Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Identifying Complementary Brands for Collaboration?

    You Ask, I Answer: Identifying Complementary Brands for Collaboration?

    Taiylor asks, “We are a small air-freshening brand with a subscription service… who should we collaborate with?! I’m struggling to come up with a complementary brand or even a TYPE of brand.”

    This kind of question is really important, because very often people will immediately look for businesses with similar styles and types of product. That’s not the best approach. The best approach is to look for which businesses have similar kinds of customers. Watch the video for full details.

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    In today’s episode Taylor asks, we are a small air freshening brand with a subscription service, Who should we collaborate with? I’m struggling to come up with a compliment your brand or even the type of brand.

    So this question is really important because very often what people do is they look at their business, and how their business does business and looks for similar kinds of businesses, hey, you’re a subscription business.

    So in your subscription business, we’re a subscription business.

    So let’s see if there’s some opportunity to collaborate with them.

    And that’s not the worst way to do it.

    Because there is going to be some overlap logically, if someone is comfortable buying things through subscription, they may be comfortable buying something else to subscription.

    But one of the challenges of that is that you don’t know whether that brand or that product or service is going to be useful to you to understand Is this is their customer base similar enough to yours? So there’s a couple of different ways to handle this.

    Number one, and probably the most straightforward is to survey your audience, your customers that you currently have, and say, hey, what other products and services? Do you use either on subscription or not? To get an understanding of what are the major brands that are in this person’s life? Is this person that is a customer? Are they also a Netflix subscriber or an Amazon Prime subscriber? Or are they a doordash subscriber or a grub hub subscriber, get an understanding of the brands in that landscape first, and then what you’ll probably want to do is you’ll want to look at what do audiences of those brands have in common? So let’s take a look at where you would get this information.

    Now, the easiest place to get it from is actually from Facebook Audience Insights.

    So let’s bring this up here.

    Here, we have Everyone on Facebook.

    And this is, you know, this is set to the United States, but you can obviously change it to whatever you need it to be.

    And if we look at interests if you know somebody is interested in Netflix, for example, or even a specific show on Netflix, you could toss that in here is there’s a, let’s look at doordash.

    See if that’s in here.

    Yep.

    And I’ve got a couple of those targeting criteria in here at 70 million people go to page likes.

    And what this is going to pull up, of course, are all of the other brands and interests that this audience is is interested in.

    And if you this is would be the place then to start looking particularly if you have a locality that you serve that specific, or maybe a particular type of affinity that are brands that are within your reach that you may be able to do business with some a bunch of these are obviously very big ones.

    But you can see here there are no travel agencies, particular type of sports bar.

    There are some TV shows, there are some websites that may or may not be a very large but this is how you would sort of calibrate in on based on your understanding of your customer base.

    This would be the way to identify those complement your interests, and then use this data to do your outreach.

    Now, if your page is large enough, and has enough followers, and we’re talking in the thousands here, if not 10s of thousands, you can do this directly without having to use these calibrating brands.

    For example, let me go ahead and pull my page in here.

    You can see my page even though it’s got 1000 followers, does not have enough data to do this.

    I can calibrate on the basic demographics, and get some ideas of location maybe if it’s there, but in this case, I don’t have enough information for my page.

    So that’s why I would suggest going the survey route first to find the business brands that these these customers have in common? And then use that to calibrate.

    Essentially, you’re you’re creating almost kind of a look alike audience in some ways of what else do these people have in common.

    The other thing that you can look at is in Google Analytics.

    In fact, let’s go ahead and bring that up here.

    With within Google Analytics, you can get what are called in market interests.

    And these are the interests that people have within your audience.

    So let’s go ahead and look at interests.

    And what is it that these folks are also interested in acquiring let’s go ahead and close this.

    We can see employment, career consulting services, this is my website, and this is the last seven days let’s expand this out of it here.

    We go for October 60 or 90 days is a good window to look at employment, business and productivity software advertising, marketing, service, travel hotel and accommodations.

    You can see it there’s a list of these different types of companies that someone is in market for has an affinity for the types of things that they like to to be looking at.

    So technophiles, business travelers value shoppers.

    This then gives you additional types or categories of companies.

    And this is from your website data, which will give you those people who come to your website, you could obviously restrict this down with segments if you want to track only people who have converted, but that is obviously contingent upon making sure that you’ve got goals that are trackable in Google Analytics.

    So a couple of different approaches depending on whether you want to go the the Facebook audience route to see those interests or a very specific name interests, or the general categories with Google Analytics.

    Either way, you can get at that information, or at least start down the road of that information to identify what are the things that your audience also cares about? And then build audiences from that build or collaboration partners from that? That’s a good question.

    So remember to always think From the customers angle First, if you’re starting from the business side, it’s hit or miss.

    If you start from the way the customers thinking is more likely to land every time.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Remarketing Strategy and Tips?

    You Ask, I Answer: Remarketing Strategy and Tips?

    Dominique asks, “What type of remarketing are you using / on which platforms have you been the most successful?”

    Remarketing, the art of showing ads to people who haven’t converted, on the surface seems like a pretty simple tactic – show ads to people who haven’t converted. The question is, which kinds of conversions, and which kinds of people? The best overall strategy is to think about remarketing in terms of conversion type, time, and audience – then advertise along those three vectors as budget allows. Platform is less important than strategy. Watch the video for full details.

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    In today’s episode Dominic asks, what type of remarketing Are you using or on which platforms have you been the most successful? So remarketing, the fine art of showing ads to people who haven’t converted.

    On the surface seems a pretty simple tactic, right? show ads to people who haven’t converted.

    The question is, what kinds of conversions? What kinds of people remarketing requires, like everything, a bit of strategy to it.

    Think about the things that customer does b2b or b2c.

    When they’re not converting what caused them to not convert? Because the offer was wrong either the wrong person did the landing page of the creative not striking that they get distracted while they were at their computer or on their phone and just forget there’s any number of reasons that People don’t convert, one of the most important things to do is to try and figure that out.

    So to the extent that you can use exit surveys, reengagement campaigns, reaching out and calling people to say, hey, not trying to pressure you into buying the thing, it’s want to know why you didn’t buy the thing.

    So that we can better tune our product development, marketing, etc.

    So that’s step one, figure out to the best extent you can the reason why because of the reason why it’s something that you can fix with operations.

    That then means you don’t need to spend money on the advertising in order to recoup those audiences.

    For remarketing itself, the best overall strategy is to think about remarketing in terms of three vectors, three different dimensions or factors that you can see in your analytics versus conversion type.

    So this is especially true in b2b but it’s still true and b2c, particularly complex b2c.

    Conversion types.

    Is it a lead generation conversion? Is it a purchase conversion like e commerce? Is it a booking? Is informational? Is it just transactional? Is it even just awareness generation? What’s the conversion type? Because different conversion types obviously are easier or harder to win back the more risk or the bigger the commitment of the conversion, the more likely to someone’s going to bail out.

