Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Reporting Glossary For Non-Technical Audiences?

    You Ask, I Answer: Reporting Glossary For Non-Technical Audiences?

    Allison asks, “When it comes to reporting – how have you successfully educated others in your company on results? Is a simple glossary enough or have you taken another approach, especially with our less tech-savvy peeps?”

    The key is identifying what they care about from a measurement perspective. We often make the mistake that what we care about is what our audience cares about, and with reporting that’s almost never true. What metrics and results will the audience care most about? That’s part of requirements gathering – what does the report need to deliver? The somewhat humorous question I like to ask folks to get a real answer is – “what metrics will you get a bonus for?” That clarifies in an instant what should be in the report – and what shouldn’t – and it won’t be very many measures. No report should ever require a glossary because you’re reporting on the things that person will get a bonus for, and they deeply know and deeply care about those results – no definitions needed.

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    In today’s episode, Allison asks, When it comes to reporting, how have you successfully educated others in your company on results is a simple glossary enough or have you taken another approach, especially with our less tech savvy peeps? Hmm.

    Okay, so no report should require a glossary, right? If you’re building a report of results that you’ve generated from marketing, and the results do not translate into business results that anyone can understand.

    You’ve got a bad report.

    You’ve got something that isn’t communicating what’s actually important to the stakeholders who are reading it and it the higher up the chain you’re going, the more that’s going to be true.

    When you hand something to the CEO or the CFO.

    All they really want to see at the end of the day is dollars and cents, right for the most part.

    exceptions, of course.

    So the key to identifying what these folks care about from a measurement and reporting perspective is got to make sure that the results you’re conveying are results that have either our results they care about, right? Or have a direct line of sight to the results they care about, have a clear, obvious connection to what they care about.

    And that’s something that you’re going to do in what’s called requirements gathering.

    When you sit down with anybody that you’re building a report for.

    The first thing you need to do is figure out okay, what’s important to you? What is the stuff that you need in order to make yourself look good, right? It comes across as a little crass, but it’s 100% the truth, the gentle way I like to ask people, this is the other so what results? Do you get a bonus for? Right? What are you going to get a bonus for it? What numbers and the clarifies instantly to that person? A person asking me about the support has my interests in mind, which is always a good place to start and B, it gets them thinking, Well, you know, Twitter followers or Instagram engagements or email opens those are not things get a bonus for leads, shopping carts completed sales enabled, revenues increased all those things that have business results tied to them.

    That’s what’s gonna get somebody their bonus right or get them fired if it goes the other way.

    And when you ask that question and requirements gathering, it becomes crystal clear.

    What should and should not be in the report.

    Generally speaking, if somebody says, This is the KPI in which I am measured on which I will get a bonus for this year, then it’s upon you to figure Okay, that’s going to be the headline number in the report.

    That’s coming The biggest, most obvious thing so that they can instantly see, ah, I know what’s going on.

    And then after that, you have the the metric the measures and metrics that contribute directly to that.

    So if somebody is measured on marketing qualified leads, the number that immediately precedes that in your marketing operations funnel is typically like prospects, right? If you look at your standard marketing funnel, so you have your marketing qualified leads is the big number with a line graph and a little your upper down red, red, a green arrow, and then below that smaller you have your prospects and then maybe your prospect closing rate that leads to those marketing qualified leads that that person cares about.

    When you do that, when you have that setup, there is no need verb glossary whatsoever.

    No reports require glossary because you’re reading Putting on the things that the person who’s reading it should, is going to get a bonus for and they should deeply know and deeply care about what that number is, if they don’t know that they probably need to be updating their LinkedIn profile and looking for different work, right? Because that’s not gonna work out very well for them.

    If they don’t know what they’re measured on.

    I have seen that happen in companies where particularly very large companies where there’s somebody who’s like, Yeah, I just show up for work at that’s what I measured, I was putting a butt in the seat at this desk, okay.

    You don’t actually have to do anything cool.

    Good to know.

    But at most smaller organizations and functional large organizations, everybody is measured on something, even if it’s not a great thing to be measured on at least they’re measured on something and that’s how you build a report.

    You might depending on the software Using for reports might want to include little tooltips, where if you hover over a number or word it can, it can pop up a definition that can become important if the report you’re building gets circulated around to people who don’t know, the role or the report or the subject matter that you’re including, but wouldn’t burn it into, you know, take up real estate in the report itself for that can be one of those little extra add ons that can help if somebody knows to look for like the Help button.

    I wouldn’t put it in the report itself.

    Remember that reports are intended to tell somebody what happened is so that they can make a decision.

    Right when you open up a report in your, on your on your phone or whatever you’re looking at it.

    Based on what you see on the page or on screen.

    The stakeholders should be able to make a decision.

    Should I do less of this? Should I do more of this? Am I getting my bonus and that’s what the reports got to convey.

    If Report is just puking data all over the place, just vomiting data.

    You can’t make a decision from that, right? I can’t tell you the number of dashboards and reports I’ve seen that have like 50 metrics and gauges and line charts and pie charts and this and that and you look at and go.

    What does this any of this have to do with marketing qualified leads or sales on the website? You can always build a secondary report that has ancillary metrics that may or may not answer the question of whether this person is getting the bonus.

    But in the primary report that they care about, and that they will be asked for at their performance review.

    It should only be those things that are they are measured on.

    So that’s my suggestion for you.

    Keep report simple.

    Keep a report focused like a laser beam on Only the things that a person is going to get a bonus on.

    And if you do that, most of the time, you’re not going to need to glossary you’re not gonna need any explanation at all because the person will see that go Ah, I know exactly what this report is telling me.

    I’m not getting my bonus.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Ad Value Equivalence and PPC Ads?

    You Ask, I Answer: Ad Value Equivalence and PPC Ads?

    Alessandra asks, “The customer is getting leads organically in the same number as before the start of the ads campaign, so the few conversions (1 month running) makes him think it’s not worthwhile to advertise. My thoughts are going in the direction of explaining the value of impressions on their own, the values of clicks to measure interest in offer, even though conversions are still few. I do not think he should compare organic with ppc, but ppc cost vs other advertising channels, like radio and newspaper ads, which would cost much more and have unmeasurable results. Am I going in the right direction? ”

    What you’re proposing is ad value equivalence, demonstrating the effectiveness of an ad based on its cost comparison to other ad channels. The challenge with the example above is that you don’t have equivalent measures. If you could demonstrate a cost per visitor for TV and/or radio, then you could make a logical case for one channel over another. Unfortunately, those other channels don’t have good numbers out of the box without added tracking, like custom URLs.

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    In today’s episode, which is a follow on to a previous question, Alessandra asks, the customer is getting leads, this is about trying to determine the impact of advertising.

    The customers getting leads organically in the same number as before the start of the ads campaign, so the few conversions make him think it’s not worthwhile to advertise.

    In terms of persuading him, my thoughts are going in the direction of explaining the value of impressions on their own the value of clicks to measure the interest in the offer, even though conversions are still few.

    I do not think he should compare organic with PVC but PPC cost versus other advertising channels like radio and newspaper ads which cost much more and have unmeasurable results Am I going in the right direction? you’re proposing what is known as ad value equivalence and that is when you are saying We’re getting the same result from this technique that we got from this other technique, a different cost and a presumably a better cost.

    And that’s an okay thing to do as long as it’s an actual apples to apples comparison.

    A lot of people try to do that with non similar channels.

    You know, the classic example is trying to measure public relations by advertising via they’re very different creatures.

    And they’re not comparable.

    In the case of taking one ad channel versus another.

    We have existing measures for that, like return on adspend return on adspend is you know, earned divided by spent.

    The challenge in this particular example is that earned divided by spent requires you to have gotten some earned in order to to make that determination.

    When you’re comparing ad channels themselves.

    You can compare some of the results on things like cost per visitor to the website, but it requires you to have have really good tracking.

    And this is a place where a lot of companies really fall down.

    They will run an ad say on on TV or in a newspaper.

    And they won’t do any kind of intelligent tracking of it.

