Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Measure Brand Awareness

    You Ask, I Answer: How to Measure Brand Awareness

    Ciri asks, “What’s the best way to measure brand awareness? Among all the searching I’ve done, it seems like people have a lot of different takes on measuring brand awareness.”

    The gold standard for how to measure brand awareness is unaided recall among your target audience, which typically requires a significant (five to six figures) but worthwhile investment in a market research firm like Edison Research. That said, you can begin to sort out brand awareness from a series of digital metrics that can inform your market research. The metrics to consider are:

    • Branded organic search, and the metrics it generates
    • Coverage, and the metrics it generates
    • Conversation, and the metrics it generates
    • Downfunnel metrics and business outcomes

    These three categories will generate something on the order of several hundred variables to process, which requires some data science techniques to properly process.

    • Ingestion and cleaning
    • Centering and scaling
    • Variable importance measurement
    • Outcome modeling
    • Intermediary KPI modeling

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    In today’s episode, Ciri asks, What’s the best way to measure brand awareness? Among all the searching I’ve done? That seems like people have a lot of different takes on measuring brand awareness. Absolutely. People have tons of different takes on measuring brand awareness. A lot of those things being done at and put out there are by individual vendors promoting their software. There is there are a couple of different ways to measure brand awareness. The gold standard for measuring brand awareness is unaided recall surveying among your target audience. So if your target audience is Chief Technology officers, you would commission a market research firm to check in with them once a quarter or whatever and say hey

    in your experience, please name five vendors who provide I don’t know email marketing services and see what these people remember. unprompted unaided. See if they recall Hall your brand and they do great, you’re you have brand awareness within your target segment. If it never name your brand at all. Is it okay, well, we’re not reaching the target audience. Now, market research. Proper market research requires significant investment. The firm I recommend typically is a company called Edison research. They do top shelf market research. And they do it properly.

    There are a lot of companies to call themselves market research companies. But

    market research like that should be the my friend Tom Webster who works at Edison research calls it reassuringly expensive,

    you should be planning on your mid five figures to low six figures for the budget to do something like that. Because you’re you’re going to want to check in with these people frequently. And you need somebody if your audiences like senior executives, you’re going to need credible market research companies. To get to those executives. You can’t just spin up a survey monkey and email them and you’ll get like a completely statistically insignificant response, right.

    So

    the second way, which is a precursor to the market research is to use some of your digital metrics to start to assemble a score that will inform your market research, it is not a replacement for market research, it is a a prerequisite of the market research to make sure that you’re doing the things you need to do in order to get people in the door. And

    that digital metric

    combination really comes out of four buckets. bucket number one is a branded organic search the number of people who search for you by name over time, and then the conversion metrics that go along with that. So the brand number of brand organic searches, returning users to brand organic searches, etc, etc, etc. That’s going to be you know, 2030 variables

    if it was a spreadsheet, like 20 columns coverage, so public relations, media relations, influencer relations, whose

    writing about you, what are they writing? What’s this sentiment? What’s the tone? What’s the importance? What’s the SEO value, what are the number of clicks on articles, social shares, all those metrics around coverage are a second big bucket that’s you’re gonna you’re talking

    potentially another spreadsheet of 50 or 60 columns. The third is conversation, people talking about you, and this could be influencers, but it could also be regular people, your target audience, and then all the subsequent metrics that those generate likes, comments, shares,

    pro profile clicks, all the works, that’s going to be a gigantic spreadsheet. And finally, in the fourth bucket, you’re going to need off your down funnel metrics. So you have your awareness sort of top of funnel, then you have web traffic, new users, returning users time on page by segment, goal conversions, and then you get out of web analytics. You go into marketing, online system, your

    marketing, qualified leads, sales, qualified leads, opportunities, deals, one deals, loft, etc.

    You’re going to need to put together the spreadsheet and the spreadsheets going to have

    probably several hundred columns,

    you will need data science

    techniques to properly process this data.

    There is no there’s no human way to do this, at least not in anything that would take you less than two years are you doing nothing but that

    because it is a massive undertaking

    the it’s a five step process you need to do ingestion and cleaning mean take all the data info the sources, clean it up, fixed, missing, or broken data, remove anomalies, and so on, and so forth. So that’s step one. Step two is what’s called centering and scaling where you need to normalize the data so that you can do apples to apples comparisons a little more cleanly. For example, if you are looking at branded organic search, and you’re looking at social conversation, this is going to be have very different scales. So it’s very difficult to do a comparison of those metrics without normalizing them scaling sent to them, scale them, make them more like each other. The third step is doing what’s called variable importance identification. And that is that a lot of cases that’s going to take actual machine learning to run

    every possible combination of those variables against a, a, an outcome, a target, like

    sales,

    and figure out which metrics in combination have a high correlation to the

    actual outcome you care about.

    We know that, you know, there’s, there’s a sequence within the funnel, people don’t necessarily, you know, they don’t follow linearly, but they there is a path from awareness to purchase, people don’t make a purchase without awareness. That’s a, that’s a logical. So the variable importance measurement helps you identify the variables, a mathematically high relationship,

    once you’ve done that you’ve gotten rid of, you know, 80, 90%

    of the variables that don’t have any mathematical relationship to the outcome you care about, you’ll want to build a couple of models, you’re going to build an outcome model which says, Hey, we, if we want more sales, we need to test doing more of these things. And then you’ll go back and rerun variable importance to do what’s called intermediary KPI modeling.

    And this is especially for bigger companies.

    There are a lot of dependencies on a sale

    problem. I used to have it at a company just to work with was that marketing kept being asked for more and more and more leads every quarter more leads, more leads, more leads, and sales was closing at something like a 1% closing rate. So benchmarking off of sales, as the only outcome meant that a lot of marketing data got thrown out. Because the salespeople were incompetent. They they couldn’t have sold fire to a freezing person, and

    so intimidated KPI modeling says, okay, for your department, what outcome Do you have responsibility for if you work in corporate communications awareness, maybe the variable to measure for if you’re the web guy or the web girl, you know, new traffic to the website is your KPI. And so you’ll want to rerun that variable importance for each departmental outcome so that each department understands, hey, these are the things that

    we know contribute to the outcome that we care about. And again, build models for that. And then the last step of the process is, once you’ve got these models, you have to test them. If, for example, tweets on Tuesdays, that contain a poop emoji have the highest mathematical correlation to the outcome you care about. You cannot assume that correlation equals causality, you have to build a testing plan to say, Okay, now let’s do five more tweets on Tuesdays and put three poop emoji and the tweeting instead of two and see if that commensurate increase in activity

