Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Content Marketing

  • You Ask, I Answer: Current Video Gear On The Road?

    You Ask, I Answer: Current Video Gear On The Road?

    Brian asks, “What are you currently carrying/using on the road for video?”

    Great question. For the most part, I’m doing two primary functions with video on the road – documentation of stuff and capturing my talks. For the former, all you really need is a smartphone with a decent camera. For the latter, here’s what I’m working with today.

    2 camera shoot setup:

    I’ll be setting up two camera shoots where the smartphone is at the back of the room to capture the big picture and the DJI is near the stage with motion track on. Both cameras’ mics are hot to capture house noise.

    See an example of this setup with a one-camera shoot at my most recent keynote address.

    Why go to this crazy amount of effort? For capturing high-quality video that can be used as speaking reels, social posts, etc.

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    In today’s episode Brian asked what are you currently carrying are using on the road for video gear? Great question i’m doing i’m doing two things with video on the road one is documentation of stuff you know taking pictures and sharing stuff on social as it as it’s appropriate at events and things and then capturing when I speak now for the former all you really need a smartphone for that right you don’t need as long as it’s got a good camera you don’t really need a whole lot more for the basics there for the ladder for capturing your speaking doing. I’ve got a different setup today than I did even just a couple months ago. So this is as of you know, end the first quarter 2019 will change over time. I’m doing what’s called a two camera shoot where I have a camera in the back of the room to capture the big picture.

    Know Me and the audience and then a camera up front that is recording and tracking me more close up. Now I haven’t done this in production. I’ve done some tests I was my last talk I did was still one camera shoot. But the reason for this is that you want to be able to capture really high quality video that you can cut and splice for speaking for social posts for YouTube, etc. For lead generation and the better that your video looks and sounds. Obviously the more can do work for you. The more can

    create a positive first impression for anybody who doesn’t know who you are. So what’s the gear setup I’ve got the smartphone here on a ultra pod too. And I like the the the Apple iPhone x. I like the fact that it has the two x optical zoom which is handy because if the room is really far back you want you want to try and make it a little bit crop to deliver with the stage.

    The Ultra pod two is a nice tripod for one reason it’s got this strap and it folds up either you can fold it up for you can, you can have it as a full table top tripod I’ve like ideally on this one to be able to fold it up and actually strap it to a pole in the back of the room because a lot of conferences particular bigger ones have like there’s a lighting polar a sound pole or something where you can strap this to it and get a an elevated

    point of view. So that’s one rig. The second rig is the DJ Oslo pocket which is this tiny little camera here it’s a gimbal camera which means that it mechanically you can track an object in range so this gets parked on a very small tripod you have to buy separately the sky read tripod it can see the this tracks you which is kind of cool. So this gets plugged into a tripod as well. I like this the sky right because you can either use as a handheld or you can fold up the legs and it becomes a tabletop as well.

    And the head can be removed and put on something else. Like if you have a gorilla pod or whatever, you can unscrew this and put this head on something else. So those are the two cameras. Both microphones are hot on the cameras, meaning that they are recording audio in the room. This is not to capture you speaking it’s going to sound terrible. No matter what. No matter what kind of room you’re in, unless you’re literally going padded room. Nobody else

    the reason for that is these devices and your smartphone to adjust are not meant to capture the high quality auto that you want. So what you want for that is you want a third device and this is I use a portable audio recorder. You can use any one there’s a whole good Jillian to have these. This one’s a task cam one. If I had to do it all over again, I would probably get one of the zoom once it has an XLR input as opposed to just the headphone jack input. So that’s more compatible with more soundboard because you want to be able to ideally, jack this into the soundboard that powers the room that’s coming off of your lapel

    Mike, when you’re speaking on stage, that way, you get crystal clear, high quality, high fidelity audio from the soundboard. If you don’t have that, or if the room isn’t set up, or the AV technicians not as as good as it could be, I use the team of fun head one mic. And what I’ll do is I’ll take this, there’s one in here, there’s another end that’s wireless, this other end go straight to the top of the task. Em,

    and I will either put this on the podium or I may even just keep this in my pocket and record the audio from my voice speaking straight into that. And then what happens afterwards is you pull the audio sources you pull the audio sources from you pull the audio and video from both cameras and from your digital recorder into an editor. I use camp Asia because while having it’s it’s easy enough to it’s a nonlinear editor that I particularly like because it’s easy and fast.

    A lot of people

    will use things like premier or Final Cut. And those are great tools if you already know what you’re doing with them. I don’t and I have not invested the time to learn that yet.

    One of the things going to be real important for both the DJI and for the smartphone is you want to power pack. You want a big, big ass power pack. Yeah. Ideally two of them. So I have like 10 of these things laying around. Now

    one thing I like to do is, you know those little smartphone loops that they sell their or they give away conference I want to hear from remember who this is from now to put the logo on it,

    but I strap it to the backup power packs, so that on this tripod

    takes a little finagling but you can take the strap feeds this through the back of your power pack, and then strap the rest of your pole. And that way, there’s a power source that you can plug your phone into. And that way I’ll never run out of power.

    This by the way, also handy you can run your belt through this and have this as a worn on your belt if you’re walking around for the day, and you don’t want to have like a super heavy power pack just like rattling around in your pocket, you look stupid, but you never run out of power. So one of these for your iPhone and one of these for the DJI. And that way neither device runs out of power because the iPhone the iPhone can run about 90 minutes of video easily this guy runs about 17 minutes of video before he runs out of power so having having a power pack externally means that there’s never a problem which is important because if you’re getting set up to speak what will typically happen is you’ll have 15 or 20 minutes sometimes 30 if it’s a really well run conference between sessions so you’ll set up cameras you’ll set up everything you don’t want to run around the last minute Hey record on everything’s we want to do is as soon as the cameras in place you get up plug it into external power hit record, make sure you got plenty of storage hit record and then you can trim it and later in editing. But you want to make sure that you you never

    a situation where you forget to turn on the camera or you run out of time and you will have the ability to turn on the camera. So you want to have all the stuff set up and recording well in advance the audio recorder This is probably the first thing you plug in because that can go straight on the boy. There’s never an issue of a storage capacity because you’re recording an mp3

    and high bit rate mp3 and then this you live like this record like five hours and it will never run out of battery as long as you keep the batteries fresh.

    So that’s the gear right now and it seems like a lot but all this fits literally within one of these little travel cases. And just go straight in your backpack and do not check it. Do not check it when you check your luggage. It goes through rapid temperature changes and electronics plus shock like you know, impact shock plus temperature changes bad so this goes straight in your backpack or your handbag or your carry on and you have a it’s not professional it’s not

    Not a professional rig in the sense of like someone who has a red camera or a big D SLR you know and all the the appropriate gear but this is for most speakers good enough to make you look professional particularly when you do the edits later on and that’s where all the magic really happens in the post production that’s probably a separate video but that’s the gear for today as an early 2019 the links for all this gear if you want to get any of it of course in the company post in the show notes they are Amazon links Full disclosure FTC disclosure their affiliate links I get a

    small commission if you happen to buy anything

    but great question Brian and I would I would recommend I haven’t really liking this DJ camera the image quality is fantastic on it so if you’re going to have one camera to shoot with us this one but we’ve worked out a smartphone and you just get started out a little cameras smartphones cameras good enough you can you can do pretty well that for a really long time until you’re speaking fees or whatever go up enough to be able to afford some of the

    The bigger device so great question. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Balancing Creation and Promotion in Content Marketing?

    You Ask, I Answer: Balancing Creation and Promotion in Content Marketing?

    Michael asks, “How do you find the balance between creation and promotion in content marketing?”

