Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Awakening

  • Do best what matters most!

    80% of your results comes from 20% of your efforts.

    The Pareto Principle, or 80/20 rule, has been enshrined in the memorial of productivity axioms as well as in our heads. There’s a second version, created by Jay Arthur, the 4/50 rule:

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    A full 50% of your results comes from a core 4% of your efforts.

    The point of the 4/50 rule is to emphasize that there are certain fundamental things you do that deliver significant benefit, while everything else builds atop that foundation. The question is, which 50% of your results is it, and what efforts are in the 4%?

    How will we find out the answer? Start at the end, with your KPIs. What things, what numbers really matter? (if you’re unfamiliar with KPIs, read this first) What are the handful of numbers that, if they go to zero, you lose everything?

    Take a step back. What are the primary activities you perform that feed into those KPIs?

    Lead generation is a marketing example. If your leads go to zero, you go out of business. What feeds your leads? For this website, it’s all about organic search. If I don’t write great content and get it shared, I don’t get organic traffic, and my leads go to zero.

    Weight loss is a non-marketing example. If your calorie intake exceeds your calorie expenditure, then your weight loss goes to zero (or negative!). The core activities to focus on are what you eat and how much energy you expend.

    What do you do with that information? Now that you know what’s inside the 4%, what’s the next step? Focus relentlessly on the 4%. Move everything else out of the way until you deliver excellence in the 4% first. Optimize and improve anything in the 4%. If you’ve got tough choices about what to do on a daily basis to be more productive, dig around for additional efficiencies in that 4%.

    Relentless, uncompromising focus on the 4% it will help you move the ball down the field towards your goals faster than anything else you can do.

    Do best what matters most!

    What’s in your 4%?

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  • Before you start your 2015 marketing

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    Before you start your 2015 marketing, take a few minutes today to do some mise en place, a French cooking term for “everything in its place”.

    Get out a notebook and write down all of the ideas that have bubbled up over the holidays. Lots of things coalesced – capture them now before the daily grind obliterates them from memory. You might have thought of the next big thing, but you’ll lose it quickly once routine begins.

    Clear out your inbox. Archive 2014. Go ahead, you won’t miss it, and if you do, you can just search the archive.

    Unfollow and unfriend the people on social media who are focus vampires. This year, you’re going to need as much focus and discipline as possible. The hardest will be people who you passionately agree with but are distracting nonetheless, like the friend who always posts political stories in your alignment. You agree, you believe what they believe, but their content gets you riled up and distracted. Unfollow them or mute them, or even consider setting up a separate leisure account.

    Finally, change your mental diet. Lots of people enter the year on a new physical diet (with varying degrees of efficacy). Change your mental diet by removing blogs that no longer provide useful information to you and seeking out 5-10 new ones. The nice thing about a mental diet change is that it’s easier to stick to. You remove what doesn’t serve you any more and add what does – and rarely, if ever, do you look back.

    May 2015 be the year in which you achieve the breakthroughs you’ve been looking for!

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  • My 3 words for 2015

    As another year rolls over, I look back at the three words I chose for the previous year to see how I did, then look at the new words for the coming year. I tend to pick words that are verbs when I can, because reciting them works as a subtle imperative for me to actually do them. Let’s see how 2014 went.

    Discern. Did I get better at measuring and filtering? Did I do a better job of quantifying myself? Yes, actually. I spent a lot more time measuring sleep tracking and a variety of other things, and professionally, it was a banner year for measurement. Measurement habits are definitely something I can carry into 2015.

    Decide. Did I get better at making decisions? Yes, but they weren’t always well-informed. So I got better at the end result of decision making, but the decisions felt less correct this past year than they have in the past.

    Discover. Did I get better at making discoveries? Quite a bit. It was a terrific year for new creations, new inventions, and for learning entirely new topic areas.

    Overall, two out of three ain’t bad. So how do we top that? We come up with 3 new words, of course!

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    Agility. Agility is about being able to react nimbly. In order to do so, you must be flexible and you must be alert. These are two areas where I think I’ve got some growing to do in 2015, physically, mentally, and spiritually.

    Research. Over the past week, while on vacation, I’ve working on a new book. Each day, I’ve sat down and cranked out a couple thousand words, and it’s felt absolutely wonderful. This year, I want to dig in more on the topics I care about. That means less casual reading and more in-depth study. Fewer listicles and more scholarly papers. There’s a world of knowledge out there, growing daily, and it’s something I feel an urge to tap into.

