Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Causation Without Correlation?

    You Ask, I Answer: Causation Without Correlation?

    Vito asks, “Let’s assume we have the joint probability distributions of A and B. In that scenario, is it possible that A causes B, but A and B are not correlated?”

    This is possible and even probable when you have missing data, especially if the missing data is also partially causal.

    Some examples:
    – Distributions that are not normal, are causal, and have a Pearson R score of zero (like stress before a test)
    – Hidden data – A / B / C vs A / D / C – and B has no correlation to D
    – Unobservable data – like gravity, which is not something that can be measured at all because we have no quantum particle for it
    – Many causes of A > B and A is not the primary cause
    – Causes that collide – A > B and C < B, net R of 0, like treatment and illness

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    In today’s episode Vito asks, let’s assume that we have the joint probability distributions of a and b.

    In that scenario, is it possible that A causes B but a and b are not correlated? So this is a comment that was left on my website about a post I did a number of years ago on correlation and causation.

    It is generally accepted that correlation is not causation.

    Just because two variables are correlated, does not mean that one causes the other.

    The textbook example of this is ice cream and drowning deaths.

    Ice cream death, consumption of ice cream, and number of deaths from drowning are strongly correlated in a lot of datasets.

    Why? Well, logically, we know that there’s this thing called summertime and as people, the weather gets warmer, people eat more ice cream, people go swimming more Second years of pandemics, and you have an increase in drowning deaths.

    So what about the reverse which is what Vito is asking, Can the reverse be true? Can you have causation? Without correlation? The answer is yes, it is possible.

    In fact, it is probable in some cases where you have, you know, hidden data or missing data, things like that.

    So, let’s talk about a few of these situations, five of them.

    The first is, anytime you have a distribution of data, that is not a normal distribution, there may be something causal in it, but it may end up having a statistical correlation of zero.

    So, if you think about your typical plots, right, those dots scattered all over the places, or there may be a line of dots So, you can draw a line with the dots.

    That’s your typical Pearson correlation.

    If you have a shape, for example of dots that looks like a big square, guess what, you have a statistical Pearson score of zero, even though there may be something very causal in that data, you could have something it looks like a smiley face, right? Again, that would have a score of zero.

    But you could, that could very well be something causal happening there.

    So that’s an example where you have non normal distributions.

    And you still have a correlation, a mathematical correlation of zero.

    Even if those things are causal in nature.

    You can have hidden data hidden did that it is observe the unobserved you didn’t see it.

    There may be a pathway to because, but it’s not.

    But if you’re used to measuring in stages, it may not make sense.

    So for example, let’s say you have a, b and c column look at past conversion, your Google Analytics, a leads to b b leads to C and you may have Carlin’s Along those, there may be a D in there somewhere, right and maybe a D, C, and then B has no correlation to D, you may end up having a break in correlation, even though that fourth interfering factor there that you didn’t measure, or you didn’t know about, was playing a role.

    That’s where things like, especially with analytics, like propensity score modeling come really handy to be able to tease out Oh, there’s something else at play here.

    Even if the regression score is zero, net across your chain of conversion, they may be interfering factors along the way.

    A third way this can happen is when you have some bits on observable that cannot be measured.

    Again, textbook example here.

    We know there that gravity exists, right? Who’s the debate about this? by anybody who has even grade school education I’m sure there’s some people out there believe that because the earth is flat, there’s no gravity, but they’re idiots.

    Gravity has no particle that we’ve been able to find yet in quantum physics.

    So even though we know it exists is causal, we cannot measure it.

    And therefore, there is no correlation because there’s you can’t correlate something that you don’t have data for.

    So that’s an example that’s very obvious.

    Oh, there’s there’s a cause gravity, but there’s no data to back it up.

    A fourth situation, what happens a lot in marketing is when you have say A and B, and you’re looking for a relationship.

    And B has many, many, many, many causes.

    A, maybe causal but very weakly causal, it may not show a relationship, especially there’s a lot of noise.

    Again, in marketing.

    This is you see this a lot with attribution analysis was the impact of Facebook of Twitter of email of referrals of direct traffic of SEO of SEM All these different channels and any one channel may have a very strong or weak relationship to the the outcome that you’re looking for that conversions, you may not be able to show a, a correlation between A and B, because there’s like D that’s just making all the noise.

    But that doesn’t mean that a is not causal to B, it just means you can’t measure it because it’s you’ve got too much interference.

    And then the last situation where this is likely to happen is when you have causes that collide.

    Again, the textbook example is here is things like illness, right illness and mortality are two variables and there may be a negative correlation there and then a positive correlation and you may have treatment and mortality, you may have a negative karma And the more treatment, the less mortality.

    And if you put those together, if you were grouping them together, you would get a net of zero, right? Because the effect would cancel each other out.

    And so in that instance, you are zero.

    But that doesn’t mean that there’s no causal relationship.

    In fact, you would have to break up the data to figure out that, Oh, actually, the illness and mortality is positively correlated, the treatment and the mortality is negatively correlated, and you separate those two out, a and b and b and c should not be grouped together.

    Because if you’re trying to measure illness, and treatment and mortality together, yet, they cancel each other out.

    Correlation perspective.

    So those are five examples.

    And then they were just weird things.

    I guess the weird things would be like, stuff that fall in the first category, like if you if you’re trying to measure for example, performance on a test and academic test and you have like stress or fatigue or something like that is again not gonna be a normal a normal linear distribution, it could be all over the place and you might not find a a mathematical relationship even though there is a causal relationship like a little bit of stress for a test is good motivates you to study a lot of stress before tests that keeps you up all night.

    Not so good, right, because you go into the test a zombie.