    yields to the command a commensurate increase a proportional increase in outcome. And so there’s that testing plan to bring to life that model and and validate that the model either works or does not work it this is the scientific method, just using a lot more math and data, you come up with a hypothesis, you test it, you analyze it, you find your hypothesis, until you’re you have a proven model. And that’s how you develop a working model, a working measurement model for brand awareness. You can’t just throw a bunch of numbers on a spreadsheet, average them and add them all up and call it brand awareness. Because you don’t actually know what does and does not contribute. You have to go through this process of testing. And you need to use data science and machine learning if you want the model to be credible and proven and and develop a testing plan that is workable because again, if you’ve got a spreadsheet with 500 variables, testing each one and then testing each combination of one you have run out a lifetime before you you get through you. One testing machine has to help you do it. So great question is a complex question and it requires data science help. It’s not something that you can build a credible model for by yourself just with a spreadsheet. If you have follow up questions, please leave them in the comments. And of course, subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Marketing Top Data Challenges of the Future

    You Ask, I Answer: Marketing Top Data Challenges of the Future

    Aditya asks, “What do you see as the top data challenges facing marketers in the next couple of years?”

    While it’s difficult to accurately predict anything today, given the rate of technological change, there’s one sea change already underway that marketers are failing at, and will only get worse. Watch the video to learn what it is, and one possible solution.

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    In today’s episode, a DJ asks, What do you see as the top data challenges facing marketers in the next couple of years?

    Oh, so prediction. I people love prediction. This time a year is late 2018 late in the years as a record this and

    making predictions is difficult and hazardous. Because the rate of technological change is so

    accelerating that

    a prognostication of some kind could easily be proven wrong in days,

    probably one of the most famous examples of a of a

    challenge or a prediction that went awry was

    someone was predicting that would take deep learning something like 20 years to be able to do something like when a game of Go and this prediction was made in 2016, 2015.

    And of course, in late 2016,

    Google’s DeepMind one go. So what was supposed to take 20 years took about 18 months. So there’s,

    there’s always that risk. Now,

    while it’s difficult to make any kind of predictions like that there is one sea change that’s already underway, that marketers are failing and is only going to get worse. And that is

    our collective over reliance on personally identifiable information.

    We fuel a lot of legacy marketing technology

    and legacy marketing methods on

    these demographics, and firma graphics and descriptors of people.

    So for example, we make a lot of assumptions

    about customer based on their age, their gender,

    where they live, even the domain name of their email address, particularly it magazines for b2b marketing, the assumption is,

    oh, you work for a big company, you’re slightly more qualified.

    Now, there are some marketers who are doing very sophisticated segmentation,

    but

    personally identifiable information is going away

    in some fashion of form is going away in the next few years.

    In 2018, we saw GDPR take effect

    which every marketer scramble to try and, and meet compliance with and did so with varying degrees of success. But

    marketers didn’t really change their behavior years for say, they just had to do a better job of securing that data.

    And then not what,

    five months after the largest hack in history

    Marriott being compromised for to the tune of like 500 million records.

    So

    as these

    these security breaches and things continue,

    it will get harder and harder to get a hold of any non first party data. And it will get more and more dangerous for us to hold on to personally identifiable information. At some point, it’ll be too risky. At some point,

    someone’s going to go,

    it’s not worth having this

    data, the security risks are too high, and we’re not using

    the data as well as we could be anyway.

    So what’s the solution? The answer is

    getting away from

    basic descriptors, like personally identifiable information and moving towards behavioral data, this is going to take a while it’s it is a mindset for markers to change those very difficult,

    the idea that you don’t need to know that this person is a 44 year old

    Hispanic female, you don’t need to know that this person is

    is a parent that

    have two kids, what you do need to know is is the way that person has behaved in their interactions with you, up until this point,

    what pages they visit on your website, how did they interact with you in social media? Not

    did they, but what was the tone and the tenor and the sentiment

    the words and the pace which which they interact with you

    when the internet what how many channels have they interact with you on have an email Do you have they texted to you and they messaged you on messenger.

    And all of these behavioral factors

    are things that we need to build our algorithms around our software around our

    ability to do modeling and prediction.

    In a lot of cases, we have the raw materials already we know via things like Google Analytics, what pages you’ve been on, and how long you spend on those pages. We know via our email marketing software, whether you’ve replying to an email,

    we know via social media marketing software

    that you’ve engaged with us. So we know those things.

    But

    the date is kind of all over the place. And

    it’s difficult for people to build models around that to wrap their brains around the idea of like, I don’t need to know who you are, I just need you to, I just need to know what you’re doing so that I can show the appropriate things for you. When you think about it, though, as humans, we’ve had no problem with this in the past, when Go back,

    go back 50 years go. When somebody walks into your store,

    what do you know about them, nothing, you know nothing about all about them. But you can look at them, you can watch them, you can watch how they behave, do they linger in certain aisles, they pick an item up off the shelf and put it back if they’re with somebody, they talk to somebody about that

    when I was growing up, you know, kids used to hang out at the mall that would do that anymore. Not like that was the thing to do. And they would rove and packs and talk and discuss and loyal around stuff that they liked. We still do that. We just do that digitally. Now we do digital loitering all day long.

    And that’s that can be an indicator. So

    the top data challenge for marketers is getting away from PII, personally identifiable information and moving towards behavioral collection analysis and forecasting. It’s going to be a long road to get there. But it’s going to be a road we have to get on sooner

    rather than

    later. Because it will not be long before

    regulations. Increasing privacy regulations will force us to do that.

    As long as our companies we work for approve, to be

    irresponsible or outright, criminally neglectful of the data

    that they are entrusted with that will be

    a growing challenge. So start thinking about how do you plan for that? How do you start building models now on how to start collecting the data now and getting into an accessible place because if you do, you’ll be ahead of the curve and you’ll be able to offer privacy guarantees that other competitors can’t offer. Say, we’re not going to collect information because we don’t need it. We know who you are. We know we know what you want, even if we don’t know who you are. So great question.

    Future forecasting. always difficult to take it with a grain of salt. If you have any follow up questions, please leave them in the comments.

    And then of course, please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter we’ll talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Measure The Value of Influencer Marketing

    You Ask, I Answer: How to Measure The Value of Influencer Marketing

    Mark asks, “How do you find the value in influencer marketing? What’s the best way to determine what’s working?”

    Influencer marketing is nothing new. Companies have been marketing with celebrities for decades, and we have well-defined ways to work with celebrities – and measure their outputs. Let’s take a walk through an effective way to measure influencers.