    Kaizen. Radical change rarely happens, save for cataclysmic events. Tiny change, incrementally done, often sticks because the commitment grows quietly in the background. Instead of 30 day challenges and “make the leap”, this year I want to break up improvement processes into more increments so that they become second nature almost immediately. For example, instead of a big “drink more water”, the first tiny increment would be, drink water first thing in the morning, before coffee. Later down the road, I’ll add a little something in, but that’s an easy habit to start.

    What are your three words?

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  • The hottest marketing job skills of 2015

    LinkedIn recently published their data-mined list of the hottest individual job skills of 2014, based on recruiter interest and LinkedIn profile data. Here’s the raw list:

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    Do you see a trend? I do. Let’s cluster them together by broad topic areas like marketing, data analysis, and technology skills:

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    That’s impressive. Of the top 25 skills, only two are not in the buckets of marketing, data analysis, and technology – and they’re down at positions 15 and 17.

    So these are the hot skills of 2014, of the year that was. If you wanted, as Wayne Gretzky would say, to skate where the puck is rather than where it was or where it is now, what would you pick as the top skills of the year ahead?

    My recommendation is simple: combinations of these skills. Being proficient in one skill set is likely to get you a good job somewhere. Being proficient at two? That makes you nearly indispensable.

    Suppose you had a background in statistical analysis and data mining, AND a background in network security. You could build and identify security problems just as they broke out and started trending, putting you far ahead of the pack.

    Suppose you had a background in business intelligence and mobile development. You could engineer the next generation of business intelligence apps, the sort of apps that people would love to use.

    Suppose you had a background in Perl/Python/Ruby and SEO/SEM. You could code infrastructures or make ridiculously sticky content because your content would be more interactive and more fun than the standard swill.

    This is where the puck is going or could go, and these combinations of skills are what will differentiate the top performing employees from everyone else, make or break the next wave of startups, and redefine your business. Look for them, test for them, and grow them in your companies!

    If you’re a marketer looking for the next big thing, the next big thing is you. Pick out a skill on this list that you don’t have and grow it alongside the marketing skills you already have. You’ll be virtually unstoppable.

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  • Choose a marketing-free zone

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    Today, I want to flip things on their head a bit and advocate against marketing. I want to advocate for a marketing-free zone. In our efforts as marketers to experiment with as many different marketing channels as possible, we have a tendency to let marketing spread to everything.

    Everything becomes marketing. We fill our social feeds with marketing. Our blogs and personal websites become marketing vehicles. Anyone who’s ever had a friend or relative in Amway or other network marketing knows the feeling of all-marketing-all-the-time.

    The problem with always-on-everywhere marketing is that you have no outlet for relaxed creativity or personality. Everything has a production quota, an editorial calendar, a schedule, and an assignment.

    The challenge I would pose to you is to choose which channels and places will be marketing-free zones. For me, these are places like Path, my personal Facebook profile, and Instagram.

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    I reserve these places for stuff that isn’t about work or marketing. They are free of schedule, free of editorial review, free of everything except whatever I feel like creating. Sometimes I’ll go weeks without posting a photo to Instagram. I’ll share stuff that’s important to me as a person on my Facebook profile but not relevant to marketing or business.

    I would urge you to be just as clear in your own channels. What’s off-limits to you? Where will you post work-related stuff only by choice and quality rather than obligation? Where do you feel free (within the bounds of ethics, law, and good taste) to be yourself? If you don’t have a place set aside that’s a marketing-free zone, make one as soon as possible. Your intellectual freedom and creativity will thank you!

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  • What World of Warcraft’s Garrisons Teach Us About Priorities

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    World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, Warlords of Draenor, introduced an entirely new game-within-a-game called Garrisons. Ostensibly a response to players’ requests for housing for their characters in-game, garrisons changes the Warcraft experience considerably. Now, your character can act as a commander or general to non-player characters called followers, as well as build an entire town. It’s a bit like adding SimTown to Warcraft.

    Here’s what the task management screen (called missions) looks like:

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    In this screen, you assign your followers to different missions that they can go out and do for extended periods of time, while you play, work, or have a life outside of the game.

