Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What is Data Analytics?

    You Ask, I Answer_ What is Data Analytics_

    Anika asks,

    “Data analytics is such an awkward phrase. What is data analytics, and how is it different than data science?”

    Data analytics is exactly what it sounds like – analytics you run on your data, any kind of data at all. We run data analytics on customer data, on machine data, on search data, on manufacturing data, on census data – you name it, we apply analytics to it. Remember that analytics means to unlock, to loosen up, to free (from the ancient Greek analein), so data analytics is to unlock data.

    It’s important to distinguish among data analytics, data science, and data engineering:

    • Data analytics is the intersection of people and platforms/software. Data analytics answers the question, “what?”.
    • Business intelligence is the intersection of people and process, the management of data. Business intelligence answers the question, “why?”.
    • Data engineering is the intersection of process and platform, how we manage and scale our data-driven business. Data engineering answers the question, “how?”.
    • Data science is the intersection of engineering, analytics, and intelligence.

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    In today’s you ask, I answer Anika asks data analytics is such an awkward phrase. What is data analytics? And how is it different than data science?

    Great question.

    There’s a lot of confusion about all these different terms, particularly since a lot of vendors in our space like to mix and match these terms together, and

    they’re not necessarily easy substitute. So let’s dig into this data analytics is exactly what it sounds like. It is the analytics we run on data. And so this can be any kind of data at all. We can run it on customer data, machine data on IoT data, healthcare data, search data, census data, manufacturing data, so on and so forth. Whatever the data is, we run analytics on it. We apply analytics to it to understand what happened. That’s the key of analytics whenever we say the word analytics we are using.

    We applied to mean that we’re going to unlock to loosen up. The free

    analytics comes from the Greek word on a line, which means to loosen up to unlock. So data analytics is the process of unlocking data.

    Now, there are also other functions of things we do with data, there are the insights we gather from data, the intelligence, the insights, sort of, why is stuff happening. And then there’s the management of the data itself, which is, you know, think about it in an engineering and, you know, servers, big data, all that stuff.

    If we overlay. And in fact, let’s put up a fun diagram here, if we overlay

    data analytics is sort of the what the business intelligence, where we have the management of our data and the people who need of data that’s sort of the y and then the management or data and the technologies and tools themselves. That’s sort of an engineering function when you put all those.

    Together intelligence analytics and engineering, you end up with data science, which is sort of the blanket umbrella term of the science of data science of making data useful of getting good stuff out of our data. That’s

    that would be my interpretation of how these different disciplines

    interact.

    When we think about the management of data purely, that is very much an IT and an IT function. We think about the data technologies that’s very much a software

    function. So it and software different things management of technology versus the coding and the creation of technology, that coding and and technology that’s there’s a lot of, that’s where your machine learning and AI sit, and then the people function as the business function, domain expertise. It doesn’t necessarily have to be human beings, but it is that sort of the business the why of the stuff you think about people process technology.

    People is why are we even doing the thing? All those people who need the thing? What is the thing,

    which is

    platforms? And then how, how do we manage the thing? And that’s process, right? process is very much all about how. And so when you intersect of these things together, that intersection of the why, and the, what the people the platform is your data analytics, like, why are we doing this thing? Look, what are we going to do the thing, let’s, let’s get some analytics on that. Let’s understand what happened. When you look at the intersection of people in process, though, with the why and how that’s where you get the intelligence because you need those insights to inform. But what so we we know from analytics, what happened now we use intelligence and insights to figure out why those things happened. And then how do we automate and and scale and build for growth that’s an engineering function that’s the intersection of the what and the how we want to boost up our ability to grow to scale to automate to

    standardize and to accelerate our business. That’s one of the reasons why machine learning and AI very much fit in that intersection between platform and process and engineering. Because it’s very much an engineering function to help us grow faster.

    Some of the things you’ll hear, like exploratory data analysis, or confirmatory data analysis, that all fits in data analytics. And that is very much, you know, people trying to figure out what’s in their data

    when you put it all together, why, what and how that becomes data science. And that becomes the, the,

    the overlap that

    you can specialize in. But you can see how being a data scientist would require you to have experience and understanding the intelligence of the business, the the analytics of the business, and even some of the engineering of the business. That’s also why data scientists are in such short supply because you have not one area of expertise, but you have three domains of expertise that you need to be fluent in. You may specialize in analytics, or you may specialize in engineering.

    You may specialize in AI, or you may specialize in visualization. But

    you need to have competence and all three in order to fully bring that data science alive. So one of the reasons why data science is so expensive, so hard to build as a capability is because you need people who can do all three things. So very good question, Nautica. Very challenging question. And I will caveat all this by saying that if you were to ask by data scientists and analysts and business intelligence professionals and engineers this same question you’re going to get very, very different answers. So

    understand that this is my perspective as someone who is

    okay at all domains

    and

    that it is just one person’s perspective. But this is how I would organize my thinking around this and this is how to organize teams of people around it, or.

    How to Choose vendors. If you have a vendor that saying, Oh, well, you do all this will really how many data scientists do you employ? Who can bring to life? The engineering, the analytics and the intelligence aspects? If the answer is zero, then you been, you are not a data science tool. You’re in a lobby, they assign software company.

    What we’ve seen happen a lie in the space is vendors who specialized in one of those areas like bi or analytics or engineering, trying to pivot and hop on the data science train because it can get bigger budgets or it’s it’s more attractive to buyers. But lacking the underpinnings to actually be a data science tool, as opposed to being an analytics tool or an intelligence tool or an engineering tool.

    It’s okay to be in just one of those things. If you’re really good at it, you want to be best in class and in that thing, if you’re a best in class analytics tool, awesome. Be that and people will buy it. But if you’re if you as a business user, trying to figure Okay, we have all

    These software packages,

    try classifying them into the analytics intelligence and engineering categories, just, you know, no back of a napkin or whatever.

    And that might indicate where you have technological gaps. You might indicate we have process gaps, and it might indicate where you have knowledge and skills gaps on your staff and the agencies, you work with, and things like that. So you use this framework to help categorize your relative strengths and weaknesses in data science in data analytics and business intelligence and in data engineering.

    This framework should help you

    have a little more clarity about what you’ve actually got under the hood. Again, great question, Nautica. Thanks for asking it. As always, please subscribe to the newsletter and it to the YouTube channel, which is where all the historical videos for all this stuff is kept. So if you want to go back and look at old episodes, it’s easy to find them on YouTube. I know a lot of folks, watch us on LinkedIn. Thank you, but the historical stuffs on you.

    YouTube easier to find them. And we’ll talk to you next time. Thanks for watching.

