Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • Social Media Marketing World 2019 Day 2 Recap

    Social Media Marketing World Day 2 Recap

    Yesterday marked day 2 of Social Media Marketing World 2019. What were some of the key takeaways? Facebook gets rightfully stomped on, video rules, content shock continues, influencers don’t comply, and much more. Watch the video for full details.

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    In today’s episode recapping day two of Social Media Marketing World 2019 it was a crazy day in terms of a lot of the information shared by the various folks who are speaking. So to kick off the day Michael Stelzer, the founder talked about, he did a really nice recap of the history of Facebook in the last five years, and how it went from a marketer’s, best friend and this massively open platform to unify the world to increasing increasingly smaller and smaller and less open and less open until now. It is basically a completely self serving machine outside content doesn’t do well. marketing content doesn’t do well. It is only for what is AI optimizes for and for what people pay for, which I thought was a nice retrospective. He did have a

    Nice little takeaway in terms of a sort of a meme for your brain about marketing, and specifically about marketing on social networks, and that was that, instead of making a smaller impact on a bigger audience make a bigger impact on a smaller audience that I thought was helpful for folks to hear that they should stop trying to be a Kardashian right and focus on the audience they have and growing that not as quickly but trying to create much more loyalty. So people remember to go seek you out. He also was showing you the difference between Facebook’s video viewers and YouTube video viewers YouTube’s video of yours least in in his data, were much much more loyal, helpful.

    50% getting to the end of in many cases, five to seven minute videos, whereas he shows what he

    example where he had 20,000 on average 20,000 viewers start a video on Facebook, same five to seven minute video. And by the time they got to the end, the completion rate was was 19 out of those 20,000 so 19 people, so it was it was useful. Nick Nevin, who is a YouTube practitioner I felt like a quarter million subscribers really went over some useful stuff. Number one he advocated that we all and I will be doing this myself take the YouTube Creator Academy course just to learn the ins and outs in the same way that I advocate for Google’s analytics Academy would seem that we all have to get our homework done and go to YouTube Creator Academy so i’ll be doing that. Now. completely free of course, just Google for YouTube Creator Academy.

    He said the when you’re customizing your channel

    in a do it in

    Lot of time and I was actually actually had the trust insights YouTube channel up while he was talking just starting to make the changes right in the session.

    The new and returning user videos, there’s a section in the, in your channel where you can put a video to show you that new user or returning users and his advice was that is where you put your goal generating video videos. If you want people sign up for an email list, you want people to buy something you want people to do whatever, that’s the place that it goes. He said that’s the most valuable real estate on your YouTube channel from a video perspective, so make sure that that is where you invest some some time and that’s involved.

    He had a really good point on

    your videos when you run analytics on the on your videos, instead of looking at what gets views because use can be very transitory.

    Analyze which videos give you new subscribers if you go to YouTube Analytics you go into the the video

    Section, you have to add a column for subscribers. But then if you sort your videos by that you can see these are the videos that generate real loyalty because people are saying yes, I’m raising my hand I want to watch more from you. So that was very helpful.

    Ursula random did a fantastic session on influencer program. She runs the sap influencer program. And one of the interesting things there was that they do their influencer marketing, planning and budgeting on an annual basis. So instead of having it be one offs, like oh, we need an influencer for this event for this event, they actually try out the whole year and assign influencers based on their their editorial calendar, which is a smart way of doing it. And her co presenter Megan Connelly,

    talk very I thought when I don’t think spent enough time on

    regulatory requirements for influencers are much deeper than most marketers think.

    The example they were giving because SAP is a German company is GDPR GDPR. The general data protection regulation, the EU directive about piracy

    extends through your supply chain. So as part of your compliance, if you’re working with an influencer, they must also be GDP are compliant. If you want to make sure that you’re you’ve mitigated your risk, your influences have to be as compliant as you are, they have to adhere to your policies and vice versa,

    in terms of data sharing influencers may not necessarily be able to do as much data sharing, or have to go take additional steps to make sure that they are passing along audience to you in a way that is compliant, which was I think, an important part of that. Again, they had to they had to do a whole

    the whole session and but I think that could probably be its own session on on regulatory requirements for influencers because it is if you do

    Wrong, a very serious risk.

    The fine folks at buzz Sumo through a lunch yesterday and there’s a lot of

    talking about just content in general. But one step that I thought was really very aligned with this idea of Mark Schaefer, his idea of content shock was that in 2018, we, the planet cranked out 912 million blog posts. Now we think about it. That’s a lot.

    Last year trust insights did analysis of Google news stories, and we cranked out as a civilization like 93 million news story. So the fact that we basically did 10 X, the number of blog posts mean, it’s really just swimming in, in content. And it’s about as a prize that as as more marketers are creating more stuff. It’s getting that much harder to get eyeballs on things. And finally, I did my talk which you’ll be able to

    You want to see the slides moment you can go to where can I get the slides calm right now. And the video and stuff will be up. I think I kind of plane ride today’s I’m sure I can get video at least edited on the plane ride today, back to back to Boston. But one of the things we did after the talks was I did a dinner with talk Walker. And

    we had we did like a 45 minute presentation on using AI and data to make better social media marketing. And one of the key takeaways from that was that search, your search marketing and your social media marketing must work together, they must share data. If you don’t do this, what will happen is you’ll be essentially spending money twice because they can use a lot of the same data they can use. When you look at social trends can pull that data out, feed it to your search keyword and regenerate new keyword lists or enhance your keyword lists and then

    From that pass that data back to social media about when things will be trending. So there’s a lot of value that you can extract when you put those departments together. Ideally, all of your digital marketing team should be collaborating together. But search and social in particular

    are really really important to bond together to be sharing data frequently and at at volume. So that was day two of Social Media Marketing World today I’m going to catch about half of the show because I got to fly back early afternoon flight but

    lots of good stuff to work on and and things to do as next steps. In terms of the courses we can take an additional training. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel.

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  • Social Media Marketing World 2019 Day 1 Recap

    Social Media Marketing World Day 1 Recap

    Yesterday marked day 1 of Social Media Marketing World 2019. What were some of the key takeaways? Content marketing strategies from Robert Rose of Content Marketing Institute, a bit of AI, do handles matter on Instagram, and more. Watch the video for full details.

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    in today’s episode we recap everything that happened yesterday at day one of 2019 social media marketing world it was the all access workshops and stuff day

    a few takeaways i thought were really useful one robert rose from cmi content marketing institute did a fantastic job of outlining different content marketing strategies and three things that really stood out for me this as of mental takeaways that you can just keep in your mind if you’re if you’re trying to determine what kind of content strategy to go after he said you can with your content solve a small problem for big audience or solve a big problem for a small audience by being very specific and the problem that you solve

    You can either appeal to a large group of people or you can drive tremendous loyalty from a small group of people. And he gave a bunch of examples of this, but I thought that was just a really insightful way of of

    communicating in a very simple matter how to build your content. So that was really useful. He also outlines two case studies of companies that had identified non traditional competitors when it comes to content market.

