Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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Vendors, bring your engineers to MarTech!
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Almost every part of the #MarTech conference was impressive this year, a tribute to Scott Brinker’s leadership in the MarTech space. The show floor was packed with attendees. The presentations were lively and insightful. The WiFi more or less worked. There was only one broken part: the vendors.

Specifically, the vendors who brought non-technical booth staff to a conference about Marketing Technology. Consider the description from the conference website:

“MarTech is the international conference series for senior-level, hybrid professionals who are both marketing- and tech-savvy: marketing technologists, creative technologists, growth hackers, data scientists, and digital strategists.”

Based on this description, the logical choice for a vendor would be to bring at least one hardcore technologist or data scientist to their booth. Instead, who did they bring? Your average, non-technical salesperson.

I had this conversation at a booth about emotion-based content marketing:

Vendor: “We employ the latest artificial intelligence tools to make your content marketing resonate emotionally with your audience.”
Me: “Really? That’s fascinating. What kind of AI? An LSTM-based RNN? Torch? SystemML? TensorFlow?”
Vendor: “Uh, I’m not really sure. It’s uh… it’s a kind of artificial intelligence. It’s really smart.”
Me: “Yes, but what algorithm does it use? What platform?”
Vendor: “Uh… I’m going to have to get someone else to answer that. Can I scan your badge for a demo?”
Me: “No thank you, but I hope you have a good show.”

I had similar conversations with vendors about predictive analytics, machine learning, and every marketing technology offered. Almost no one could answer my questions about any of their tools and technologies.

At a marketing-focused trade show like, for example, MarketingProfs, where the audience isn’t necessarily super highly-technical, I can easily forgive a vendor for bringing ordinary sales staff who don’t know what they’re selling. But at a marketing technology show, it’s an unforgivable lapse.

A few vendors did it right. Dave Thomas at Leadspace had his product guy on site who could answer solid questions. Sean Zinsmeister from Infer capably explained his team’s algorithms well. IBM Marketing Cloud brought the nerds.

For the most part, however, vendors didn’t bring their A-Game. They may have brought their best sales people, but I walked away with very few companies I could confidently recommend to clients, colleagues, and connected friends.

Know your audience, and bring the best people who can speak to that audience.

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March 23, 2016
Why is Twitter over-represented for influence?
One of the recurring questions people asked yesterday about my post on influence was why agencies and marketers focus so much on Twitter, when other channels like Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook are equally, if not more impactful. The answer comes down to data. We manage what we can measure, and we give preference to what we can manage most easily. Twitter provides more usable data on a per-post basis.

What are the kinds of data we care about as marketers? At a post level, meaning on any individual piece of content, we care about:
- Dates things happened, to measure over time
- Usernames, to know who we’re examining
- Relationships, to learn who talks to who
- Content, to know what our audiences said
- Likes/Votes, to discover what’s popular
- Comments, to know what our audiences said to us
- Shares, to judge how worthwhile the content is
- Views, to uncover our reach
- Follower counts, to uncover our potential reach
- Location, to discover where our audience is
We also care, as marketing technologists, how much data a social network will give us over time. How fast can we receive our data?

Look over this chart of post-level data. What do we get from each network?

We see that Twitter provides us the most data at a per-post level. Facebook appears to come a close second, except that Facebook’s data is limited to Pages for the most part; we can see Page post content, but not individual content. On Twitter, we can see both. Instagram comes in third, and YouTube comes in fourth.

We can’t manage what we can’t measure. We can measure Twitter especially well, even if it’s not the most robust or popular social network. The tools of the trade focus on Twitter because they can generate more measurement and analysis from the data – and that means an easier sale to companies and agencies.

Does this bias create distortions in our ability to identify influencers? Yes. Tom Webster, VP of Strategy at Edison Research, often points out that social media tools’ bias towards Twitter means bias in their reporting, especially of politics. Twitter is very bad, for example, at predicting election outcomes. Why? Twitter’s demographics are far from representative of the population as a whole according to Pew Research:

For example we see black and Hispanic users outnumber, as a percentage, white users, when we look at the Census Bureau’s data:

Twitter’s predictive power for elections is very poor because of the bias in its user base. Thus, when we examine influence, Twitter may or may not be the best choice, depending on what biases influence our influencers.

