Category: Awakening

  • Gatekeepers must become curators

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    A number of industries are predicated on the idea of a gatekeeper:

    • Education is predicated on the idea of the teacher as the gatekeeper of knowledge.
    • News media is predicated on the idea of the news outlet as the gatekeeper of news.
    • Information technology is predicated on the idea of the IT department as the gatekeeper of technology.
    • Human resources is predicated on the idea of the HR professional as the gatekeeper of talent and open jobs.

    There are many more examples of gatekeepers in many different industries. You can likely think of a few of your own.

    Yet look carefully at your lists of gatekeepers. How have those gatekeepers been foiled?

    • Google is the gatekeeper of knowledge. No teacher can make a respectable claim that they can provide more raw knowledge.
    • Social media and new media are the gatekeepers of news, to the point where some news outlets simply read Tweets on the air.
    • BYOD and the democratization of tech and mobile have allowed people to sidestep IT and corporate security at every turn.
    • Personal and social networks allow people to network directly with hiring managers for the best jobs.

    So what’s a gatekeeper to do? How do these professionals, these people, pivot in their roles to still be relevant in a space which has become highly democratized?

    The answer is curation. For each democratization has brought its own troubles:

    • What knowledge is valid? The idiocracy of false science and science denial are examples of democratization gone awry.
    • How truthful is news? In an environment where anyone can report anything, lots of things are misreported or outright lied about.
    • BYOD also means bring your own viruses, your own security problems, your own lost device problems.
    • In increasingly fast pace environments, hiring managers don’t have time to read hundreds of resumes and return emails.

    The curator role solves all of these dilemmas. Imagine how these professions change their roles and responsibilities when they become curators:

    • The teacher helps the student to think critically, evaluate sources, do primary research, and determine what is valid knowledge.
    • News media no longer sources the news, they validate it. They do their research to ascertain what is true news.
    • The IT department no longer dictates, but guides and enables by helping users understand their devices better.
    • Human resources aides and assists by stemming the flow of raw talent or jobs, freeing managers’ time once more.

    While an interesting exercise, what does this have to do with marketing?

    In case it escaped notice, marketing is democratized. Social media lets any employee or customer speak as authoritatively as we, the marketer can, and in many cases more credibly. Anyone can set up a landing page or web page in a CRM or marketing automation software. Anyone can boost a social post or run an AdWords campaign. It’s incredibly easy for someone to set up rogue marketing initiatives.

    Thus, marketing and marketers cannot be, and are not, the dictators and gatekeepers of marketing any longer. We must become the curators, the influence managers, the conductors of a marketing orchestra in which we welcome everyone to play, but we cannot compel them to do so.

    Are you ready to shed the mantle of marketing gatekeeper and become your brand’s marketing curator?


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  • The danger of hard selling during your conference presentation

    Few things irritate me like a conference session that turns into a sales pitch for the presenter. I don’t mind a quick plug at the beginning or the end, or a relevant case study that shows how you accomplished something as long as I can learn from it, too. I get it; I work for a company that I promote in my talks. But when a session is just a long commercial? That’s just irritating.

    Conferences have tried to handle this in the past to different degrees of success. PodCamp was founded on the BarCamp principle of the Law of Two Feet: if something isn’t working for you, just walk out. It’s a principle that has served unconferences quite well, and will continue to do so. Other conferences try to vet their speakers carefully or mandate that speakers also present with a neutral third party co-presenter. But what about being at a conference where your options are more limited, or group dynamics requires you to sit through a sales pitch?

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    The mental game I play with such sessions in order to pass the time is reverse engineering. I’ll listen to a sales pitch session carefully, taking notes not about the talk itself, but its structure, the structure of the solution. From there, I daydream how to engineer something better, how to take the solution as presented, improve it with what I know and what I can Google, and possibly make a new, better version of the product being sold.

    For example, I was at a conference last year that had a disguised sales pitch session (much to the organizers’ chagrin, as they later told me, and that speaker has been disinvited to future events as a speaker). The session was about some radical new social media analytics tool. The demonstration was on the light side, as these pitches tend to be, but once you dug past the sales hyperbole (“unrivaled social tracking capabilities for only $2,500 a month!”), there was a kernel of something useful.

    Once I had the basic idea of what the product did, I hit my usual development resources (like GitHub) to see if anyone else had created something similar. While no one had, there were enough pieces laying around that, with a little bit of coding glue, I was able to craft something better, something that better suited my needs, while on the plane ride home.

