First, how much time, energy, and effort are you willing to invest in building the chatbot? If you’re looking for a fast, easy, solution that’s basically an out-of-the-box experience for you, the marketer, chances are the experience you’re going to provide is terrible. If you’re willing to invest weeks, months, or even years plus lots of people, effort, knowledge, and money to create and tune the AI behind today’s chatbots exclusively for your business, chances are the experience you’re going to provide will be good.
Second, what’s the quality of the current experience you’re providing? If you’re providing a great experience with humans now, then the bar for your chatbot is very high and it’s going to take a lot of time and resources to match that experience. If the experience you provide now is appalling – think Department of Motor Vehicles awful – then the bar for your chatbot is very low and pretty much anything except literally slapping customers in the face will be an improvement.
Those are the two levers you have to honestly audit and measure first. The latter, the customer experience, has many, many measurement systems like surveys, Net Promoter Scores, etc. that you can use to judge your customer experience. If your scores are terrible, then a chatbot could be a promising alternative – but also, take some time to fix your current customer experience and you might find a chatbot is unnecessary.
One important distinction: tinkering with and trying out chatbots is something every marketer should be doing. Whether or not you deploy them, you should be testing them out to learn more and see what’s possible.
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“What are the most important factors to consider in a digital marketing audit of performance?”
Pradeep’s question requires a deep dive into statistics and analytics to provide an answer. The reality is we have a massive buffet of questions we could ask of our data. We have more variables to consider than ever before, more data sources. To even understand what’s important, we need to dive into exploratory data analysis to narrow down what to look at.
In this video, watch as we explore just basic Twitter analytics. Today’s video is highly technical; the last 3 minutes, however, review the strategic implications of NOT doing exploratory data analysis.
You Ask, I Answer: What to Audit in Digital Marketing
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In today’s you asked I answer Friday asks, What are the most important factors to consider when auditing digital marketing performance. Well, this is a really good question. It’s a complicated question because we need to be able to understand our data and understand what we’re measuring first whether we’re measuring the right or wrong things. And then we can figure out what’s working, what’s not. We’re going to use the software. Our. This is a free open source software from
a number of different foundations. You can download it for free. I also recommend the our studio interface which is also free that makes it a little bit easier to use because it is very much a programming language. So let’s do this. We’re going to start by taking I’m gonna take some fun Twitter data right these are just my tweets. Let’s take a quick look at these tweets over the last 90 days and I know for be good. Well I care about reaching so that’s a metric that’s important to me. So we’re going to focus on that in in the here if you wanted to know what measures were really important.
I would strongly suggest doing this with Google Analytics data instead it because that’s certainly has greater connections to out to business results retweets not true. The first I’m going to do is look, see
I want to know
what data is missing, if any, so I use a function called plot missing and I don’t see anything here. This is all zero percent. So we’re looking pretty good there. Now there are a bunch of variables. If we open the variable selector factors we charge numeric non numeric things the text the handles and stuff like that,
for the purposes of understanding data and its impact we want to remove those for right now, unless they are
meaningful.
So if I had gone through and categorize tweets by their topics say social media or CEO, I could certainly use that to understand my data set, but in this case I have not done that and we’re not going to do that in this particular exercise. So let’s
go ahead and remove all of the non
numeric
variables close this up here we see we’ve gone from 40 to 19 down to 19 variables, there’s still some in here that are not helpful. So for example, tweet ID not really helpful. So I’m going to go ahead and get rid of that
and now we have a we have numeric data,
the first place I typically typically to start is in correlations, what are the correlations between these different variables. So we’ll do that and it says warning. There are standard deviations, and it is zero.
This means there’s some variables in here that are zeros, all the way down or close to zeros
and so we’re going to need a few libraries to do some exploration on this. Let’s go ahead and actually get
a whole bunch of these libraries and this just loads them up in the software.
Okay, so let’s look at our data set and see what variables are near zero or zeros. This one app opens app installs. I have no tweets involving either those no tweets that have an email and no tweets that have encouraged people to dial phone number. So those variables are, in fact,
causing problems into predictive model because
well, frankly, there’s zeros that they don’t if they don’t really inform anything. So I’m going to knock
those out. Now you can take a look at the
correlations here.