    He said for Netflix, when Netflix looks at

    its competition and getting more eyeballs and getting more views and getting people to remain engaged with the service. They don’t view

    Hulu or YouTube board or,

    you know, network television as a competition. And he said, they view the number one biggest company

    editor for getting more views as sleep

    because you know that that occupies honestly the the lion’s share of most people’s day. So what can they do to claim more time? Which is interesting, slightly scary because sleep is really important. But I thought it was a very interesting point.

    He said when you look at the way Airbnb does its content marketing, Airbnb did market research and found that they were not in competition with hotels of the world. What they were in competition with was people choosing not to go anywhere, people who weren’t traveling. And so their content marketing strategy pivoted to

    focus on being like a travel magazine of sorts of getting people to convince the people yet you actually should go on a vacation you should go on a trip in order to drive you

    usage and adoption of their products. So those are some really clever

    and interesting ideas. I attended a session as well on AI for marketers, given by somebody who runs an ad agency. And it was an odd mash up of

    some of the basics of AI. But then the speaker name eludes me focused largely on just using Google AdWords and what things do and don’t work within Google AdWords, which was good.

    But it wasn’t really he he could have done and he probably has done the AdWords portion of that talking not needed the AI part because I don’t know that it added any value. A couple things that were cool takeaways. The true view for actions which is allows you to convert to only pay when someone converts was interesting because it does put a nice end cap. Call to Action on your videos and

    A lot of the new call cost per action stuff within AdWords of getting people only paying when you get a lead or a sale, as opposed to paying per click or per day or per impression, which in this day and age when Facebook is, you know, trying to get in my market share in advertising. And a lot of people having issues with the way Facebook does its pricing. I’d be an interesting advantage for Google. And then have some fun Hallway Conversations as well. We talked I was talking to Melanie Desi all about the use of data when, when and where and how to get more data for projects that you’re working on. And fundamentally, it comes down to sort of the the 60 framework for for data, one of which is comprehensive, what are the questions you’re trying to answer? And once you know that you can go out and find data that will inform or

    Deep in or broaden the points that you’re trying to make. And if you’re trying to do things like

    explain to people how to be creative, for example, there is a tremendous amount more data on creativity on the ways people measure creativity and things that would probably be useful.

    Jay Baer and I were sitting down in the speaker’s room, and we were talking about

    people who put like, like, tag 30 people per post on

    Instagram or Twitter. And so we used the data set that trust insights used for counting hash tag with a hash tags mattered and repurpose that to count the number of handled tags in posts to see does that matter? Does does that tactic work for driving engagement? And the answer is no, not really. What drives engagement is

    More than anything of courses is the content itself. And thanks, but in terms of a tactic to get people to pay attention to you, it’s not great, at least from the data set that we’re working on, which is about 4 million posts, on on Instagram and on Twitter. So some useful takeaways there. No need to spend a whole lot of time on hashtags. Someone, gosh, I forgot who was talking to. But someone wanted us wanted me to talk a bit about that study that we did on the first insights website about why hashtags don’t lead to more growth. And the short answer is

    when people search on Instagram, for example, they don’t actually search for the hashtag to search for the word right, you don’t search for hashtag coffee to search for coffee. So if your posts have naturally has those terms in any way, you’ll get the eyeballs regardless of whether you use the hashtag, which is a really

    Pretty basic observation. So today, a whole bunch of sessions to go to we’ll have some more interesting takeaways and things to share. But as always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter and talk to you soon.

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  • Learn How to Scale Social Media at the HELLO Conference

    Learn How to Scale Social Media at the HELLO Conference

    I’ll be speaking at the HELLO Conference the week after Social Media Marketing World, so if you can’t make the journey to San Diego, come spend the day with myself, Katie Robbert, Mark Schaefer, and many others in New Jersey. I’ll be talking about scaling social media; we marketers have a limited number of hours in every day. What could we do to make the most of that time?

    I’ll show you how I scale both my personal social media and how Trust Insights does it, using automation, AI & machine learning, and data science, in some never-before-seen technology that’s accessible to anyone with a very modest budget and open-source technical expertise. Watch the video for a sneak preview.

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    Do you feel like you get lost at big conferences

    I sometimes do. Where there’s so many people to meet and talk to and and get to know and so many sessions to attend

    that you get a lot of experience.

    Don’t get me wrong. Some of these big conferences are amazing for what you can learn and from the networking you can do, but sometimes you don’t want something a little smaller. Sometimes you want something that where you could actually get to meet everybody at the event.

    One of these is the helo conference it’s going to be in New Jersey March 28 2019

    I’m going to be speaking at

    Katie Rivera from Trusted Sites will be speaking at Mark Schaefer will be speaking at it, and it’s going to be one of those great events that is limited to about 100

    ish people. So can’t have, you know,

    10 or 20 or 30 or 50,000 people just trying and navigate your way around, you actually be able to meet everyone who’s going to be attending the event

    for what I’m going to be sharing at the event, we’re going to do something a little different. Most of what I’ve been talking about lately has been sort of the why and the what of artificial intelligence and machine learning for marketing purposes, for business purposes, how it’s going to impact your business. And I want to first

    an event like this,

    where there’s a chance to sit down with people and actually talk to them and ask questions, interact with people

    want to do something a little bit different. So we’re going to talk about

    AI machine learning automation, process automation and data science. But

    focusing a little bit more on some specific ideas for implementation that you can use that at this point, I’m going to assume you’re conceptually bought into the idea that

    machine learning and process automation are good things, but how do you apply them on a practical level, particularly to digital marketing and social

    media. So let’s look at just a sort of a hint or a teaser of one example. And with the promise that

    if you attend the helo conference, we can dig into some of the more some of the details and some other ways that you can adapt this technology to your specific

    use cases. One thing that I find is a used to be very time consuming, what social media was

    trying to figure out what to share, because you don’t want to just share yourself, that’s not exciting, and nobody likes it.