    So, there are there are instances where causation and correlation mathematical correlation do not line up.

    They are much less rare and obviously the the case where correlation is not causation is much more common.

    But it does exist in cases where you’ve got pieces of data either missing or on observable or lots of interference, so be aware of them.

    A couple of examples talked about like an attribution analysis are real problems that marketers may have to face, especially if you’re doing more and more complex attribution.

    models, you may need to use different techniques than just regression analysis if you’ve got a lot of either contributing causes or cancelling causes, so being aware of how you’re doing your computations is really important.

    So that’s a set of answers.

    Interesting question a tough one to dig through hopefully made sense.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Where to Find Data for Real Estate?

    You Ask, I Answer: Where to Find Data for Real Estate?

    Gina asks, “I’m in real estate and 2021 promises to be a very data active year for real estate, based on the market rise in 2020 and an expected fall in 2021. Would love to hear how and where you gain data for study – is it just via NAR? Other sources?”

    This is an important question because it’s not just the data itself that’s important – it’s also what we do with it. This kind of exploratory data analysis has three major components: the goal/requirements, the data, and the processing of it.

    You Ask, I Answer: Where to Find Data for Real Estate?
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    In today’s episode, Gina asks, I’m in real estate and 2021 promises to be a very data active year real estate based on the market rise in 2020.

    And unexpected fall in 2021.

    Would love to hear how and where you gain data for studies that justify things like National Association of Realtors or other sources.

    So this is an important question, because not just about the data itself.

    data by itself doesn’t really help us with anything.

    And one of the things that we say a lot around the shop is data without decisions distraction, we need to understand what decisions are we trying to make for the individual real estate agent? It could be things like forecasting and what’s likely to happen to your business.

    Is it a buyer’s market as a seller’s market what’s what’s likely to happen? For a firm like, say a Coldwell Banker, it could be macro economics, looking at the Market overall, what are the profitability? Is the market for the buyer or the seller? The individual homeowner? it’s things like probabilities, how easy will it be for me to sell a home or buy a home? will it cost me more or less.

    And one of the challenges with real estate, in general, but in in data specifically, is that there’s a lot of data that goes into real estate.

    So this is where you’re going to have an exploratory data analysis methodology that’s going to look at three major things, right? Number one, what’s the goal? Like, what is it what are you trying to prove? Or what do you find the research? Number two, what data do you need to prove that and then number three, what is the processing methodology, the algorithms you choose the tools, the techniques, the process that you go through to analyze the data, and it’s it’s gonna be an iterative process because there’s good chance that As you start digging further and further into all the different data that’s available, you’re gonna find a whole bunch of dead ends, you’re gonna find some things that don’t have even associations or correlations.

    And so causation is unlikely.

    And you may learn as you talk to people that there’s there’s some things that simply are unpredictable, they cannot be predicted.

    So, let’s talk about the data itself.

    Where would you go to get information like this, if you’re an agent, obviously, you have MLS, the Multiple Listing system that is probably going to be your best source of local data that you can find.

    Some of that information does get bubbled up to two sites that have API’s like Zillow, for example, realtor.com and realtor.com just started sharing its data with the St.

    Louis Federal Reserve Bank, their Fred database system which is really powerful because There’s about 200,000 other data sets in there that you can use to bring into your analysis.

    So think about all the things that go into real estate, there is the home, right the value, the vocal market, price of the of the listing, how many other listings are around it, those are all things that you would get out of systems like MLS, for example.

    Then there’s also the the economic aspects, what he has, for example, the mortgage rates 30 year fixed, 15 year fixed variable rate, etc.

    Those rates can have a causal impact on the market.

    If rates are low, people are more likely to buy because they can afford it.

    If rates are high, that tends to cool things down.

    So you’d want to find that data as well.

    And that’s something that again, is available in the St.

    Louis Federal Reserve Bank feeds.

    Their Fred database is fantastic.

    It’s one of the best sources for quantitative data, particularly anything economic the You can find, you’re going to look at things like okay in your area, then can you locate household income or real personal wages and stuff, all the things that would allow a person to buy a house? What effect do those have on the market? You’ll look at things like search data from places like Google and the SEO tools of your choice.

    Those will help you understand where people’s heads are in the marketplace.

    And you used to be able to forecast that from that data really well.

    Since the pandemic started, that date has been all over the place, it’s been really messy.

    And so much so that it’s not reliable for long term forecasts right now and probably won’t be for some time.

    For example, I’m recording this on August 23.

    It’s been about three weeks since government assistance stopped for employment share and stuff.

    And so that is starting to have real ripple effects in the economy.

    Depending on how long this goes on, you could have, you know, large scale bankruptcies, homelessness, all sorts of things that will that make forecasting the economic conditions, you know, any further up in a couple of weeks impossible.

    There’s just too many balls in the air.

    So those are cases where now we’re starting to get into the processing discussion.

    What do we do with the data? Do we try to forecast? I would say no, but I would say any real estate agent or agency worth its salt should be pulling this data frequently.

    And having near real time dashboards of what’s happening in your local market so that you can understand Oh, this is these are the conditions that are happening now.

    And how they might impact sales, how they might impact listings, how they might impact people’s even willingness to consider selling, or buying a home property value prices.

    One of the big question marks that’s going to happen at the state local levels in the next really two to five years, if not sooner, is what will municipalities have to do with taxes in order to make up for the huge shortfalls that they’re seeing everywhere, right.

    And it becomes something of a vicious circle as people lose their homes, you have a smaller tax base, so you have to raise taxes on those people who are still able to pay taxes to finance your local government.

    Again, these are all things that are very, very difficult to forecast.

    But the very straightforward I want to say easy but very straightforward to pull in, near real time data.