    That was almost certainly not the intent, not the desired outcome of the sales speaker, but it’s a consequence of not speaking to the audience and serving them first. Had he instead just talked about social analytics in general, and added the customary plug at the end, I would have been far less bored and far less inspired to craft a competing product.

    This is the hidden danger of a boring sales pitch to an audience that has hackers and makers in it. If your pitch is blatant and boring, you just might inspire them to make your greatest competitor.


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  • Videogame cutscene movies and your marketing storytelling

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    If you’ve played any modern, non-casual games recently, from Halo to Warcraft to Mortal Kombat, you’ve likely seen cutscenes, short videos that help advance the story.

    Here’s an example of a cutscene from the end of Act I in World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor:

    These cutscenes provide bridges in the story, taking you from one burst of action to the next. However, some games lend themselves to an entirely new level of cutscenes; there are enough of them and the story is strong enough that, sewn together, you end up with an actual movie. Here’s an example, an hour long, from Halo 4:

    The average game company puts minimal effort towards cutscenes, if it invokes them at all. The excellent game company, recognizing the power of storytelling, uses cutscenes so well that they are a story unto themselves. These cutscenes are so compelling that we enjoy watching them for their own sake.

    Consider how you approach your marketing. You have campaigns, the big things you do: end of year sale! Quarterly closing deals! Holiday special! These are the big moments, the big events which you rightfully invest a lot of effort. In video game parlance, these would be the action sequences where you as the player would be fully committed, fully participating.

    The question is, what’s in your marketing ‘cutscenes’? What are the storytelling pieces you create when you’re not executing major campaigns?

    These might be:

  • You probably don’t need a marketing dashboard

    I love a good dashboard. The challenge of assembling one, of unifying data sources, of cleaning, transforming, and showcasing your data is fun. (This version of fun is why no one invites me to parties.)

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    Despite all this, most of the dashboards I have seen in my career are useless. In fact, they are worse than useless because the dashboard is an excuse, a substitute for the hard work we actually need to do.

    Why? Decision makers don’t need data. They don’t need charts. They don’t need scatter plots with regression lines.

    They need actionable answers to their questions.

    What should we do?

    What is the next step?

    What is your recommendation?

    What’s the plan?

    When you hear these questions after you showcase your data, your dashboard, your analysis, it means you’ve fallen flat. It means that your work, hard though it was, ultimately didn’t achieve the goals that your decision makers wanted it to achieve.

    Every analysis you do, every presentation you make must implicitly answer those questions above. Most of the time, a dashboard can’t actually do that. At best it’s a visual aid to your explanation. At worst it’s a distraction.

    Before you launch a dashboard project or buy a dashboard tool, ask whether you need it to see that data for yourself or if it’s for your decision makers. If the latter, you probably don’t need a dashboard at all.


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  • The litmus test for influencer disclosure

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    As you’ve no doubt read, the FTC has increased its scrutiny of social media influence. Above and beyond what the FTC requires as the minimums for disclosure, what else do you need to consider?

    The litmus test you should apply to yourself for disclosure is this: what makes you change your speech?

    For example, as stated in my disclosures, I am an investor who holds various stocks and mutual funds. If you’re an investor who has holdings that affect how you talk about companies in your investments, and you give even a passing thought to whether your words will potentially affect the financial performance of your investments, you need to disclose.

    I work for a public relations firm, SHIFT Communications. As such, not only does my speech change when referencing my employer, but my speech changes when referencing my employer’s customers. I am naturally less likely to say something negative about a client than if I had no relationship at all. Thus, by the litmus test above, I need to disclose when I speak about both my employer and its clients. You may be in the same boat.

    In both cases above, my speech has changed. The FTC’s disclosure guidelines center around endorsement, around the act of saying something positive and promotional about a company. If you go by the test of whether your speech changes, disclosure also includes the negative, what you don’t say. If you would ordinarily complain about a customer service experience you had, but you don’t because the company is a financial holding or a customer, then you’ve changed your speech. That change is a clear sign that in any environment in which you invoke your influence, any mention of that company requires disclosure.

    These guidelines also impact more than just direct social posts. Today, everything is social. Everything is mobile. The slide deck you’re showing at a conference? That will end up on the Internet. The talk you’re giving? That will end up on the Internet. The conversation you’re having behind closed doors? Ask any politician who has had their secret conversations outed – it will end up on the Internet. If you are influential in any sphere – not just social media – disclosure is necessary any time you do something which will end up on the Internet.

