Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Conferences

  • The freedom to not speak

    I recently had the pleasure of attending the Google Analytics Summit, an event hosted for Certified Partners (my employer, SHIFT Communications, is one) to gain insight into the latest advancements in marketing measurement.

    What’s novel and unique about this conference for me is that it’s under NDA, a non-disclosure agreement. Every session, every talk, every slide: not a word of it can be shown to the public. No photos. No Tweets. No blog posts (about the content). An attendee who violates the NDA is at risk of losing their Certified Partner status and access to the most valuable information being offered.

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    As odd as this sounds in this social media age, the lack of sharing is quite freeing. You have no focus other than learning, absorbing, taking notes. There’s nothing to share, no selfies to take, no interviews to conduct. No social media leaderboard in the lobby counting up how many times the hashtag has been mentioned; in fact, there is no official hashtag in order to discourage inappropriate sharing.

    Your focus is only on the content being shared and the implications for your business.

    For speakers, what would you do differently in your talks if you knew no one was permitted to share the information? What would you share? Think about how your presentations would differ. Would you feel more free to share an extra goodie or two?

    For audience members, how much more would you get out of conferences if you had no reason to share? How much more could you focus if you didn’t need to think about photos, videos, tweets, Facebook posts, etc.? Would you catch more information without the cognitive load of determining what to share?

    For conference organizers, while locking down an entire conference might be impractical, what if you offered a lockdown session or two, in which each attendee paid an extra NDA fee that was refunded X days after the event in exchange for a completely private session?

    It’s a worthy challenge, considering how much mental bandwidth you give to publishing and sharing – and what you could do with that bandwidth instead. Give it some thought before the next conference you attend.

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  • Where to find me at Social Media Marketing World

    As many others are, I’ll be attending and speaking at Social Media Marketing World. If you’d like to talk about how I and SHIFT Communications can help your company with all things social (especially measurement, analytics, and down-funnel marketing), data-driven public relations, come find me and say hello!

    Wednesday:

    Evening reception on the USS Midway. Look for the guy avoiding crowds and instead checking out World War II weaponry. I anticipate being difficult to find.

    Thursday:

    Invisible in the morning. Floating around during the afternoon. If you want to say hello, any time in the afternoon is fine, just tweet at @cspenn.

    Friday:

    8 AM Keynote with Mark Schaefer, Guy Kawasaki, and Mari Smith. We’ll be talking whether content is killing social media or vice versa.

    10:45 AM in Seaport H, How to use analytics to predict future social media marketing opportunities. This is my solo talk on predictive analytics. You’ll walk out knowing some brand new ways to use tools that you already own or can afford out of pocket.

    11:45 AM in Seaport C, I’ll be moderating a panel with Susan Beebe, Dan Gingiss, and Chuck Hemann titled, “How to measure what matters and communicate it to the execs, managers, and the front line”. To be perfectly honest, I won’t be saying much in this session. Why? Because I despise the uncommon but annoying panel moderators who think it’s their job to talk for half the panel’s time because they couldn’t earn a solo session. The moderator’s there mainly to end fights and/or fill dead time when the audience fails to ask questions.

    Hope to see you there! If you want to chat but for some reason can’t get a hold of me, contact me through SHIFT.

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  • No, I’m not going to Dreamforce 2014

    In case you were wondering…

    Nope, I’m not going to Dreamforce this year. I wrote this blog post expressly so I can link it every time someone asks this week.

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  • When conferences aren’t enough

    At a certain point in your journey to becoming a competent marketing professional, you’ll find yourself at a marketing conference. Conferences are terrific places to meet new people, to get exposed to new ideas, to jump headfirst into a topic area and see what’s available, at least at good conferences. Think of conferences like a buffet restaurant with a thousand different dishes. You can have the experience of snacking on a little bit of everything, or have a few exploratory bites and dine on a familiar, reassuring dish.

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    At some point later in your career, you will wonder whether conferences are enough. Or you’ll reach a point where it feels like conferences might not be generating the same sense of enthusiasm and “ah-ha” moments that they once did. The answer for your continued growth as a marketing professional at that point is not more conferences. It’s at that point when you will want to start thinking about more formal training, from workshops to entire degree programs.