    So you have to share other stuff. But one of the problems with sharing other stuff is that you it’s very difficult to measure it. And it’s also very difficult to curated effectively. So one of the things we did at trust insights was

    because we’re a startup and we want to spend our vast majority of our hours

    serving clients and serving customers and not just, you know,

    reading through articles,

    built some software that ingests blog feeds from reading people, logs, analyzes them

    for key topics and for things like click through as measured by open API’s like Billy and then creates social ready posts that you can load in batch

    to services like a Gora pulse or buffer and things like that. So this is an example of what the interface looks like. It’s not It’s not the world’s best interface it this is a sequel database

    and income the articles there scored by the by certain specific topics. Is this article about things like Google, or is it about social media was about AI? Or is it about IBM is about women in technology? Is it about leadership and strategy? Once we know what an article is about, we score it and if the The score is above a certain threshold, we then feed it to a link shortener. In this case, the bitly link shortener using link retargeting so this is a concept that not a lot of folks use link retargeting allows you to not only track the links

    that you share on social media, but then also pixel, the people who click on those links and be able to show them ads later. This is a very valuable thing to do, because it now takes all that curation and helps you derive value from do I monetize it.

    If you know, for example, that the links that you share about health care or b2b or b2c are resonating with your audience. You can then

    target those audiences with advertising that says, hey,

    here’s a new b2b, white paper or a new healthcare white paper or

    video on YouTube or whatever goals you wanted to achieve with your social media marketing.

    You will

    do that with link retargeting. So if I flip over to my my retargeting system here, this is a system I use called stack adapt. I’ll put a link in the show notes if you go to trust the insights.ai slash stack African

    and more about the service.

    You can see I’ve got some retargeting audiences for healthcare links for b2c links for b2b links.

    And the number of people that have clicked on those links the last click on the b2b link was four hours ago on a be a ceiling was a an hour ago, and this about 9000 people from my social media in those audiences.

    Now that’s for social media, specifically people who are clicking on links I share on Twitter, on Facebook, on LinkedIn,

    not really on Google Plus and

    by tracking people

    who go outbound who click on somebody else’s content not on my content on somebody else’s content like articles from the washington post or Digital Trends or Scientific American

    I know where people are going and I know

    what’s of interest and I know I can target folks with advertising regardless of whether they follow me because if an influencer shares a post I publish I can

    as long as I use the link shortener

    I can track the clicks on their stuff so you it’s a way to to help expand your reach and you’re the value of influencer marketing by saying hey, this influencer shared this link but anyone who from the influence of hauntings or clicks on that link is enrolled in our inner retargeting audience. So

    this is a very

    quick glance

    at what you could learn at the Hello conference. If you attend. Now, I would encourage you and there’s a there are two ticket levels. There’s an early bird level for just general sessions. And there’s a VIP breakfast which is is more expensive, but you get a chance to sit down with people like Mark and and people like me and

    talk through these very specific situations, talk through ways to apply these technologies to your business and use cases. And we can demo in a little more detail how these things work. So I hope you get a chance to attend the helo conference. It’s going to be in New Jersey. So it is literally a stone’s throw from New York City probably about 25 minutes driving time from New York as a live in New Jersey. So everything’s 25 minutes from something

    and it’ll be a march 20 2019.

    Hope to see you there

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Making Trade Shows Worthwhile?

    You Ask, I Answer: Making Trade Shows Worthwhile?

    Adam asks, “How do you get more out of exhibiting at trade shows? What’s something you’ve done?”

    Making a tradeshow work for you typically requires a three-part strategy: air cover, ground game, and activation. Watch the full video to learn what each strategy is and why you shouldn’t use just one if you can avoid it.

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    In today’s

    episode, Adam asks, How

    do you get more out of exhibiting at trade shows and conferences, what’s something you’ve done that’s worked making trade shows work for you typically requires a three part strategy in order to get the most out of a show. Now,

    trade shows are costly, right, they are not something you can do

    to the maximum benefit

    at anything less than going all in on a show. So

    if you have a choice between doing three conferences or trade shows, you know,

    just dipping your toe in the water or doing one show all in

    you will get greater returns

    typically out of going all in on one show. Rather than going half heartedly into into three or four or five shows

    the three part strategy here,

    air cover, ground game activation. So air cover means awareness. And this is typically done with sponsorship, lanyard sponsorship, you know, big name on the thing branded, pre conference emails, seat drops, swag bags, you name it, it is about getting attendees to recognize the name of your company on site. And

    it is as that sounds, it is air cover. It is about making sure that people have tangible reminders on a frequent basis that you’re there that you support this event that they’ve gone to, and that they should want to talk to you that you’re a big deal. air cover is about creating that impression of you, you’re a big deal. Now, you don’t necessarily always have to

    pay, but it sure does help.

    You can create air cover through things like earned media, you can create air cover things like digital advertising, you can do location based in app advertising,

    for example, have done that in the past. And that has worked well, particularly an event that isn’t yours, or that you don’t have a spot a full sponsorship for.

    And again, with influences if you can identify the influencers, who are at the event and develop meaningful relationships with them, and get them to promote you that can create some air cover.

    The second thing, of course, is ground game. And this is the physical

    presence that you have at the show where people who are aware of you can go and engage with you, it is almost always an exhibition, it is almost always a booth on site

    where people can go to, to find out more to talk to a person, hopefully, it’s somebody who actually works at your company. So none of this, this, this, you know brand ambassadorship, we have a salesperson of some kind, who is just a contractor who’s there, basically to only to chat people up, but doesn’t actually know anything about your products. That’s that’s definitely not the way to go.

    Typically. And this is especially true in marketing technology,

    people go to the shows, because they’re, they’re generally good sales people. They’re not necessarily technical people. So make sure that you have at least one technical person on site if your product or services, a technical one that can answer tough questions. So your ground game the booth, it can be other physical locations, especially if again, if a booth is either out of your reach, or you don’t like the booth atmosphere.

    So

    at Social Media Marketing World a couple years ago, I loaned out part of my hotel room, because I was one of the benefits of being a keynote speaker at the event was that you get this like, multi part hotel room, and I had, like, you know, I sitting area and stuff. And so I learned that out to some friends, so they could use it for product demos in a more

    more casual environment, certainly a quiet environment. So but yeah, your ground game. And again, this is something that you don’t need to buy a booth for, but it sure does help. I have seen it done successfully, where people just hang out at a specific table, or

    do

    breakfast, or lunch round tables, or do specific sponsored events, like a breakfast or coffee or something. But whatever it is, it just has to be a place where people go,

    they can physically interact with you. And the third part is activation. This is the tip of the spear, if you will. And this is about creating demand. The third part is

    generally ideally having one or more speakers at the event.

    Because those are the folks who can get up on stage in front of a crowd,

    little crowd, big crowd doesn’t matter and share something of value that

    proves your company knows what you’re talking about. And that you have intelligent people working at it. So somebody who can go get up and show like how to solve the top five problems that independent coffee shop owners face, or someone who

    can show why agencies are still relevant in the age of self serve digital, whatever the thing is, you need to have that activation that creates the demand

    in terms of which order you do things, you do it from the bottom up. So activation comes first. Because you can do okay with a speaker.

