Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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How to keep up with too many social networks
DJ Waldow, Loren McDonald, Cassie Witt, and a few others asked the interesting question yesterday:

“Are the growing demands of social media/networks weighing you down? At some point (I think) you have to choose those you get the most juice out of. What’s your take?”

Here’s my take. Again, same disclaimer as my post the other day on content sharing: this is not “the right way” or a “best practice”. This is only how I handle it based on my limited time available each day and peculiar workflow. You should test and analyze for yourself.

I take a page out of airline travel and aim for the hub and spoke model. I pick a few major places as my networks of choice where I’ll participate, listen, and share. These are the hub cities where you can get a flight to just about anywhere the airline goes. I’ve got presences on other networks but I don’t jump in as much there, minor destinations that you have to fly through a hub to get to. And there are a whole bunch of networks where I just don’t even show up at all, places where the airline just doesn’t go.

How do I make this determination? In what should be no surprise to anyone, I look at my data. Here’s how. Fire up Google Analytics or the web stats software of your choice and look at the last 90 days. If you’re in GA, look at the Social Traffic Sources report.

In here you’ll find all of the major social networks that Google Analytics is tracking. Let’s look at the network and make some choices. On any given day, a social network can consume as much time as you let it, up to and including your entire day. That’s not optimal, obviously, so you want to slap some restrictions on it. Let’s say you allot 15 minutes to post, reply, and connect/explore per network. Decide how many networks you can afford to spend 15 minutes a day on, then choose those from the top of your list. In this example, we’ll say you can afford to spend up to an hour of your day being social.

The report indicates that I should spend my limited time on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn. So far, so good. I should set up profiles on StumbleUpon, paper.li, Instapaper, and Diigo. The other sites, maybe set up a profile, maybe not.

So far, so good. I know where to spend my time as of right now. Like an airline (a properly run one, anyways) considering service to new cities, I should consider looking at the rest of the list. So once per month or once per quarter, find one of your top 10 most compelling pieces of content:

Then go to each of the social networks that is not currently a hub and post that content there if appropriate. For example, none of these blog posts is a particularly good fit for Flickr. Then in the week after that test posting, look at the week’s data to see if any of those tests took off and drove traffic enough to bump into a new bracket. That represents possible opportunity:

That’s how I keep up with social networks and still stay on a strict time budget. It’s only one person’s methodology, however, so I would encourage you to come up with your own, share your own, and gather up ideas for how other people manage their social networks.

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May 10, 2012
Closing techniques are for content creators, too
I was watching a music video earlier in which the artist (after the content ends) was taking the time to thank the people who helped produce the video. What struck me most was the last line of dialogue:

“So if you guys liked this video and think I should do more like it, let me know. And uh… so thanks for watching guys and… um, you’re awesome. Bye.”

As closing statements to an otherwise excellent video go, that was fairly awful. But it’s not just salespeople and musicians that struggle with closing. Virtually everyone has that blog post that they just can’t seem to end definitively, that lingers just a paragraph or two too long. Everyone who has written more than a handful of blog posts has struggled with the voice in their head that says, “How am I going to end this? How do I conclude this?” Of course, every salesperson has struggled with closing a deal. If you’re a content creator, I would bet you that you’ve had trouble closing a piece you’ve created.

They’re all related because in many ways, they’re all the same problem – how to close your content definitively and satisfyingly. Which means that what works for one profession can be broadly applied to many closing situations. Let’s look at a couple of sample closes and see how you might use them outside of the sales profession.

The Ben Franklin close:

In sales, you wrap up by presenting a summary of the pros and cons of your presentation. Normally in sales, this is heavily biased to favor your product or service. All of the cons are insignificant and all of the pros are supposedly game changers. You can use it in a more balanced way to close out a blog post, an email, or even a music video. Instead of just asking for generic comments, the aforementioned music video could have ended with, “On the one hand, doing this style of music is really interesting because… [insert list of reasons] but on the other hand, it has some drawbacks because [insert list of reasons]. I’d like to hear what YOU think in the comments.”

The Adjournment close:

In sales, the adjournment close is basically to set a followup call. You say something along the lines of “I can see you’re considering this carefully. When should I come back next week to see how your decision is progressing?” Again, this kind of pushy close can be used to much better effect in other media. For example, instead of ending a blog post with, “So what do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comments.” you could close up a blog post with, “Consider carefully what we’ve shared here today. Leave your comments below, and I’ll post again in a week on the topic to round up your thoughts and share our collective insights.” That’s a much stronger way to close out a post and it offers people a chance to have their thoughts heard as well in the followup post.

Learn some of the most basic closing techniques (there’s a terrific list at ChangingMinds.org) and practice them. Even if you’ve got nothing to sell and you have absolutely no desire or interest in working in sales, learn the closing techniques anyway. Then start to pick through them and work them into your blog posts.

