Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Content

Do People Share More Than They Read?
Chris Brogan suggested recently that people share more than they read. While his statement was born of instinct, I wanted to validate it with data. Let’s look at the truth of it with a sample of nearly a half a million URLs.

Data and Methodology

Over the past year in my work at SHIFT Communications, I built a content scanner that ingests and scans URLs for all sorts of things – social shares by network, clicks recorded by Bit.ly, SEO metrics, content marketing data such as readability, and even IBM Watson integration for sentiment and tone analysis. I’ve used the tool to scan almost 500,000 URLs, from corporate websites to newspapers to blog posts for companies in nearly every industry. We’ll use this repository as the source of our data.

For measuring sharing, we have that data baked as-is, in the number of social media shares by network and in total.

For measuring reading, we will look at clickthroughs as measured by Bit.ly. Bit.ly tracks any URL shared with it and for the most part makes the data available; it’s a good proxy for reading because someone at least made the effort to click through on a link, even if they didn’t necessarily read the whole story.

So what does our data tell us? Is Mr. Brogan right?

People Share Far More Than They Read

Not only is he right, he’s very, very right. For the half million URLs, people shared 777% more than they clicked through to read:

In fact, the average number of clicks a URL received was around 51; the average number of shares was 396, 7x more than the clicks:

Implications

What does this mean for you as a marketer? Think about how we communicate information. If people are just reading the headline and the associated graphic without reading the content, then be sure what you’re creating still communicates value in that very brief exposure.

Consider also the network of how people share. Malcom Gladwell’s Tipping Point discusses three different types of networkers – mavens, connectors, and salespeople. The salespeople – message distributors – are who does the sharing. As we build our networks of relationships, we need all three types. Deep, exhaustive content is for the mavens. Our own role as a hub in our network helps us connect our mavens – the few people who actually read our stuff – to our connectors. Our connectors then ambassador our message to the salespeople and the broad audience.

Sharing may be caring, but reading and engagement delivers the results. Be sure your content marketing focuses on both the sharing and the reading by communicating value even in the briefest of glimpses.

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January 11, 2017
State of my Blog, 2016 in Review
2016 was quite a year on the blog. I experimented with many more series, some content refreshes, and tried some things that didn’t work so well. Let’s get in the rewind machine and see how the year went.

Top Posts

What resonated this year?

In a look back at the top posts on my site, we see a really wide variety, from analytics to strategy to social media. In fact, to the extent that there isn’t a theme, that’s the theme for the year.

What do I make of this? If this were a corporate blog, I’d be concerned about the lack of focus. My blog is both a marketing blog and a personal blog, so I’m less concerned at the moment; however, if I wanted to pivot to a more sales-focused blog, I’d need to hone in on some topics more clearly.

AMP

As mentioned earlier on the blog, AMP was a sleeper until October. Today, it’s contributing significant new traffic, about 4% net new traffic per month. I see this in the number of URLs with /amp in them. Check your own web analytics if you’ve implemented AMP to see how it’s working for your site.

Content Refresh

In early October, I began to go through old site content to update and refresh it, from better graphical headers to complete rewrites in places. This refresh was powerful; 5 of the top 10 posts for the year are new refreshes. Because the URLs changed, these aren’t old posts inheriting previous traffic. These are, from a measurement perspective, brand new. Were I to refine my topical focus on the blog, these most popular areas would be where I started.

Series

This year, I did a number of longer series-based pieces. We see this reflected in that 2 of the top 10 posts are the beginnings of series. What’s more interesting is that interest drops off linearly in each series. Does that mean series aren’t working? I’m not sure; one of the next steps in each series will be to package them up as whitepapers and eBooks. If the bundled versions don’t obtain traction, then the series was probably a bust. If the bundled versions do well, then it’s just ensuring that readers are able to binge-read the entire thing at once.

We know, based on services like Netflix and Amazon, that content consumers have no problem consuming lots of content if it’s great; people with short attention spans for everything couldn’t binge-watch anything. Thus, the existence of binge-watching validates that content is still important as long as it’s great.

Perhaps in the year to come, I might invest more time in crafting the series al at once as a white paper rather than individual blog posts.