    If you want help with your company’s data and analytics visit Trust Insights dot com today and let us know how we can help you.

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  • 3 Insights From the Stone Temple Next10X Conference

    3 Insights From the Stone Temple Next10X Conference

    I spent the day speaking and attending the Stone Temple Consulting Next10X conference. Three key insights I took away:

    • Social and search dine at separate restaurants, on the analytics side
    • Consider web analytics to measure social
    • Intent matters most across all digital marketing because AI is optimizing for intent

    Big thanks to Eric Enge, Mark Traphagen, and the Stone Temple team for having me!

    Watch the video for details on each of these insights and stay tuned to the Trust Insights blog for the video of my talk, coming very soon.

    Reflections on the Next10X Conference
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    some reflections on the next 10 x conference I had the opportunity to address the conference yesterday in Boston and what a terrific event Stone Temple consulting really put on a terrific show some amazing speakers, we saw, of course, Ann Handley Rand Fishkin

    we saw Larry Kim there and a bunch of other really good folks also really interesting two presenters from the two leading smart speakers companies. So Emily from Amazon the Alexa division there and gosh, I can’t remember her name, but her Twitter handles typewriters from Google, getting to hear about each of the smart speaker platforms. But the real goods

    actually came from both Rand

    and Eric Enge the, the CEO of Stone Temple and three or four things I think stood out that are worth paying attention to, we’re thinking about and our marketing one thing which

    we had found out a while ago and it’s only continued to be reinforced with the data that we all have as an industry is social media metrics are not in any way search metrics and there’s no correlation between the two. These two

    buckets of metrics dinette million died in separate tables. They don’t separate restaurants and so if you’re trying to use one to predict or calibrate on another it’s not going to give you the results you want

    in some of the software I run,

    have we have search metrics

    social media metrics.

    Then click through metrics and

    in a lot of cases they’re all different. The click through metrics more closely relate to search, but not by much. It’s not, it’s not like saying oh if this then absolutely do that all the correlations are very weak

    or non existent or statistically insignificant. So

    be aware of that one point that Eric and Rand both brought up, which I thought was really insightful was that think about what metrics,

    the social networks are no longer sharing right so we saw Twitter took away its its tweet shares

    a couple years ago, LinkedIn, just removed, there’s this past February and the premise behind this the the expression was

    if you if the social networks themselves don’t value these metrics and they’re not giving them to us. Maybe we shouldn’t either. And I think that’s a really important point.

    If you want to measure social media and the impact of social media one probably more effective way to do that

    would be to focus on

    what you see in your web analytics and your marketing on instead of where the results actually begin to come through. So it may be great to get a lot of awareness and brand and reputation.

    But those social metrics by themselves are not enough, especially as

    those as social platforms is particularly Facebook

    switch over to much more of an AI based algorithm and they’ve always they’ve always had a habit. Now it’s getting really really complex and so because of the way deep learning works. There’s no way for us to be able to reverse engineer easily what their own AI has come up with as valuable and because it’s deep learning because it’s constantly retraining itself over time what may be happening this week,

    what’s

    working this week is not what’s going to work next week or the week after because the algorithm changes and learns as we provided more data. So

    that’s one aspect focus on what’s driving traffic

    rather than

    the vanity metrics or the even the the social engagement metrics as a more reliable proxy and also because think about it this way. It’s an apples to apples comparison right your Google Analytics date and what people do once they come to your site should be relatively stable in terms of what’s working, what’s not once they get there because I’m guessing you’re probably not rewriting every page on your website every single day. So keep that in mind. The other thing that was really important is, while the book the presenters talks a lot about intent based SEO, making sure that your content on your page fulfills the intent of a search, not just the keyword, which is insightful, there’s a bigger picture at work here again as artificial intelligence calibrates and learns what we as people, as customers and consumers want

    it’s going to optimize for us it’s going to optimize for our behaviors and so that means that intent matters not just for SEO, but for social for referral traffic for any form of digital marketing for any for a marketing period that intent is what matters and the more you use AI and machine learning in any given channel, the more that intent is going to matter because the machines will be optimizing for our intent, not for our narrow query,

    think about, for example, you know, we’ve been talking a lot about influence on analytics,

    what is our intent

    for that influencers outcome is it brand is it reputation is recommendation is it connection. We’re going to need to use different analytics and different algorithms and different tools and concepts to generate each of these outcomes and the best and smartest influencers and and vendors and companies will have separate methodologies for each of these possible outcomes, because the intent has to be measured

    and managed

    differently. So give that some thought as well intent is what AI is optimizing for across these channels which means that intent is what we have to to be very focused on in all of our marketing

    next next was a terrific event would definitely recommend you go and attend it when it comes around this time next year. Sign up for it when they when it becomes available and and

    lots and lots of good stuff and definitely follow all the folks that were presenting this tweet floating around of all the folks who were speaking yesterday.

    Lots of good stuff to share.

    So as always thank you for watching please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and I will talk to you soon. Take care.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What Predictive Models Do You Work With?

    You Ask, I Answer_ What Predictive Models Do You Work With_

    Ben asks, “Predictive analytics seems like a big topic – what kinds do you work with most or find work best?”

    Prediction falls into two general buckets, scoring and forecasting.

    • Scoring builds a model to understand, as best as possible, why something happened
      • The most common model is multiple linear regression, which is literally ancient
      • The most well-known type is credit scoring
      • The goal is to answer the question, “What caused this?” and secondarily, “Is this likely to happen?”
    • Forecasting attempts to predict when something will happen
      • The most common model is ARIMA, a 1976 algorithm
      • The most well-know type is financial forecasting
      • The goal is to answer the question, “When will this happen?”

    Virtually every major predictive algorithm is available for free in open-source software like R and Python.

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    In today’s you ask I answer Ben asks predictive analytics seems like a big topic, what kinds. Do you work with most or find work best. It is absolutely a big topic and I think it’s probably important we should define what predictive analytics means in this case we are using analytics data to feed statistical algorithms to predict whether something will happen or not and the statistics part is important because predictive analytics in many ways when you boil it down to statistics. It is the probability that something is where is not going to happen. And so that’s, you know, you take away all the fancy industry buzzwords it is just math. It is statistics and it is using those statistics

    to assign probabilities to outcomes,

    which means that when you think about it, you’ve been doing a type of predictive analytics for really long time. I’m you’ve been you’ve been consuming predictive analytics for your entire adult lifetime. Every time you check the weather you are using predictive analytics. Now whether the analytics are any good or not is a second secondary question but that’s a case of, you know, when is something likely to happen

    predictive analytics falls into two buckets there to general kinds of predictive analytics that you would use that we would all use in marketing and business and those two buckets are scoring and forecasting scoring is when you use all these systems and software and stuff to build a model to understand as best as possible. Why, something happened. So

    really the the most common example

    of this is credit scoring

    what

    constitutes someone being a credit risk versus what constitutes someone being the sort of person you would want lend money to and so we would use statistics math to take a whole bunch of variables and try to find a pattern says these combination of things. Gentlemen, something someone has a good risk. These combination of things means something is a bad risk.