What you’ll find is that wrapping up content becomes much easier. It’ll save you time, it’ll save you stress and anxiety about how to bring a piece to an end definitively and in a satisfying manner, and it’ll make your content creation much stronger and more compelling. Of course, if you do have something to sell, integrating solid closing techniques into your content will make it sell that much better too, won’t it?

(yes, that was the shopping list close along with a Hopkins tie-down)

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May 9, 2012
4 blogging tricks learned from #BlogSomething2012
The experiment that was #BlogSomething2012 has come to a conclusion. A week of blog posts of all sorts has ended. Let’s see what we learned.

1. Choose your imagery wisely. Some days, the content of the photo was easy to relate to the story. Some days, it was particularly difficult, such as the statue of the Puritan.

2. Participation scales with commitment. Despite a ton of retweets and comments on Facebook before the experiment began, in the end, only a few people took on the challenge and actually participated.

3. Confinement breeds creativity. The act of forcing pre-set topics and content had an interesting effect on my blogging habits: I came up with more ideas and topics I wanted to blog about last week than normal, each time reminded that I had to defer them until the week was over. Luckily things like Evernote can store them until later, but setting up a challenge for yourself like this may get your brain generating new ideas just to be contrary. This, by the way, comes from a martial arts exercise I learned from Bud Malmstrom way back when.

4. The one thing I would have done differently would have been to create a feedback mechanism for participants. Certainly, the hashtag helped some, but I think a dedicated Facebook group or page or some other collective mechanism might have been a helpful thing to have had.

To read all the posts in the series, check out the social media search for #BlogSomething2012 hashtag.

What did you think of #BlogSomething2012?

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May 7, 2012
Running out of things to blog about? #BlogSomething2012
One of the most common phrases I’ve heard when it comes to generating content is, “I don’t know what to write/blog about!”

Well, while I can’t offer a permanent, ongoing service or solution for that sort of thing, I can offer at least one week’s worth of exercises, and maybe that will give you a habit or method you can use for the future. Let’s call this #BlogSomething2012, and here’s how it will work if you want to play along.

Over the next week, on the days listed below, I’ve selected a photo about which you should blog. The photos are all from one of the local museums and you have permission to embed them in your posts (click through to each link to get the embed code). To give you even more focus and/or challenge, I’ve provided a theme and description that each post should be about. Note that the topics are all marketing and sales related, even if the photos are not – a neat way to get out of a rut and think outside the box a little. How can you tie the photo into your post? How can you make both relevant and work together?

If you participate, please tag your post with the hashtag #BlogSomething2012 and share it. I hope you play along – let’s see what new marketing and sales ideas you come up with!

Day 1: Monday, April 30

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Theme: Growing audience
Description: How do you grow your audience, get more people to find you and become interested in you?
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Day 2: Tuesday, May 1

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Theme: Finding prospects
Description: How do you find a steady stream of “just looking” into people who will raise their hand and say, talk to me?
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Day 3: Wednesday: May 2

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Theme: Converting qualified leads
Description: How do you pull qualified, “ready for more” leads out of a pool of prospects?
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Day 4: Thursday, May 3

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Theme: Closing the sale
Description: How do you finish the dance, get someone to sign on the line or swipe the credit card?
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Day 5: Friday, May 4

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Theme: Turning customers into evangelists
Description: How do you turn satisfied customers into loyal customers, and loyal customers into raving fans that can’t stop talking about you?
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Keep an eye on this social media search for #BlogSomething next week to see what people come up with.

Will you join me next week as we all Blog Something?

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April 27, 2012
How I blog
Mitch Joel asked me yesterday to take a few moments and add to his “how do you blog” meme, so I thought I’d share what I do. Blogging for me occurs as part of a larger content creation and curation process. Here’s the rough outline.

Idea Collection

I use Evernote nearly religiously for collecting bits and pieces of ideas. When I’m driving, when I’m at my desk, whenever, I jot things down, little fragments of ideas, words, phrases, etc. These can stay in Evernote for days or weeks until they start to coalesce and form more than just hooks. On any given day, one or more of these will leap out at me, asking to be written about. Today, for example, this post was top of mind, but there was another post on platforms and a martial arts kata that are going to see the light of day relatively soon.

Creation

Once I’ve decided on what that idea is going to be for the day – an analytics post, a concept, a cooking recipe, whatever – I head over to MarsEdit for the Mac, which is my favorite blog editor. Why? It’s dirt simple, the interface is spartan and stays out of my way, and it posts quickly and efficiently.

As I blog, I start thinking about ideas and themes. I typically try to match up the theme with some kind of imagery, either from my own photo catalog or from Flickr. Because I do make money off of this blog, I restrict myself to Creative Commons By Attribution photos that permit commercial use. While I’m not selling other people’s content, I am indirectly using it to earn revenue, so I use the strictest interpretation of that license.

