Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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You Ask, I Answer: Meaningful Engagement Social Media Measurement
Tony Dunn asked,

What are some unique tips, scripts or tools to measure “meaningful interactions”, vs using typical engagement metrics like impressions, clicks, likes, etc? (beyond counting replies or comments)

This is partly in reference to Facebook’s algorithm change, but also speaks to a much deeper measurement issue lurking within social media. The answer? Use a tool like Watson Analytics to find out. Watch this short video for more details:

You Ask, I Answer: Measuring Meaningful Engagement in Social Media
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I think in this particular instance is sort of code for how Facebook is trying to determine what’s in the News Feed, and we know algorithmically that any kind of interaction is important.

So in a lot of ways, Facebook gives you that data already, for your brand page and in some of the monitoring tools they own. Facebook purchased a tool about a year ago called CrowdTangle, which is one of my personal favorites. It’s free of financial cost now but there’s a multi year waiting list to get in, so apply sooner rather than later. However for these meaningful interactions, Facebook says what it is for their particular algorithm .

What I would do is if you have a really good social media monitoring software package, that has the ability to infer estimated reach, run a correlation matrix between the performance of a post versus all the variables there in your brand page, and then ideally competitors data.

Running a correlation matrix will help you understand that these are the variables that seemed to be the most associated with the desired outcome, which is the interactions, versus the variables that don’t seem to matter a whole lot. If you want to get super fancy there are ways like Markov chains to do that from a machine learning perspective, but for the average social media marketer or digital marketer I would do a correlation matrix.

That’s something you could do in the free open source software R programming language; you could even do very simple correlations right inside of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. You have your column of all the different variables and then just run a standard correlation function in the top row of each column to the desired target, which is like your overall interactions, and see again which which one of those columns seems to be most closely associated.

The third tool that I think is a really good one for this application – it’s not free – it’s a tool called IBM Watson Analytics, and there again, you take that spreadsheet of all my social data for that I get out of my Facebook page. You specify a target. You say, I want to know what predicts interactions or what predicts engagement and what Watson Analytics will do is a multivariate analysis and say this this combination of variables seems to best fit a prediction on on meaningful interactions if you can define it within your spreadsheet.

I think for the average social media marketer that’s the best tool because there’s really no coding involved. It’s assembling the spreadsheet and then asking – literally typing to Watson – what drives engagements?

While I think that’d be a great choice for predicting that, at a bigger picture level, I would not stay within the social network’s data; I would also blend in Google Analytics data. So if we’re talking about Facebook impressions, clicks, likes, video views, et cetera., I would then take website traffic to my website from Facebook, I would take conversions or goal completions from Facebook as a source, and I put all that in there, too, and then use like a tool like Watson Analytics to say, tell me what results in conversions from Facebook.

Because that’s really what I am after – engagement’s important in terms of of beating the algorithm, if you will, but the real gold is in getting an actual business result. I would incorporate the Google Analytics data as well, and that might even give you a deeper insight into the Facebook metrics themselves, because what generates interactions may not generate conversions.

You have to play a balancing act between those two very different goals. The goal of Facebook has commanded of us all, and the goal that actually matters to us all that turns into business. So, Tony, hopefully, that gives you three sets of ideas that you can use for measuring these meaningful interactions.

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March 16, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: Basic Prediction
Christopher asked,

“Christopher! Went to the SMMW this past year and attended your presentation. One of the most impactful and motivating talks I have seen. I am extremely amateur in my domain expertise in coding- signed up for a python course via codecademy for my personal growth. In my professional role I am pulling the necessary data to create a similar”To Do” action calendar. Curious if you can give some additional tips and tricks to amateur especially when matching/selecting the dates to map out actions.“

Great question, Christopher. The short version is that without predictive algorithms, you can’t achieve the level of specificity I showed in my session, but there are things you can do today. Let’s dig in.