Wrapping up 2016

Overall, 2016 was a net positive on my blog. Year over year, I’m up about 8% for users. I thank you for your attention and patronage.

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December 26, 2016
3 Digital Audiences To Understand For Your Podcast And Business
An old but good article on Social Media Examiner was shared recently about podcasting tips that I’d contributed to in 2012, about how to understand our podcast audience. Much has changed since that article, so I thought I’d refresh the advice for the present day.

Mobile Still Matters

The percentage of your audience that uses a smartphone still matters, because podcast consumption predominantly happens on mobile devices:

71% of podcast listeners use a mobile device, according to Edison Research in early 2016.

However, beyond this number, what else should we know about our podcast audience? We should look at 3 data points about our digital audiences.

Audience 1: Our Social Audience

Determine which of our social network audiences is most beneficial to us. For me, Twitter tends to provide the most benefit, so I’ll start there. In Twitter Analytics, what is my audience interested in?

Who is my audience based on occupation?

These two reports tell us who our social media audience is and what their interests are. Since we will likely use social media to build our audience, knowing what topics and interests are relevant to our audience is a great place to start.

Audience 2: Our On-Site Audience

Our second audience to understand is on our website and/or owned digital properties. This audience is any audience we can fully track with our Google Analytics (or other equivalent) software. Let’s look at interests on-site.

What are our audiences interested in?

We see above a number of interest topics which should guide our content strategy. How many of them overlap with our social audience? Is there a content gap we should be aware of, things our social audience is interested in that our website audience is not?

More important, are there topics which our audience is interested in both locations that we’re not providing in our content? If so, remedy that!

Audience 3: Our Email Audience

Our third, and potentially most valuable, audience is our email audience. No matter what your podcast or business is, an email list is essential to your survival and growth.

Our email list contains whatever data we collect at the time from the user, plus whatever else we append it with. For my personal newsletter, I ask for a variety of fields such as name, title, and company.

What does this information tell me? It tells me much about my audience – who they are, what else they might potentially be interested in, and at what level I should be communicating at.

For example, if my audience is all mid-career, mid-level management, writing C-Suite content might be aspirational for them, but not practically helpful. Writing entry-level content might be useful for them to pass along, but it won’t help them in their day-to-day work.

What if you don’t have more than just an email address? Data cleansing and appending services like Data.com, Clearbit, NetProspex, ZoomInfo, and many others can help you clean up your data and learn more, for a fee ranging from 10 cents per email to $5 per email, depending on how much data you need.

Another important tactic in your email list is to create a segmentation in your Google Analytics just for people who respond to your emails (the orange bars below):

We want to understand how the interests of our email audience are different from our other audiences.

Three Layers of Audience

What we have above are three layers of audience, from our least committed (social) to our most committed (email). By comparing each audience, we better understand who we speak to at every level, and what topics and interests are most relevant throughout the journey of an audience member from casual contact to loyal fan. With this information, we will be able to tailor our podcast, our content, and our business towards what matters most to our audiences, giving them what they want, and growing our business in the process.

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December 12, 2016
4 Ways to Find Blog Ideas at Scale
Everyone finds themselves stuck from time to time, searching for something to write about. We all want to create content that’s meaningful, helpful, and if we’re honest, popular. Brainstorming only goes so far, especially if we’re a one-person show. How can we create blog topics, blog ideas at scale? Let’s look at 4 of my favorite methods.

You Asked

Google, as you may know, records every interaction you have with it. One of the easiest ways to generate blog topics is by looking back at your search history for all the things you’ve searched for. What questions did you ask? What topics were of interest to you, especially in your daily professional life?

This is one of the most powerful methods of generating blog ideas and content topics, because you likely not only asked the question, but found answers which others would find valuable.

You can access your search history at MyActivity.Google.com.

Other People Asked, Part 1

A second method for finding content marketing topics is to look at questions other people asked. Examine the contents of dozens of Q&A sites online for your industry or field, then start browsing the questions. How many questions do you have an authoritative, useful answer for?

If you’re really good at things like perl regular expressions and lightweight scripting, it’s trivial to extract thousands of questions from a category, then start writing based on your knowledge and expertise.

