Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Most Common Biases in Marketing AI?

    You Ask, I Answer: Most Common Biases in Marketing AI?

    Elizabeth asks, “What’s the most common type of bias you see that we as marketers should be aware of?”

    There are so many to choose from, but I’ll start with two: confirmation bias, and selection bias. Confirmation bias corrupts the entire process by looking for a result that fits a predetermined conclusion. Selection bias corrupts the entire process by failing to represent the population you’ve said you’re studying. Watch the video for more details.

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    In today’s episode, Elizabeth asks, What’s the most common type of bias that you see that we as marketers should be aware of? Gosh, there’s so many to choose from.

    Um I’ll start with two of these.

    Because these are the two that again, are probably the most common and things that people don’t think about.

    The first is confirmation bias.

    So confirmation bias, pretty simply is when you start any kind of data science or AI project with a intending to look for a result that fits a predetermined conclusion.

    And you see this a ton in research studies especially.

    But obviously it can extend to building models which are nothing but software based on data is simple.

    Example this, let’s say you’re a SaaS based company, right? And you sell, I don’t know, photo editing services, make something up.

    And you want to promote your services.

    So you build a predictive model that has the marketing goal of telling people, they should edit their photos more.

    Right? You do some market research and all this stuff.

    And of course, you come up with a conclusion that yes, people should edit their photos, a lot more mail, better edited photos, perform better on social media, and you create an algorithm that predicts If only you had edited this photo, it would have earned this much more engagement.

    Now.

    That’s kind of a silly example.

    But you can see how that particular bias corrupts everything.

    Because you are working towards a predetermined conclusion rather than building a model that is truly open to being asked.

    trained and can yield results that frankly might not support your business.

    Right? Again, you see this most often in research.

    There used to be a company not too far from here in the Boston area that would sell this as a service.

    They were, they were sort of the antithesis of good research.

    Yeah.

    They say, hey, you want to prove whatever thing you know, hire our services, we’ll come up with a statistically validated way that proves your thing.

    And anytime, you know, once, once that was known, anytime you saw that company’s name in the in the methodology, if it was even listed, you know, yep, that survey is completely invalid.

    You know, that they, the company that sponsored it bought the result that they wanted, and it ruined the research company’s credibility, and it ruins the credibility of any company that uses that research company.

    So that’s probably the first one that one is relatively easy to spot inside your own organization because your VP of marketing or CEO or somebody says, Hey, I need something that does this.

    That’s not how research works.

    That’s not how good models work either.

    Because one of the things that will happen is that if you are willing to tolerate bias, like that conscious bias in your model, and you are willing to tolerate biases that are discriminatory, that’s going to get your butt kicked over time.

    Second, is selection bias.

    And this corrupts the process because it is a bias that exists your data set that does not represent the population as a whole.

    And so you’re using data that is inherently skewed in some way, consciously or unconsciously.

    And it does not represent whatever population you’re trying to serve.

    So simple example number of years ago Hubspot did a research study saying, you know, we, they made some claims about inbound marketing, which is their thing.

    And when you look at the methodology that says we emailed it was a survey and we emailed our list of you know, however many people we can see the problem here.

    You can’t make a survey that claims to represent all marketers based on your own email list.

    Because people who are on your email list inherently have a greater affinity towards your products and services.

    Right HubSpot was all about and still is about inbound marketing.

    Naturally, somebody who subscribed to their email list probably has at least some passing interest in inbound marketing.

    And as a result, you have a survey that is biased towards people who like inbound marketing and so to make a claim that this represents all views of all marketers is incorrect because there’s this whole group of people out there, not on their email list who probably don’t give too much.

    Have a have a fish at non animal market, they don’t care.

    They don’t it’s not their thing.

    And so their views are not being represented in the survey methodology because it was it was they were selected out.

    Right.

    They were not part of that population.

    Now.

    What could that have certainly have represented.

    You could have certainly said all marketers who are in the HubSpot audience, believe this and that would be valid.

    Right? When you’re collecting data for data science and AI projects, the same thing applies if you are collecting data from a specific focus group that you selected.

    Did you select a group that was representative of your audience as a whole and b2c? That means balancing against things like age, gender, physical location where that person is other demographics.

    This is one of those rare cases where you should be using protected classes like race Gender Identity etc to make sure that you are balanced against the actual population that you don’t have a non representative sample on b2b.

    You’d be looking at things like a balance of companies by size by revenue, number of employees.

    industry, and it should look like the the balance of as a whole.

    So if you do a survey, and your initial data pool comes from 61% technology companies come technology companies just make up 61% of the global economy or even one country’s economy.

    They represent, you know, typically a much lower slice, depending on the metric you choose on.

    So you would want to be sure that you are balancing your dataset to represent the population that you’re claiming to study.

    And selection bias tends to selection bias is not As intentional as confirmation bias confirmation biases, I want to put my thumb on the scale.

    And I want it to say this, which is just a horrendous thing to do.

    selection bias happens more often than not because of naivety, a naive researcher or marketer, or data scientist will just do something and not think, am I balanced? And that’s something that you can solve with things like checklists like did you balance this dataset? Did you balance the input collection methods? Are you Are you truly representative? Have you checked? Have you validated that your data is representative? If you can solve for both of these biases, your data will inherently across the spectrum of the ways that use data from market research data science and analysis projects to AI models will inherently get better.

    It may not deliver the results you’re expecting.

    Particularly if you have a preordained conclusion in mind.

    Even if you keep your processes clean.

    But it will be better.

    It’ll be objectively better data.

    And if you’re using that data to make decisions which you should be, you will make better decisions.

    So really good question.

    There’s a whole bunch of other biases.

    And there’s, there’s a difference between a statistical bias and a human bias that we’ll leave for another time.

    But these are the, I would say the two most common statistical biases that we see in data science and AI, you know, follow up questions, leave in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Data Democratization and AI?

    You Ask, I Answer: Data Democratization and AI?

    Jim asks, “I am skeptical of data democratization because the average decision maker does not understand data collection, transformation, integration etc. Doesn’t AI make this an even bigger problem?”

    It depends on how abstracted the decision-maker is. Certainly the pandemic has shown us the general population is completely incapable of parsing even basic scientific data, like why you should wear a mask. So the question is, who’s working on the AI?

    If AI systems are left in the hands of legitimate experts, it could potentially improve things. For example, IBM Watson Studio has bias detection built in at multiple levels, so the tooling can potentially improve our work – or at least make it easier to audit. On the other hand, if you have the 6-week crash course folks building models, then yes, it could make things much worse.

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    In today’s episode, Jim asks, I am skeptical of data democratization because the average decision maker does not understand data collection, transformation, integration, etc.

    Doesn’t AI make this an even bigger problem? So, let’s first quickly define data.

    democratization is the ability for anybody to be able to work with data hence the term democratization.

    Just like new media, a podcasting and blogging was the democratization of media the ability for anybody to make a podcast anybody to make a blog as such.

    And data democratization has been something that has been on technology companies radar for a really long time.

    My my whole start working with IBM, years ago, was around Watson Analytics, the idea of the citizen analysts as the average person who could pick up some good tooling data set and generate some usable insights didn’t work out so well.

    And to Jim’s point, the reason it didn’t work out so well is because data analysis even though it sounds simple, isn’t there are a lot of pitfalls.

    There are a lot of gotchas.

    There are a lot of things that are not taught well and poorly emphasized when people start working with data things like margins of error and statistical relevance, statistical validity.

    All these things are things that in a laypersons experimentation with with data and math and, and statistics and such, don’t really get covered.

    People have a tendency to approach things in a very naive fashion which is normal.

    And they pick up a tool they run a basic analysis they haha I’ve got the answer.