You Ask, I Answer: Basic Prediction
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Welcome to another episode of You Ask, I Answer. Today, christopher asks, went to social media market world this past year attended your presentation in my professional role, i’m pulling the necessary data to create a similar to do action calendar curious you can give you some additional tips and tricks to amateurs, especially in matching us look dates to map out actions.

It’s a good question, christopher and the tough part is the material presented at Social Media Marketing World was specifically around predictive analytics, which requires some of those coding skills in order to do it well. However, there are some basic things you can do to prepare for this, to have an action plan sooner rather than later.

The first most, important thing is you need to have mapped out your marketing operations funnel, so from the moment that you have a first contact with a customer to the moment that they buy something. How long does that take for some products and services? From a pack of chewing gum, for example, you know this may take seconds right? A child sees it at the end of the rack, they yell at their parent, the parent goes and buys it. It may be a purchase cycle that lasts seconds.

On the other hand, if you’re selling Gulfstream airplanes or large commercial buildings, you could have a ten year sale cycle depending on how things go, so you need to have that mapped out first. How long is it going to take you to get from contact to purchase? For every business it’s going to be different. B2C, B2B businesses, it could be 30, 90, 120, 300 days – once you know how long that moving window is, even if you don’t have access to to predictive analytics software, you could still do generalized predictions.

So for example, if you were to take two years worth of your sales data and map it put into it something – Tableau or Excel or IBM Watson Analytics, and say what month do sales peak? That’s something you could determine from from past performance. As long as your company’s performing similarly, you say ok, we know September’s our month, that’s the month we must sell stuff, so now you have your target. This is the month things are going to be hot and you have your sales cycle.

You know how long it’s going to take you to get to the point where those things closed. Depending on your data you may end up saying ok, so if September is our month based on past data and our sales cycle is ninety days, that means we need to be aggressively marketing in May and early June of every year so that we hit that window. And so that’s prediction at a monthly level and that’s still like way ahead of ninety percent, ninety five percent of people who are out there who were just doing no planning whatsoever. They are just throwing darts at things. Beyond that level of specificity, you’ll need the predictive analytics software, but even that level of planning is really good to do.

The other thing I would suggest doing is use the path analysis within Google Analytics at a channel level and see from contact to Google goal completion – assuming your goals are set up correctly – to figure out ok, do different channels converted different rates? That will give you the ability to understand, should you be doing less or more during certain time periods. I would also look at the assisted conversions report in Google Analytics, because that will tell you what channels are helping conversions more than being the last touch. You’ll piece together a very basic customer journey, so now you have the sales cycle which involves your customer path to purchase and you have your target date

You could say in the first four weeks, the first third of our of our customer journey, we know we’ve got have display, paid search, generic paid search, and social media working for us. In the middle, we must have referral and public relations and retargeting. At the end, we must have email and web pixel based retargeting.

And that will give you that sort of rough operational map. It’s not perfect. And that’s by no means you know, as granular as predictive software, but that’s still a really good place to start. And it’s still far more than the average person’s going to do. So give that a try.

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March 15, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: Brand Impact of Facebook Fighting Fake News
Suzanne asks:

“How does Facebook’s efforts to fight fake news impact non-news Brand Pages?”

Great question, Suzanne. In short: Brand Pages have virtually no organic reach anyway. The algorithm for fighting fake news is secondary to Faceook’s beating up any content that doesn’t get interaction and engagement.

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You Ask, I Answer: How Will Facebook's Fake News Fighting Affect Brands?
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Welcome to another episode of you ask, I answer? Suzanne asked today:

How does Facebook’s effort to control fake news affect non-news Brand Pages?

Short version – Brand Pages, if they weren’t already at zero organic reach, are headed that way rapidly for all but the most popular content providers.

What Facebook did in its most recent algorithm is heavily favor individuals, groups and anything involving in engagement in conversation, so their premise on engagement is that if something is shared, but there’s no conversation, no interaction between users, then it’s not as important. This is as of January 11 of this year.