I’ll make this bigger what we’re looking for. Here’s retweets. What’s the biggest number where the biggest numbers that indicate this is definitely something that impacts retweets. So we see here point five eight for hashtags point 434 replies point seven for for likes that’s seems like it’s some important points six for user profile clicks point for for media views so interesting stuff there. If you go down this way here. Meet engagements point six what impressions, point, six, eight gauges point seven one engage right point 09 detail expands point
for to your all clicks point for now. Do you see the problem here engagement and engagement rate or actually sums of all these other activities. That’s a problem because that’s kind of throwing a wrench into our ability to understand what’s going on, those are those roll up numbers and not something that would help
us say let’s let’s just go get more engagement. Okay, well, what kind of engagements. Do we want link clicks to a permanent clicks what profile clicks what’s going on. So we’re going to take those two out because that’s really actually fairly unhelpful
what’s go rerun this our plot
animals zoom in here and now for retweets, we see impressions is his health is important, their meeting gauges somewhat important likes is important. Hashtag clicks is important
but when you look at these numbers, they’re all a good number of them are relatively close to have a really good answer. We’re here the answer. There’s not a just a handful of things. It’s basically says so far, do everything. Well, I don’t want so you do everything. So the next step we could take there’s a couple different ways we could do this, we could run a subsets to see what combination things randomly sub setting through and taking two or three or four or five variables of time testing them and against each other. However, there’s a machine learning technique called random forests, which does this very, very efficiently and so we’re going to use that I say I care about retweets and let’s use everything else is left in this in our data to focus on retweets. So let’s go ahead and run this
is going to run 5000 variations of every possible variable put together
and we see our error rate. They’re slowly declining looking good saying well to the consistent
and now let’s ask the vendor for us what’s things mattered
here. These two variables are the furthest right in this scoring system here impressions and likes followed by all the others. The others are important but these two really are the are the most important thing. So if I can get impressions and likes in my tweets that is likely to result in retweets. Now what do I do with this information. I now have
a hypothesis. Right. This is the beginning of the scientific method
and I’m going to go out and try and get more impressions and more likes on my tweets and see if that in fact results in more retweets so scientific method, we’ve formed a hypothesis. Now we go tested gather data, analyze it and then refine our hypothesis. See if in fact impressions that likes are a causal variables. So if we zoom back up to the 50,000, foot view pretty question, but how do we know what factors to consider when auditing or digital marketing. The answer is we don’t know
we have to first do analysis and this whole session here what we did with just retweets has what we call exploratory data analysis what’s in the data what’s in the box what data is good what data is not good, and then build a model
that has some predictive value to it impressions and likes and now we got we test that this model is not the answer. We cannot conclusively say without a
shadow of doubt that yep it’s all retweets. No, this is the start of the scientific method. We’ve now got a hypothesis we can go test, we have to test it. We have to verify it.
It may turn out that this is false, there may be something wrong with the data they may be something wrong. Conceptually, there may be some factors we are not considering but if you were to then pull in say your CRM data and your marketing automation data and your Google Analytics data and your social media and do this across all these and have a target
instead of retweets have a target of sales or leads or form films or whatever. Once you do that, then you’ll be able to understand it to have a bigger picture understanding of what actually matters to business audit your strategy that way. Do this and then test those competitions variables.
When you do this for
your digital marketing, there’s a good chance you’re going to have 50 6070 8090
different variables
you so you won’t necessarily do this every single day or even even once a month you’ll probably do this quarterly or maybe even semi annually,
but
doing this set of techniques
will help you get a better understanding of what you should be testing next to drive the results you want. And that’s how
you do in a digital marketing oddities you have to do you have to take in all your data clean
it. Prepare
understand it, analyze it and then form your hypothesis and begin your testing. So a great question for a deeper very complicated question that requires real analysis real analytics. If you don’t, if you’re just guess you’re just looking at at the prepackaged chart. It’s the common a lot of software packages and if you haven’t connected your marketing systems data together.
You’re not going to come up with even close to the right answer, you know, you’ve got to come up with a good question to ask when you’re doing you’re trying to figure out what’s wrong with the strategy. So
use are you can use Python two, you can use SMS or SPSS or whatever statistical language you prefer if you don’t have the capabilities. To do this, go and find someone who does go and hire a firm of some kind and agency, a person to do this for you so that you can then develop sound hypotheses, because otherwise you’re just guessing and that’s going to lead to bad outcomes. As always, my company bring interesting insights. Does this stuff. So please feel free to get in touch if this is of interest to you if not enjoy the video please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care.
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Machine learning tools like random forests, MC and MLR to do attribution analysis
A word of warning: tools are like spatulas and frying pans. That means we haven’t talked about ingredients, recipes, or cooking skills. Don’t mistake tools for skills.
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In today’s you ask I answers john via asks, What are my favorite tools for content optimization. Well, it’s a good question, but a vague question because it’s not clear what we mean by content optimization. So for today’s video I’m going to define content optimization as tools that help content perform better in three different buckets. The three buckets are reach. So how can we get our content to attract new audiences engagement content that retains audiences that gets them to come back to to share
and then action content that convinces audiences to take meaningful action, maybe fill out a form, pick up the phone and call us ask for a demo, etc.
With that in mind, there’s with these three buckets. There are a few tools that I recommend for just about everybody and then some tools that you need some budget to have. So on the reach tools the tools to attract new audiences. One of the best tools for keyword research out there
is Neil Patel Uber suggests it is free. It should not be free. It is so good.
I would strongly recommend checking it out just Google for Uber suggestion, you’ll be able to find it again for businesses of any size the prizes right and and the tool is good
on the paid side for reach tools for SEO tools essentially tools like mas sem rush and RF sir are great tools for doing good
SEO research, but there are they are expensive. They will cost you some money so evaluate them. I would say if you had to pick one that would give you the biggest bang for the buck, particularly if you are a small to mid sized business where you have very, very small. Signing Authority. Take a look at sem rush then look at our efforts. Then take a look at mas mas gives you the greatest value, but also has the biggest price tag. And then the third in the reach tools is machine learning tool specifically text mining tools to reverse engineer search results. These are all free. The tidy library, the quantitative library for our Python has a bunch of these as well. You need developer experience to use them. But if you can use them. Well, they will they will deliver incredible results for engagement tools cotton tools that help content retain your audiences or get them to to share and comment and stuff like that. Number one, if you have again if you have budget. It is a fairly expensive tool that buzz Sumo is excellent now provides a lot of useful sharing insights
for
more in depth analysis or for alternate forms of analysis Watson natural language understanding from Ivy and that’s very affordable because it is pay per use since like two cents per user per URL and the sentiment or library and are the last to our machine learning tools again they require developer experience but sent mentors free Watson natural language hosting is very very low cost and with some programming skill and a good database of a sequel database behind the scenes, you can build very rich engagement models,
you would use these tools
to essentially do analysis, figure out
what URLs
get shared the most and then why what are the reasons why was there a certain tone or emotion or sentiment though that powers the engagement.