Other People Asked, Part 2

Another method of identifying what commonly asked questions are in your field is Answer the Public. Ask the search engine for a broad term or keyword in your industry and it will categorize by question types:

Conveniently, you can extract the questions simply by hitting the Export CSV button, and now you’ve got a great list of questions and keywords for starting your blog post ideas.

Other People Asked, Part 3

The final method for generating timely, topical blog posts is to monitor social media for a known context in your industry. For example, Hubspot’s INBOUND conference was held recently in Boston. By using social media monitoring software, I extracted a list of questions asked via Twitter at the event:

From here, I could identify questions I have answers to. Social media, particularly around conferences in your domain, is a never-ending well of blogging ideas.

No Shortage of Questions

Blog ideas, content marketing topics, content marketing ideas – we’re swimming in the raw data every day. We’ve got more access to more questions than ever before. Dive in and start providing answers!

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November 17, 2016
What World of Warcraft Teaches Us About Content Shock
Content shock, a topic we’ve discussed many times on this blog, is the state where marketers and publishers create more content than any human could possibly consume. We’ve reached content shock already, and the artificial intelligence revolution has barely begun.

Warcraft’s Content Shock

In the video game World of Warcraft, we’ve had a bit of content shock of our own. The original game, which launched in 2004, featured two continents and 60 levels to explore. The first expansion pack, the Burning Crusade, launched in 2007 and featured a third continent to explore, raising the level cap to 70.

Since then…
- Wrath of the Lich King introduced a new continent and raised the level cap to 80.
- Cataclysm added smaller islands and raised the level cap to 85.
- Mists of Pandaria added a new continent and raised the level cap to 90.
- Warlords of Draenor added a new continent and raised the level cap to 100.
- Legion added a new continent and raised the level cap to 110.
For someone starting out with World of Warcraft today, they’re faced with a massive amount of content. They’ve got 12 years of content to get through in order to reach the maximum level. As of the last two expansions, Blizzard Entertainment has allowed new players to simply buy a “boost” to reach parity with long-time players; otherwise, new players would take days or even weeks just to be able to play with friends who are already in the game.

Your Marketing Overwhelms Just As Much

Consider your blog, your website, your digital marketing presence. For veteran marketers, chances are you have a massive inventory of content. This personal blog has 7 years of daily blog posts to wade through, should anyone be so crazy as to do so. Some of my clients at SHIFT Communications have over a decade of content.

When someone new joins our community, what’s their starting experience like? Do we throw them in the marketing equivalent of Elwynn Forest with a cloth shirt and a small sword and let them quest their way to the present day?

Of course not – not if we want them to stick around. Most often, we start people with the present-day content. Here’s today’s blog post, today’s webinar, today’s social post.

Yet that’s not necessarily any better. A new Warcraft player who jumped in at the current maximum level would quickly be killed, having no understanding of how the game works.

Blizzard Entertainment found a middle ground: the catchup mechanism.

The Vital Importance of the Catchup Mechanism

What Blizzard Entertainment does to manage this is quite smart: they boost new players to the maximum of the previous expansion and provide a tailored, guided experience for the new player to get playing quickly. In Legion, the level cap is 110, so new players start at 100 and have 10 levels of play time to learn their character. It’s a great compromise: the player doesn’t start from scratch (and thus is demotivated by their in-game friends being so far ahead), while still not leaving the player ignorant of how the game works.

If you’ve got a digital legacy, consider how to usher people through it to provide them a great starting experience. I use my Welcome Pageas a way to provide a starting experience for new visitors. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than throwing someone in the deep end with the latest blog post or starting them at the first post ever.

What’s Your Catchup Mechanism?

Take a look at your web analytics. Unless 100% of your site traffic is returning visitors (and if so, you have a separate problem), some percentage of people who visit you are doing so for the first time. What’s your catchup mechanism? How will you help people get up to speed and give them what they need to be successful in doing business with you? A few ideas might include:
- A video welcome
- A curated series of blog posts
- A welcome email series
- A mobile app
Whatever you choose, be as welcoming as you can be while still serving your long-term customers. That’s how you’ll level up your marketing to be as powerful as it can be.

Disclosure: World of Warcraft and all associated images and names are property of Blizzard Entertainment.