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    In today’s episode Mark asks How do you find the value in influencer marketing what’s the best way to determine what’s working this is a very popular topic a very important topic and one that a lot of folks in influencer marketing are not doing well and it’s not because it’s not because influencer marketing is some kind of snake oil although the absolutely are certain influencers who probably over promise and under deliver the problem is that we’re treating influencer marketing like something that’s brand new and it’s not companies have been using influencer marketing for decades it was just called something else. It was called things like celebrity sponsorship or celebrity marketing. We look at influencer marketing for that perspective. There are very well defined ways to work with celebrities to work with influencers and measure their outputs measure what it is that they’re bringing to the table. So the problem isn’t that we can’t measure this thing. It’s that we just haven’t made a solid, rigorous efforts to do so. So let’s walk through ways we can do this to measure the effectiveness of influencers. The number one thing with as with any form of marketing campaign is to set goals, what goal are we after. And there’s different kinds of goals based on the type of influence you want to work with. But that has to be set body of business strategy,

    the three major goals, most influencers

    are, can be effective at driving towards our brand awareness, prospect, or lead generation or referrals, word of mouth and conversions or sales.

    So it really is sort of,

    if you think about it, in classical marketing, operations, terms, top of funnel, middle of funnel, bottom of the funnel, what are the different ways that influences can can deliver those results, all those goals are, again, things that we as marketers have defined in the past and can work with pretty easily. The second step is to then set our KPIs to match those goals throughout the marketing operations funnel. And I call the marketing operations funnel because we know the customer journey is nonlinear. But in terms of responsibilities within our organizations, and in terms of measurement systems, we do still have to have a a quasi linear path to measure on. So we do want to have that setup for the operation side internally. So what are the KPIs that measure those goals? How do you if brand awareness is your goal? How do you currently measure brand awareness. And this is where the influence of marketing disconnect works, because in a lot of cases, companies don’t have really good rigorous system setup to measure something like brand awareness.

    So

    for brand awareness, there are things like unaided brand recall, focus groups, surveys,

    one of the easiest ones that I’m always baffled that companies don’t do a very good job of analyzing this, how did you hear about us, when, when you have an intake point for a newsletter signup, or a new deal, whatever the cases, very few companies ask, so how’d you hear about us and leave it open ended? Like there’s usually the companies that do have a drop down with like, six things, and almost everyone puts in other because the six things that they picked were from a pick list from like, 1997. So asking people, hey, how did you hear about us is, is a really important simple step for things like measuring brand awareness when you’re measuring prospects and lead generation and referrals. That should be fairly straightforward. Howard, how do you track those things currently is it in your marketing automation system, your email system,

    and of course conversions, and sales, where are those tracks

    acting in a CRM and in your P system in Excel spreadsheet, and some guys cubicle wherever it is, you track it, you’d be able to identify the systems that go with the KPIs that are are bonded to those goals. The third thing you do is you establish the metrics that feed those KPIs. So

    if sales is your KPI, what are all the data points that feed a sale if prospect or or

    generation of new audiences is a goal as your KPI? How do you track those things,

    looking at things like branded organic search Are you looking at things

    like referral traffic from outside websites,

    once you establish the metrics, the KPIs and the goals you are effectively building a chain of evidence

    that you would use for any marketing method, but with influencers

    in particular with influencers, you have the ability to to require tracking

    in ways that you can’t do with say like earned media. If someone says something nice about you, and you don’t have a formal agreement in place, it’s very hard for you to go in and make changes or updates or things like that. When you are paying somebody as an influencer to do work on your behalf you absolutely can say hey, you need to use all these tracking links as part of the contract

    we want to be able to measure the impact of what you’re

    doing when you’re when you’re talking about the brand here’s the custom URL the custom one 800 number the custom whatever

    but you need that infrastructure in order to be able to draw that chain of evidence and say hey here’s how

    your influence is leading to business outcomes we care about and if the influencer is actually good at what they do they have actual influence you will see that show up you will see that show when someone fills out a referral form on our your website and when they say how did you hear about us say heard a talk by john wall at at your conference

    they felt the full text box and say I watched a video of gaining Roberto on YouTube.

    Whatever the influencer is doing

    you should see that show up in your audience when you’re working with them. For whatever the the outcome is now for squishier things like

    brand awareness. brand. Awareness isn’t squishy. It’s just that most companies don’t want to spend the money to measure their brand effectively.

    One of the most straightforward ways to do this, it’s not perfect if you’re not if you’ve got some money to spend, be running surveys in market using you can use Google surveys to and and do continuous one question survey

    or maybe a two questions survey, like a like an NPS survey to your target audience and say, Have you heard of this brand? And then or what is your intent to purchase from Brand X and the next 90 days or what is your likelihood that you will recommend Brand X and the next time you days

    if you’re running those surveys

    you can ask a third question possibly

    have you heard someone so recommend Brand X and if the answer for and you’re serving a population of thousands of people or 1500 people or 2000 people as a sample pool if not a single one says yes so and so recommend I heard someone so recommend Brand X then you know your influencer marketing doesn’t have any effect you want because you’re you’re asking people and they’re like, yeah,

    so there are very clear ways to measure influencers, the measure the value of influencers, based on the KPIs, map those KPIs to the value that they’re that have your company and then you track the living daylights out of the influences you’re working with and

    expect absolutely expect if you

    make the requirements more onerous for reporting on the behalf of the influencer, then you’re probably gonna have to pay more for them as opposed to just handing someone a some money and saying hey, just talk about this. So there is rigor required an effort required for both the brand and the influence in order to make the measurement work but you absolutely can measure influencer marketing you can establish the value of an influencer and you can determine what’s working and who’s working out for your brand and who’s not but you just have to do the work and treat it like celebrity marketing or any other form of advertising where you are being detailed and thorough and you’re tracking great question mark. If you have additional questions, please leave them in the comments. And as always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care what help solving your company’s data

    analytics and digital marketing problems.

    This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can

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  • You Ask, I Answer: 2019 Social Media Strategy

    You Ask, I Answer_ 2019 Social Media Strategy

    Jenny asks, “What’s the best resource for 2019 social media strategy development?”

    The same as 2018! The overall strategy, the why – use social media to accomplish business goals – doesn’t change. What changes is the what and the how. Watch the video for details about how to build your 2019 social media strategy.

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    We begin with clear, measurable business-level goals. This data has to come from a CRM and/or marketing automation software.

    Next, gather three sets of social media data – your company’s data, your competitors’ data, and your industry or niche.