    Great question – the answer is going to depend on which is more broken. Generally speaking, I’m a fan of mitigating the weakest point in any operational funnel until you hit diminishing returns. The question is, how do you know what’s weakest? The answer, unsurprisingly, is analytics. Watch the video to learn which analytics to focus on for creation and distribution.

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    In today’s episode, Michael asks, How do you find the balance between creation and and promotion in content marketing? That’s a great question. The answer to this question is going to depend

    on in your organization on what’s more broken. Now this is can be a contentious strategy because some people will say, double down on your strengths. Other people say, fix your weakest points.

    I’m personally a fan of the ladder fixing your weakest point in any operational system until you hit diminishing returns. So for example, you say, in your marketing operations phone, that you’ve got a 40% conversion from prospect to lead, but a 1% converted from lead to opportunity.

    Honestly, rather than take that 40% to 45%, if you took that

    1% to 2%, you see significantly more return.

    So again, it depends on on your your metrics within your content marketing funnel, and every division of your marketing has its own funnel content. Marketing has its own funnel, social media marketing has its own funnel from the perspective of operations, meaning, what are the things that you do like creation of content, or the distribution of content, or the activation of content that has its own stages, its own steps, its own process and its own measures? So how do you know what’s weakest? The answer, of course, oh, surprise here is analytics. When you measure the steps in your content marketing operations funnel, you measure the step from stage to stage creation, distribution, activation, and figure out where your content is doing least well. So what are those analytics? What are those metrics that you measure? Well, obviously, certainly one of the measures of content marketing is the ability to, to drive traffic to your website, get it to engage and then get as convert. So you’re going to have the basics right. But when it comes to creation and distribution, in particular, these are measuring was how is the quality of our content, meaning is the quality of the content itself doing his job of attracting the high quality engagement that we’re looking for. And then the distribution which is the the publication of the promotion of all technically activations promotion, but distribution or things like new users referral traffic audience quality versus list signups and then on the activation side, which is the paying side? What is your paid social reach? What is your cost per thousand impressions? What is your cost per click? What is your click through rate? Those are activation measures to measure the the the efficacy of your ability to attract audiences via payment. So let’s dig into some of these metrics. What are your creation metrics

    when you’re looking at the creation of content? And you’re trying to measure it ultimately trying to figure out is the content engaging? is it doing its job of getting people to do stuff? So some of the metrics you’d be looking at would be organic search metrics, particularly unbranded unbranded organic search because your content should be attracting people who are interested in more than just your name, obviously, certainly, your name is important, but it should also be topically relevant, are you getting traffic that is relevant to what your business does. So this blog post is titled, about content marketing, because I want people who are searching for stuff about content marketing to come to my website, returning users is an important one. And it’s an

    easy

    one to measure. But it’s one a lot of people overlook. Because of the way little a lot of web analytics programs, lay this out, returning users tells you who’s coming back, right, it’s easy to get that first click, it’s a lot harder to get that second click bad that return traffic. And so if you’re measuring returning users, you are by proxy, measuring the quality of your content, the quality of user experience, the quality of your engagement mechanisms, to get people to come back to your website, and engage again, with your content

    time on page certainly is important. And

    getting people to spend more time on your site is is a good thing. And this is where bounce rate has some relevance. If you want to lower your bounce rate, you don’t necessarily need to lower your exit rate. But you definitely want to reduce them. People who come in read something like man has, okay, and then they go back out. If your content is great, they should bounce they should come in, go. Okay, that was good. What else is here, right? And then read some more content, spend maybe some more time or browse a few more pages and then leave?

    Right, it’s fine for

    them to leave exit rate? I’m not worried about the bounce rate. Yeah, it’s indicating if people just in and out nothing else, or number of pages visited per session? Yeah, your content and all that good, especially for measuring new users pages per session. First time they come in, they don’t spend any time looking around, then maybe the content or the layout or whatever wasn’t that good. So so you need creation out there? And of course, conversions. Is the content compelling enough to get somebody to say, Yep, I want to sign up for your mailing list. I want to have someone call me or I want to download an E book or whatever the case may be. But those are all creation measures, the distribution measures, new users is an obvious one, how good is your distribution mechanism at getting new people into your website? If that number is is low, and getting lower, you got a problem. referral traffic is an important one How are you getting new people to your website searches important, but searches driven a lot by quality of the content. referral traffic is your ability to go out and tell people, hey, this thing is here, right? Social media traffic as part of referral traffic, organic social media, the ability for you to distribute your content well, to get that traffic out there.

    And audience quality is another one

    it that refers

    to distribution strategy, when you look at your mailing list, are the people that you’re attracting to your mailing list or to your marketing automation or to your CRM? Are they the right people, are you getting a bunch of people who will never be customers and

    you know, you just get you never going to get a single business results out of them, they never going to share your stuff, and so on, and so forth. If so,

    you have a list quality now, except for list quality. All these other metrics in the distribution stage are measured within Google Analytics. So you can set up a dashboard in Google Data Studio to measure these things. And finally, the activation side looking at things like cost per thousand impressions, cost per click, paid social reach, click through rates, all those will tell you how good you are at activating an audience that you have that you have gathered or targeted in your advertising systems. Especially if you’re doing retargeting which pretty much everybody should be without exception. When you’re doing activation, you want to measure how efficient Are you with the dollars you’re spending at getting people to come back to your content. So those are the three ways to measure content marketing. And then the the way to to analyze this is to really scale all of these metrics on a zero to 100 basis so that you’re comparing apples to apples, and then look at which numbers the lowest right, so if you made that weighted average of that we scaled average of your creation of your distribution, activation. And look across the board at your dashboard. Oh, yeah, we’re a 74 creation over 33, a distribution. So we need to fix our distribution. And you’ll invest more time commensurately more time in distribution than you will in creation until you get those numbers

    less of a gap between those numbers. And then you want to either What else we got everything like 60%, right, then you pick one. Okay, what do we best at? Let’s double down on that. So now that you’ve mitigated the weaknesses, you say, Okay, let’s go and double down on our strengths. Now that we’ve gotten, we’ve patched the holes in the ship is no longer thinking around us. Now we can start rowing faster, right? You don’t want to go fast, they got a hole in the bottom of the boat. So

    great question, complex question that requires you to spend some time on the analytics in order to put together those blended averages and come up with those quick scores that you can monitor frequently and say, Yep, this is where we’re going, this is what’s most broken, let’s fix those things and we can get ourselves back on track. So great question. If you have any follow up questions, please leave them in the comments and of course, please subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter. Thanks for watching. want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems?

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Passive Consumer Experiences Online?

    You Ask, I Answer: Passive Consumer Experiences Online?

    Michael asks, “What do you think of the prediction that consumers will flock to passive YouTube-like experiences as they detox from social platforms like Facebook that command active interactions?”

    I doubt that we’ll see consumers abandon the Facebooks of the world any time soon. I do think marketers need to have a passive play – several – and there’s a social network most marketers are completely overlooking. Be sure to watch the video to learn which.