Finally,
in action. What are the tools that convinced audiences to take meaningful action.
Number one, Google Analytics is essential because you’ve got to be able to measure
the meaningful action for you don’t have that
measurement in place, then you can optimize for it. So Google Analytics with goals and goal values properly set up that’s so important. Google Analytics does not do it out of the box, you need to go in and set it up. Number two is Google Optimize also from Google also free optimize is a massive web based A B testing tool and it is fantastic it what it does in terms of letting you do multivariate testing on web pages change out the color buttons and text and copy and images and all this stuff to find the variations of your content that work best if you want to do a B testing for organic social you want to take a look at tools like buffer and Hootsuite and stuff to
do stuff like that. Finally
tools like
random forests Markov chains multiple linear regression. These are all statistical and machine learning tools that will help you build strong and attribution analysis and this is essential because Google Analytics, the built in attribution models are okay, particularly time decay. I like time decay of a lot of the ones that come out of the box, but it is at a certain point
you if you’re doing enough with the value of leads you
will run into limitations with the built in models so you’ll want to at that point. Switch to machine learning models that will help you develop more nuanced views of what’s helping convert so reach engagement in action content that attracts new audiences that retains them that convinces them to participate and then ultimately take meaningful action. Those are the three buckets of engagement tools that you need the content optimization tools to make your business grow. Great question. JOHN Vf lots of detail in here one caution with this is that we’re talking about tools which is like talking about utensils like spatula and frying pans, the things this is not the ingredients. This is not the recipe. This is not how to cook and none of these tools are going to do those things for you. They are a spatula. They are a chef’s knife and you still need to be able to know how to cook in order to make the best use of them. So keep that in mind. The tools are not a substitute for the skills they
help the skills
they amplify the skills, but they are not the skills as always please subscribe to the YouTube channel, the newsletter and things if you’d like help using any of these tools and deploying them on behalf of your business, please get in touch my company Trust Insights. Does this stuff happy to help. Take care. I’ll talk to you soon.
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Jay Baerposted recently about new marketing technology that does amazing content creation and how AI will drive the cost of marketing, particularly content marketing, to nearly zero. In the process, he asks, what’s left for humans? He ends with an example about Michael, a barista who does amazing coffee art and says a machine could obviously do the same for nearly zero cost, but is that what we want? A life of expediency without joy?
#FridayFeeling: Who Will Lose Their Jobs to AI and Robotics
Jay’s fears are largely unfounded, but there are things to be concerned about. AI and robotics will create a world of efficiency, to be sure. The main promises of AI to the end customer, to the customer experience, is a better customer experience than we currently receive from companies. On the company side, of course, it’s about cutting costs – namely humans.
But AI will not take jobs in the sense of roles. Michael the barista isn’t going to be replaced by a robot because he’s excellent at what he does and clearly loves his work. Excellence is not at stake.
What’s at stake – and what will impact millions of people – is inferiority. Terrible customer service. Terrible work quality. Think of the industries we associate with a terrible customer experience:
Airlines
Cable and phone companies
The Department of Motor Vehicles
We automatically assume, when dealing with entities like these, that our experience is going to suck. We mentally prepare ourselves for a confrontation, rather than a delightful customer experience.
AI and robotics promise minimum competency. They promise both the customer and the company minimally viable competence and a guaranteed mediocre experience. Think about McDonald’s. Do you go to McDonald’s for the best hamburger in the world? No. You go to McDonald’s for a guaranteed experience and a burger that’s okay – but okay is very often good enough.
So whose jobs are at stake? Not Michael the barista and coffee artist. The thousands of people who work at coffee shop chains who don’t enjoy their jobs, who phone it in, who make no effort to do more than the minimum amount of work. Robots and AI could replace every one of the people who hate their jobs or are terrible at their jobs and automatically elevate the customer experience from equally terrible to mediocre. Customers would be deliriously happy with the correct order, promptly made, with their name properly spelled on the coffee cup, even if a human never touched it. This will extend to every industry including marketing technology.
The lesson is clear for all of us: be excellent or be replaced. If we’re terrible at our jobs, if we hate our jobs, we are the first candidates for replacement by machines.
Those of us who love our jobs, who love our work, who invest in our ongoing professional development and training – our jobs and personal careers will be safe. There will always be room at the table for human excellence.
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“How do I speak to my buyer at the right stage in the journey?”
This is a terrific question that has three parts.
First, we must categorize all our customer communication in each stage of our buyer’s journey and run text mining analytics on it to understand what they say at each stage.
Second, we sequence our customer journey by channel using software like Google Analytics.
Finally, we map the language used at each stage with the channel sequence so that we’re using the right words at the right time.
