Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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    What’s On My Mind: The Vital Importance of Community

    Let’s talk community for a second, and not just in the context of marketing (though marketing also). What is community, and why do we care?

    The standard definition and etymology is “a group of people associated together by fact of residence in the same locality”, from the Latin communis (which is the root word forr common, community, and communism). More broadly, it’s a group of people associated together by something in common.

    These days, community really is about that second aspect, about the association together by something in common. When you look at communities, especially online, we see common interests, interests that bring people together and keep them together. Go into a directory like Disboard or Reddit and you’ll find more communities than you could ever possibly join on virtually any topic.

    So why should we care about community? Community is an insurance policy, as both a concept and as something you should actively be participating in.

    What kind of insurance policy? Like any group of people working together, a strong community comes to the aid of its individual members when one of them needs help. For example, the community that belongs to Beau of the Fifth Column’s YouTube channel was able to muster large quantities of PPE gear at the start of the pandemic for local hospitals in his area that couldn’t get hold of any. Similar things happened all over; I had a small amount of excess stock of N95 masks in early 2020 and a friend’s sister (who was an ICU nurse) desperately needed some for their COVID ward that I was able to provide.

    Even in a commercial sense, a community can help its individual members. Our Slack community, Analytics for Marketers has folks helping each other out every day, answering questions, sharing ideas. For something like bringing attention to a particular initiative, communities can act faster and more effectively than large organizations, and can bypass traditional gatekeepers.

    The benefits of communities don’t stop there. Beyond organizationally, communities can be a huge benefit to individual people. As a species, we evolved to depend on our community, on our local pooled resources. Since the earliest days of hiding together in caves, we have been social animals to survive. We derive pleasure from being around others, especially when we are mutually supported. Those folks who tended to fare worse during the lockdowns of 2020 from a mental health perspective were those who didn’t have communities of some kind they could participate in digitally.

    The analogy of community to an insurance policy is especially apt because it explains why companies rarely succeed with communities to the extent that they might wish, especially from a marketing standpoint. For insurance to work, you have to have a lot of people invest in it over a long period of time with relatively few withdrawals to make the business of insurance financially viable.

    The same is true of community; individuals have to invest a lot into it to gain benefit from it. We cannot simply put a group of people together and expect magic instantly. Moreover, our community from the beginning needs to have that clear sense of common ground, that focal point which binds them together. Sometimes it can be a person, like the legions of fans surrounding a public personality like Taylor Swift. Sometimes it’s a franchise, like people who are fans of Star Trek. Sometimes it’s a concept, like voting rights, but in every case, the common ground is the root of community in both literal and figurative senses.

    Here’s another catch that companies often screw up. Common ground, common interest is almost always rooted in emotion. Sustainable, long-term community success is rooted in emotion. People have to feel something to believe in its importance. They have to have a literal passion for the common ground. If you’re trying to figure out why some communities work and others don’t, examine the emotions first. What kinds of emotions are common to successful communities? Why?

    If you want to know your prospects for success in building a community (professionally or personally), answer a few straightforward questions. How emotionally invested in you are your audience? Do you know? Have you talked to them? Do they proactively talk to you? If so, what do they say, and how do they say it to you?

    Here’s a second test. Tally up the number of actual, real, human audience members you talk to every week, whether it’s by email, social media, private community, in person, etc. If you can count the answer on one hand, you need to invest more time in speaking with the people already in your sphere, in your existing communities – followers on social media, subscribers to your newsletter, etc. Once you get past fingers and have to start counting on toes, you’re starting to talk to enough people to accurately assess your prospects for successful community building.

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  • 4 blogging tricks learned from #BlogSomething2012

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    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.

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  • #BlogSomething2012: Creating evangelists

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    The final part of our series looks at what happens when a customer becomes an evangelist. For those unfamiliar with the term in context, evangelists are your unpaid marketing force, customers so delighted that they can’t stop talking about you and recommending you to their colleagues, friends, and family.

    Customers who become evangelists are fueled by not only their love for the products or services that you deliver, but their faith in the implicit promise you make that things will keep getting better as time goes on. That’s a faith that you must constantly renew and constantly bolster. There are plenty of companies that have done something excellent once, but otherwise provided mediocrity; those companies may have satisfied customers, but certainly not loyal evangelists.

    When someone becomes an evangelist, they take a leap of faith and begin to share their reputation with you. Consider for a moment how powerful that is. Someone else is granting you a portion of the trust relationships they have with their friends and colleagues. They’re putting their own name on the line in some way, small or large, by endorsing you and saying, “Buy this company’s product or service. I love them and trust them.”