    Second time, you need to have in your remarketing system, the ability to track and remarket against time, the longer somebody has been away from the purchase, the probably the less likely they are to, to buy something, and they may have already purchased something else that fulfill that need.

    So you want to have that as a dimension.

    And the third of course, is the audience.

    Who when where, who are the people that you have not converted? And where are they take a look at your analytics and look at things like organic search, the Google ecosystem, and then the Facebook ecosystem.

    Those are sort of the two big platforms that live digital markers focus on this is Google ads and Facebook ads.

    Look at your existing traffic, look at your existing converting traffic in your web analytics.

    And make the determination about where you get more of your converting traffic from that’s going to be your best bet for where you’re going to run your retargeting ads.

    And if it’s if it’s an even mix, then you’re going to split your budget.

    What you want to do is advertise along those three vectors as far as budget allows.

    And this is important that you get the vector ID and because it’s not one of those dimensions, there’s a very good chance that it’s going to be a combination of those dimensions that determines what causes somebody to come back So it could be somebody that is relatively low risk and recent to your site.

    But maybe they’re the audience type doesn’t matter, or could be somebody coming from Google and somebody who gets to like step stage three of your purchase process.

    Whatever the case may be, you’re going to have to do some analysis to figure out along those three vectors whatsoever, the sweet spot where you can see the these three factors are differentially impacting the likelihood of a conversion.

    Then you run your advertising along that you target people who are at a certain point in the funnel at a certain period of time, from a certain place and running ads against them.

    Generally speaking, you’re going to want to if you think about your operations funnel from almost purchase, to Who are you, who you want to run your ads With all of your spend, starting at the bottom until you get hit diminishing returns for your lowest funnel audiences, and then moving up the funnel spending until you run out of budget, essentially, whatever you’ve allocated upwards of the funnel, but you have to start at the lowest part of the funnel that you can possibly get to because logically, if someone is almost committed, and they just need a nudge, you’re going to get a higher return on investment, a higher return on ad spend from that person at the bottom, then the person at the top was like I still don’t, I don’t even remember who you are, or how I ended up on your website.

    So think about it along those lines.

    Most of this data is in your web analytics, particularly if you’re using Google Analytics and using Google ads.

    There, there really is no, no reason not to have access to all this data and it is there and it’s very, very easy to get ahold of Facebook a little bit harder but not a ton harder because again, Facebook wants to make it easier, easier for you to spend money with them.

    Where Facebook allows you where Facebook gives you some advantage is that it has different properties.

    And it has.

    And they’re known behaviors.

    People do behave differently on Facebook than they do on say, Instagram or WhatsApp or messenger.

    And so you can retarget based on the audience of behaviors, the known propensity of people to behave a certain way on those platforms.

    With Google, Google has such a massive footprint that it can be difficult to know how someone’s behaving on the Display Network, the Search Network, YouTube, Gmail, all these different systems.

    That said when it comes to display retargeting people have been finding very, very good success with RLSA and RLSA.

    youtube RLSA means retargeting lists for search ads, somebody types in keywords related to you.

    campaigns and you we target those people with retargeting ads based on their search history.

    If they’ve got high intent searches, it’s particularly for competitors.

    There’s a, there’s a really good opportunity to steal some market share there.

    And then there’s RLSA for YouTube, which is when you are taking that search history and then showing YouTube ads to those people on YouTube.

    Later on, it’s like somebody searches for winter snow boots here in New England where I am, and, and then the next time they’re on YouTube, they see ads for your snow boots.

    reminding them hey, it’s about to get cold where you are.

    Buy a pair of our boots.

    Those retargeting vehicles have traditionally done very, very well for people.

    So there’s a lot to unpack in a retargeting strategy if you do it well.

    But those fundamentals of conversion type time and audience really help you set your strategy well and in some cases even dictate the platform.

    We’re less about the platform we’re more about do you have the data to target the right audience that will give you your highest return on ad spend? Leave your comments in the comment box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: The Fading Utility of Facebook?

    You Ask, I Answer: The Fading Utility of Facebook?

    Darlene asks, “How have you adapted to the fading utility of Facebook? I’m sure we’ve all shifted energy and dollars into other social networks, but what’s been really worthwhile for you, regardless of your industry?”

    At the end of the day, I focus on what I own and control to the best of my ability. That means a website with video, audio, and text, an email newsletter, and a Slack community, with three goals: capture audience, build trust, and direct attention to things that are mutually beneficial.

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    In today’s episode Darlene asks, How have you adapted to the fading utility of Facebook, I’m sure we’ve all shifted energy and dollars into other social networks.

    But what’s been really worthwhile for you, regardless of your industry, things like video and podcasting, etc.

    At the end of the day, I focus on what I own, and control to the best of my ability.

    I don’t own Facebook, I don’t own Twitter, I don’t own I don’t even know my own YouTube profile, right? I own the ability to access those properties.

    But they’re not mine.

    I don’t have control over them.

    I can’t change how the overall strategy of those platforms work, right.

    They’re just not mine.

    So what is my website? Right, that’s mine.

    Yes, there’s a hosting company.

    But am I email newsletter.

    So on the website, there is video, which right now I do host with YouTube because if nothing else, it is useful as a utility to host these enormous video files.

    And any traffic I get from YouTube is a nice add on.

    But it’s not were not my place where I build and focus all my promotional efforts, audio.

    I do have a podcast several of them actually, which I host through Lipson.

    But the website is still where that’s based and of course, the text the the notes plus the transcripts, go on the website.

    And so that’s that’s really where my attention goes through my attention has gone for a really long time because, again, we don’t have control over these platforms.

    The expression is never build on rent land.

    Great for those of us Have a lot of gray hair, remembering back to the early 2000s.

    And people spending crazy crazy crazy money customizing their MySpace profiles company spending no joke and hundreds of thousands of dollars on design and building it out and all this stuff to make it appealing to the crowd that was on Myspace at the time.

    That money was not money.

    I mean, it served its point in the day did what was posted in the day, but you do not have an enduring platform that was yours from that time period.

    Right? It is largely faded from existence and is the butt of people’s jokes.

    Same for you know, Google Plus, they were people who made huge professional bets on Google Plus, and they probably got some utility out of it out of the time.

    That’s fine, right you, you don’t buy a meal to save Forever, right you buy a meal to use it to eat it, and then you move on with your day.

    But if you are trying to invest in the long term, building on rented land is never a good idea.

    So website with your stuff, if you’re going to spend ad dollars, point those ad dollars at your stuff unless you have something you know, a one off that does really well, because social posts does really well.

    Obviously pay to lean into those things that do well.

    And fundamentally, you need to have three different goals.

    And you can call them top, middle and bottom of funnel or whatever but the goals are you have to capture audience you have to capture attention, right? That’s Goal number one.