    Right. And, and that speaker could be an employee and, and they just get some benefit out of it.

    If you pair speaker with a ground game, then the speaker can say, hey, and be sure to stop by our booth in the exhibit hall and say, Hi, I’ll be there, you know, answering your questions for the next 45 minutes or whatever. But you want that to pair the activation link ground game. The third step would be the layer on the air cover. And it gets progressively more expensive. Each step you go. So

    speakers,

    if you are

    if you’ve done a really good job building your brands that you may even get paid to speak at the event, which can save your company. A tremendous amount of money

    booths are expensive air cover and big sponsorships are really expensive. So if you are on a limited budget, start with the speaking wrong bill to your ground game. And then as as a revenue and business results come in, build that air cover

    that said, any one of these individual strategies

    is weaker than the synergies between two or more. And things work best when you have all three.

    So

    if you can only afford to have a speaker you do what you can, right that’s, that’s okay. But if you can have a speaker and a booth or speaker and a breakfast or speaker and a and a an activation a ground game activation is on kind you’re going to do better. And if you have the air cover somehow you could do really, really well. Now if you wanted if you’re a small to midsize business and you just don’t have the 50 or 100 grand it’s going to take

    you couldn’t do

    hack job versions. So you have the speaker that’s kind of non negotiable. But then you can have a sponsor coffee or breakfast and then you can have an influence or maybe it’s maybe it’s your speaker, if you’re lucky enough to have a good speaker within the roster of your company, you can double up have a speaker also being influenced or creepy air cover. So you could do that on a

    smaller budget. But at some point you’re going to have to spend some money in order to get the most out of a trade show. So that’s sort of the three parts strategy for making trade shows worthwhile for your company for your business for your for your marketing,

    the one thing I found that doesn’t work

    it

    and I’ve seen this at a bunch of different companies is just sending someone to a show and having them wander around I’ve not seen that be a successful strategy you have to have something that attracts attention unless that person is an influence of some kind that can

    hold court or whatever paying to some have someone just go to a show on wander around has not an all the companies and all the customers that work for generated as good results as this

    act ground game air cover strategy. So we’d love to hear your thoughts about what’s worked for you at trade shows. Please leave your thoughts in the comments and of course subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Making Marketing Conference Workshops Engaging?

    You Ask, I Answer: Making Marketing Conference Workshops Engaging?

    Chantal asks, “I’m running a social media workshop in a month and am struggling to find ways to make it more interactive. What suggestions do you have?”

    Great question. Workshops, like any form of content marketing, need to be entertaining, engaging, and educational. So how do you make a marketing conference workshop more engaging? Engagement in a workshop setting REQUIRES participants to be doing stuff, as opposed to sitting passive. Let’s go through a few different things you can have them do. Watch the video for the 5 key techniques I like to use to make workshops better.

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    In today’s episode shauntel asks, I’m running a social media workshop in a month and I’m struggling to find ways to make it more interactive. What suggestions? Do you have great question. Workshops like any form of content marketing, because they are a form of content marketing need to be entertaining, engaging and educational. The three E’s of all content marketing, a must do as many of those as possible. You want all three but at the very least, you can need to be doing two out of three now educational is pretty straightforward. give people information that they need based on

    what they asked you to teach, entertaining, probably not the best person to ask bat follow folks like Kathy close guest or Robin tight or folks like that to who are who are proven entertainers and public speakers.

    Edge engagement is all about participation in a workshop setting. workshops are different than talks, a lot of people who are really good speakers, public speakers are not necessarily good workshop leaders. Because the skill set is different. A workshop is much more close to a classroom setting where you have a significant amount of time to teach stuff to people, and to validate that the information got from your brain to theirs. As opposed to being on stage where you just do your dog and pony show for 1520, 3040

    minutes. And then and then Off you go. People in a audience in a Publix beach are much more passive. Yes, they’re tweeting or clapping or paying attention, maybe. But they’re not engaged, they’re not doing something in a workshop, they absolutely need to be doing something in order for them to feel like they’re getting value out of it. Especially if it’s like a half day or full day workshop. full day workshops are probably one of the most difficult exercises you can go through as an educator. Because people don’t have that much energy. They don’t have that much stamina unless they’re constantly being engaged. So let’s look at a few different things that you can do to make your workshops better. Number one, the first thing I always do with a workshop is spend 15 to 30 minutes doing input, which is okay, well, why are you here? What did you want? What do you want to get out of this? Sometimes I will have the organizer send out a pre workshop questionnaire to see what people say and then ask again in the workshop to see if the answers are different because I attendees change or there are some things that people will want to really see. But you want to try and do both, ideally. So get that pre attendee feedback

    for things that people can do. I like the sort of the rhythm of teach the explain the thing you know, what is the thing why is thing important? How to do the thing and then a valid so what is Twitter analytics? And why does Twitter analytics matter? How do you pull the data and then Okay, now let’s let’s validate that you got the information and that you can make use of it. When you structure a workshop like that where you you do a deep dive on a few techniques rather than the scatter shot of a public talk you know attendees do get more value they you may not and you will not get through as much material as you think you will because that validation part takes time we as professionals who’ve been doing this awhile are like well you know, just click click click click click and you’re done right but for a lot of other people they don’t move it that’s because they don’t do it as much as we do so that what why how validation the walkthrough is a very specific techniques is a great way to keep people engaged, keep the what and why relatively compact, and then the How have people follow along and then have people do it themselves and value did they were able to do it on guided. The second thing to do is group exercises. This is especially true for anything that is creative in nature teach a technique like how to use contagious snag and say, Okay, now you let’s let’s see you folks work together as in groups of two or three or four and craft, you know, some some interactive screenshots of your own. Let’s see you go ahead and do that group exercises are especially good when the materials a little tough and

    people are afraid of being singled out. So if a if you’re using like IBM Watson studio, IBM Watson studio can be a very intimidating experience. So pairing people up or grouping people up to three or four, they can all kind of point around and help each other based on what you taught and help them remember. Oh, yeah, and when you’re doing neural network model, are you having a choice of the SPSS back end of the spark back end? Which one was that married, you remember and married like, Oh, you for this application use the spark modeler. So it will get people in Indore interacting and working together collaborative, which is very useful. The third thing are we can work well, depending on your skill as a moderator are hot seats where you say, okay, you know, somebody bring up your, your LinkedIn profile or your Facebook page, and we’re all going to pitch in ideas for how to make it better. And you as the the workshop leader will be doing the lion’s share of the suggestions but you can say, Okay, well, you know, I wouldn’t use that image size on on that profile. It’s not the best side the best image sizes 1200 by six at