Once the post is done – after many rewrites – I’ll publish it. But that’s not the end of the blogging process for me.

Distribution

Next, I head over into my feed reader and pull out the remaining articles that will fill out #the5. I assemble this in Evernote as well, creating the list, writing the introductions, writing the article summaries, and formatting for the different social network platforms.

These get shared out in different formats to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+. After distribution is done, I respond to comments as I can and move onto the fourth and final stage of blogging.

Curation

Much of the material I share during the week is valuable enough to make it into my weekly newsletter. The pieces that were shared get sliced up, categorized, and archived for publication each day after the distribution is done.

So there it is, the relatively short process of blogging for me.

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April 6, 2012
Which WordPress permalink structure should you choose?
Andrea Vascellari asked on Twitter:

is there still value in using the date in permalink structure? i.e. /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ Or is the postname “enough”?

Good question. There have been varying opinions about the usefulness of permalink structures in WordPress. If you’re not familiar, permalinks are a fancy name for how WordPress URLs look:

Some folks say they should be post name only. There’s no category, no year, no month, just the name of the post. Many folks advocate that this is better SEO than any other format because the URL is least cumbersome. Once upon a time, that was true, but Google’s algorithm continues to reduce the impact of anything you can game or control. That said, this is still a cleaner, more attractive look for your URLs.

On my blog, I use the date permalink structure. The reason I use the date-based permalink structure has nothing to do with SEO and everything to do with analytics. By having the date-based permalink structure, I can see when my most popular posts were written. Here’s an example, in the Site Content/Pages report:

I can see in the last 30 days that there are 3 posts from prior years that are still incredibly popular. That’s fairly useful. Now, let’s kick it up a notch a bit. (yes, I overuse that expression. Too much Emeril) Suppose I wanted to see what were the most popular posts of this quarter:

The fact that some very old posts are still attracting high amounts of volume indicate to me that I need to go back and revise them, make sure they’re still relevant. The older they are, the more likely they are in need of some freshening up.

Now let’s dive even more into the weeds. Suppose I wanted to look at the most popular posts from this quarter that I had actually written this quarter, to see what’s popular among my new stuff? We turn on the advanced filter, type in Match RegExp for Pages, and search for this pattern: 2012/01|2012/02|2012/03

Ah ha! I can see now what’s been working well that I’ve written during this quarter.

I recently used this style of reporting to export a list of URLs for Buffer from December. A lot of people had tuned out, especially in the second half of the month with the holidays, so I queued Buffer up with posts I’d written back then in order to get some more eyeballs on them.

It doesn’t take a great stretch of the imagination to then go and apply this to conversions and see what’s been converting of new stuff or old stuff or stuff written during a certain time period.

So does this mean that the date-based permalink structure is the right way to do it? No. It’s only the right way for me. If the kind of reporting I showed above is of little or no interest to you, then date-based permalinks will only make your URLs unnecessarily longer. What URL structure you should choose should reflect what your needs and goals are.

If you decide that you do want to make a change to your permalink structure for an existing blog, make note of the existing structure and then grab Scott Yang’s Permalink Redirect plugin. This lets you automatically redirect your old structure to your new structure with minimal SEO impact.

Thanks for the question, Andrea!

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March 30, 2012
A day off…
I’m away from everything today to have some wisdom teeth removed. While I’m out, I thought I would leave you with a relaxing three minute video I shot near my office of a vernal stream as the snows melted. Enjoy.

Vernal Stream
Watch this video on YouTube.

See you next week.

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March 16, 2012
Top and bottom 10 blog posts of 2011
As the clock ticks down, here are the top and bottom 10 blog posts of the year. I picked 10 of each because I think it’s interesting to see what caught on and what didn’t.