    You can You can tell how expert somebody is in the realms of mathematics and statistics by how many shades of grey? their answers come with, right? The beginning person is like, this is the answer.

    You know, the extra person is like, well, there’s a whole bunch of reasons why this may or may not be the answer.

    And we’re not really sure.

    We can give you probabilities, we can give you a sense of reliability or not in the data, but for the most part, it’s not as cut and dried as you think.

    Right.

    And those are the answers people hate.

    People hate those answers.

    And that’s why data democratization hasn’t worked out so well, because there are a whole bunch of people who want the answer.

    And the answer doesn’t exist, there could be a range of answers.

    So does AI make this worse? Well, it depends on how abstracted the decision maker or the the AI tool user is from the tools themselves.

    Certainly, the pandemic In particular, has shown us that the general population is completely incapable of parsing even basic scientific data like why to wear a mask? Sorry.

    It’s true.

    People couldn’t get understand even the most basic scientific facts and data points and make good decisions from them.

    So the question then is, does AI make this worse or an even bigger problem? It depends on who’s working on the AI.

    It depends on who’s working on the models.

    If you hand somebody a piece of fully polished software, a model of some kind of, they can’t really tinker with the innards.

    They can only use it for its intended purpose.

    The likelihood that it goes off the rails is lower.

    If it’s good software than somebody say, picking up Python and just trying to hand it copying and pasting the code randomly from Stack Exchange.

    If AI is left in the hands of legitimate experts, it could potentially improve things IBM Watson Studio is introducing bias detection at multiple levels in the process from data intake, to model to model drift, right? And it puts a big old warning saying like, Hey, your models drifted more than 6%, or Hey, your models drifting on this protected class, I should probably not do that.

    And so in those instances where the the, the person who’s working on the system has to stay within the boundaries of a well trained system and has to obey the warnings that it gives, yes, ai could potentially improve our work and potentially reduce some of the problems that come with data democratization.

    On the other hand, if you get that, you know, six week Crash Course a person who, you know, took the six week crash course in AI certificate.

    Yeah, I could make things a lot worse because that person doesn’t have the background in data science doesn’t have the background in stats and probability.

    Probably It is a generalization, but probably doesn’t have that level of background and that level of experience of just having models go off the rails.

    And without a mentor without somebody more experienced to guide them, it could make things a lot worse I was having a conversation with a of a founder of a startup a few weeks ago, was talking about how there’s got all these sophisticated models are working on building and you know, you had a friend of his from college, they just both graduate from college, you know, they’re gonna engineering these models and have some experience in it.

    And I said, Okay, tell me about how you’re doing bias detection.

    Tell me about who on the team has the most experience with ethics and data ethics and he’s like, a, like, Okay, so this is gonna go off the rails pretty quick.

    I said that you need to be building into your product.

    Things like monitoring for model drift.

    Things like looking for ethical problems, things like that would you know, fail you on a basic ethics audit.

    This was news to the person.

    So in that instance, where you have a bunch of people who are inexperienced with AI, trying to deploy it, yes, AI is going to make those problems of data democratization even worse, because these are people who don’t know what they’re doing.

    On the other hand, you get somebody who has, you know, 510 15 years of experience.

    In working with datasets, knowing when a data set is imbalanced knowing when a p value has gone off the rails knowing how to do a two tailed t test.

    In those cases, the person who’s building the system will probably do okay, and will make a system that is hard for other people to screw up.

    So it really comes down to which is going to deliver a good outcome a good long term outcome.

    One of the dangers In AI, particularly round bias is that a system with no constraints will perform better, it will do things that you do not want it doing well.

    It’ll behave in unethical ways.

    But it will, in the short term deliver better results.

    a longer term assistant built for the long term will make trade offs and say like, yeah, we don’t want bias on gender identity, we don’t want bias on race.

    And the system will have to sacrifice some levels of performance, the model’s ability to generate the top nine performance in order to meet those competing objectives.

    But that’s exactly the kind of caution and care and attention to detail that you want.

    So will AI make data democratization worse, potentially? Will it make it better potentially all depends on who’s steering the ship? How do we help people steer the ship better? give them that list of questions the pickup Dr.

    Hilary Mason’s free book Ethics and data science has got a ton of great checklists in it about questions you should ask before starting any project with data, ethical questions, process questions, accountability questions, those will help make all of us better data scientists, better data analysts better AI engineers.

    And if you work in a company and you have a leadership role, hold your company accountable to a lot of those those benchmarks, say we’re going to adhere to these basic processes, so that we generate outcomes that will not get a sued, or get us failing an audit of some kind.

    So, really good question.

    We could spend a lot of time on this.

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

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What Grade Level for Website Readability?

    You Ask, I Answer: What Grade Level for Website Readability?

    Tiff asks, “At what reading level should website copy be written? Is it the same as print?”

    The answer to this question depends on two things: your audience, and what readability score you’re using. There are 5 major readability scores:
    – Flesch-Kincaid grade level – words/sentences – syllables/words
    – Gunning-Fog index – words/sentences – complex words (3 syl)/words
    – SMOG index – complex words / number of sentences (minimum 30 sentences)
    – Automated Readability index – characters/words + words/sentences
    – Coleman-Liau index – character-based, letters / 100 words – sentences / 100 words

    Most tools use FK, but FK isn’t always the best choice – often, for marketing copy, SMOG is a better choice, or Gunning-Fog if your software supports it.

    The secret is this: measure the media diet of your audience and determine it from that grade level. Watch the video for an explanation of how.

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    In today’s episode tip asks, at what reading level should website copy be written? Is it the same as print? So the answer to this question is dependent on two things.

    The first is, what readability tool are using, what measure are you using? And second, what audience reading level do you have? What does your audience read at? So there’s a bunch of different ways to tackle this.

    Let’s talk about the algorithms.

    First, there’s five major algorithms for readability.

    There is the flesh Kincaid grade level algorithm, which is essentially the number of words divided by the number of sentences minus the number of syllables in the words divided by the number of words.

    All these algorithms by the way are done in software.

    You don’t have to implement any of them yourself, but you do need to know which algorithm your software is using a lot of the time.

    software will not necessarily tell you up front, you may have to ask the developers, but you’re going to get different answers depending on the on the algorithms been used.

    And different algorithms are appropriate for different use cases.

    Second is the Gunning-Fog index.

    This is a words divided by sentences minus complex words, which are three syllables or more divided by the number of words.

    Gunning-Fog was intended for things like health care, and the same for the following measure.

    Because you’re looking for it, trying to reduce the number of complex words, to make something more readable.

    The next one is called smog.

    And this is a simple measure of gobbledygook, which is a simplification gutting fog.

    It is simply the number of complex words divided by the number of sentences with a minimum of 30 sentences.

    And there’s actually a bunch of tuning parameters that go into each of these but again, the software you’re using, done that I’m just giving you the basic idea behind each of these algorithms.

    The fourth is the automated, readable to index, this is the number of characters divided by the number of words, plus the number of words divided by the number of sentences.

    And the last one is the Coleman-Liau index, which is character based.

    And that is the number of letters divided by the number of letters per 100.

    Words, minus the number of sentences are 100 words Coleman-Liau was invented for machines, essentially machines, reading scanning of these different measures, the one that folks tend to use a lot in when they’re developing tools is the flesh Kincaid grade level score.

    But it’s not necessarily the best choice.

    And the reason for that is that if you’re trying to reduce word, complexity of reading, it’s those big polysyllabic words, those overly complicated words, long syllable words that can sometimes mess up reading level and with that, Gunning-Fog or smog are probably the two indexes that are the better choices for reducing the complexity of something that you’re trying to read.

    smog is used a lot in healthcare Gunning-Fog was used.