    What changes your speech? What makes you consider saying something a different way? That’s a clear sign for disclosure.

    Disclosure: I am not a lawyer. The above does not constitute legal advice. If you want legal advice, hire a lawyer.


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  • You probably don’t know the answer

    At the recent Louisville Digital Association Digital Media Summit, I was finally privileged enough to meet one of my marketing mentors, Roger Dooley.

    Roger Dooley

    If you’re not familiar with him, Roger is the pre-eminent expert in neuromarketing, the use of behavioral psychology and neurology in marketing. In his presentation, he reviewed a few of the non-intuitive things that can influence consumer behavior and buying decisions, such as…

    The color of a price influences men’s perception of value:

    The font choice of a soup label boosted intent to purchase by 100%:

    Along with dozens of other interesting tips, tricks, etc. in his book, Brainfluence, which I strongly recommend.

    What does all of this mean?

    It means that when it comes to optimizing our marketing, we probably don’t know the answer. We probably don’t know what is going to work optimally, because each audience is unique and different. Each offer is unique and different. Heck, the choice of a font on a label can radically change purchase intent, so what does that say for the dozens of other buying signals that we’ve come to rely on?

    At the end of the day, multivariate testing is the only way to determine what’s actually going to work, what will truly resonate with your audience. Services like Adobe Test and Target, Optimizely, Maximizer, and many others can do this on the web. Any email service provider worth its salt offers multivariate testing built in, where you can test different combinations of creative, subject line, from line, etc. Even native social media advertising platforms allow for testing with different ad formats, copy, creative, etc.

    In every test you do, consider having one hilariously bad test case. Nothing off brand or inappropriate, but a piece of content that looks like it came from 1999. A banner ad that flashes (remember Netscape marquee?), an email that uses huge block letter, etc. You might just be surprised (and perhaps dismayed) at what really works with your audience.


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  • Sometimes you do need better tools

    On September 27, 2015, we got a chance to experience the Super Blood Moon, a full lunar eclipse while the moon was at perigee, its closest point to Earth. This is an event that happens infrequently; prior to 2015, the last occurrence was 1982, and the next occurrence will be 2033.

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    More than a few people remarked online that their smartphone wasn’t cutting it. This is absolutely correct; think of the smartphone as more or less a great landscape camera. It’s good at wide angles. Smartphones are what photographers refer to as sneaker zoom cameras – to get a better close up, walk closer to your intended subject.

    Obviously, when the subject is in outer space, this is significantly harder to do. That’s when you do need better equipment.

    Normally, photographers of all stripes – myself included – will say that the best camera is the one you have with you, and that’s generally sound advice. There are rare occasions when only good quality, specialized equipment will do, however, and a super blood moon is one of them.

    However, even in the case of a super blood moon, the equipment is not enough. The equipment is the table stake, the bare minimum you need to get in the game. You also need the knowledge of how to use the equipment properly. The super blood moon – and many other astronomical events – require knowing about exposures, shutter speeds, apertures, and ISO settings to get the most out of the equipment.

    The super blood moon required significant changes during the event, going from capturing only some of the light (because the moon was so bright, it was easy to overexpose) to capturing every last photon available at the peak of the eclipse.

    The super blood moon required the right tools and the right skills in order to maximize the opportunity. Obviously, if you had only a smartphone, you did your best. If you had a DSLR with a zoom lens, you could do more. If you knew the inner workings of your camera, you got the most out of your setup. When opportunity arrived, the results you got were proportional to the investment of resources and knowledge you had.

    This is also true of your marketing, and anything else you do. The better prepared you are, the more you can leverage every opportunity that comes your way. Always do your best, but recognize that sometimes,


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  • Find your spirit, and no challenge will keep you from achieving your goals

    There’s a quote of mine from a while back that’s become fairly popular:

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    “Find your spirit, and no challenge will keep you from achieving your goals.”

    What does this mean, exactly?

    In the Japanese martial arts, we often refer to mind, body, and spirit. We seek to improve each:

    • To sharpen our minds to see answers under difficult, stressful situations
    • To build endurance, health, and strength so that we can overcome challenges
    • To develop our spirit, the energy that gives us resilience in times of trouble

    The quote above reflects the latter. Our spirit is the essence of who we are and why we fight (when we have to). A strong mind and a strong body are largely unhelpful if your spirit withers easily under duress, if you give up too soon, if you can’t withstand difficulty.