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You Ask, I Answer: How to Speak to Buyers In the Customer Journey
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On today’s you ask I answer Sandy asks, How do I speak to my buyer at the right stage in the customer journey.
This is a great question. This is a more complicated question than you would think you’re going to need input from your buyers from your prospective customers that you have identified at the various stages in the customer journey. What does this typically look like you’re going to need principally email, although social media will also help what you’ll need to do
is get
the data that you have for your customers at each stage of the journey
into some sort of repository a database of big spreadsheet, whatever it is,
and you’re going to categorize all this input. So let’s say your customer journey is the standard awareness
consideration evaluation purchase the
very, very straightforward. You have these four stages,
you will have to categorize each set of emails each set of social media posts blog posts whatever correspondence in each bucket. So you have say let’s let’s you see me as an example. Sandy is in the first stage of awareness, she sends us some emails, where she asks us a question on social media and that goes in this awareness bucket and then
she asks comebacks and it comes back in a week or two weeks and asks a question.
She’s showing consideration
possibly of the problem or even
specific jargon around the problem comes through evaluations you starts asking about us. How do we rate against our competitors. What is our unique selling proposition all these things and then finally at purchase.
She says, I’m ready to do the deal sign the contract, whatever
you have to categorize all the input so that you know how people speak at each stage in the customer journey. Remember when we want to speak to the buyer. We have to do our best to speak to them in their own words and their language. And so if we’ve categorized all this input into these four buckets, then you run text mining. So for those of you who don’t know, we recently released a white paper on using text mining for employee
engagement or the same exact technology, the same techniques apply to this you’d use this text mining software machine learning software to
analyze
and and tell us what is in the awareness bucket. Once we’ve got all the emails and social media posts and stuff like that and made a phone call conversations have been transcribed if you have a customer service line or sales line
what’s, what are the words the phrases. The key phrases, the terms that are the most important in the awareness bucket and then you’d Repeat this process on each stage in the customer journey. And by the way, after purchase in terms of post purchase happiness loyalty evangelism. You don’t forget those stages of the customer journey, either
as you run the software, you’ll see the language change from bucket the bucket and once you do that, then you know to extract that language and start using it in your sales pitching and your sales and marketing language.
For example, if in the evaluation phase
you know that people always ask about pricing, but they don’t say the word price they ask about value, how much value or what’s my ROI, you know, that’s an evaluation question based on your experience
and then you map that to your digital channels. So if you’ve ever done customer journey mapping and Google Analytics, you can sequence out the channels by stage from awareness to consideration evaluation versus
if pricing is the word that you know
you shouldn’t use but value is that where you should use and you know say in Google Analytics says organic searches is your evaluation states at the stage where people start to cross over into evaluation, then you know that all the content that you use for SEO has got to use the word value in it.
So that’s the secret. That’s the process
awareness consideration evaluation purchase the words in each bucket and then you take the channels in Google Analytics that are sequenced out and you make sure that you’re using the right sets of words each segment of the channel and in each channel so social media is the awareness on this channel for you
and you know value and pricing or the evaluation words, maybe you don’t use them in social media right see what words people using social media or in in awareness that indicate they’re just becoming aware of you or aware of the problem and use those words in social media so really good questions. Andy how you speak to your buyer. It’s knowing what words to say and then knowing how each channel is sequenced in the buyers journey so that you’re using the right words at the right time. Thanks for asking. As always please subscribe to the newsletter and the YouTube channel and I’ll talk to you next time. Take care.
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Ann asks: “How do we analyze and target in an age of privacy?”
In the wake of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress, which some Twitter pundits amusingly called the Zuckerbowl, some thoughts about privacy, data, analytics, and marketing.
Disclaimer: I AM NOT A LAWYER
Consult an actual lawyer
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You Ask, I Answer: How To Market In An Age of Privacy?
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In today’s you ask I answer game. One of the Zucker bowl as some people are calling it is over. Mark Zuckerberg co Facebook has testified to the Senate will be testifying to the house. Next I don’t expect any know brand new insights to come out of that and about five different people all messaged me and said. So what does this mean for marketers, how do we market in an age where privacy is the default were targeting is much more difficult. So how do we do this before we begin, I am not a lawyer. I don’t even play one on the internet, if you have legal questions, please consult an actual lawyer somebody who can certify the answers that giving you are correct. This is just my perspective as a marketer and as a data person not legal advice. So
we will need to do three things own build and learn what’s dig into these number one own we need to own our day.
If you are not paying you are the product that is that is the fundamental truth of all this and it is the truth of the internet today. If you are not paying money out of pocket. You are the product this is definitely true for business services you think all those free things from all the different tech companies or have no strings attached in the 75 page User Agreement. Yes. What you are the product. So if your business relies on these services
they are an under no obligation to help you stay in business, except as that bet these tech companies
need to further their own interest. So understand that they like you as a product they may like you as a customer. If you’re paying a nominal amount. But fundamentally, they have to stay in business, they will do whatever it takes to stay in business, including put you out of business. So Own your data. This also means download as much of your data as you can. Right now, especially if your business relies on.
third party data from any number of API’s add systems analytics customer data platforms, whatever it is, if you if you have a third party company that is controlling substantial portion of your businesses data download it now because regulation is coming. It’s already here in parts of the world, the most well known. One is GDP or the general data protection regulation in the EU, which has planetary consequences, but more regulation is coming. Mark Zuckerberg and CEOs of technology companies don’t testify in front of Congress, because Congress has nothing better to do well i mean they they don’t necessarily have more productive things to do, but that’s politics
regulation is coming. We know it’s coming what form. It will take we don’t know
the third thing in own is have backups of critical systems run backups in parallel for critical systems really good example. Almost everybody on planet uses Google.
analytics. It’s free. Remember the first lesson
and it is the gold standard and marketing and for good reason. It’s a great product. It is a fantastic piece of marketing software and I would say it has advanced marketing and business growth for 10s of thousands of companies and created billions of dollars in value to the economy. It is a valuable product and I holy support Google Analytics and the Google team,
but I’m not under any illusion that Google
wants to provide this without strings. Right.