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    In today’s episode, Michael asks, What do you think of the prediction that the pendulum is shifting away from active social interactions back to more traditional passive experiences, like YouTube, as people begin to detox from social media platforms that prompt and expect interactions

    is an interesting question. We, when you look at the data around social networks, and around things like YouTube, and stuff, and even traditional TV, there’s still we’re all still competing for the same six hours a day, which is about the amount of time that the average person has when they’re not working, and they’re not sleeping. And what what’s left over is is is about, you know, six to eight hours. And so everybody’s competing for that, including your

    family,

    but the TV the radio, not the radio, because technically audio one of the things that Edison research found in its podcast listening study is that podcasts are very popular form of media, because you can listen to them while you’re doing something else. You can listen to them at work, you can listen to them on your commute, etc. The same is true of terrestrial radio, but video, in particular, YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, all these companies are competing for that same six hours a day, roughly give or take

    is that the way the consumer is behaving according to YouTube, they they have 1.9 billion monthly active users, and they have about a billion hours a day consumed on the platform. So if you do the math, people are spending roughly between 30 and 60 hours a day, 30 to 60 minutes a day on YouTube, it’s not clear what the exact number is, and they don’t tell you in their press kit. But given that the case that’s still a relatively small fraction of that six hours of of non scheduled time that people have when we look at the numbers around Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, all the major social networks, they are still growing, they are still getting share of market now, not necessarily in in mature markets, like North America or Europe, but they’re still there. Still gathering audience one thing I think that marketers have to be very careful of is that the marketing audience is not the general audience. And so if you spend by nature of your work

    hours a day on Facebook, and you see within your circle of friends, people saying, I’m leaving Facebook, all this all this stuff that they’re doing

    know that that’s not necessarily representative of the population as a whole, the population as a whole is still on Facebook with a billion plus daily active users. People are still spending time on those out now, what do we see for the way the consumers behaving we do see the that interest is pivoting towards Instagram. One of the things that in the trust insights forecast, Instagram is looking at a massive year over year increase in the number of people who are interested in it, searching for it and such. And so definitely make sure that

    when you think about Michael’s question about the passive interactions, facebook, facebook really does focus on that those you know, active interactions. Where is Instagram, I mean, you get a double tap a photo and then scroll on in your feed. Instagram itself is a more passive interaction network and a lot of ways so you’re just consuming images and videos of the stuff that you like. So knowing that interest is going there is important. The other thing we’re seeing is we’re seeing interest in messaging applications skyrocket. We’re talking about Facebook Messenger WhatsApp, WeChat kick line, Tango messages, SMS messages, people are having conversations out of the public eye, in part because the public discussion forums like Facebook’s core platform have gotten so toxic. And then part because people want to talk to their friends.

    And so building the building a robust messaging experience is going to be important because that’s how people are changing their behaviors, you will probably want to look at building a chat bot experience that is a multi platform experience for your marketing properties. That allows you to get permission for people in the application, the chat application and their preference like WhatsApp like text messages like Facebook Messenger, and so on and so forth. Some of the platforms to look at would be platforms like snap, engage, which is a sponsor of marketing over coffee, full disclosure, mobile, monkey chat, fuel, all these companies have multi platform capabilities that allow you to get permission to to message consumers because you want to build that database. If consumers and their behavior has pivoted to messaging, you need to make sure that you have permission and access to them. The other thing is, when you look at the way

    Michaels prediction about passive experiences it is leaning that also includes your owned media properties. So that means things like your website,

    making sure that you invest some time there, a lot of people for the last five years have really let their own media properties atrophy. And we’re surprised when last year and actually if it goes technically, in 2017 was the pivot point

    social media stop sending as much traffic to your website and said, it became search again, because Facebook and and Twitter and all these networks because there’s so adamant about trying to keep you on their network, they were making it more and more difficult for marketers to get traffic out of those networks. And so search became the thing again, well, of course, that means that you need to have a thing that’s worth searching for. So make sure that you investing the time there. But I absolutely agree that you should have a strategy towards some of those past experiences. The third and final thing is that you need to look at some of the niche networks for your vertical and for the way your consumers behave. I’m consumer, by the way, means your customer, b2b, b2c, whatever, it doesn’t matter.

    We see networks like twitch For example, we see networks like discord and slack becoming much more popular private social networks where you can’t see any analytics about them. But you need to be where your customers are. And the only way you’ll figure that is actually asked them. So send out a survey or an email to your customer database and say, Hey, where do you guys spend your time? Where do you spend your time on and then if you see a substantial number of people like yeah, I’m on slack all day, or I’m on discord all day or whatever, you need to spend some time there and, and get to know it and, and build a presence just like you did in the early days of Facebook or Twitter. So there’s a lot more for marketers to tackle. I don’t think active social interactions are going away. I do think they’re going private. I truly believe that people are tired of having trolls commenting on every Facebook status posts. And so you know, friends only is become sort of the default status and really the only network that is left that you can get any decent analytics into

    like the two maybe our

    Twitter and Reddit and and be careful as you get data out of those because each network has its own bias. So just know that one last thing I would say on that front in

    get really good at serving get really good at marketing research. If you’re not really good at it, hire a decent market research firm Edison research is one that I look at because they do it right because as we lose data from these networks, either because the consumer moves or because the network moves and reduces access, you will have to resort to asking people and you’ll have to resort to asking people in a representative way and market research firms are really good at that. So some commentary there for Michael. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel case you want those passive experiences and in the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What to Document for Content Marketing?

    You Ask, I Answer: What to Document for Content Marketing?

    Michael asks, “With regard to Gary Vaynerchuk’s advice about documenting versus creating content for marketing purposes, what should we be documenting?”

    This is a great question, partly because Gary’s advice is based on his experiences, and thus is optimized for him and the way he runs his company. Our interpretation and adaptation of that advice is going to look different. Watch the video to find out what to document, and a key value-building strategy for using some of the content.

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    In today’s episode, Michael asks, with regard to Gary van Chuck’s advice about documenting versus creating content for marketing purposes, what should we be documenting? This is a great question. Because Gary’s advice is, as he says, He talks about what he knows and what he and his team do. It’s based on his experiences, which also means that it’s optimized for him and the way he runs his company. As a result, our interpretation and adaptation of that device is going to look very different. There are things that we have to do that he doesn’t because of the way he runs his business, for example, he broadcasts a lot of meetings, many companies have pretty significant confidentiality restrictions on about what you can share. So look at the things that you do during the work day that could add value you to someone’s someone else’s work day that maybe are not part of your core competency, but would still be a great way to share and build trust and provide value to your audience. For example, if you go over to the trust insights YouTube channel, you’ll see the daily process I use for for all the stuff I used to assemble my morning videos, that’s not something that we do as a company that is a core competency. It’s not part of the secret sauce, if you will, but it is valuable for people who want to know how do you create videos at at scale or as efficiently as possible. Another example is the entire existence of this series that you ask I answer series, it’s based off of the book that Marcus Sheridan road they ask you answer, but it’s documenting something that I’m doing anyway, when I get emails from people that are asking good questions, questions that I would like to answer, I could either sit down and type out a an email response and have it benefit one person or can create a video that does the exact same thing. But then it benefits a lot of people. So that’s an example of this documentation. If you were to look, for example, let’s say you’re a you’re a company that has a customer service department, and you make you make widgets of some kind, and people email in and say, Hey, I plug this widget in, but it’s not working, why isn’t working? Well, you can create a whole bunch of documented content around here’s how you get this widget to work, right. So step one, plug it in step two, you know, make sure the little green light is glowing green, and not yellow, or red. Step three,

    essentially taking what is probably in the extremely poorly written directions that, you know, these little tiny things that are that are useless that companies spend as little money as possible on

    to cut costs. And, and they’re terrible translations, you could create that about the technology that your company offers, and have it be helpful, have it be valuable. And that’s again, documenting something that guess what your customer service representatives are probably doing anyway, because they just having to copy and paste responses to the same questions over and over again,

    whenever you see an opera a repetition in your work, hey, I’ve sent this email five times now, hey, I’ve answered this call 15 times. And it’s the same thing, there’s an opportunity not only for automation, but also for this type of documentation.