    And you can pull it in from the federal level, you can pull it in from the state level, depending on on your state, and how into the 21st century they are.

    And all of that can be boiled down into things like dashboards and indicators that give you a sense of here’s what’s happening and give you a chance.

    Two to four week horizon to look out and say, okay, job, unemployment rates in my region have gone up x percentage in the last two weeks that’s going to be a problem that’s gonna be a drag on the economy is gonna be a drag on home buying, be prepared for that and we’re working with sellers to say the sellers.

    Look, don’t be too picky right now on the offer because the local economy is softening, right? Or conversely you could say, hey, things have really picked up.

    It’s okay to be a little more choosy about your buyer.

    Because there’s gonna be more buyers coming out of the woodwork if you see that happens.

    So all of these processing aspects of the data are going to be really important.

    Where do you get started with something like this? Start with a business requirements, right? What do you need to be able to do and then start looking for the data.

    You don’t have to try and ingest everything all at once.

    You probably shouldn’t.

    But start trying to identify what are the key indicators that have driven Whatever KPI you’re you care about whether it’s home sales or price or whatever.

    What are the drivers, the top two or three indicators that drive that that’s, you’ll be doing a regression analysis for that.

    And then, based on that, start putting together your dashboards like maybe it is mortgage rates and local unemployment and recent sale prices.

    If that combination of variables is the is the magic number that says this really strongly predicts your KPI.

    That’s what you put on a dashboard.

    That’s what you start to monitor and you keep an eye on it.

    And you forecast as far as you can afford reliably, which again is like two to four weeks these days.

    That’s a good place to start.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Getting Started With Data-Driven SWOT Analysis?

    You Ask, I Answer: Getting Started With Data-Driven SWOT Analysis?

    Talesa asks, “How do you chip away at the progression of creating a data driven swot analysis on a small team that doesn’t already possess all the key skills?”

    In regard to a SWOT analysis using data, the place to start is to identify what data you do have, and whether it’s of any use to your company and competitors. For example, you might have lots of information on retweets – but is that a valuable measure? Doing this KPI identification is essential – start with the data you can get apples to apples comparisons about, and then determine if that data is useful.

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    In today’s episode to Lisa asks how to chip away at the progression of creating a data driven SWOT analysis on a small team that doesn’t already possess all the key skills.

    So this is very much a marketing data science question.

    In regards to SWOT analysis using data, there’s a bunch of different challenges here.

    But the place to start is to identify what data you do have, and whether it’s of any use to your company and competitors.

    For example, He could gather up publicly available for example, social media data like number of retweets or something.

    But while that is good to have that and be able to get it for competitors, the question is, is that a relevant metric? Probably not.

    Whereas, a relevant metric could be things like branded organic search, how many people per month are searching for your brand’s products and services by name? How many people are doing that by for a competitor of Starbucks coffee versus Dunkin Donuts, coffee.

    Once you’ve identified the data that you can get, you then have to run an analysis to look at is that data useful for SWOT analysis? Remember that SWOT analysis is basically strengths and weaknesses.

    Those are the things that you’re good at that you have control over.

    And opportunities and threats, which are, in many cases when you’re doing doing competitive SWOT analysis, as opposed to environmental, the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors.

    And so you do need to get that apples to apples data, what data can you get, there’s a whole bunch of data that for obvious reasons you cannot get ahold of.

    So the question is, what data can can you get ahold of and can you benchmark it against competitor search is useful social media can be useful, depending on how important it is, and how relevant is advertising data.

    Especially Pay Per Click ads, display ads, social media ads.

    And there are a number of tools out there that can get you that information.

    financial data can be available if it’s a publicly traded company, if you have a collection of publicly traded companies, whatever it is, you need to get the data first and then make that determination.

    Is this data something that we can get information about? So let’s talk to a quick example.

    Suppose you’re looking at search search data.

    You have branded and unbranded organic search, which is essentially people searching for you by name and people searching for your category.

    What percentage of the overall volume do you earn in branded search for people, some Search for your company’s name.

    What percentage of branded search? Do competitors get? How much traffic is right? If you get 10 branded searches a month and your competitor gets a million for their products and services, you know that you’ve got an uphill battle on it when it comes to building your brand.

    If you just no one’s searching for you by name, you don’t have mindshare.

    Nobody thinks I should search for Trust Insights when I need analytics help.

    If nobody remembers the company name, then that’s a pretty straightforward way to start your SWOT analysis right.

    You have your strengths, whatever they are.

    And in this example, if your weaknesses clearly brand organic search your your competitors threaten you with their strengths.

    Right? They have great brand organic search, what are their competitors, your competitors weak on in branded search? Are there certain product lines that are not as robust as they could be? Are there certain Negative searches like, you know, Starbucks, coffee socks, things like that.

    And so you can start to put together measurement based searches, then you can go a little further afield.

    Go down the demand or up the demand funnel, to unbranded search.

    So if people are searching for coffee shop near me, what do you strong on what keywords? What do you weak on? What are your competitors strong on? What are they weak on, and that now you’re starting to tease out the actual strategy of what it is that you can do.

    If your competitors are really strong on coffee shop near me, and you’re not you’re weak on it.

    But they’re weak on a suppressor shop near me, aha, that is an area of opportunity.

    And if you can build that into a strength, a position of strength, you can influence the mindshare and how much you how much search traffic you get hold of.

    So, this is a really great example of using a SWOT analysis Strengths, Weaknesses opportunities and threats for a specific type of data that is available for you and available for your competitors.

    Again, the same would be true for social media data.

    You can see, for example, how fast is a competitors account growing? How fast is your account growing? Can you determine why? What are their engagement rates look like, based on things like likes, comments and shares on their posts versus yours.