    It was built for the US Navy, to, to reduce the complexity of technical manuals to the field manuals that soldiers are given is to make it easier for them to use.

    So both of those indexes are good for marketing content because good marketers like to be fancy, right and use big words and stuff to make their their copy sound more sophisticated, especially b2b marketers.

    We all love our flexible, scalable turnkey inter integrated solutions, etc.

    As opposed to software that does the thing and that those complex polysyllabic words are the ones that make readability more difficult so for marketers Gunning-Fog and smug are probably the the two algorithms to use.

    So you’ll want to check which what algorithm your software uses.

    Now, how do you determine your audience? There’s a couple different ways you can do this.

    Number one, if you have access to like your customer service inbox, or reviews written by your audience and things like that, you can copy and paste a whole bunch of them together and get an overall average readability level of the way that your audience writes.

    The other way is to use social media monitoring software.

    If you have a list of known customers, for example, like a Twitter list, you would put that into social media monitoring software, and then extract out from that data, the publications that your audience shares the most.

    Go on to the Ito’s publications take a sample random sample like 10 articles from those publications.

    Put that through your readability software and that will tell you like your audience is consuming and sharing content at say a sixth grade level or an eighth grade level.

    That way you can dial in on exactly where your audience is based on the stuff that they’re already sharing.

    If your audience isn’t active on social, then you’re gonna have to, you know, solicit content from other places.

    A good way of doing that, again, is asking people in on intake forms or on customer service calls or in surveys.

    You know, hey, what publications do you read? What newspapers or news sources do you read? What books do you read, that will help you again, dial in and calibrate on where your audience’s reading level is based on their media diet.

    Once you’ve got that, then you can start making content that’s appropriate to the grade level that people are at.

    The other thing that you’re going to want to do is you’re going to want to measure carefully.

    readability is is a metric it is not necessarily an outcome.

    So one of the things to do is to look at you run a, an attribution analysis at at the page level, across your web copy and look for the pages that convert the most.

    And then measure the readability scores, and then do just a simple regression analysis to see Is there any relationship between readability and conversion capability? There may be there may not be if you run that analysis, and there’s no correlation, then is readability a problem? It wouldn’t hurt to dial things into where your audience is most comfortable.

    But if you find that say, your top converting page is written at a substantially different grade level than the like your least converting page and there’s no logical relationship between the two then don’t invest a huge amount of time in changing the readability the rest of your site.

    The thing to do is would be to set up a a have actual experiment like a clinical trial, take 10 pages of no take 20 pages, 10 of them have a gonna be ones you’re gonna modify the reading level 10 of them mean, you’re not going to modify the reading level, they should all be roughly about the same level of conversion power within your analysis.

    And then once you’ve made the changes, observe and see if the conversion power changes over time.

    Because you have you made those readability changes, don’t change anything else.

    Just make sure it’s, it’s, you know, 10 and 10.

    each one’s a control one’s the experiment and see if readability changes make a difference.

    If they make a difference.

    Great, then, you know, even after a couple of weeks, right, that readability is actually important to audience.

    If nothing happens, you probably don’t need to spend a whole lot more time on it, but I would run that test.

    So your steps are First, identify the media diet, choose the algorithm that you’re going to use, then assess your site, look for that relationship and if there is relationship of some kind, then set up a test and and test and approve 10 pages and leave 10 pages alone and see how they interact.

    readability is is part of natural language processing.

    There’s a lot of fun things you can do with it but that’s for another time.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Staying Ahead in AI and MarTech?

    You Ask, I Answer: Staying Ahead in AI and MarTech?

    Buyan asks, “What habits do you do on a regular basis that help you learn and stay ahead in the AI and MarTech space?”

    Staying current means doing two things: learning and practicing. You need both, in equal amounts, to be able to stay current and fresh.

    Listen in for details on how to approach this.

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    In this episode Brianne asks, What habits do you do on a regular basis that help you learn and stay ahead in the AI and Mar tech space? So it’s a good question.

    Any kind of progress requires you to be doing two things to build a third thing.

    And those two things are you need to be learning, which is the academic knowledge act, acquiring information, processing and understanding what it is that you’re reading.

    And then two is practice.

    implementing what all the things you’re reading so that it’s not just theory.

    You understand how it works, make your own discoveries, and more importantly, discover what doesn’t work.

    Those two things combined get you experience or wisdom if you’d like.

    And they are required in equal amounts.

    One of the challenges we see happen a lot is people who are over leveraged in one of those two areas, they are spending so much time doing the thing, that the knowledge gets stale.

    I meet a lot of practitioners at corporations who are so heads down on getting the job done getting that to do lists cleared and stuff that they lose track of what’s happening in industry, they don’t know that, you know, this new model came out or this new technique is available, or this new software has happened.

    Because it’s just one of those things.

    They’re trying to stay afloat, which I totally get.

    I had experiences like that and agency life where you’re working 60 7080 hours a week, just to get things done just to keep things moving along.

    The academic knowledge without practice, is armchair theory, right.

    You can read about something go well, it could do all these things.

    But you never actually understand how the work so you don’t understand the limitations.

    And you may not even understand what it is you’re talking about.

    When I was in graduate school, I remember this one class where the professor was talking about OLAP cubes, online AP application processing, take notes on it, the type of database.

    And he was talking about the theory of OLAP cubes and transaction processing, and had never actually used the technology.

    So in class one day, I said, Okay, well, let’s just set one up, because at the time, Microsoft SQL Server supported that.

    I said, let’s just set one up.

    And we did.

    And it turns out that most of this professional theories about how OLAP cubes worked, didn’t hold up because the practical application was very, very different.

    And he really was not aware of that.

    Now.

    In fairness, It wasn’t necessary for his job to do that.

    And the theories themselves, I think were starting points for people to try to figure out how to implement them.

    But that’s why you need that practical application and the academic theory in tandem, they can’t have one without the other.

    And so for what I do, to stay current is those two things on the academic theory side, I put together newsletters, I read a ton.

    In order to do that.

    I have software that helps curate a list of the top things I need to pay attention to in martagon, marketing data science and AI.

    And as I’m putting together these newsletters, I’m reading through what the machines have have assembled as my reading list.

    I go Wow, I didn’t know that happened or I didn’t realize that happened or this was the thing.

    That’s like 1500 articles a week and just going through this.

    Wow.

    There’s a lot That’s happening that was not aware of and as I go through and put together my newsletter, I go that’s useful that’s useful that’s useful.

    Go and read those things.

    I also belong to a number of communities I run a slack community as part of Trust Insights.

    If you go to Trust insights.ai slash analytics for marketers, that’s the community I run but I’m also in two dozen other slack communities about half a dozen discord communities.

    I’m subscribed to I can’t tell you how many newsletters voluntarily that all bring in new information, new academic information to learn Hey, did you know this thing was happening? I was reading Elisa Solis is Seo FOMO newsletter the other day and this is how core web vitals are going to be part of ranking download, okay, I need to know that.

    But then the other side, the practice side is doing the thing.

    Now, a lot of I get a lot of practice doing stuff for, you know, clients at Trust Insights and things, but I also So you’ll run my own website, my personal website now Christopher Penn calm, I test a lot of things out on it.

    Because it’s a safe place to test.

    I’m not going to destroy my company’s revenues to fight to take down a website by for an hour by accident.

    I do.

    I’ll just a lot of testing in general, I used to do a live stream show called Saturday night data Party, which was more just messing around with stuff, playing with things.

    As new models come out, or as new pieces of software come out if I can run them in an environment like Google Collaboratory run in there, see what happens.

    I’m actually got another window open over here, trying to run a model called jukebox, which is going to do generative music creation, which is interesting stuff.

    So it’s just picking up things as you read about them saying, I’m going to try this.

