Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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    What’s On My Mind: A Guided Tour of the Most Powerful Generative AI Model Google Offers

    This week, we’re going to go on a guided tour of Google’s AI Studio and the most powerful generative AI model Google has to offer, Gemini 1.5 Pro. Now, before we begin, we should clarify a few things. Google, in its fine tradition of naming things as confusingly as possible (those of you who work in Analytics, you know the joy of Google Tag Manager and the new Google Tag which is NOT part of Tag Manager despite the name) has the Gemini models themselves, but also a web interface named Gemini. Today, we’ll be looking at the model, not the interface.

    To access this, you’ll go into Google’s AI Studio, which is also confusing because it’s not the Google Vertex AI Studio in Google Cloud. Google AI Studio is for prototyping stuff that you’ll then later deploy elsewhere. Yeah, don’t blame me, I didn’t name any of this stuff. You obviously need a Google account, and to put your stuff in production, you’ll need a Google Cloud account with billing turned on.

    But for just casual use, this is a great place to start. For the demo use case, we’ll be constructing a guide for growing an Instagram account. First, let’s familiarize ourselves with the interface, which is probably my favorite for working with generative AI so far. It’s not as cluttered as OpenAI’s developer portal, but it’s clean enough that a non-technical user can use it easily.

    I’ll call your attention to six key features, noted on the screenshot below.

    Google AI Studio interface

    1. This is where you create new prompts to test. Google offers three kinds – chat, freeform (aka autocomplete), and structured. Most people will use chat. If you’re comfortable with ChatGPT and similar systems, choose chat.
    2. This is where your saved work will show up. This relies on Google Drive and your interactions are saved to Google Drive.
    3. This is where you choose the model you want to use. We’ll go with Gemini 1.5 Pro, which is their latest and greatest.
    4. This is where you can control the safety settings. In testing, this matters less, but in production, you’ll want to make sure these are set to your use case.
    5. This is where you connect to assets like images, videos, files, and folders. This includes Google Drive as well as uploads – which is a lot more than the Gemini web interface offers.
    6. This is the context window, arguably the most important part of this entire thing. This tells you how close to full the short-term memory of the model is, and once it’s full, it will start forgetting the earliest part of your conversation. This resets per conversation, so if you start a new prompt session, this goes back to zero.

    The last part, the context window, is 1 MILLION tokens in Gemini 1.5 Pro. It’s difficult to express just how important this is. The context window is a model’s short-term memory, what it knows during your conversation. When we start a session with any AI tool, this is empty. As we give it prompts and interact with it, the short-term memory fills up. Over time, it gets full and when it does, the model forgets the earliest content. If you’re used to the free version of tools like ChatGPT, you know this forgetting happens very, very quickly.

    A million-token context window is about 700,000 words. That’s 10 good-sized business books – that’s how much this model can remember in the short term. That’s incredible, because it means we can have it work with very large pieces of content, have extended conversations, and have it remember things we said quite some time ago. We can give it lots of reference material to think through and still not fill up the memory.

    Let’s put this into action. Earlier today, my martial arts teacher, Mark Davis of the Boston Martial Arts Center, asked me for some help growing our school’s Instagram account (go follow them if you like). Now, I am not an Instagram expert. One glance at my own Instagram account makes it clear it’s not my specialty. But there are lots of people who share lots of ideas on the topic. If we could gather up the data that exists publicly, distill it, synthesize it, and summarize it, could we come up with a highly effective set of strategies and tactics?

    Here’s what I did: I found every podcast on the topic of growing your Instagram account in 2024 on YouTube and fed them all to OpenAI’s Whisper transcription software, run locally. This costs nothing because it uses your computer to do the processing. Now I’ve got a folder full of podcast transcripts. (I suppose I could have just gone to the podcasts’ sites themselves for the transcripts, but it’s easier to just let AI do this).

    I’ll take each transcript and load it into Gemini 1.5, asking it to summarize the transcript this way:

    You are an accomplished professor and researcher at MIT. You sit on review boards, referee panels, and peer review committees. You review academic papers and publications.

    One of your skills is a technique called paper to protocol, in which you digest a paper’s findings and translate those findings into a protocol, a series of actions an individual can take based on the research.

    For example, if a peer-reviewed paper finds that reducing sodium intake helps improve health, you would create a protocol that says to limit your sodium intake.

    Or, if a peer-reviewed paper finds that using adverbs less in advertising copy is more effective at driving sales, you would recommend a checklist for removing adverbs and replacing those adverbs with another part of speech.

    Protocols should be firmly grounded in the research, backed up by statistically meaningful conclusions from the research.

    Protocols should be action-oriented; they should provide clear, unambiguous directions about what someone should do or change in their behaviors to achieve results aligned with the findings of the paper.

    Today, you’re going to read through a transcript discussing best practices and research around Instagram and growing Instagram accounts. You’ll summarize the information you read into a set of protocols. First, you’ll make an outline of the key findings as presented in the transcript. Then, of those findings, you’ll distill them down to protocols.

    Here’s the format to use:

    “””
    Finding Title

    Findings:
    – Finding 1
    – Finding 2

    Protocols:
    – Action steps to take 1
    – Action steps to take 2
    “””

    Here’s a quick look at the process as Gemini chews through each transcript:

    Gemini output

    After Gemini processes all the transcripts, I asked it to do the following:

    Great. Now that you have consumed all these transcripts, categorize all the advice they give and restructure all the advice and protocols into one master outline.

    And here’s what Gemini spit out, distilling down all that information:

    Gemini Screenshot

    Now here’s the thing: if you know Meta, and you know their transparency center, they talk about how their systems work at a high level. Lots of people talk about the Instagram algorithm, but very few seem to know how the system overall works, even though Meta has told us. If we add Meta’s documentation to the mix and tell Gemini to resolve conflicting advice by leaning in favor of what Meta has told us about their own system, we get a comprehensive list of recommendations that’s more balanced and aligned with how Meta says their systems work.

    Master Outline for Instagram Success in 2024: Synthesizing Expert Advice and Meta Documentation

    This master outline combines insights from expert advice in the transcripts with official documentation from Meta to provide a comprehensive and actionable Instagram strategy for marketers in 2024. In cases of conflicting information, Meta’s documentation is prioritized as the source of truth.

    I. Account Setup and Optimization
    – Define Your Niche:
    – Identify your ideal audience: demographics, interests, challenges.
    – Determine your specific topic within your broader niche.
    – Refine your niche over time as you learn and grow.
    – Optimize Your Profile:
    – Username: Choose a username that reflects your brand and incorporates relevant keywords if possible.
    – Name: Use your business name or a keyword-rich description, different from your username.
    – Profile Photo: Choose a high-resolution, recognizable image that fits well within a circular crop.
    – Bio: Craft a concise and impactful bio that highlights key aspects of your business, uses a voice and style that resonates with your target audience, and includes a clear call to action.
    – Website Link: Use a trackable link shortener and customize it to reflect your brand or campaign.
    – Upgrade to a Business Profile: Unlock valuable features like contact buttons, analytics, and advertising options.