So if your business relies on web analytics, you owe it to yourself to run a backup. There’s a package called matondo analytics, which you have to run on your own servers, you have to
spin up a cloud server install the software and get it running it is a web analytics package to the differences you own the server and you have to pay for the server, but it’s your own data, then you own and so run in parallel.
moto mo cloud services which again you this is now you are the customer, you’re paying money for these things. Anyway, we’re going to be between five five and 20 bucks a month so you can afford probably to do this yourself unless you have like zero dollars. So that’s part one
part two build first party data is essential, your analytics your data. So you need to understand the control as much as you can
and start if you have not already done so start doing much more first party data collection behavioral data preference data asking people how did you hear about us. I can’t tell you the number of web forms. I’ve been on where no one ever asks that question. It’s an important question. How did you hear bass. Who told you about us. You need to collect that data because that data may not be available from a third party systems second in build you need strong data governance ask or have your legal counsel review all the data services you work with all the everything that the.
Everything data in your company needs legal review and then needs a strong governance policy, you need to have governance in place that dictates who is responsible for what, where, when, why and how gt PR is going to require you to do this anyway if you do any business outside of your nation that could potentially interact with them. He uses and GDP or requires you to do this anyway so having that is an important part clear user agreements clear data policies are the law of the land and places and the easiest thing to do is be globally compliant with the the the strictest standards which in this case right now is gt PR for many things except spam laws which candidates castle was sort of the strictest in the world right now be globally compliant with the highest standard and you’re and you’re good to go. Third as marketers, we have to learn how to learn to model on behavior we don’t necessarily need to collect as much data as we do, we can collect the minimum viable amount of data we need to make decisions, our systems.
Dead. We should also be collecting lots of behavioral data because it can’t be compromised. You can’t steal someone’s identity by telling how many pages they visited on your website and in what order but we can make good business decisions as to whether someone’s a viable prospect based on the order and flow of the pages that they visited on our website as an example that’s owned data. It’s ours. We can build models on it and it’s not sensitive data in the sense that someone’s identity could be compromised with it. We have to learn patterns in owns data, especially for stuff like social media data search data web analytics data, whatever, anything that we are interacting with from systems. We don’t own and we need to do our best to build and understand patterns in in all this third party data and constructs statistical models today with the data we have the says when people do X, Y amp z and come in on this page and behave like this. They are likely to convert we need these patterns in case those API’s and that third party data goes away. If it does, we have models that we can use to can.
Need to make business decisions from the data we have and third in the Learn category we have to if you have not already done this already, you must get good at machine learning, you must be able to build machine learning algorithms based on the data that you have today. Remember, Part One who are going to download all the data that you possibly can and build machine learning algorithms machine learning processes and methods to make inferences in the data that you have to make up for the data you will lose when companies and regulations take over Trust Insights just released a white paper on this on and we just did this with LinkedIn shares because LinkedIn stop sharing part of its API. So we have to go and backfill that data. This goes back to part one download all the data now so that you have it as a training library for when these things go away. Finally, will social media. Go away. We’ll Facebook going no no is not going away. Facebook is a losing a substantial number of users according to the.
testimonial in the congressional hearing, which means that marketers can’t afford to stop using it.
We will change and I will be blinded by some of the data loss but fundamentally nothing and Mark Zuckerberg testimonial indicates that social is going to lose any importance or that regulation and restriction is imminent social networks going to do the best they can to self police and that means pulling back a lot of access in his testimonial which will include a link in the notes and he talks about what they’re doing with additional restrictions on apps on developers on API is that will continue to be the case. So
social is not going anywhere but allow the data we’ve gotten comfortable working with will now is the time to own your data build a good strong internal ecosystem with strong governance and build lots of machine learning models on top of it so that you are ready when the fire hose becomes a trickle again all the sources from this art in the show notes and stuff here. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and to my newsletter which is my dad and I.
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Cathie asked what’s the process of putting together LinkedIn posts with video on a day to day basis. How do you do this any scale will do daily way. So this is a long and involved process everything I’m going to talk about is in the blog post the list of all the equipment so hardware, software and process and make sure that you see the blog post over at Christopher S Pen calm. So hardware of a silly little selfie stick mount here head worn Mike, which is Amazon purchase for desktop stuff have a headset or headphones and this V mode a boom mic that just plugs right into the bottom of the iPhone, of course. During the recording and for audio editing. I will typically do use the bows qc 35. So that’s kind of the main hardware. Of course I’ll laptop computer I use a Mac,
in terms of software. My primary video editor is a package called Camp Asia from Tech Smith have a link and.