    And the easiest way to measure that is by the people that you can get to the website even once.

    You have to build trust.

    That’s Goal number two and that is easily measured by enrollment in other digital activities that are yours.

    So signing up for that newsletter, people need to have a minimum level of trust in you and minimum level of belief that you’re providing something of value in order to be willing to hit that.

    Yes, I want more Email button, right? Because that’s what that button means I yes, I want more email.

    And three, direct attention.

    You have to take the attention that you have and directed at things that are mutually beneficial that may be buying something, doing business with somebody.

    There’s all sorts of different things that directing attention can mean but those are the three goals that you want to measure from those owned media properties.

    Everything else is ancillary.

    Right? The number of followers you have the number of engagements you get all that stuff.

    It’s not unimportant, but it’s not the end game state.

    Right? That’s not where you’re trying to go.

    So I don’t worry too much about the feeding utility of Facebook.

    It’s an ad platform.

    And and I will I measure it like every other ad platform, how good is it at capturing attention or re engaging people build trust or directing attention to what I want people do.

    It’s just not where I’m spending most of my time and money.

    And I’m not moving to another social network because still not mine with the exception of slack.

    I run a slack community if you go to Trust insights.ai slash analytics for marketers.

    That slack instance is one that we run and as as close to owning it as you can get without actually deploying your own server right? That is an owned community as well, in the sense that we can see it you have control over it have total control of what gets published in it.

    And so there’s, there’s that as well.

    So, website, email community, be the three things I think that every marketer should be focusing on now, rather than Facebook or Twitter or Tick Tock or whatever.

    Those are billboards.

    You don’t stop to eat.

    At the at a billboard when you drive, right? You stopped to eat at the restaurant.

    The same is true of social media, right? Don’t build the restaurant on the Billboard, build the restaurant, at the restaurant and use the billboard to get people to the restaurant.

    So good question.

    It’s important question.

    It’s a question that I know a lot of marketers are struggling with as we get to the end of the year and people are setting strategy and trying to figure out what to do.

    build on own land, use rented land to direct people to the owned land.

    That’s the best strategy that will serve you well now and will serve you well in the long term.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Programmatic Facebook Ads and Social Attribution?

    You Ask, I Answer: Programmatic Facebook Ads and Social Attribution?

    Maggie asks, “How reliable is using programmatic impressions data that’s collected in GA (with an understanding of its value and the contribution of programmatic to website conversions), to use this value as a proxy and apply to social to give us a better idea of Facebook performance?”

    This is an interesting question that will require experimentation and analysis on your part. To use programmatic impressions data as a proxy for Facebook impressions in general, you have to prove a couple of things:
    – Programmatic audience composition is highly correlated to your normal Facebook audience composition – same people
    – Programmatic audience behavior is highly correlated to your normal Facebook audience behavior – same actions

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    In today’s episode Maggie asks, How reliable is using programmatic impressions data that’s collected in Google Analytics with an understanding of its value and the contribution of programmatic to website conversions to use this value as a proxy, and apply to social to give us a better idea Facebook performance? That’s a lot to unpack there.

    The question that Maggie’s asking is, can you use data from Facebook programmatic advertising? To make to draw conclusions about your Facebook’s audience performance in general? That’s an interesting question.

    My first instinct was to say no, but giving it some more thought.

    The answer is maybe it may be reliable.

    But you need to do some, some math.

    So to use any kind of advertising data as a proxy for your audience’s overall behavior, you have to prove two things, same people, same actions.

    So in this case, you’d have to prove your programmatic audience composition, the people that you’re reaching with programmatic is highly correlated to normal Facebook audience composition, is it the same people? So for example, if you go to Facebook Audience Insights, and you look at your, your, your audience that you have access to their? Is it this? Is it the same as the audience to reaching for your programmatic audience composition? And you should be able to do that, as long as you keeping custom audiences for both.

    But you want to look? Is it the same age groups? Is it the same gender? Is it the same locations? Do they have the same page likes? Do they have the same interests and affinities, same political orientation, whatever, whatever factors, you can determine about both audience, you want to see how much they overlap.

    If you are reaching very different people with your ads than you are with your organic content, then the impressions data that you get from programmatic inside Google Analytics is not going to be helpful, right? Because you’re you’re essentially measuring different people.

    If you’re measuring, you know, souk on this hand, and he’s doing he’s, he’s a fan of Celine Dion.

    And you’re, you’re measuring a margarita over here.

    And you know, she’s a fan of Evanescence, they’re gonna be very, very different people, and have very different behaviors.

    So same people make sure that the same people first second, you then have to prove, and this is something you’ll do with Google Analytics, you have to prove that they have the same behaviors or similar behaviors.

    How correlated here is your Facebook audiences behavior from organic from programmatic? And that’s something that you’re looking for, you know, what pages do they visit on your website, what percentage of the audience converts, return user, time on page time on site, all those things that tell you, yes, if you’ve got similar people, and they’re behaving in similar ways, and this is different than the similar people, because even even though you may, you might have the same people, they will behave differently, they can behave differently, if they come to you with different intent.

    If you’re running, you know, by now, ads on Facebook, those people that you’re you’re obtaining have a different intent than somebody who just clicked on a blog post article wants to read more, right, you can see that just just the difference in language alone, by now versus read more, you going to get very different intent, very different behavior, which means that using one set of behavior to try and predict another is not a good idea.

    So you have to be able to show that these two audience behaviors are the same, or least highly correlated.

    And if you can prove both same people and same actions, then you can use that impressions data as a proxy.

    If you can’t prove that, if you can’t show Yes, the same people same actions, then it’s not going to be very helpful.

    And intent matters a lot.

    If you look at your digital customer journey, you may see Facebook, social, and then like Facebook paid social, if you’ve got to configured correctly in Google Analytics, maybe, and probably are at different points in the customer journey.

    Right? Facebook, organic social, more often than not, for a lot of people is at the beginning of the customer journey, that awareness building.

    And Facebook paid is sort of you know, the deal closer gets is what not just somebody over to filling out that form or, or picking up something from the shopping cart.

    If the behaviors of the same because you’re running the same type of intent campaigns, then you may then you may have something to work with.

    So if you are posting on Facebook, organic, social, you know, Hey, get to know us.

    And you’ve also got a get to know us campaign in programmatic, then you may see similar behaviors.

    But a lot of that is contingent on the analysis.

    And that brings up one final point.

    Your programmatic performance will have to mirror and continue to mirror going forward.

    The unpaid performance, right.

    So if you go from a get to know us campaign to a buy now campaign, the intent changes and your predictive strength for your for your model.

    Let’s say that, yes, you proved same people same actions, when you did the analysis that may drift, because you’re changed the intent of the programmatic campaign.

    So just keep these things in mind.

    As you are trying to do this analysis, the answer is a solid, maybe you have to do the analysis.