    II. Content Strategy and Creation
    – Content Mix:
    – Utilize a mix of Reels, carousel posts, stories, and potentially broadcast channels to maximize reach and engagement across different Instagram surfaces.
    – Experiment with different posting frequencies and content formats to find what works best for your audience.
    – Content Types:
    – Reels: Create a mix of original and trendy Reels. Plan original Reel concepts in advance and leverage trending audios strategically.
    – Carousels: Share photo dumps, behind-the-scenes moments, and other engaging content to connect with your community.
    – Stories: Post consistently, allowing older stories to expire for optimal reach. Focus on creating high-quality stories with engaging visuals and concise text.
    – Broadcast Channels: Share exclusive content and updates, host Q&A sessions, and build deeper connections with your most engaged followers.
    – Content Principles:
    – Focus on Share-worthy Content: Create content that evokes emotions, inspires action, is relatable, or provides breaking news within your niche.
    – Provide Value: Offer entertainment, education, motivation, or inspiration to keep your audience engaged and coming back for more.
    – Prioritize Quality over Quantity: Invest time and effort in creating high-quality content that resonates with your audience, rather than just churning out content for the sake of posting.

    III. Engagement and Growth Strategies
    – Understand the Algorithm: Stay informed about how the Instagram algorithm works and the various factors that influence content ranking and reach. Adapt your strategy based on the latest updates and insights.
    – Optimize Posts for Discovery: Utilize location tags, keywords in captions and alt text, and relevant topics to help the algorithm categorize your content and deliver it to the right audience.
    – Engage with Your Audience Proactively: Dedicate time daily to interact with your niche community, larger brand accounts, and your current followers. Build relationships and signal relevance to the algorithm.
    – Study Your Competitors: Analyze their content and strategies to gain valuable insights and inspiration for your own approach.
    – Collaborate with Influencers and Relevant Accounts: Partner with influencers and other accounts in your niche to expand your reach and attract new followers.
    – Leverage Other Platforms: Promote your Instagram account on platforms like Pinterest and YouTube to drive traffic and growth.
    – Analyze Your Insights and Replicate Success: Regularly review your Instagram insights to identify what content performs best and adapt your strategy accordingly.
    – Be Consistent and Patient: Develop a sustainable posting schedule and stick to it. Understand that organic growth takes time and effort.

    IV. Additional Considerations
    – Experiment with different content formats: Consider the impact of videos, photos, and carousels on the algorithm and experiment to see what resonates best with your audience.
    – Utilize Instagram’s built-in features: Explore and leverage Instagram’s native features, including effects, filters, and music options, to enhance your content and potentially gain an algorithmic boost.
    – Stay informed about platform updates: Keep up with the latest changes and updates from Meta regarding the Instagram algorithm and adapt your strategy accordingly.

    This is helpful. Here’s the important part in this experiment. Take a look at the bottom of Google’s AI Studio:

    AI Studio

    I have consumed 76,716 tokens in this chat. That exceeds what the consumer version of Gemini can handle by about double. It’s more than halfway to what the paid version of ChatGPT in the consumer interface can handle. And it’s 7.3% of what Gemini 1.5 can handle. If I wanted to, I could go grab a hundred more podcast episodes or YouTube videos about Instagram strategy and add them into the short-term memory, coming up with the absolute ultimate guide to Instagram – or any other topic.

    That’s the power of a huge context window, of a huge short-term memory. We can take the power of large language models along with vast amounts of data we provide and turn that data into useful insights and action steps to be taken.

    Now, after all this, I’m still not an Instagram expert. The synthesized advice that Gemini helped me to assemble is still only advice. I or my teacher still need to do it, to take action on it, and to bring it to life. That’s the hard part – advice is easy, execution is difficult. But in terms of getting advice in the first place, this makes things much faster.

    Let’s briefly talk about what we didn’t do in this experiment. I didn’t spend a lot of time vetting the podcast episodes or transcripts. I went off popularity, which episodes in 2024 got the most attention. Popularity doesn’t mean correctness, so if you’re using this strategy for high-value, high-risk endeavors, you’ll want to curate the source data better.

    I didn’t run this by a human subject matter expert. As a marketer, the advice looks generally correct, but if this were a high-stakes engagement, I’d want to run it past a real Instagram subject matter expert for their take on it – especially what’s missing.

    And finally, I didn’t evaluate my teacher’s actual Instagram profile against this list of best practices, because this is a newsletter about using a large language model with a very large context window, not about Instagram best practices. I’ll be sending him the list of best practices, and this video walkthrough, but we would spend a lot more time with each of the best practices than we did.

    Now, I turn this over to you. Take this advice and run with it in your industry, at your company, with your content. Get a comprehensive corpus of top content about any given subject and use a language model to consolidate, interpret, and distill it down into something you can take action on. Convert information into action, and reap the benefits of taking action on all the advice you’ve consumed.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Instagram Algorithm Changes?

    You Ask, I Answer: Instagram Algorithm Changes?

    In this episode, Christopher Penn responds to a question about whether Instagram is changing its algorithm again. He explains that social media algorithms change very rapidly and frequently, often hourly, due to reinforcement learning mechanisms. Therefore, any sneaky tricks or secrets about Instagram’s algorithm do not last long. Instead, the key to success on social media is to focus on engagement with your audience, as this is what these AI-based systems favor. So, while Instagram is likely changing its algorithm again, the sustainable advantage lies in connecting with your audience, rather than trying to game the algorithm. If you want to hear more about this topic, check out the full video and hit the subscribe button.

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    In today’s episode Meena asks, I heard Instagram is changing its algorithm again, is this true? I saw posted in a group on Facebook about this.

    Okay, so this is kind of tricky when it comes to big technology companies, big social networks and their algorithm changes.

    These algorithms change very, very rapidly, not a once a quarter or something like that they are because they’re powered by a lot of reinforcement learning mechanisms.

    They change very fast Facebook in one of its operations, blog posts about how they run Facebook said their news feed algorithm, the model underlying it recompiles hourly, hourly, which means that the Facebook that you used before lunch and the Facebook you use after lunch are technically different pieces of software.

    Because remember, when we’re talking about machine learning and artificial intelligence, a model is just a piece of software that was written by a machine, not a human.

    So when Facebook says their their model refreshes every hour, they’re releasing a new version of Facebook every hour.

    And very likely the same is true of any of these major social networks with the exception being maybe some old ones.

    Recently, Twitter open source does recommendation algorithm and when you look at the code that was released a good chunk of it, it does not include the model itself, right? It incorporates all the stuff around the model, but not the model itself, for obvious reasons.

    It contains a lot of sensitive and private information.

    But there’s a good chance that model recompile is on a fairly regular and frequent basis as well.

    So all these things recompile very, very frequently.

    And now the intent of a post like that, really is to say like, here’s some new advice about what’s working on Instagram right now.

    There are obviously best practices that will get you at least the bare minimums of competency at Instagram, but because these models change so fast, any sneaky trick, gotcha inside, secret, etc.

    These things they don’t last, and they don’t last because the model is constantly retuning itself.

    So this is this is how this goes, right? There is no sustainable advantage in working with a lot of these AI based systems because they, they recompile so fast.

    So instead, you really should be focusing on the stuff that doesn’t change or the stuff that doesn’t change the people, the human beings, right.

    If you are in touch with your fans in touch with your audience, delivering to them what they want, on a regular and frequent basis, there’s a good chance that they’ll see it, and they’ll engage with it.