    So if you were to advertise on our terrestrial radio station, you’d want to have a custom URL you know, something like you know, your company comm slash radio, so that people know where to go and in the fashions easy to remember, and then you can track that traffic that you know your company comm slash radio generates and attributed correctly to the radio channel.

    The same is true of television.

    The same is true of newspapers, newspapers a little easier because you can make the URL visible as opposed to purely audible.

    But companies don’t do that.

    And if you don’t have that level of tracking, you can’t do an apples to apples comparison.

    impressions mean nothing They are a diagnostic in the sense that you want more rather than less.

    And if it’s zero, you know something’s broken.

    But beyond that they’re not a great measure.

    Because the definition of an impression changes so much.

    You buy a billboard ad on the side of the road.

    The billboard advertiser will tell you how many cars go by that Billboard.

    That’s their definition of impressions.

    Compare that to a Facebook ad where Facebook ad may not register an impression until it has been on screen for and rendered for a certain amount of time.

    They’re very different numbers, and so they’re not a good apples to apples comparison.

    The first touch point in your marketing operations funnel where you would have an apples to apples comparison would be website visitors, because if you can get people to visit the website from an ad, from a pay per click ad from An email from whatever, you’re now you now have the same system of measurement for that outcome regardless of where it came from, whether it came from an ad, whether it came from a social media post, that person still showed up on the website, and that is still a trackable event and it is the same trackable event across those different channel inputs.

    So that’s where, if you’re going to use a measurement, you have to use something that has a common measurement across all the different channels.

    So that’s going to be gonna be the website, even clicks.

    You would think clicks on an ad would be something comparable, but it really isn’t because there are some clicks that are worth more than others in email marketing.

    You will notice that in your newsletters, especially if you’re b2b.

    You will get a way more clicks than unique clicks on a newsletter.

    Why Because if you’re sending stuff to corporate addresses, there’s a firewall behind the scenes, it’s clicking on every link to make sure that doesn’t go to a malware site and potentially infect their users.

    So your newsletter will show up as having hundreds of clicks.

    And every link gets clicked in the newsletter and you’re like, Wow, my newsletter is really popular, but you’re looking at the results going, but nobody’s buying anything.

    Why? Well, there’s automation behind the scenes that’s screwing up those results.

    But what typically happens is that those servers will do a fetch of you know, the, the header of the page or wherever it is, it goes in, you will will not go much further than that.

    So there’s a case where your website visitor numbers are still probably be okay.

    So, in this example, if you can compare similar channels, with an identical metric, then yes, you can use the methodology that you described.

    The reality is If you don’t have some kind of ultimate sale, you’re probably not going to be able to show some good results, and an alternate sale the one, this is something that people can do when they’re not ready to buy.

    And easiest thing, for example, subscribe to an email newsletter, right? That’s an action that you can take that has value that can demonstrate value.

    But nobody has to swipe the credit card to do that, particularly if it’s a complex product.

    And that’s something that I would say, if you’re not able to show hard dollar conversions right away, because maybe the sales cycle is, however long.

    If it’s 90 days, then obviously the ad campaigns and up and running for more than a month, you’re not going to see any results right? That’s a key question to ask the customer if you don’t know what is the length of your sales cycle.

    If you’re not getting the conversions you’re looking for, where’s the length of the conversion cycle.

    A good marketing automation system will tell you this is how long Between first touch and, you know, lead generation that it takes to do that for your company.

    And again, if the ad campaign is not inside that window, you’re not gonna be able to show any results.

    So that’s really important to look at what you’re tracking how you’re tracking it, and offer an alternate sales so that you do have something to track that you can say like this put X number of subscribers and then whatever your newsletter subscription rate is for converting users, you will eventually reap that value.

    Assuming that you’re attracting the right kind of audience is a challenging situation, because at the end of the day, the conversion actually is what you’re being measured on.

    And so if the ads are, are not driving conversions, ultimately, that program will not go forward because you can redeploy those resources elsewhere.

    Now, whether it’s more efficient than radio or newspaper, we’d have to measure that and I would encourage you to Encourage your customer to be measuring all the different ways they’re spending money.

    And so they can make an informed judgment on, you know, either return on adspend or similar performance on adspend.

    with things like website traffic, it’s a good question.

    It’s a challenging situation.

    If you have follow up questions, leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Twitter Performance Report Metrics?

    You Ask, I Answer: Twitter Performance Report Metrics?

    David asks, “I’m working on a Twitter performance report. I’m trying to determine the best metric for demonstrating our performance (assuming the thing that matters for the moment is engagement, and not necessarily conversions). My feeling is that engagement rate could potentially be the most valuable – albeit imperfect – metric, since absolute numbers like retweets, likes, and replies can fluctuate based on how many times we tweet in a given month + general seasonality. Is that a fair assumption? What KPIs do you use? Thanks in advance!”

    Social media metrics from a platform tell you what you’re doing right or wrong on that platform, but they rarely tell you what that platform’s impact is.

    Conversions do matter, and your report will have more long-term impact if you show how Twitter is either assisting or delivering conversions.

    That’s something Google Analytics will be able to provide once you’ve configured it correctly.

    I’d also look at Twitter’s ability to generate website traffic, as well as what Twitter’s returning user numbers to your website look like – that shows you’re delivering an audience over and over again, building loyalty.

    So new audience from Twitter (awareness), returning audience from Twitter (engagement), and conversions from Twitter, either as leads/sales or as alternate sales (like newsletter subscribers) will really demonstrate the impact you’re looking to show.

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    In today’s episode, David asks, I’m working on a Twitter Performance Report, I’m trying to determine the best metric for demonstrating our performance assuming the thing that matters for the moment is engagement and not necessarily conversions.

    My feeling is that engagement rate could potentially be the most valuable.

    I’ll be imperfect metrics since absolute numbers like retweets, likes and replies can fluctuate based on how many times we tweet in a given month plus, General seasonality.

    Is that a fair assumption? What KPIs Do you use Thanks in advance, okay.

    Conversions do matter.

    You’re going to find that the report is of a lot less interest to people if it does not talk about how you’re helping support the business.

    So let’s get that out of the way.

    First, your report has to address conversions if it doesn’t.

    It will be you will be asked to at some point, take care of that upfront when it comes through social media platforms, the metrics from the platform tell you what you’re doing right or wrong on that platform, right? They tell you this tweet work, that tweet did not work, or this many people started following you because of that tweet.

    social media platforms rarely ever tell you what that platforms impact is to your business.

    The exception to that rule is Facebook’s analytics and don’t particularly like or trust those.

    You’re going to want to look at this social media platforms impact on the rest of your business through a tool like Google Analytics.

    Now, should you keep looking at this case, Twitter analytics and diagnosing what’s working what’s not? Absolutely, absolutely.

    But for the impact side, you’re going to want to look at Google Analytics, you’re going to want to look at your marketing automation system.

    You’re gonna want to see what happened after somebody engaged from With your tweets and stopped by website, and maybe did something of value.

    So conversions absolutely matter.

    All that has to come through Google Analytics to start with.

    So make sure you’ve got it set up correctly, that you’ve got Twitter identified as social media, that you’re not dropping attribution.

    Make sure that you’re doing things like using UTM tracking codes on links that you share on Twitter to other to your website so that again, you can properly attribute the any of the activity data you see in Google Analytics, back to Twitter.

    So what metrics should you be looking at? Well, think about the marketing operations follow awareness, engagement, conversion, and conversion.

    conversion.

    Remember, the conversion does not need to be, hey, I bought something right now.

    Right? Especially for b2b rarely going to happen, someone’s going to buy an expensive service conversion.

    Could be a lead generated a conversion could be a shopping cart started, right? A conversion can be someone signing up for your email newsletter and giving you the ability to reliably reach them.

    So all those things I think are valuable and vital conversions.

    program goes into Google Analytics, make sure it’s tracking them.

    And then you can start to see Twitter’s real impact.

    The metrics that I would look at if I was going to put together a Twitter report today that demonstrated the impact of Twitter would be just the top line metrics on the platform.