So what the impact does this have? Well, if you look at your average Brand Pages’ Facebook post, they don’t get a ton of interaction, they don’t get a ton of conversation.

I’ve seen plenty of pages where there isn’t any conversation and it’s just a couple of employees randomly hitting the like button.

So in the new algorithm, which is so heavily engagement focused, these pages are going to take a pretty heavy hit.

You’re going to see performance decline.

And, of course, the solution that Facebook offers is get out the credit card and start spending money on ads. There are a couple other ways around this. Number one, obviously create content that is conversation-worthy, without creating offensive things or stuff like that because that doesn’t help anybody. The other way is to use employee advocacy; in the most recent algorithm change what has happened is that Facebook in general is favoring the individual person, rather than the corporation or the brand.

If you have employees, and your employees are representative of your customers, meaning they’re connected to people like your customers, employees advocacy will work.

Now, there are a whole bunch of caveats with employees advocacy. One, your employees need to have reach, access into the customer base. A real simple example: if all of your employees are baby boomers, but your customers are ideally millennials, you’re not going to have a good time. You’re not going to have an audience that is in sync with who your employee base is. That’s a major consideration – and it doesn’t just have to be demographics. It could be behavioral, too – if all of your employees love Pink Floyd, but all of your audience likes Justin Bieber, you’re going to have a bad time.

The third approach and the approach that I personally like more is diversification.Facebook is not social media. It is a social network, but is not the only one out there.

There is Twitter, there is Pinterest, there is Instagram, which is still a Facebook property, there are a whole bunch of secondary networks. There is LinkedIn, which is my personal favorite for B2B because it tends to be more professionally focused folks, there is YouTube.

YouTube is a gigantic social network.

It just happens to be a social network focused around video; it’s also the second largest search engine on planet. There is spotify, and Apple Music and all of these entertainment networks. It’s less a question of what’s our Facebook strategy and what’s our overall social channel strategy – where where is our audience?

Where do they want to participate? What do they like? There are private social networks – anyone who’s ever used Slack has been in a private social network because Slack is very much that. There are still old school bulletin boards – great places for you to have interactions with your audience depending on where your audience is. Technically, email is the oldest social network, right? It is still the most decentralized.

So, where’s your audience? Where do they want to hear from you? Are the places where they hang out immune to the Facebook effect or reducing the Facebook effect? There are tons of private discussion groups – Whatsapp has them, WeChat, Kik, Line, Tango, Viber, all these different companies have all these different channels. Facebook Messenger, iMessages.

People have individual communities, so the way you ultimately get around Facebook’s algorithm?

Create content people like and that they want to share and distribute on your behalf.

Two, focus on more than just Facebook.

Three, if you have to be on Facebook because you’re convinced that’s where your audience is, spend the money on the ads right now. Te ads are still relatively affordable. They will not stay that way as companies find more and more, organic reach is going to zero, they’re looking for any option to activate that huge Facebook following they spent years and dollars building, and Facebook ad pricing will go up.

So that’s the answer.

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March 14, 2018
Why I’m Leaving SHIFT Communications and What’s Next
I’m leaving SHIFT Communications.

What's Next: Life After SHIFT Communications
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Background: Figuring out Public Relations

In late 2012, I joined SHIFT Communications with a burning question. I had mastered the basics of digital marketing, of the middle of the funnel. I was a proficient email marketer, web marketer, and social media marketer. But I had a challenge. I didn’t understand the top of the funnel. I wasn’t strong in 2012 at digital advertising, and I had no exposure to the art and science of public relations. Frankly, I thought PR was BS.

So I sought out Todd Defren and SHIFT Communications to broaden my horizons, to deepen my knowledge of this industry that companies pay millions of dollars for. Todd and I agreed that I would introduce digital marketing and analytics to PR, and I would learn the PR industry to complete my understanding of the top of the funnel.