    And that will help boost up your other content.

    Engagement really is the name of the game for pretty much everything in social and search in anything AI based.

    Because all these companies have built in incentives in their models to say we want to favor things that get big engagement.

    So if you and your customers or your colleagues or whoever can get engagement on your content, in general, it’s going to do better, and it’s going to provide sort of a halo effect around your other content as well.

    So is Instagram changing his model again? Yes, it changes it probably hourly.

    Is does that give you some kind of sustainable advantage? No.

    And should you be on the lookout for little tricks and things that work? Probably not.

    Because if something is goes really, really well like it’s super anomalous, because of a change in the software.

    It’s very every possibility that software change will be gone in an hour.

    So good question.

    Thanks for asking.

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  • Does “Link in Bio” Reduce Instagram Engagement?

    Does Link in Bio Reduce Instagram Engagement?

    One of the lessons the pandemic has reinforced is to be an active, questioning reader of data presented as fact in articles and news. Not in the crazy, conspiracy-theorist “do your own research” in which you hunt down articles that only support your point of view no matter how questionable the source, but in true academic inquiry, true curiosity. I was reading a post by Rand Fishkin the other day which cited a few stats that posts on Instagram which used “link in bio” substantially underperformed.

    I wondered whether that was true or not. When I dug into the cited sources, I found them… well, less rigorous than I’d like in terms of drawing a conclusion from data. This was an interesting question, one I want the answer to.

    Does putting “link in bio” or its variants cause less engagement, lower performance on Instagram?

    Did I know? Nope.

    Could I know? Yes.

    The challenge with whether we could know the answer to something is fivefold, something I borrow all the time from cooking:

    • Outcome: do I know what I’m trying to achieve?
    • Recipe: do I have a process for achieving the desired result?
    • Ingredients: do I have the raw materials I need to make the thing?
    • Tools: do I have the tools necessary to process the ingredients?
    • Talent: do I have the necessary skills to create the outcome?

    Let’s break down what we’d need to understand the answer to our question about whether “link in bio” matters or not.

    • Outcome: clear. We want to know if putting “link in bio” dampens Instagram engagement and performance.
    • Recipe: from a data science perspective, this is also clear. There are many different ways to accomplish this, but the recipe I’m going with is something called propensity modeling. We classify Instagram posts by whether they use the target phrase or not as a treatment, and then use propensity modeling to see what kind of lift that treatment gets, of similarly matched content.
    • Ingredients: this is the challenge for a lot of social media inquiries. A lot of data is hard to come by. I sourced my data from Facebook’s Crowdtangle software.
    • Tools: clear. I’ll be using R Studio and the R programming language.
    • Talent: I have the necessary skills for this particular outcome.

    Experiment Results

    Now, let’s dig in. To make this work, we need to do some feature engineering on our dataset, tagging posts that use “link in bio” so that we can classify them appropriately. We also need to remove accounts that have missing or broken data. Because of the size of the dataset – nearly a million records in its raw form – I’ll need to use a random sampling of it instead, about a third of the records.

    Once we’ve done that, we build our model and match similar records to take out as many confounding factors as possible. That’s the beauty of propensity modeling – by matching similar records, we can reduce the impact of variables and relationships we don’t know to look for or can’t see, looking for the statistical difference JUST along the “treatment”, which is the use of “link in bio”.

    Propensity modeling, in other words, is more or less a retroactive A/B test when you can’t run a large-scale A/B test.

    What are the results of our assessment?

    Propensity model results

    What we see is… no, there’s pretty much no difference or not in terms of performance and the use of “link in bio”. We see there’s a slight difference in account size – accounts that use “link in bio” have a mean number of followers that’s slightly higher than those that don’t.

    However, there’s no real difference in terms of the mean number of likes, and a 1% difference in the mean of comments on posts that use “link in bio”.

    The conclusion we draw? Using “link in bio” has no impact on engagement in Instagram.

    We can test this further by using automated machine learning. With IBM Watson Studio’s AutoAI, we feed the ENTIRE dataset (instead of just a sample) into Watson and ask us to tell it which variables have the strongest correlation to the outcome – engagements – that we care about:

    Watson AutoAI run

    What we see is fairly straightforward: the number of views a post earns delivers engagements, as does the size of the audience. Whether or not a post has a “link in bio” statement is utterly irrelevant, in terms of variable importance.

    Key Takeaways

    The key takeaway here isn’t whether or not “link in bio” matters to Instagram engagement or not, though that is a handy little tidbit. No, the key takeaway that I’d like you to remember is to read and question the validity of these little data tidbits we read every day. For things that genuinely pique your curiosity, ask whether you do know the answer, and if not, could you know the answer.

    Again, that doesn’t mean hunting down things that agree with your point of view – that’s called incuriosity (as well as confirmation bias) and it’s literally the opposite of the takeaway. No, the point is to be MORE curious, to wonder what the answer really is, and to conduct valid, methodologically-sound research to get to the answer. If you have the capability to truly do your own scientific and statistical research, do so and publish it so that the greater community can benefit.

    And feel free to tell people they can learn more with the link in your bio on Instagram.

    Methodology and Disclosure Statement

    I extracted 970,000 Instagram posts from Instagram public content, sampled from curated lists by Trust Insights in Facebook’s Crowdtangle platform. The sample population includes 7,856 Instagram brand accounts and 10,341 Instagram personal accounts across a variety of industries. The timeframe of the study data is July 1, 2021 – September 12, 2021. The date of the study itself is September 13, 2021. I declare no competing or conflicting interests, and I was neither given nor gave any compensation for this research, other than applicable service fees to vendors for the operation of their software itself.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Link in Bio Solutions for Instagram?

    You Ask, I Answer: Link in Bio Solutions for Instagram?

    Jake asks, “What’s your favorite “Instagram link in bio” platform? I tried LinkTree for a while and it seems like IG is starting to crack down on things like that.”

    Generally speaking, I prefer to roll my own when it comes to stuff like this. You have more control over it, especially the output, and you don’t have to worry about a service being discontinued or raising its prices 10x overnight. All you need is a regular responsive webpage.

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    In today’s episode Jake asks, What’s your favorite Instagram Lincoln bio platform.

    I tried link tree for a while and it seems like Instagram is starting to crack down on things like that.

    Generally speaking, for simple services where there’s relatively low complexity, you’re better off having your own, you’re better off having your own service that is under your control that you can tune and do as little as much as you like, and is not reliant on the third party.

    One of the great challenges we face in marketing right now is the crazy explosion of point solutions for pretty much everything.

    My friend Scott Brinker creates this landscape called the mahr tech 5000 was named that three years ago when it had 5000 different marketing technology solutions this year 8000 among them, things like you know, the various Lincoln bio solutions, which is fine.

    But it always increases the complexity of your marketing technology stack.

    If you can, if you have the capability, try rolling your own try building infrastructure that you have control of, if you have the capability to do so it reduces your costs.

    And critically for basic stuff, it you don’t have to worry about a service provider vanishing overnight and then having to scramble to fix a bunch of things right? nor do you have to worry about a service provider saying, Well, you know what, we’re going to increase the cost 10 x now, which has happened to me, I had one provider that went from 25 a month for a particular technology service to500 a month.