    Run a statistical analysis of your data and the data from your CRM and marketing automation to determine what social media activities, if any, drive business outcomes. Use statistical techniques like variable importance calculation to do this. ML will be very helpful.

    Once you’ve identified the variables that potentially drive performance, compare your performance to your competitors and industry using the same variables if possible, minus the marketing automation and CRM data, which you won’t be able to see.

    Identify what works and what doesn’t. Begin qualitative research to answer the “why” for all the “what” questions you ask.

    Do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.

    If you’re concerned that your industry lags behind, it’s fine to compare to a different industry, but make sure that industry has the same functional buying process.

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    In today’s episode, Jenny asks, What are the best resources for

    social media strategy development? Well,

    so the same as 2018 and 2017 and 2016, the overall strategy of social media the why why you’re doing it doesn’t change. You’re using social media to accomplish business goals, What changes is the what what are you going to do and the how, how you’re going to do it.

    The way that we do it at trust insights is with a multi step process based on data. So you begin with clear measurable business goals. What is the business goal that you’re trying to accomplish in a business goal is going to be one of really

    six right

    On the b2b side, it’s going to be make money, save money, save time, those are those business goals on the b2c side, for the customer, it’s going to be make things better, faster, cheaper, so that the customer is more likely to buy it. So, but for the most part, companies are going to ask social media to to help them make money. Now, this may be expressed in terms like building brand or awareness and things like that, which is fine, but it still has to tie back to a a measurable outcome. And the way you get to that is you take all of your data from your CRM from your era p system, perhaps for your marketing automation software, and you extract that out into in a format that you can analyze. After that you gather your social media data and anything that sits between social media and the system. So chances are your web analytics are going to be in there.

    possibly even things like email marketing data, maybe if that’s an integral part of how your company communicates its business proposition to its customers.

    Once you have that, you want to gather three sets of social media data, you want to gather your data, you want to gather your competitors data, and you want to gather your industry’s data.

    After you have those, that set of data you’re going to want to your data and then all of your down funnel data. So that is web analytics CRM, marketing automation, CRM, etc. And you’re going to run a statistical analysis complex statistical analysis to determine using I recommend the certain machine learning techniques I recommend looking into one called variable importance.

    You’re going to run a statistical analysis to say okay, what an of the social media variables drives business outcomes.

    Any and you’ve got to be prepared for the answer to be none Do you have to, you have to be

    prepared for that potential outcome.

    However, once you’ve identified the variables that potentially drive performance, you’re gonna want to compare that performance to your competitors. And then the industry using the same social media variables. If possible, you’re not going to get the marketing automation and CRM data, not legally. So you’ll want to identify your own variables, the things that matter the most, perhaps it’s dates or times or particular types of content or

    actions that users taking its comments, for example, on Instagram,

    whatever the variable is, you then want to do the competitive competitive analysis with the your competitors and the rest of industry to determine

    is somebody else doing a better job with those things? And if so, what is it that they are doing that allows them to to win within your space?

    Identify what works and what doesn’t work.

    Now, here’s a tricky part which a lot of people get wrong. No amount of data mining is going to completely answer the question of why something works. You have to do qualitative research. You have to do focus groups. You have to do

    interviews, maybe do some surveys, something that once you understand why you don’t want to understand what is happening, you can ask the audience Why do they make those choices? Why do you like this brand? And why is this brand was brands, coffee, the one that you go to

    that will help you make more sense of the data and inform your strategy

    ultimately for every what

    variable you have, whether it’s comments, whether it’s likes, whether it’s

    follows you want to have a companion why question you’ve asked a sample of the population of

    Your population, why they made those choices. And then your strategy is you do more of what works and less of what doesn’t work. Now, one thing that people will say when you’re doing a social media audit is that in particularly will say

    my industry lags behind it, or my competitors are lagging behind. I’m concerned that following best practices, it’s totally fine to compare it to a different industry, but the industry that you compare to has to have the same functional buying process. So suppose you work in the car industry, the purchase of a car is a long expensive complex sale, if you were to use social media strategy from like a chewing gum manufacturer. Well,

    people are going to react differently to that product and and they will make different purchase decisions. It is a much smaller purchase than a car. And so things like awareness, consideration and evaluation.

    compressed

    the and the way audiences by is compressed. So you may want to compare the buying of a car to maybe what’s working in the mortgage industry or what’s working in the college industry because again, choosing an education is a big

    cumbersome and very expensive purchase. And so the purchase decision, the the purchase deliberation that people will go through it will be very different other other prized expensive possessions because people take a lot of pride in the vehicle. Do they own other other prized possessions that are expensive that people purchase that they would interact with a brand on social media perhaps, you know, certainly some laptops and very high end phones are very expensive and you might be able to get some comparative data about that. But even that the laptop purchase process even if it was several thousand dollars for the best ones is still different than a cars purchase. There’s no title there’s no paperwork

    Bring your credit card. And then you’ll marveling at the bill when you get it. So be aware. If you want to do competitive industry look for something that has the same functional buying process so that you are doing apples to apples with how a customer is going to interact with that brand.

    So that’s your social media strategy for 2019 or any year it’s the why the what and the how,

    where you will run into trouble is

    not doing enough with your data or especially when you do that statistical analysis trying to do in Excel trying to do it by hand. There is no time

    there’s there’s no convenient easy way of doing that without using some sort of machine learning technology because there’s just too much data you’re going to want to look at, you know, a year to date or or possibly a rolling year

    if you’re

    brand has five or 10 or 20 social media accounts or is on 15 platforms or you get the idea. That spreadsheet starts getting real big, real fast. And it becomes very difficult to analyze without the assistance of machine learning technology. So know that that is going to be something you’re going to have to have in your arsenal. If you want to use the method, we use it trust insights, you’re going to need to have machine learning on your side to pull that off. But great question. It’s a fun question. And this is the time where you’re when everyone’s starting to do the Hey, what worked, what didn’t work you want to answer those questions and do it with data so that you have the best possible answer for your planning. Thanks for watching. Please leave a comment in the comment and subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. What help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trusted insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How To Spot Fake Social Media Influencers

    You Ask, I Answer_ How To Spot Fake Social Media Influencers
    Amanda asks, “How can you spot a fake social media influencer from a real one?”

    There are four metrics and one qualitative test that will help you identify low-quality influencers from high-quality influencers and spot fake influencers from a mile away. Watch this video to learn more.