    If you’ve ever participating in any kind of team building retreat, there’s an exercise known as a trust fall, where you stand on the edge of a desk/table/tree stump, etc., fold your arms across your chest, and fall backwards. Your teammates link arms behind you and catch you. The implicit message is that you have to have faith and trust that your team will safely catch you and not let you simply fall and crash into the ground. That’s what your customers do every time they recommend you. They take the leap of faith that you will not damage the trust they’ve put in you and let down their friend or colleague. If you do let them fall, it takes a very, very long time for someone to regain their trust in you.

    The benefits, however, of rewarding someone’s faith in you are gigantic. Here’s an example. Once upon a time there was a scrappy little company that made a pretty awesome line of products. At a certain point in their history, they broke their faith with their customers and stopped making things better. Certainly, they still made things, but things stopped getting better, and stayed that way for a long time, culminating in the company’s stock price falling to record lows in 1997.

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    It took a long time for them to realize that things were really bad, but they eventually did and found their way again, making products that were consistently getting better and better over time. They delivered on the promise again, from consolidating the product line to simply making a better set of products, their evangelists slowly came back, people took more and bigger leaps of faith and were rewarded, and the company’s financial success reflects that.

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    Today, the company has more evangelists than ever. It has more supporters than ever. It also has more amazing products than ever. Certainly, they power their efforts with massive marketing dollars, but so does every other competitor in their space, and their competitors don’t enjoy the same success because their competitors don’t keep their promises nearly as well. The company, of course, is Apple, Inc., and few companies have the legions of evangelists that they do, so much so that people willingly pay large amounts of money and time to attend company keynotes, which are in effect two hour commercials for their products.

    When was the last time your customers showed up at your office in person, excited and eager to listen to you for two hours as you told them about your new products? That’s the gold standard by which you should measure your ability to create evangelists. Forget followers and retweets – when customers show up at your door for a two hour commercial, you know you’re doing it right.

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  • #BlogSomething2012: Closing the deal

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    In the early days of what would become the science of Egyptology, the ubiquitous hieroglyphs that adorn many Egyptian relics were indecipherable. The culture that spoke and wrote the ancient Egyptian language was long gone, and Arabic and European scholars were reduced to blindly guessing what the different symbols meant. It wasn’t until 1799 when Napoleon invaded Egypt and discovered the Rosetta Stone that hieroglyphs began to be accurately translated. Why? The Rosetta Stone contained three version of the same memo (and it was basically a large interoffice memo from the kingdom to the priesthood) in hieroglyphs, demotic (commoner) text, and ancient Greek.

    The ancient Egyptian language is a peculiar one that combines phonetics, literals, and ideograms together in a complex interplay. Sometimes a picture of a bird will represent the sound of a letter; other times, that same bird will represent a bird. In order to read hieroglyphs, you need an understanding of the subtleties, nuances, and contextual changes that give the language meaning.

    When you think about it, closing a sale isn’t much different. When you’re closing a deal, you’re juggling different contexts and different states of mind in a prospective customer that are as fluid as hieroglyphs. One moment, the customer is using words that suggest a need for emotional inspiration or reassurance. In the next moment, those same words are being used to define literal contract terms.

    Where a master salesman differs from the average salesman is in the ability to recognize when contexts are changing and be able to understand how that language changes as he or she listens in real-time. The only way to develop that level of understanding is through a post-mortem with the customer. If you work with a phone system that permits it, start off all your sales calls with the disclosure that calls are recorded for quality assurance (a nearly meaningless phrase that everyone says nowadays) and then record your sales calls.

    30 days or so after a sale has completed and the customer has been a part of your company, go back to the customer, buy them coffee or something, and ask them at what point the decision was made. Once you know when the decision was made, go back in your call log and listen to the call or calls that preceded a decision and listen to the language you used and the customer used – that’s your Rosetta Stone, your way to decipher what helped close the deal. Over time, as you gather more and more of these call logs, you may start to notice similarities and commonalities among your successful calls. That’s when you look at that, extract the data, and refine an even better lexicon of the words, phrases, and approaches that are successful for you, much in the same way that Egyptology was revolutionized all from what was a mundane interoffice memo.

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  • #BlogSomething2012: Converting prospects to qualified leads

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    Imagine sitting down for dinner at a table in a fancy restaurant and being handed a menu with no prices on it. Wouldn’t you find that a bit unsettling? Is the food free? Is it so expensive that no one dares put the price on the menu? What if the waiter extols the virtues of the special but doesn’t tell you about the price, the name, or what’s in it, just that it’s really special and incredible.

    This is the situation that so many prospective customers find themselves in when on a website, especially in B2B (although there’s plenty of price-free landing pages in B2C too).