    And they said, Yeah, we’re doing this because, uh, you know, whatever the reason wasn’t, you know, it’s fine as their rights, their software they have the right to do that.

    I have the right to not be there.

    customer and I’m like, Alright, I’m going to a different solution, I’m going to an open source solution that I host on my own servers because I don’t want to pay that much money for this particular service.

    Same with a link shortener.

    I was doing some work with a popular link shortening platform and it the pricing on it just went through the roof.

    And I was like, You know what, I’m gonna use an open source package and and run my own server and then I don’t have to pay any money other than the hosting for the server.

    And I can do as much as I want there’s no limits.

    So, that is the approach I tried to take whenever is practical to do so if there are either pieces of code you can write yourself or open source packages that you can swap in for proprietary packages.

    You will save your company a lot of money and you will give yourself the reassurance that the service the function is one that is under your control.

    So let’s look at the Instagram Lincoln bow page, I’m gonna bring switches over here, this is a very simple piece of code.

    And all it is, is it has the URL that you change, but the Lincoln bio, and then some Google Analytics tags, because one of the things that people like about services like, you know, the link to use the world is they get analytics on it.

    Well, I like analytics, too.

    I like analytics more if it’s in an interface that everyone’s familiar with, like Google Analytics.

    So in this case, I have it set up so that it sends essentially, link click data to my Google Analytics installed, so that I can go in and look and see, you know, track with the sources, the mediums campaign codes, and I don’t have to append that to the URL, and it does the thing and sends it off to Instagram.

    What does it look like? What does the code actually look like? The the Lincoln bio part that is the link on Instagram as one URL on the web server and then it goes to a page that looks like this, where for those of you who use link tree looks real simple, right? This is just a WordPress page, it’s just a page on the company website.

    Nothing fancy, nothing special.

    Just got a little bit styling to make it look like a link tree.

    And it works great.

    It gets people exactly where I want them.

    And this is a page that you can maintain in WordPress.

    So if this is going to be like the permanent page on your link on your, your Lincoln bio, then guess what this This fulfills the function.

    So if you don’t care about the virtual clicks on the Instagram link itself, put a page like this on your WordPress, install, write, style it a little bit, and then use this as your Lincoln bio and then it’s just another page you maintain on your website.

    It keeps things simple, and keeps things clean.

    It is under your control.

    And if you’re as long as your template is responsive, like this one here.

    It makes it so easy for people to find the resources that you want them to have and bonus If it’s a regular web page that’s responsive, you can change other parts of this.

    You can do a B testing on it, you can do a bunch of things that you can’t do with link tree.

    You can’t A B test different offers on link tree.

    You can’t swap around the order the buttons and do all these things.

    Or if you can, I, I’ve used link tree once.

    I don’t know if these are paid features and up.

    Why pay.

    It’s a web page that you run on your website, you use Google Optimize, to do the A B testing.

    And now you’ve got all the marketing technology facilities you could possibly want.

    on a web page.

    You have your Google Analytics running on here so you can see the traffic to this page.

    You have Google optimized for a B testing if Google Tag Manager so you can track and cookie and run campaigns promotions to this page.

    You could use this page in your Facebook ads.

    Keep it simple, keep things as simple as possible.

    That’s the solution I recommend.

    When we’re possible.

    Keep it in house.

    Even if there’s nothing more than a simple web page, and do it yourself.

    Now that link redirected I was talking about is not an essential part, you can just have the page itself.

    And that’s the link that goes in your bio.

    And you just adjust this as you need to.

    If you want the link redirector for the extra analytics, that’s something else you have to code, but it’s not a deal breaker, right.

    And it’s just additional data.

    So that’s a solution I would recommend.

    Are there other services that do what LinkedIn does? Yes, of course there are.

    Do you need to pay them? I personally don’t think so.

    So if you have follow up questions about this, feel free to ask in the comments box below.

    But again, keep it simple.

    Use your existing content platform.

    What makes this page useful is it’s just a bunch of CSS.

    It’s just you know, standard design stuff, nothing fancy no additional plugins, you can just put it right in the HTML on your web page.

    Looks great.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Social Media Audience Growth Rates During Crisis?

    You Ask, I Answer: Social Media Audience Growth Rates During Crisis?

    Elena asks, “Are you seeing more or less followers and audience during the crisis on social media?”

    Far fewer:

    Facebook 30 day average: 0.11% growth
    Facebook 7 day average: 0.04% growth
    Change: -63%

    Instagram 30 day average: 0.21% growth
    Instagram 7 day average: 0.01% growth
    Change: -95%

    Data source: Crowdtangle and TrustInsights.ai compiled lists of 3,200 Facebook brand Pages and 4,000 Instagram brand accounts.

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    In today’s episode, Elena asks, Are you seeing more or less followers and audience growth during the crisis on social media? This is interesting data question because we’re able to see, we’re all able to see what’s happening, but not necessarily why.

    And we have to make some guesses as to why it will say the both have decreased on audience growth on Facebook and Instagram, which is the two networks that we have a lot of data for over 3000 brand pages on Facebook are 4000 brand pages on Instagram, both have decreased.

    And the reasons for that, I think are threefold.

    One, there is much more digital activity, but it’s overwhelmingly I’m guessing between people and other people, meaning you’re during a crisis like this, you’re reaching out to people that are your friends that are your family that are people you care about individuals and not as much drink brands, certainly, as a as a proxy for the number of complaints people had about getting, you know, an email about what this brand is doing about the pandemic.

    Yes, we’ve all gotten them and most of them are irrelevant.

    We don’t actually care, you know, pizza shop what you’re doing to to manage the crisis.

    People care about interpersonal communication during crises, and that obviously does not include brands.

    That’s one possibility.

    second possibility is the type of media that people are consuming is is changing.

    And also the number of different outlets.

    There are so many people so many companies, so many everything that are giving away free content courses, books, videos, famous celebrities doing concert On Instagram, that again, we don’t need to follow brands and listen to what they have to say.

    Especially since a lot of cases we can’t transact with them except electronically.

    And the third is that media usage itself may be changing.

    There are, again, so, so many different options because of this glut of content, YouTube.

    video gaming steam, I know has been having record amounts of logins, Netflix has had to throttle its bandwidth just to be able to serve all of its customers Pornhub has received so they’re looking at 11% daily growth in traffic.

    And even though we’re spending a lot more time on here, because we can’t go out there it’s not in the same ways that we used to be.

    The mindset people have right now is Personal entertainment personal interaction, and that’s completely appropriate.

    When we’re in that mode, we’re not thinking about interacting with businesses we’re not we don’t want to hear from more businesses, particularly if they don’t have a whole lot to offer in terms of value.

    Except for those things that directly serve our needs, like entertainment or information or useful news that we can take action on, while in our homes.

    And so to see declines on both Facebook, Instagram for so many brands, makes total sense.

    Now, is that going to be true for your business? Not necessarily.

    There are exceptions to every rule, there are outliers.

    This is if I had to guess is probably a Pareto curve distribution.

    80% of the businesses have that decline and 20% note.

    So let’s look at the actual numbers.

    The Facebook 30 the average audience growth rate for 3200 brands is point one 1% of the Facebook seven day average, the shorter term, which is the most recent seven days point 04 percent growth.

    So we have a change between the long term average on the short term average of minus 63%.