    How does this work? What does it involve? And can I make the thing work and generate the result that’s promised result and you find out really quickly Some things live up to their promises, other things, not so much on a good day, you might be able to get them to work on a bad day.

    Just immediate and hilarious failure.

    So that’s the process.

    The challenge is, you have to build time and your schedule for it, you have to make time for professional development.

    It will, in almost every place I’ve worked, there’s been a lot of lip service to professional development and like maybe an organizational send it to a conference like once a year.

    But that’s it, they will not create the time for you.

    So you have to do that.

    And if you can do that in your working hours, great.

    Sometimes you have to do it outside your working hours.

    If you care about your professional development, you will have to make that time outside of work.

    You’ll have to take time away from something else like you know, whatever series you’ve been doing on Netflix, in order to give yourself time to research and grow and that’s the hardest part for you.

    But people are not willing to make the time for themselves personally, even if it’s a benefit to them professionally and to their careers and to their their income, all that stuff.

    I don’t know why doing stuff that is for professional development has just been something I’ve always been part of doing.

    I think it comes from either whether whether you like the process of learning or you don’t.

    But I think is a learnable thing.

    I don’t think it’s something you’re born with.

    It’s just overcoming perhaps bad experiences in the past.

    So that’s the process, academic knowledge, practical application, put the two together to get experience and make the time for it.

    Make the time for it.

    Dedicate two hours a week, wherever you can find them.

    To do that one hour reading one hour of doing your follow up questions, leave in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What Makes a Good Content Marketing Idea?

    You Ask, I Answer: What Makes a Good Content Marketing Idea?

    Stephanie asks, “How do you define what makes a good, quality content idea?”

    The easy answer is whether it provokes emotion. Measure your emotional writing with a service like IBM Watson Tone Analyzer.

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    In today’s episode, Stephanie asks, How do you define what makes a good quality content idea? Fundamentally, a good idea is one that provokes some kind of emotion.

    Right? It makes you care about it, when you’re creating it should provoke something and then when you send it out to a beta tester, it should provoke something in them.

    For years, I’ve had a what’s called a three l framework.

    When you’re working on an idea, if it doesn’t make you laugh, if you didn’t learn something, when you were building it, if you don’t love it so much that you’re talking to, you know, your significant other or a friend who’s not involved in the company or the industry, he just can’t stop talking about you know, you’ve got a good idea.

    You know, you got something that is exciting to you.

    It makes you happy.

    You engaged with it.

    And those are the same criteria as well from the readers or the consumers perspective, right? It should be educational.

    It should be entertaining, possibly it should be engaging.

    Did did you laugh? Does it make you does it provoke some kind of reaction? Did you learn something? If your content doesn’t fulfill any of those criteria, it’s not a good idea.

    Right? On the other hand, if Phil’s at least one, there’s some sharpening of the pencil you could do to make it better to elevate it, but at least you’ve got that one.

    If you can get all three, you’ve got a piece of magic I enhance and that is something that is very difficult to to create without a lot of work.

    I was writing a piece of short fiction not too long ago, and in the first version of it, I had a beta reader read through it and be like, okay, Good.

    Good isn’t what I’m going after a good as good isn’t great, right? So I rewrote the ending for it, I handed it back to this person.

    And I said, Give it another read through.

    And we’re back.

    Oh my god.

    fpu because I, there’s a twist at the end of the story.

    And that’s what I knew I had a great piece of content.

    It provokes such a strong emotional reaction in the person they like, I feel like that’s the winner.

    I know.

    That’s, I know, that’s something.

    There’s a there there.

    And when other people have read it, like okay, yeah, that’s that that was the thing.

    You have to figure out which emotions you write well, because it’s not always going to be ones that are necessarily appropriate all the time.

    And it depends on your creative abilities right? Some people can create humorous content really well consistently all the time comedians do this all the time.

    And yes, they have you know missus and they will take stuff out like a small comedy club and test it out for small crowd and you know some stuff just bombs, but other stuff does really well depending on the audience.

    You may not be able to do humor if it’s not one of my capabilities to create consistently humorous material.

    You may be good at creating material that makes people sad, right? There are any number of really good writers that can create you know, angsty stories that are just heart wrenching tales.

    That may be the emotion that you’re good at.

    You could be somebody and you have to use this power judiciously.

    You could be somebody who’s really good at making people angry intentionally by design, writing content that makes people angry.

    If That kind of person, there are a number of political campaigns that would like to help.

    And, you know, there’s, again, one of the basic core emotions, you may be good at making people afraid.

    Again, a lot of marketers do this not well, either.

    Microsoft for years was known as, as the company of fun, fear, uncertainty and doubt being able to create content that created those emotions and people and made them purchase Microsoft products as the safe haven as a safe haven from all these, you know, crazy new things, they would say could ruin your company rarely ever did.

    But they were really good at that, that writing style.

    So when you’re creating content, figure out what emotions you’re really good at writing.

    And there’s are a number of tools out there suddenly, like IBM, Watson has Watson Tone Analyzer and Watson personality insights but Tone Analyzer is the one that will can take a piece of text and and tell you what you meant.

    motions appear in the language and centers around was it? anger, fear, sadness, anticipation, joy.

    Gosh, I’m missing two.

    But there’s eight emotional directly directions are vectors that it measures your text on.

    Take some of the content that you’ve written in the past, your best pieces that you that you feel are the best way to perform the best feed into a service like you know Watson Tone Analyzer.

    It is a free demo, you can try and see what emotions you’re really good at writing.

    Even if it’s not necessarily once you think that you’re you’re good at writing it, if the they’ve performed well, you have the objective measurement, they’ve performed well.

    And the software says hey, you’re really good at writing joyful pieces.

    Great.

    You know that and then you can double down on that and working on improving the language that you use to bring out even more more of that.

    So what makes good quality content is emotions, provoking them, eliciting them from people.

    And the most important thing you can do is to figure out which emotions you’re good at writing.

    The challenge you may run into, is that what you’re good at is what your company is not aligned with their brand, right? If you’re really good at writing content that engages fear, and your company is like a yoga, there could be a bit of a mismatch.

    And in those situations, you have to figure out how do you write in such a way, and maybe you partner with somebody else on on your team if there’s someone else available that can write in those other styles.

    Again, using the tools like Watson Tone Analyzer, you may be able to analyze pieces that other folks on your team have written or in your company, and see what are the companion emotions that you could do.

    Team up with somebody else and collaborate and create content that strikes a good balance between those two emotions.

    It’s, you know, the the, they’re not negative, but they’re associated with being negative emotions, like anger and fear, are good as part of a piece of content.

    Because in your standard marketing copy, you’re looking at what state the problem, what the impact of the problem is, what the solution is, and then how your company fulfills that solution.

    That fear and anger right and goes in the problem and impact right, you know, this is the problem.

    This is what happens if you don’t solve the problem.

    And if the writing that someone, a joyful person would be like, I don’t know how to express this in, you know, the impact in a compelling way.

    Like, if you don’t solve this problem, I don’t think so.

    Okay, that won’t sell anything.

    That’s where you as the writer who’s like adding to these terrible things will happen and you’ll lose your job and someone will come and take your dog away.

    That will allow you To use those skills there and then you have your your, your colleague who can write in the emotional release of the solution in the second half of the content it will Delta work on making a unified voice.

    But knowing the emotions you’re good at and then figuring out how to artfully weave them into pieces of content is important.

    So again, yep, questions, leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Can AI Write as Well as a Human?

    You Ask, I Answer: Can AI Write as Well as a Human?

    Deborah asks, “Can AI write as well as a human?”

    The answer depends on what the human is writing. If it’s complex, original works like novels, the answer is no. If it’s marketing swill, the answer is yes. If we examine some common readability metrics – which are decent proxies for content quality – we see that marketing-centric content tends to be junk writing.