    The only caveat is that you need to have that benchmark of what data points are relevant to you.

    If social media accounts for, you know, 1% of the conversions that you have, then doing an exhaustive SWOT analysis may not be worth the time.

    On the other hand, for example, in organic searches, 75% of all your online conversions, you bet your but you’d better be doing an exhaustive, search based SWOT analysis.

    This is what that data.

    So the easy way to start there is go into your Google Analytics Look at your assisted conversions.

    And look at the channels, what channels are driving conversions.

    And then do you have available data for yourself and your competitors for those channels, you can get some level of referral traffic, for example, you’ll get a lot that through SEO tools, you can get some level of search data, actually a lot of search data, you can get some level social data, really tough to get email data other than things like you know, domains being blacklisted and stuff.

    But for the most part, email data is very difficult to get ahold of.

    You can probably not get do a whole lot with direct traffic in general.

    You can get some advertising data.

    So use your Google Analytics data to tell you what’s important to you on a channel basis because the channels that are converting for you may not be converting for customer competitors.

    But if they’re converting for you Then those are areas that you definitely want to win in and take share away from competitors as well.

    So that’s how it started chipping away at this progression, you’re not going to nail it straight out of the gate.

    But you can at least start getting the basic data together using Google Analytics to calibrate which data to look at.

    And then once you’ve pulled in that data, just start doing your best with with even just basics like which number is bigger, right? You don’t necessarily need to jump into hardcore statistical analysis right away.

    If you’re just trying to get a lay of the land.

    This is a really good question.

    It’s a fascinating question, because most people don’t use data this way.

    Most people just look at their own data or look at a competitor’s day, but don’t ever put it in that SWOT framework that is very helpful for understanding how the different data points compare and contrast with each other.

    This is a really good question.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Can AI Write as Well as a Human?

    You Ask, I Answer: Can AI Write as Well as a Human?

    Deborah asks, “Can AI write as well as a human?”

    The answer depends on what the human is writing. If it’s complex, original works like novels, the answer is no. If it’s marketing swill, the answer is yes. If we examine some common readability metrics – which are decent proxies for content quality – we see that marketing-centric content tends to be junk writing.

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    In today’s episode Deborah asks Can AI right as well as a human? Well? The answer is it depends on what the human is writing language generation models, natural language generation of models, like open a eyes GPT series of models, or the T five Transformers from Google can write reasonably well, you know, in a very general sense, but the more specific the task, the better they get, the more guidance you give them and more guardrails you put on the better they get something like a complex original work like say a novel answer’s no machines cannot write as well as human not without an extraordinary amount of training and resources.

    To the point where it’s not cost efficient, you’d be better off hiring novelist to write a novel, then you would be to try and train a machine.

    Even if the machine could generate, you know, 1000 pulp novels.

    The amount of editing time and QA that would have to go into it would effectively negate any gains you got out of it.

    Now, if it’s marketing swill, the answer is yes.

    And the reason for that is, a lot of what we write in marketing is junk, right? It’s not very good quality content.

    It’s actually it’s pretty appallingly bad content.

    And it’s easy for machines to replicate crap.

    Think about a bell curve, right? On one end, you have low quality content on another and you have high quality content in the middle is a bunch of mediocre stuff.

    As machines evolve, they go from, they can replicate total garbage, right, because that’s pretty easy.

    And then they start to iterate and get slightly better and now they’re kind of at the meeting.

    Yoker phase, right? They can write mediocre marketing as well, can they write good quality copy or great quality copy, not really not without, again, a lot of training to the point where it is not cost efficient to do that unless you’re a company that is dedicated to doing that.

    But if you or the look at the metrics, in fact, let’s do this.

    Let’s bring this up here.

    What we’re looking at here is four sets of readability scores for a lot of marketing copy.

    So this is articles, blog posts, press releases, essentially it is content marketing stuff, right and not very good.

    And this is 130,000 of these that we have stored in the TrustInsights.ai database.

    I have four quadrants, we have the jargon score, which is the smog score, simple measure of gobbledygook.

    We have the flesh Kincaid readability index.

    We have the Coleman layout index.

    And the flesh Kincaid grade level.

    What you notice here is that there is a definite skew towards the right side for three graphs and sort of a bell curve in the middle.

    So let’s walk through these briefly.

    The jargon score, lower is better, right? So you want that content be easier to read than harder to read.

    And in this case, there’s a very definite kurtosis or lean towards the harder to read side means that our content is full of jargon, and a lot of it on readability, the readability score, 100 is great.

    Zero is bad.

    And we see a bell curve there in the middle, you know, 5055 60 is where most continents so it’s, again, it’s mediocre content, right? There’s very, very little on the far side here of the readability index, it says, Yeah, you got great content, very thin.

    On Coleman Liao.

    Again, this is similar to grade level, you can see there’s a tremendous amount of very difficult to Read content on the far right hand side and then I’ll hold opposite field.

    And then on the flesh Kincaid grade level, we see that marketing content is around nine ninth to 11th grade content because of the jargon because of the amount of stuff that we put in our copy that is difficult to read.

    That is extensively polysyllabic, which means that we use real big words.

    You know, think about the, the list of corporate buzzwords that we love to use.

    And you can see that reflected here in this data that this data very clearly shows we love our our fancy, complicated language.

    When you have language like that, when you have, you know, buzzword bingo, you have templates, an awful lot of things like you know, basic blog posts are very templated when you have press releases, announcements, They all follow a copy that is so formulaic, that is very easy for machines to replicate and probably do a better job than the majority of humans.

    Because when these natural language generation models are trained on language, they’re not trained on just one specific domain.