    We don’t know enough about your audience to be able to make that determination.

    If I had to guess, it’s probably not a good fit, because most people use paid advertising in a very different way with a very different intent than they do on unpaid content marketing.

    Good question.

    Interesting question, challenging question you got a lot of work to do.

    Got a lot of homework to do.

    But the answers will be valuable to you, even if you can’t use it.

    predictively you at least have established and you know much more about your audience now because you’ve done the analysis and you can see the difference between an unpaid audience and a paid audience.

    And I think that’s an analysis that every marketer should do.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Social Platforms to Leave Behind

    You Ask, I Answer: Social Platforms to Leave Behind

    Lisa asks, “Which social platforms do you wish you could (or are planning to) leave behind?”

    Without a doubt, Facebook. On the one hand, it’s a rich source of data. On the other hand, it’s an unethical company that is willfully permitting hostile foreign agents to manipulate societies with no serious effort at prohibiting such attacks because the money’s too good. The good news is that the tide is slowly turning. Watch the video for full details.

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    In today’s episode, Lisa asks, which social platforms do you wish you could or are planning to leave behind? Without a doubt Facebook, on the one hand, as a data driven marketer, Facebook is one of the richest sources of data and information that marketers can use. In order to drive campaigns, the the audience insights tool is invaluable, precisely because it contains so much information about so large percentage of the population. That’s really handy. I was doing some work this past weekend, looking at the media diet of people within certain geographic areas, and the ability to specify very narrow geographies, and be able to extract out the top 100 Facebook pages that those people like and then extract the top years worth of posts from those pages, to do analysis and say this is what people in this geography are being fed for their media. That is valuable information that helps guide things like marketing, messaging, political campaigns, product development, you name it. So on the one hand, Facebook is an essential resource for rich data about micro segments of your audience. On the other hand, it is a deeply unethical company that has very little no regard for users privacy, has very little or no regard for ethics in general, and is willfully permitting hostile foreign agents to manipulate societies with no serious, discernible effort at prohibiting such attacks, frankly, because the money is too good work in when Russian intelligence approaches Facebook through a proxy partner and says, Hey, we want to spend a couple million dollars a month on a campaign to promote far right parties in the EU for the EU elections phase was like, Sure, I’ll take that money. Never mind the fact that the overall intentions and the overall designs of what that organization is trying to do hard are deleterious and have a clear aim at the stabilizing most of Europe. Facebook’s not going to turn down that money. Now. The good news is, the tide is slowly turning in a couple of different ways one, users are leaving Facebook more frequently. Edison research had a report recently that Facebook was bleeding members in the US at the rate of 15 to 17 million people that is a substantial number and the United States of North America are Facebook’s want to Facebook’s largest markets. So that tide is slowly turning and as audience data becomes less available, Facebook is ratcheting down its its data availability, because of all the privacy issues that makes it less valuable to marketers, which means marketers are less likely to spend money there and will seek alternate opportunities. And so that is what will eventually change Facebook is that if people aren’t going to spend the money there, then the business can’t do as well. It does run the risk of Facebook being like the cornered animal where it will do anything to to get itself free of

    you know declining profits and may may behave more risky in a more risky fashion with our data rather than less. That’s distinct possibility. The other things that other ad networks are providing just as good or better results. We are seeing a lot of strong interest and good results in things like podcasting. YouTube advertising is fantastic if you know how to do it, right. YouTube, pre roll mid roll post roll ads, cards, true view, all that stuff, especially when linked with things like surgery marketing is is a valuable channel to look at. Twitter advertising, depending on the market, depending on the audience can be valuable. And good old fashioned email marketing. Yeah, the original social network is, is experiencing quite a renaissance as people start realizing. When you outsource your entire advertising system and polluting the data to a third party, you are at that third parties mercy. And we are seeing some marketers starting to realize, hey, we should probably own at least a portion of our data in order to be able to advertise any sustainable manner going forward. So in short, Facebook is is the 800 pound gorilla and like most empires, it will be doomed from within rather than through external forces. So that’s something to keep in mind. Now what do you do with this information, get as much value out of Facebook as you can. And if you do have to spend money with them, and and you’re okay with that from an ethics perspective of supporting and not unethical company, if you do have to spend money with them, focus on getting people off of Facebook, which means that run campaigns spend money to get people onto your email list or to get them to your website where a different retargeting system can can focus or get them to enroll in an SMS system or a messaging bot that doesn’t rely on Facebook’s messaging infrastructure. And remember that Facebook owns Whatsapp, Facebook owns Instagram. So we’ve seen some people saying, well, we’re really Facebook, we’re gonna we’re really Facebook, we’re going to Instagram. Still the same company. Focus on what you own, and what you can control because in the long run, that will be the most sustainable thing for your business, building your email list, building your text messaging list, your phone number list, your call list, your direct mail, postal list, all of that stuff is stuff that you will have the most value from in the long run. Now you have to protect that data, and you have to behave ethically with it. But if you’re leaving Facebook because of ethics issues, then hopefully you have your own code of ethics that you strong support you internally. So interesting question, Lisa, and will remain to be seen what happens over the next 12 to 18 months, particularly as we go through the EU elections, the Brexit votes, the US presidential election, how Facebook is used or misused by hostile foreign parties, and whether that eventually incurs strong regulation on Facebook and I would be willing to bet small pastry we tell the other $5 or less that if regulation comes to Facebook, it will be first through the EU because they are much less tolerant of big tech manipulating government affairs than then the US is so keep an eye on that. As always, please leave a comment in the comments below and subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter will 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: Instagram Business Profile Reach?

    You Ask, I Answer: Instagram Business Profile Reach?

    Taylor asks, “Is there any fear that Instagram is going to set up their algorithm to marginalize business profiles that aren’t paying for advertising like they did with Facebook’s Pages. We still have our IG profile set up as a personal page for fear of this.”

    In a word: yes. Facebook has made it abundantly clear on its earnings calls that it’s always seeking to improve monetization. COO Sheryl Sandberg always makes a note of how many businesses use Facebook properties and how many are participating in ads. Their roadmap to monetization is clear: companies need to pay to be seen. Watch the video for what one strategy could be.

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    In today’s episode, Taylor asked Is there any fear that Instagram is going to set up their algorithm to marginalize business profiles that aren’t paying for advertise like they did with Facebook pages? We still have our Instagram profile setup as a personal page for fear of this in a word. Yes,

    we know Facebook wants to monetize more, right? It is a profit for profit company. Its goal is to generate more profit, and its profit comes from businesses. By and large. If you look at the most recent earnings calls, ads are still the vast majority of their business. And as a result, they need people to buy more ads.

    The CEO Sheryl Sandberg, always on every quarterly earnings call makes a note of how many businesses use Facebook, how many have pages and how many are participating in ADS. And she started mentioning that with Instagram as well and the way they’re trying to monetize Instagram together.