    Now

    the most common technique and probably the one that

    you’ve ever taken a statistics course in college or university. The most common model is called multiple linear regression, which is literally ancient it is as old as statistics themselves like thousands of years old and

    you can get more and more complex based on that the goal of scoring is to answer the question what caused this right what caused this person to be a good credit risk or bad credit risk what caused this tax return to be fraudulent or not fraudulent and secondarily, you would use this data to then predict is this likely to happen. So when you fill out a form online. We see this a lot with advanced CRM is this lead likely to become an opportunity is that opportunity likely to close. So what are the characteristics, so that we can predict as early as possible. Yes, invest your time in this here

    don’t invest your time there attribution modeling is another example and this is where predictive and descriptive kind of overlap. So if you were to go into your Google Analytics, you would try to build a descriptive model saying what

    drove leads or what drove purchases or what drove people coming to our store

    and then use that as the basis for

    a predictive model. It’s okay if we know that emails,

    the driving channel can we predict then based on that data, you know, that we should send more email said, Unless email or send an email with different subject lines or emoji things like that

    so that scoring the second bucket is forecasting when is something likely to happen. The most common model here is a Rima. This is a a an algorithm stands for auto aggressive integrated moving averages and it’s from 1976 to data scientists George box. And I can remember Jenkins last first name, but it’s called the called the box Jenkins approach

    and

    probably the most well known consumer use of forecasting is the weather forecast literally

    When is it going to rain

    and and and

    it was weather forecasting is certainly gotten better than it was in the old days when I was growing up, I was literally throwing darts at a board now it is you know substantially better other types of forecasting for when something is likely to happen. People have been trying to apply predictive analytics forecasting analytics to the stock market since the stock market came around

    that is not a good application of it because there are so many hidden and interfering variables that making stock market predictions is very, very difficult, but other types of financial forecasting is certainly much more predictable for marketers this predicting search volume is probably one of the most common uses and certainly one of the most effective uses because search data is generally pretty good. You can forecast on any time series data so you can forecast on social media data you can forecast on email data you can forecast on your Google Analytics data your marketing automation data your sales CRM data. I did a project, not too long ago with a casino taking their daily slot machine revenues and forecasting that because it’s time series data and it has some, you know, very strong cyclicality to it.

    So the goal of forecasting is to answer the question. When is this likely to happen when we know based on our scoring model what then we use forecasting to decide when

    the good news for every month marketer out there is that

    most predictive algorithms are certainly all the common ones are available for free. They’re built right into many open source statistical software like our like Python. For example, and of course commercial systems like SPSS and MATLAB and and and all those things,

    the tough part about predictive analytics is not the concepts. It’s just the application, the concepts. Once you get

    trained up on all the different ways to do both

    scoring and forecasting, then

    the next step is to learn how to decide what models work best and almost every form of algorithm has some sort of either error rate or error checking rate or some sort of probability indicated that tells you how reliable. The model is and that’s where that’s what really separates good from bad when it comes to predictive analytics is if there’s no expression of confidence interval or probability or ever then

    it’s not very good. I would be very cautious of any vendor that says this is the prediction without providing some kind of error rate, maybe not

    like a calorie label on a food, but certainly the ability to explain this is this is the error rate or the p value or something like that

    at least if for software and services that go to fellow data scientists. Now

    if you’re selling to a business user maybe the error rate is good potentially just confuse people so but at the very least, the vendor should be able to answer like this is the likely error rate for this forecast

    in terms of where to get started if you wanted to get started learning this pickup statistics book that because that is the foundation of predictive analytics. So pick up statistics for dummies and go through it, or a pickup, you know, are for Dummies. The

    the book about the physical programming language because that will help you learn the concepts of statistics as you learn to apply them with the programming language. So Ben, great question complex question

    we have a webinar that you can attend on predictive analytics coming up soon put a link in the in the notes here and it will be available on demand afterwards but that’s a much deeper dive into this topic and looking forward to talking about more of this if if predictive analytics is of interest to you and you want to do it for your company my company Trust Insights does that and happy to have a conversation about how we can help. Thanks for watching as always subscribe to the YouTube channel and the email newsletter. I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Should You Deploy a Chatbot?

    You Ask, I Answer_ Should You Deploy a Chatbot_

    Hamid asks,

    “Should my business deploy a chatbot for marketing and customer service? What are the reasons or risks?”

    Chatbots – and any form of automation – promise a programmatic, uniform customer experience. There are two considerations for making this decision:

    • Cost to match the current customer experience
    • Quality of the current customer experience

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    First, how much time, energy, and effort are you willing to invest in building the chatbot? If you’re looking for a fast, easy, solution that’s basically an out-of-the-box experience for you, the marketer, chances are the experience you’re going to provide is terrible. If you’re willing to invest weeks, months, or even years plus lots of people, effort, knowledge, and money to create and tune the AI behind today’s chatbots exclusively for your business, chances are the experience you’re going to provide will be good.

    Second, what’s the quality of the current experience you’re providing? If you’re providing a great experience with humans now, then the bar for your chatbot is very high and it’s going to take a lot of time and resources to match that experience. If the experience you provide now is appalling – think Department of Motor Vehicles awful – then the bar for your chatbot is very low and pretty much anything except literally slapping customers in the face will be an improvement.

    Those are the two levers you have to honestly audit and measure first. The latter, the customer experience, has many, many measurement systems like surveys, Net Promoter Scores, etc. that you can use to judge your customer experience. If your scores are terrible, then a chatbot could be a promising alternative – but also, take some time to fix your current customer experience and you might find a chatbot is unnecessary.

    One important distinction: tinkering with and trying out chatbots is something every marketer should be doing. Whether or not you deploy them, you should be testing them out to learn more and see what’s possible.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What to Audit in Digital Marketing

    You Ask, I Answer_ What to Audit in Digital Marketing

    Pradeep asks,

    “What are the most important factors to consider in a digital marketing audit of performance?”

    Pradeep’s question requires a deep dive into statistics and analytics to provide an answer. The reality is we have a massive buffet of questions we could ask of our data. We have more variables to consider than ever before, more data sources. To even understand what’s important, we need to dive into exploratory data analysis to narrow down what to look at.