    If you are, for example, you’re working at your company, and your company’s not a marketing company, that markets to marketers again, say, like your car insurance company, you might, depending on the size your company, you may have an SEO team, guess what they’re doing optimization and rank tracking and all that stuff every single day. That’s an opportunity to share. So some of the things that you’re looking at some of the questions that you have some of the things that are working for you that with with the world, especially if it is in things where you know, it’s not going to give a competitor and edge right. So tracking your competitors rankings, for example, look at go at didn’t look good. I like where are they getting all their rankings from? Oh, and you don’t have to give away your secret sauce. But you can certainly document the process of understanding somebody else’s secret sauce. So there’s, there are opportunities throughout the workday to create videos, create audio, create text content about the stuff that you do, that’s not your core competency. That’s not giving away the secret sauce.

    So that’s the implementation of that advice. Now, you have to adhere to your company’s privacy policies, you have to adhere to your non disclosure agreement, you have to you do have to do your homework to make sure that you’re not going to cause policy issues or privacy violations. So be aware of that you don’t want to do it exactly the way that Gary does, because he’s probably paid lawyers a handsome sum to make sure that what he does is allowable, and people working with him understand what they’re getting into. Whereas for everyone else, we need to take those precautions, we need to make sure that we’re we are well aligned to that sort of thing. So that’s what to document, document the stuff that you’re doing anyway, that and by the way, I should add this in as well. You don’t necessarily have to publish everything, one of the best things that you can do for your company, especially have you know, more than a couple people on your team is to document with software like I use text myths, Camp Asia, we’ll put a link in the show notes to that

    you can create internal documentation, really, really, really good training for other people on your team for other departments, with your company. If your company is a larger company, and you’ve got say, you’re in the search marketing team for North America, but you’ve gotten a media division document and publish internal your content, and it will be a tremendous benefit to the company. Because now you’re providing training of stuff that you’re doing already anyway, right? So you and your team are doing this stuff anyway, provide that as training to other people within the company. And it extends and enhances and grows, what your company can do. So give that some thought as well. Doesn’t have to be public can very much be an internal thing that you just publish it. Here’s what’s going on, give people visibility into how you do stuff, how you create results, and it might be surprised at just how impactful that is. So great question, Michael. Thanks for any additional questions, please leave them in the comments. And of course, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care one help solving your company’s data

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Content Marketing Quality and Quantity

    You Ask, I Answer: Content Marketing Quality and Quantity

    Marije asks, “Do you think it is worth it to put a lot of effort into one piece of content or is one better off focusing on making more and smaller pieces of content?”

    Quality is job one in content marketing, but the ideal state is to produce high quality content at scale. There’s a catch: quality doesn’t mean what you think it means. Watch the video for more details.

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    In today’s episode Murray asks, Do you think it is worth it to put a lot of effort into one piece of content, or is one better off focusing on making more and smaller pieces of content. So this is the age old quality and quantity of content marketing

    today, quality for the marketer is job one, your content has to be high quality. And the reason why is this thing, these devices give us unlimited access to infinite amounts of information, or nearly infinite in nearly unlimited more than you could consume in your lifetime. More, you’ll run out of years before you run out of content. So as a result, the customer, the consumer, b2b or b2c, doesn’t matter. The customer never has to settle for anything less than the best when they are on this device. And they’re on YouTube, or blogs, or LinkedIn or wherever, they don’t have to spend any time on anything that is less than great, right? So good, or mediocre or good enough or Okay, doesn’t cut it anymore, your content has to be great, your content has to be worth spending the time which means that generally speaking, your content has to follow the three he rule has to be either engaging, entertaining, or educational. Engaging means that it is something that they’re emotionally invested, they get some kind of emotional benefit political news, for example, people are very emotionally engaged, and not necessarily to their benefit. But they are educational, they’re learning something, they’re improving themselves, they’re getting, they’re becoming a better person and entertaining, they, they are deriving satisfaction or enjoyment or contentment or something from that content, your content is got to be one of those three, ideally, it’s all three. But it has to do one of those things that has to do it really, really well as to better than then the other choices that the customer has in that time frame. So it doesn’t matter what the content is, if it’s a podcast, if it’s a blog, if it’s an email, if it’s a video like this, you have to be entertaining, educational or engaging. And if you’re not going to do for example, like the videos I try to publish every day are focused on education. And so I have to provide educational value better than what you’re going to get somewhere else, hopefully. And since I’m not particularly funny, and I’m not going to say outrageous, outlandish things, or swear at you know, for 10 minutes straight, I have to double down on the education aspect, because it’s not going to be that emotionally inciting.

    So that’s quality. Now,

    here’s on the question of where you should spend your time, you have to figure out how to get automation and technology working for you. So that you can create great quality content all the time.

    And you could do it at scale. So instead, it is not enough to publish one great piece of content per quarter, right? That’s just not enough people’s attention spans, they forget who knows what they forgot who should come to top of mind. And, and humans. We know this through the power of advertising. Humans remember more through repetition. When you seen that car insurance commercial 44 times

    in the last five days, you remember the brand you remember who it is. And there’s a good chance that by just saying just by saying the words car insurance, commercial, pretty much one of two companies has come to mind, right?

    Or

    you saw an ad your news feed for that Coffee Company, right? And it’s always there for for a month straight, there was nothing but pumpkin spice latte ads, pumpkin spice this right.

    Again, I say that Coffee Company. In your newsfeed. This probably one of three companies is going to come to mind because of the power of repetition. So in your content marketing, you do need to have frequency, you do need to be doing stuff often.

    So you need great quality content, and you need a lot of it, which means that you have to figure out how to make your content marketing processes faster and better. Now, here’s the catch about quality content quality content does not mean expensive. Content quality content does not mean a polished production, unless your company’s product is that content. So for example, if you are a video marketing company, yes, your videos should look expensive, they should look highly polished and publish, right? If you are in a podcasting company, your podcast should be like a spa massage for somebody ears, right? It should be that good for everybody else who’s core competency whose product is not the content format itself. Quality means that you’re providing education, entertainment, or engagement. That’s the definition of quality. So you can do something shot right on your smartphone like this with, you know, an inexpensive Mike like this in a basement like this. As long as you’re fulfilling the brand promise and creating entertainment engagement or education.

    How do you produce great quality content on a regular basis produce stuff that people want through stuff that people have asked you for? Go into your customer service inbox and pull out all the questions people ask you. And guess what? There is your content because, you know, people want to know the answers to those things.

    They wouldn’t email you about it if they didn’t.

    They is the whole reason that this series which is named after a book that Marcus Sheridan wrote called, they ask you answer. That’s the reason this series exists because

    I can inherently provide and you can inherently provide more educational, entertaining or engaging content by simply answering questions people have asked you or giving them what they want to know, in yesterday’s trust insights newsletter, I asked a question

    asked Would you be interested in a webinar or some content around personal branding? And so just don’t don’t worry about form just hit reply in your email client and reply Yes, I’d be interested to know it wouldn’t be interested in and a dozen people applied. Yes,

    I would like to know more personal branding. Well, guess what.

    Now I have a mandate from the people that I serve our customers that they want more content on personal branding. So it’s no longer I don’t have to guess what quality content is going to be for them. They told me they want stuff on personal branding. Cool, we’re going to do that.

    Ask your customers if you if your inbox isn’t full. Ask your customers

    What do you want?

    Our advisor Ginny Dietrich who runs spin sucks, calm has this fantastic one question survey that we sent out following her advice.

    If you read my newsletter, or you read the trust insights newsletter, you got this question, which is if we were to

    talk for an hour sit down to talk for an hour, what would we discuss?

    And I had over 300 replies to sort, categorize, filter, tag, etc. to categorize what you want.

