s not influence.

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September 17, 2012
5 ways to make sense of data
When it comes to processing and handling data, there are so many different ways to look at it in order to gain insight. The entire profession of statistical analysis does this on a regular basis. However, as with many things in marketing, understanding the basics and being able to do a few things well will get the job done most of the time. Today, let’s look at 5 different ways you can look at a pile of data in order to make sense of it, 5 questions you can ask of your data for more insight.

If you’d like to play along, you can use this Google Doc with data from my newsletter.

Question 1: Can it be grouped?

When you’re faced with a pile of data, clustering it together in logical groupings can sometimes be helpful for generating insight. In tab 2 in the example spreadsheet, I appended the day of the week for each statistic and then created a PivotTable. We see the results very clearly as to the day of the week that most people subscribe to the newsletter.

The logical insight is that if people are already subscribing in quantity on Saturdays, maybe run a promotion to encourage even more. Go with the flow!

Question 2: Can it be split?

If your data isn’t yielding any obvious answers at first glance, perhaps it can be split up and made more granular. This may be an issue of collection or of processing. Since the data I’ve got is already about as granular as the tools permit, we won’t have anything to do with the example. However, if we were looking at monthly data and there were no obvious insights, we could inquire about getting weekly or daily views.

Question 3: Can it be converted to rates?

Rates can show trends that absolute data obscures, especially when you chart it out. For example, here’s what the data looks like in absolute form of website visits to subscriptions.

I don’t know about you, but that’s not super helpful to me. What if (as seen in the example sheet on the fourth tab) we added a rate and charted that instead?

That’s more helpful. We can see the rate of subscriptions a lot more clearly than in the first chart. To add some more depth to this, go check out how to add in moving averages.

Question 4: Can it be charted?

As you’ve seen in the past few examples, nothing is quite as impactful in statistical analysis as charting, as drawing a picture. Most people simply can’t visualize data in their heads without assistance, so rather than make them work, provide them the charts to do it. Charting out your data will also often point out either bad data (because the chart looks crazy bad in spots) or illogical groupings of data that result in a chart that looks like a crack addict got hold of an Etch a Sketch.

Question 5: Is it related?

This is one of the most powerful and one of the most misunderstood questions in all of statistics. Given two sets of data, are they related? If so, what is the strength and nature of that relationship?

Being able to do a correlation between two sets of data is statistics 101, but it’s something that eludes most people. Spreadsheets have a correlation function built in. All you need to do is give it the two sets of data and then interpret the result. In tab 5, you’ll see a basic correlation between website visits and email subscriptions. The result, a -0.189 correlation, indicates that there’s no relationship between website visits and email subscriptions.

Examples of correlation

This is the time and place to say that correlation does not indicate causation – just because something is related doesn’t mean one causes the other. You have to do further research to answer that questions. That said, if a correlation doesn’t exist, then a causation by default does not exist. My next question that I’d want to research is – if website visits don’t drive subscriptions, then what does? That would be my next research step.

Conclusion

Take these 5 questions to any marketing data you’ve got and see if it helps you to start getting insights from your data and asking better questions about it.

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September 13, 2012
Influence marketing in non-public communities
Previously, we discussed the idea that in the future, there would be more and more social networking occurring in private venues, unavailable to the general public. When you think about this, it makes total sense and looks a lot like media has looked for decades, if not centuries. There are vast public forums (appropriate since that’s Latin for public place of assembly) in which large, collective conversations can be held and myriad smaller private conversations held in homes, diners, and places of work. Where we might have once gathered at the town square or channel 2 on television, now we gather on Twitter, but then take the conversations back to our private networks, online and offline.

So how do you find those back rooms, those smoky bars, those diners those places where the people you need to reach go to share, discuss, learn, and relax? Again, like the real world, there are a few different ways in.

First and most crass, if you know where the conversations are, ask the administrators of those groups (assuming you can find them) if they accept advertising. That would at least get you some brand recognition, though it’s surface impressions at best. This is akin to buying advertising on television to be able to reach the living room, bar, and kitchen conversations. Does it work? About as well as any advertising works.

Second, you can attempt ambassadorship by courting one or more of the members of that group to punch your ticket, to endorse you. Identify members of the group that can get you in and introduced in exchange for something of value – this is the principle idea behind influencer outreach, and it’s leagues more effective than simply throwing ads around. The catch is that until you prove you have some value of your own, you’re reliant on your patron’s continued support.

Third and most difficult, but most rewarding and most sustainable, is to earn your way into a seat at the table yourself. In order to do this, you need to create outstanding value for members of that group to see, share, and ultimately ask you to be a part of their conversations.

Here’s an example. Back in 2005, I was working in the financial services industry at a student loan company. One of our target audiences was the financial aid administrator community, a closely-knit group of educational professionals that had the power to approve or deny students’ use of our products and services. We tried the standard routes of getting in the door but ultimately met with little success, as our competitors had far more money and people to throw at the problem than we did. Advertising wasn’t a viable option and administrators, already overwhelmed by multiple vendors, were not interested in blindly endorsing yet another.

We had to go the third route. I ended up creating a financial aid podcast, which was a novel way to reach students, and instead of it being packed just with ads, it also shared information on scholarships, personal finance, and free stuff so that it gave more value than it took. By creating that plus dozens of resources like free eBooks about scholarships, it earned the attention and respect of the financial aid administrators we were trying to reach. In just a couple of years, we went from just a small-time vendor trying to get in the door to being featured speakers at state and national conferences and at one point were even advising the national organization about digital marketing to students.