Over more than half a decade, we’ve done just that. SHIFT Communications became the first PR firm to earn certification as a Google Analytics™ Certified Partner, years before anyone else. SHIFT Communications became known for high-impact PR and measurement capabilities that are second to none. I’ve personally learned that with the right people, PR isn’t BS at all, but a vital corporate function. Ask any company that’s had a PR disaster how much it matters.

During my time at SHIFT, I noticed something, especially among the largest clients. Companies were sitting on treasure troves of data, data that was locked away in digital filing cabinets and digital desk drawers, never to be used. Dark data. Everything from marketing analytics to ERP data to customer experience to product development – companies generate enormous amounts of data that goes unused. In the right hands, they could unlock that data and create tremendous business impact; in some cases, even save lives.

What’s Next for Me: Co-Founding Trust Insights

That’s why, after five years and change at SHIFT, it’s time for me to move on. I am forever grateful to the team at SHIFT Communications and especially to Todd Defren, Jim Joyal, Amy Lyons, and Paula Finestone for taking a chance on a new idea in 2012 and helping grow the agency to be so successful, it was acquired four years later. I still believe that SHIFT is the foremost data-driven PR firm, especially with my marketing technology colleagues at the helm.

I’m leaving SHIFT Communications and the world of PR to co-found a new company, Trust Insights, whose mission will be to light up dark data. We’ll be using predictive algorithms, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to help businesses make better decisions, faster, to transform companies, and ultimately, to make the world a better place.

For example, suppose you ran the operations for a major retail store. Using predictive algorithms, wouldn’t it be great to predict just how much staffing you’ll need at a given set of stores based on what your customers are likely to do?

Trust Insights will help you build that prediction.

Suppose you needed to understand the customer experience, the customer journey of high net worth individuals as a financial institution. Wouldn’t it be great to digest and understand everything these future customers are saying to align your products and services with what’s on their minds?

Trust Insights will help you develop that understanding.

Suppose you managed employee relations within a large, distributed corporation. Wouldn’t it be great to connect what employees say inside with the performance of the company to find what the real issues are that diminish productivity?

Trust Insights will help you connect your data sources and find insights.

Would you like to save time and resources in managing your data? Would you like to make more money with your data?

Come chat with us at Trust Insights, and we’ll help shed light on your dark data.

See you there.

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March 13, 2018
The Importance of 3 Buckets of Digital Marketing Analytics
In order to know what to fix, we need to understand the relationships between our metrics. We have so many to choose from. How do we make sense of any of them?

The Importance of 3 Buckets of Digital Marketing Analytics
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If we don’t understand the relationships between our metrics, we spend time fixing things that aren’t broken or ignoring the things that are.

Building an understanding

How do we simplify? How do we analyze in a coherent way?

Three buckets of analytics
- Awareness
- Engagement
- Action
We categorize our metrics in one of these three buckets, then run analyses to understand how each bucket is performing relative to the goal we’re trying to achieve.

Example of Twitter analytics top to bottom

I exported all my Twitter analytics, plus Google Analytics data for Twitter traffic and Twitter-sourced goal completions. Once exported, I put everything in a spreadsheet, then ran a correlation matrix in the free, open-source R software to understand how the variables related.

In my example, I found that my awareness and engagement buckets were fine. I saw no relationship between those two buckets and my action bucket, which is really bad.

Knowing this, I now know what I have to fix. Awareness and engagement are strong, so I keep doing what I’m doing there, but I add more asking, more advertising, more pulling from the audience to boost action.

I won’t go all-in on asking alone; I still have to provide more value than I take. But the data indicates I’m out of balance.

Do the same for all your marketing analytics and metrics to understand what’s working and what isn’t.