    So ask your customers ask your audience

    that exact question. If you can’t think of a better question to ask

    that question. What would you what would we discuss for an hour people will tell you that some people give you silly answers. And that’s fine. Some people will complain if especially if your

    brand isn’t hasn’t done the best job but for

    the most part, people will tell you what they want. So that’s where you create quality content. And when people are asking questions like Maria asked

    if she could send me 15 questions to answer Sure, I’m going to answer questions, because that’s a great way

    to give you what you want. Because there’s a very good chance that you have very similar questions that Maria did. So great quality content just means being educational, entertaining, or engaging, and giving people what they want. At high frequency. You don’t need a lot of money. You do need a lot of knowledge in your industry, which I hope you have. And you do need to invest the time to create content and have a system put together to do it.

    Unlike some folks on you know, who have 10 or 15 or 20 person teams. This is a one person show literally the in the sense of what happens and I’ll put a link if you want to see how I produced the show every day is 45 minutes total to produce this show, you can do the same thing so I’ll put a link in the show notes to that as well. Thanks for the question. If you haven’t already, please subscribe to the YouTube channel the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon one help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Content Marketing Strategy and Company Size

    You Ask, I Answer: Content Marketing Strategy and Company Size

    Marije asks, “Do you think that a small company should use a different content strategy than a large company? If so, what is the main reason for that?”

    At a macro level, every company’s content marketing strategy is and should be identical: use content to improve the experience along the customer journey, from awareness through loyalty. The difference will be in implementation, driven by budgets, resources, and one key factor that 99% of companies do completely wrong. Watch the video to find out what, and one way to avoid making a disastrous content marketing mistake.

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    In today’s episode, Murray Hey. All right. asks,

    Do you think that a small company should use a different content strategy than a large company? If so, what is the main reason for that? Yes. So well, let’s back up. The big

    overall content strategy remains the same for pretty much every company, which is we want to use content to build awareness, build trust, in our brand, get

    us content, influence, consideration, evaluation and purchase, right, the standard buyers journey content helps make that journey move along more seamlessly. And so from that perspective, from the big picture perspective, yes, every company’s content strategy is roughly about the same thing, which is use content to help power marketing and sales and customer service.

    Now, the Why is the same, the what the How are going to be different, the what and the how are what choices you’re going to make in terms of channel budget method

    format. And then the How is you do that stuff. And that’s going to be different for every company, every single company is going to be do their content differently. Every company should do their content differently than every other company. Because otherwise, your content is just as much of commodity as your product is, and no one’s gonna buy it, no one’s gonna pay attention to it, no one’s going to use it. So the big differentiators for the content production strategy are largely around resources, what do you have the ability to create the content. So for example,

    my company trust insights were a three person company, there is only so much content we can create every day,

    we create good

    podcast content about once a week, we create video content every day, I use the video content that I do for my personal blog. Also, for the company as well, we create a newsletter once a week, we create blog posts couple times a week, depending on what’s going on. And what we have to share this important that is, and that is useful to our audience. So

    you’re talking a three person company can credibly crank out about one to two pieces of super high quality, useful content a day.

    Now notice, I didn’t say professionally polished or expensive looking content. Because today,

    you don’t want to get to elaborate and too fancy with your content creation, it’s better to provide useful content frequently, then polished content infrequently. And the other thing that tends to happen with very polished content is that

    the more people who are involved in the creation of it, the more the less useful it becomes to the end user. Because as you do more content by committee, more and more people wanted to be about the company and less about the audience. There are not a lot of content programs that survive a committee and create useful content at the end. So it is better, you are better off doing something like this, recording something on a phone with a $40 microphone or something. And publishing frequently. But making it all about you, the audience and not about the company.

    The channels will vary as well. If you are if you are a company that has a difficult time conveying information, a certain format, don’t use that format. So you really have what four major channels, you have text, your audio, you have video, and you have interactive, those are the four ways you can get someone to do something up with you.

    Most companies don’t have really good interactive capabilities, because it requires a very specific skill set that is very, very difficult for most companies to do. For example, creating your own app, creating your own apps and maintaining the midst of a software business in and of itself, it is content.

    But it’s difficult to do

    videos relatively easy these days, thanks to the prevalence of smartphones and things. So if you are comfortable on video, or even if you’re uncomfortable in video, but you’ll do it is a good way to provide content depending on your audience. Audio is a fantastic way to reach people. Because audio is the only format that you can

    that somebody can consume while they’re doing something else. So you can listen to a podcast while you’re at the gym, or driving a car or making lunch or whatever, it’s very difficult to read. Or even to watch a video. If you are doing something else. You absolutely should not be watching videos while you’re commuting, for example, just a terrible idea. It’s highly unsafe,

    but you can listen. So if your audience

    is an audience that is busy,

    and they listen to audio sources already audio content, maybe the way to go. A lot of people have jumped on the podcasting bandwagon the last couple of years, which is, is good as long as again, the content you’re creating is useful.

    The last thing I’ll say on small versus large company is that a larger company because of its budget, and resources can create more content. But it doesn’t necessarily mean it is better content. The

    number one challenge every single marketer faces is creating content that is actually useful to the audience.

    It is

    instinctive

    for marketers to

    to make very self centered content, say, hey, check out our awesome products in our awesome company. And our here’s a picture of our lobby, and you know,

    stuff that

    is makes the CEO of the company feel better, or it makes the board directors feel better, but doesn’t do anything for the customer. And so

    the biggest struggle you’re going to find is how do you create content that the audience actually wants? And the number one way to do that is to ask people, what do you need help with? What questions would you like to have answered? The entire reason I do this show you ask answer, which is based off of Marcus Sheridan’s book they ask you answer is because it is inherently audience centric, you have a question, I’ll try to answer it as opposed to me just putting stuff out there that may or may not be of interest to you. If you’re if you marry his sent me this entire document of like 15 questions, and I’ll answer the ones that are relevant

    by default. I’m making content for the audience for you for her this case, because this is what she wants to know.

    So what questions do you get? And you feel like I don’t know where to get questions. I guess what I can tell you the number one source of year of questions for your shows for your blogs, podcasts video is your customer service inbox guarantee you if you get at least one email a day from customer service

    to your customer service inbox, you have questions to answer that customers that audience members want answers to. And by the way, if you create content that is answering the questions that people have that you have received, guess what the next time that question comes in your sales team, your customer service team, your marketing team, your PR team, whoever can grab the link in the content that you made and say, Hey, here’s a 10 minute video answers your question aren’t we so helpful to you?

    Like, hey, I’ve got you know widget w x 42 and I don’t know where the flow goes for why to have the W x 41 and if someone’s got that question you can provide them a serious well thought out answer that will provide real value to them and to anybody else who has questions about your stuff. So great question at the macro level everyone’s kind of strategy the same at the execution everyone’s is going to be different and it should be different. As always, please leave your questions you can send them to the link in the show notes below and please subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter and we’ll talk to you soon

    take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights AI today and let us know how we can help

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How To Use YouTube for Organic Marketing

    You Ask, I Answer: How To Use YouTube for Organic Marketing

    Kourtney asks, “How can you use YouTube for organic marketing?”

    YouTube is a search engine. Start by thinking of it as a search engine, rather than a video channel or a social network, even though it’s also those things. Let’s walk through some of the basic tips; be sure to take my free Video SEO 101 class as well!

    • Do your research for what people want
    • Create content in the 8 minute+ realm. (YouTube likes videos longer than 5 minutes because, ads)
    • Follow basic video SEO rules
    • Include calls to action

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    In today’s episode, Courtney asks, How can

    you use YouTube for organic marketing?