    try and keep your text under 20% on just as a general rule on Facebook, and so on and so forth. So you use hot seats as a way

    you have to be very skillful as a moderator to pull that off, because it can leave people feeling defensive and criticized. So you want to make sure that you elect people and start with yourself. Start with your own profiles, you can say, Hey, I’m, I’m not perfect, I got stuff wrong with my profile to let’s critique mind first, and then don’t be abusive to yourself. Right show that the exercise will no harm shall come. And the fourth one, and again, this depends on you reading the crowd. And the comfort of the crowd will be contests and competitions to say like, okay, in the next 15 minutes, we’re going to have a contest and you could win, I don’t know, a free song off of Spotify or something, or whatever meaningful giveaway that you want to give to your crowd and say, in the next 15 minutes, you’re going to craft as many emoji based tweets as possible or something, something like that. But think about the way that game shows work. Either regular game shows or shows like Iron Chef or America’s Test Kitchen and things like that where you can take the idea of the format and then transpose it into your workshop to make the workshop more interactive. So those are some ways to take those social media workshops or frankly any marketing workshop to the next level walk through his group exercises hot seats and contests and competitions. Read the crowd carefully though not every technique is right for every crowd you’re gonna have to get some experience with it and get a sense of what people are comfortable with and you’ll find that out in the inputs either with the the pre pre workshops questionnaire and then on the day of you’ll look at people’s temperament and go this is not a contest crowd or you see a bunch of folks like ya know, ya know, my my vacuum cleaner companies, the best vacuum cleaner company, there’s competition competition time so you got to learn to read the crowd. So great question complex question and will require a lot of practice. I would suggest doing a run through some of these a dry run maybe with some friends, some colleagues just to test it out and test out your skills as a moderator as always pleases have any follow up comments in the comment section and subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Thanks. You’re watching want help solving

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  • You Ask, I Answer: The Best Marketing Conference To Attend

    You Ask, I Answer: The Best Marketing Conference To Attend

    Ben asks, “If you had to recommend a single general digital marketing conference to attend, what would it be? Where can i get the most takeaway educational value?”

    As with anything, the answer to this is highly dependent on your needs. What do you need to learn the most?
    – B2B marketer? Go to the MarketingProfs B2B forum.
    – Social media marketer? Go to Social Media Marketing World.
    – Content marketer? Go to Content Marketing World.
    – In the Hubspot ecosystem? Go to INBOUND. Likewise, if you’re in the Salesforce ecosystem, go to Dreamforce. IBM shop? Go to IBM THINK. Whatever vendor you use the most, go to their event.

    That said, a conference is also not always the best choice for takeaway educational value. Take a strong look at all the online course offerings available to you – conferences are great for surface dives, networking, and big picture landscape perspectives. They’re less good at a deep dive into any one subject.

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    In today’s episode, Ben asks, If you had to recommend the single general digital marketing conference to attend, what would it be? Where can I get the most takeaway educational value? Well, that is a difficult question to answer. Because there is no one best there is no one best of anything for anyone. There is what is best for you, and what your needs are, what your educational needs are. There are dozens of really good marketing conferences from the biggest of the big little boutique conferences, their conferences specifically for executives, I was just at one called the fuse digital marketing conference, which was excellent.

    If you’re a b2b marketer, you should be going to the marketingprofs speed before him. If you’re a social media marketer should be like the Social Media Marketing World if you’re a content marketer.

    should be going to content marketing world. And then most importantly, if you are using a vendor heavily and the vendor has an event, you should probably go to that event because you’re going to get a lot of useful

    tactical, hey, here’s how to use more of the thing you’re already paying for. So you know, for example, if you’re in the IBM ecosystem, you should be going to IBM. Think if you’re in if you sales force going to dream force. For use HubSpot, you should be going to inbound there’s all these conferences that are focused around the tools that you use.

    Here’s the catch, and here’s the thing I think it’s important.

    A conference is not always the best choice for educational value for takeaway educational value. If you want to do a deep dive on something you probably going to be better off taking an online course

    if educational value is the things important because conferences conferences are great for

    Surface dives into a lot of different areas or landscape view of something. They are great for networking. They are great for building your professional network and learning from peers, having conversations with other peers.

    They’re not as good at deep diving into just one thing to say, I want to learn all about

    logistic regression, right? I want to, I want to master that. Well,

    in my experience, you’re not going to get that out of a conference, you’re going to get a whole bunch of ideas and a whole landscape of different things to try.

    But you’ll then have to go back and do the research yourself to teach yourself those things. I was just at an event in Minneapolis, the mini analytics conference and I saw some folks put up some slides. So as case studies, here’s the technical infrastructure that we use and and

    they showed their machine learning algorithms for every

    Step of the marketing funnel of this particular company’s marketing funnel was fantastic. It was a road map of the different techniques they use. They didn’t teach the techniques, they didn’t teach their implementations techniques. They just told you what they use is kind of like

    if you were to open a cookbook, you would see

    just the ingredients to the recipe, but no instructions on how to cook. It is now my obligation as a conference attendee to take those slides to take those learnings and to teach myself any techniques I don’t know and to use my knowledge of the techniques that I do know to reverse engineer their recipes and apply them to my work at trust insights and then work for our clients.

    So for someone like me, who is

    a self learner as I hope you are

    that one conference presentation

    was good enough to give me a roadmap for the next year maybe two years of learning

    but none of it is take away educational value that I can immediately start using that’s not what a conferences for.

    So it depends on your needs if you need to learn is like a for example if you deeply need to learn how to do drip campaigns

    yeah in your marketing automation software a conference will give you some ideas

    it gives some best practices and may fill some gaps or expand your knowledge of drip nurturing. But if you don’t know how to use the feature, you are better off spending investing a lot of time in the tutorials to help guides and then if a vendor or third party provides it taking courses on those things. If you look at some of the courses that are available for free out there right now, Google Analytics Google has a whole analytics Academy they have an AdWords Academy it’s not

    called afterwards anymore. I still call that words just of habit. HubSpot has its inbound Academy and they’re these, you know, all these different trainings that you can get for free. If you assemble for yourself what you need to know, MIT’s entire curriculum is is open and available for viewing and download. There are dozens of other universities that have published their content in things like iTunes University. So it’s more What do you need to know? And how deeply do you need to know it? They’re like I said, I think there’s a tremendous an important role for conferences and in exposing attendees to new ideas into expanding our understanding of a of a landscape and seeing those best practices or those case studies that

    give us the ingredients list for what other people do are doing so that we can do the same so that we can learn the same

    and then reverse

    engineer own solutions

    if you are and this requires himself or if you are the kind of person who is not a self starter with learning We need someone to be guiding you through

    a subject again at conferences and the best place for that because what you’re going to get will be

    tactically usable as is. But if you don’t know how to adapt it, you’re going to need to invest time in taking those courses and trainings that will supplement those ideas and expand on them and teach you the ins and outs of them. And that’s that that’s totally okay. There’s nothing wrong with saying hey,