    Here’s what I find interesting about garrisons. They’re a fun mini-game inside the game, but they’re also a significant distraction from playing the actual game you signed up to play. World of Warcraft was principally an MMORPG. You created a character that was a hero and adventured all over a virtual world. You beat up Internet dragons, made friends, fought for your faction, and collected loot.

    Now, it’s almost like your hero is semi-retired. Yes, you can still go out and adventure and kill Internet dragons, but you can also play Warcraft’s version of Pokemon, known as pet battles. If you travel to Southshore, you can play an in-game version of Plants vs. Zombies. Miss playing Atari’s Joust? You can do that too. Want to just try on new outfits and dress up a character? The Barber Shop and transmogrification allow you to do just that. Garrisons adds yet another diversion inside the game. Is that a bad thing? No, because it’s entertainment. If you’re more entertained by Pokemon than by killing Internet dragons, then Warcraft is still a place for you, and everyone pays the same $15 a month no matter how many or few features they use.

    However, garrisons present an interesting lesson for us as marketers. You can get so caught up in the administration of your garrison – growing followers, assigning personnel, managing missions, building structures, harvesting crops, extracting resources – that you never get around to the adventuring part of the game in the time you have to play each day. You never get around to what is ostensibly the big mission, killing the bad guys and saving the world, because you’re diverted into managing your town.

    It should be no surprise that life in your business is the same. You can lose all of the hours of your day doing administrative stuff. You can manage people, tasks, assignments, etc. and find that the entire day has vanished on you, and your business hasn’t moved forward in its mission to change the world for the better.

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    So how do you fix that? In Warcraft, you install add-ons that accelerate the process of managing garrisons. You can streamline mission management, letting software make most of the analysis for you and leaving only the final decisions for you to make. You can reduce your focus on your followers. You also have to be rigorous with your time management, going so far as to set limits on yourself about how long you’ll spend in your garrison before you hop on a gryphon to go out adventuring. For me, I will spend a maximum of 15 minutes in a garrison (which adds up across multiple characters), then hit the road so I can advance my characters’ progress in the world.

    In marketing… it’s about the same, really. Use software like marketing automation and CRM technologies to automate what you can, streamline what you can. Use packages and practices like GTD and Inbox Zero to tame the inbox. Most of all, set hard limits using your calendar about what you’ll do when during the day so that you can reclaim time in the day to accomplish your mission.

    Both Warcraft and life offer multiple entertaining diversions that can take you off-mission. If the mission you’ve chosen is valuable, be rigorous in your personal discipline to stay on task and keep moving forward. The world needs you to succeed!

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  • Who to support on #GivingTuesday

    Chances are, you’re going to receive an endless deluge of pitches from non-profits you’ve been in contact with, all today. Your inbox survived Black Friday, it probably survived Cyber Monday (which I swear is an acronym, Can You Blast Email Repeatedly), and now you have to weather #GivingTuesday.

    Some people have their personal causes, their personal crusades that matter a great deal to them. Those folks don’t need any motivation to give today or any day.

    For the rest of us, here are a few thoughts.

    First, find a cause that affects you personally, if you want to donate to something. If you don’t have anything like that off the top of your head, go look at Charity Navigator for four-star charities in a 5 mile radius around you (or larger, if you live in a rural area):

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    Second, look for charities that are less wealthy. A $10 donation is more impactful to a charity scraping by than a charity with millions of dollars in the bank. Obviously, if they’re less wealthy because of mismanagement, that’s something to take into account, but sites like Guidestar and Charity Navigator can help you determine who’s running their shops well.

    Third, as you plan your gift, think about taking the amount and making it a monthly gift if you can. If you planned to donate 20, consider a monthly donation of1.67 instead. If you planned to donate 50, consider a monthly donation of4.16. Why? Non-profits are like any other business – they need cash flow all year round. Having a predictable cash flow makes the business easier to run, rather than boom-bust cycles that make for tougher forecasting and planning.

    Go forth and support something worthwhile!

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  • The best things in life are difficult

    How impressive would a 6 foot redwood tree be to a tourist in Sequoia National Park?

    How marvelous would the skeleton of a chicken harvested last week be to an archaeologist?

    How safe would you feel under the protection of someone who got a black belt in 3 months by mail order?

    In the modern age, we lose sight of the fact that not everything in life is supposed to be bite-sized, convenient, easy, cheap, and immediate.