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November 14, 2016
How To Value Micro-Conversions In Content Marketing Analytics
At a talk I gave at MarketingProfs B2B Forum, one of my audience members asked a very interesting question:

“We know how to value a macro-conversion like a generated lead or a sale, but how do we value micro-conversions like engagements, video views, etc.?”

Unlike macro-conversions, which have defined formulae, micro-conversions require a few more steps and some grey areas in the math behind them.

Here’s how I approach this problem.

What Matters?

First, which micro-conversions matter? To determine this, I’d take every micro-conversion possible, order them in a linear time-series by date in a giant spreadsheet/data file alongside my macro-conversions, then feed them to IBM Watson Analytics. Mathematically, we have two general methods to determine which variables matter, multiple regression subset analysis or linear analysis of variance (ANOVA). IBM Watson Analytics uses the second most often, so we’ll go with that.

What we seek to understand is which variables are potential drivers of conversion. ANOVA, like all statistical methods, does not prove causality, but does prove correlation. However, data with no correlation is highly unlikely to ever be a causal factor. In this example below, I chose social media shares as my macro-conversion, asking Watson Analytics which variables are potential drivers.

Watson Analytics says that LinkedIn is obviously a driver in this dataset, as is readability grade level.

Testing What Matters

Once we’ve ascertained which micro-conversions correlate with improved macro-conversions, we need to test to prove causality. In the example above, grade level readability is correlated with our macro-conversion. Our next step would be to change the grade level of our top performing content to be more aligned with the average grade level of our audience, or test a variety of grade levels with different types of content. From there we measure to prove or disprove causality, that changing grade level impacts our macro-conversions.

Valuing the Delta

Let’s say we have proven that grade level, as a micro-conversion variable, influences macro-conversions and increases them by 1%. That change, that delta is what our micro-conversion is worth, whatever a 1% increase in conversions is worth. As another example, suppose 100 video views increases conversion by 1%. Suppose 1% conversion increases are worth a total of $100. Every video view’s micro-conversion value would be worth$ 100 / 100 views, or $1 per view.

Adjust Frequently

This sort of conversion valuation requires us to test and re-assess frequently. Plan to re-evaluate your micro-conversion levels once per quarter in normal business operations, and once per month during whenever your “busy season” is, to better judge how your content marketing is performing.

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October 20, 2016
The Difference Between eBooks and Whitepapers
One of my SHIFT Communications coworkers recently asked, “what’s the difference between whitepapers and eBooks?”

This is a surprisingly common question among content marketers. What constitutes a whitepaper vs. an eBook? Is it length? Intended audience? Format? Noted marketing author and friend David Meerman Scott says, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that a whitepaper is any document printed in portrait setting, and an eBook is printed in landscape.

Is that truly the only difference? I decided to settle the argument with… data!

Methodology

I Googled for the top 50 results for “marketing ebook filetype:pdf” and “marketing whitepaper filetype:pdf”, then downloaded the top 50 Google search results for each.

Using a variety of command-line tools, I converted each PDF to its plain-text equivalent.

From there, I used common command-line tools (wc delivers word counts, and some Python NLP libraries to analyze text) to extract each document’s word count, Flesch-Kincaid Reading Score, and Flesch-Kincaid Ease of Reading Score.

eBooks vs. Whitepapers: Length

On average, eBooks are longer than whitepapers:

In the sample, the longest eBook was 53,109 words; the shortest was 221 words.

By contrast, the longest whitepaper was 16,350 words; the shortest was 332 words.

eBooks vs. Whitepapers: Grade Level

Using the standard Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level test to determine what grade level each body of text was written at, whitepapers are written for a higher grade level than eBooks:

In the sample, the toughest eBook was grade 22; the easiest eBook was grade 5.

Whitepapers had a narrower range of grade, from grade 16 at the top end to grade 8 at the bottom.

eBooks vs. Whitepapers: Readability

Using the standard Flesch-Kincaid Ease of Reading Score (100 is easiest to read, 0 is the most difficult to read), eBooks are easier to read than whitepapers:

In the sample, the toughest eBook to read scored 28, while the easiest was 77.