    I don’t have the the inclination or maybe I don’t have the time to do to teach myself you know,

    machine learning. I was reading it was funny I was reading an evaluation I got from the marketingprofs comments one attendees

    Well,

    I didn’t get any, any tactical takeaways from this session. I was like, well, you shouldn’t have because there weren’t any to take away. It was a talk. That was a why talking to what talk, not a how talk,

    teaching somebody how of machine learning would be like trying to teach someone, the how of neurosurgery. Like,

    it’s a discipline it requires, it’s a profession. It requires more than 45 minutes

    getting imagine trying to teach somebody but how of marketing and 45 minutes really difficult to do. So know your goals, know what you need to learn the most and know which educational vehicle is going to give you the outcome that you care about the most. It may be a conference,

    they may be a course maybe a book, maybe however you learn best it may you may end up hiring a mentor.

    And that’s a great approach to especially if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t learn as well from you know, sort of

    At course you need that one on one relationship. It will be expensive, but you can absolutely hire mentors to to coach you through things. So lots of opportunities, lots of different ways to learn stuff. But again, focus on what you need. There is no one best answer for any educational vehicle.

    Thanks for asking the question Ben. You have any follow up questions, leave them in the comments. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai de unless you know how we can help you.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Conference Gear for Audio and Video

    You Ask, I Answer: Conference Gear for Audio and Video

    Amy asks, “I saw this cool setup you were using at the marketing profs conference – would you mind sharing what hardware/software you used? I am in the events space and trying to do more independent recordings like this. Thanks!”

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    In today’s episode, Amy asks, I saw this cool setup you’re using at the marketingprofs conference, would you mind sharing what hardware and software used I’m in the event space and tried to do more independent recordings like this

    great question. So Amy was referring to the fact that the, unless explicitly forbidden, I tend to record all of my keynote talks. Because a, I want to know how I sound and I said anything that was useful and be because a lot of cases I want to be able to produce the content and distribute it very, very quickly. Typically, when I do my own video, I will have the video edited and available within 24 hours of the event. So one of those things where

    it’s, it’s helpful to the attendees, they if they wanted to remember something, they couldn’t remember exactly what

    I said, Hey, here’s the video, here’s the audio etc.

    So let me describe some of the equipment that I used do this and some of the software and there’s a separate

    video that

    I have. It’s up on the trust insights YouTube channel, how I do the actual editing process, but I can describe some of it here. So first, let’s talk about the hardware. This little contraption here is a three part tripod and there’s two

    pieces the clamp is by square jellyfish. By the way, all this all the technology pieces are links in the blog post. So check the show notes to get to the actual URLs for all these pieces. They are affiliate links on Amazon. So full disclosure. So there’s the the the smartphone tripod mount. I love this out. Because it rotates

    it can really do portrait or or landscape mode for your phone. I don’t know why anyone would ever record themselves in portrait. But if you want to do video chat or something that’s useful, and it’s just got the expandable clamp so it can take up to a gigantic phone.

    This is a mount by ultra pod. This is the ultra pod to I used to use the grill apologize amounts, but the legs keep breaking on me. So this one’s handy. x is equal to go tabletop or I’ll fold up and I can

    take the Velcro and just sort of strap it

    to a pole and then adjust the head so that I can it’s it’s the correct orientation. I do this a lot with lighting polls. So if there’s an event that has lighting of some kind of strapped to the pole, you know, clamp it down and it’s ready to go. And of course the the smartphone goes in here now the video and the audio are separate.

    So I don’t try and do the audio on the same thing. What I do next

    is

    I will take I have a task cam Dr. 05 which is a very nice audio quarter that the mic goes right in the top here. And then I have the the team of fun the head

    worn headset which is a wireless thing so there’s a piece down here this is piece over here has about a range of 10 ish feet I think give or take and so it’s it’s not bad for for that what I do with that is very straightforward. I take the

    put the chemo fun on the podium usually, or the lectern or whatever is nearby. And then I will record the audio from that on on this got

    here. And this gives me your mp3 or WAV format. Typically for voice, you can restore an mp3 format. I know that if you are doing something high fidelity, like sing or music, you definitely want to record and wave but for voice, it’s fine.

    Um, one of the thing I’ll do is I’ll take a power pack, you know, this little,

    these little ribbon thing is that people give away a conference and trade shows these are fun because

    I stick on the back of the power pack of this. Typically I will put

    on the band of the tripod, right. So I’ll weave this this through here. And this way, I can plug in my power cable right to the smartphone, the phone mount, and that way I don’t have to worry the phone running out of battery wallets do recordings. One critical thing at least for iPhones, I don’t know about Android,

    make sure it’s an airplane mode. When you’re recording video,

    I have had

    unfortunate cases in the past where

    I’ve been recording video, and it went of call came in or something. And that interrupts the app and the video app. I don’t know why Apple doesn’t fix that. But so be it. So those are the major hardware pieces. Remember, audio and video are separate. The audio is at the podium, the video is typically in the back of the room, I’ll try to put as far back as I can, because

    you want to capture the audience if you can, at least as a speaker. So you can see their reactions like everyone’s like, on their phone, playing games, whatever. Okay, clearly no one’s paying attention to this part need to rewrite that part of the speech.

    Now the editing process the audio comes in from the task cam

    take that into Audacity. I like the audacity editor. Because frankly, it’s free.

    And it’s really really good. It now if you are already paying, especially if you’re at an institution, an organization if you’re already paying for Adobe Creative Cloud, then use although we audition to do the audio editing because you’re paying for it will use it.

    The things to do there are trim it normalize that because you can get some

    interesting effects. And you want to do dynamic compression on the audio. So like right now what we’re doing

    here because I’m speaking in a relatively narrow band of audio, meaning I’m not yelling, and I’m not whispering I can just do your typical leveling, but you want to do normalization if you’re doing public speaking, because as a public speaker, some the old have a lot more variants and how loud you are. And so you want to normalize that then

    make a WAV file of that take that take put it into campaign Asia, put your video into camp Asia, and then you line up the audio in the video together so that they are in sync but not a header behind each other. This gives you one additional benefit at least as a speaker and it gives you the house

    and by that I mean house noise because the phones in the back of the room. So the phone is going to pick up some the reverb right. So you want to to do a little ducking incantation to reduce that but for things like q amp a from the audience and especially as a speaker and an events manager if you’re in the if you’re producing audio for events you want applause right you want you want the sounds of the event that people Leo cheering or or laughing along lines and

    the head one Mike does a really

    good job of getting rid of the surrounding noise. So you want to bring some of that back in when you

    when you are doing the editing to. And that’s what the phones audio is going to give you gives you the ability to bring in out the house sounds as you need them.