The best plans are the ones that can leverage all three approaches. Lay some groundwork name recognition with quality ads, create something of legitimate value, and approach members of the community with your offerings. That’s the most rapid route to success. If you are resource-constrained, however, creating something of value is the most sustainable option and the one I’d advise you to choose.

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September 12, 2012
The future of social media influence is hidden
Quick, who are the most influential people on LinkedIn?

What about Google+?

How about Path?

The reason you don’t hear of mega-personalities as much on some social networks is because increasingly, networks are becoming more private. Think about it for a few moments and you realize this makes total sense. You don’t see everything posted to Google+ because much of it is posted just to specific circles. Only the search giant knows what’s been shared.

You don’t see much of anything posted to Path ever. Yet if you think about it, that’s its very charm – hidden away from the world, a place where a few select friends can gather that isn’t like other networks.

Even major services like LinkedIn and Facebook have groups that are access-controlled, where the motto of the group is Fight Club-esque: the first rule of the group is not to talk about the group.

What this means for you, the marketer, is this: your ability to detect “influence” in a quantifiable way (a la social media scores) is largely worthless when trying to find and enter these private communities. There’s simply no way to understand how influential someone is in a private setting where tools that rely on public data can’t reach or see.

Think about that for a second. If you’re trying to reach CEO X who’s friends with me on Path or in my private LinkedIn group, you can’t see that I’m influential to this person or his community, and thus if you rely on influence scores (which are based only on public data), you’ll never know about my level of influence with your target.

More important, there’s no way for you to enter these private settings and do any serious marketing, because they’re hidden from you. So how do you get in? How do you develop and grow your access to private networks? Let’s talk about that some more this week. In the meantime, the takeaway for today is recognizing that influence scores are worthless when it comes to private communities – and that private communities are an ever-increasing trend.

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September 10, 2012
How to develop marketing context
The more I study marketing metrics and share, the more this fundamental principle seems to be getting lost among marketing practitioners:

Metrics can tell you what happened.
Metrics cannot, most of the time, tell you why.

Look at any set of metrics and ask yourself if you have a clear idea why you have those numbers, why they changed, and why those changes happened. The numbers themselves can’t tell you. Only thinking, insight, logic, and the time-honored method of asking people can tell you why something happened. For example, look at your email marketing open rates. They’ve likely gone up a little recently. That’s what happened, but do you know why? The answer lies not in the numbers themselves but in context outside the numbers – namely, that summer vacation ended and lots more people are back at work.

Developing that context requires you, as a marketer, to talk to people directly. Ask yourself if you’ve done any of these things recently:

– Read and responded to an email in your company’s customer service inbox
– Answered the general phone line at your company
– Responded to complaints about your company in social media
– Talked to a happy customer about why they’re happy and how you can make them more happy
– Talked to an unhappy customer about why they’re unhappy and how you can fix things
– Attended a gathering or event and talked to prospective customers about what they want

If you’ve done none of those things recently, then you’re lacking all of the inputs and information you need for context. You can have all of the analytics tools in the world, the best in class, and you’ll still have almost none of the information you need to put marketing metrics in the right context. Measuring the results of decisions that customers make is easy – understanding why they made those decisions in the first place is the hard work. Know that and you’ll win.

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September 6, 2012
What Warcraft’s Isle of Conquest Can Teach You About Marketing Focus
“All in!”

That’s a familiar refrain you’ll hear as your team of 40 soldiers of the Alliance or Horde attempts to kill off the opposition’s general in World of Warcraft’s 40-man battleground, Isle of Conquest.

For those that don’t play, here’s the scenario in short. You and 39 other players face the opposition on a large battlefield with one objective: knock down the gates to your enemy’s keep, storm inside, and kill their general. There are several methods of doing so, but in the end, once the gates fall, you face either Overlord Agmar or High Command Wyrmbane, and your entire team (or a significant portion of them) must attack the enemy general. He’s too strong for just a few players to handle effectively. Oh, and the enemy team is trying to do the same thing to your keep and your general.

In order for your team to win an Isle of Conquest battleground, you have to do several things right. First, your team has to seize one or more battlefield objectives, such as the workshop or docks that make vehicles with which you can knock down walls.

Second, your team has to coordinate and work together. Alliance players of this battleground know the acute pain of watching glaive siege vehicles get destroyed by the enemy and having fellow players stand around obliviously.

Third, your team has to focus. Isle of Conquest demands that you pick a strategy and stick to it. Sending 5 people to each of the battlefield’s 7 objectives is a sure way to lose, as a small squad will simply get overrun and crushed. The path to victory lies in seizing two objectives (usually docks and hangar) with overwhelming force and then focusing on bringing the enemy’s walls down. Once the walls are down, everyone cries “All in!” and (ideally) everyone converges on the boss.

When your team nails its strategy and executes on it, victory is swift. Usually the battle is over in just a few minutes on those painfully rare occasional. When your team is scattered and unfocused, defeat is equally swift as the enemy steamrolls you.

This, of course, should sound familiar to anyone in marketing. When you try to do too much with a fixed pool of resources, whether they’re 40 players or a handful of marketing dollars, your efforts are rarely rewarded and often brutally punished in the short-term. When, alternately, you focus on just a couple of objectives and one goal, you can have much, much greater impact, especially for short-term objectives and goals.

Ask yourself this question: what are you calling “All in!” on in your own marketing programs? What deserves that much focus and effort that you’re willing to strike hard and fast to achieve?

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September 5, 2012

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