Should we, as marketers, examine more than one channel? Yes, if resources permit. The more data we can gather from every social network, the more complete and representative a picture we can paint, and the better our influence identification will be. Twitter will likely remain our bias until the other networks provide comparable quality of data, so we must account for its biases when we work with its data.

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March 17, 2016
Are professional influencers impactful?
Olivier Blanchard started a conversation yesterday on Facebook by positing that professional influencers may not move the needle for the brands that hire them, if we vet influencers only on audience reach/follower counts. He asked what the performance differences might be if we judged influencers on things like engagements or down funnel metrics like link clicks. Is there a difference? Is paying a ‘professional’ influencer worthwhile?

Using the advanced research facilities at SHIFT Communications, I took him up on the challenge. We pulled a list of 16 influencers on Twitter in the business and technology sector. 8 of them are brand-side influencers who generally do not accept money to promote content, other than from their employer. 8 of them are professional influencers who accept significant sponsorships above and beyond their employers, celebrities of sorts. Olivier provided the lists and classifications.

Let’s first look at the distribution of audience reach:

Our influence pool has an average following of 140,000 and a median following of 98,000. We see a reasonable distribution of unpaid (organic, in blue) and paid (in orange) influencers in our pool.

Let’s move beyond raw audience numbers to engagement. How much engagement do organic and paid influencers generate? We define engagement as the sum total of actions a person can take on an influencer’s status; on Twitter, that’s replies, likes (formerly Favorites), and retweets. We looked at the last year of data for these influencers and charted it out:

What we see is a sizable difference in overall engagement levels; organic influencers generate up to 6x the engagement of paid influencers. Why? Part of the reason is volume of content. More content isn’t necessarily better; paid influencers generate significantly more content:

Above, paid influencers generated a median of 10,050 posts per quarter; unpaid influencers generated an average of 1,770.

How impactful are influencers at engaging their audiences? We measured engagements divided by total audience size:

What we see above is neither organic nor paid influencers are especially good at engaging a significant portion of their audience. Organic influencers engage 0.015% – that’s 1.5 out of every 10,000 people – while paid influencers engage 1 out of every 10,000 people who follow them. Organic influencers do slightly better, but not by a significant margin.

Let’s talk about where the rubber meets the road: clicks and audience shares. For the links influencers share, how many shares do those links get from the overall audience? How many clicks do influencers generate? Here’s where the stark difference lies:

We see that links shared by organic influencers garner significantly more shares and clicks than links shared by paid influencers. Why such a difference? Most of what organic influencers share is news, content audiences are likely to share anyway. Because paid influencers generate so much more volume (due to promotion of sponsorships, etc.) we would expect their performance to be significantly lower. I invite you to download the anonymized raw data here.

What does all this data tell us? Be very careful how you vet influencers. The biggest megaphone in the room doesn’t necessarily mean spurring action we want as marketers. Take into account reach, of course. Take into account other factors, such as engagement, topical alignment, what else the influencer shares, and whether they generate any real action down the marketing funnel.

I encourage you to download a free eBook I wrote for SHIFT on cultivating influence for even more insight.

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March 16, 2016
Measure share of engagement instead of share of voice
One of my least liked measures and metrics in marketing, and especially in marketing communications, is share of voice. Share of voice is theoretically what part of the conversation your brand owned during the reporting period. However, share of voice is incredibly easy to fake. Want to own share of voice? Print a press release every hour, and set up a thousand spam Twitter bots to just @ reply your Twitter account 180 times every 15 minutes (the Twitter API limit). On paper, you will be the dominant winner.

We know these are faked measures. They appear great but have no bottom line impact. Yet we may find ourselves called on the carpet by our CMO, CEO, or board of directors because we aren’t winning share of voice, especially if a competitor is engaging in useless tactics like hourly press releases.