    The turning point that will help clarify when you’re approaching that point (so that you don’t get overly frustrated or feel like you’re wasting time and money) is simple to diagnose: when you find yourself struggling to organize everything you’ve learned. What you typically get out of conferences and related events are little hints, tips, tools, and tactics. They’re the equivalent of little dishes, like the samples from the buffet or perhaps a tapas restaurant.

    Your ability to make use of all of those tools and tactics is dependent on understanding a big picture context of where they fit into your overall marketing strategy. If you feel like you’re drowning in tips and ideas, that’s the point at which conferences aren’t enough. Neither are blogs or social media posts or any other “snackable” content going to be helpful, as they’ll just add more stuff you can’t organize and contextualize.

    When you reach that point, go in search of strategies and frameworks instead. Formal education can provide some of them – instead of reading blogs every day, consider taking a timeout and reading something like the Portable MBA in Marketing or other solid business textbooks to get those bigger frameworks.

    Once you have those bigger picture strategies and frameworks, then you’ll find that reading blogs and going to conferences becomes a pleasure again, as every new tip and tactic fits neatly into your framework – and when you find something new that doesn’t fit in the frameworks you know, you realize that you’re exploring new territory. That should then be a sign to seek out or create a framework around the new topic area so that you can quickly learn it.

    That’s my preferred long-term strategy that will help you learn marketing as quickly as possible and keep making it a joy rather than a burden.

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  • Upping my speaking game

    _1__Tamsen_Snyder_WebsterPhoto Credit: MarketingProfs

    Over the last two days, I had the opportunity to attend a training for public speakers with a coaching firm, Oratium, led in part by my friend Tamsen Webster. One of the things I’ve always struggled with as a public speaker is coming up with a winning architecture for my presentations. I can do the delivery, the performance, just fine, but I’ve always felt that something was missing, something wasn’t quite right, something wasn’t as good as it could be.

    What the last two days showed me were the missing pieces, the few tweaks and adjustments I need to make in order to take a presentation from good to great, from ordinary to extraordinary. I don’t view myself as a bad speaker, but the training was beneficial for me to understand what could be better, and what will be better in future talks I give. What I enjoyed most about the Oratium training was that it presented a complex, complete framework of how presentations work, and from there I could assess what I did right already and where I am deficient. Instead of trying to “just be better” or “just do more”, I could clearly see what it was that I wasn’t doing right.

    What’s one of the biggest points where I have not done as good a job as a speaker? Giving the conclusions outright to the audience. This is a deficiency that comes largely from my martial arts training, where we learn to draw our own conclusions in real-time (and face bone-jarring consequences if our conclusions are incorrect), which is an efficient way to learn for the martial arts, but not an efficient way to learn or teach from the stage. Because of the limitations of how we learn in real-time (relatively poorly if we’re not trained to do so), it’s simply better for a speaker to hand a conclusion or insight to the audience rather than make them work for it and possibly come to a completely wrong conclusion.

    I’ve got a lot of work to do in order to revamp and rework my speaking, but in the coming months and years, I hope that the training pays off for you (should you choose to see me speak) as much as it already has for me. If you’re ever in the speaking role, I would strongly encourage you to take an Oratium master class as well.

    Disclosure: I was not compensated by Oratium for this post, nor do I receive any financial benefit, directly or indirectly, from it. I did receive a substantial discount to take the class, but there was no expectation or requirement for me to write about it.

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  • No, I’m not going to SXSW and here’s why

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    One of the perennial questions I get every year is whether I’m going to SXSW. The answer, unsurprisingly, is no. It’s not because SXSW isn’t a great show, one of the largest, with lots of incredible people at it. There are plenty. It’s not because it’s not fun – it is. The reason I don’t go is because I don’t work very well in the SXSW-style environment. It’s not because of the show, but my own personal shortcomings and perspective.

    What environment is that? It’s a very busy, very attention-grabbing environment. When you pack hundreds of thousands of people into one area and a good chunk of them are either media or marketers, everyone tries to stand out really hard, shouts really loud (both metaphorically and literally), and tries to be seen. Nothing wrong with that, but that’s not an environment that I do particularly well in.

    I don’t love large crowds in general (and after watching Apollo Robbins, you might not either), but I especially don’t work well in an environment where you have to initiate lots of surface random connections. That’s just not my style. There are plenty of people who do, who thrive in that sort of social butterfly situation, and for them, attending SXSW isn’t just a good idea, it’s also probably one of their most favorite events of the year.