    As you outlined, your addressable audience that you reached the engagement on Twitter, and then new users to your website from Twitter, how is Twitter doing at generating new audience giving you the ability to reach out and bring people in to your conversion engine right your website.

    If that number is zero, then Twitter is definitely not having any impact on your business, beyond maybe brand awareness, but it’s not delivering butts and seats or heads and beds or people walking in the door, because they’re not even interested enough to click through on the links that you share that go back to your website.

    So new users is the first one second metric that everybody forgets about is returning users.

    People forget about returning users, returning users, or people who have coming back to the website, they found something of sufficient value that they like, okay, I keep coming back.

    I’m gonna keep reading your blog posts, I’m going to keep doing these things.

    And they’re doing it from Twitter that’s showing you that your Twitter audience is engaged is paying attention to you.

    And then when you share something new, like a new blog post, or a new white paper or a new announcement about a product, and it gets people to come back.

    That’s a good thing.

    That means that your Twitter audience is loyal to you.

    And you want to compare it to say like your Facebook audience and they return to users.

    Some things to see.

    Does Twitter do a better job than average of bringing people back? And third are those conversions? Right newsletter signups email marketing, signups lead generation, prospect generation, whatever the thing is that your business does with its website.

    If you’re using good web analytics software like Google Analytics or Adobe analytics or whatever, you want to be able to see how did Twitter contribute to those conversions? It will not necessarily be a last thing right or not a sob.

    Hey, they came from Twitter, they bought a Gulfstream jet like that, that doesn’t happen.

    Or if it does happen to you’re very, very lucky.

    But did they sign up for your email newsletter, hey, there’s value in that.

    And you can talk another time about calculating the value of your email newsletter, subscribers, but in doing so, You can now say, hey, Twitter is pushing measurable business impact into your pipeline, your sales pipeline of some kind.

    Because again, your job, particularly with those very top of the funnel activities, like social media marketing, is not to try and sell somebody something it is to try and nudge them into the next logical step in your marketing operations follow, and then that takes on doing its job.

    So Twitter gets you that awareness and bringing some new audience to the front door.

    And then when somebody walks in the front door, it’s up to the website to get them to take the next step to raise the hand and say, I’m interested in learning more, and so on and so forth.

    If you can show that with your Twitter report, you’re going to do really well in impressing people that hey, this is a channel that matters.

    This is a channel that delivers people that are interested Potentially qualified even to our sales mechanisms to do our ability to generate revenue.

    Now, here’s the catch.

    You may find that when you put together a report like that, that Twitter doesn’t generate impact for you.

    For some companies, it’s not the place for other companies.

    It absolutely is the place it depends on your audience.

    But when you do this report, expect the unexpected.

    And also expect people to ask Okay, this was great.

    Can you do this for LinkedIn, for Facebook, for Pinterest for Instagram? And even if nobody asks you for that, you should plan to do that so that you can compare apples to apples with the same types of numbers from Google Analytics, what channel is delivering real results? Where should you spend your time? If the answer is no Facebook or Instagram or you YouTube, then you know that once you establish that then you can change your strategy you can change your ad spend, you can pivot your tactics to where you’re getting the juice.

    Alright, so that’s what I would say goes in that that Twitter report yes the top line metrics, and then your marketing operations funnel data from your web analytics that say here is the impact of this platform.

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    Visit Trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you In today’s episode, David asks, I’m working on a Twitter Performance Report, I’m trying to determine the best metric for demonstrating our performance assuming the thing that matters for the moment is engagement and not necessarily conversions.

    My feeling is that engagement rate could potentially be the most valuable.

    I’ll be imperfect metrics since absolute numbers like retweets, likes and replies can fluctuate based on how many times we tweet in a given month plus, General seasonality.

    Is that a fair assumption? What KPIs Do you use Thanks in advance, okay.

    Conversions do matter.

    You’re going to find that the report is of a lot less interest to people if it does not talk about how you’re helping support the business.

    So let’s get that out of the way.

    First, your report has to address conversions if it doesn’t.

    It will be you will be asked to at some point, take care of that upfront when it comes through social media platforms, the metrics from the platform tell you what you’re doing right or wrong on that platform, right? They tell you this tweet work, that tweet did not work, or this many people started following you because of that tweet.

    social media platforms rarely ever tell you what that platforms impact is to your business.

    The exception to that rule is Facebook’s analytics and don’t particularly like or trust those.

    You’re going to want to look at this social media platforms impact on the rest of your business through a tool like Google Analytics.

    Now, should you keep looking at this case, Twitter analytics and diagnosing what’s working what’s not? Absolutely, absolutely.

    But for the impact side, you’re going to want to look at Google Analytics, you’re going to want to look at your marketing automation system.

    You’re gonna want to see what happened after somebody engaged from With your tweets and stopped by website, and maybe did something of value.

    So conversions absolutely matter.

    All that has to come through Google Analytics to start with.

    So make sure you’ve got it set up correctly, that you’ve got Twitter identified as social media, that you’re not dropping attribution.

    Make sure that you’re doing things like using UTM tracking codes on links that you share on Twitter to other to your website so that again, you can properly attribute the any of the activity data you see in Google Analytics, back to Twitter.

    So what metrics should you be looking at? Well, think about the marketing operations follow awareness, engagement, conversion, and conversion.

    conversion.

    Remember, the conversion does not need to be, hey, I bought something right now.

    Right? Especially for b2b rarely going to happen, someone’s going to buy an expensive service conversion.

    Could be a lead generated a conversion could be a shopping cart started, right? A conversion can be someone signing up for your email newsletter and giving you the ability to reliably reach them.

    So all those things I think are valuable and vital conversions.

    program goes into Google Analytics, make sure it’s tracking them.

    And then you can start to see Twitter’s real impact.

    The metrics that I would look at if I was going to put together a Twitter report today that demonstrated the impact of Twitter would be just the top line metrics on the platform.

    As you outlined, your addressable audience that you reached the engagement on Twitter, and then new users to your website from Twitter, how is Twitter doing at generating new audience giving you the ability to reach out and bring people in to your conversion engine right your website.

    If that number is zero, then Twitter is definitely not having any impact on your business, beyond maybe brand awareness, but it’s not delivering butts and seats or heads and beds or people walking in the door, because they’re not even interested enough to click through on the links that you share that go back to your website.

    So new users is the first one second metric that everybody forgets about is returning users.

    People forget about returning users, returning users, or people who have coming back to the website, they found something of sufficient value that they like, okay, I keep coming back.

    I’m gonna keep reading your blog posts, I’m going to keep doing these things.

    And they’re doing it from Twitter that’s showing you that your Twitter audience is engaged is paying attention to you.

    And then when you share something new, like a new blog post, or a new white paper or a new announcement about a product, and it gets people to come back.

    That’s a good thing.

    That means that your Twitter audience is loyal to you.

    And you want to compare it to say like your Facebook audience and they return to users.

    Some things to see.

    Does Twitter do a better job than average of bringing people back? And third are those conversions? Right newsletter signups email marketing, signups lead generation, prospect generation, whatever the thing is that your business does with its website.

    If you’re using good web analytics software like Google Analytics or Adobe analytics or whatever, you want to be able to see how did Twitter contribute to those conversions? It will not necessarily be a last thing right or not a sob.

    Hey, they came from Twitter, they bought a Gulfstream jet like that, that doesn’t happen.

    Or if it does happen to you’re very, very lucky.

    But did they sign up for your email newsletter, hey, there’s value in that.

    And you can talk another time about calculating the value of your email newsletter, subscribers, but in doing so, You can now say, hey, Twitter is pushing measurable business impact into your pipeline, your sales pipeline of some kind.

    Because again, your job, particularly with those very top of the funnel activities, like social media marketing, is not to try and sell somebody something it is to try and nudge them into the next logical step in your marketing operations follow, and then that takes on doing its job.

    So Twitter gets you that awareness and bringing some new audience to the front door.

    And then when somebody walks in the front door, it’s up to the website to get them to take the next step to raise the hand and say, I’m interested in learning more, and so on and so forth.