The Top 10
- #re2011:t10: How to value social media traffic: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/07/how-to-value-social-media-traffic/
- #re2011:t9: Google Analytics power tips for tracking behavior: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/08/4-google-analytics-power-tips-for-tracking-behavior/
- #re2011:t8: How to use rel=author tags for SEO: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/06/how-to-use-relauthor-tags-for-seo/
- #re2011:t7: How to get started with Google+ Pages for business: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/11/how-to-get-started-with-google-pages-for-business/
- #re2011:t6: Google+ and search signals, tinfoil hat edition: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/07/google-and-search-signals-tinfoil-hat-edition/
- #re2011:t5: When is the best time to tweet? https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/04/when-is-the-best-time-to-tweet/
- #re2011:t4: Social media strategy in one slide/one page: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/07/social-media-strategy-in-one-slide/
- #re2011:t3: How to set up Facebook insights for your website: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/05/how-to-set-up-facebook-insights-for-your-website/
- #re2011:t2: Social media now directly influences search rankings: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/06/social-media-now-directly-influences-search-rankings/
- #re2011:t1: How to measure Google+ with analytics: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/07/how-to-measure-google-plus-with-analytics/
The Bottom 10
- #re2011:b10: Frameworks: a place to hang your hat: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/10/frameworks-a-place-to-hang-your-hat/
- #re2011:b9: The flipside of diminishing returns: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/01/the-flipside-of-diminishing-returns/
- #re2011:b8: The foolproof way to win: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/12/the-foolproof-way-to-win/
- #re2011:b7: Beyond the toolbox: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/10/beyond-the-toolbox/
- #re2011:b6: What’s obvious to you: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/04/whats-obvious-to-you/
- #re2011:b5: Barriers to entry: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/01/barriers-to-entry/
- #re2011:b4: Happy Black Friday: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/11/happy-black-friday/
- #re2011:b3: Should you have a formula for creating marketing programs? https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/12/should-you-have-a-formula-for-creating-marketing-programs/
- #re2011:b2: How to tell if you need a mobile strategy right now in 3 steps: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/03/how-to-tell-if-you-need-a-mobile-strategy-right-now-in-3-steps/
- #re2011:b1: Evaluating opportunities and saying no smartly: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2011/04/evaluating-opportunities-and-saying-no-smartly/
I’ll close out 2011 by saying thank you for being a reader, a supporter, an advocate for my blog and what I publish here. Without you, this blog would have stopped a long time ago, so thank you for being here, and I look forward to sharing even more with you in 2012.

Happy New Year!

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December 30, 2011
Three Words for 2012
Every year since 2006, friends of Chris Brogan put together our three words for the coming year that define what we’re focusing on in the coming year. They’re not goals, but more like rails or guides that help keep us moving in the general correct direction. Here are mine for 2012.

Story

When I look at what I’ve created in the past few years, there’s value in the content. How-to lessons, detailed research, data and techniques, but something’s been missing. Something’s been lacking. On the way home from the dojo one night, I was listening to master teacher Stephen K. Hayes talking about how the deeper lessons of both Buddhism and ninjutsu are transmitted. He said, “We’re going to tell a few stories here, and hopefully this will evoke some stories in your mind of your own. That’s how this training works.” At that moment I realized exactly what has been missing from a lot of my work. In 2012, one of my three words and focus points will be on better learning this skill.

Restoration

One of the more interesting healing classes in World of Warcraft is the restoration druid. Rather than heal with holy powers and flashes of light, the druid uses the powers of nature to restore allies to health. Regrowth, nourish, rejuvenation, lifebloom, swiftmend, tranquility. Here’s what’s powerful about the idea of restoration druid spells on real life: so much of what we’ve done in the past few years has burned everything to the ground. We’ve exhausted our email lists. We’ve tapped out our social networks. We’ve cut staff down to the bone to scrape up a few extra pennies per share on earnings calls. In short, we’ve depleted all of our resources and wondered why our marketing is getting less and less effective. In 2012, one of my study points will be restoration. How do we continue to be effective as marketers while restoring our resources to health?

This extends to personal life as well. When you go all-out, inevitably, something has to suffer. My question to myself is, how can I bring restoration and regrowth to areas of my life other than business?

Compassion

Originally I had chosen something else for the third word, but as I was looking over the years, I thought it’d make 2012 more challenging and interesting to focus on something I’m not good at. Compassion I mean in the Buddhist sense – the ability to see through your own issues and feelings enough to understand what someone else is going through and provide some kind of legitimate help. One of the greatest dangers of social media, particularly as you start to develop any kind of following, is that you tend to attract like-minded people. As a result, you hear less and less about things you disagree with, things that challenge you, things that make you think. When all you hear is how awesome you are (whether you are or not) you face the great danger of your ego overwhelming any good work you’re providing. I have heard in the back of my mind from time to time the ugly, egotistical whisper that says, “this (person/place/thing/task) is below me”. It’s exactly at those moments when compassion can provide a much-needed bitch slap upside the head to bring reality back into the picture.

My task for 2012 is to be more rigorous and more disciplined in my own mind, guarding against that ever-growing danger.

So there you have it, my three words for 2012: story, restoration, compassion. Blog yours and leave a link in the comments!

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December 28, 2011
#re2011: Top and bottom 10 posts from my blog this year
Beginning tomorrow, I’m starting a Twitter series until the end of the year called #re2011. It’ll be a replay of the top and bottom 10 posts from my blog as determined by Google Analytics. Each post will be tagged, indicating whether it’s in the top or bottom 10. At the conclusion of the series, we’ll have a wrap-up blog post with everything in one place. If you don’t follow me on Twitter, you can find me at @cspenn to see the updates every day.

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December 21, 2011

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