    The five tests:

    – Are virtually all of their followers unrelated or poor quality?
    – Look at audience growth numbers – they may be highly skewed
    – Is their level of engagement poor or relatively meaningless?
    – What’s their rate of engagement?
    – How well do they adhere to FTC policies? Especially when not required

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    In today’s episode, Amanda asks, How do you spot fake influencers on social media fake social media influences? Interesting question more calm than you think the question is, that is in terms of why it matters. Obviously, if your brand is going to spend a whole bunch of money, you want to make sure you’re going to get a decent result. But in addition, you do want to protect the brand

    the

    I don’t know that I would necessarily use the term fake influencers so much as low or high quality because

    if someone’s got a million followers, by definition, they have some level of influence as long as those followers are real, even if they’re bought. If a certain percentage of them are human, you will still get some network effect out of it, but the cost may be disproportionate to the results you get. So let’s use the terms low and high.

    Quality influencers as a way to help distinguish the two because even if someone’s got to legitimately great audience from a an organic perspective meaning they didn’t just buy a pre made bought power audience if if they are still low quality they’re still not gonna do anything for your brand so three sets of metrics one set of rules for identifying fake influencers are identifying low quality influencers number one is audience quality itself look at the audience look at the aspects of the audience like handle names profile photos and biographies bought farms and and and fake influencer farms you’ll notice obviously there’s going to be a ton of accounts that have terrible names like some random word names with a long string of numbers or other jibberish in the handle name the BIOS are all going to be substantially similar if not almost identical.

    And the profile photos are either going to be scraped off of somebody else’s profile or just stock clip art

    look at the quality of the posts that the audience

    What’s out, they may be just sort of heartbeat posts like hey, you know, or it may just be completely automated with no original content. If you see an influencer, he’s got a ton of this garbage, the garbage followers, you know that they probably bought that audience and it may not even be human Amai to be entirely machine powered. So take a look at the audience.

    It’s difficult to give you specific rules. But

    spotting a fake audience is one of those things you know, when you see it, you look at it go something feels off here as opposed to looking at a reliance going up. Oh, those are all look like real people. There’s enough variation, but they look like they look real. It’s like the difference between you know, when you’re watching a movie where one of the human beings fully animate human beings. This is CGI, it’s not quite right. You don’t. You can’t put your finger on it. But you know something’s off there. So looking at the quality audience handles, photos, biographies, is it

    They’re obvious bots in quantity. Everyone’s going to have a few bots following them. Because that’s the nature of social media at these bots. There’s for non reciprocal networks, meaning a network where someone can follow you, but you don’t have to follow them. You’re never inevitably going to get bots. So that’s number one. Audience quality. Second is audience growth metrics. Take a look at the growth metrics. If you see someone who has

    they have a followers and the follower growth rate looks like this right now. pretty steady, then, you know, okay, it’s probably

    an ordinary person or an ordinary influence. If you see this,

    right, that amount of growth where there’s obviously a really big spike,

    you can be pretty certain like yeah, they’re probably that was probably a an audience purchase. So being able to look at those those growth metrics

    because

    people just do that they just go out and buy an audience and one person went out and bought 20,000 followers on Instagram.

    You can you can go buy them but that number looks really artificial so that’s number two number three is engagement so you want to look at it two different types of engagement metrics number one is the rate take your take a potential influencers stats pull it out of your social media monitoring tool and put in one column number of engagements for each post and number two size of posting

    if you’ve got someone who’s got 50,000 or 100,000

    followers and their posts get like zero engagements their audience may not be be great even if again this is where we go back to that low versus high quality even if they are all authentic

    it’s still a low quality audience because the audience isn’t engaging with the influencer and that’s when the influencer posts your brand stuff.

    They’re not going to get any love for it. There’s going to be no action on it. And so it’s not going to help you achieve your goals. So look at the engagement number of things.

    Rate what is the rate of engagement and then especially on networks like Instagram look at the quality of engagement so is it just a bunch of likes because again you can automate that

    or their comments and the comments real are they they’re like oh this is a great picture of you know and and you know some people are referencing

    making contextually relevant comments on things as opposed to great photo which again if you’ve seen I’ve seen some social influencers using bots and they’ll go and tag they’ll do crazy stuff like you know great photo would love if you follow me

    right

    and they’ve tagged something like someone’s funeral

    I have to do that because the bond of course running behind the scenes so that’s an easy way to spot a low quality influences if there’s a lot of the if they making a lot of engagements that make no sense or their audiences making a bunch of engagement comments that make absolutely no sense. So we have audience quality audience

    Growth engagement quality engagement quantity of those metrics The last thing to look at is adherence so here in some compliance one of the things that you don’t want to get in trouble for as a brand is

    failure you know failed to disclose and and and failure to adhere to regulations and the United States the Federal Trade Commission the FTC monitors and regulates things like social media influencers they they I think they published their first guidelines way back in 2010

    but influencers are always supposed to be using appropriate disclosures and tags for for the stuff that they published so for example

    I did a review recently for campaigns snag it snag it they they gave me a free copy I have to disclose that that’s a form of compensation. It may not be monetary, but I have to according to the regulations disclose that so if you see info and influence who’s sharing a whole bunch of stuff and it’s it’s obviously pitched as the

    Like you know, this is a review of this product and such. Look for disclosures. Look for how well they disclose

    whether something has sponsored or not. Here’s a neat little trick. I call this one of those, the sushi hacks.

    Look for people who disclose when there isn’t a sponsored relationship so some of those review and say disclosure you know, I was not provided any product I received no compensation I just did this because I wanted to write that is someone who is adhering and complying to regulation even when they don’t have to and that’s a sign of a high quality influencer that’s somebody who’s like Yep, this person is going to play by the rules not get our brand in trouble and and do the right thing. So look for that as well as well as a an easy test to see whether or not an influencer works is going to work within regulations and frameworks and things.

    So that’s those are like five easy tests to apply to an influencer determine Yes, this person is the real deal they’re high quality or

    out there, they’re lower quality and and they may not deliver the results that we’re looking for as a brand.

    You’re going to need good social media monitoring software to do this, particularly software that can mind BIOS and stuff. So take a look around the market space

    and and see what’s available. And there’s also going to be a fair amount of googling. Like there is no substitute for that there will be a fair amount of googling to do some background investigation. So just know that in advance. As always, if you have questions, please leave them in the comments and subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter will talk to you soon. Take care what help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights that AI today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Social Media Placeholder Accounts

    You Ask, I Answer: Social Media Placeholder Accounts

    Eduardo asks, “Does it make sense to have an active social media account like Facebook if you’re not really active on it, I.e. putting likes, leaving comments?”