    In this video, watch as we explore just basic Twitter analytics. Today’s video is highly technical; the last 3 minutes, however, review the strategic implications of NOT doing exploratory data analysis.

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    In today’s you asked I answer Friday asks, What are the most important factors to consider when auditing digital marketing performance. Well, this is a really good question. It’s a complicated question because we need to be able to understand our data and understand what we’re measuring first whether we’re measuring the right or wrong things. And then we can figure out what’s working, what’s not. We’re going to use the software. Our. This is a free open source software from

    a number of different foundations. You can download it for free. I also recommend the our studio interface which is also free that makes it a little bit easier to use because it is very much a programming language. So let’s do this. We’re going to start by taking I’m gonna take some fun Twitter data right these are just my tweets. Let’s take a quick look at these tweets over the last 90 days and I know for be good. Well I care about reaching so that’s a metric that’s important to me. So we’re going to focus on that in in the here if you wanted to know what measures were really important.

    I would strongly suggest doing this with Google Analytics data instead it because that’s certainly has greater connections to out to business results retweets not true. The first I’m going to do is look, see

    I want to know

    what data is missing, if any, so I use a function called plot missing and I don’t see anything here. This is all zero percent. So we’re looking pretty good there. Now there are a bunch of variables. If we open the variable selector factors we charge numeric non numeric things the text the handles and stuff like that,

    for the purposes of understanding data and its impact we want to remove those for right now, unless they are

    meaningful.

    So if I had gone through and categorize tweets by their topics say social media or CEO, I could certainly use that to understand my data set, but in this case I have not done that and we’re not going to do that in this particular exercise. So let’s

    go ahead and remove all of the non

    numeric

    variables close this up here we see we’ve gone from 40 to 19 down to 19 variables, there’s still some in here that are not helpful. So for example, tweet ID not really helpful. So I’m going to go ahead and get rid of that

    and now we have a we have numeric data,

    the first place I typically typically to start is in correlations, what are the correlations between these different variables. So we’ll do that and it says warning. There are standard deviations, and it is zero.

    This means there’s some variables in here that are zeros, all the way down or close to zeros

    and so we’re going to need a few libraries to do some exploration on this. Let’s go ahead and actually get

    a whole bunch of these libraries and this just loads them up in the software.

    Okay, so let’s look at our data set and see what variables are near zero or zeros. This one app opens app installs. I have no tweets involving either those no tweets that have an email and no tweets that have encouraged people to dial phone number. So those variables are, in fact,

    causing problems into predictive model because

    well, frankly, there’s zeros that they don’t if they don’t really inform anything. So I’m going to knock

    those out. Now you can take a look at the

    correlations here.

    I’ll make this bigger what we’re looking for. Here’s retweets. What’s the biggest number where the biggest numbers that indicate this is definitely something that impacts retweets. So we see here point five eight for hashtags point 434 replies point seven for for likes that’s seems like it’s some important points six for user profile clicks point for for media views so interesting stuff there. If you go down this way here. Meet engagements point six what impressions, point, six, eight gauges point seven one engage right point 09 detail expands point

    for to your all clicks point for now. Do you see the problem here engagement and engagement rate or actually sums of all these other activities. That’s a problem because that’s kind of throwing a wrench into our ability to understand what’s going on, those are those roll up numbers and not something that would help

    us say let’s let’s just go get more engagement. Okay, well, what kind of engagements. Do we want link clicks to a permanent clicks what profile clicks what’s going on. So we’re going to take those two out because that’s really actually fairly unhelpful

    what’s go rerun this our plot

    animals zoom in here and now for retweets, we see impressions is his health is important, their meeting gauges somewhat important likes is important. Hashtag clicks is important

    but when you look at these numbers, they’re all a good number of them are relatively close to have a really good answer. We’re here the answer. There’s not a just a handful of things. It’s basically says so far, do everything. Well, I don’t want so you do everything. So the next step we could take there’s a couple different ways we could do this, we could run a subsets to see what combination things randomly sub setting through and taking two or three or four or five variables of time testing them and against each other. However, there’s a machine learning technique called random forests, which does this very, very efficiently and so we’re going to use that I say I care about retweets and let’s use everything else is left in this in our data to focus on retweets. So let’s go ahead and run this

    is going to run 5000 variations of every possible variable put together

    and we see our error rate. They’re slowly declining looking good saying well to the consistent

    and now let’s ask the vendor for us what’s things mattered

    here. These two variables are the furthest right in this scoring system here impressions and likes followed by all the others. The others are important but these two really are the are the most important thing. So if I can get impressions and likes in my tweets that is likely to result in retweets. Now what do I do with this information. I now have

    a hypothesis. Right. This is the beginning of the scientific method

    and I’m going to go out and try and get more impressions and more likes on my tweets and see if that in fact results in more retweets so scientific method, we’ve formed a hypothesis. Now we go tested gather data, analyze it and then refine our hypothesis. See if in fact impressions that likes are a causal variables. So if we zoom back up to the 50,000, foot view pretty question, but how do we know what factors to consider when auditing or digital marketing. The answer is we don’t know

    we have to first do analysis and this whole session here what we did with just retweets has what we call exploratory data analysis what’s in the data what’s in the box what data is good what data is not good, and then build a model

    that has some predictive value to it impressions and likes and now we got we test that this model is not the answer. We cannot conclusively say without a

    shadow of doubt that yep it’s all retweets. No, this is the start of the scientific method. We’ve now got a hypothesis we can go test, we have to test it. We have to verify it.

    It may turn out that this is false, there may be something wrong with the data they may be something wrong. Conceptually, there may be some factors we are not considering but if you were to then pull in say your CRM data and your marketing automation data and your Google Analytics data and your social media and do this across all these and have a target

    instead of retweets have a target of sales or leads or form films or whatever. Once you do that, then you’ll be able to understand it to have a bigger picture understanding of what actually matters to business audit your strategy that way. Do this and then test those competitions variables.

    When you do this for

    your digital marketing, there’s a good chance you’re going to have 50 6070 8090

    different variables

    you so you won’t necessarily do this every single day or even even once a month you’ll probably do this quarterly or maybe even semi annually,

    but

    doing this set of techniques

    will help you get a better understanding of what you should be testing next to drive the results you want. And that’s how

    you do in a digital marketing oddities you have to do you have to take in all your data clean

    it. Prepare

    understand it, analyze it and then form your hypothesis and begin your testing. So a great question for a deeper very complicated question that requires real analysis real analytics. If you don’t, if you’re just guess you’re just looking at at the prepackaged chart. It’s the common a lot of software packages and if you haven’t connected your marketing systems data together.