    Things like the stories format their messages through that common code base that that CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about over unifying the WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger back end systems to create more ad inventory. So their roadmap to monetization is super clear. Companies need to pay to be seen. So

    it’s pretty much a given that at some point, they will look at Instagram companies spending money on Instagram and say, we need to make more money out of this. What’s the easiest way to do that? Well, as simple as they did with Facebook, once they convinced businesses to switch over to pages or to business profiles and give businesses something like a little bit of reach for some time and better analytics. Then they get to turn the screws and say, Yep, now you got to pay to be seen.

    That’s just the way it isn’t. It’s a it’s a perfectly rational thing to do. Right? It is their business. This is not a public utility. This is not

    A charity This is a business that needs to make money.

    And if they have a whole line of business with relatively untapped revenue, of course, they’re going to say, let’s get more money out of this segment of the business. So what’s your strategy? What’s your play for this? A lot of people say, should we convert our profile? Should we do this? We that the answer is start a second profile, start a business profile and then pivot the existing profile to something that is related but maybe has a slightly different point of view or has a slightly different purpose. One of the things that I see people do

    not as well on social media is not have a defined purpose for each of the channels that they use. So

    they do pretty much the same thing everywhere and treat every channel as pretty much the same thing. Even though behaviorally we interact with all these different channels in very different ways. We go to YouTube for very different reason that we go to Instagram we go to

    For a very different reason that we go to LinkedIn and to see them all as one sort of monolith is doing ourselves and our audiences a disservice. So when someone goes to your LinkedIn profile or your LinkedIn page, what are they getting? That they can’t get anywhere else? What are they getting on Facebook from either they can’t get anywhere else.

    What are they doing on Twitter? And what are you doing on Twitter that they can’t get anywhere else? So for myself, Twitter is where I post a lot of stuff, particularly at conferences and events. I shared news throughout the week, but it’s where I go to interact with people very publicly and where I share stuff when I’m at events because I can live tweet along things I think are interesting. Facebook, my Facebook page functionally exists to show ads, right? There’s there’s not a ton of value that my Facebook personal profile is where I spend time with friends. My Instagram profile is where I share aspects my personal life, my company’s Instagram profiles, where we show off interesting cool looking data visualizations and

    And so it’s sort of a proof point for the work that we do. My personal LinkedIn profile is where I connect with people and have meaningful personal interactions, especially around things like hiring or careers or questions. People have the company’s Facebook the company’s LinkedIn profile is very much about sharing thought leadership sharing stuff that is interesting out there. And so with every one of these channels, there is a purpose and a function.

    What’s yours? What are you doing with Instagram right now? And what could you turn your Instagram profile into the strategy I recommend and the one that I pursued with Facebook as you keep the personal profile maybe make it more personal, maybe make it you know behind the scenes or the people of whatever your company name is and then you have the business profile which is the the one that you expect to get penalised and you expect it to require it be required to pay money for at some point and that’s what you use to share fully full on business stuff that’s still relevant to your audience with the expectation that you

    You’re going to put be sinking some money into this, you’re gonna be sinking some money into this to have certain types of content seen. This also maps back to your content strategy to each channel and then yourselves, your company overall needs to have an overall content strategy. And the one that I recommend that I use personally and that I teach other people about is called the hero how the health model this is from Google circa 2014 it’s been tuned up over the years

    but fundamentally there’s a hero idea or campaign or something that once a quarter you put like 60% of your money into that campaign and and that and your time and your effort and it’s the big idea what’s the big idea for your company that this quarter you’re going to hammer home so for real the last couple months for for my company trust insights we’ve been promoting the

    it’s actually a march 1 today so that’s that can get start to get retired now, but that was for about three

    months, the thing that we pushed, and that was the big hero content, the the hub content is monthly campaigns monthly things, it’s a, it’s a promotional piece, it’s something that you want people to see and engage with. That is really an ask in many ways.

    And then there’s the help of content. The Daily stuff like this video, for example,

    where you’re creating content on a daily basis that is helpful, that is educational is entertaining, that is something that people would want this very tactical and a lot of ways. And so if you have hero hub help, and you have a budget divided like 60, 3010,

    then you have the ability now to allocate budget and say, Okay, now on Instagram, we’re going to, you know, promoting the hero stuff on these days, the hub stuff on these days and then maybe start using stories to do help content and you would do that on the business profile while reminding people from time to time on the personal profile that hey, we’re still around and then sharing personal stories and personal things on

    On the personal profile you do as a person or as a, as a collective of people. I’ve seen some companies very successfully do sort of like HR and recruiting stuff with a personal profile like hey, these are these are the people who work at x company and seeing that be very successful.

    One thing I would suggest you do is in your space using the social analytics tool of your choice, look at what other companies are doing with their Instagram profiles, look at the data they’re generating and see

    what is working for them, what types of content types of images what types of stories and that will help you give give you some ideas about ways to tell personal personal level stories on the personal profile and business level stories on the business profile, keeping the two separate and then expecting the business one to be the one that you pay for. So good question.

    We know we know Facebook will monetize Instagram more heavily. We know Facebook will monitor

    What’s up more heavily? We know Facebook’s going to monetize Oculus as soon as they can get by thing so expected be ready for it have a strategy that’s rolled out for it now so that when the change comes you’re not surprised and you have you have allocated the amount of budget and resources you need to make it work for him so great question please leave any follow up questions in the comments and of course subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon one 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: How to Track Facebook Without a Pixel?

    You Ask, I Answer: How to Track Facebook Without a Pixel?

    Scott asks, “How do you track Facebook activity without installing the Facebook Pixel?”

    Companies may have good reason to not install Facebook’s pixel. The company hasn’t exactly behaved in a trustworthy way as a responsible data steward. Other companies may have serious regulatory concerns like GDPR compliance or other PHI. So how do you determine Facebook’s impact in the absence of its premier tracking mechanism?

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    In today’s episode, Scott asks, How do you track Facebook activity without installing the facebook pixel?

    Well,

    companies, companies may have good reason not to install Facebook’s pixel the company Facebook has not exactly behave in a trustworthy manner or as a responsible data. Stewart any number of scandals about leaked information, hacked information, sharing data inappropriately. Partners has left a lot of people a little uncomfortable with them and other companies may have serious regulatory concerns like GDP GDP or compliance. Again, we can only take Facebook at his word but part of the responsibility for GDPR is on the vendors they use apartments yours and so if you are working with a in an environment where you need to have iron clad GDP are compliant compliance it may not want to install it there either

    other companies

    May that we’re in highly regulated industries may not be able to use Facebook’s pixel at all. Because Well, you could be dealing with things like protected health information. And given that we don’t even know for sure one way or the other, that Facebook what Facebook is scraping off a web forms and things may not be able to use it there either. So what are your options for tracking Facebook using the tools that you already have? If you have an are permitted to use Google Analytics, it is probably the best choice for tracking the impact of Facebook. And the way that you’ll track Facebook’s impact is through the use of UTM codes, UTM parameters which are the tracking URLs that you attend to any web URL, and you would specify for example, the UTM source would be Facebook, the UTM medium would be social and then the individual campaigns and things like that go with those tracking codes. And that’s probably the single best way to track Facebook’s impact because you’ll be able to see

    What data is coming, what users are coming from Facebook and how they’re interacting with your website and what they do and how they convert.