    They’re trained on as much language as possible.

    The most recent version of GPG three was trained on something like 170 5 billion parameters, which is a massive, massive, massive amount of texts, basically, the bulk of the readable text in English online.

    That means that when these machines go to generate language, they will naturally use more vocabulary a little bit more.

    lexical diversity is the technical term than a human would because in a lot of cases, humans will just copy and paste the last thing they did.

    I used to work at a public relations agency and I would literally watch you know, Junior associates Just copy and paste from one press release to the next change the name of the company in the name of the CEO.

    But effectively, they all say the same thing.

    You know, the chief executive says, you know, we’re so excited or proud or pleased or release our new version, whatever, whatever, whatever.

    And we’re flexible, scalable, industry leading agile, you know, can a machine replicate that hundred percent, hundred percent a machine can replicate that and do better than, than the humans do? So can AI right as well as the human? It depends on the context.

    But for sure.

    machines can now right at, I would say the mediocre level, right? The they could they’ve got bad down.

    They’ve got a mat down.

    They’ve got they’re getting mediocre down.

    Now.

    As each model improves, as the technology improves, they will eventually get down good.

    Good writing.

    Right.

    And for those companies that have the strongest infrastructure and the greatest level of resources, some will get great writing down.

    What does that mean for you as a as a marketing practitioner, it means that you’ve got to be improving your skills.

    If you are on the bad side of writing, you probably need to stop writing for marketing and look at a different profession.

    Because the machines can already crank out swell better than you can.

    If you’re in the mat mediocre, you better uplevel those skills, take some courses, do some writing workshops, do anything that whatever you can do, that will improve your skills and get them to good write.

    If you’re a good writer, you’ll keep working to become a great writer.

    But whatever you do, you cannot stay static.

    You cannot just rest on your laurels at wherever you are this continuum.

    Because the machines are advancing faster than then we are collectively.

    Will there come a day when you push a button and the machine spits out a novel probably We are already seeing a prototype examples of this with GPT three open AI model.

    Is it good yet? No.

    But it definitely shows what is possible.

    What is what is theoretically possible.

    And what is possible today is easily achievable in five to 10 years, maybe less depending on how fast compute power goes up.

    So that’s the answer to this question.

    AI can write as well as humans who are bad at their job.

    AI can write as well as humans who were mediocre at their job.

    And AI will eventually write as well as humans who are good at their job.

    So your job as a human is to become great at writing so that you stay ahead of the machines.

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

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Social Media Failures and Company Impact?

    You Ask, I Answer: Social Media Failures and Company Impact?

    Kat asks, “we hear all the time that when a company has a public misstep, that they will face impact them negatively, but there’s never been any type of relevant study that dives into this topic of social/digital reviews and brand impact/stock price/revenue. Have you seen anything?”

    The challenge with using any public form of data, but especially stock price, is confounding data.

    For example, a company that makes repeated social media faux pas also may not be well run, so the data point you’d calibrate on – stock price – may not provide any useful data.

    That’s doubly true for brands in portfolios – Blizzard Entertainment routinely pisses off its player base, but the parent – Activision Blizzard – still notches up impressive results.

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    In today’s episode cat asks, we hear all the time that when a company has a public misstep that they will face impact negatively.

    But there’s never been any kind of relevant study that dives into this topic of social digital reviews and brand impact stock price or revenue.

    Have you seen anything? So the challenge with using any kind of public data like this, especially stock price is confounding data.

    confounding data is when you have multiple contributors to an outcome.

    So there’s a lot that goes into a stock price.

    There’s obviously the trading the buying and the selling, there is the investor sentiment, and there is very troublingly, the fact that the investors may not be the customers, right.

    They may not have any connection to the customers they are trading simply on things like technicals.

    They are trading on fundamentals, they are trading on all sorts of things that may not be connected to reality.

    But the outside world, the stock market is actually a relatively poor indicator of a whole bunch of things, it is a good way to make some money, but it is not a good way to to try and ascertain the impact of what a company does other than on the basics like earnings.

    And with the stock market, there are also all sorts of what are called shadow inputs or hidden inputs to the stock price.

    So there can be you know, pools of trading, there can be institutional investing that is, is snapping up stocks, not necessarily even on you know, what the company means or even what the company does just the fact that it you know, makes a certain margin or a certain amount of return on investment.

    And the stock market is also very much a lagging indicator.

    And the lag can be sometimes substantial depending again on on who’s doing the investing.

    A major portion of stock market investments are done by institutions, institutional investing, ETFs funds, hedge funds, all all these huge conglomerates.

    And as a result, they may buy, you know, infrequently, sometimes months at a time, they’re looking at stuff to basically buy and hold and manage portfolio.

    So, to try and calibrate social media on stock price is probably not going to yield anything useful.

    For the majority of cases.

    This is doubly true.

    Because even if there was some impact, there are additional confounding variables.

    So let’s say you have a company that has repeated public football, right, they just repeatedly stick their foot in their mouth all The time and they fess up the change their ways they clean house, you know, public resignations and all this stuff.

    And what happens, the stock price might improve? Well, was social media, the driver of that? Or was the fact that the people running things might have just been really bad managers for a variety of reasons, and getting rid of them? improved things.

    That is another example of a confounding variable where you just had a crappy manager, or crappy executive get rid of that person and it solves a whole bunch of problems.

    Certainly, I remember my days working in, in the agency world, getting rid of one bad apple could change an entire offices performance and entire company’s performance.

    So that’s a confounding variable as well.

    Was social media responsible for the problem? No, it may have highlighted the problem but the ultimate problem was A bad apple in the bunch.

    Then, to add more complexity on top of that, there’s the issue of portfolios.

    portfolio companies.