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    In today’s episode Deborah asks Can AI right as well as a human? Well? The answer is it depends on what the human is writing language generation models, natural language generation of models, like open a eyes GPT series of models, or the T five Transformers from Google can write reasonably well, you know, in a very general sense, but the more specific the task, the better they get, the more guidance you give them and more guardrails you put on the better they get something like a complex original work like say a novel answer’s no machines cannot write as well as human not without an extraordinary amount of training and resources.

    To the point where it’s not cost efficient, you’d be better off hiring novelist to write a novel, then you would be to try and train a machine.

    Even if the machine could generate, you know, 1000 pulp novels.

    The amount of editing time and QA that would have to go into it would effectively negate any gains you got out of it.

    Now, if it’s marketing swill, the answer is yes.

    And the reason for that is, a lot of what we write in marketing is junk, right? It’s not very good quality content.

    It’s actually it’s pretty appallingly bad content.

    And it’s easy for machines to replicate crap.

    Think about a bell curve, right? On one end, you have low quality content on another and you have high quality content in the middle is a bunch of mediocre stuff.

    As machines evolve, they go from, they can replicate total garbage, right, because that’s pretty easy.

    And then they start to iterate and get slightly better and now they’re kind of at the meeting.

    Yoker phase, right? They can write mediocre marketing as well, can they write good quality copy or great quality copy, not really not without, again, a lot of training to the point where it is not cost efficient to do that unless you’re a company that is dedicated to doing that.

    But if you or the look at the metrics, in fact, let’s do this.

    Let’s bring this up here.

    What we’re looking at here is four sets of readability scores for a lot of marketing copy.

    So this is articles, blog posts, press releases, essentially it is content marketing stuff, right and not very good.

    And this is 130,000 of these that we have stored in the TrustInsights.ai database.

    I have four quadrants, we have the jargon score, which is the smog score, simple measure of gobbledygook.

    We have the flesh Kincaid readability index.

    We have the Coleman layout index.

    And the flesh Kincaid grade level.

    What you notice here is that there is a definite skew towards the right side for three graphs and sort of a bell curve in the middle.

    So let’s walk through these briefly.

    The jargon score, lower is better, right? So you want that content be easier to read than harder to read.

    And in this case, there’s a very definite kurtosis or lean towards the harder to read side means that our content is full of jargon, and a lot of it on readability, the readability score, 100 is great.

    Zero is bad.

    And we see a bell curve there in the middle, you know, 5055 60 is where most continents so it’s, again, it’s mediocre content, right? There’s very, very little on the far side here of the readability index, it says, Yeah, you got great content, very thin.

    On Coleman Liao.

    Again, this is similar to grade level, you can see there’s a tremendous amount of very difficult to Read content on the far right hand side and then I’ll hold opposite field.

    And then on the flesh Kincaid grade level, we see that marketing content is around nine ninth to 11th grade content because of the jargon because of the amount of stuff that we put in our copy that is difficult to read.

    That is extensively polysyllabic, which means that we use real big words.

    You know, think about the, the list of corporate buzzwords that we love to use.

    And you can see that reflected here in this data that this data very clearly shows we love our our fancy, complicated language.

    When you have language like that, when you have, you know, buzzword bingo, you have templates, an awful lot of things like you know, basic blog posts are very templated when you have press releases, announcements, They all follow a copy that is so formulaic, that is very easy for machines to replicate and probably do a better job than the majority of humans.

    Because when these natural language generation models are trained on language, they’re not trained on just one specific domain.

    They’re trained on as much language as possible.

    The most recent version of GPG three was trained on something like 170 5 billion parameters, which is a massive, massive, massive amount of texts, basically, the bulk of the readable text in English online.

    That means that when these machines go to generate language, they will naturally use more vocabulary a little bit more.

    lexical diversity is the technical term than a human would because in a lot of cases, humans will just copy and paste the last thing they did.

    I used to work at a public relations agency and I would literally watch you know, Junior associates Just copy and paste from one press release to the next change the name of the company in the name of the CEO.

    But effectively, they all say the same thing.

    You know, the chief executive says, you know, we’re so excited or proud or pleased or release our new version, whatever, whatever, whatever.

    And we’re flexible, scalable, industry leading agile, you know, can a machine replicate that hundred percent, hundred percent a machine can replicate that and do better than, than the humans do? So can AI right as well as the human? It depends on the context.

    But for sure.

    machines can now right at, I would say the mediocre level, right? The they could they’ve got bad down.

    They’ve got a mat down.

    They’ve got they’re getting mediocre down.

    Now.

    As each model improves, as the technology improves, they will eventually get down good.

    Good writing.

    Right.

    And for those companies that have the strongest infrastructure and the greatest level of resources, some will get great writing down.

    What does that mean for you as a as a marketing practitioner, it means that you’ve got to be improving your skills.

    If you are on the bad side of writing, you probably need to stop writing for marketing and look at a different profession.

    Because the machines can already crank out swell better than you can.

    If you’re in the mat mediocre, you better uplevel those skills, take some courses, do some writing workshops, do anything that whatever you can do, that will improve your skills and get them to good write.

    If you’re a good writer, you’ll keep working to become a great writer.

    But whatever you do, you cannot stay static.

    You cannot just rest on your laurels at wherever you are this continuum.

    Because the machines are advancing faster than then we are collectively.

    Will there come a day when you push a button and the machine spits out a novel probably We are already seeing a prototype examples of this with GPT three open AI model.

    Is it good yet? No.

    But it definitely shows what is possible.

    What is what is theoretically possible.

    And what is possible today is easily achievable in five to 10 years, maybe less depending on how fast compute power goes up.

    So that’s the answer to this question.

    AI can write as well as humans who are bad at their job.

    AI can write as well as humans who were mediocre at their job.

    And AI will eventually write as well as humans who are good at their job.

    So your job as a human is to become great at writing so that you stay ahead of the machines.

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

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Merging Liberal Arts with Computer Science?

    You Ask, I Answer: Merging Liberal Arts with Computer Science?

    Mbeiza asks, “Merging Liberal arts with science helps make what one has to offer unique. How can I merge the liberal arts with what I want to do in order to have a unique skill or product to offer?”

    Fundamentally, a successful marketer has to be both qualitative and quantitative – the ability to be half art, half science. The first step is to determine where you’re weakest. How well do you know things like anthropology and ethnography? Music, art, literature -all the different ways we communicate with each other? Psychology, sociology, etc. You’ll find in each domain there are qualitative concepts to explore and quantitative concepts as well.

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    In today’s episode and bays asks, merging liberal arts with science helps make what one has to offer unique How can I merge the liberal arts with what I wanted to do in order to have a unique skill or product offer.

    So fundamentally successful marketer has to be both qualitative and quantitative, that is half art, half science, there really is no way to be successful going forward, that it’s something that’s too narrowly specialized unless you are literally no one of the top 1% in that specialization.

    And the reason for that is that artificial intelligence continues to make such substantial strides that within the span of our lifetimes, many individual tasks will be turned over to machines to do Now that doesn’t necessarily mean that we are going away per se, but it means that we will need fewer, far fewer of us.

    In order to get work done.

    I’ve often said be like being a conductor of the orchestra.

    Rather than being the first violin challenges.

    Of course, you only need one conductor in the orchestra.

    Whereas you have lots and lots of musicians.

    But if all musicians are performing narrow specializations, like violin or clarinet or whatever, then you don’t really need people for those other roles.

    So to be a successful marketer going forward to plan well for the future, and quite frankly, to be well structured for whatever challenges come your way.

    I really do believe that, that liberal arts education, that broad spectrum of knowledge is important and yes, you will find not every subjects exciting.