    And then I’ll take that WAV file typically. And also I’ll take the stage at video once it’s done. And then I’ll feed it to a free tool called f f. MPEG. It is a command line tool. It is a technical tool it is not there is no user interface you have to type commands into the command line but is a very, very powerful tool for converting one type of media to another. And what I will do is I’ll take the final video file and I will have that turned into an mp3 that then becomes either a podcast episode or I will send it to an app called otter Ott er otter.ai that will do machine learning transcription of the audio so for the event I’ll take the transcript I’ll take the audio and turn into a transcript and that way

    you can see the video you can download the audio if you want to listen to it the car you can get the slides as a PDF but you can also get the transcript of the talk as a PDF

    now

    if you if you are running an events company you will want to polish it up because

    it comes out very much as is for a speaker you can find get away with either depending on how much time you have and if you have a VA or not but I really like that because it gives everybody those your talks in the format that they’re most comfortable consuming they Some people like to listen Some people like to watch some people like to read so that’s sort of the process

    for turning a talk into lots of different media and for giving it to people in the form of that they want all this hardware probably after all said and done probably about $200 total

    except for the phone to pay whatever you pay for the phone

    this guy I think it’s like 25 bucks the headsets 50 this guy’s 72 I think there’s anything else

    that’s that’s about it contagious a couple hundred bucks I believe

    but you don’t need to use it you could use like I movie or Windows Movie Maker I personally wouldn’t but I like camp Asia because it can also do is like picture in picture and and diagrams. If some talks at the video isn’t great. I will like show the slides I’ll have the slides been picking a picture and picture whatever if I want to talk to be like really, really well professionally edited.

    Or if I can’t see the screen in the video I captured so that’s the process watch the other video

    and check out the links in the show notes. If you want to get any of this equipment again, disclosure or affiliate links in it. Thanks for watching and please subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter i’ll talk to you soon

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  • MarketingProfs B2B Forum Day 1 Recap

    MarketingProfs B2B Forum Day 1 Recap

    A recap of three key themes shared at MPB2B Day 1, and why one of them stands out so much.

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    In today’s episode, a summary of and thoughts about the first day of marketingprofs, the marketing boss, b2b forum had the opportunity to attend a bunch of sessions yesterday, and also run some topic modeling. So machine learning on the conferences content. So far, it’s been really interesting looking at what people are talking about what they’re sharing,

    it boils down into really sort of three things. Number one,

    the most powerful topics of conversation, at least in terms of using this one keyword tool that I use that I built is Facebook ads, people want to figure out how to get more attention on Facebook realizing the organic algorithm that says you’re not getting any attention. So how do these Facebook ads better split tests A B testing all this stuff on Facebook ads

    So that’s number one. Number two. The second biggest topic is content marketing. In general, how do marketers create better content

    and we see everything from like white papers and webinars and all the usual stuff that you would expect to see from

    people talking about content marketing and the content marketing experience. The third thing, which I think is really interesting is that

    attendees are talking about the the human side of marketing, empathy relating to people building relationships and stuff like that. And I find that interesting because

    for a lot of marketers,

    automation for decades has been the goal to make marketing more efficient, to make it more effective to get to your results faster. And now with the advent of things like machine learning and artificial intelligence, we can do that really well.

    And at least from

    what is in the data from what people have shared on Instagram shared on Facebook shared on Twitter about the event so far the

    the thing that people care about now is

    having lost that human element having automated in May, having taken automation too far and I would agree that there are aspects that people do wrong so on when it comes to automation and artificial intelligence and machine learning and stuff,

    there are processes the processes of the things that you should be automating first How do you make the process work faster work better the crafting the I guess the

    not the how, but the what you send people

    if you get

    How, right? And if you get the how fast then you’ll have more time to spend on the what what should we send to people? What do people want? What can we deliver, that is a value to the audience. And that seems to be where

    I think it could be a good thing with b2b marketing and marketing in general, is if we, if we finally gotten the how functional now we can start moving up the value chain. Remember that

    it’s how, what, why, how do we do the thing? What is the thing? Why are we doing the thing and certainly,

    as Simon cynics said, You should have started with why why we doing nothing. Not every organization does not every organization to set down great strategy. So in the absence of that great strategy, folks who are just trying to do their jobs have defaulted to try and figure out how well if we have for the most part largely figured out how

    or least somewhat competent at, then we’re into the what? And that’s where a lot of these existential

    conversations are revolving around what do we send them via What are we doing? What are we, what are we telling people? What What does our brand say to a customer?

    Those are all what questions so it could be a, a healthy indicator of where marketing state is now if if people have gotten to the what stage and hopefully that is the case I’ll be talking today about artificial intelligence and and AI and its use in marketing and things. So it’ll be interesting to see how folks see the a fully quantitative perspective on marketing and how and how we can use AI to make stuff go faster, get better results and reduce drudgery but that those are first impressions from day one of

    marketingprofs and will be will be keeping an eye on what people share throughout day two and do some analysis of it with artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to to let you know how the event overall goes.

    Be curious to hear your perspective about if your marketing has succeeded at the how and is now and you’re now tackling and grappling with the what? As always, please lose stuff like that in the comments. Subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter will talk to you soon. What help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trusted insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • #FridayFeeling: How Conference Organizers Should Manage Attendees and Sessions

    #FridayFeeling_ How Events Should Manage Attendees and Sessions

    At events and conferences, organizers are challenged by two types of attendees, the structured and the free-spirited. The structured want session registration and planning out their schedules weeks in advance. The free-spirited want to go where the spirit takes them. Pleasing both is exceptionally difficult.

    Watch the video to learn how companies with mega-events like IBM try (and largely succeed) at pleasing both types, and what lessons conference organizers and event organizers should consider.