The notes to that also have Apple photos from managing stills I’m moving on the iPhone for wanting to shoot some basic video for more advanced video like all the stuff that I’m doing here is an app called movie pro and the reason for that is that this wireless headphone plugs into the bottom of the iPhone and the iPhone can be real twitchy about what microphone you’re using. So you have to tell it in advance, like I’m using this microphone and movie one of the few apps that lets you do that and say I want to use this microphone so it’s not like picking up you know all the other noise around here.
I use mind note on the Mac, which is what I use for scripting canvas. The online service for doing the the beginning and end cards you see ampere music, which is a free AI tool that allows you to generate you know Stock Music pretty straightforward stuff, not the best music. The world doesn’t have to be. I use otter for transcription, which we’ll talk about in a bit the FF MPEG audio converter for converting video into audio files are super important for.
podcast part and then Amazon AWS s3 account to store audio files because YouTube’s is where you store the video files. So what’s the process for putting together one of these first we have to decide what type of videos are going to be talking head only or screen casts if it’s talking head only set up the iPhone in you know the microphones, get ready to shoot. If it’s screen casts set up camp on the laptop put these headphones on and that’s the audio setup for that I use Google to set up a little countdown timer. I say I want nine minutes on the clock never go over 10 minutes because you can’t upload it into LinkedIn LinkedIn restricts us 10 minutes or less. So you want to have nine minutes on the timer.
I’ll shoot they’ll talk about stuff on the iPhone and then obviously connected to the laptop and download the video screen cast on the Mac with can’t Asia and make the still frame cards in Canvas and typically for something Becker, you ask I answer. There’s a stock one so I’ll render the stock one and advanced in that way I can just pop it right in.
export the raw video fired. Well, it’s a symbol incantation putting all my transitions all the you know the fades and the audio level the audio in there and it has a lot of these utilities built in, which is super handy. It’s worth it’s worth the cost.
Once I’m happy with it and I export it as a raw video file that has a lot of options there for like different services you can upload to pain in the export to a raw mp4 audio yeah mp4 video file that goes to your desktop, then you use the FM peg utility to rip the audio out and make copy in mp3 format because you’re going to need that the mp3 file goes to otter for transcription, it takes you know for for every minute of recorded audio is going to take about two minutes for it to transcribe so if you do it a 10 minute show uploaded and expect it will be done in about 20 minutes while you’re uploading to otter your next step is to upload to YouTube and LinkedIn. Now, depending on how fast your internet connection is.
At home, you may want to do one and and and then the other or you may want to do both at the same time if you have a fast connection you can do both at the same time while they’re uploading because it’s going to take a while the camp agents files for a 10 minute show or nine minutes show can be around half a gigabyte of data,
I will write the descriptions. So you’re going to need descriptions, which is essentially a short paragraph and then any links to appropriate resources and those go in you copy and paste those that’s the post content and LinkedIn and that’s the description in YouTube. After that, or while that’s going on because YouTube in particular takes a while to process video I will write the blog posts. So in my node. What I’ll do is I’ll export the show notes as the sort of the still as the framework for the blog post and then I’ll if otter is done. I will take the transcription out of otter and I will
put that in the blog post.
embed the YouTube video embed in link from AWS to the mp3 file because what that does. I use WordPress is my blog if you have an mp3 file LinkedIn a WordPress post your WordPress blog feed automatically becomes a podcast because WordPress. It just converts it to enclosures and does all the formatting. So
you can then actually submit your blog as a podcast to WordPress to like apple and Stitcher music and stuff and you’ve got your podcast now. And then finally, of course, once you’ve got everything assembled all the pieces are in the right place you publicize the blog post shared on social reach out to any of the influences that you want to reach out to include it in your email newsletter, all that stuff. So it’s a it sounds like an extensive process and it is a reasonably detailed process, but it’s also one that once you get in the habit of doing it every single day, it becomes like clockwork. Again, all the stuff including the.
Mind Map and things the timer the hardware, the software that bits and pieces are all going to be in the blog posts, so don’t worry about trying to write all that down just print it out and then you can follow literally step by step. But the other thing real simple is a your set. It’s not a bookshelf here and some curtains from IKEA I’m actually in my basement, so you don’t have to spend a ton of money in terms of investment. Probably the most expensive thing besides the smartphone
is going to be the cam software. I believe that’s like 199, the head warned microphone is 49
the Wiimote a boom mic is30 out of the Bose headphones can be expensive. You don’t need to use Bose headphones so I just do because I work in a relatively noisy basement. I want to want to make sure I can hear easily Canvas free Emperor’s free otters free FM peg is free Amazon AWS is pay, but a pay as you go and you know unless your podcast becomes wildly popular it’s not gonna cost you very much in the beginning. If it comes wildly popular they.
You can start getting sponsors and they can help pay for that as well
as anything else that costs money WordPress your blog, all that stuff. The, the things you’re probably already doing. But that’s the process from beginning to end. Kathy hope you find this helpful if you’re watching anyone who’s watching if you’ve got suggestions about how to do this better, please feel free to contribute those suggestions I am always looking for ways to improve always looking for ways to to make things faster and cheaper and better because in the digital era, you can have fast cheap and good all the same time, but thanks for watching and I’ll talk to you all soon. Take care.