    There are three primary reasons you’d want to have an active social media account. Watch the video to learn what they are.

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    In today’s episode of The Bardo asks, Does it make sense to have an active social media account? like Facebook? If you’re not really active on it, like putting likes leaving comments for a business? The answer is yes. And there are two primary reasons, actually, three primary reasons you’d want to do. This number one is a defensive reason, which is to save once you set up an account and and get to the point where you can establish a custom URL and things you want to secure your brand’s name or a relevant product name, if you’re going product side to make sure that no one else can get it.

    This is important less so now Well,

    it’s important in general, because it requires you to take some effort, but that secures your name. Now, there’s a good chance on the mature networks that

    like Twitter and Facebook that the names already been taken. So you’ll have to do it p a little creative, just like domain names for your website, but you still need one. And you still want to make sure that you get that account and keep it somewhat active, at least in the sense of like, post something every month, so that

    the network realizes that you’re still there, because some services will shutter your account after a certain amount of lack of activity. The second reason is for analytics and tracking purposes, using things like facebook, facebook, in particular, has web analytics. It’s called Facebook analytics. And it’s okay. But having the data certainly doesn’t hurt is attribution and analysis is completely centered around itself, no surprise there. But you still want to be able to see that data

    and being able to track particularly things like your your web properties, your off off network properties, but also your fans to if you do have people who are liking your page, just because he stumbled across it. It’s not a bad source of data. So there’s the second reason to have an actual account is data. The third reason and the big one is advertising. You want the ability to advertise to other people and for good or ill social networks, especially Facebook, and the Facebook family are where all the action is right now. Yeah, Facebook covers 2 billion and change people.

    That’s a substantial part of the human race, more so than any other single product in history. And so if you want to be able to reach those people with advertising, you’re gonna have to use Facebook,

    not even Google AdWords has that level of reach, I don’t think at least within one product,

    Instagram has what 500 million active daily users as part of the Facebook family man, you have all the other Facebook properties of which in which advertising is starting to appear now like WhatsApp and messenger. So if you want to be able to advertise to those audiences, you need a Facebook account. And it needs to be an account a page specifically for brands, it can’t be a personal account has to be a page

    facebook advertising, though I will say this up front, if you’re not active on Facebook, and you don’t really know that ecosystem, Facebook advertising is potentially a giant waste of money and time because

    like Google AdWords was when it first started out.

    advertising on social media is very much its own profession. advertising on Facebook is its own profession is it is a discipline of its own, it’s got its own quirks, and you can hide you can be very, very specialized within just Facebook advertising in order to maximize the impact of the platform. So if you’re just getting started, is a really good idea to take some of the free courses that Facebook offers in their business portal to learn how to our ties on Facebook effectively, there are a lot of tips, there are a lot of tricks there a lot of gotchas, there are all sorts of different ways that it can go sideways. And so taking those courses is a good idea. It is worth your time, because it will save you money in the long run. So make sure that you do that. But those are the three reasons that you would want to have an active account on social networks. Now, should it be every social network defensively, I think so it doesn’t hurt you to have your Twitter handle and your LinkedIn company page and your Pinterest page doesn’t have to have those lockdown

    from an analytics

    perspective. If your audiences there makes sense your audiences on Facebook period. And the story 2 billion people, your audience is there more niche networks like Pinterest, for example, your audience may or may not be there. So they may or may not be data worth scraping. And remember, there are a lot of social networks, humbler is still a thing particularly in the teenage crowd.

    Twitter is still very relevant especially if you’re a politician

    read it is is a not only thing but growing. And then they’re all the the the the third tier networks the little one off niches that are unique to your space. Those are worth your time if your audience is there yet just got to get to know the spaces and then on the third front in again, if you haven’t taken any training, I’d be very hesitant to have you actively go out and advertising unless you try it out like at $5 apiece just to just for the experience, but be super careful because you can spend a lot of money unintentionally that way. So great question and if you have questions, please leave them in the comments

    or in the in the URL in this post. And of course, subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter

    I’ll talk to you soon. Take care what help solving your company’s data analytics and data all marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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

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

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

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

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

    because there

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    but not

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

    big, you know, big 10,

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

    But

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

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

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

    for example,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    take? Yes,

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

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

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

    You Ask, I Answer_ Human Roles in Predictive Analytics

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

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

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

    by

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

    enormous amounts of predictive

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

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

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

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

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

    Popular here around the

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

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

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

    Dunkin Donuts does interestingly enough,

    and so

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

    we could attempt to use some things like

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    itself is why,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    We’re human contributions will impact predictive analytics.

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

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

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

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  • You Ask, I Answer: The Lightning Round!

    You Ask, I Answer_ The Lightning Round!

    In this edition of You Ask, I Answer, we tackle 20 short questions that have piled up in my inbox, questions that don’t need an entire episode to themselves. Watch the video for answers about SEO, secure websites, WordPress, growth hacking, and more.

    • Alysia asks, “Would you, as a hiring manager, favor someone with a Market Research & Analytics degree over someone with just a Marketing degree (both with the same experience)?”
    • Ana asks, “Your thoughts on removing discounts and offers?”
    • Billy asks, “Your thoughts on driving External Traffic?”
    • Brianna asks, “Your thoughts on an MBA?”
    • Cornelius asks, “Your favorite tool to verify email addresses?”
    • Daniel asks, “Your go-to method for attracting Perfect-For-You Customers that will keep coming back?”
    • Destin asks, “Your quick and efficient growth hacking strategy for a SaaS?”
    • Dhaahir asks, “Wrong and right ways to motivate employees?”
    • Erik asks, “Your thoughts on Empathetic Marketing?”
    • Farha asks, “YouTube advertisers- what are the retargeting options?”
    • John asks, “Would you use Squarespace to build websites for your clients?”
    • Khairi asks, “YouTube or twitch?”
    • Lauren asks, “Would your business pay to have your social media pages handled by an outside company?”
    • Margarita asks, “You have created great content, but are your customers seeing it?”
    • Nicole asks, “YouTube Channel for a Non-YouTube Business; more activity than expected, how to best utilize?”
    • Qisma asks, “Writing content for clients- is it ok to use my affiliate links in the content?”
    • Shuaib asks, “You’re thinking about hiring a consultant to help with your finances- what certifications do you look for?”
    • Slesha asks, “Your favorite open source – music library?”
    • Sydney asks, “Should your website be on https?”
    • Warren asks, “Your fountains of creativity?”