    Here’s the thing that a lot of marketers get wrong about YouTube. They think of YouTube as a video platform. Now, it is a video platform. You load videos like this one to YouTube, but functionally, the way consumers use YouTube and the way consumers use YouTube for business purposes is that it is a search engine. It’s not a social networks out of video platform. It is a search engine people search on YouTube for stuff they specifically search and a lot of cases for how how do I if you are doing and if you’re in a business where there’s any kind of question about how do i do something like this video,

    your YouTube videos should be providing that those answers How do I change a kitchen faucet? How do I grow more organic garden? And how do I qualify leads better? How

    do I fill out an RFP in the most efficient way?

    YouTube is a search engine. So because it’s a search engine, treat it like a search engine and approach it with a search strategy in mind, which means of a whole bunch of things. Number one, have you done your research for what people search for on YouTube? There are ways to get at this data. The easiest one is go to Google Trends.

    And under the the network. Where do you see

    content types, there’s web, there’s, there’s mobile, and then there’s YouTube. YouTube is right in there. So you can see what people are searching for on YouTube and compare trends to see what people want.

    So there are also I believe in most of the SEO tools, the professional SEO tools, video searches, that’s a goldmine

    that tells you exactly what to create videos about. Because about people wanting to people are asking you to for answers to their questions. When it comes to creating video for YouTube,

    aim for above the five minute mark. Now

    it doesn’t have to be a 60 minute or a 90 minute movie

    a cinematic film, but it doesn’t need to be longer than five minutes

    Search Engine Land in January of 2018 show that there was a substantial increase in the likelihood your video would be favored by YouTube’s algorithm. It was longer than five minutes because

    well ads YouTube’s you do wants to show ads. And in a five minute video, it can show pre roll, it can probably show post role and it can show at least one interstitial in the video.

    I personally like to try and aim for around the eight minute mark. And I try not to go with the 10 minute mark. And the reason for that is I like to cross post the video to LinkedIn. And LinkedIn doesn’t allow you to do more in a 10 minute video. But

    if you’ve got a topic that you need to explore in depth, go as long as you want. But try to keep it at least to the five minute mark

    when you’re using when you’re creating content for YouTube.

    If you’ve done keyword research,

    and the new question research and you’ve got the video itself, follow basic Video SEO rules. So on YouTube, what are the things that you can customize, you can customize the title, you can customize the description underneath the video, and you can customize the tags that are tagged with and you can also if you don’t like YouTube’s automated transcription, you can provide your own transcript for subtitles. The title is important if you’ve done a keyword research, you know exactly what to put in the title because it should be the the key words plus the logical extensions around them.

    So we’ll say

    how to brew espresso right how to brew espresso, and then some kind of benefit how to brew espresso and five minutes or whatever the cases but your that’s your title, your description contains what the video is about. And you can it’s not limited to 140 characters, you can put in a substantial amount of text. So you could put in the transcript, you can put in a summary, you can put in links, you can put in all sorts of contact information. So that can go into description, make sure your keywords are in there, too, because you want to make sure that that is in the description of the video.

    And then the tags are are sort of the root keyword topics. So if your video is about making us wrestle, then obviously express it would be one of the keywords that goes in the in the tagging section,

    you have the ability to upload custom

    still images. And a number of folks say that you should do that just so that it shows a inappropriate image rather than YouTube. Just randomly selecting a freeze frame and having an awkward preview photo like you know,

    you standard with your eyes closed itself thing.

    And then make sure when you’re uploading the video that there’s three tabs, there’s the basics, there is the advanced, which is where you upload your transcripts in your translations. And this that third tab, which is all your metadata, make sure your metadata is configured. Things like the date, the captioning, any paid promotion, disclosure, all that stuff needs to be in there. Because again, as with regular Google, the more data you provide to help YouTube which is Google understand what the video is about, and why it should be shown to certain people by its algorithm, the better your video will do. So make sure you do that. And finally,

    when it’s come when you’re talking

    about using YouTube organic marketing,

    you better have some calls to action in the video. Every video of mine, it ends with a call to action telling people what to do.

    And some folks go so far as to just like

    hit your right on the nose, say like, hey, down here is the subscribe button hit the red subscribe, and then hit the little bell button

    to make sure you get notified every time a new video is posted. The reason for this is that against in in in Search Engine Land article, I think a search engine and vitamin Search

    Engine Watch one of the algorithms key metrics is how many subscribers did this video generate. And the more subscribers that this video generates, the more important this video must be because people took an action a tangible action so make sure you have an on network call to action but then also have off network calls to action again, hey and everyone’s saying please subscribe to my newsletter. The reason for this is that I would if you’re using this for marketing at some point somebody has to do something you never want to slowly build on rented land and so if you’re building a YouTube following and it’s a huge YouTube following awesome but if YouTube goes away if YouTube changes its its rules on you, which will you know, search engines Do you don’t want to be held hostage to just that platform. So make sure there’s an off network call to action

    as well. I have a full 30 Minute Video SEO

    class a free completely free

    available on the trust insights websites. I’ll

    put a

    link in the in the description

    for the video so that you can go ahead and get that and they’ll be in the blog post as well that goes with it. So make sure that if you’re interested in optimizing your videos more it’s a it’s a good way

    to get going. But that’s how you use YouTube organic marketing create stuff people want remember it has to follow the three evil

    same as all your other content marketing as either educate,

    entertain or engage, which is a way of saying it has to cause an emotional reaction of some kind to the

    videos that it doesn’t make people happy or raid or angry or any kind of strong emotional responses always going to do better than a video that is just purely promotional. Just the same as all of the content marketing. So make sure that your video ultimately meets those criteria. Great question Courtney. Please leave any additional questions or follow ups and look in the comments box below. Leave a comment and of course subscribe to the newsletter and the YouTube channel. Hit the red button

    on YouTube and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care one 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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  • You Ask, I Answer: How To Be a Confident Public Speaker

    You Ask, I Answer: How To Be a Confident Public Speaker

    Jim asks, “Do you know what are the best tips for confident public speaking?”

    This is a great and tough question. Many, many people are terrified of public speaking. At the end of the day, public speaking is just another form of content marketing. Learn the three basic rules and public speaking tips for being a confident public speaker in this video.

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    In today’s episode, Jim asks, Do you know what are the best tips for confident public speaking,

    public speaking, is it really in many ways, nothing more than a form of content delivery, right. So if you are good at content delivery, in some format, you will be probably good at public speaking, there are two fundamental things that create great confident public speaking. Number one, you need to have content that the audience desperately wants, and to, you need to know your material cold. So let’s unpack these a little bit

    most public speakers in order to in order to feel like they’re, they’re getting kind of energy of the audience, they want

    to all sorts of stuff. And, and there’s three basic at aspects to the performance itself. If there’s entertainment, there’s engagement, and the education or the sort of the three things that you can do as a public speaker, to get the audience to, to respond to you. So being entertaining as one being provocative and saying things are doing things or dressing a certain way to get a rise out of the audience. And being educational teaching people something,

    but at the end of the day, your content, your speech, or talk your whatever else has to be what the audience desperately wants to learn about to get something from, especially if you’re talking about professionally speaking,

    as in the business world,

    the audiences are there to be entertained to some degree to be motivated, because there’s an enormous number of people who, who actively look for things like motivational speakers, and to learn something that they can use to make their own lives better.