What’s a better option than easily faked numbers? Engagement. When people engage with our brands, with our companies, they’re indicating more than casual interest. A single Like tells us more about consumer engagement with our brand than a million press releases. Active engagement, such as comments, conversations, and re-sharing indicate our audience cares about what we have to say.

Let’s look at an example, using two very well-known brands, in aggregate share of voice for the last year:

The analysis above indicates across major publishing channels – news, blogs, forums, and Twitter – that Coke and Pepsi have equal share of voice. Does this help us understand the perspective of the customer?

Are these two brands truly equal in the eyes of the customer? If we rely solely on share of voice, it would appear so. However, if we examine the actual conversations they’re having, we might see a different picture.

Let’s look at the same timeframe – one year – and consumer engagement on their respective Facebook Pages. Each has millions of Fans. Each posts regularly, creating opportunities for consumers to engage.

Here’s how consumers comment to these brands:

This is a very different story. Coke has the lion’s share of comments some months. On average, consumers have 70% of the conversations in a given month with Coke. Of course, we could state that perhaps those comments are negative. Perhaps they’re more complaints. If that were the case, we would expect to see Pepsi shared more; generally speaking, people do not share things they hate.

Here’s how consumers re-share content from these brands:

Most months, consumers are overwhelmingly sharing Coke’s content more; on average, they share Coke’s content 79% of the time.

If I were Pepsi’s brand manager, I’d be concerned about the enormous gulf between traditional share of voice measures and how consumers are behaving. Choose your metrics carefully! Consider using a measure like share of engagement as a supplement to or replacement for share of voice.

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March 14, 2016
Do Twitter direct messages boost sales?
One of the ‘best practices’ touted by social media ‘experts’ is to never use direct messaging features in a social network to advertise. This has become such an ingrained belief that social media users take umbrage when it happens to them.

Why? If the end user doesn’t want to hear from someone, unfollowing is a click away. Unlike email marketing, once a user unfollows, we marketers cannot message them again. They are protected from ever hearing from us.

I question the belief of never sending direct message solicitations because our efforts to build an audience must have a business-impacting goal. Why build a large audience if you never ask anything of it? Do we value the vanity number – followers – so much that we’ll forfeit leads, conversions, or revenue?

Why build an audience at all, especially on services like Twitter, where our tweets are visible whether or not someone follows us?

When I began promoting my book last month, I chose to incorporate Twitter direct messages as part of my outreach plan. Using followers’ biographies to write targeted messages (CEOs, for example, got a CEO-centric message), I reached out to several thousand followers about the book.

Did I get pushback? Absolutely. I got some delightful hate messages in response. I also lost followers at a faster rate than during non-promotional periods. Here’s a quick chart showing promotional period growth rates vs. non-promotional periods:

What else did I get? An 11% increase in website traffic from Twitter, and a 22% increase in sales from Twitter direct messages compared to regular, organic tweets.

I will gladly trade losing a few followers per day for a 22% increase in sales. My bank doesn’t accept followers as a form of currency. My bank gladly accepts dollars.

What should we learn from this experiment? Test direct messaging for major initiatives. It may not be the right tool for every marketing campaign, but when we’ve got to show results for a major launch, direct messaging should be in the mix.

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March 7, 2016
IBM Watson Analytics Maps Social Media Conversations
We struggle as marketers to identify influence in the context of conversation. We see who has the biggest audience, who has the highest number of shares or retweets – that’s table stakes. What we cannot easily visualize are the networks of conversation people have about a topic.

Wouldn’t it be valuable to know who talks to who? If we were running an event, we’d certainly want to know who the resident experts are – especially if they’re niche influencers?

Answering these questions requires the use of network mapping tools. Technologists have had access to network mapping tools for years, with free, open-source products like Gephi. However, these software packages are difficult to generate clean data, and aren’t the easiest to use.

When IBM announced Watson Analytics had gained the ability to build network maps from any data source, I rejoiced. Watson Analytics already accepts common data formats like CSV files and Excel spreadsheets, formats that specialized tools like Gephi do not. Watson Analytics also doesn’t require the strict edge/vertice mapping data that more complex tools demand. To use it, all you need is data that contains conversations with distinct entities.