    Here’s another thing about Facebook

    you can if you have a page there, extract your analytics from that and then put that alongside your Google Analytics data in a big spreadsheet and then run data analysis to determine what if any, what activities on Facebook like post likes and haha and comments and shares correspond to the business outcomes and goals that you are tracking. So that’s another avenue for for being able to make use the Facebook data that you get from Facebook like having a Facebook page and the content you post there and then using stats software like our or Python or SPSS to do that analysis. Now if you are in a highly regulated industry where you cannot eat

    Use Google Analytics because you’re not permitted to you may be using Adobe analytics, which is fine. You can use this do the essentially the same things with their own tracking URL. Or if you’re not even allowed to use a cloud vendor like you have to use something on premises. If you haven’t checked out check out the open source package called matondo used to be called payload analytics. And this is a self hosted analytics package that offers probably 85 90%

    of the functionality of Google Analytics. But you host it yourself. You the host it on a cloud provider. If you’re allowed to do so like a zoo, or AWS, or Google Cloud or IBM Cloud, you can put it into a container like a Docker container, or if you have to have it firmly governed by your IT infrastructure. It can actually be on a machine inside your firewall. And then the in the interface from a tumble looks very similar to Google Analytics with the marketing campaign add on from a tomo. It will automatically ingest Google Analytics UTM code so you can use UTM contract.

    codes universally. And if there are certain parts of your website where that are publicly accessible, that don’t have compliance requirements, you can use Google Analytics for that or material for that. And then behind the firewall or in areas where there is protected health information or protected personally identifiable information. You can use fentanyl and in store the data behind the firewall for your own analysis. It is it is open source package. And it is something that you can fully govern within your existing it policies. And if you have experienced with Google Analytics material will look very familiar. It is very obviously structured after Google Analytics. So what are the things to be looking for that if you don’t have Facebook’s pixel what you are again, it comes down to the activities on Facebook, the content you create that leads to traffic that eventually turns into some sort of digital outcome. What you’ll lose from Facebook by not using their pixels is you’ll lose the ability to track and cookie your audience on your website.

    Determine using Facebook Audience Insights now that does not deter you from using Facebook audience insights on your page because again, that’s self contained

    that is and its own environment. And those there are none of your systems should be connected to your Facebook page in terms of data interchange for in a in a protected environment. So you can use Facebook audience insights to extract information about people who like your page, and you can use it for the broader audience aspects as well. If you just want to see how many people on Facebook Like a certain thing, you can use Facebook audience insights for that. So that’s how you generally track Facebook without a pixel, you do lose some of that data, especially the the differences between who likes your page and who likes your website who’s on your website. But at the end of the day, if you’re doing the data science work on the back end to look at your Facebook activities to look at the user activities and then to look at your web analytics and then possibly your car.

    Or your marketing automation software, you will get the most important information, which is is Facebook as a channel contributing to your business any meaningful way? Is it generating impact? We did a thing recently for a customer and discovered Yeah, it was it was okay but it wasn’t great. There were other channels that had much more impact for them. And so we were able to advise them move some you’re spending some of your your time and resources and people away from Facebook into into this other thing that was working better for them. That’s ultimately what you want to decide. And you can do that without the facebook pixel. so

    tough question, Scott. Because so many companies have gotten so reliant and I don’t know maybe even a little bit lazy about just ingesting all the data that Facebook gets.

    This is my opinion this is not based on extensive research, but the regulation of social networks is coming in some ways with things like

    GDPR it’s already here. But we are about to enter another election cycle in the United States. And it is clear that hostile foreign actors are using social media to influence the outcomes of those things, those elections and that sooner or later we’ll catch up to the networks themselves. Yes, we can pursue the the hostile foreign actors but that level of interference will require regulation of the social networks themselves, assuming that the users themselves just don’t all scattered to the wins and private communities anyway. And so

    I would advise that you get in the habit of doing this type of data analysis so that no matter what channels what methods and things you’re using, your what tools you’re using, you have the ability to understand what is a channels impact on your business, whether it’s email whether it is

    Facebook, whether it is Tick tock, who knows,

    at the end of the day, you have to be able to draw a line from the stuff that you do to the results that you create. And get in the habit of doing that now, so that when the hammer does fall on many of these big social networks, you’re not left out in the cold that by the way, that also means don’t forget to invest in things like SEO. Don’t forget to invest in things like email marketing, don’t forget to invest in things like your own website, because those are the things you you own and control. And should the ground change significantly underneath social media marketing, you are not putting all of your eggs in one basket. So great question. complex question,

    check out my tomo. If you are in a highly regulated industry. And even if you’re not, I would suggest this wouldn’t be the worst idea to try it out installed. Again, if you’re not in a highly regulated industry, just to deploy a single instance of it on the cloud service like Google Cloud or IBM Cloud whenever, you know, run at the low

    Budget number because it’s really only going to be you and your team writing it and experiment with it is it wouldn’t be the worst idea to have a backup system. If you’re using Google Analytics. Google Analytics is fantastic. It is the gold standard for marketing measurement these days for top and middle of the funnel, but

    times change, right, you don’t own Google Analytics. And so if you have your own server that’s doing a backup copy of your analytics might be a good thing just to have in your back pocket so that someday if things go crazy, you have the ability to, to recover and and and have that second set of data available. So something to think about. As always, please leave comments below and subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon one 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: How Often to Check Facebook Analytics?

    You Ask, I Answer: How Often to Check Facebook Analytics?

    Deb asks, “How often should you check your Facebook Analytics?”

    This is an interesting question because it’s predicated on a key assumption about Facebook Analytics. Watch the video to learn more about how often and why you should or shouldn’t check your Facebook Analytics.

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    Today’s episode Deb asks how often should you check your Facebook analytics? This is an interesting question because it’s predicated on a key assumption about Facebook analytics and that is the they were important that there’s something that you should be checking

    Facebook is a channel and it’s a set of tactics and methods and therefore you would want to check it when you are making changes to those tactics or if your businesses one of those rare few where Facebook is the end point for your transactions, meaning that the the the key business KPIs happen on Facebook such as if you’re using Facebook marketplace to sell stuff and you’re making money on Facebook then then yeah, you’d want to check Facebook analytics fairly often.