The toughest whitepaper to read was 21, while the easiest was 82.

Conclusion

eBooks, based on this limited sample set, are:
- Longer than whitepapers
- Written for a lower grade level
- Easier to read
Whitepapers, based on this sample, are:
- Shorter than eBooks
- Written for a higher grade level
- More difficult to read
If we generalize based on these characteristics, eBooks are intended for a broader audience that has time to consume longer-form content, but not necessarily highly technical or complex ideas. Whitepapers are intended for a narrower, more educated audience that can tackle more difficult to read, complex ideas – even if those ideas are packaged in fewer words.

What should you do with this information? Score your own marketing content:
- How difficult is it to read?
- What grade level is it written for?
- How much time does your audience have to read your content?
Then analyze the content your ideal audience already reads and determine whether whitepapers or eBooks are better for them.

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August 19, 2016
Summer Re-Runs: Content Marketing Strategy and Analytics
Once a year, I head to the backwoods of Maine for a week off-grid. No phone, no Internet, nothing except my family, a cabin, and a lake. It’s a wonderful, glorious experience that helps me to recharge, refocus, and recover from the stresses of modern life.

However, as a marketer, a week with no activity doesn’t help my marketing. All other things being equal, activity yields results in digital marketing; no activity means no results. So, my plan for a week off hearkened back to classic television: summer re-runs. While I was away, software would do the sharing for me of previous content.

Methodology

The next question I had to tackle: which content should I re-share?

Instead of just picking content at random, I chose a data-driven approach. I scanned all my blog posts from 2016 for the most shared posts of the year, then re-queued those in Buffer for the week. After all, if I’m going to have a week of re-runs, best to re-share the things people liked most the first time around.

Using the social sharing scanner I built for SHIFT Communications, I identified these 25 posts based on their popularity the first time around:

If you’re not one of my clients, feel free to just use the native analytics built into Facebook, Twitter, etc. instead. Or, become a client of mine at SHIFT and you can have access to the fancy tools 🙂

Results

How did the experiment do? Did my re-runs do better than taking a week off entirely?
- I began with a total of 2,278 shares across 8 social networks.
- Over the week, that total rose to 2,637.
- Overall, I netted 359 additional shares.
What was most interesting was where I picked up new shares.

While most articles picked up a handful of new shares, a few broke through the pack and carried the weight for most of the re-sharing, such as:
- Keeping your marketing skills sharp, 37 new shares
- The future of social media measurement, 56 new shares
- How we’ve failed marketing automation, 68 new shares
These top three newly re-shared posts have little in common; this time around, audiences approved of these posts instead.

Other Insights

What else did I learn from this experiment?

Sharing isn’t traffic per se, but it sure helps. I saw a week over week increase of 62% in traffic driven from social networks.

Conversely, because I was posting no net new content, I didn’t please our search overlords. Week over week, I saw a decrease of 3.27% in organic search traffic. I also saw declines in other areas such as referral traffic because I was away, not conducting normal marketing activities.

Conclusion

Should you use the same recipe to populate your social channels when you’re on vacation or otherwise unavailable? I can’t give you an absolute answer, but my results indicate that re-runs are better than nothing. Give them a try using the data-driven methodology of your choice and measure your results. You might be surprised at what gains new life in your content.

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July 25, 2016
Scaling Innovation: My MarTech SF 2016 Talk
I have the privilege and pleasure of speaking at the annual MarTech San Francisco conference. What started out as a humble gathering of marketing technologists two years ago by Scott Brinker has turned into a juggernaut of a conference. 1,200 all-access attendees and another 2,000+ Expo attendees have come to San Francisco to learn about marketing technology.

My talk at the show is Scaling Innovation; it details my work at SHIFT Communications to introduce the LEAD Framework for fostering innovation.

Can’t be at MarTech? Not a problem! I’ve made my entire talk available for download. Get not only the slides, but all the words here:

https://www.christopherspenn.com/404-sorry-chris-probably-deleted-that-link/

Whether you’re at MarTech or not, I hope you take the LEAD Framework and scale innovation in your organization!

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March 21, 2016
Marketing Over Coffee: Facebook Instant Articles and AMP Tips
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March 10, 2016

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