    Certainly, that was my experience, but you have to be half hearted Half science, creative and quantitative, rigorous, but also able to, to vary outside the rules when you need to.

    And the first step to making that determination is figure out what your weakest.

    Where are your vulnerabilities.

    Think about what marketing and business to a greater or lesser degree fundamentally is.

    It’s about communication, right? It’s about communication people, which means that we need to understand people, we need to understand communication.

    So that means subjects like anthropology and ethnography, being able to understand how people interact with each other.

    And sort of the history of their ability to do that.

    That means understanding psychology and sociology.

    Again, individual behaviors group behaviors.

    That means understanding communications methods, visual auditory kinesthetic, so music, art, literature, dance, not necessarily doing those things.

    Although it certainly doesn’t hurt, but at the very least understanding what those things are and how they’ve evolved, especially in a global economy, one of the challenges that a lot of students will face is that their learning materials tend to be skewed towards a certain point of view.

    This is especially true in the United States where everything is overly centered, centered on the United States and kind of ignores the rest of the world is why 11% of students in America can’t find America on a map.

    Anyway.

    So music, art, literature, dance, all the different ways you can communicate with people visually, auditorily kinesthetically to convey messages to them.

    And then absolutely, I’m hard sciences.

    You’re talking about statistics and probability, mathematics all the way up through things like linear algebra, and advanced calculus.

    You’re talking about the scientific method to some degree, understanding things.

    Like biology and chemistry and physics actually do have relevance to marketing, to understanding why things happen the way they do, especially when you start to get into really complex subjects.

    Like why like how machine learning works, machine learning and AI, coding, being able to write in Python are being able to use databases.

    Marketing is essentially how to interact with the human race.

    Right.

    And so everything that is in the human experience is something that you can study and it will have value for understanding certain groups of people.

    I wouldn’t be so worried about a product to offer.

    And at this point, I would not be terribly concerned about having a specific unique skill to develop.

    What you want to be able to do is have a broad base of knowledge to draw from that you can bring to a variety of situations that will really help you Form problems that you’re asked helps off and be extremely versatile.

    So whatever the challenge is, you have some level of competency that can make the challenge a little bit less daunting.

    That’s why things like you know, technical skills, being able to write code, but being able to interact with something like music, together are much more difficult for machines to copy.

    AI is very bad at broad knowledge.

    AI is very good at narrow domains.

    If you can have that broad knowledge that lets you develop multidisciplinary domain expertise.

    It’s very hard for machine to copy.

    It’s very hard for machines to create because most people are not that way.

    And because we train machines on past existing data, if you can create things that are net new that are not part of the machines previous corpus of learning We’re not in a substantial enough way.

    You can add value the machines simply cannot.

    So that’s a lot to tackle.

    Again, figuring out where you’re weak, where you’re weakest as a, as a learned person is the first step.

    What are all the things that you could study? What are the things that are likely to be important? And I forgot to mention in there One other area that’s really important, particularly if you are in marketing is the ability to study business, right? Everything from operations to management to finance, I can’t tell you how many marketers I’ve met who have absolutely no idea how to compute ROI, how to compute, net profit, things like that.

    So those basics are super important as well and are definitely lacking.

    So where are you weakest and where were you also strongest, whether the areas that are so appealing to you that if you could just do those things or study those things deeply.

    How can you bring other disciplines into those areas of study, for example, I’ve spent a lot of time on analytics.

    I spent a lot of time on an in data science, but I also spent a fair amount of time doing natural language processing.

    So understanding literature and styles and writing and all these things is important to being able to do that well, not necessarily just to be able to write the code, but also to know what to look for, to know to be able to judge the merits of something based on the outputs it gives, working on a piece of code that deals within stylometry, which is the measurement of writing styles.

    And if you didn’t know anything about how, you know, different authors have different styles and you weren’t able to have that knowledge base, then when the machine spits out results, there’s no way of knowing whether it did a good job or not.

    But if you have some level of domain expertise in that, you can you can fact check the machines.

    So that’s a lot to tackle.

    Again, start with the evaluation.

    Figure out where your weakest wins and then double down on what you’re strong at and mitigate where you weakest.

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

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Why do Recommendation Engines Fail?

    You Ask, I Answer: Why do Recommendation Engines Fail?

    Oz asks, “Why is some consumer AI so bad? Instagram senses that I like bright-colored clothes. Then it shows me ads for bright-colored clothes that are also cheap crap that I’d never buy. What is the perspective of the companies?
    – It works great for most people.
    – We just need to get this right for 5% of people and that covers the cost.
    – We know it generally sucks but it’s better than nothing.”

    A lot of it is based on recommendation engines which have two issues – first, superficial data, and two, they’re a generation or two behind what’s current because of the enormous computational costs. Something like Netflix is going to use something like an LSTM because while it may not be as accurate, it scales much better than a gigantic, many-layer neural network that wouldn’t be able to update in real-time after you watched something.

    A third part has to do with compensation model and objective optimization. What is the objective these ad systems are tuned for?

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    In today’s episode oz asks, Why is some consumer AI so bad? Instagram, for example, senses that I like bright colored clothes, then it shows me add some bright colored clothes, they’re also cheap crap that I’d never buy.

    What is the perspective of these tech companies? Is it doesn’t that work great for most people, we just need to get this right.

    For five people, it covers the cost, we know generally sucks, but it’s better than nothing.

    So it was a good question.

    The answer has a lot to do with how recommendation engine technology works, recommendation technologies, take in datasets and essentially try and find patterns in those datasets to to predict outcomes, right.

    So if we, if you like these certain things are going to predict certain other things.

    recommendation engines can use a lot of very different algorithms under the hood.

    And one of the challenges we have and it’s a challenge in the industry overall, is that a lot of these companies don’t reveal what is in their algorithm, what algorithm they’re using? Are they using something as simple as like, a naive Bayesian classifier? Are they using something as complex as you know, a many, many layer deep neural network? Are they using, you know, k nearest neighbor clustering? We don’t know.

    We don’t know what’s under the hood.

    And so we don’t we can’t necessarily offer input as to why some things behave the way they do.

    But there’s two general considerations.

    Well, three general considerations as to why some of these algorithms Don’t spit out useful stuff.

    The first by far the most likely is computational cost.

    The more complex the algorithm, the more it costs to run it.

    And the cost here is in compute computational capacity, how fast can you get the result? With a lot of ad systems for example, you were talking about millisecond response times.

    Particularly when you’re doing stuff like header bidding, and things where there is a real time auction going on.

    And ad systems have to match and generate results extremely quickly.

    And as a result, they have to pick algorithms that are super, super fast, even if the accuracy is leaves a little something to be desired.

    I mean, it’s better than nothing.

    For those who remember the early days of digital marketing, you’d be browsing on the website and you’d have like, you know, a Medicare wheelchair program being displayed to someone who’s you know, 22 and healthy.

    It’s like, no, that’s completely incorrectly targeted.

    Speaking of which, there is always the potential for advertisers themselves simply being so bad at advertising that they they have blanket targeting.

    And all the machines cannot override a user’s preferences of the the advertiser says, Hey, I want to advertise to every living person within the boundaries of this nation.

    Okay, as long as you got the budget to support it, it’s going to do that But computational cost is a big thing.

    Second thing is what data you have going in the data that goes into the system may not be robust enough to offer anything that has true predictive power.

    Especially if and this is important, especially if companies are correctly implementing ethical, unbiased AI.

    You may not for example in a lot of cases judge somebody and you know, tune your ads on a protected class or you shouldn’t be let’s put it that way.

    And so if the advertising that comes out is incorrectly targeted because you back end you know, ethical checker said, Hey, you can’t use racist as a targeting criteria for ads.