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In my last full day on the IBM THINK campus, I got a chance to learn about Watson Data Kits, the pre-trained models that help bootstrap AI projects faster, and the new Watson Studio. Watson Data Kits are cool – they’re like pre-built templates that help get a project off the ground by not having to reinvent the wheel for common, popular machine learning models.
The game changer, however, is the new Watson Studio, an evolution of the old IBM Data Science Experience. Watson Studio offers drag and drop assembly of AI components, similar to MIT’s Scratch kids’ programming language or Node-RED. What’s remarkable about it is that Watson Studio offers modeling all the way up through deep learning, the ability to assemble neural networks with drag and drop. Imagine being told you could safely and accurately perform brain surgery with a drag and drop interface and you get a sense of just how revolutionary this tool is.
I head back to Boston today to begin the full-speed development and growth of Trust Insights. For those looking for my sessions from IBM THINK, I’ll be posting them on the Trust Insights blog, so stay tuned. Thanks for watching and following along on my THINK journey this week!
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Well folks, here we are the last day of think 2018 I’m actually headed out this morning flying back because I did not want to read it.
I personally have issues with red eyes. If I take a red eye I am kind of messed up for days for sleeping, which is not good for your health. So headed out but some reflections on yesterday I think yesterday was an absolute incredible day I think because there was some really powerful compelling new technology that I got a chance to see. So one thing was Watson data kits, which are pre trained models.
These are when you’re doing machine learning and artificial intelligence development. One of the most difficult things to do is to get a credible clean well functioning model.
Imagine, for example, you were trying.
To build
trying to forge your own frying pan to cook with right and going to get a sense of just how difficult that could be to get to work really well to be to be commercially viable certainly your first few tries and not going to be very good. Over time, you would get to the point where you could do
make a good frying pan and then you could get to the process of actually cooking something right so that’s sort of it’s not an exact analogy, but the model that you build in artificial intelligence and machine learning is very much similar in concept. You have to build the model by taking a lot of training data and training it and getting the algorithm. Correct. And then you can start using it in production. Well,
the idea behind the Watson data kits in these pre trained models is that
IBM is like here’s the frying pan, you, you, you don’t need to build the frying pan, you can use the ones we already built.
And of course, the cost of that is that when you run compute meaning when you use IBM server resources and infrastructure resources, of course, there’s going to be you know usage fees for that but they’re permanent usage and the sun like two or three cents a minute. So if you are working particularly marketing data
you’re talking maybe like 20 minutes at a time. Right. Most marketing data sets are not gigantic datasets unless they’re their customer databases or like lots of web traffic but for the most part, things that we do machine learning on in marketing and not you know terabyte data level datasets. They are typically a little bit smaller so that was pretty cool. Um,
the one thing that I thought was just a heads reading was the new Watson studio, which is formerly the data science experience. Again, very low cost environment.
This has drag and drop.
for just about everything. So if you’re familiar with
services and software from companies like rapid minor all to Rick’s connive and I cannot pronounce their software
workflow designers Tablo is going to be offering it in a future product where you just drag and drop little icons to make
analytics workflows. Well, IBM took that and then ran, ran all the way down the field with them and to the point where now now like Can you do that for analytics and data science, but they kicked up to deep learning, which means that if you are building a deep learning system, which is a system that can effectively
learn and reinforce it’s learning on its own.
You used to have to write a lot of code and it was not a pleasant experience. And
it was also
very difficult to understand whether or not your stuff was.
actually working correctly, at least for people who are who are not hardcore AI folks.
Well, this is now built into Watson studio where you can drag and drop I compose deep learning systems it very, very advanced debugging systems with drag and drop on the same way that you would
you know your kids good program and scratch and build like you know dancing cat applications from MIT same general idea drag and drop all the layers that you want in a deep learning model and then have
have the Watson system run them.
This is a huge game changer for everyone who wants to get into deep learning but does not want to have to learn how to assemble the infrastructure like pie torture carrots on top of TensorFlow and stuff all the buzz words of the day are now in a drag and drop format and so
there’s less standing in our way of actually doing deep learning.
Now, and that is just an incredible, incredible achievement and something that, again, this is it’s it’s it within the sort of the IBM Cloud system. So, it is per minute usage
now for deep learning and your GPU usage, it’s going to cost a bit more. And, you know, it’s good. Maybe like I don’t know 25 cents a minute or something along those lines. If you go all out
and make 100 layer network neural network. But again, this is not something that
we as marketers would be doing a huge amount of we will be doing just the bits and pieces
and so our neural architecture is probably going to be relatively small. What does this mean for marketing how to marketers make use of this
if there are things that you need answers to in your data that you cannot get through traditional analytics that you cannot get through you and me.
Machine Learning if there are there’s a level of forecasting you need that requires extremely high precision.
If there are
massive amounts of text mining, you have to do that regular system simply are not up to scratch for doing that’s where this
these these neural architectures would come into play. You use deep learning to extract data faster from them and with more meaning my friendship braid and has a great expression. He says artificial intelligence is about the two A’s accuracy and acceleration accuracy, meaning you better results than other methods and acceleration, you get results faster than other methods and that’s what the promise of deep learning has been but the the technical obstacles to getting a deep learning system up and running, have been very, very large until now. And so now that we have access to a system like this with Watson studio.