    That’s a pretty substantial drop.

    This by the way, if you recall, is part of what’s called a moving average convergence divergence indicator when a short term average and a long term average, either cross over each other in some fashion, something’s happening in the marketplace.

    In this case, your short term average is below your long term averages means that you are contracting you are losing ground as opposed to your short term average being above your long term average.

    Where you’re gaining ground.

    This is definitely a case where you are losing ground.

    And that sort of average, by the way is a very, very handy way to measure any digital marketing metric, whether it’s followers engagements, website, traffic leads converted sales and revenue.

    Keep those two numbers on monitor.

    And you can very quickly see when the short term average drops below the long term average, you’re in trouble.

    On Instagram 4000 brand pages 30 day average point to 1% growth.

    seven day average point 01 percent growth that is a big drop.

    In this case, it’s a 95% drop in growth of audiences for brands on Instagram.

    Now, what do you do with this information? Well, if you’re trying to grow audience, this is probably not the time to do it.

    Again.

    Think about where your audience’s mindset is they’re looking for entertainment.

    They’re looking for distraction, they’re looking for the so called New Normal and branded content unless again, it’s it’s entertainment content basically.

    is not going to cut it.

    Certainly, Facebook post or an Instagram post about your new white paper.

    probably not going to get a whole lot of traction.

    Focus on entertaining people focus on serving people what their needs are, instead of sending out the here’s how we’re responding to the situation, email.

    Take up your mobile device, right? Call your 10 best customers and just ask them how they’re doing.

    Don’t sell them anything.

    Just ask them how they’re doing, like, Hey, how’s it going? How are you getting by? Do you need anything? Can we help in any way that is meaningful and useful.

    That’s how you’ll get the insights as to what you should be creating, if anything, if anything on social media, to attract audiences.

    When you look at what people are doing, having world renowned artists sharing content and home concerts and all these things, makes total sense that that’s the content that resonates with people right now.

    Ask your 10 best customers pick up the phone or text them or whatever.

    And ask them, Hey, how you doing? What, if anything Do you need help with, and then see if that’s a need that you can fulfill with your current capabilities.

    Also take a look at your content performance rates, again, engagement rates and perform the exact same mathematics, your 30 day average and your 70 average.

    If your engagement rates have dropped off a cliff, it means that you’re not sharing content people care about.

    It’s not stuff that people want to engage with.

    So consider pivoting and changing things up, look at your competitors.

    And then look, if you have access to tools and software that give you a good competitive analytics on social media or even just SEO data.

    Look at what is resonating with people.

    Look what people do engage with, and try your best to create content that mirrors the intent of that content.

    What content do people want during this time? But expect your growth rates to be negative.

    Clearly for over 3000 brands, that’s the case and expect that to be the case while people are trying to adjust to their new habits and routines.

    Good question.

    Very good question.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Organic Social Media Growth on Instagram?

    You Ask, I Answer: Organic Social Media Growth on Instagram?

    Joelle asks, “I work in CBD, so advertising isn’t an option most of the time. Have you found any successful tactics for organic social media growth on Instagram?”

    It depends on what you consider organic growth. Audience? Engagement? Conversion? We have to be clear on that first, and then start doing some social media data science. There’s a 7-step process I recommend for finding the answer for your industry; watch the video for details.

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    In today’s episode, Joel asks, I work in CBD.

    So advertising isn’t an option most of the time.

    Have you found any successful tactics for organic social media growth on Instagram? Huh? Well, it depends on what you mean by organic growth.

    Because there are a number of different metrics that you can work with.

    I would assume, though, that you’re probably talking about either audience or engagement, maybe not even conversion, because you wouldn’t necessarily need to run well, you wouldn’t need to run ads for that.

    So we have to be clear first on what the goal is, what are you trying to do? And then that’s when you start busting out the social media data science.

    So the way to tackle this and to find out what’s working for other companies in your space or not, is Number one put together a exhaustive list of as many business accounts in the industry or in the CBD industry as possible, can just be a spreadsheet or whatever.

    And step two is to extract the data, the public data from those accounts, there are tools like CrowdTangle Talkwalker.

    I’m sure there’s many others, I would use CrowdTangle for this to extract the post level data, which is going to have the account name, size of the account posting, the number of likes, the number of comments, etc.

    And that will give you the raw data you need to start understanding what’s working for accounts in this space.

    Step three is to group the accounts together by account name and then summarize the changes.

    So if you’re looking for audience growth, number of followers, then you would have take that spreadsheet and roll it up by date, my individual day and then bye The size of posting the change in size it posting.

    So do they gain 15 more followers that day, whatever the case may be, or the different types of engagements.

    But you’ll have a summary spreadsheet that will take what could be, you know, a many thousand line spreadsheet and boil it down to a couple of thousand lines depending on how many accounts we’re talking about.

    Once you’ve identified that, and you you’ve summarized it, you should know at that point, who are the top 25% of accounts that have grown the most by the metric that you’ve you’ve decided you care about the most likes, comments, things like that.

    And at that point you’ll make you’ll you’ll move the data science tool, your choice from a spreadsheet all the way up to Watson Studio or whatever.

    You’re going to take that data and feature engineer it.

    So you’re going to extract additional features from the content itself.

    So Things like the emotions written the post length, how many words? Is the description? The post type? Is it a video? Is it an image is a carousel Is it ictv? The image subject, what’s the what’s the the picture of the video about etc.

    This step typically does require more of those Advanced Data Science tools, again, this something that you can find in our Python or Watson Studio.

    And what you’ll end up with is a essentially a really large spreadsheet really like table of these accounts, their posts, all the features that you engineered, and then your target viewer response variable, whatever that is, if its audience growth, if its engagement, etc.

    you run a regression analysis against the response variable and see what correlates the most.

    How do things like Certain tone work or certain post type work or certain day of the week, certain time to give you mathematical relationships that forms your testing basis to figure out okay, now what if posts on Wednesdays that are better joyful and have a picture of a grow house.

    If that’s your hypothesis, then you can start testing and putting those out on your account and prove true or false that that type of content matching those variables actually does drive the outcome that you’re looking for.

    And this is an iterative process, you’ll keep doing this over and over and over again, either proving true or false different combinations of variables until you’re at the point where like, okay, now I’ve I’ve got something that has statistical significance, and that leads to the outcome that I care about.

    Now, this isn’t the easiest thing in the world, but this is the best way to get at what’s working, especially in industries where you’re appealing to a very specific set of audience, right? It’s not the general population.

    If it’s a, you know, if you’re in b2b, for example, this is a technique you want to use and b2b as much as possible, because you don’t have a ton of people you’re looking at, you’re probably looking at average b2b companies, probably only looking at 500 customers, right? do this to with your customers accounts, do this too, with your customers or competitors to find out what’s working for them.

    Anybody in that industry, boil the data down so that you can have you can build a testing plan to see what’s working and you may find that not intuitive things work, you may find that sometimes they may not even be there, they’re right people, you what you may find is that people in your industry are just flailing around trying everything and any Growth they see it just happens to be luck.

    That is a possible outcome of this experiment.

    But you won’t know that until you do the scientific analysis and testing of all these different variables.

    So give that a shot.

    It, like I said, it can be done in the spreadsheet, you’ll not be happy.