    You’re not going to come up with even close to the right answer, you know, you’ve got to come up with a good question to ask when you’re doing you’re trying to figure out what’s wrong with the strategy. So

    use are you can use Python two, you can use SMS or SPSS or whatever statistical language you prefer if you don’t have the capabilities. To do this, go and find someone who does go and hire a firm of some kind and agency, a person to do this for you so that you can then develop sound hypotheses, because otherwise you’re just guessing and that’s going to lead to bad outcomes. As always, my company bring interesting insights. Does this stuff. So please feel free to get in touch if this is of interest to you if not enjoy the video please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Favorite Content Optimization Tools

    You Ask, I Answer_ Favorite Content Optimization Tools

    Genevieve asks, “What are your favorite content optimization tools?”

    What is content optimization? Creating content that performs better.

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    How do we approach better performing content? We focus on three areas, three ways to improve our content:

    • Reach – content that attracts new audiences
    • Engagement – content that retains audiences
    • Action – content that convinces audiences to take meaningful action

    Reach Content Optimization Tools

    Engagement Content Optimization Tools

    Action Content Optimization Tools

    A word of warning: tools are like spatulas and frying pans. That means we haven’t talked about ingredients, recipes, or cooking skills. Don’t mistake tools for skills.

    If you’d like help with any of the tools above, contact me through Trust Insights.

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    In today’s you ask I answers john via asks, What are my favorite tools for content optimization. Well, it’s a good question, but a vague question because it’s not clear what we mean by content optimization. So for today’s video I’m going to define content optimization as tools that help content perform better in three different buckets. The three buckets are reach. So how can we get our content to attract new audiences engagement content that retains audiences that gets them to come back to to share

    and then action content that convinces audiences to take meaningful action, maybe fill out a form, pick up the phone and call us ask for a demo, etc.

    With that in mind, there’s with these three buckets. There are a few tools that I recommend for just about everybody and then some tools that you need some budget to have. So on the reach tools the tools to attract new audiences. One of the best tools for keyword research out there

    is Neil Patel Uber suggests it is free. It should not be free. It is so good.

    I would strongly recommend checking it out just Google for Uber suggestion, you’ll be able to find it again for businesses of any size the prizes right and and the tool is good

    on the paid side for reach tools for SEO tools essentially tools like mas sem rush and RF sir are great tools for doing good

    SEO research, but there are they are expensive. They will cost you some money so evaluate them. I would say if you had to pick one that would give you the biggest bang for the buck, particularly if you are a small to mid sized business where you have very, very small. Signing Authority. Take a look at sem rush then look at our efforts. Then take a look at mas mas gives you the greatest value, but also has the biggest price tag. And then the third in the reach tools is machine learning tool specifically text mining tools to reverse engineer search results. These are all free. The tidy library, the quantitative library for our Python has a bunch of these as well. You need developer experience to use them. But if you can use them. Well, they will they will deliver incredible results for engagement tools cotton tools that help content retain your audiences or get them to to share and comment and stuff like that. Number one, if you have again if you have budget. It is a fairly expensive tool that buzz Sumo is excellent now provides a lot of useful sharing insights

    for

    more in depth analysis or for alternate forms of analysis Watson natural language understanding from Ivy and that’s very affordable because it is pay per use since like two cents per user per URL and the sentiment or library and are the last to our machine learning tools again they require developer experience but sent mentors free Watson natural language hosting is very very low cost and with some programming skill and a good database of a sequel database behind the scenes, you can build very rich engagement models,

    you would use these tools

    to essentially do analysis, figure out

    what URLs

    get shared the most and then why what are the reasons why was there a certain tone or emotion or sentiment though that powers the engagement.

    Finally,

    in action. What are the tools that convinced audiences to take meaningful action.

    Number one, Google Analytics is essential because you’ve got to be able to measure

    the meaningful action for you don’t have that

    measurement in place, then you can optimize for it. So Google Analytics with goals and goal values properly set up that’s so important. Google Analytics does not do it out of the box, you need to go in and set it up. Number two is Google Optimize also from Google also free optimize is a massive web based A B testing tool and it is fantastic it what it does in terms of letting you do multivariate testing on web pages change out the color buttons and text and copy and images and all this stuff to find the variations of your content that work best if you want to do a B testing for organic social you want to take a look at tools like buffer and Hootsuite and stuff to

    do stuff like that. Finally

    tools like

    random forests Markov chains multiple linear regression. These are all statistical and machine learning tools that will help you build strong and attribution analysis and this is essential because Google Analytics, the built in attribution models are okay, particularly time decay. I like time decay of a lot of the ones that come out of the box, but it is at a certain point

    you if you’re doing enough with the value of leads you

    will run into limitations with the built in models so you’ll want to at that point. Switch to machine learning models that will help you develop more nuanced views of what’s helping convert so reach engagement in action content that attracts new audiences that retains them that convinces them to participate and then ultimately take meaningful action. Those are the three buckets of engagement tools that you need the content optimization tools to make your business grow. Great question. JOHN Vf lots of detail in here one caution with this is that we’re talking about tools which is like talking about utensils like spatula and frying pans, the things this is not the ingredients. This is not the recipe. This is not how to cook and none of these tools are going to do those things for you. They are a spatula. They are a chef’s knife and you still need to be able to know how to cook in order to make the best use of them. So keep that in mind. The tools are not a substitute for the skills they

    help the skills

    they amplify the skills, but they are not the skills as always please subscribe to the YouTube channel, the newsletter and things if you’d like help using any of these tools and deploying them on behalf of your business, please get in touch my company Trust Insights. Does this stuff happy to help. Take care. I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • #FridayFeeling: Who Will Lose Their Jobs to AI and Robotics

    #FridayFeeling_ Who Will Lose Their Jobs to AI and Robotics

    Jay Baer posted recently about new marketing technology that does amazing content creation and how AI will drive the cost of marketing, particularly content marketing, to nearly zero. In the process, he asks, what’s left for humans? He ends with an example about Michael, a barista who does amazing coffee art and says a machine could obviously do the same for nearly zero cost, but is that what we want? A life of expediency without joy?

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    Jay’s fears are largely unfounded, but there are things to be concerned about. AI and robotics will create a world of efficiency, to be sure. The main promises of AI to the end customer, to the customer experience, is a better customer experience than we currently receive from companies. On the company side, of course, it’s about cutting costs – namely humans.

    But AI will not take jobs in the sense of roles. Michael the barista isn’t going to be replaced by a robot because he’s excellent at what he does and clearly loves his work. Excellence is not at stake.

    What’s at stake – and what will impact millions of people – is inferiority. Terrible customer service. Terrible work quality. Think of the industries we associate with a terrible customer experience:

    • Airlines
    • Cable and phone companies
    • The Department of Motor Vehicles

    We automatically assume, when dealing with entities like these, that our experience is going to suck. We mentally prepare ourselves for a confrontation, rather than a delightful customer experience.