    If you can show that with your Twitter report, you’re going to do really well in impressing people that hey, this is a channel that matters.

    This is a channel that delivers people that are interested Potentially qualified even to our sales mechanisms to do our ability to generate revenue.

    Now, here’s the catch.

    You may find that when you put together a report like that, that Twitter doesn’t generate impact for you.

    For some companies, it’s not the place for other companies.

    It absolutely is the place it depends on your audience.

    But when you do this report, expect the unexpected.

    And also expect people to ask Okay, this was great.

    Can you do this for LinkedIn, for Facebook, for Pinterest for Instagram? And even if nobody asks you for that, you should plan to do that so that you can compare apples to apples with the same types of numbers from Google Analytics, what channel is delivering real results? Where should you spend your time? If the answer is no Facebook or Instagram or you YouTube, then you know that once you establish that then you can change your strategy you can change your ad spend, you can pivot your tactics to where you’re getting the juice.

    Alright, so that’s what I would say goes in that that Twitter report yes the top line metrics, and then your marketing operations funnel data from your web analytics that say here is the impact of this platform.

    If you have follow up questions, leave in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Impact of Google Ads?

    You Ask, I Answer: Impact of Google Ads?

    Alessandra asks, “I am running a Google Ads campaign for a customer, but results are not showing (yet). The conversions are few, thought CTR is over 7%.
    Besides analyzing ads, keywords and landing pages, what “business” considerations can I make to the client to convince him that it’s worthwhile to continue to invest in ads? What can he learn for his business from the results of the campaign?”

    How far down the marketing operations funnel can you see? Leads generated? Shopping carts filled? One of the challenges of ads is the potential disconnect once someone arrives on site – that’s where Bob Stone’s 1968 direct marketing framework helps lend a hand.

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    In today’s episode Alessandra asks, I am running a Google Ads campaign for a customer but results are not showing yet the conversions are few though click through rate is over 7%.

    Besides analyzing ads, keywords and landing pages, what business considerations Can I make to the client to convince him it’s worthwhile to continue to invest in ADS? What can he learn for his business from the results of the campaign? Well, the big question here is how far down the marketing operations funnel Can you see? If all you have access to his ads data, then you can basically show them that you’ve got you’re probably the right audience.

    A good offer a good creative, that’s Bob stones 1968 direct marketing framework.

    But one of the challenges with ads is that there’s potential disconnect once somebody arrives on site right? Imagine Imagine have this really compelling ad for a coffee shop, right? And you do a great job of getting people interested in the coffee shop and you do a great job of getting people excited.

    And they they fire up Google Maps and they get directions.

    They go there.

    And when they get there, the sole barista that’s working there is asleep on the floor.

    All right.

    Now, did the ads fail? No, the ads did their job.

    They got people to the front door, they got people even through the front door, and then the customer experience went off the rails.

    That’s not advertisings fault.

    That is a product marketing problem.

    While it’s technically just flat out business problems.

    So the question is, is the lack of results because of conversions because of something that you did wrong in the direct marketing framework? Or is it because there’s a disconnect between the two between the ad and the experience The way to figure this out is again, look at that old framework list offer creative list these days means audience do that.

    Do you target the right audience with the ads? The people who have a high propensity of buying or retargeted based on existing conversions or look alike? Audience? If so, your list is probably in pretty good shape.

    Is the offer in the advertisement, likely to entice somebody? And this is where? What is in the ad? Is it synchronous with what happens when you get on the site? Is it a Is it an offer that makes sense as an offer that it does not feel like a bait and switch? There’s this whole bunch of these ads on Facebook that are like advertising Oh, you could you know, get a free product and then you click through and it’s like, you pay money and you leave review and then they refund your money.

    Well, that’s not free.

    Right, though, by the way that you should immediately report those ads.

    camps.

    But that’s not free.

    It’s a complete disconnect between what was promised in the advertising and what was actually delivered.

    So you want to make sure that that’s not the problem.

    And of course, there’s a creative in this case, because you’re getting high conversion rates, higher high click through rates, it’s probably not a creative issue.

    So either the advertising offer is out of sync with what the offer actually is, or you’ve got a bad experience on site.

    The way to remedy that is ideally, have access to Google Analytics, ideally have access to the data that’s happening on site.

    What happens when somebody gets to the landing page? Do they immediately bounce away? If so, you’ve got a landing page problem.

    And that’s something you should again be looking at that the the offer the creative the layout, whether it renders properly on mobile devices, the usual things you do to diagnose a landing page.

    If you don’t see a super high bounce rate, then you have to wonder is there a In fact, a problem with the audience is this product that you made some assumptions on who you’re going to advertise to.

    Are they in fact not the right audience? Right? Again, if if you advertise, say espresso drinks right and people click through and they get to the homepage and it’s it’s a coffee shop, but you are just totally going all out on your frozen summertime beverages.

    People may look at that and go well that’s not really what I came here for.

    I’m not a cold coffee drinker, I’m I’m a hot coffee drinker.

    And they may they may choose to go away because again, you’re you’re presenting something that they didn’t ask for.

    They thought they were getting one thing and then not getting it in terms of other things that other business considerations.

    One area that you can explore and it is fraught with danger if you don’t do it properly.

    You can look at branded organic search.

    So the premise is that if you are running any kind of promotion, advertising, public relations, influencer marketing, and it’s doing its job, one of the things you should see happen is synchronous with the advertising.

    And commensurate with the spend on the advertising, you should see an increase in branded organic search of some kind.

    And by that we mean looking for the company’s products or services or name.

    If I take out a whole bunch of ads for my company Trust Insights.

    And I just go all out on paying cpms.

    I don’t care about click throughs.

    I just want to I just want people to know the name of the company.

    If the ads are effective, I should see a commensurate uptick in the number of searches for Trust Insights in organic search because again, people are aware of This company, hopefully, it has piqued their interest.

    Hopefully they have gone to click through and and are gonna search for us.

    Now I say that’s fraught with difficulty because it requires statistical analysis requires you to be able to do cross correlation functions to see, not only is there a relationship, but what is the time lag on the relationship? And is the time lag on the relationship synchronous with what happens for unpaid efforts.

    Those are challenging questions to ask for folks who don’t have a statistical background.

    So it’s something you have to keep in mind.

    But that is an additional business consideration you can look at, do you see? brand organic search, marching in lockstep with the paid advertising you’re doing? At the end of the day, though, it all comes down to conversion.

    If the conversions are not happening, that’s the number one priority, figure out why the conversions aren’t happening.

    Make sure that if you don’t have one in place, all right And you’re spending a decent amount of money, you may want to consider a website satisfaction survey, one of those four key ones that ask simple questions like, did you accomplish the task that you set out to when you came to the site today? Right? And you run it and targeted only on people only on the landing page with the ads, so that you can ascertain.

    Is there something on the experience side of the site that is preventing you from being able to pregnant the customer from being able to do what they wanted? If so, that then tells you it’s a customer experience problem and not an advertising problem.

    You can also ask, you know, you can’t new came to this page from an advertisement did this page fulfill the ad, the ads promise again, if you get feedback, saying Nope, it didn’t, then you know, you’ve got a disconnect between those two.

    So I would say focus on the diagnostic side to figure out why your click through rate is high, but your conversion Right is, is non existent, that’s going to be able to help you understand what’s going on with the advertising.

    And if the customer is not interested in running additional ads, at least you can take those best practices and put them towards the next customer.

    Maybe make it a part of the campaign that’s integrated, so that you’re running those diagnostics from the very beginning and you’re, you’re understanding how it is that people are finding the experience between the ad and the action that you want them to take.

    If you have follow up questions, leave in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics Integration?

    You Ask, I Answer: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics Integration?

    Eric asks, “Here’s my problem: i’ve installed GA using tracking code with the monsterinsights plugin on wordpress for my site. I’ve heard that if i add GTM to track my site this will double website stats and skew my data. As written here by monsterinsights: “implementing Google Analytics with both MonsterInsights and Google Tag Manager can skew your stats, since the tracking code will be on your site twice”. Does it mean i can’t use Google Tag manager ? Because if i create a GTM account this requires me to install a GTM tracking code to connect with my GA for things to work, right ?”