For example, here’s a collection of tweets about SxSW. I’ve separated out the respondents into a username and who the message was in reply to:

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This raw data has some useful facets to it; knowing who is talking to whom and the audience size are helpful facts. Information in this format is not intuitive; we have the data but cannot analyze it to know what happened. Without analysis, we cannot create insights.

I loaded this same data into Watson Analytics, which produced this lovely exploration:

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What do we see in this map? Here’s an annotated version:

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Clusters 1, 2, and 3 are well-defined conversation hubs. The user account in the middle of the hub is a high-conversation account, an account that many people talk to. If we were using this analysis for influencer identification, we’d want to investigate these accounts carefully.

Clusters 4 and 5 are nascent conversation hubs. These aren’t as popular, but we should make note of them in case they continue to grow. If we see them expand in subsequent network maps, we’ll know these are trending influencers and should interact with them .

These are actual conversations happening, as opposed to simple likes and retweets. This is an important distinction, especially for an event like SxSW. Having influencers who are retweeted and shared is important; having influencers who participate actively in conversations to change minds and set opinions is vital. Standard social media analytics provides the former quite capably; network mapping with Watson Analytics helps us achieve the latter, creating a comprehensive, powerful influencer program.

We use network mapping to visualize any set of interactions between entities. We could use it to find the most malfunctioning part of an IoT system. We could use it to identify which pages on our website send the most traffic to other pages. We are limited only by our imagination and data quality.

Give network maps a try today in Watson Analytics!

Disclosure: I was invited to be an IBM Futurist and attend the Analytics for All without cost. IBM paid for my travel and expenses. IBM has not compensated me to write about Watson Analytics. I am a paying customer of Watson Analytics.

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March 4, 2016
Learn basic regression analysis for marketers [VIDEO]
In this short 12 minute video tutorial, you’ll learn why regression analysis is important, what tools to use for getting started, and how to do a regression analysis on some marketing data. You’ll also learn what a hypothesis is and how to prove or disprove one. This tutorial is taken from my new book, Leading Innovation.

Outline and notes in image format:

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Video:

Regression Analysis Basics for Marketers
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An important note: exceptions exist to almost every rule. This is doubly true in statistics. Everything in this video has exceptions, contradictions, etc. as we dive deeper down the rabbit hole of statistics; this is merely our starting point.

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March 3, 2016
Do Facebook Reactions increase engagement?
Facebook Reactions have been live to the planet for a week. Consumers have the ability to not only like, but love, laugh, wow, angry, and sad at content they see on Facebook. We’ve discussed analytics potential for them and caveats about what not to do, like Reaction-baiting.

The big question I have is, are Reactions encouraging more engagement, now that consumers have more choices? In theory, consumers should engage more with content they didn’t feel comfortable just ‘Liking’ previously. I’ve personally hit the Angry button at some political updates in my News Feed, where I wouldn’t have engaged before.

So, using the massive analytics engine at SHIFT Communications, I took a look at brands, media, and individual influencers since February 1, 2016 to determine what impact Reactions has had.

First, let’s look at who’s in the list, sorted by Median Reactions Per Day. Recall that Reactions still show up as Likes in Facebook analytics, regardless of Reaction type.

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Note that individual influencers (orange) dominate the overall number of Likes/Reactions compared to brands (blue) and media (green).

Have Reactions increased Facebook engagement? Let’s take a look:

The highlighted yellow area above is when Reactions were turned on for all users. We see no significant differences yet in any of the three groups in median Likes per day. Note the vertical axis is logarithmic because individual influencers’ engagement dwarfs brand and media engagement.

The bottom line is that Reactions haven’t statistically changed engagement yet. If you publish unengaging content, Reactions won’t help you. If you already have a highly-engaged audience, you will likely continue to do so – Reactions don’t appear to make it better or worse.

Focus your efforts on creating engaging content and interacting with your community!

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March 2, 2016
Will Facebook give marketers analytics for Reactions?
UPDATE: The answer is yes, in the new Facebook Reactions API.

Marketers want Facebook Reactions analytics for more precise sentiment analysis. Will Facebook give it to us? Yes.