    But it can be done in a spreadsheet, it would just require a lot of manual work, you you Your best bet is to use modern data science and machine learning tools to do a lot of the heavy lifting for you.

    But it can be done in a spreadsheet and see what you come up with see what you find for what factors drive growth.

    So that’s that would be the approach I would recommend.

    It’s going to vary by the way, it’s going to vary by industry.

    It’s going to vary by time, tactics that worked two years ago, may not work now to hell tactics that work six months ago may not work now.

    So be aware of that as well.

    Take a look at what’s happening in your industry.

    And if there’s another industry that’s like yours that’s either highly regulated or unregulated.

    You may need to pull in some of their content as well to see what works for them.

    So really good question.

    It’s a tough question and does require, you know, some heavy lifting on the math side, but it will give you answers that you can then take action on.

    If you have follow up questions, leave them in the comment box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Facebook as Influencer Marketing Agency?

    You Ask, I Answer: Facebook as Influencer Marketing Agency?

    Erik asks, “What do you think of Facebook adding Instagram to its Brand Collabs Manager? Is it going to put influencer marketing agencies out of business?”

    At this exact moment? No. The targeting is fairly horrendous. Will it improve? Yes. Does Facebook want that money? Yes. Should influencer marketing agencies be concerned? Yes – and start thinking about what additional value-add they can bring. Hint: it’s the relationship and a deep understanding of the client needs.

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    In today’s episode, Eric asks, What do you think of Facebook adding Instagram to its brand collabs manager is going to put influencer marketing agencies out of business at this exact moment, know.

    And I’ll explain why.

    In fact, let’s go ahead and go right into this.

    This is Facebook’s brand collabs manager if you have not tried if you have not signed up what as a Facebook page or as an Instagram business profile, this is where you would go you go to the collabs manager and authenticate your page.

    And it will tell you if there’s anything wrong with your page and then let you start browsing around the interface to see what you can do.

    And at first glance, it looks really terrific, right? You can create a project brief here.

    And then the project brief you decide what kind of budget you want, what kind of networking you want, things like that.

    The audience matches, try and build an essentially an ad campaign, fundamentally an ad campaign inside a brand collaboration manager, and you can track and create insights to manage your influencers, to hold them accountable to certain performance metrics.

    You can create saved lists, have multiple project briefs, you can see who’s already tagging you as maybe a starting source for your influencer lists, publishing tools to curate content that allows you to share.

    So it looks very promising, right? Here’s where it kind of falls down.

    Let’s go look for some influencers.

    I’m going to start let’s start just with the United States because that’s a market that I know reasonably well.

    And I specifically I’m looking for influencers who are who are interested and influential in data science.

    And what comes up is pretty appalling.

    And just absolutely terrible.

    This none of these things here are about data science remotely about data science, Ministry of curry predator gaming.

    Now, this is this is laughably bad.

    Facebook has a lot of work to do here before anybody attempts to get to us to get any kind of reasonable results out of this now, here’s the thing.

    Facebook knows the Zuckerverse as a whole, if you will, that there are billions of dollars at stake influencer marketing as an industry is a massive, massive opportunity.

    And Facebook wants that money.

    If there’s one thing you can reliably count on.

    The Zuckerverse corporations who want it is more of your money and less money for everybody else.

    So, while this is in really terrible condition right now and unusable for any kind of serious influencer marketing, you know, it’s not going to stay that way.

    Right? Behind the Scenes Facebook has more than any influencer marketing agencies ever going to have on analytics on deep learning, and are the AI behind the scenes that can put together better models clearly a lot of work to do here.

    And the ability to connect to data that everybody else does not have access to none of us no one outside of the Facebook ecosystem has access to the deep level metrics that Facebook does, because it’s their network, it’s their system.

    And so I would fully expect over time, this tool to get better as long as it proves to be profitable to Facebook, they will continue to invest in it and it will continue to get better.

    And that should be concerning to any influencer marketing agency.

    So what an agency needs to do in Now today is start thinking about what your value add is, right? What can you bring that sits on top of this, maybe as an agency, you have people who can keep an eye on this really terrible tool, and augmented or supplement or manage parts of it manually for now until Facebook gets its act together on the targeting.

    But the real value for any agency is going to be in the relationships.

    It is going to be on the relationships with the company you and what the brand wants out of its relationships.

    Because when you look at a lot of these things, if you look at what Facebook’s making judgments on right now, it’s pretty clear look on screen followers and engagement rate, right? That’s it.

    No one’s talking about website traffic, right.

    No one’s talking about leads, conversions, brand reputation, all that is missing from here in addition to the complete Total missive to on targeting.

    And so those understanding what your, your client the brand needs is one of the value adds.

    Because if you have a stable of influencers and you have visibility into the clients analytics, particularly Google Analytics, you’ll have a much better understanding of what’s actually working or not.

    There is absolutely no usable tracking or analytics built in here, right? Even if we go back to the insights section here.

    We see reach impressions, engagement, that’s what you’re getting.

    Those those are not useful metrics.

    for business impact, they are indicators.

    They are certainly it’s better to have them than to not.

    But they’re not business outcomes that that any of us are going to care about.

    An agency with a strong strong analytics bench will be able to provide a way more value than then this tool and this Second thing is building the relationships with the influencers themselves.

    Yes, the influencer could potentially earn more through Facebook, but not if it’s a waste of their time.

    If, you know if the marvelous Jarvis and the instant curry pot, folks are getting inquiries from brands that are just doing sort of spray and pray or seeing project briefs that are all over the place, at a certain point, you know, only the folks who don’t have a good professional infrastructure will be using this tool which means that there’s going to be a lot of crap on both sides.

    Those who folks who are professional influencers who do this stuff for a living I call them brand ambassadors, call them ad partners, whatever you want to whatever name you want to give them are going to look at this and go Okay, this would be a nice maybe supplemental tool, but it’s not where you’re going to base your business on.

    So that’s that’s what influencer marketing agencies and influencers themselves should be thinking about.

    Yes, these tools are, are supplemental.

    But no way should they, as of today, replace the eight of the relationship that you have with a credible agency.

    Agencies pay attention, Facebook is coming for your lunch, you have got to build your analytics infrastructure.

    You’ve got to build your clients analytics infrastructure.

    And you’ve got to be able to show business impact far and away above what Facebook is cranking up because we know what metrics Facebook’s focused on.

    You’ve got to build a show how those metrics are not always relevant, or connected to business outcomes and be able to do better if you are an agency and you do not have deep analytics experience.

    You are in trouble.

    And of course, the human side, build and maintain and grow those relationships shows campaigns that go way beyond a Facebook post or an Instagram post, right.

    We’re talking collaboration, we’re talking co authored content webinars.

    events, things that go far above and beyond have an Instagram post or an Instagram story or an Instagram video.

    That’s how you’re going to continue to create value in this ecosystem.

    So lots to pay attention to here.

    It’s interesting and and the Zuk versus coming for your lunch so you gotta run faster.

    That’s true for all of us across the board.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Instagram Content Strategy and Following?

    You Ask, I Answer: Instagram Content Strategy and Following?

    Rachel asks, “I’m working with a new client in the wines and spirits industry. Currently, they are following everyone under the sun (Justin Bieber, Complex, KKW etc). Who would you recommend they do follow? For example, because they are a cocktail mix brand, they are following the liquor brands that people mix their product with.”