    How do you find your spirit? One of the best exercises I’ve done is a simple inquiry-based meditation, where you make a list of all the things you think you are. You are brave, you are strong, you are good-looking, you are smart, etc. as exhaustively as possible over the period of a few days. Then you start considering how true those statements are, whittling away at them.

    • Are you brave? Are there conditions under which you would not be brave?
    • Are you strong? Are there life circumstances that could render you not strong?
    • Are you good looking? For how long?
    • etc.

    When you’re done, repeat the exercise with new inquiries. If the first round of attributes are transient, inquire within yourself for things that are less transient, things that have always been there, and then whittle away at those.

    Repeat the process until there’s nothing further you can do, and what you have left is you, the essence of you.

    That’s how you find your spirit; after that, you need only work on strengthening it by testing yourself (usually under the guidance of an expert teacher like my teachers Mark Davis and Stephen K. Hayes) until very little can shake you.


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  • Ahmed Mohammed is one of us nerds

    The Ahmed Mohammed case struck a chord with me not just because of his ethnicity, but for something more personal. The kid is a nerd. A tinkerer. A maker.

    When I was 9, I nearly killed myself with a clock, because I had the bright idea to disassemble one – while it was still plugged in. (smart doesn’t necessarily mean good judgment) I learned that day what an electric arc is as one cut the screwdriver I was using in half and blew a fuse.

    Growing up, I spent a fair share of my time being made fun of, occasionally getting stuffed in a middle school locker or beaten up on the playground. I was never athletic, never tall, never strong, never popular. I was a nerd. Yet decades later and despite the best efforts of some to achieve a different outcome, I not only preserved what it means to be a nerd but managed to thrive because of it.

    Us nerds have to stick together, and that’s perhaps why you’ve seen a disproportionately larger response because of it. Ahmed Mohammed is one of us, and we know how tough the journey to adulthood will be already, without ethnic hatred to compound it.


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  • Why 19th century figureheads are still relevant to marketing today

    Once upon a time, the word figurehead was not a pejorative, as it tends to be today. Today, we refer to someone as a figurehead if they’re highly visible but relatively powerless, like the Vice President of the United States or the British royal family. Once upon a time, however, a figurehead was not only an important word, it was a marketing word.

    Turn back the clock to the age of sail and wooden ships, as I did recently on a visit to Connecticut’s Mystic Seaport. The figurehead was a literal fixture of wooden ships, a large carved ornament that was typically placed on the front of a ship:

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    What purpose did these ornate works of art serve? They were the 19th century equivalent of corporate logos for the merchant vessels they were mounted on. These figureheads were the brands of the ships.

    How did they work? Imagine you’re walking along the New York City harbor, looking for a vessel. During the age of sail, many ships tended to look very similar, like this fleet of schooners:

    Image from page 178 of "The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes" (1911)

    Now imagine that literacy isn’t what it is today, and that 1 out of 5 people couldn’t read at all. How would you tell someone to meet your ship? You’d have to give them some image-based reference, in the same way that Bostonians tell people how to navigate around Kenmore Square by using the giant Citgo sign as a reference.

    If you said to someone, go meet the David Crockett at Pier 39, they might struggle to get there. If you told them to meet the David Crockett, the ship with the pioneer holding a rifle on the front, at Pier 39, chances are they’d be much more successful at finding the ship:

    Mystic Seaport figureheads

    The figurehead was an icon for its era, the way that customers could tell your ship apart from the many others that looked very similar to it.

    How is this relevant to marketing today? Think about all the different digital “ships” we “sail” that look identical in bulk:

    Our resumes look very similar.
    Our websites look very similar.
    Our business cards look very similar.
    Our social media profiles look very similar.

    The 19th century’s lesson on figureheads is more important than ever. What visually sets you apart from everything and everyone else? Instead of a single harbor crowded with hundreds of ships, we have social networking sites crowded with hundreds of millions of profiles. Not only do you need a unique selling proposition, you need a unique or easily distinguished visual presence as well.

    As the ship owners did in the 19th century, so you should today invest in good design, good photography, good imagery. If you don’t have the money, invest the time to learn the skill yourself. Otherwise, your “passengers” will never make it aboard in the first place.


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