    That may be technical things like how to do a certain type of work better, it may be

    things to avoid risk, again, ton of conferences and events, which are all about risk and regulation, well, then they look dry on the outside. But if you’re in that world, those could be very, very compelling topics, new regulation, new IRS regulation, 127 a could be a keynote topic, if it is a value to the audience and the audience is all CPA is and they know all their customers are going to be knocking on the door in January, asking about this regulation, then, then that talk could be extremely viable, very compelling,

    but

    where a lot of people who are not

    great public speakers fall down is the content that they deliver is much too much about themselves or their company. And not enough about the audience. When the audience is there for their own benefit. They want to, they want to learn something, they want to be motivated, they want to be entertained, and the speaker doesn’t do that the speakers and said all about themselves. So that’s the first part.

    The second part is knowing your material cold. And what makes you a confidence speaker is not knowing the material itself rigidly cold, I can have just, you know,

    to read off the memorize the talk and read off it, but actually be an expert in your content in your field, having that expertise so that no matter what happens, you can deliver value to the audience.

    So for example, I talk a lot about marketing analytics. And I know it’s in my talk, I know the general layout, I’m about to do a talk in San Francisco on a is application and marketing analytics. And I have my presentation on all that stuff. But if the power where to go out, or the project didn’t work, or whatever, I could deliver the entire talk as it is without a single visual, because it would be harder for the audience to see because some of the things are highly visual, like, hey, imagine a chart

    of colorful blue squares

    with words in them. And the bigger the square, the more important the word, that’s what you know, a way of visualizing a certain type of analysis. It’s a lot harder without visuals, but

    because I know not only the talk itself, but also have the domain expertise in pieces that went into that talk, then I can speak confidently about it. Because

    no matter what the audience does, no matter what the venue does, I can still deliver value and

    one of the things I’ve started doing in the last few years is is leaving a third of the time, whatever time we have been a lot It is Liga third of the time for Q amp a because that is where as a speaker, you can deliver additional value and demonstrate your expertise because someone will ask you a curveball question, like it’s not really all that much of a curveball and you answer the question and and you deliver value to that person in the audience. And other people in the audience may have that exact same exact question. And so you can help the questioner. You help the people around the question. And

    you can show without telling that you know, what you’re talking about

    knowing your material cold and having the domain expertise is the way you get to

    enduring confidence when you speak, because after a certain amount of time, if once you’ve done the same talk 510, 2050

    times you know it all the questions are, you’re not going to be surprised by a question.

    And so you can be very confident in your talk in the q amp a in the audience in everything that happens within that performance.

    Confident public speaking.

    Guess the third aspect of it. And this is one that’s not changeable is whether you are comfortable and enjoy being in front of other people. A lot of people don’t, a lot of people are, do not enjoy public speaking, they do it because they have to work requires it or their position at work requires it. My old CEO and friend Todd Devon was very uncomfortable

    public speaking. But he did it because as the founder of his company, he had to

    until a lot of people

    don’t enjoy that.

    The one suggestion there is find a format that works for you. Maybe instead of standing up on the stage being the talking head for 45 minutes, and maybe sitting down on stage with a panelist and having a sort of like a coffee chat where you can interact with the person where you’re more conversational, rather than being a solo performer. So there may be different ways for you to perform. And

    if you are absolutely unhappy, public speaking, don’t do it unless

    circumstance dictates that you must, but you will not be a confident public speaker. If you hate it, it’s not something that you enjoy,

    because you will be uncomfortable on stage.

    And yes, you can hide it to a certain degree. But audiences know the difference between someone who’s there because they have to be and someone who’s there because they want to be and they love it. And that is their thing.

    So

    have content that the audience desperately wants. Number one, and the most important by far to know your material cold three want to be there. So those are the three basic tips for confident public speaking, there’s a whole bunch of other things that you can do. And the I would

    check out the book steal

    the show by Michael Port. It is a fantastic book if you want to learn more of that confidence. And that performance of public speaking is fantastic. So check that out if that’s something you want to dig more into. As always, thanks for asking the question, leave your question in the comments below. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter. I’ll talk to you soon. What help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems.

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  • Solicited Review: TechSmith SnagIt 2019

    Solicited Review_ TechSmith SnagIt 2019

    In this review, learn the two features that matter most to me as a marketer, one which protects personally identifiable information, and the other which makes design feedback much easier.

    FTC Disclosure: I was provided a review copy of the application at no cost.

    Learn more about TechSmith SnagIt 2019 here.

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    In today’s episode a solicited review of campaign of text myths, new snag at 2019 product be screen capture product, full disclosure, I was provided a review copy to take a look at this thing. So if you’re not familiar with screenshots, software, it’s really elementary stuff, you take a screenshot of your screen or a portion of your screen. And then you go ahead and you use that picture as you would any other graphic things for like presentations and stuff like that, in this regard, snag it really no different than the default functionality on your computer. What makes it interesting are all the things you can do with the the shots afterwards, and the post processing. So let’s take a look at this. First, I’m going to take a screenshot of some blog comments here got the lovely stuff here enough, I was going to just use this, let’s take a picture of it.

    This in and of itself is I would say probably not the world’s most interesting picture, right, this is just comments on the blog. One of the things that I might want to do. And one of the coolest features I think, is the ability to simplify it down to screen and or mask PII, personally identifiable information. Now, in this case, it’s already been obscured by the common thing software. But this is there still may be more information than I would like. So I’m gonna hit the auto simplify button here. And it’s going to go through and essentially use a bit of machine learning to identify with the types of content that are on screen blocks of text, things like that. And then as you can see, simplify it down, it has reduced a lot of the screen down to this very basic stuff. And then this could go in a screenshot. This is cool again, because the PII aspect I think, is cool, let’s take take any kind of screenshot from any kind of application that you use for work. And you can mask out anything that doesn’t belong, but still get a sense of the interface still get a sense of the layout of the design. One of things you look here, it’s it’s done a really good job of just blurting out stuff that is not the most relevant things. And then, of course, additional things you can just simply draw on. And it will, it will attempt to detect an N remove additional pieces. So that’s cool. I think that is a very, very helpful

    particular type of tool. The second thing, and this is where if you

    if you ever provide tech support for your relatives,

    this is an essential feature, it is the ability to record not only short tutorials as videos, but and then turn them even to end to animated gifts. So let’s look at this, I’m going to again, take this year,

    let’s say we were working on our blog, I hit the video record button, turn on recording. And you can see the us a little count down here. And then I’ll go ahead and click on things like is this a pending comment, cleanup, comment, spam, comments, things like that, I will turn off this the recorder here.

    And what it’s done is record eight, a nice little video of this where this gets really cool, click the animated GIF button. Choose screen video doesn’t need to be super high fidelity.

    But by turning a screen recording into an animated

    GIF,

    this can then just go right inside of an email. So instead of having to call up your, your cousin, or your uncle, or your dad, whatever, and say, the walk them through the same procedure over and over again, for some of the solving technical

    just send them the gift. And then because it’s a looping gift, they can see it as many times as they want.

    This has enormous value, you know, not only for relative tech support, but also for any of those business emails where somebody’s got a question about something can just immediately throw that in there. When you are interacting as the consumer as the end user providing feedback to developers about an application. This feature is very handy when you are and these this is a gift file. It’s an animated GIF, which means that you can then drop that into any place that accepts a graphic. So slack email, instant messenger text messages, what it wherever the case may be, you can do that right from the application. Now, there are obviously are a ton of other interesting little features in here. One of the ones I thought it was kind of cool was in there. In the stepwise thing if you want to, again, do some tech support here. Let’s go ahead and just choose the red theme here. And you can then just click on here and say, Okay, this is step one, then this is step two, this is step three, this is step four, and put these little annotations to help people understand in the static graphics, this is the flow what it is you’re supposed to be doing.