    Thinking about who to follow I presume is so you understand what people are doing, a source of inspiration. I would do a different kind of analysis. Who has your customer? Who are those people? Follow them instead. Who do they follow? Use that information to create compelling content. Watch the video for a more thorough explanation.

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    In today’s episode Rachel asks, I’m working with a new client and the wine and spirits industry.

    Currently, they’re following everyone under the sun like Justin Bieber, who would you recommend they do follow, for example, because they’re a cocktail mix brand, they are following liquor brands that people mix their cocktail with.

    So thinking about who to follow, I presume is to try and better understand the customer and perhaps look for a source of inspiration for what you should be posting on your Instagram account.

    I don’t know that’s going to provide a lot of insight because you’re looking at it from the business perspective, you know, what do similar businesses do? And I would focus on a different kind of analysis, I would turn my attention away from similar businesses, at least right now and look more carefully at the customer who is the customer who, what do they like what do they read etc.

    And the easiest way to get started with is with using Facebook’s Audience Insights.

    So let’s go ahead and bring this up here.

    So here we have Facebook Audience Insights, I’m going to make it as clear out all my stuff here.

    And let’s say that I’m interested in the people who like my page, right.

    And so these are the pages I run.

    And what I see here is I see rep, equal gender representation, which is interesting.

    And I see a definite age skew in the 35 to 54 range, right.

    And I also see, disproportionately married, disproportionately higher educated.

    So that gives me a sense of who my audience is.

    So if I go into the 35 range up here, and let’s go ahead and advanced here education, graduate school, relationship status, married.

    Now that’s essentially my audience.

    What is this audience like? Actually, it’s now that download 54 on the upper end.

    There we go.

    So I just want that segment which we saw was over represented.

    This gives me a sense of the other things that this audience of mine tends to like, right we have some politicians, we have some podcasts that might be a useful place, we do some advertising, we have shopping and retail.

    We have TV networks, media, TV shows.

    And this level of information now tells me more about my customer.

    it to a fair degree, right people who are similar to my audience, what I should be doing is looking at every one of these brands, particularly ones that where there’s a lot of overlap with or some connection to the the product or service that I that I work with, and find ways to analyze the followers of those brands but on Instagram I’m using Facebook as the triangulation here, want to go and follow those accounts on Instagram, see what is in the media diet of my audience? What are the things they’re seeing over and over again, and engaging with a tool like Facebook’s CrowdTangle would be a good tool to, to get a good sense of sort of the top 10% of engaging content.

    And then with this information, I might want to then try and narrow down even further.

    So let’s take a look through here really quickly, and see what are the things that other things that strongly overlap.

    I want to do let’s look at people who are interested in podcasts.

    Right, so now we’ve cut that audience down significantly, but now we have some different podcasts.

    And we have all these different types of interests.

    This is what you would call a double unicorn strategy.

    This is a term Larry Kim uses over at MobileMonkey.

    And the the double unicorn strategy essentially says find different things that allow you to create content that just speaks out to that audience so strongly, because your content that you’ll post on Instagram or wherever seems like it’s tailor made for that audience.

    So let’s look at a couple things.

    Here.

    We have some parenting stuff, we have Rei, we have the points guy.

    So if I was creating interesting creative for my stuff, I would be looking at how can I weave in ideas about saving money on travel? I’d be looking at weaving and how to get some time outside.

    And since I run a marketing podcast, I might be thinking about how can I either weave that into segments onto the show, or in Instagram content, maybe some tips Hey, while you’re traveling for business, here’s some ways to save some money while you’re traveling for business.

    Here’s ways to get out side and save money, right? You got that intersection of those of those interests and that kind of content when somebody who’s in this audience sees it goes, You understand me, you get me, you know what I’m all about? So the same thing that I just showed, here’s what I would do with this cocktail mix company, who’s your audience? What are those demographics? Start building a look alike? Audience, essentially? And what are those interests? What are the content that’s in there? What are the ideas that you can pull out of there? Again, using great research tools, you can use CrowdTangle, you can use Talkwalker.

    You can use any of the major social media monitoring tools to extract out from Instagram, what are the what’s in the media diet of those people that they engage with, and then use that to build really strong campaigns that are organic in nature, you can and should put some paid dollars behind it as well.

    But it will dictate very clearly how to go after an audience based on what it is that that audience wants to see not necessarily like what other liquor brands dream but what other brands in general doing that can appeal to that you can weave your product and service into very well when you look for example let’s go ahead and clear all this out here I have a suspicion let’s look at people who are interested in peloton right the product or service or the business when you look at this audience if I then put in who this audiences and we take out these interests and look at people who just like Jen you see some of the very same brands like Blue Apron like Whole Foods and things like that.

    So when we talk about you know how how clever it was for aviation gin to go after the peloton, add we’re forgetting the data side of things right.

    There was a Clear overlap in audiences, they knew that that was their audience.

    And so a rapid response campaign, obviously did very well have this had this audience been very different, it might not have worked as well.

    But knowing your audience allows you to do some of those really creative activation, so give this a shot.

    Again, this is all free.

    It’s all based on your existing data, and try and find those overlaps.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: The Best Way to Grow Instagram Followers?

    You Ask, I Answer: The Best Way to Grow Instagram Followers?

    Katherine asks, “What is the current best way to grow instagram followers for a client?”

    First question: why? What’s the business goal it supports? Chances are no one has thought that through at the client. Followers is only a starting point; there has to be some demonstrable business impact, and other metrics may be more useful. Second, social media, especially in the Facebook ecosystem, is pay for play. Run ads. Third, create mind-blowing, visually-distinctive content that people want to like and comment on.

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    In today’s episode, Catherine asks, What is the current best way to grow Instagram followers for a client? Why? That’s the first question.

    The first question asked is clients why what are you trying to do in terms of a business goal? that is meaningful? Chances are no one’s thought that through people default to followers because it’s an easy Gosh, and I have people who follow me.

    It’s kind of like, you know, visitors to your website.

    Important, right? Because if the number is zero, then you’re not going to have any impact whatsoever, but it’s only the starting point of a program.

    There has to be some kind of demonstrable business impact that the platform and the strategy form, right? So if you are, I don’t care what the businesses, let’s say your coffee shop, you want followers on Instagram, why? Unless you’re selling on the platform itself, what you can do, you can do some ecommerce on there.

    There’s nothing that is special about Instagram.

    That makes it better than any other social network.

    And there’s a lot of negatives to it.

    But the starting point of those followers is just that.

    What are the other metrics that this company that this client wants to pursue? Is it website traffic? Is it lead generation? Is it revenue? What’s the goal? That’s going to dictate to a large extent, what you do on Instagram, for example, if it’s lead generation, you may not need it.

    Right, you can just run ads and talk and use Facebook’s very sophisticated ad targeting system.

    As long as you have an Instagram business account that’s good enough to get started.

    Speaking of which, number two, in the Facebook ecosystem.

    Social media in general, especially within Facebook’s properties, is paid for playing.

    let’s not kid ourselves.

    It is pay for plenty pay to be seen.

    So if you want any metric within that ecosystem followers engagement, clicks on things, you can buy it, you just go into the Facebook Business Manager, connect your account and run a bunch of ads run as many ads as you can.