    Okay, so now you’re gonna get, you know, Sham why, even if that’s not something that you want, because there may be some balancing happening behind the scenes to ensure that the protected class is not being used.

    A third part is objective optimization.

    And this is where this is where advertisers should be a little bit concerned.

    Objective optimization and compensation models dictate how advertising networks work.

    What does the ad network get paid for? They get paid for the impression.

    Do they get paid for the click? Do they get paid for the outcome? advertisers have been pushing to very little success over the last 20 years with digital marketing to have average to have a action based or outcome based advertising where you get paid for the lead generated you get paid for the form filled out, you get paid for the shopping cart filled.

    And understandably, the big ad networks have absolutely zero interest in doing this because it means much more rigorous computation on the back end, it means much more in depth tracking.

    There may be substantial risks to the ad network because yet You could potentially, inadvertently or intentionally be collecting sensitive protected information.

    And frankly, most ad networks realize that behind the scenes, ad performance across the board is pretty crappy.

    I mean, we think about it.

    When you look at like the click through rates on some of these ads, you know, look at these campaigns, you know, when people celebrate like crazy when they get like a 5%, click through rate, which when you think about means you wasted 95% of your budget, right? If you didn’t get more than 5% of the clicks.

    From the advertiser perspective, you’re like, well, what did I pay for? If these systems were tuned to results only? advertising? It’d be a very different and much worse calculus for the ad networks because they wouldn’t get paid unless they got the result.

    Is there a possibility that companies could pivot that way, potentially.

    But right now, everything in advertising is effectively cost per impression when you look at the back end reporting and you see All these metrics in like Facebook stuff, effective cost per click, now what you’re really doing is you’re, you’re still doing all your bidding by impressions.

    And you’re still doing all your optimization on that.

    And as a result, it doesn’t really matter to the ad network, whether or not you click on the thing beyond with a reasonable doubt, but for the most part, it doesn’t matter because they’re getting paid on the impression, not getting paid a click for the most part, then definitely getting paid on the action that was taken.

    Now if advertisers forced ad networks to to pivot and said, Look, we’re not going to pay you unless you deliver results that would drastically change.

    The machine learning outcomes that allow these systems are tuned on, it would make them computationally much more expensive, because you would have to be, you wouldn’t be able to do simple stuff like k nearest neighbor clustering, just on on impressions, right? You would have to collect a lot more data, you’d have to collect a ton more data.

    And that would make for a very, very different optimization.

    When you look at how, for example, LinkedIn works versus how Facebook works for this advertising, LinkedIn stuff works very differently because they have as one of their major outcomes, we need to keep people on this professional network so that our enterprise talent management software, which is 40% of their revenue, can draw useful data from people’s profiles and recommend it to recruiters.

    It’s a, that’s an example of a system that is much more outcome based.

    And as a result, you see a very different culture on LinkedIn, you see very different advertising on LinkedIn.

    Whereas Facebook is like, show all the show every ad possible, see what people click on.

    Cool, great, whatever.

    Same with Instagram, we get paid on the view.

    So who cares what the result is.

    So that’s why consumer AI is so sometimes untuned there’s a bunch of different reasons and there’s no way to clearly tell without independent third party audits, what’s going on behind the scenes, how it’s working.

    I would love for company He’s like Facebook, for example, to reveal, hey, this is how we do the thing.

    These are the inputs.

    This is how the system is optimized.

    But that is literally their secret sauce.

    It’s unlikely that they would ever reveal that even if they could.

    Because in a lot of cases, some of these in Facebook’s case, their neural networks are so complex.

    I doubt there’s any single human could that could even interpret what’s going on behind the scenes.

    The models are just that big.

    So really good question.

    There’s a lot to unpack in here about how these algorithms work, how they’re tuned, and what’s going on underneath the hood.

    Hopefully as time goes on, we will see advertising itself pivot more towards results based advertising as well.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Why Map Customer Journeys?

    You Ask, I Answer: Why Map Customer Journeys?

    John asks, “If the customer journey is different for every person, why bother trying to map it?”

    The presumption is that the customer journey is a wide open field of possibilities, when it’s more like a densely wooded forest. There are a limited number of rational pathways to conversion, and mapping both the probability and the journey itself – especially today – is worth doing. Watch the video for some examples.

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    In today’s episode, John asks if the customer journey is different for every person, why bother trying to map it? So that’s a good question.

    Because it is true that customer journeys, maps, and customer journeys do have all these different ways people can take towards conversion and trying to force people down a rigid funnel, where they must do each step in sequence is nowadays largely a futile effort.

    Now the reason for that is pretty simple.

    It has a lot to do with this thing.

    You can be in multiple stages of different journeys just within a single device.

    I have seen people back when you were allowed to go shopping at malls and stores, talking to friends on their phones, video chatting with them, and having you know holding a piece of merchandise asking their opinions and having them do some research on Their own.

    And you know, that person for one vendor is at a certain point in the journey and another vendor is at a different point in the journey.

    And so it can be a very complex thing.

    You can be at points in the customer journey and move backwards, right? So real simple example, you’re, you’re looking at a new device or some new gadget, and you’re at the consideration phase, like, wow, this this thing looks really good, looks really cool.

    And then you read a review of it, like, ah, actually got really bad reviews.

    And you go back to like the research phase, right? And so you can be, you can move forwards and backwards and inside of a customer journey.

    Now, that said, that is at the individual level.

    The presumption in the question is that a customer journey is a wide open field of possibilities, and you can move any direction you want, you know, it’s like being in a video game, right? You can go anywhere you want, and there’s no clear direction that somebody goes and that’s not true.

    When we think about customer journeys, there is there are a limited number of ways you can rationally buy a product, right? There’s a limited number of opportunities.

    There’s a limited number of just ways you can do that.

    It’s kind of like we talked about in the martial arts a lot.

    Yes, every single person is different.

    Yes, there are hundreds of martial art styles.

    But in the end, there’s only so many ways you can punch somebody in the face that aren’t that are logical and rational, right and effective.

    And so, with customer journeys, the exact same thing is true.

    There are only so many rational reasonable ways that you can take towards conversion and that is something that you can understand in the aggregate.

    There’s an apocryphal tale of a university and I someplace supposedly in the Midwest, I’ve never actually got an answer as to whether this happened or not.

    But it seems reasonable.

    And the story goes, they did not put down any sidewalks on new campus lets students walk everywhere they wanted for a year and then paved over the most warm pathways in the grass.

    And supposedly the campus feels more natural.

    Well, extending that logic to customer journeys, if you were to know how somebody traversed either your website or how somebody traversed all the channels that are out there, towards conversion, you looked at the most walked on ones, you might get a sense of, hey, here’s how people make the journey to conversion.

    And there’s a couple different ways you can illustrate this.

    Let’s actually go ahead and bring this up here.

    So this is a customer journey analysis.

    This is a very simplistic one, where we are just looking at the channels that lead to conversion the most.

    So in this chart here we see organic search for my website drove almost 80% of traffic.

    Now, there are some debates.

    I think it’s a reasonable questions I should be asking my website if this was a major commercial enterprise, I would be at substantial risk because 80% of our traffic comes from one source That’s not a good thing.

    Good definitely did diversify my traffic sources.

    But putting that aside, I see my newsletters as number two, medium calm and number three, Twitter at number four, and Bing and number five.

    So I have five of the most popular pathways most popular channels that lead to conversion eventually.

    Now, is that the last thing that they did? No, not necessarily.

    But at least from here, I can see, these are the things that if I have to figure out how do I budget, how do I resource, what should I focus on if I want to double down on what’s working, in this case, pretty clearly I should be doing a lot more organic search.

    Right.

    Now if we wanted to make that even more fancy.