    A company may belong to a bigger holding company, and as a result, its performance may get masked.

    So, for example, Blizzard Entertainment now is part of Activision Blizzard.

    Blizzard itself does all sorts of things Pez users off all the time.

    And they’ve made some pretty hilarious missteps.

    The most recent Warcraft three reforged comes to mind as having the lowest game rating on Metacritic ever.

    And it was because they made a bad product.

    Does their stock price reflect that even though that was what, five or six months ago? Does their stock price reflect the fact that this game was a dud and then a whole bunch of people want their refunds and and eventually the company had to set up an automatic refund.

    Fun process.

    Now, in fact, the stocks doing better than ever.

    Why? Because they’re part of a portfolio company, Activision Blizzard.

    And there are so many other companies and games and franchises in this, that mask the performance of that one unit.

    And even though there’s a tremendous amount of social media conversation, most of it negative about their stuff.

    It doesn’t have an impact on the stock price.

    Why? Well, we had to have this little pandemic we’re dealing with.

    And as a result, a whole bunch of people have taken up playing all sorts of video games of every kind.

    Every single gaming company has had massive growth in the last six months, for obvious reasons.

    As a result, even if Activision Blizzard made, you know, crap.

    In this entire time period, their stock performed really well their company performed really well because of external circumstances that really benefited them.

    So we can’t use these data points to ascertain the impact of social media easily.

    Could you assemble a data set of every publicly traded company and diagram out or mark in the data set those periods when there was a social media crisis, maybe an announcement like the seven days following? And could you then run something like a propensity score model on it? Absolutely.

    You could.

    I don’t know if anyone has done that either.

    Because putting together that data set would be extremely laborious.

    And I don’t know that you would find what you’re looking for.

    Again, there’s too many confounding variables.

    So if you wanted to prove the impact of social media, what could you do to understand it? One potential way would be studying organic search patterns.

    for that company that are specific to purchase intent, so using, like an old fashion retailer kind of cold, right? They’ve had a variety of Foot and Mouth moments.

    If you were to study the people who are searching with some level of intent like Kenneth Cole near me, you might be able to ascertain whether that has diminished over time as a result of repeated Foot and Mouth incidents.

    But again, everything has changed since March 15 of this year, at least in the United States.

    That’s what the timeline we’re using for that, for the pandemic.

    You don’t search for that right now.

    Because you can’t go to the store.

    It’s not open or it’s it’s highly restricted.

    So something like that, that is a that particular no physical location search intent would not work you’d have to do something else.

    And then, again, run propensity to Score model, even a PSA multiple linear regression against that.

    Those two things, the social media track record, and the search intent to see if it has diminished at all.

    But with the understanding that even with that there’s a tremendous number of confounding variables, the amount of advertising you’re running, how good you are at SEO.

    Other things, social media, very often does not have a huge role in a company’s results.

    You could win over the data set down to those companies that are highly active.

    But then you’re not going to necessarily prove that social media by itself does something so much as active social media companies behave differently be a different cohort.

    So there’s a lot to dig into.

    And I would certainly if you know of a data set or a peer reviewed study that has looked at this, please put it in the comments below along with your questions.

    I’d love to read about it to your follow up questions again.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Why do Recommendation Engines Fail?

    You Ask, I Answer: Why do Recommendation Engines Fail?

    Oz asks, “Why is some consumer AI so bad? Instagram senses that I like bright-colored clothes. Then it shows me ads for bright-colored clothes that are also cheap crap that I’d never buy. What is the perspective of the companies?
    – It works great for most people.
    – We just need to get this right for 5% of people and that covers the cost.
    – We know it generally sucks but it’s better than nothing.”

    A lot of it is based on recommendation engines which have two issues – first, superficial data, and two, they’re a generation or two behind what’s current because of the enormous computational costs. Something like Netflix is going to use something like an LSTM because while it may not be as accurate, it scales much better than a gigantic, many-layer neural network that wouldn’t be able to update in real-time after you watched something.

    A third part has to do with compensation model and objective optimization. What is the objective these ad systems are tuned for?

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    In today’s episode oz asks, Why is some consumer AI so bad? Instagram, for example, senses that I like bright colored clothes, then it shows me add some bright colored clothes, they’re also cheap crap that I’d never buy.

    What is the perspective of these tech companies? Is it doesn’t that work great for most people, we just need to get this right.

    For five people, it covers the cost, we know generally sucks, but it’s better than nothing.

    So it was a good question.

    The answer has a lot to do with how recommendation engine technology works, recommendation technologies, take in datasets and essentially try and find patterns in those datasets to to predict outcomes, right.

    So if we, if you like these certain things are going to predict certain other things.

    recommendation engines can use a lot of very different algorithms under the hood.

    And one of the challenges we have and it’s a challenge in the industry overall, is that a lot of these companies don’t reveal what is in their algorithm, what algorithm they’re using? Are they using something as simple as like, a naive Bayesian classifier? Are they using something as complex as you know, a many, many layer deep neural network? Are they using, you know, k nearest neighbor clustering? We don’t know.

    We don’t know what’s under the hood.

    And so we don’t we can’t necessarily offer input as to why some things behave the way they do.

    But there’s two general considerations.

    Well, three general considerations as to why some of these algorithms Don’t spit out useful stuff.

    The first by far the most likely is computational cost.

    The more complex the algorithm, the more it costs to run it.

    And the cost here is in compute computational capacity, how fast can you get the result? With a lot of ad systems for example, you were talking about millisecond response times.

    Particularly when you’re doing stuff like header bidding, and things where there is a real time auction going on.

    And ad systems have to match and generate results extremely quickly.