    Now think about the things that make someone a qualified lead, a true potential customer:
    + Can they even afford our product?
    + Are they the decision maker?
    + Do they actually have a need for our product?
    + Are they going to make a purchase in the reasonably near future?

    A number of digital marketers tend to create obscenely long landing pages that never actually let prospects answer these questions for themselves. I totally understand that, especially if your product is expensive, like a television or a car. The prevailing school of thought in lead-focused marketing is to acquire the lead fast and first, then worry about quality later, because a good sales department could possibly convert people who are on the fence. The flaw with this school of thought is that it makes for more effort for your sales team to process all those leads.

    If the diner has sat down at your table, they’ve demonstrated a need, namely they’re hungry enough to show up at your table. They’ve also come in and sat down, which means that you can reasonably expect them to make a purchase at some time in the near future. If you clearly list who shouldn’t be eating which foods and what the prices are, you’ll lose some prospects (especially the people standing at the door reading the posted menu) but those who come in, sit down, and pick up the menu are saying they’re ready to begin doing business with you.

    Suppose you handled your marketing in the same way? Here’s the menu, here are the prices, here is our list of who our product is appropriate for and who it’s not appropriate for. Will your prospect volume go down? Unquestionably. But the percentage of prospects who are more qualified as a percentage of all prospects should rise conversely, because the folks who clearly can’t afford you or clearly couldn’t benefit from your product won’t even bother sitting down at the table.

    Something to chew on.

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  • #BlogSomething2012: Finding prospects

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    If you’ve ever had the opportunity to hold a polearm like this halberd, you know they’re not light weapons, often in the 5-10 pound range. To swing a halberd in battle, you have to be reasonably sure of your target, because if you miss, you leave yourself open to counterattacks while you reposition it. Even lesser armed and armored opponents can take you down with relative ease if you swing and miss. If you want to get a feel for this, hold your average heavy broom by the last 6-9 inches of the handle and swing it around.

    Likewise, in marketing, getting someone to make a commitment (even a tentative one) isn’t easy. People have limited resources – time, energy, money – and asking them to make a commitment is like asking them to take a swing with a halberd. In order for them to do so, they have to be reasonably sure of their target, and that means that you have to give them an opening, give them an obvious target, an obvious reason to make a commitment.

    Take a look at this selection of pay per click ads based on the search term “social media marketing”.

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    Many of these ads are like battlefield warriors proudly shouting out their clan name and lineage, announcing their readiness to do battle and conquer the customer (and then take their wallet). Guaranteed resuls! Social media marketing experts! Voted best social media agency!

    Run.

    As someone with a halberd, I don’t see an opportunity and I see plenty of risk, so I’m not going to take a swing. I’m unsure of my target, unsure of what’s going to happen. Retreat from those battles is the logical choice. But look, there’s one that’s offering a free white paper. There’s an opening, where I see a clear benefit to me. That’s the one at which I’ll take my swing because I’m reasonably sure of my target.

    As the marketer, it’s our role to give someone a reason to take a swing, give someone an opening or an opportunity to make that commitment. Take a careful look at your marketing copy and ask whether you’re out there shouting out your readiness to conquer your prospective customers or whether you’re inviting them to make the first commitment with an obvious, valuable target.

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  • #BlogSomething2012: Building Audience

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    The Puritans have an interesting story, but the defining characteristic of their movement that brought them to North America was a firm belief that what they were doing was of value, even if it separated from orthodox, mainstream thought. Their separation from the Church of England and subsequent exile to other countries including the New World required intense faith just to keep going, especially in the harsh conditions of colonies like Plymouth. That belief eventually led to the earliest foundations of America.

    Ask yourself this: how deeply do you believe in what you’re promoting, what you’re marketing, what you’re doing on a day to day basis? Are you just collecting a paycheck and waiting for quitting time, or do you feel compelled to do the work you do because it means something more?

    If there was a secret to marketing overall, that would be it – that you have a belief beyond just the paycheck to power your work. That belief, that energy, that feeling is contagious. It turns ordinary blog posts into extraordinary ones, it turns marketing collateral that’s dull into something sincere, it turns your speaking from a rote recitation of the company slogan because you have to into a passionate exhortation that what you’re doing matters.

    If you’re not passionate about what you are marketing, the likelihood of you creating awesome, engaging, human content is exceptionally low. Chances are you’ll end up resorting to creating “industry-standard turnkey solutions to leverage synergy and maximize innovative outcomes”. Your audience can tell when you flat out don’t believe in what you’re doing, and when they sense your lack of passion about your products and services, they’ll also choose not to believe in you, and your business will suffer for it.

    If you want to build an engaged, interested audience, start by finding something to believe in yourself.

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