    AI and robotics promise minimum competency. They promise both the customer and the company minimally viable competence and a guaranteed mediocre experience. Think about McDonald’s. Do you go to McDonald’s for the best hamburger in the world? No. You go to McDonald’s for a guaranteed experience and a burger that’s okay – but okay is very often good enough.

    So whose jobs are at stake? Not Michael the barista and coffee artist. The thousands of people who work at coffee shop chains who don’t enjoy their jobs, who phone it in, who make no effort to do more than the minimum amount of work. Robots and AI could replace every one of the people who hate their jobs or are terrible at their jobs and automatically elevate the customer experience from equally terrible to mediocre. Customers would be deliriously happy with the correct order, promptly made, with their name properly spelled on the coffee cup, even if a human never touched it. This will extend to every industry including marketing technology.

    The lesson is clear for all of us: be excellent or be replaced. If we’re terrible at our jobs, if we hate our jobs, we are the first candidates for replacement by machines.

    Those of us who love our jobs, who love our work, who invest in our ongoing professional development and training – our jobs and personal careers will be safe. There will always be room at the table for human excellence.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Speak to Buyers In the Customer Journey

    You Ask, I Answer_ How to Speak to Buyers In the Customer Journey

    Sandie asks,

    “How do I speak to my buyer at the right stage in the journey?”

    This is a terrific question that has three parts.

    • First, we must categorize all our customer communication in each stage of our buyer’s journey and run text mining analytics on it to understand what they say at each stage.
    • Second, we sequence our customer journey by channel using software like Google Analytics.
    • Finally, we map the language used at each stage with the channel sequence so that we’re using the right words at the right time.

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    On today’s you ask I answer Sandy asks, How do I speak to my buyer at the right stage in the customer journey.

    This is a great question. This is a more complicated question than you would think you’re going to need input from your buyers from your prospective customers that you have identified at the various stages in the customer journey. What does this typically look like you’re going to need principally email, although social media will also help what you’ll need to do

    is get

    the data that you have for your customers at each stage of the journey

    into some sort of repository a database of big spreadsheet, whatever it is,

    and you’re going to categorize all this input. So let’s say your customer journey is the standard awareness

    consideration evaluation purchase the

    very, very straightforward. You have these four stages,

    you will have to categorize each set of emails each set of social media posts blog posts whatever correspondence in each bucket. So you have say let’s let’s you see me as an example. Sandy is in the first stage of awareness, she sends us some emails, where she asks us a question on social media and that goes in this awareness bucket and then

    she asks comebacks and it comes back in a week or two weeks and asks a question.

    She’s showing consideration

    possibly of the problem or even

    specific jargon around the problem comes through evaluations you starts asking about us. How do we rate against our competitors. What is our unique selling proposition all these things and then finally at purchase.

    She says, I’m ready to do the deal sign the contract, whatever

    you have to categorize all the input so that you know how people speak at each stage in the customer journey. Remember when we want to speak to the buyer. We have to do our best to speak to them in their own words and their language. And so if we’ve categorized all this input into these four buckets, then you run text mining. So for those of you who don’t know, we recently released a white paper on using text mining for employee

    engagement or the same exact technology, the same techniques apply to this you’d use this text mining software machine learning software to

    analyze

    and and tell us what is in the awareness bucket. Once we’ve got all the emails and social media posts and stuff like that and made a phone call conversations have been transcribed if you have a customer service line or sales line

    what’s, what are the words the phrases. The key phrases, the terms that are the most important in the awareness bucket and then you’d Repeat this process on each stage in the customer journey. And by the way, after purchase in terms of post purchase happiness loyalty evangelism. You don’t forget those stages of the customer journey, either

    as you run the software, you’ll see the language change from bucket the bucket and once you do that, then you know to extract that language and start using it in your sales pitching and your sales and marketing language.

    For example, if in the evaluation phase

    you know that people always ask about pricing, but they don’t say the word price they ask about value, how much value or what’s my ROI, you know, that’s an evaluation question based on your experience

    and then you map that to your digital channels. So if you’ve ever done customer journey mapping and Google Analytics, you can sequence out the channels by stage from awareness to consideration evaluation versus

    if pricing is the word that you know

    you shouldn’t use but value is that where you should use and you know say in Google Analytics says organic searches is your evaluation states at the stage where people start to cross over into evaluation, then you know that all the content that you use for SEO has got to use the word value in it.

    So that’s the secret. That’s the process

    awareness consideration evaluation purchase the words in each bucket and then you take the channels in Google Analytics that are sequenced out and you make sure that you’re using the right sets of words each segment of the channel and in each channel so social media is the awareness on this channel for you

    and you know value and pricing or the evaluation words, maybe you don’t use them in social media right see what words people using social media or in in awareness that indicate they’re just becoming aware of you or aware of the problem and use those words in social media so really good questions. Andy how you speak to your buyer. It’s knowing what words to say and then knowing how each channel is sequenced in the buyers journey so that you’re using the right words at the right time. Thanks for asking. As always please subscribe to the newsletter and the YouTube channel and I’ll talk to you next time. Take care.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Marketing In a Privacy-First World

    You Ask, I Answer_ Marketing in a Privacy-First World

    Ann asks: “How do we analyze and target in an age of privacy?”

    In the wake of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress, which some Twitter pundits amusingly called the Zuckerbowl, some thoughts about privacy, data, analytics, and marketing.

    Disclaimer: I AM NOT A LAWYER

    • Consult an actual lawyer

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    We need to take three strategic steps: Own, Build, Learn.

    Own

    • If you’re not paying, you are the product
      • Doubly true for business services
    • Download as much data as you can right now
      • ESPECIALLY FROM APIs
      • Regulation is coming
    • Run backups in parallel of critical systems
      • Google Analytics? Matomo as your backup, on your own server
      • Cloud servers are $5 a month

    Build

    • First party data is essential – your analytics, your data
      • Understand and control as much as you can
    • First party data collection
      • How did you hear about us?
    • Strong data governance
      • Ask or have legal counsel review your data services
      • GDPR will require you to anyway
    • Clear user agreements and policies are the law of the land in places – be globally compliant as much as possible

    Learn

    • Learn to model on behavior
      • Do you need to know someone’s intimate details?
      • Behavioral targeting cannot be compromised if there’s no PII to begin with
    • Learn patterns in owned data from API data that may go away
      • Now is the time to construct those statistical models
    • Create AI/ML models for your data so you have a snapshot and algorithms in place to make inferences

    Will social go away?