    And as a result, they have to pick algorithms that are super, super fast, even if the accuracy is leaves a little something to be desired.

    I mean, it’s better than nothing.

    For those who remember the early days of digital marketing, you’d be browsing on the website and you’d have like, you know, a Medicare wheelchair program being displayed to someone who’s you know, 22 and healthy.

    It’s like, no, that’s completely incorrectly targeted.

    Speaking of which, there is always the potential for advertisers themselves simply being so bad at advertising that they they have blanket targeting.

    And all the machines cannot override a user’s preferences of the the advertiser says, Hey, I want to advertise to every living person within the boundaries of this nation.

    Okay, as long as you got the budget to support it, it’s going to do that But computational cost is a big thing.

    Second thing is what data you have going in the data that goes into the system may not be robust enough to offer anything that has true predictive power.

    Especially if and this is important, especially if companies are correctly implementing ethical, unbiased AI.

    You may not for example in a lot of cases judge somebody and you know, tune your ads on a protected class or you shouldn’t be let’s put it that way.

    And so if the advertising that comes out is incorrectly targeted because you back end you know, ethical checker said, Hey, you can’t use racist as a targeting criteria for ads.

    Okay, so now you’re gonna get, you know, Sham why, even if that’s not something that you want, because there may be some balancing happening behind the scenes to ensure that the protected class is not being used.

    A third part is objective optimization.

    And this is where this is where advertisers should be a little bit concerned.

    Objective optimization and compensation models dictate how advertising networks work.

    What does the ad network get paid for? They get paid for the impression.

    Do they get paid for the click? Do they get paid for the outcome? advertisers have been pushing to very little success over the last 20 years with digital marketing to have average to have a action based or outcome based advertising where you get paid for the lead generated you get paid for the form filled out, you get paid for the shopping cart filled.

    And understandably, the big ad networks have absolutely zero interest in doing this because it means much more rigorous computation on the back end, it means much more in depth tracking.

    There may be substantial risks to the ad network because yet You could potentially, inadvertently or intentionally be collecting sensitive protected information.

    And frankly, most ad networks realize that behind the scenes, ad performance across the board is pretty crappy.

    I mean, we think about it.

    When you look at like the click through rates on some of these ads, you know, look at these campaigns, you know, when people celebrate like crazy when they get like a 5%, click through rate, which when you think about means you wasted 95% of your budget, right? If you didn’t get more than 5% of the clicks.

    From the advertiser perspective, you’re like, well, what did I pay for? If these systems were tuned to results only? advertising? It’d be a very different and much worse calculus for the ad networks because they wouldn’t get paid unless they got the result.

    Is there a possibility that companies could pivot that way, potentially.

    But right now, everything in advertising is effectively cost per impression when you look at the back end reporting and you see All these metrics in like Facebook stuff, effective cost per click, now what you’re really doing is you’re, you’re still doing all your bidding by impressions.

    And you’re still doing all your optimization on that.

    And as a result, it doesn’t really matter to the ad network, whether or not you click on the thing beyond with a reasonable doubt, but for the most part, it doesn’t matter because they’re getting paid on the impression, not getting paid a click for the most part, then definitely getting paid on the action that was taken.

    Now if advertisers forced ad networks to to pivot and said, Look, we’re not going to pay you unless you deliver results that would drastically change.

    The machine learning outcomes that allow these systems are tuned on, it would make them computationally much more expensive, because you would have to be, you wouldn’t be able to do simple stuff like k nearest neighbor clustering, just on on impressions, right? You would have to collect a lot more data, you’d have to collect a ton more data.

    And that would make for a very, very different optimization.

    When you look at how, for example, LinkedIn works versus how Facebook works for this advertising, LinkedIn stuff works very differently because they have as one of their major outcomes, we need to keep people on this professional network so that our enterprise talent management software, which is 40% of their revenue, can draw useful data from people’s profiles and recommend it to recruiters.

    It’s a, that’s an example of a system that is much more outcome based.

    And as a result, you see a very different culture on LinkedIn, you see very different advertising on LinkedIn.

    Whereas Facebook is like, show all the show every ad possible, see what people click on.

    Cool, great, whatever.

    Same with Instagram, we get paid on the view.

    So who cares what the result is.

    So that’s why consumer AI is so sometimes untuned there’s a bunch of different reasons and there’s no way to clearly tell without independent third party audits, what’s going on behind the scenes, how it’s working.

    I would love for company He’s like Facebook, for example, to reveal, hey, this is how we do the thing.

    These are the inputs.

    This is how the system is optimized.

    But that is literally their secret sauce.

    It’s unlikely that they would ever reveal that even if they could.

    Because in a lot of cases, some of these in Facebook’s case, their neural networks are so complex.

    I doubt there’s any single human could that could even interpret what’s going on behind the scenes.

    The models are just that big.

    So really good question.

    There’s a lot to unpack in here about how these algorithms work, how they’re tuned, and what’s going on underneath the hood.

    Hopefully as time goes on, we will see advertising itself pivot more towards results based advertising as well.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Why Map Customer Journeys?

    You Ask, I Answer: Why Map Customer Journeys?

    John asks, “If the customer journey is different for every person, why bother trying to map it?”

    The presumption is that the customer journey is a wide open field of possibilities, when it’s more like a densely wooded forest. There are a limited number of rational pathways to conversion, and mapping both the probability and the journey itself – especially today – is worth doing. Watch the video for some examples.

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    In today’s episode, John asks if the customer journey is different for every person, why bother trying to map it? So that’s a good question.

    Because it is true that customer journeys, maps, and customer journeys do have all these different ways people can take towards conversion and trying to force people down a rigid funnel, where they must do each step in sequence is nowadays largely a futile effort.