    The general rule of thumb is the

    The further the closer to the business result you are, the more you should be checking the analytics of any system, right? So if your business result is sales, you probably want to check that fairly frequently. On the other hand,

    something like reach or impressions or even engagements on social media, those are not business outcomes and therefore you don’t have to check them as frequently

    the time when you would want to check these analytics would be again like I mentioned when you’re making changes to a system but also when you’re doing an in depth analysis of what’s working and what’s not and you would do this using statistical or machine learning software to say hey these are the key factors that we care about like sales and then you have a big old spreadsheet of all the different columns that you have like Facebook Likes and engagements and like and wow and haha

    All that stuff and your Google Analytics data and your marketing automation data, and your CRM data that has the, the outcome that you care about the business impact, and the statistical software will process the slice and dice and and mix and match all these variables until it finds the combination of those variables that

    indicate most strongly that they correspond to the business outcome you care about. So if it turns out that Facebook post reach or engagements is has a high

    a strong relationship to the business outcome, then you would want to check those analytics more frequently because those the ones that are better are shown to have a a correlative engagement and you’d want to then increase or decrease your activities to see if you can prove causation to see if you can say, Yep, this is in fact what drives

    this sales that we care about. On the other hand, if you

    Run that analysis and Facebook’s not in your top five variables of of things that lead to business results that it’s probably safe to say you can do a little bit less on Facebook and certainly check the analytics a lot less frequently.

    At the end of the day, you have to check the analytics of the things that matter the most. Because every time you dig into the analytics of a system

    you are are many people are compelled to dig around some more and figure out like who is this something I should be looking at. And then they kind of go down a little rat holes and that’s okay. If it’s a critical business number. If it’s just a distraction. If there’s no value to that number, then you’re not using your time the best way possible. So

    Facebook analytics are only important if Facebook’s important to you. And Facebook’s only important if it’s creating business outcome.

    This is true by the way of any analytic system.

    So how often should you check your YouTube Analytics? How often should you check your Twitter analytics, your Reddit analytics, all these different systems. One of the problems that a lot of marketers, especially social media marketers have is there’s too many systems and too much data out there. And they’re not sure what matters and they don’t know where to spend their time. And so it’s kind of like all these numbers. What I do with all these numbers, this is this is how you get around that you do the analysis you figure out what what matters what doesn’t, and then you focus in on the things that matter the most. I was doing some work for a customer yesterday actually. And one of the things that came up in this this analysis was

    Instagram matters to the whole bunch or matters to their outcome that they care about a whole bunch but they’re spending a lot of their time on Facebook and so one of the pieces of feedback is let’s move some of those resources because the analytics man and and the end

    sites say Instagram has that more strong relationship. So let’s

    keep the amount of work that you’re doing, but move it from one channel to another and see if in turn, we have the increase in business results that corresponds to that relationship. It won’t always be there. Sometimes there can be a relationship that is not causal, or that there’s a confounding factor of some kind. A really good example of this would be the textbook example is

    ice cream consumption and drowning deaths have a highly correlated well, ice cream doesn’t cause drowning. But it’s summertime means people eat more ice cream in summertime means people go swimming more and the more people who go swimming the more people

    down so

    it’s not always a guarantee, but at the very least you can establish the relationship then begin testing for question.

    ality or looking for those underlying factors so great question Deb how often should you change your check your Facebook analytics how often to check any analytics is contingent upon what those KPIs are And the important thing to do and maybe this is a topic for a separate video is you got to do your KPI mapping first so that you understand what you really should be focusing your time and energy on. As always, please leave comments in the comment section below and subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Social Media Placeholder Accounts

    You Ask, I Answer: Social Media Placeholder Accounts

    Eduardo asks, “Does it make sense to have an active social media account like Facebook if you’re not really active on it, I.e. putting likes, leaving comments?”

    There are three primary reasons you’d want to have an active social media account. Watch the video to learn what they are.

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    In today’s episode of The Bardo asks, Does it make sense to have an active social media account? like Facebook? If you’re not really active on it, like putting likes leaving comments for a business? The answer is yes. And there are two primary reasons, actually, three primary reasons you’d want to do. This number one is a defensive reason, which is to save once you set up an account and and get to the point where you can establish a custom URL and things you want to secure your brand’s name or a relevant product name, if you’re going product side to make sure that no one else can get it.

    This is important less so now Well,

    it’s important in general, because it requires you to take some effort, but that secures your name. Now, there’s a good chance on the mature networks that

    like Twitter and Facebook that the names already been taken. So you’ll have to do it p a little creative, just like domain names for your website, but you still need one. And you still want to make sure that you get that account and keep it somewhat active, at least in the sense of like, post something every month, so that

    the network realizes that you’re still there, because some services will shutter your account after a certain amount of lack of activity. The second reason is for analytics and tracking purposes, using things like facebook, facebook, in particular, has web analytics. It’s called Facebook analytics. And it’s okay. But having the data certainly doesn’t hurt is attribution and analysis is completely centered around itself, no surprise there. But you still want to be able to see that data

    and being able to track particularly things like your your web properties, your off off network properties, but also your fans to if you do have people who are liking your page, just because he stumbled across it. It’s not a bad source of data. So there’s the second reason to have an actual account is data. The third reason and the big one is advertising. You want the ability to advertise to other people and for good or ill social networks, especially Facebook, and the Facebook family are where all the action is right now. Yeah, Facebook covers 2 billion and change people.

    That’s a substantial part of the human race, more so than any other single product in history. And so if you want to be able to reach those people with advertising, you’re gonna have to use Facebook,

    not even Google AdWords has that level of reach, I don’t think at least within one product,

    Instagram has what 500 million active daily users as part of the Facebook family man, you have all the other Facebook properties of which in which advertising is starting to appear now like WhatsApp and messenger. So if you want to be able to advertise to those audiences, you need a Facebook account. And it needs to be an account a page specifically for brands, it can’t be a personal account has to be a page

    facebook advertising, though I will say this up front, if you’re not active on Facebook, and you don’t really know that ecosystem, Facebook advertising is potentially a giant waste of money and time because

    like Google AdWords was when it first started out.

    advertising on social media is very much its own profession. advertising on Facebook is its own profession is it is a discipline of its own, it’s got its own quirks, and you can hide you can be very, very specialized within just Facebook advertising in order to maximize the impact of the platform. So if you’re just getting started, is a really good idea to take some of the free courses that Facebook offers in their business portal to learn how to our ties on Facebook effectively, there are a lot of tips, there are a lot of tricks there a lot of gotchas, there are all sorts of different ways that it can go sideways. And so taking those courses is a good idea. It is worth your time, because it will save you money in the long run. So make sure that you do that. But those are the three reasons that you would want to have an active account on social networks. Now, should it be every social network defensively, I think so it doesn’t hurt you to have your Twitter handle and your LinkedIn company page and your Pinterest page doesn’t have to have those lockdown

    from an analytics

    perspective. If your audiences there makes sense your audiences on Facebook period. And the story 2 billion people, your audience is there more niche networks like Pinterest, for example, your audience may or may not be there. So they may or may not be data worth scraping. And remember, there are a lot of social networks, humbler is still a thing particularly in the teenage crowd.