The real only real obstacle left is learning the conceptual architecture of a deep learning system so that we can assemble the pieces in drag and drop the icons in the right order. But the code barrier. The technology, the infrastructure barrier is now largely a thing of the past or it should be so
I I struggled to to to emphasize how important this is for people who are have an interest or a need for AI. It is a complete game changer. And I am so happy that that IBM chose to release this and not make it like a good jillion dollars like oh yeah your subscription to Watts’s g only costs 20 million a month because they could have and they didn’t it’s it’s accessible to everyone. You might not be able to do a ton of compute on1, a month, but you could. And that’s the magic of it and let’s see the incredible power of it so.
That was the big big big takeaway from yesterday was getting hands on into the system and using it and making it work. So
having headed back to as to the great white North aka Boston
today and looking forward to putting to use all these different technologies for those who didn’t get chance to watch the Facebook Live and stuff. I’m going to be cleaning up and editing the video for that I’m going to publish that on the Trust Insights website so stay tuned to the blog there and along with any other content from think.
And now to start the the the hardcore work of building the new company and starting to serve customers. So the adventure is just about the beginning but thanks for watching as always please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and I’ll talk to you all soon. Take care.
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Is the morning of day for IBM think and today I’m going to be presenting a new brand new talk never has never
been seen before even pieces of it called
inevitable disruption avoidable failure
and this talk today will be largely about digital transformation and detecting when you’re being disrupted
short version for those who are not I think anomaly detection tells you when there are unknowns or oddities in your data. And if you have really good software and frequent analysis. You can you can know sooner rather than later that something’s up
and then we have unstructured understanding which is digesting down all the data
all the stuff that we have cost service in boxes social media conversations media coverage competitor websites, all those things that are just blocks of text and that need to be able to digest and understand defined sort of why one thing I thought was really insightful from the first day I think was
quantitative is what and then qualitative is kind of why and so unstructured understanding helps a lot with that.
And then the third step in the in the framework is predictive analytics. So once you know what happened once you know why predict forward the things that are likely to change and you will understand
what to do or at least when to do the
the upcoming things, assuming you have a solution to mind. So that’s what’s gonna be happening today at 1130. That’d be live streamed on Facebook. So stay tuned to the IBM Analytics Facebook page and you can see that talk live if you can’t make it. That’s okay. I will be recording it
because I’d like to have all my old stuff recorded, just in case the internet goes out did a great piece yesterday with a dire Hinchcliffe from constellation research that it is also on the IBM Analytics Facebook page may see IBM data science page one of the two but you can check those out on Facebook, assuming that you haven’t deleted your Facebook account which is sort of the talk of yesterday here at the event of course online. A couple of other really useful insights yesterday from yesterday’s think event had a good chat with the one of the executives who are in charge of sales at IBM and really liked what he had to say about what is the IBM cells. He said
we don’t really sell technology and we do, but we could build a million blade server if nobody actually bought the thing that you know just be colossal waste of money. He said,
IBM cells making money saving time and and reducing risk
I. Those are very punchy insights, a way to explain all the things that they do and they got me thinking in terms of, you know, for your organization.
How can you do the exact same thing. Can you simplify it down into three bullets or maybe four bullets what you do. It’s very so much of what what my co founder and I Katie and I were discussing about Trust Insights of what are the things we sell we sell make more money, save more money, save time or don’t get fired
and those are really the all the analytics all a consulting all the everything boils down to one of those four things that the audience cares about and that’s a super important thing for marketers is nobody cares what the features of benefits are in except as to say like, how is this going to make my life better. The other thing that was a lot of fun yesterday got a chance to see Dr Michio Kaku talk about the scientific future and what he sees as the next set of her horizons and it was artificial intelligence. It was neural networks in the sense of brain computer interface and quantum computing a lot of very high level stuff. Not a lot of detail there but it will say that
of all the technologies. I’ve seen that the event this event, the one that is immediately applicable
to almost everyone is artificial intelligence.
It’s just that there’s still too much, too much theoretical and not enough practical.
If you use a very simple
set of machine learning algorithms like predictive analytics like text mining. These are things that have practical outcomes, you can say, I’m going to run an assessment of your inbox your customer service inbox and tell you the 10 things that people always say to you. That’s very practical because we can act on that
we can say, okay, people always seem to hate the products
you know left button feature. Cool. We can fix that we can make something of that we can adjust that predictive analytics is very practical on this week audience interest in your product is going to go up so you should plan for that it’s
week of November, 17, you should plan for that and that way when it happens, you’re ready and your competitors may or may not be and the difference and timing and the difference in results can be like a one or two week window.
So that’s a very practical application. There are tons of AI technologies that are
more and more complex, but we have to be as marketing technologists are technologists, in general, the ability. We need the ability to say here’s
what this does for you.
Here’s how you’re going to use this to make money, save money, save time or or keep yourself from getting fired prove your value
to the organization. Maybe I should change that prove your value sounds better than not get fired. Although not get fired is certainly very clear. So lots of other interesting takeaways from thank but those kind of the big ones from yesterday again today I’m going to be going to a bunch of sessions very tactical sessions and then the presentation 1130 and then
thought leader panel in the afternoon. And so looking forward to seeing people’s reactions. If you can catch us on Facebook Live. Please do. But I hope that you have a great day ahead. I’m looking forward to greet they had for the folks in France were in the northeast United States
the snow shovels. So thanks for watching please subscribe to the YouTube channel and everything and we’ll talk to you soon. Take care.
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