    Google Tag Manager is a container that can store different code snippets, including Google Analytics. Inside GTM, you’ll put your Google Analytics tracking code and then you will have no need for a separate GA tag. Make sure to put your GTM code into your site on every page the same way you put your GA tag.

    If you want to use a plugin, I recommend Thomas Geiger’s plugin.

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    In today’s episode, Eric asks, here’s my problem.

    I’ve installed the Google Analytics tracking code.

    With the monster insights plugin on WordPress from my site.

    I’ve heard that if I add Google Tag Manager to track my site, this will double website stats and schema data.

    Implementing can double count your tracking.

    Does this mean I can’t use Google Tag Manager because if I create a GTM account, this requires me to install GTM tracking code to connect to my ga for things to work, right.

    So Google Tag Manager is a tag management system.

    It’s a container.

    It’s like a copper bucket that you put stuff in when you install Google Tag Manager.

    By default, it’s empty, right? There’s a Tag Manager container.

    There’s nothing in the container.

    One of the things that you do out of the gate Once you’ve installed Tag Manager is you then put tags inside the container like Google Analytics for example.

    Now If you have a Google Analytics tag inside the Tag Manager container, and you have Google Analytics also running on the site, then yes, you will get some skewed data, you’ll get a zero percent bounce rate, and you will get double counting of your stats, which is obviously bad.

    So the thing to do, the way to do this is to I’m guessing you use monster insights.

    So therefore, you have a WordPress website.

    You get a Google Tag Manager plugin, Thomas Geiger is plugin is excellent.

    I’ll put a link in the show notes to it.

    You install Tag Manager on your website, and then you configure Tag Manager to do things like Google Analytics, tracking, etc.

    And then you remove your Google Analytics plugin and tags so that you don’t you don’t need those anymore.

    Tag Manager at that point is running itself and Google Analytics for you.

    So it is inclusive.

    It’s It’s It’s got the Google Analytics tag in the bucket.

    So let’s see just the basics of what this would look like.

    I’m going to flip over here.

    Inside tags Manager you have your tags, your triggers and your variables.

    So the variables, the one you’re going to want to start with is you’re going to want to start a new custom variable, which would go down here and call it whatever you like.

    When you start a new variable configuration here, name and something.

    And you’ll notice that in the list of things that you can do, one of them is a Google Analytics settings variable.

    And this variable is where you’ll put in your tracking ID, the UA that whatever your number is.

    And when you’re talking about some of the more advanced features, you’ll want to do things like turn on display advertising features, you may or may not need ecommerce features.

    You may or may not want to use other functions like cross domain tracking if you’ve got multiple domains discard this because I already have a Google Analytics tracking tag on here and see that I’ve got my tag my analytics count number.

    So the variable essentially tells will tag tell tell Tag Manager Here’s my Google Analytics account.

    So that’s part one.

    Part two is you’ll need an actual Google Analytics tag.

    So again, let’s go ahead and click New here.

    And you’ll be able to see Google Analytics, the Universal Analytics tag.

    This is the one that most people, most of the time we’re going to use.

    You got to track things like pageviews.

    And this is where you’ll choose that Google Analytics variable, the one they said, I have some experimental versions in here.

    So this should be only the one if you’ve only created the one variable.

    This now contains your e commerce settings, your display advertising features, all that stuff that you’d want for advanced application of Google Analytics here.

    And you never have to worry about Miss typing the ID number.

    If you’ve done it right the first time, obviously, name this something sensible.

    And then you’d want to trigger this on all pages.

    And by doing this, you would hit Save again, I’m going to hit Save here because I already have installed you would have your Google Analytics egg, this would be the only one in there.

    all this other stuff is stuff I’ve also put on my website, you would hit Submit to publish it.

    And now, Google Tag Manager, if I were pretending I just done this from scratch, I would now have information that about Google Analytics, I would be running the tag.

    So as long as Google Tag Manager was installed on your website, through that plugin, then you will have Google Analytics running.

    And now you would go in and remove all the other old Google Analytics stuff.

    Doing it this way, you get all the features of Google Analytics.

    Sure, you can see you can run as many of them as often as you want.

    But you also can see there’s lots of other things in my tag manager account.

    And this is the real benefit of Tag Manager.

    If you were to copy and paste all these other tags, you know, Amazon codes, Facebook tracking pixels, Twitter, tags, you name it.

    If you All of that stuff on your website, your page load times we increase, your site would slow down, possibly things would conflict and beat each other up.

    And there’s the potential for hostile code to run.

    You know, if you’re just copying pasting JavaScript willy nilly into your site, Google Tag Manager offers a little bit of protection, not much, but a little bit against hostile code, but allows you to track all of this other stuff in one container, remember, back to this whole container thing.

    When you do that, Tag Manager loads.

    The rest your site goes on loading for the user.

    And then Tag Manager takes care of running the stuff inside its container.

    however long that takes, which means that the user experience on your website isn’t impacted by loading all this crap.

    And letting making the user wait for it to all load, especially if you have a tag that malfunctions.

    You know in the past if a vendor went down Like their servers without a tag could hang and you would get like half a web page loaded by having Tag Manager there.

    It takes care of that for you.

    So to sum up, you absolutely want to use Tag Manager instead of Google Analytics.

    By having Google Analytics inside Tag Manager.

    If you do that, things will run better.

    It’s a lot easier to maintain your website because you don’t have to have all these plugins for all these different tagging systems.

    It’s in a consolidated place.

    And you get all the advanced functionality of Tag Manager, there’s some really cool stuff you can do with it.

    Conditional firing of tags, different goal settings tracking different types of goals in Google Analytics.

    There’s a lot to tag manager.

    That makes it super valuable.

    If you want to learn more about Tag Manager I recommend taking Google’s free course on a go if you go to analytics Academy dot with google.com you There’s free courses from Google, right, right from the horse’s mouth, about how to get started with Google Analytics with Tag Manager with Data Studio, all these things that are in the Google Marketing Platform.

    And I strongly recommend that if you if you want to just get the basics down, you take those courses, they’re totally free, and you’ll gain a lot of useful knowledge from them.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Minute Level Data in Google Analytics?

    You Ask, I Answer: Minute Level Data in Google Analytics?

    Jennifer asks, “Do you know how to use Google Data Studio to look at website traffic in a 10 minute window before and after a television commercial air time?”

    The field you’ll be looking for in the API is ga:dateHourMinute, and it’s formatted in YYYYMMDDHHMM format. There are a couple of gotchas about how to use this data, including it crashing your browser, so watch the video for a full explanation.

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    In today’s episode, Jennifer asks, Do you know how to use Google Data Studio to look at website traffic in a 10 minute window before and after a television commercial time errs? So, interesting application, I don’t know that I would use data.

    Well, data steel work for this.

    Yes, there’s a way to do that Google Analytics keeps three different date parameters that keeps the year, the year, month and day.

    That’s one parameter, the GA date parameter, does hour of day, and then it does minute.

    There’s a consolidated text field called ga date hour minute, which you can find in in Google Analytics and Google Data Studio that you can then visualize it in some forums as as a chart so let’s look at how to switch over here to our application.

    So here we are.

    Google Data Studio.

    Let’s go ahead and make sure obviously, that you’re you have a data source connected.

    That is a Google Analytics account.

    And just as a general best practice, always slap a little date browser there.

    Now let’s go ahead and start with a table.

    Slap this table in here.

    And we have pageviews.

    And we have medium.

    So if I start typing date in here, you’ll see date, date and date, our minute date, our minute is a field we’re looking for.

    Now, one thing you’ll notice though, is that date our minute is shows up as a text field.

    And the reason for this is because it’s a large glued together dimension of those other three dimensions, which means that you can’t treat it as a date, which is somewhat problematic.

    You can possibly switch it over here like this.

    Ah, there we go.

    That’s better.

    So now we’ve converted the datatype to date hour a minute and that means that opens up the ability for us to look at this at a much more granular level.

    level, it also means we can now use things like line charts to be able to visualize a little bit better.