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    In today’s episode, we’re going to do a lightning round. This is a pile of questions have come in that don’t need a full episode of us. I answer in order to answer them. They are relatively short questions, so let’s go and just knock through them. Number one Kyrie asks YouTube or twitch? Well, it depends on where your audience is. Are they gamers if they are, you should be on Twitch if they are a more of a regular crowd, a non gaming crowd, you should be on YouTube. Nicole asks, I have a YouTube channel for a non YouTube business. I’ve more activity than expected, how should I best utilize? Well, it’s like any other social app social network so be engaging. Follow people subscribe people who subscribe to you to see what they’re doing what they’re talking about. And make sure that you have a YouTube Business Page Setup or a business channel setup so that you can track and get analytics on your channel. Make sure that you have the advertising options turned on particularly retargeting because what you want to do is you want to be able to gather audience from that social network and be able to show ads to them on YouTube and in other places. Remember that YouTube and AdWords Google Ads now share the same back end in terms of data and information exchange. So if you are running AdWords as your YouTube channel may be a great source of audiences to pull in far asks YouTube advertisers. What are the retargeting options again, YouTube and Google ads. Pretty much the same thing. So you’ve got a lot of options, not just with YouTube itself. In terms of the types of ads you can run on YouTube, but and the retargeting and then sharing data with your AdWords account.

    So look into the options on AdWords, Anna asks for your thoughts on moving discounts and offers. There’s a great quote, I forget who said it. But I heard it from Garrett Gunderson who said that a luxury once experience becomes a necessity The same is true of discounts and offers whenever you come to like things like coupons and stuff people expect you to, to give that if you give it more than very infrequently, there’s one store in the US called Bed, Bath and Beyond. The only reason you ever go there is because you got some crazy coupon because that’s all they ever do. And so no one ever goes there to pay if they don’t have a coupon, enhance your better bet as a business is to instead add value say up the price doesn’t change but what you get can increase so you can get more stuff for that price. So something to think about their Eric asks your thoughts on empathetic marketing kind of a buzzword term at selling with empathy or marketing with empathy simply means knowing what the other person the buyer has been through and tried to address their needs, sell something that they want and you will not have a problem with empathetic marketing or any kind of empathy help them solve their problems and talk less about yourself and them Billy asks your thoughts on driving external traffic

    that’s that’s kind of a broad question but number one, you need to be good at SEO you need to be creating content that attracts people who are looking for what you have to sell number two the content has to be good and number three you have to have a product or service that means people’s needs so that they have a reason to come visit you after that it’s all about essentially pay to play in advertising and and outreach and earned media go over to the blog spin sucks calm and read about what’s called the PESO model paid, earned shared on those are the four types of media you need to create in order to be able to

    attract audiences. Brianna asks your thoughts on an MBA if you are going to run a business and MBA is a very good idea because you’ll learn things like operations, accounting, finance, all that stuff that running a business needs. If you’re going to stay in marketing as a professional and be a marketer, then an MBA is not as essential as having some specialization of skills. Destin asks your quick and efficient growth hacking strategy for a SAS based company stop using the term growth hacking, because that implies a very short term mindset of just getting results. And, you know, with no other considerations build a sustainable marketing program. And that means creating stuff people want, whether it’s product, whether it’s content, whether it’s advertising, it doesn’t matter what it is, but create stuff and understand there’s really not that many shortcuts that you can take. There are a few technical things you can do to accelerate your business. But for the most part, there is no replacement for hard work.

    Daniel asks your go to method for attracting perfect for you customers that will keep coming back have a product or service that solves a specific frequent need. So there are a lot of sales website this morning. And I was doing some research and the site was like, okay, we are we have a

    proprietary method for

    SAS based software that solves your sales problems and creates higher ROI. Well, you and a million other, you know, VC funded Valley companies, I don’t know what this company does. And after spending 15 minutes on their website, I still don’t know what they do. Other than that, they have software that supposedly helps me improve my sales.

    And that’s not a real specific problem they solve

    that’s just kind of, you know, a very generic thing.

    So what is the specific frequent problem? The other thing is, that’s that frequent problem,

    I’m sure there’s somebody out there who wants a fully mechanical turkey that will read out Amazon voice assistant commands and and and the weather. But there’s probably not that many people want that. So it would be a very specific problem yourself, but probably not a frequent one. So frequent and specific problems that that will get you perfect for your customers because you can solve their problem. Warren asks, What are your fountains of creativity?

    answering people’s questions?

    Actually, the whole reason I do you ask I answer is because I don’t have enough latent creativity and myself to try and figure out what marketers like you want so instead I answer questions because then I don’t have to be creative and in the ideation phase, I can be creative in the solution phase instead, and it provides the actual benefit. Cornelius asked what’s your favorite tool to verify email addresses?

    I’ve tried publico

    HQ bu, Co. and zero balance and both are pretty good and both are priced really well. So take a look at those two

    session asks, What’s your favorite open source music library,

    I don’t really use an open source music library. I use both juke deck, and ampere music musics closing down but juke deck is a site where you can either pay for a relatively low cost membership or provide attribution or pay per track and you get generated music by an AI and it’s pretty good. But more important, it’s unique to you. You’re not going to hear that track anywhere else because usually you generated it. So check those out.

    Sydney asks, should your website beyond HTTPS? Yes. Show up asks

    you’re thinking of hiring consult to help your finances. What certifications do you look for the gold standard for finances and consulting is a CPA at least for the business world. You need a certified public accountant who can help you fix your problems. There really is no substitute for that Margarita asks you create a great content. But what if your customers are not seeing it? You probably have an SEO problem. Make sure that you are doing everything you can to get your owned media fixed up and then go do the paid earned and shared media to help support your your SEO efforts to hear asks what are the wrong right ways to motivate employees. the wrong words would be anything that’s illegal. The right ways I’m not the person ask that would be my co founder and CEO Katie or bear who does the whole people thing but go and check some of the apps like blind and fishbowl and read it to see ways employee do not like to be motivated and you’ll get some answers sister what else is wrong? Because my asks writing content for clients? Is it ok to use my affiliate links in the content only if you have prior agreement from the client otherwise, no. Lauren asks, would you pay would your business pay to have your social media pages handled by an outside company? I me personally No, I would automated However, if you’re not able to write code and you don’t have the time then yes, have have an outside company manager social pages for you. We work with a company called b squared b squared me that they do a great job for their clients.