    Just at whatever budget the client has given you to grow.

    Whatever metric the client cares about most than and I look I totally get it if the client says you fall we will follow it.

    You’re like, I don’t know, that’s the best metric.

    You can give them all the advice and counsel that you can at the end of the day, they’re still gonna say yes, but I still got followers.

    I get it.

    I’ve had clients like that, too.

    So in order to deliver on what the client is asking you for, you know, so you know, sometimes like, okay, followers, it is huge followers.

    Pay for play.

    Where you will run into trouble is if the client thinks they can get something for nothing, like, Oh, no, I’m just gonna just do you know, viral organics stuff.

    I’m not in the Facebook ecosystem, you might get lucky.

    But more often than not, Facebook’s like, nope, you’re going to pay out.

    So set that expectation as early as possible in the client relationship.

    Facebook, WhatsApp Messenger, Instagram, audience, network, all that stuff together, is paid for place set aside budget, to advertise.

    And as you succeed, you will expect to pay more.

    So make sure the client understands that as well.

    You’re going to be running ads.

    Third, to support the paid activity.

    And to provide a reason for people to remember you and come back to you.

    You have to create mind blowing content that people want to like and comment on.

    So that means creating stuff that is unique and distinct and very, very different than what anyone else can get from any other account.

    If you post exactly the same things with a client does that every other competitor in that space posts, there’s absolutely nothing differentiating, there’s absolutely nothing worth commenting on.

    And this is a part that’s really really hard because Instagram is a photo and visual platform.

    To set yourself apart, you have to be much more creative than the competitors.

    You don’t necessarily be higher quality like There are plenty of people that are posting stock art stock photography, yeah, stuff, they got 400, splash or whatever.

    It doesn’t set them apart.

    It’s high quality.

    But like all these algorithms and an algorithm driven world in marketing, the greatest danger you will have, whether it’s social media search, whatever is the expression that Google uses, which is nothing wrong, but nothing special.

    Right? That is the death sentence for your marketing, nothing wrong, but nothing special.

    You cannot afford to do that.

    So advise the client of that last thing the world you want is, if you were to take your Instagram photos and blind them, meaning mix them in with a bunch of other competitors, and put them in a grid or a mosaic could you pick out your photos? Could an audience member, I got your folks could somebody who doesn’t know you pick out your photos? If the answer is no, then your contents not distinctive enough, right? There are only you there are you have to establish essentially a visual style.

    And it has to be compelling.

    And that’s really, really difficult.

    So again, this goes back to the initial question of what is the goal? What is the strategy? What is the client trying to achieve? If all they want is website traffic to their webpage, then run ads with reasonably good visuals that are highly targeted.

    And don’t worry about spending a whole lot of time on the Instagram content itself unless you want to be there for some long term organic reason.

    One of the top things companies do is they use Instagram as a sort of culture on hiring channel like here’s a sneak peek behind the scenes.

    What’s it like to work at this company? And that’s a really good use of it because that is distinctive.

    And that gives a very clear purpose to the channel.

    And it gives it a theme that when you look at the history of news, you scroll through on Instagram, you can see okay, this is these are the people who work there.

    This is what the office looks like things like that that is useful.

    But just like random photos, here’s someone taking a picture of a fork, right doesn’t really help.

    So that’s the best way to grow Instagram followers for client pay to be paid to be seen pay to play and create great content that is unique and visually distinctive that people want to like and comment on.

    That’s it.

    I wish there was some super secret easy trick that that worked really well but in in a channel in Facebook ecosystem.

    It’s all about the money.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Best Performing Instagram Post Type?

    You Ask, I Answer: Best Performing Instagram Post Type?

    Abi asks, “Question regarding multi-photo Instagram posts! Do they perform better than static posts?”

    Here’s the latest research from Trust Insights, which is about a month old. Caution: don’t choose a content type based on performance. Choose a content type based on what shows off your content best.

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    In today’s episode, Abby asks question regarding multi photo Instagram posts called albums or carousels, do they perform better than static posts? Well, there’s an easy way to get this answer.

    This is something that Facebook actually provides data for through its crowd technical software and a Trust Insights.

    We use that software for pretty much everything related to Facebook.

    So let’s, let’s just bring this lovely thing up here for the year to date, January one to about September one.

    This is 4118 brand accounts, so not influencers, not individuals, but companies.

    carousels garnered the largest engagement point five 6% average of his arithmetic means so not medians.

    Photos point four 9% videos point two 8% and Instagram TV point two 6%.

    So those are the numbers.

    The reason we use arithmetic mean is that normally I would prefer to use medium.

    But so many companies are so bad at social media marketing that the media is more often than not end up being zeros, right the median being this no engagement at all which makes any kind of analysis too difficult.

    The average like rate, carousels point five, six photos point four eight videos point two seven Instagram TV point two five average comment rate is pretty much almost zero.

    And this is on a total of 1,386,132 posts across all these different categories.

    So that’s what’s getting average performance on Instagram.

    Now there’s a way to, which we haven’t done here with this way to splice this out so that you can see it by groupings, either core tiles or invest aisles and stuff like that.

    Didn’t do this.

    So this is one of the very top level view.

    Be careful when you’re using statistics like this to benchmark your performance.

    And also to decide what content strategy you’re pursuing just because carousels tend to perform better.

    It’s not heads and shoulders better like you must do this or else.

    It’s really is neck and neck with photos.

    And I did not run a test of statistical significance on this, but I’d be willing to bet that it’s fairly close.

    When you’re setting Instagram content, strategy or any social media strategy, build your strategy around what’s best for your content, not what the average social media Mark scene for performance.

    The reason for this is pretty simple.

    You know your content and you know, the format that performs best in terms of the way people want to see it.

    For example, if you’re a real estate agent a carousels a brilliant idea, right? a castle or a video walkthrough of your property is a no brainer, almost right? If you’re an artist, you might want to have individual posts showing individual pieces rather than sort of how the although the analogy of one diamond, the spectacular pile of diamonds all over a table is not all that impressive, right? That individual diamond loses its specialist.

    So make sure that you are focusing on the the content that fits the way you want someone to receive it as being much more important than What what the average marketer does, especially becausethe average the average corporate marketer, or brand marketer isn’t all that great at what they do.I follow a bunch of brands that I’ve met at different conferences and trade shows on Instagram.

    And I’ve only seen one example of this all if I think back to all the ads, I’ve seen all the content I’ve seen, there’s literally one campaign that I remember.

    And everything else is like, yeah, I’m sure they put an ad up or a piece of content up I can’t remember it.

    So average, literally means both the numerical and also the description of the of the quality of the content, which is what in Google Search guidelines they call nothing wrong.

    But nothing special.

    You do not want to be on the category in social media marketing and SEO in any kind of marketing.

    So please make sure that you pick content, that content format that fits the way that you want to use if that’s that’s the most important thing, but those are the numbers.

    That will be more numbers in an upcoming issue of the Trust Insights, newsletters, if you’re not subscribed, go over to Trust insights.ai slash newsletter, and you can get the weekly newsletter republished there on Wednesdays that has a good chunk of data every week.

    What’s doing well out there, we’ll have some will update some Instagram numbers for you in an upcoming issue soon.

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