    There’s an incredible, incredibly dense chart.

    So now we’ve got our pageviews.

    The next thing we’re going to want to do is we’re going to want to provide some level of filtering.

    By the way, if your computer is not up to the task of visualizing that much data, because you’re talking about 10s of thousands of lines, make sure that you don’t hit chart buttons you don’t mean to.

    So we’ve got this The next thing we’re going to want to do is slap some kind of filtering on this for the period of time that you’re looking for, so that your computer again does not attempt to render this chart repeatedly and just crashed.

    So if you know the specific timeframe that you’re looking for, specified as a custom time frame here, you can see even with a relatively new computer, this is my browser is struggling to keep up with just the sheer number of have lines on this chart.

    So let’s just go down to seven days, days to remix.

    And now you can get a little more granularity.

    Once you flip over into view mode, you can then select the date range more thoroughly.

    So let’s look at just yesterday.

    Was it yesterday, it was two days ago.

    And the chart should eventually rebuild itself.

    So that’s how you get to this information.

    Again.

    If you know that the commercials are going to air only at a very specific time, I would say instead of using date, hour a minute, you might want to try other date fields.

    If you know that it’s always going to be on at a certain hour of the day, you can swap in our instead.

    You can look at the hours of the day.

    Let’s switch that to a bar chart here.

    And there’s the hours of the day and let’s change our sort ascending to see what time period what periods of time during the day.

    You get people looking at your stuff, fella bigger and dimension last seven days, okay? You can also if you know it’s your television commercials on a very specific time, like 59 minutes past the hour, instead of doing our drop it in at the minute level, you’ll be able to start seeing how many minutes the level of minutes in your in your data.

    So, that would be the way I would suggest tackling this problem if you know their specific period of time use that if you have to use the the date hour minute field, make sure that you convert it as we did to a date format so that you can use it with all these other visualizations.

    Otherwise you can only use it in a table which is Not ideal, because then you have to apply all sorts of filters and stuff to it.

    Here’s the other thing I would look at.

    You may want to do a more advanced statistical calculation.

    And you can’t do this in Data Studio you have to do this in something like R or Python or Tableau or something, you may want to look at the correlation between television commercial air times plus the 10 minutes on either side and website traffic to see Is there a mathematical relationship is a correlation between the airtime and the traffic by doing it that way, you can see if there is a mall if there is a relationship if the commercials are doing anything to drive traffic particularly, I would be looking at organic traffic’s from branded organic search or from organic search in general, because all unless your commercial has obvious, you know, calls to action What the URLs in them people are going to have to search for you by name have to remember the brand.

    So that’s how I would look at this.

    That, again, is outside of the scope of what Data Studio can do.

    But it is, it is something that I think is worth doing.

    If you have follow up questions, leave them in the comments box below below.

    There is a lot to unpack in day two.

    So definitely take the Data Studio course it’s available for free from Google over at a analytics Academy dot with google.com totally free because there’s so many different features that you can play with here.

    So give this a shot.

    Have some fun with it.

    Let me know what you think.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Followers as a Non-Profit Goal?

    You Ask, I Answer: Followers as a Non-Profit Goal?

    Sophia asks, “If a brand new nonprofit approached you and said: ‘I want 5,000 Facebook likes, 1,000 followers on Instagram, and 1,000 followers on Twitter, all by the end of the year.’ What would you quote them, or tell them?”

    I’d ask them what their actual business goal is. A few years ago, my oldest child was starting up a small online business experiment and excitedly told me at one point about how they had 50 likes on a piece of content they’d posted. After congratulating them, I reminded them that no bank in the world accepts likes, but all banks accept money, so which would they rather have? What’s the actual goal of the business? Volunteers? Awareness of their cause? Donations? If they’re not clear about the actual goal, any social media effort is doomed.

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    day’s episode, Sophia asks if a brand new nonprofit approached you and said I want 5000 Facebook likes 1000 followers on Instagram, and 1000 followers on Twitter all by the end of the year, what would you quote them or tell them? I would have to refrain from smacking them upside the head.

    No, in all seriousness, I’d ask them what their actual business goal is, what is it that they’re trying to do those metrics, those numbers are top of funnel metrics.

    They are a good indicator that you’ve got an audience that you briefly briefly earned somebody’s attention.

    But that’s it.

    Right? There’s there’s nothing else you can do with those.

    A few years ago, my, my oldest child was setting up a small online business experiment and that is Social media profile or two that went with it.

    And at one point, it put up a piece of content.

    And they had 50 likes on that content.

    They were so excited, like, look over the number of people who liked this thing.

    Like Yeah, that’s, that’s good.

    I congratulated them.

    And they said, how many likes should I be getting? I said, Well no bank in the world accepts likes as a currency.

    It’s in there good.

    more is better than less generally speaking, but that’s not the end game near the end game is not acquiring likes on content.

    The end game is is having money earning money that you can then use for other purposes.

    Every bank in the world accepts like so accepts money, but no bank accepts likes, and they got the point.

    But that’s something that apparently this business person is unclear about the goal of social media.

    Marketing is the goal of all marketing and it’s to drive business forward it is to get customers in the door.

    So, better questions for this person will be like, okay, so after you get, you know, however many likes on Twitter, then what? What happens next? What do you want people to do? Do you want website traffic? Do you want the phone to ring? Do you want people walking in the front door somewhere? Was the the business impact that you’re looking for? Yes, you’re a nonprofit, which means you know, you may not be focused on profit as a as a key operating metric.

    But what is is it volunteers? People who are going to support your organization that way? Is it awareness of the cause? That you’re marketing? Is it donations? Is it political lobbying, depending on the nonprofit? A lot of folks particularly in the nonprofit world get not distracted, but They get focused on non business metrics, not impact metrics, because of the belief that the organization is not for profit.

    All that means is that that’s not the primary KPI, you still do need to make money to do things like pay rent, pay, salaries, pay volunteers, all the things that you would normally use money for in a business is just as that’s not your key operating metric, it still is important.

    And that’s still going to be one of the primary ways you measure impact.

    So for this business, the question is, what is the key operating metric that they are based on basing their business plans on? And then how do you work backwards from that? Back to the eventually social media metrics? So for example, if donors and donations is a key metric, as I used to work in a nonprofit years ago, and you know, their big thing was trying to land some big fish donors.

    Okay, how do you do that? Well, you need to have a A few that you can talk to in your Rolodex and then how do you do that? Well, you need to have some relationships in the community.

    Well, how do you do that you need to have an audience within the community, and so on and so forth.

    Until you get back to this was, wow 20 years ago.

    Until you get back to having a website, how about a website that people can go to and sign up for a newsletter and be aware of what the company’s mission and goals were and how it was achieving those goals and how it benefited the community.

    And being able to do so allowed the company to achieve meaningful digital marketing metrics that eventually turned into business that eventually turned into Yes, getting that two or three big fish donors that could help fund operations for a fair amount of time.

    What was interesting was that I left the organization and then shortly thereafter, They change their operating metrics to be something much less business focused.

    And unfortunately, they did.

    The company did not do well, about four or five years later it went under because they took their eyes off the key operating metrics to let them operate.

    So with this company that’s fi is asking about, what do they actually want to achieve? It’s fine to have a top of funnel metric you should, so that you know that you’re getting attention.

    You need a middle of funnel metrics of some kind, some kind of intent measure, even if it’s something like newsletter subscribers, or returning visitors to the website.

    And then you need that bottom metric.

    Is it donations? Is it volunteers is it awareness of the cause, whatever the outcome is that you are getting funding for, you need to be able to demonstrate so that’s that’s why I tell this company They’re not clear about their actual goals.

    And when you’re not clear about your actual goals, and you’re trying to run marketing without that clarity, you’re doomed, you’re not going to do well.

    So that’s the solution here, get clarity from them on their goals and then map backwards from those goals to the upper funnel metrics.

    Good question.

    Good luck because there’s a mindset to be changed here.