    Twitter is still very relevant especially if you’re a politician

    read it is is a not only thing but growing. And then they’re all the the the the third tier networks the little one off niches that are unique to your space. Those are worth your time if your audience is there yet just got to get to know the spaces and then on the third front in again, if you haven’t taken any training, I’d be very hesitant to have you actively go out and advertising unless you try it out like at $5 apiece just to just for the experience, but be super careful because you can spend a lot of money unintentionally that way. So great question and if you have questions, please leave them in the comments

    or in the in the URL in this post. And of course, subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter

    I’ll talk to you soon. Take care what help solving your company’s data analytics and data all marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • Friday Feeling: Facebook Trustworthiness Scores

    Friday Feeling_ Facebook Trustworthiness Scores

    According to this report by the Washington Post, Facebook scores users on false reporting of fake news on a scale of 0 to 1.

    First clues:

    • 0 to 1 is a major hint that this is simple probability calculations
    • Based principally on how often you report something as fake when it’s true
    • For those who don’t remember, Facebook is essentially trying to reduce Type I statistical errors in their machine learning training data
    • Type I is saying something’s true when it’s false – the boy who cried wolf

    The reality is that your credit score has far greater impact on your life than a Facebook score of any kind. If you want to fight a scoring system, fight that one.

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    In today’s episode, let’s talk about trustworthiness score. So Facebook made the news again this week for The Washington Post reporting that it was building or had built trustworthiness scores of its users in the article, which is linked in the show notes. Facebook scores users on false reporting of fake news on a scale of zero to one. What do we know about this? What’s interesting about this? Well, the first clue is that the scale of zero to one is a major hint that this is all around probability calculation, it is likely to be tied to either just flat out error rate, or P values, which is a statistical expression of the likelihood of error. The way was explaining the article, Facebook said that they are using these scores in order to determine how trustworthy a user is within the context of reporting fake news. And apparently, what happens. And this is no surprise

    for things that are politics, people were reporting things as fake that were actually true articles.

    And when you report something is fake, a certain percentage of articles goes to humans to essentially check out make sure these this actually a fake article, a roomful of people somewhere, checking Snopes,

    which in turn means that the more false reports there are a fake news, the more they have to increase staffing, things like that, and the more expensive it gets. So Facebook has instead created an algorithm that judges how trustworthy your reports are of fake news. Now, for those who don’t remember, this is a statistical thing. Facebook is essentially trying to reduce type one errors, right? So

    if you never took us to six course, there are two major types of errors in hypothesis testing. type one error is saying something is true. What is false type two error saying something is false when it’s true. So the one of the best ways to explain this is the boy who cried wolf, the story the kid who cries Wolf and the villagers run and check out and of course, there’s, that’s the type one error The Boy Who Cried Wolf is a type one error. Now, what happens in the story later on is the type one error becomes a type two error, the boy cries, Wolf, nobody believes him, they believe it’s false, but there actually is a wolf and everybody dies. And so these are the two types of errors you can make and statistical testing. So Facebook isn’t concerned, less is less concerned about people saying something is true, but really false, because that is implicit in our behavior. If we if nobody flags a story as false, then by default, it must be true. So what they’re trying to reduce is number of people who say this story is fake news. But reality it’s a it is accurate,

    but it may go against your political inclinations. You may have a bias you read a story about a democrat and your republican you know, like that’s, that’s just fake. That’s fake news, or vice versa

    Democrat, you’re reading a story about a Republican, you know, as clearly faking anything this person says is fake. well

    as people who care about data and the integrity of data,

    you and I can’t make that mistake, we can’t do that we have to, we do have to apply judgment and

    except even if we don’t like Opposing Viewpoints,

    particularly when it gets to politics. So what’s got people concerned about this is their their, their thinking Black Mirror style scenarios where there’s a score that rates you and every aspect of your life

    there already is, we have these scores, we’ve had these scores for decades. If you’ve ever bought anything on credit, guess what, you have a credit score, a credit score is your trustworthiness score in the realm of Finance. So we’re as a society, okay, with one of three companies telling us essentially, whether someone should do business with us, there are the same style of scores for businesses there, you can absolutely bet there are a million and a half different scores. When it comes to things like apps like Tinder,

    whether or not you know about them is the question, but those scores exist. For anybody who works in marketing, we are scoring people all the time, when you go into your CRM, or you’re going to your marketing automation software, you have the opportunity to decide what things should earn someone more points in the marketing automation software to qualify them further as a lead. So these scores exist everywhere. Now, what’s different about this is that

    we don’t have a good understanding of what goes in the score. Frankly, we don’t have a good understanding what goes into most of these scores.

    And that’s really the heart of it. And it’s a kind of a uncomfortable paradox. Because

    for people who are malicious, if you know the algorithm, you can game the algorithm, you can figure out how to beat the algorithm. So a company who wants the algorithm to work correctly

    has to

    disguise or hide the internal workings vice versa. We are also pushing as a society for more transparency, especially tech companies whose devices literally are ruling our lives

    because we let them

    and so

    Facebook Facebook is just could have done a better job of

    I feel as it could have done a better job of explaining, look, we are specifically targeting people who report things as fake when it’s true, stop doing that, and you will have a perfect trustworthy score. And if you want to view your trustworthy score, cool, you know, here’s the number of articles that you rated as fake, which are, in fact true. And maybe that would even be benefit saying, yep, this one here that you regarded as fake actually is true,

    that might do some good in helping break people’s biases. It won’t do much good. But it could do a little bit of good. If someone’s curious about the trustworthiness score to say yes, that you reported this is fake, it’s true, you have a bias of your own. If you fix that bias, your trustworthiness score will go up so there’s a potential for positive impact from this but in general,

    what’s going on here is no more malicious or

    or scary then the dozens of other scores that are ruling our lives all day every day here in chump your insurance company has a score about your credit card company has a score about you, your mortgage has a score about you, you’re dating apps have scores about you, if you do business with another business is a score about you and the marketing automation software. And if you are setting up marketing automation software, and you’re assigning points to leads, you might want to think about that algorithm. Think about what is how do you how do you decide what

    what constitutes a good leader badly because you were scoring people, you are applying a scoring algorithm to people so give some thought to is this something that makes a lot of senses are the defaults to come out of the system? good ones, I would guarantee

    at least half of the people who use marketing automation software except the defaults for scoring. Maybe you shouldn’t, you should go to those and figure out actually this does not conform to how we think about generating business. So just some thoughts and feelings for you on this Friday. Don’t worry too much about the scores because in the grand scheme of things, your credit score controls far more of your life than your Facebook trustworthiness score. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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