    #FridayFeeling: How Conference Organizers Should Manage Attendees and Sessions
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    In today’s episode, a wrap up of content marketing world and some thoughts on event planning, first newly back from content marketing world, which was a great experience first time at that show and got a chance to meet folks that in some cases are not at the other conferences that I attend folks like Michelle Garrett and Teresa Lee and and other folks who don’t make it on the big circuit for some people. And this is important for marketers to realize

    not everyone can make it on the on the big circuit. You know, not everyone can attend dream for us. And inbound and CES and all these things. For some folks, one show a year is it. And so if you’re trying to reach people at

    conferences as a methodology for driving leads and driving business, you may want to do much more careful and thorough vetting of your audience and the conference attendees to see who is attending which conference,

    I would strongly recommend looking at social media, monitoring software, and gathering people who tweet about each events hashtag and then extracting the biographies of those people to see

    who attends each event. And are those people the, the people that you want to be reaching, you may find that spending, you know, quarter million dollars for a 10 by 10 booth dream force may not be the best return on investment in

    dream force may have a large number of attendees, but they may not be your attendees. They may not be your

    people, the the types of companies that you want to do business with. Now, that is also predicated on you, knowing who your audiences and being able to, to identify and Jason but that would be my recommendation on the event side

    content marketing world had a problem that has plagued many events I’ve been to, which is extremely long lines getting into rooms and things like that some

    events

    require you to register in advance. Now, my understanding is that

    events like inbound do that now, a content marketing world did that in the past. So requiring people to register in an app to get into a session,

    other events let you just kind of wander around. But the penalty is, of course, that you know, you may run into extremely long lines getting into a session room or rooms, they’re completely booked up

    there. The reason for this is that there are two kinds of attendees

    who go to these events by personality type thing. There are folks who are the freestyle spirited just want to see what happens, go where the GO GO, where the flow takes me, and the other folks are like, I need the agenda eight months in advance, I need to plan this thing out top to bottom, I know exactly where every minute of the day is going. You’ll see these personalities on display, for example, on vacations.

    Some people like I’m just gonna lay on the beach and go wherever or do whatever

    happens and other people like this is our schedule for vacation. And this is where we account for every minute

    and

    and because the way people attend events in these two groups are radically different. pleasing both groups is extremely difficult. The only event I’ve seen managed to keep both types of people happy in terms of reducing room lines,

    but being able to track

    attendees and because the reason for the registered session registration is

    to track attendees and I was also the cause of a lot of the long lines at content marketing world, people with little badge scanners,

    scanning people wanting to get into a room one person at a time.

    The only event I’ve seen where that was done really well our IBM events and at IBM think, for example, what the way that they do it is I’m gonna see if I have any badges here. I don’t. The badge itself has an RF ID tracker, radio frequency device tracker.

    It’s a passive, it doesn’t transmit any data. But when hit with a radio field, it

    pings. It’s like a Bluetooth beacon, or, you know, any kind

    of Remote Sensor. And the way it works is that over the doorways of every session room, and throughout the halls,

    there are these transmitters

    and as you walk in and out of a room, it tracks you your data and, and can notify event planners like hey, this room is getting too close to capacity. There’s a lot of lines and even though even though it’s a it is relatively frictionless at a really big event, and when you have 10s or hundreds of thousands of people on site, it’s still can even then still get some lines but it does satisfy that requirement for events of tracking attendees knowing who attended which sessions knowing which is sessions were

    the most popular and you know how quickly people left the session because the badge badges of course track people leaving whenever so if everyone came in for a big session but people truck without steadily throughout the session you know that speaker may not have been as good as as as they were built or

    if a room started empty but people came in and and people the pace of people kind of coming in as word spread through social networks picked up you know, maybe this is a speaker we need to give some more time to

    and so

    I sympathize as someone who has run events in the past that’s just how difficult it is to to keep both camps happy.

    A way to get around that is the way HubSpot does it where there’s there’s dedicated

    session lines and then there are a waitlist line so if you register for the session, you get in first and then if there’s still room for people

    then then the waitlist line gets lead in. I think that’s a particularly good way of doing that because it tries to satisfy both and again using those badges as a the badges that that say yep, you’re allowed to be in the session. I know you’re not allowed to be in the session. IBM did that at an event in in in Europe that I was in last year where you would hold the badge up the radio back up to a scanner and there’s this big panel with a green or red light green yellow red so green yes you’re registered for this session read you’re not registered for the session yellow you’re not registered for the session but you can join the waitlist and and and scale into a separate Q

    So that would be my suggestion to event planners is you’ve got a large event if you are concerned with people being happy or unhappy with lines for sessions that you look into that system I am certain it is not cheap. I am certain that it is a a a an investment but if attendee happiness is a priority as it should be for any event, you may want to make that investment so

    overall though, I thought content marketing world as a as a fun event. Got to

    see a lot of people. I haven’t seen other events and things so it will be an event. Oh, keeping my eye on in the future. I know my compatriots at Trust Insights all went to inbound and enjoy the the see the ocean of people that were at inbound this week. So if you’d like to get a copy of my talk from this week, you can get it where can I get the slides.com and if you want our predictive analytics talk, you can get that at will the slides be available calm.

    As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • Do Something With Your Marketing: Custom URL Redirects

    Do Something With Your Marketing_ Custom URL Redirects

    Public speakers and brands both need ways to make calls to action more memorable, especially from conferences and events. Few things are as memorable as an easy-to-remember domain name. In this short video, see the simple process for making your most recent important content memorable – with no coding involved.

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    In today’s episode, I want to encourage you to make your most important pages memorable with custom domains. So I do a lot of public speaking. And one of the things that people of course, ask all the time is, where can I get a copy of the slides? So a number years ago, I bought a domain called Where can I get the slides calm. And after or just an advance of every talk, I redirect this URL so that it goes to the download for the most recent talk for for the most recent upcoming talk. So let’s look at how you might do this. Because this is something that requires very little technology and is easy to do and has really, really good memory benefits for people to be able to going get what they want a particularly when you’re on stage, nothing is worse. Like for example, I’m about to get on the road to do this aim. If you’re healthier talk look at the length of this URL. There’s no way putting this on.

    A slide anyone’s going to remember it. So what do we do with this? we redirect it. I’m going to go to GoDaddy. And you can see here I’m going to take this my domain, where can I get the slides calm, which I bought a while ago. And I’m going to redirect this. I’m going to forward it to a new place,

    just clean up the URL here.

    And now hit save. And in about an hour, where can I get the slides calm will go to this page instead. So now I can put that URL in my talk and have very little difficulty getting people to remember it when they take a picture of the shot at the end of the slide at the end of the presentation that shows where you can get the slides again, easy for them to remember. easy for them to say they can even talk to their smartphone say, hey, Assistant, go to where can I get the slides dot com. It’s very, very memorable. So if you’ve got important landing pages that you absolutely need people to remember and find their way to that is phonetically on

    understandable consider buying a custom domain from wherever any domain name registrar and you don’t need to set up a website for it. All you need to do is set up a forward in your domain manager and you will be able to send people on to wherever you like. Make it easy for them, make it convenient for them. And that way you can get the traffic conversions the results from an event that you’re looking for. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel into the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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