    That’s going to be a little a little bit of education.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Social Media Audience Growth Rates During Crisis?

    You Ask, I Answer: Social Media Audience Growth Rates During Crisis?

    Elena asks, “Are you seeing more or less followers and audience during the crisis on social media?”

    Far fewer:

    Facebook 30 day average: 0.11% growth
    Facebook 7 day average: 0.04% growth
    Change: -63%

    Instagram 30 day average: 0.21% growth
    Instagram 7 day average: 0.01% growth
    Change: -95%

    Data source: Crowdtangle and TrustInsights.ai compiled lists of 3,200 Facebook brand Pages and 4,000 Instagram brand accounts.

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    In today’s episode, Elena asks, Are you seeing more or less followers and audience growth during the crisis on social media? This is interesting data question because we’re able to see, we’re all able to see what’s happening, but not necessarily why.

    And we have to make some guesses as to why it will say the both have decreased on audience growth on Facebook and Instagram, which is the two networks that we have a lot of data for over 3000 brand pages on Facebook are 4000 brand pages on Instagram, both have decreased.

    And the reasons for that, I think are threefold.

    One, there is much more digital activity, but it’s overwhelmingly I’m guessing between people and other people, meaning you’re during a crisis like this, you’re reaching out to people that are your friends that are your family that are people you care about individuals and not as much drink brands, certainly, as a as a proxy for the number of complaints people had about getting, you know, an email about what this brand is doing about the pandemic.

    Yes, we’ve all gotten them and most of them are irrelevant.

    We don’t actually care, you know, pizza shop what you’re doing to to manage the crisis.

    People care about interpersonal communication during crises, and that obviously does not include brands.

    That’s one possibility.

    second possibility is the type of media that people are consuming is is changing.

    And also the number of different outlets.

    There are so many people so many companies, so many everything that are giving away free content courses, books, videos, famous celebrities doing concert On Instagram, that again, we don’t need to follow brands and listen to what they have to say.

    Especially since a lot of cases we can’t transact with them except electronically.

    And the third is that media usage itself may be changing.

    There are, again, so, so many different options because of this glut of content, YouTube.

    video gaming steam, I know has been having record amounts of logins, Netflix has had to throttle its bandwidth just to be able to serve all of its customers Pornhub has received so they’re looking at 11% daily growth in traffic.

    And even though we’re spending a lot more time on here, because we can’t go out there it’s not in the same ways that we used to be.

    The mindset people have right now is Personal entertainment personal interaction, and that’s completely appropriate.

    When we’re in that mode, we’re not thinking about interacting with businesses we’re not we don’t want to hear from more businesses, particularly if they don’t have a whole lot to offer in terms of value.

    Except for those things that directly serve our needs, like entertainment or information or useful news that we can take action on, while in our homes.

    And so to see declines on both Facebook, Instagram for so many brands, makes total sense.

    Now, is that going to be true for your business? Not necessarily.

    There are exceptions to every rule, there are outliers.

    This is if I had to guess is probably a Pareto curve distribution.

    80% of the businesses have that decline and 20% note.

    So let’s look at the actual numbers.

    The Facebook 30 the average audience growth rate for 3200 brands is point one 1% of the Facebook seven day average, the shorter term, which is the most recent seven days point 04 percent growth.

    So we have a change between the long term average on the short term average of minus 63%.

    That’s a pretty substantial drop.

    This by the way, if you recall, is part of what’s called a moving average convergence divergence indicator when a short term average and a long term average, either cross over each other in some fashion, something’s happening in the marketplace.

    In this case, your short term average is below your long term averages means that you are contracting you are losing ground as opposed to your short term average being above your long term average.

    Where you’re gaining ground.

    This is definitely a case where you are losing ground.

    And that sort of average, by the way is a very, very handy way to measure any digital marketing metric, whether it’s followers engagements, website, traffic leads converted sales and revenue.

    Keep those two numbers on monitor.

    And you can very quickly see when the short term average drops below the long term average, you’re in trouble.

    On Instagram 4000 brand pages 30 day average point to 1% growth.

    seven day average point 01 percent growth that is a big drop.

    In this case, it’s a 95% drop in growth of audiences for brands on Instagram.

    Now, what do you do with this information? Well, if you’re trying to grow audience, this is probably not the time to do it.

    Again.

    Think about where your audience’s mindset is they’re looking for entertainment.

    They’re looking for distraction, they’re looking for the so called New Normal and branded content unless again, it’s it’s entertainment content basically.

    is not going to cut it.

    Certainly, Facebook post or an Instagram post about your new white paper.

    probably not going to get a whole lot of traction.

    Focus on entertaining people focus on serving people what their needs are, instead of sending out the here’s how we’re responding to the situation, email.

    Take up your mobile device, right? Call your 10 best customers and just ask them how they’re doing.

    Don’t sell them anything.

    Just ask them how they’re doing, like, Hey, how’s it going? How are you getting by? Do you need anything? Can we help in any way that is meaningful and useful.

    That’s how you’ll get the insights as to what you should be creating, if anything, if anything on social media, to attract audiences.

    When you look at what people are doing, having world renowned artists sharing content and home concerts and all these things, makes total sense that that’s the content that resonates with people right now.

    Ask your 10 best customers pick up the phone or text them or whatever.

    And ask them, Hey, how you doing? What, if anything Do you need help with, and then see if that’s a need that you can fulfill with your current capabilities.

    Also take a look at your content performance rates, again, engagement rates and perform the exact same mathematics, your 30 day average and your 70 average.

    If your engagement rates have dropped off a cliff, it means that you’re not sharing content people care about.

    It’s not stuff that people want to engage with.

    So consider pivoting and changing things up, look at your competitors.

    And then look, if you have access to tools and software that give you a good competitive analytics on social media or even just SEO data.

    Look at what is resonating with people.

    Look what people do engage with, and try your best to create content that mirrors the intent of that content.

    What content do people want during this time? But expect your growth rates to be negative.

    Clearly for over 3000 brands, that’s the case and expect that to be the case while people are trying to adjust to their new habits and routines.

    Good question.

    Very good question.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Social Media Metrics in a Crisis?

    You Ask, I Answer: Social Media Metrics in a Crisis?

    Talissa asks, “With all this COVID19 chatter and the election year, are Facebook’s metrics going to plummet even lower than usual?”

    We’re seeing the opposite at Trust Insights. For 3,200 brand pages we monitor, we’re seeing increased activity as people start social distancing and other measures recommended by the authorities. View times and engagements will go up for a little while. As a marketer, use the opportunity responsibly, never violating the first rule of crisis communications – don’t market tragedy.

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    In today’s episode to Melissa asks, with all this COVID19 to shatter and the election year, our Facebook’s metrics going to plummet even lower than usual.

    It’s an interesting question.

    A few folks have wondered if you know, with all of the additional content out there that brand stuff is going to get lost.

    But behaviorally what we’re seeing happen with people is that as they follow the instructions of local authorities, and start doing social distancing and stuff, they are at home and they’re at home.

    They’re in their, their places of shelter.

    And what are they going to do? They’re going to spend time here, right? They’re going to spend time in their mobile apps watching video gauging in conversations.

    And social networks, social media will be one of the ways that they stay in touch with other people, because they can’t do face to face.

    And so there is a counter argument to be made that instead of less activity on Facebook, you actually will see more.

    And we’re starting to see evidence of this.

    Let’s bring this up here.

    This is Facebook’s metrics for 3200 brand page that we monitor Trust Insights to try and get a sense of what’s going on in obvious social networks for brands, and what you can see here is that as of a couple of days ago, when you started seeing large scale closures, I think particularly in the United States, but also around Europe.

    We’re starting to see spikes in engagement on brand pages.

    So not only Overall Facebook brand pages.

    And that means that people are interacting more with these pages now, is it a huge jump? No.

    It’s not like, you know, massive massive growth.

    But it is you can see there’s there’s little spikes that are higher than normal for these brand pages for the last couple of days.

    We’re going to see if this trend holds, to see if this data indicates this is going to be a more prevalent thing.