    Elisa asked would you as a hiring manager favor? Someone with a market research and analytics degree over someone with just a marketing degree? Depends on what we’re hiring for. If it’s an analytics based position, you hire someone with an analytics specialization, if not,

    don’t. JOHN asks, would you use Squarespace to build websites for your clients know

    Squarespace and wicks. And all these hosted companies have two little flexibility I would use and I do use WordPress and a managed WordPress environment. So WP Engine is my environment of choice.

    And then the WordPress allows you to bring in so much customization that these other services can’t just can’t do things like implementing Google Tag Manager properly, very difficult for a lot of them and it takes them a really long time to adapt to changes. I’d rather be able to to edit the code myself but that’s my personal preference.

    That was a lot of questions.

    If you have questions, please leave them in the comments or in the form of that is in the comments here. And as always, subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter. Thanks for watching what help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Duplicate Social Media Content

    You Ask, I Answer_ Duplicate Social Media Content

    Jen asks, “We’re a business that likes to share/reshare evergreen content. Social networks are now saying that we can’t publish duplicate posts. Is there a legitimate way around this?”

    Great question. The intent of social networks prohibiting duplicate posts is to cut down on spambots that flood the network with junk, as well as trollbots intending to create artificial waves of support to defeat algorithms – like election tampering. I recommend four approaches to solving this problem that obey the rules while still allowing you to use evergreen content.

    • Encode unique data in each update – like the date of the update, or the engagement the content has received so far. I use clicks; you can use pageviews from Google Analytics, etc. – just has to be dynamically generated at the time of posting.
    • Increase the amount of curation of unique content so that you’re sharing unique content much more frequently. Don’t be the brand that lazily repeats the same 5 updates over and over again.
    • Use a dynamic URL shortener that encodes a different URL on each publication. I use bitly.
    • Have a real human working the account to handle engagement daily. Make sure the account isn’t only automated stuff – automation is intended to provide a framework, not be the entire account. That person should be engaging with people.

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    In today’s episode, Jen asks, we’re a business that likes to share. And we share evergreen content across multiple accounts for our executives, social networks are now saying that we can’t publish duplicate posts, either on the same account or on other accounts. Is there a legitimate way around this? It’s a great question. Because the intent of what social networks are doing with the prohibition against duplicate content is to cut down on two types of bots, spam bots that are just going to publish garbage at scale

    and troll bots,

    which were used to create artificial perceptions of popularity

    for things like election tampering.

    And so a corporation trying to provide some level of automation for

    its accounting for its its key executives, it was not the intended target of these rules, intended target was to prohibit and reduce people from behaving badly on the network. So

    there are four ways the four things you should be doing to

    to solve this problem, while obeying the rules and still allowing you to use evergreen content.

    So the first thing is,

    when you’re putting together social posts, you need to have software that will encode unique data in each in each update. That can be something as simple as having the date of the that you’re putting the post in so that there’s a unique string and each one, it can be something as simple as engagement. Like I use the Bitly API in my updates to show how many clicks that an article has gotten. Because every time you go back and publish an article, again, presumably, hopefully, it’s gotten more clicks, the last segment published, you can use page views and Google Analytics if its content that you own. So you can show how many how many views as this, this article received a year to date, or whatever, whatever it is, it just has to be a piece of dynamic data that goes in the update that shows that changes all the time. So that’s number one, all of these techniques, you should do all of them together, if possible number to increase the amount of curation that you do on the account of unique content, so that you’re sharing unique content much more frequently,

    one of the things that these algorithms are looking for is how much repetition is there how much obviously, that’s going to really easily trigger an algorithm, if you just keep posting, I’ve seen some corporations posting like the same five updates over and over again, of course, that’s going to trigger an algorithm. If a human can spot the automation, then for sure, and algorithm and spot the automation. So be sharing lots of valuable relevant, timely, targeted,

    curated content that is unique to each account. So for example, if your CFO is on what an account, you may want to have that account be sharing blogs, about corporate finance, if your cmo has a separate account, you want to have that blog, we share that that that kind of sharing blogs about marketing

    so that

    they’re sharing things that are relevant to their domain of expertise. And then when you’re sharing your corporate content, it’s in the mix. It’s not just, you know, there’s just one post shared across 20 accounts. And that’s the only posts that those accounts do that day. So lots of lots of extra unique curation. The third thing is you want to use a dynamic URL shortener that encodes a different URL each time your software wants to put together your saw your social media updates, again, I use Bitly, because every time you send the URL to the Bitly API, it spits back a new unique URL. So again, we’re we’re encoding that social posts be even more unique every single time you go to put it together.

    And the fourth and by far, the most important thing

    is you need to have a real human working on the account, to handle engagement, to handle outreach to handle the things that a real human being what actually do on their personal social media account, replying to people liking things,

    posting the occasional photo of you know where that wherever it is, that they are,

    you know, taking a picture of their, their plate of food

    every once in a while, those are the things that real people do. And again, remember that all of these spam detection

    algorithms, all of these, any kind of algorithm is looking for patterns and indicators that fit a certain profile, if you have an account that just robotically publishes stuff, and nothing else, there’s never a behavior change, that’s pretty easy to detect. That’s, that’s a machine run account, if you have the natural randomness that comes with human beings

    that will show those algorithms know

    this is a real person that runs this academy as the sharing stuff to be to follow industry best practices, but his various clearly still a human, okay, here’s a picture of the dog

    social media automation was never intended to be the only thing that an accountant does. And if your social media strategy is such that you are only sharing automated stuff, and nothing else,

    then you probably are going to get

    flagged by it. And algorithm at some point. And also your is what you’re doing, actually all that valuable.

    So remember that social media automation is supposed to be the framework, right? It’s the stuff that is the, the bare minimum that an account does, and then you layer that human aspect on top of it. So that instead of, maybe you have a busy day, or you have a travel or something like that, and you can’t be posting regularly, that’s when the automation fills in those gaps, to keep your account active, and to keep providing value to the people who follow you,

    you still have to provide that extra human value on top. So engagement is the is the fourth component. And

    the first three are things that your automation software may or may not do.

    I know that for myself, I had to write my own software for to put together a lot of the content because there wasn’t anything that was doing it. But that was a couple years ago. And now obviously the the spaces continuing to evolve and grow and stuff. So

    again, unique data, each update unique URL and each update unique content that’s been curated at a much greater volume and most importantly, have those human signals on the account to keep the account looking like a humans actually running it. That is the way to continue to be able to reuse evergreen content, not have someone babysitting every single account all the time and still obey the rules and still stay within the guidelines that the various social networks have put out about duplicate social media content. As always, if you have comments or questions about this sort of thing, please leave them below. Otherwise, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter will talk to you soon.

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