    Giant sequoias live for thousands of years, assuming they survive things like drought and fire. Fossils take millions of years to form. Black belts can take as long as a decade to achieve, and in some dojo only 1 out of a thousand students will ever get one.

    The best things in life can be difficult. You could even make the argument that the best things in life are supposed to be difficult by definition.

    Here’s a recent example from the holiday weekend. I baked two sets of cookies. One was from a box kit, the hilariously named “Ugly Christmas Sweater Cookie Kit”.

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    It was easy, just add water, wait a minute or two, roll out the dough, and start cranking out the cookies. Bake ’em, decorate ’em, and enjoy.

    Everything went well except the last part, because the product tasted like cardboard.

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    The second set of cookies was made from a dough that took half a day to make. It started with only raw ingredients, which required mixing, kneading, and sitting for several hours. The dough was a lot more tricky to work with, but the end result tasted like terrific, real cookies.

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    There was significantly more effort involved. It was significantly more difficult than “just add water”. But the end result was incomparably better.

    As you approach business, marketing, or just life in general, don’t turn away from a difficult path just because it’s difficult. Question whether it’s difficult for a good reason, and if the reason is legitimate, consider taking the harder path!

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  • Cracks in the armor

    There is no place on Earth with a greater reality distortion field (since Steve Jobs passed away, at any rate) than Disney World, which is where I was for the last week. Yet even Disney World, the self-described “happiest place on Earth”, is losing its power to shield you from reality.

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    Disney World does an absolutely masterful job of quarantining reality. If you wanted a master class in managing large groups of people, go to Disney World and pay attention. Line queues have interactive exhibits and multiple blind spots so that it’s difficult to tell how long the line is. Rides are engineered to move large groups of people at a steady pace, because a short line that doesn’t move is more infuriating than a long line that inches forward steadily. Food is portioned to be healthy, but not so filling that you’re not hungry a short while later – just in time to pass many of the snack kiosks. Your experiences are manicured, groomed, and managed to the greatest practical extent possible… but that extent is beginning to fade.

    Why? Disney made the choice to bring the Internet into the park everywhere. It’s part of the experience in many ways – the mobile app experience is incredible. Lines have near real-time wait times. There’s a restrooms near me button, arguably the most useful thing ever. You can plan your entire visit – but the penalty is that the Internet is in the park everywhere.

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    That means that parents can be absent in-person. More parents than ever were taking calls, checking email, and not being wholly present with their families. More kids were texting, Snapchatting, and Instagramming. The Internet’s reach into the park brings reality back into Fantasyland in an unparalleled intrusive way.

    If you want to see where the armor really cracks, fire up any geo-located pseudo-anonymous messaging app such as Whisper, Yik Yak, etc. and you get a sharp dose of reality that completely breaks the illusion.

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    More and more, if you want to have a reality-distorting experience, it now has to be a conscious, willing, disciplined choice. Discipline means not checking your email, even though you can. Discipline means turning off Facebook. Discipline means actually seeing and hearing your kids scream with delight when they meet a Disney princess, and not looking at a phone instead.

    The reward for your mental toughness is the richness of the experience you’ll have. It’s a mighty struggle to be present, to be focused, to be in the moment, but the struggle is worth it.

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  • The new meaning of privacy

    Privacy doesn’t mean private any more.

    Private used to mean you didn’t have access to something. We denied you access to certain information.

    Think about today, this world for a second. We say we want privacy. Then we hand over all of our information to app makes, to devices, to the world to see in our social feeds.

    This occurred to me as I watched the early adopted gush over Amazon’s new Echo speaker/interface, the primary purpose of which is to listen to you and respond when you ask it something… which in turn means that it’s surveilling you ALL THE TIME.

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    This is a device… connected to a corporation that supposedly people mistrust… listening to every word you say and shipping it back to a server farm in the cloud.

    So when we say privacy, we don’t mean actual privacy. We mean something else.

    Maybe we mean using the data we give only for what we believe to be its intended purpose.

    Maybe we mean simply not misusing our data, or not using our data against us.

    Whatever we mean, we don’t mean private in the sense of “I don’t want to give you my data” and we haven’t meant that in some time.

    Food for thought as you consider how to integrate the new meaning of privacy into your marketing: the more private you are as a company, the less trustworthy you are. The less private you are as a company about what you do with customers’ data, the more trustworthy you are. Take this into account when you’re talking about privacy as a company or brand!

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