    So no, I won’t be at SXSW this year and haven’t ever been. For those who are going, I hope you have a wonderful time, meet lots of new people, be safe and smart, and enjoy great success from the event. It promises, as always, to be a legendary event.

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  • Awaken Your Superhero: Hubspot Bold Talks

    At this year’s Hubspot Inbound 2013 conference, I had the privilege to share a 12 minute talk on awakening your superhero with the power that sits in the palm of your hand. You have superhero powers. You have opportunities aplenty to change the world around you. Do you have the motivation?

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    You have the power to change the world. Will you awaken your superhero?

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  • Build a better marketing tradeshow booth

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    Walking around the floors of Dreamforce, I’m constantly astonished at how bad sales and marketing demos still are by many companies. This is supposed to be the era of 1:1 marketing. This is supposed to be the era of customization. Yet far too many marketers are demonstrating products and services with the same kind of mass demonstration.

    Walk by the majority of the booths on the conference floor and you’ll experience religious marketing: spray and pray, in which booth staffers shout about the benefits or the features loud enough and hope that it catches the interest of a passerby.

    By contrast, the best booths and the best demos all start with a simple question. The sooner you ask this question, the better the experience is for the average trade show attendee.

    “What questions can I answer?”

    Or, for the particularly bold, “What questions can I answer, or are you just here to grab a piece of tradeshow swag? It’s totally fine if you are, we’re rather proud of ours.” I heard that once or twice and acknowledged the booth staff for their selling skills. By the way, “what questions can I answer” is a better sales question than “do you have any questions”. If you are trying to elicit feedback from someone, you want to make sure to ask questions that do not have a binary yes or no answer.

    Finally, the very best trade show pitchers know when to stop. They know when to stop when the prospect is not interested, but more importantly, they know when to stop when you are ready to talk to a salesperson. I had that positive experience yesterday at the Domo dashboarding service booth. I said quite clearly, “I am interested in your solution and want to talk to a salesperson”. The booth employee, whose name I did not catch, didn’t try to force me through a script or a prerecorded demo, she just sent me along to the sales consultants immediately – and that was exactly what I wanted. No fuss, no muss, no hassle.

    Building a better tradeshow booth isn’t about the carpet, or the swag, or the flashy demo. Building a better tradeshow booth is about training your staff to do better, to ask better questions, and to recognize different selling situations almost immediately.

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  • 10 Packing Tips for Dreamforce

    It’s almost that time of year again, when the marketing and sales worlds converge on San Francisco and tens of thousands of people all try to get the same Uber car at once, leading to things like 10x surge pricing. With that in mind, let’s look at what you should be preparing if you’re going to attend what’s likely to be the largest Dreamforce ever.

    Sunrise over Logan Airport

    First, bring good walking shoes. San Francisco is a walking city, with the except of places like Nob Hill, where it becomes a mountain climbing city. For the most part around the Moscone Center, you’ll want to walk, if only because the chances of you getting a taxi, Uber, Lyft, or other ride at peak times are close to zero, and if you get one, the surge pricing rates will be ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS A MINUTE. /DrEvil From the Embarcadero or Nob Hill to the Moscone Center is only about a mile, and as long as you don’t go up Nob Hill, it’s a relatively easy mile. Plus, you’ll be on your feet a good chunk of the event, so comfortable walking shoes are essential.

    Second, bring your own Wi-Fi point. There will likely be in excess of 150,000 people on site, so bring your own Internet. Ideally, bring devices with different providers so that if one is swamped, you can switch to a difference device. If you’re staying at a hotel in the vicinity, try to get cabled Internet access in the room if possible. (and remember to pack Ethernet cables and adapters!) At the very least, you won’t have Wi-Fi latency to deal with when every person in the hotel is swarming the one Wi-Fi access point on your floor.

    Third, bring power in as many forms as you can, from small, personal power strips (I use the Monster power strip that’s a nice little four-plug splitter, via Amazon) to power banks and external batteries. You’ll be sitting in session rooms of hundreds or thousands of people, and the chances of you sitting next to a power outlet are slim. If you’re lucky enough to sit near one, don’t be that guy who occupies all the outlets – bring the personal strip and make some friends.

    Fourth, bring business cards. Duh.

    Fifth, bring space. As in extra space in your luggage if possible, because if Dreamforce is known for something besides its content, it’s known for its gigantic expo floor where vendors do everything possible to attract your attention. That includes crazy giveaways, like Skull Candy headphones if you sit through a 10 minute demo.