    It’s a huge time saver. Because you can you absolutely can do this yet, like PowerPoint or whenever, but it’s going to take you a while. And there’s of course, all the other things, there’s stamps in here, which steps are

    I if I personally don’t clutter up my documentation on this kind of stuff. But I could definitely see for somebody where you wanted to include specific types of symbols, or you just want or you’re just a person who likes to communicate with images rather than words, you know, the Instagram generation, if you love stickers, and labels and stuff, and Instagram or Snapchat, you’ll love having this within your screenshots as well. I don’t know that I would use the I would do business communications that way. But whatever makes you happy. And then of course, there are other other relevant features that we’re all used to our was called out texts and things like that. But really, to me, the the standout features are that simplification feature. And then some of the stamps and things I think those are, those are really, really cool things, there’s one other thing you can do,

    you can do a what’s called auto detect lift, where you can identify if you want to, if you want to find something in the in the air drying to select, it’ll pull out the pieces and make it easier to grab individual pieces. I can’t do that with this one. Because it’s already been

    the handheld suit. Good to do this. So let’s take another screenshot here. Maybe we’ll just do the right hand side of this page for now.

    And now on in this drawing. If I wanted to move some stuff around, I can choose move to smart move here, it’s going to go through and again, using some basic machine learning, identify things that I can just pick up and move around. So if I wanted to, for example, UI purposes, do a mock up of have a take a mock up of a page and rearrange, here’s what this page would look like with this content move down. This is kind of a ridiculous example. But in the UI business in the ad business if you’re doing kind of any kind of ads ad comps, this would be invaluable for being able to rearrange a page and show what it would look like after changes were made while preserving the look and feel and you’re not having to recreate every single thing within a design tool. So lots to appreciate within the new snag at 2019. If you are working with screenshots if you’re doing any kind of technical documentation if you’re providing tech support to your relatives where you want to be able to show in motion graphics how these things work. This is definitely something to to grab the the free trial for trying it out and see if it makes your life easier. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and 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 today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Tools for Content Marketing Idea Generation

    You Ask, I Answer_ Tools for Content Marketing Idea Generation

    Rosh asks, “What other tools might you use in content creation?”

    Great question. Let’s look at a few of the tools that I love to use. FTC disclosure: anything that goes to a paid service is probably an affiliate link.

    Some of my favorites:

    Watch the video to learn exactly how I use these tools for content and idea generation.

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    In today’s episode Roche asks what other tools besides some of the more obvious ones would you use in content creation? That’s a really good question. So let’s look at some of the tools that I enjoy using that get a lot of benefit out of full disclosure, anything that is a paid services, almost certainly an affiliate link or a sponsor. The first one up is core, a core is a great tool for finding the questions that people are asking, but you need a text editor to us. So I’m going to just do a quick example here. Let’s do content marketing as the search topic. Here we have the content marketing topic, and it’s going to scroll down. What you see inside a Cora is a whole bunch of well, questions, what are the questions that people are asking about, in this case, content marketing. So what we want to do is get a couple of pages of this stuff, and then fire up a text editor. The texted drive your choice, I’ll show you example here. This one’s called Text Wrangler on the Mac. And let’s go ahead and extract out we want to process lines containing question marks, and then sort them

    and now you have a whole huge list of questions that you could be answering to demonstrate your subject matter expertise. And then of course, certainly going to get a lot of useful questions that are using the exact language people are talking about. So you’re not, it’s, it’s not using just keywords. actually using the entire longtail phrases. So terrific way to do that. Second tool up is Neil Patel. So Uber suggests, again, this is a free tool. This one is a really good basic SEO tool is not as good as paid SEO tools. But it’s not bad. And when you look at content marketing, you can see also the keyword ideas here who ranks for things. And then what are some of the top terms and again, these are great ways identify some of the key language you want to have in the answers to your questions that you generate ancora. So that’s a terrific one. A third one also free. It’s called answer the public This one is is an amusing site. Let’s put in content marketing here.

    And what it’s going to generate is it will generate not only sort of keyword suggestions, but it will actually generate questions that people typically ask based on keyword volume data. And these questions you can go around the loop in and answer these questions. How can content marketing help the business what is content marketing in Hindi etc. Was content marketing Forbes, again, more great ways to generate a lot of content. Now there will be a decent amount of overlap between answer the public and core, I like to start with core first, because I get the actual language this is generated by algorithm. The actual language I think is a better fit. The fourth one that I like to use is Google Trends. But I what I do is I use predictive analytics on Google Trends from software I wrote for my company trust in sites. And what it allows you to do is take allow those terms and keywords that the top ones and forecasts and out 52 weeks, so figure out when you should be doing something. So for example, but these are these are cheese’s it is the week of October 11 as I record this video. So next week, the most popular cheese would be cheddar, followed by a monster provolone. Now, this is a silly, fun example. But imagine you’re taking some of these terms here, like content marketing, putting them into trends forecasting forward, and then when are those terms going to become the most relevant that tells me when to schedule specific terms to to coincide with the content that people are asking for on the date they’re asking for. So those are the the free tools and you can take those tools a long way and get a lot of benefit out of them. Three more tools, these are paid tools buzz Sumo is is a terrific tool for seeing whatever people are talking about, and what’s getting the highest engagement. So here, I put in content marketing. And of course, you get a list of all the different terms that come up and the articles that are in them. If you have data science capabilities, you’re going to want to export this data and start doing semantic analysis, word analysis phrase analysis to figure out what are the terms and things that people that that really get people so at the core gave you the questions people are asking, these are essentially are the existing answers and which answers are getting the highest attention that is, in turn something that would be very valuable for you to be able to know and and put into your own content, for example, grammatical errors, what are you What’s your spin on these things, how to tell a story on social media, etc, etc. So buzz Sumo, a terrific tool for doing that. Another great source of information is actually your own social network accounts. So I use a tool called aggro pulse. And what this allows me to do is monitor things like my YouTube videos and and get questions people are asking in the comments that we don’t make setting and be able to respond to them. One of the ones that is, I think, really important is the LinkedIn inbox because it pulls questions people are responding to you with on LinkedIn on your posts, and allows you to answer them, which is something that I don’t think any other service social media monitoring service does. So here’s one that you know this is going to be an upcoming episode. What’s my take on the new smart assistants? Guess what? I have an answer for that.

    So when you’re putting content out, that’s asking people to ask you questions, agriculture is a great way to not miss it. And finally, one of the tools is another social monitoring tool. This one is general social Agra pulses for your account, specifically, general social, this is a tool called talk Walker. And they’ll put it in content marketing here. And what it’s going to do is go in and scrape Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, all the major networks, news media, blogs, forums, basically, the works is what the content universe looks like, for a good term. And then you can go into things like themes and the actual results to get a sense of, Okay, this is what people are actually saying are talking about are the terms that are associated with content marketing. So here, content marketing, of course, have general marketing as well, creating stuff communications, and then you can go in and to the results export up to the analytic side, up to 50,000 results at a time. And again, if you’ve got that data science capability, you can extract out a lot of

    the words the phrases, the terminology that people use. So that was a whirlwind tour of some of the most powerful content marketing tools. Again, the free ones you can take pretty far you can, you can put together a decent amount of stuff, but then when you want to take it to the next level, and be able to respond to people when they ask you questions, be able to see what’s trending and to see what what’s being said in the broad audience. And then identify some of the people who are most prominent use the paid tools so the links to everything are in the notes below the post if you’re watching this on YouTube or LinkedIn and in the blog post on my blog, so please feel free to check out those things. And again, anything that’s a paid service is an affiliate or a sponsor and thank them for their support. As always, if you have questions for us to answer please again, leave them in the comments it’s going to see what the services will eventually find them and please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter thanks for watching one help solving your company’s data

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