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March 9, 2018
Measuring YouTube and Video at Social Media Marketing World 2018
At Social Media Marketing World 2018, I sat down with live stage host Sunny Lenarduzzi to talk about measuring the impact of video marketing, especially on YouTube. We have so many great ways to measure video today, but I strongly encouraged her and the audience to use the tools already at hand, such as:
- Google Analytics™
- Google Tag Manager™
- Google Data Studio™
- YouTube Analytics
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Social Media Marketing World 2018 Live Stage: Christopher Penn
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March 8, 2018
Social Influence Network Graphs Improve Social Media Marketing
Madalyn Sklar asked how the various network graphs I make work. They’re based on a few different components and ideas, but the big idea is using a centrality algorithm to determine influence.

What is Centrality?

Centrality is a way to calculate how one node – like a Twitter handle – interacts with other nodes. The more a node is referenced, the more important it is.

Why Does Centrality Matter?

Centrality is, for me, the best way to judge influence in social media. Why? Because it’s easy to be loud and relatively easy to build a large audience (especially if you have dollars to spend). It’s less easy to organically convince a lot of people to talk about you (bots aside). The more other people talk about you, the more they reference you (whether or not you talk a lot), the more important you are in an influence network graph.

As mentioned above, there are certainly ways to game centrality mapping, such as the use of bots; however, the average social media marketing practitioner is unlikely to deal with them in any substantial way on a day-to-day basis.

How Do We Build Influence Network Graphs?

I walk through the process from beginning to end in this video. The only caveat is that my data-processing middleware is confidential. The data source used in the video is by Brand24, and the network graphing software package is an open-source package named Gephi.

How Do Network Graphs Identify Social Media Influence?
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What Do We Do With Network Graph Outputs?

Once we’ve built our graph, we use the data to:
- identify influencers
- identify influencer precursors
- perform outreach to connecting nodes
- identify trends
- find unexpected connections among groups
- build influence key topics
- build advertising lists
Properly done, influence network graphing provides us with nearly unlimited uses to turn our analysis into action.

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March 6, 2018
Four Failures of Social Media Marketers
I’ve just returned from Social Media Marketing World with a list of things we social media marketers should be doing better. Here’s a summary in about 7 minutes:

Followup Thoughts from Social Media Marketing World 2018
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Social media marketers face four major obstacles to their success:
1. Failing to create audience-centric messaging.
2. Failing to create and give value first.
3. Failing to measure what matters.
4. Failing to focus on what’s practical and applicable.
Most of all, we have forgotten the basics. We have forgotten how to execute the basics of social media, and we’re seeing the performance penalty for those lack of basics. Get back on track by fixing the four failures above. These are my key takeaways from speaking with dozens of marketers at Social Media Marketing World.

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March 5, 2018
Marketing AMA: Which Version of Google Analytics Tags Should We Use?
Recently I had the opportunity and privilege to address the corporate marketers community with MarketingProfs in an Ask-Me-Anything forum. We spent an hour together tackling every manner of marketing question; by the end of the hour, we still had 50% of the questions left to address. I promised the community I’d get to the rest, so this next series of posts will be the answers to those remaining questions.

Today, let’s tackle this interesting question:

How can you tell if you have Classic or Universal Analytics? Also can you change Classic to Universal and not lose the historical data for that site?

Google Analytics has four versions of tag implementation:
- Classic Analytics
- Universal Analytics
- GTag
- Google Tag Manager
In this short video, learn what the differences are and which we should be using – and how to tell the difference:

Which version of Google Analytics tag should you use?
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March 1, 2018
Marketing AMA: What Metrics Go Into Marketing Reporting Meetings?
Recently I had the opportunity and privilege to address the corporate marketers community with MarketingProfs in an Ask-Me-Anything forum. We spent an hour together tackling every manner of marketing question; by the end of the hour, we still had 50% of the questions left to address. I promised the community I’d get to the rest, so this next series of posts will be the answers to those remaining questions.

Today, let’s tackle this interesting question:

What metrics go into marketing reporting meetings?

What metrics go into marketing reporting meetings?
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February 28, 2018

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