    Sixth, bring your own self-care. Normally, San Francisco is a well-stocked, well-provisioned city with relatively reasonable prices on ordinary goods. When 150,000 people (almost all of whom come from companies with nice expense accounts) descend on the city, prices go up and stock runs out on lots of conveniences. Bring your own OTC pain medication, unless you relish the idea of paying $8 for 2 Advil. Bring whatever else you need to be comfortable and healthy, from vitamin boosters to alcohol hand gel to feminine products.

    Seventh, bring spare cables. Got an extra micro-USB cable? iPhone Lightning cable? Toss them in your bag (zip tie them together if you want to avoid massive tangles), along with an extra USB wall charger and the gear in tip 3. Chances are someone else will have a phone that’s at 2% and you can be a day-saver. Who knows, that person might just be your next CEO.

    Eighth, bring a smaller bag. You will likely get a nice, awesome, wonderful laptop bag with your conference registration (at least for full conference attendees). This bag will always be slightly too large to be convenient, and it will look like the same bag that 150,000 other people have, which means you can lose your bag and its contents fairly easily. Bring a smaller bag that can hold a tablet computer, some extra business cards, a notebook and pen, and some power/cabling. This bag will make you deliriously happy at the end of a 10 hour day walking around. Alternately, bring a Sharpie and some creative decorations to adorn your Dreamforce bag so that it’s obvious it’s yours.

    Ninth, bring or buy a water bottle and make liberal use of it. You’ll need it.

    Tenth, bring ballistic earplugs. These are my bliss-creators, the most wonderful $4 you’ll ever spend. Ballistic earplugs are foam plugs that fit in your ears and provide up to -33db noise reduction. They can turn a screaming infant in the airplane seat next to you into an amusing animated distraction, turn a hearing-damage inducing concert into a pleasant musical performance, and turn a noisy hotel into a quiet one (with the chance that you’ll miss your alarm, since you won’t hear it). If you’re the kind of person who needs a bit of quiet in a crowd, these are the solution you’ve been looking for.

    With these tips, go forth and enjoy Dreamforce!

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  • Social media didn’t kill the conference

    The folks at Blogworld pointed out that I wrote this piece 4 years ago about whether social media would kill conferences. Clearly, that hasn’t happened, but I thought it’d be interesting to see what’s happened in the marketing and social media conference space in that time period:

    Google Trends - Web Search interest: social fresh, new media expo, blogwell, inbound marketing summit, online marketing summit - Worldwide, 2004 - present

    For most of the conferences named in this admittedly hasty Google Trends search, the trend has been in the wrong direction since writing that article. The only conference that’s had its share of search increase is Jason Keath’s Social Fresh conference. Once you step out of the social/digital bubble a bit, you see that some conferences are clearly growing in terms of share of search:

    Google Trends - Web Search interest: adtech, himss, oracle openworld, dreamforce, smx - Worldwide, 2004 - present
    (disclosure: HIMSS, Adtech, and Dreamforce are clients of my employer)

    Social media didn’t kill the conference – in fact, I’d argue that for the more successful conferences that have integrated it into the experience, social media has helped them grow and expand their reach significantly, but that’s in concert with the ubiquity of mobile devices and mobile Internet connections. Conferences as a rule still are hideously awful at providing reliable Internet access, but with 3G and LTE connections, staying in touch with people isn’t as much of a big deal.

    Dreamforce Chatter App - Salesforce Labs - AppExchange

    The gold standard I refer to for conference experiences (again, disclosure, it’s a client, though the last time I attended I was working at a different company) is Dreamforce. Their conference app was incredible, allowing you to register for sessions on your mobile, get reminders when one of your sessions was coming up, schedule meet-ups and meetings, and as a speaker see who was scheduled to attend your session so you could follow up with them. It integrated with other social networks as well, and it’ll be exciting to see what Salesforce.com does with it this year.

    The reason that many social media conferences have lost share of search has less to do with social media as a platform and more that social media isn’t new. It’s baked into many businesses now (though not necessarily executed well) and as a result, conferences either must evolve their offerings or face reduced interest. I’m happy to say that I was wrong 4 years ago about the conference business and social’s impact on it (our clients are doubly happy I was wrong) – the need for people to meet up and share face time is greater than ever.

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