    • No
    • Facebook isn’t losing substantial numbers of users
    • Which means marketer’s can’t afford to stop using it

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    In today’s you ask I answer game. One of the Zucker bowl as some people are calling it is over. Mark Zuckerberg co Facebook has testified to the Senate will be testifying to the house. Next I don’t expect any know brand new insights to come out of that and about five different people all messaged me and said. So what does this mean for marketers, how do we market in an age where privacy is the default were targeting is much more difficult. So how do we do this before we begin, I am not a lawyer. I don’t even play one on the internet, if you have legal questions, please consult an actual lawyer somebody who can certify the answers that giving you are correct. This is just my perspective as a marketer and as a data person not legal advice. So

    we will need to do three things own build and learn what’s dig into these number one own we need to own our day.

    If you are not paying you are the product that is that is the fundamental truth of all this and it is the truth of the internet today. If you are not paying money out of pocket. You are the product this is definitely true for business services you think all those free things from all the different tech companies or have no strings attached in the 75 page User Agreement. Yes. What you are the product. So if your business relies on these services

    they are an under no obligation to help you stay in business, except as that bet these tech companies

    need to further their own interest. So understand that they like you as a product they may like you as a customer. If you’re paying a nominal amount. But fundamentally, they have to stay in business, they will do whatever it takes to stay in business, including put you out of business. So Own your data. This also means download as much of your data as you can. Right now, especially if your business relies on.

    third party data from any number of API’s add systems analytics customer data platforms, whatever it is, if you if you have a third party company that is controlling substantial portion of your businesses data download it now because regulation is coming. It’s already here in parts of the world, the most well known. One is GDP or the general data protection regulation in the EU, which has planetary consequences, but more regulation is coming. Mark Zuckerberg and CEOs of technology companies don’t testify in front of Congress, because Congress has nothing better to do well i mean they they don’t necessarily have more productive things to do, but that’s politics

    regulation is coming. We know it’s coming what form. It will take we don’t know

    the third thing in own is have backups of critical systems run backups in parallel for critical systems really good example. Almost everybody on planet uses Google.

    analytics. It’s free. Remember the first lesson

    and it is the gold standard and marketing and for good reason. It’s a great product. It is a fantastic piece of marketing software and I would say it has advanced marketing and business growth for 10s of thousands of companies and created billions of dollars in value to the economy. It is a valuable product and I holy support Google Analytics and the Google team,

    but I’m not under any illusion that Google

    wants to provide this without strings. Right.

    So if your business relies on web analytics, you owe it to yourself to run a backup. There’s a package called matondo analytics, which you have to run on your own servers, you have to

    spin up a cloud server install the software and get it running it is a web analytics package to the differences you own the server and you have to pay for the server, but it’s your own data, then you own and so run in parallel.

    moto mo cloud services which again you this is now you are the customer, you’re paying money for these things. Anyway, we’re going to be between five five and 20 bucks a month so you can afford probably to do this yourself unless you have like zero dollars. So that’s part one

    part two build first party data is essential, your analytics your data. So you need to understand the control as much as you can

    and start if you have not already done so start doing much more first party data collection behavioral data preference data asking people how did you hear about us. I can’t tell you the number of web forms. I’ve been on where no one ever asks that question. It’s an important question. How did you hear bass. Who told you about us. You need to collect that data because that data may not be available from a third party systems second in build you need strong data governance ask or have your legal counsel review all the data services you work with all the everything that the.

    Everything data in your company needs legal review and then needs a strong governance policy, you need to have governance in place that dictates who is responsible for what, where, when, why and how gt PR is going to require you to do this anyway if you do any business outside of your nation that could potentially interact with them. He uses and GDP or requires you to do this anyway so having that is an important part clear user agreements clear data policies are the law of the land and places and the easiest thing to do is be globally compliant with the the the strictest standards which in this case right now is gt PR for many things except spam laws which candidates castle was sort of the strictest in the world right now be globally compliant with the highest standard and you’re and you’re good to go. Third as marketers, we have to learn how to learn to model on behavior we don’t necessarily need to collect as much data as we do, we can collect the minimum viable amount of data we need to make decisions, our systems.

    Dead. We should also be collecting lots of behavioral data because it can’t be compromised. You can’t steal someone’s identity by telling how many pages they visited on your website and in what order but we can make good business decisions as to whether someone’s a viable prospect based on the order and flow of the pages that they visited on our website as an example that’s owned data. It’s ours. We can build models on it and it’s not sensitive data in the sense that someone’s identity could be compromised with it. We have to learn patterns in owns data, especially for stuff like social media data search data web analytics data, whatever, anything that we are interacting with from systems. We don’t own and we need to do our best to build and understand patterns in in all this third party data and constructs statistical models today with the data we have the says when people do X, Y amp z and come in on this page and behave like this. They are likely to convert we need these patterns in case those API’s and that third party data goes away. If it does, we have models that we can use to can.

    Need to make business decisions from the data we have and third in the Learn category we have to if you have not already done this already, you must get good at machine learning, you must be able to build machine learning algorithms based on the data that you have today. Remember, Part One who are going to download all the data that you possibly can and build machine learning algorithms machine learning processes and methods to make inferences in the data that you have to make up for the data you will lose when companies and regulations take over Trust Insights just released a white paper on this on and we just did this with LinkedIn shares because LinkedIn stop sharing part of its API. So we have to go and backfill that data. This goes back to part one download all the data now so that you have it as a training library for when these things go away. Finally, will social media. Go away. We’ll Facebook going no no is not going away. Facebook is a losing a substantial number of users according to the.

    testimonial in the congressional hearing, which means that marketers can’t afford to stop using it.

    We will change and I will be blinded by some of the data loss but fundamentally nothing and Mark Zuckerberg testimonial indicates that social is going to lose any importance or that regulation and restriction is imminent social networks going to do the best they can to self police and that means pulling back a lot of access in his testimonial which will include a link in the notes and he talks about what they’re doing with additional restrictions on apps on developers on API is that will continue to be the case. So

    social is not going anywhere but allow the data we’ve gotten comfortable working with will now is the time to own your data build a good strong internal ecosystem with strong governance and build lots of machine learning models on top of it so that you are ready when the fire hose becomes a trickle again all the sources from this art in the show notes and stuff here. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and to my newsletter which is my dad and I.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How I Make Daily Video Content

    You Ask, I Answer_ How I Make Daily Video Content

    Kathy asked, “How do you make daily video content? What’s the process?”

    This process has been iterative – it’s not something I came up with all at once. Below is the outline; if you’d like a printable PDF version, just click here.