    This is a version where we have the exact same numbers but in software in web analytics software in particular.

    You can look at the the steps somebody takes on that Their journey and then just count up essentially, how many times does this appear? The first third of the journey, how many times has appeared in the second third of all those steps? How many times does appear in the last third.

    And what we see here is that organic search for me tends to peer towards the beginning.

    Whereas email and social tend to peer towards the end.

    And so people discover my site through search, stay in touch with email, and then come back to do important stuff through social media.

    That’s important that tells me from a messaging perspective Hey, your messaging on things like social media, it’s okay for you to have you know, more closing language in in my content because it tells me that people are ready or more ready to convert from those than they are from say, like organic search, or even email I have to give some thought here to my email marketing, should I be pressing that hard to get people to convert? Or should I be nurturing? The relationship with the intent of eventually using social media to get them to close.

    So these are two examples of customer journey maps that I built for my website.

    This is actually a service that I offer through my company Trust Insights.

    If you’re interested in having this done for your company, go to Trust insights.ai.

    I will tell you right now, it is reassuringly expensive.

    So it will do a good job of giving you the strategic blueprint you need for what’s working, and how it’s working.

    But to go back to John’s question, there are only a certain number of ways as you can see here, where people convert, right, that journey is not completely irrational, right? And there’s not traffic everywhere and people just wandering off on their own.

    There are distinct sequences that people take towards conversion and those distinct sequences are things that we can know and address and serve at 90 95% of our audience.

    serve them well.

    By investing properly by messaging properly in the channel groupings, where it makes sense to do so.

    And understanding what it is that we should be doing more of I should potentially be diversifying a bit, right? Maybe I should do a little bit more email, maybe I should try some ads.

    I am doing well, organic search, I need to continue to do well and stuff.

    So that want to double down on what’s working and want to shore up the stuff that isn’t working to the extent that we can.

    So that’s why you would do customer journey mapping.

    That’s why you bother trying to map it because it can give you aggregate insights that can guide your strategy.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: The Future of Content Marketing?

    You Ask, I Answer: The Future of Content Marketing?

    Stephanie asks, “How do you see content marketing evolving in the future?”

    AI will produce much more of it, and our role will be as prompters and editors. We already see this with tools like Nvidia’s GauGAN, the GPT family of language generators, and the AIVA music composition system. When you look at the quality that engines like Unreal 5 can produce, cinema-level capabilities will be in reach for more and more creators at affordable budgets. Eventually, the best ideas will win, unconstrained by talent.

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    In today’s episode, Stephanie asks, How do you see content marketing evolving in the future? Well, so there’s gonna be a bunch of things that are gonna happen already happening.

    Artificial intelligence and machine learning will be producing much more of the content that we create on a regular and frequent basis.

    And that will change our roles as the humans we will.

    As I’ve said many times in various talks, we will not be the first violin anymore, we will be the conductor of the orchestra, with the understanding that you only need one conductor of an orchestra where you can have you know, 100 people in the orchestra.

    99 of those jobs will eventually be held by machines in some capacity.

    And so our role will be to be the conductor’s be the prompters and the editors.

    So there are already some incredible tools like Nvidia’s Gao Gan, which does machine assisted painting GPT, the GPT family GPT One, two and three from open AI that do incredible natural language generation and code generation.

    Eva and wavenet not wait ml net that do audio synthesis.

    So there’s already a lot of tools out there today that are accessible today.

    That can generate a lot of content.

    Eva in particular does really nice, good enough music right for commercial applications in a way that sidesteps a lot of the licensing issues because it’s, you know, it’s all original machine generated works that sound okay, they all sound great, but not going to win a Grammy.

    But if you need background music to like your podcast, whatever, you will use that And so our role as the people will be to prompt the machines, as we see with Eva and with GPT three, to say, Hey, this is what I want.

    You go do it, right.

    And then we will be the editors and the QA people to inspect the models to inspect their outputs and say, You know what, this wasn’t what I was after.

    But I queue up a song and Eva, I’ll load up an influence and I’ll listen to the five compositions it creates and you know, one out of five will be good.

    Four out of five, three out of five will be mediocre too bad and one of them would just be hilariously bad like now that that’s not at all what I had in mind.

    And that’s going to be our role for the foreseeable future once these tools become more affordable, easier to use more widespread is the the beginning end Yeah, I suppose.

    A nice racing prompter be the content strategist, where it is actually true strategy.

    What do we need? What does the market need? What can we provide? Have the machines do it? And then we inspect the outputs and say yes or no, that was what we had in mind or that was not what we had in mind.

    When we look at what’s happening on the quality side, the quality side is unbelievable.

    I was watching a demo of the Unreal five engine for PlayStation five, and it is generating in near real time cinematic experiences.

    Now these are reserved today for triple A games, right? The big studios with the big budgets can use these to generate real realistic looking environments that are are so good, you wouldn’t know that you were playing a game except to the interface elements.

    The same thing is true of things, even even non machine learning driven tools and techniques like you know when you look at at FIFA 20 or Madden 20 on these gaming platforms, if you didn’t know that you were watching somebody play a game.

    From a distance, you might think you’re just watching a regular football game or a regular soccer game.

    And so, cinema level capabilities will be in reach for more and more creators at more affordable price points.

    Again, the top of the line today is is for the triple A studios.

    But what was top of the line five years ago for for triple A students is now a studios is now available in you know, the entry level production capabilities.

    So, all of this to say that for content marketing and its evolution, the tools are constantly getting better, sometimes making substantial leaps forward, the research, the capabilities, all the things that go into making content are getting better.

    And where the bottleneck is and probably will be for some time is going to be around the people in the processes the technology is doing just great.

    Is our limitations as people that hold our content marketing back and will continue to hold it back.

    We have to pivot from being the doers to being the coordinators, we have to pivot from being the tactician to the strategists.

    And ultimately, we have to figure out who among us has actual creative capabilities in terms of creative ideas, because when all the tools are the same, and when all the tools are really good, the best ideas will be the ones that when unconstrained by talent, if you don’t need to know how to paint, but you have an idea for a painting, and you can get a machine to do the painting, then your idea can come to life.

    If your musical concept is something that you care deeply about, but you don’t know how to score music and you don’t know how to play music.

    Again, not as much of a big deal.

    You can have a machine help you with the mechanics of that And so, for content marketers, the senior level ones be thinking a lot more strategically be thinking a lot more conceptually coming up with big ideas for more junior ones, learn how to be the conductors of the orchestra, learn how to run machines, so that there is still a role for you.

    Learn how to QA the output of the machines and understand when the machines are not behaving and why they’re not behaving and what they should what you should be doing with them.

    And for everyone, learn how to analyze data and understand what the market wants what the audience wants, so that you can direct the machines to create the things that that they want and satisfy their needs.

    That’s the future of content marketing.

    And it is a future in which those who have important roles, the strategists the prompters the coordinators, the editors, the QA folks, I believe will make a good living, because they will be very effective at what they do with the understanding that there may not be as many seats at the table going forward.

    When you can have a machine spit out five new songs every 30 seconds, even if only one out of five is good.

    Do you need to have more than one or two musicians on staff to QA it and to make adjustments to it? The answer is probably no.

    I was playing around with music composition, I sent it to a friend whose images and they were able to take the the output file loaded straight into their digital audio workstation, tweak it and say yep, here’s the adjusted version took me about 10 minutes to to QA and adjusted but what the machines spit out was good enough for our purposes.

    That’s what it says even the future that’s today.

    That’s right now and what we have Continue to trend forward into more and more machines doing the the grunt work and us doing the coordination in the strategy.

    so plan accordingly.

    It’s going to be an interesting future.

    It’s going to be a fun future but it will also be a challenging future because they will not be as many seats at the table.

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