First announced last fall, Reactions are now available to all Facebook users. Instead of simply choosing to Like a status, Facebook users can now choose a variety of different reactions such as Like, Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry:

These Reactions currently have no granular impact on Facebook’s reporting; in your Page insights, they all show up as a Like count in the data export:

However, marketers are clamoring for individual Reaction types in analytics. Why? Sentiment analysis is notoriously unreliable. It’s difficult for machines to understand context and tone. Imagine you work at Brand X. Your main competitor is Brand Y. Suppose you see this Facebook post:

“Brand Y totally sucks. I really hate them. They ignored me the last time I called in. I’m going with Brand X. At least their service doesn’t completely suck.”

A machine will score this as a negative sentiment post. It is – but against Brand Y only. Machine understanding of natural language still couldn’t effectively parse this as a post in support of Brand X.

Suppose, however, we could get Reactions data and it was filled with Angry. Would we have a better understanding of sentiment? Yes. What if all the reactions were Haha or Love? That group reaction might show the comments in a different light.

Are there any indications Facebook will give us this data? Possibly. Let’s dig into some technical details. First, in your Facebook Page Manager (or Business Manager if you’ve converted over), you’ll note that Posts now have Reactions broken out:

This is the first serious hint Facebook may provide rollup reporting on different Reaction types. Note as well that Facebook classifies all Reactions as Likes here, rather than serious negative feedback (at the bottom right side).

What else hints at Facebook providing Reactions data? We can turn to the post itself, in the code. Here’s what the ugly source looks like:

If we clean it up and search for Reactions, we start to find some gems. Look how Reactions are stored on page:

This is an array, which is a useful way of storing data for tabulation and later analysis. Note that Facebook is doing the math right in the code, counting up reactions.

Facebook even has Reactions stored which are not live, such as Dorothy, Toto, and Confused:

This hints at future expansions of Reactions; by storing Reactions data as an array, Facebook can add or change Reactions down the road very easily – and the data accompanying them.

What should you do as a marketer? For now, keep an eye on your Facebook posts by overall Likes. Take a careful look at your top 10% of posts with high Like counts and dig into the Reactions by hand. Are your posts garnering regular Likes, or are they garnering Angry?

If you’re a marketing technologist, reconfigure your social media monitoring databases with a new index to accommodate Reactions by type and count. You’ll be well-prepared for when Facebook makes the data available.

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February 26, 2016
What’s in store for analytics in the next 5 years?
Shawn asked recently,

“How do you see the field of analytics changing in the next 5 years?”

This is a terrific question with a nuanced answer. If, by analytics, we mean the specific process of taking data and explaining what happened in it – harkening back to the original Greek analein, to loosen up, then analytics as a profession will go away in 5 years.

Machines are becoming more and more capable of explaining what happened. Data analysis software that cost millions of dollars a decade ago are open source and free to anyone skilled enough to implement them today.

Tools like Watson Analytics make detailed analysis inexpensive and accessible to anyone. We won’t need human analysts just to crank out reports, charts, etc. – our machines will be more than capable of creating anything we need with natural language requests.

If, by analytics, we mean the general process of taking data and extracting actionable insights, then machines will do the analysis, we’ll provide the insights, and machines will execute on our findings.

In the hierarchy of analytics, we are entering the predictive era. In the next 5 years, I expect us to fully embrace predictive analytics and begin venturing into prescriptive analytics.

If you’re entering the field of marketing analytics now, you’ll need some fairly advanced skills to remain a highly-valued contributor in the years to come. You must have a solid foundation in statistics, database administration/storage, cloud computing technologies, and at least one machine learning language such as R, Python, or Java. You should also have extensive experience and certification in platforms like Google Analytics, Google AdWords, BI tools like Tableau Software and Watson Analytics, adtech platforms like Adroll and other DSPs, and marketing automation software.

If you can bundle together all this expertise together with knowledge of strategy and innovation, you’ll be an unstoppable force in the marketing technology world. You’ll have the right skills to leverage predictive analytics and usher in the era of prescriptive analytics in the years to come.

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February 25, 2016

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