    But if that’s what the consumer behavior is indicating, I think it’s reasonable to assume it will hold that people will consume more content that people will have more time on the device, right as they look for ways to entertain themselves distract themselves.

    I think at some point, you will see some diminishment of activity on Facebook after a while once people get fatigued of it and remember why they stopped using it so much in the first place.

    But for now It is their lifeline to their community.

    It’s their lifeline to their friends, one of Facebook, Instagram, text messaging, WhatsApp, all the ways that you stay in touch with somebody at a distance are being applied locally, because for obvious reasons.

    So what do you do with this information? Well, there’s two things.

    One, you should, as a marketer, use the opportunity responsibly if people are seeing your stuff, this would be the time to up your content marketing game, meaning stop publishing stuff, that’s okay and publish stuff that’s really good.

    Because if you if you get that precious opportunity to be seen by a few more people, and to be engaging with a few more people use it well use it responsibly.

    Right? Yeah, make sure that if you have to go and look at your metrics and recycle some of your better content, the stuff that you know, gets engagement because while you got the eyeballs, it may as well use it and we know that historically Facebook’s engagement rates in particular have been so low that chances are people have not seen your previous bet Greatest Hits before.

    So for this period of time, go ahead and recycle those Greatest Hits.

    Two, most important first rule of crisis communications, do not market tragedy, do not market fear.

    What we’ve seen for the most part are most brands behaving themselves and issuing informational notices, reassuring people how things are not going to change or if things are going to change how it will not substantially impact service.

    I think those announcements are fine.

    They’re, they don’t say anything we don’t already know.

    But at a good responsible use of communications to say like, Hey, this is how we’re approaching things.

    And reassuring your your paying customers nothing’s going to change.

    I think that’s great.

    But trying to take advantage of bad news.

    Always tacky Always tasteless, and always causes harm to your brand that you don’t want to do.

    So don’t do that.

    Which is easier said than done.

    I get it.

    There’s, there’s that temptation to try and and capture the topic, capture a slice of the pie.

    And if it if it integrates with your brand in a way that makes you a part of the conversation and you contribute value to it, that’s fine.

    But if you’re just trying to sell to it, that’s not fine.

    Never market tragedy ever.

    So with this, all the stuff going on, and the metrics that we see is it is a good news for social media marketers and marketers in general for the time being.

    So if you’re a digital marketer, you have a narrow window of opportunity to get a little bit of extra attention.

    use it responsibly, never market to tragedy.

    Good question.

    Totally.

    So it’s a tough question.

    Because of our everything that’s going on.

    But really go back and recycle those Greatest Hits.

    The best way to take advantage of the added attention in a tasteful way and it will not seem out of character because you’re just freshening up the stuff that you know people already enjoy it.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Starting Marketing From Scratch?

    You Ask, I Answer: Starting Marketing From Scratch?

    Katy asks, “What’s one thing you would do and one you wouldn’t if you could build your marketing from scratch?”

    I’d avoid rushing in, and I’d start with an overall 6W strategic plan.
    – Why would anyone buy what we have to sell?
    – Who do I have available in terms of talent?
    – What tactics are available to us?
    – When do we need to start generating results?
    – Where will we be marketing?
    – How will we measure success?

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    In today’s episode, Katie asks, What’s one thing you would do? And one you wouldn’t if you could build your marketing from scratch? Well, the one thing I wouldn’t do is just rush right in and start doing things, right.

    That’s generally not a recipe for success anytime except perhaps in like life threatening situations.

    But what I would do is an overall strategic marketing plan.

    Because as much as sometimes I might dislike planning, you gotta do it.

    You got to do if you want to be successful, and you want to be able to say yes and no to the right things, because that’s really what a plan does.

    A plan gives you the ability to say no to things that don’t matter to say yes, things do matter, and to help you prioritize, so what would be in this filling out this one thing it would be the six W’s right? Who, what, where, when, why and how.

    And it would be number one overall business golden strategy Why would anyone buy what we have to sell? And this part takes a lot of time as it should because you have to be real clear that you have to real clear on your unique selling proposition.

    My friend Ann Handley says if the logo fell off would anyone know it’s you? It’s a fantastic way of expressing is the logo fell off? Would anyone know it was you take any given product or service? Would someone note was uniquely your companies or could it be any company in your space? So gotta solve for that first.

    Second, who do I have available as talent? This can be employees this can be partners this can be agencies can even be customers.

    rank for user generated content.

    But you got to know who, who you got and what they can do.

    Because if you don’t, you can’t choose your tactics.

    Well, you have to be able to know what the palette looks like.

    Number three, what tactics are available to us.

    If you know where you’re going, it’s a question of how you’re going to get there.

    Right? If you have a destination, you can fly, you can drive you could take a train maybe might take a boat could bicycle you could walk.

    And there are different measures based on your resources available, right? If you have no money, you can theoretically walk.

    If you have very limited amounts of money.

    You could bicycle or drive if you have got a lot of money, you could fly first class.

    The same is true for marketing.

    What do you have? What kinds of money do you have and what kinds of restrictions What kinds of content Do you already have? what’s available to you? Either regulatory things that prohibit you from doing certain tactics, you may not be able to use certain social media channels.

    For example, if you are in a highly regulated industry, or in a controversial industry, like if you’re in the cannabis industry, paid ads are generally not available to you on mainstream marketplaces.

    So, what are the tactics? Number four, when when do we need to start generating results? What’s the timeline? What does the company’s calendar look like? If you get into a new job and they say we need to be generating, you know, 200% more leads yesterday.

    Okay, if that’s if that’s what the company requires, and you’ve got to adjust what you’ve planned to fit that, but more than anything, you’re just getting started.

    Start building out a realistic timeline.

    What are you going to do in the first 30 days, the first 90 days the first quarter the first year.

    Knowing that timeline again helps you with resources like all things, you, if you don’t know how long you have, you may not be able to make great decisions.

    Again, example from the the travel thing, if you’re walking somewhere, it may take substantially longer than if you fly there.

    But if you’ve got the time you can afford to walk if you don’t have the time you have to fly or you won’t get there.

    Same is true for marketing.

    SEO, for example, is a fantastic way to generate long term results.

    Seo takes a lot of time, right? You won’t probably see any good results in the first 90 days.

    And you’ll start to see better results after the first couple of years of consistently generating a lot of content it takes time.

    Where will we be marketing right? So again, going sort of the channels, the capabilities Do you have a service area, your company geographically constrained? Again, these are all limits on what you Do so knowing these things is important.

    And finally, and my personal favorite, how will we measure success? If measurement is not part of your plan, it is not a plan.

    Right? It is a wish list measurement, analytics, data, insights, all that stuff is essential.

    How will you know that your marketing has been successful? If you don’t have a plan, played a way to measure it.

    So is it going to be Google Analytics, you’re going to be building dashboards? Are you going to need to create executive reports Do you report to a board of directors? Do you have to report results publicly right if you’re a publicly traded company, even if you’re not if you were in a new say a new startup, and they have aspirations to be publicly traded, then you should know that in advance so that you can plan And conform to the reporting requirements for publicly traded companies.

    All of these questions are things that need to be in your your overall strategic marketing plan.

    And if you do them, if you invest the time to build this plan, take your 30 6090 days to build a plan getting input from all your stakeholders getting input from your customers getting input from the audience that you want to serve doing surveys and focus groups and things you will come up with a a fantastic plan of all of them.

    I think that the to the people will struggle with the most of the unique selling proposition because a lot of companies out there have very generic products and services and the measurement of success.

    Again, marketers have not been great about measuring and making decisions from data.

    So those are the two areas where I think you’ll have the hardest time I think the most important So really good question, build a plan and avoid jumping in, avoid just starting to do stuff especially if you don’t have measurement in place.

    One of the critical mistakes I’ve seen people do is just keep doing what the company has been doing as soon as you get into the job without asking does this work? I mean to jump in and start building those social media calendars every every week’s calendar, it’s gonna take it four or five hours a week to do it.

    Great.

    Does it work? Otherwise, that’s four to five hours, you could be doing something else.

    So really good question.

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