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    Hardware

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    Process

    • Decide type of video – talking head only or screencast
    • Script in Mindnode first
    • Set a timer for 9 minutes
    • https://www.google.com/search?q=countdown+timer
    • Shoot talking head on the iPhone
    • Screencast on the Mac with Camtasia
    • Make still frame cards in Canva
    • Create any necessary music in Ampermusic
    • Assemble in Camtasia
    • Export raw video file
    • Rip audio with ffmpeg
    • Upload to Otter for transcription
    • Upload to YouTube
    • Upload to LinkedIn
    • Write descriptions
    • Write blog post with transcription
    • Export Mindnode notes
    • Embed YouTube video
    • Embed MP3 link
    • Publicize blog post links on social

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    Cathie asked what’s the process of putting together LinkedIn posts with video on a day to day basis. How do you do this any scale will do daily way. So this is a long and involved process everything I’m going to talk about is in the blog post the list of all the equipment so hardware, software and process and make sure that you see the blog post over at Christopher S Pen calm. So hardware of a silly little selfie stick mount here head worn Mike, which is Amazon purchase for desktop stuff have a headset or headphones and this V mode a boom mic that just plugs right into the bottom of the iPhone, of course. During the recording and for audio editing. I will typically do use the bows qc 35. So that’s kind of the main hardware. Of course I’ll laptop computer I use a Mac,

    in terms of software. My primary video editor is a package called Camp Asia from Tech Smith have a link and.

    The notes to that also have Apple photos from managing stills I’m moving on the iPhone for wanting to shoot some basic video for more advanced video like all the stuff that I’m doing here is an app called movie pro and the reason for that is that this wireless headphone plugs into the bottom of the iPhone and the iPhone can be real twitchy about what microphone you’re using. So you have to tell it in advance, like I’m using this microphone and movie one of the few apps that lets you do that and say I want to use this microphone so it’s not like picking up you know all the other noise around here.

    I use mind note on the Mac, which is what I use for scripting canvas. The online service for doing the the beginning and end cards you see ampere music, which is a free AI tool that allows you to generate you know Stock Music pretty straightforward stuff, not the best music. The world doesn’t have to be. I use otter for transcription, which we’ll talk about in a bit the FF MPEG audio converter for converting video into audio files are super important for.

    podcast part and then Amazon AWS s3 account to store audio files because YouTube’s is where you store the video files. So what’s the process for putting together one of these first we have to decide what type of videos are going to be talking head only or screen casts if it’s talking head only set up the iPhone in you know the microphones, get ready to shoot. If it’s screen casts set up camp on the laptop put these headphones on and that’s the audio setup for that I use Google to set up a little countdown timer. I say I want nine minutes on the clock never go over 10 minutes because you can’t upload it into LinkedIn LinkedIn restricts us 10 minutes or less. So you want to have nine minutes on the timer.

    I’ll shoot they’ll talk about stuff on the iPhone and then obviously connected to the laptop and download the video screen cast on the Mac with can’t Asia and make the still frame cards in Canvas and typically for something Becker, you ask I answer. There’s a stock one so I’ll render the stock one and advanced in that way I can just pop it right in.

    export the raw video fired. Well, it’s a symbol incantation putting all my transitions all the you know the fades and the audio level the audio in there and it has a lot of these utilities built in, which is super handy. It’s worth it’s worth the cost.

    Once I’m happy with it and I export it as a raw video file that has a lot of options there for like different services you can upload to pain in the export to a raw mp4 audio yeah mp4 video file that goes to your desktop, then you use the FM peg utility to rip the audio out and make copy in mp3 format because you’re going to need that the mp3 file goes to otter for transcription, it takes you know for for every minute of recorded audio is going to take about two minutes for it to transcribe so if you do it a 10 minute show uploaded and expect it will be done in about 20 minutes while you’re uploading to otter your next step is to upload to YouTube and LinkedIn. Now, depending on how fast your internet connection is.

    At home, you may want to do one and and and then the other or you may want to do both at the same time if you have a fast connection you can do both at the same time while they’re uploading because it’s going to take a while the camp agents files for a 10 minute show or nine minutes show can be around half a gigabyte of data,

    I will write the descriptions. So you’re going to need descriptions, which is essentially a short paragraph and then any links to appropriate resources and those go in you copy and paste those that’s the post content and LinkedIn and that’s the description in YouTube. After that, or while that’s going on because YouTube in particular takes a while to process video I will write the blog posts. So in my node. What I’ll do is I’ll export the show notes as the sort of the still as the framework for the blog post and then I’ll if otter is done. I will take the transcription out of otter and I will

    put that in the blog post.

    embed the YouTube video embed in link from AWS to the mp3 file because what that does. I use WordPress is my blog if you have an mp3 file LinkedIn a WordPress post your WordPress blog feed automatically becomes a podcast because WordPress. It just converts it to enclosures and does all the formatting. So

    you can then actually submit your blog as a podcast to WordPress to like apple and Stitcher music and stuff and you’ve got your podcast now. And then finally, of course, once you’ve got everything assembled all the pieces are in the right place you publicize the blog post shared on social reach out to any of the influences that you want to reach out to include it in your email newsletter, all that stuff. So it’s a it sounds like an extensive process and it is a reasonably detailed process, but it’s also one that once you get in the habit of doing it every single day, it becomes like clockwork. Again, all the stuff including the.

    Mind Map and things the timer the hardware, the software that bits and pieces are all going to be in the blog posts, so don’t worry about trying to write all that down just print it out and then you can follow literally step by step. But the other thing real simple is a your set. It’s not a bookshelf here and some curtains from IKEA I’m actually in my basement, so you don’t have to spend a ton of money in terms of investment. Probably the most expensive thing besides the smartphone

    is going to be the cam software. I believe that’s like 199, the head warned microphone is 49

    the Wiimote a boom mic is30 out of the Bose headphones can be expensive. You don’t need to use Bose headphones so I just do because I work in a relatively noisy basement. I want to want to make sure I can hear easily Canvas free Emperor’s free otters free FM peg is free Amazon AWS is pay, but a pay as you go and you know unless your podcast becomes wildly popular it’s not gonna cost you very much in the beginning. If it comes wildly popular they.

    You can start getting sponsors and they can help pay for that as well

    as anything else that costs money WordPress your blog, all that stuff. The, the things you’re probably already doing. But that’s the process from beginning to end. Kathy hope you find this helpful if you’re watching anyone who’s watching if you’ve got suggestions about how to do this better, please feel free to contribute those suggestions I am always looking for ways to improve always looking for ways to to make things faster and cheaper and better because in the digital era, you can have fast cheap and good all the same time, but thanks for watching and I’ll talk to you all soon. Take care.

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