    Now the reason for that is pretty simple.

    It has a lot to do with this thing.

    You can be in multiple stages of different journeys just within a single device.

    I have seen people back when you were allowed to go shopping at malls and stores, talking to friends on their phones, video chatting with them, and having you know holding a piece of merchandise asking their opinions and having them do some research on Their own.

    And you know, that person for one vendor is at a certain point in the journey and another vendor is at a different point in the journey.

    And so it can be a very complex thing.

    You can be at points in the customer journey and move backwards, right? So real simple example, you’re, you’re looking at a new device or some new gadget, and you’re at the consideration phase, like, wow, this this thing looks really good, looks really cool.

    And then you read a review of it, like, ah, actually got really bad reviews.

    And you go back to like the research phase, right? And so you can be, you can move forwards and backwards and inside of a customer journey.

    Now, that said, that is at the individual level.

    The presumption in the question is that a customer journey is a wide open field of possibilities, and you can move any direction you want, you know, it’s like being in a video game, right? You can go anywhere you want, and there’s no clear direction that somebody goes and that’s not true.

    When we think about customer journeys, there is there are a limited number of ways you can rationally buy a product, right? There’s a limited number of opportunities.

    There’s a limited number of just ways you can do that.

    It’s kind of like we talked about in the martial arts a lot.

    Yes, every single person is different.

    Yes, there are hundreds of martial art styles.

    But in the end, there’s only so many ways you can punch somebody in the face that aren’t that are logical and rational, right and effective.

    And so, with customer journeys, the exact same thing is true.

    There are only so many rational reasonable ways that you can take towards conversion and that is something that you can understand in the aggregate.

    There’s an apocryphal tale of a university and I someplace supposedly in the Midwest, I’ve never actually got an answer as to whether this happened or not.

    But it seems reasonable.

    And the story goes, they did not put down any sidewalks on new campus lets students walk everywhere they wanted for a year and then paved over the most warm pathways in the grass.

    And supposedly the campus feels more natural.

    Well, extending that logic to customer journeys, if you were to know how somebody traversed either your website or how somebody traversed all the channels that are out there, towards conversion, you looked at the most walked on ones, you might get a sense of, hey, here’s how people make the journey to conversion.

    And there’s a couple different ways you can illustrate this.

    Let’s actually go ahead and bring this up here.

    So this is a customer journey analysis.

    This is a very simplistic one, where we are just looking at the channels that lead to conversion the most.

    So in this chart here we see organic search for my website drove almost 80% of traffic.

    Now, there are some debates.

    I think it’s a reasonable questions I should be asking my website if this was a major commercial enterprise, I would be at substantial risk because 80% of our traffic comes from one source That’s not a good thing.

    Good definitely did diversify my traffic sources.

    But putting that aside, I see my newsletters as number two, medium calm and number three, Twitter at number four, and Bing and number five.

    So I have five of the most popular pathways most popular channels that lead to conversion eventually.

    Now, is that the last thing that they did? No, not necessarily.

    But at least from here, I can see, these are the things that if I have to figure out how do I budget, how do I resource, what should I focus on if I want to double down on what’s working, in this case, pretty clearly I should be doing a lot more organic search.

    Right.

    Now if we wanted to make that even more fancy.

    This is a version where we have the exact same numbers but in software in web analytics software in particular.

    You can look at the the steps somebody takes on that Their journey and then just count up essentially, how many times does this appear? The first third of the journey, how many times has appeared in the second third of all those steps? How many times does appear in the last third.

    And what we see here is that organic search for me tends to peer towards the beginning.

    Whereas email and social tend to peer towards the end.

    And so people discover my site through search, stay in touch with email, and then come back to do important stuff through social media.

    That’s important that tells me from a messaging perspective Hey, your messaging on things like social media, it’s okay for you to have you know, more closing language in in my content because it tells me that people are ready or more ready to convert from those than they are from say, like organic search, or even email I have to give some thought here to my email marketing, should I be pressing that hard to get people to convert? Or should I be nurturing? The relationship with the intent of eventually using social media to get them to close.

    So these are two examples of customer journey maps that I built for my website.

    This is actually a service that I offer through my company Trust Insights.

    If you’re interested in having this done for your company, go to Trust insights.ai.

    I will tell you right now, it is reassuringly expensive.

    So it will do a good job of giving you the strategic blueprint you need for what’s working, and how it’s working.

    But to go back to John’s question, there are only a certain number of ways as you can see here, where people convert, right, that journey is not completely irrational, right? And there’s not traffic everywhere and people just wandering off on their own.

    There are distinct sequences that people take towards conversion and those distinct sequences are things that we can know and address and serve at 90 95% of our audience.

    serve them well.

    By investing properly by messaging properly in the channel groupings, where it makes sense to do so.

    And understanding what it is that we should be doing more of I should potentially be diversifying a bit, right? Maybe I should do a little bit more email, maybe I should try some ads.

    I am doing well, organic search, I need to continue to do well and stuff.

    So that want to double down on what’s working and want to shore up the stuff that isn’t working to the extent that we can.

    So that’s why you would do customer journey mapping.

    That’s why you bother trying to map it because it can give you aggregate insights that can guide your strategy.

    If you have follow up questions about customer journey mapping, leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: The Future of Content Marketing?

    You Ask, I Answer: The Future of Content Marketing?

    Stephanie asks, “How do you see content marketing evolving in the future?”

    AI will produce much more of it, and our role will be as prompters and editors. We already see this with tools like Nvidia’s GauGAN, the GPT family of language generators, and the AIVA music composition system. When you look at the quality that engines like Unreal 5 can produce, cinema-level capabilities will be in reach for more and more creators at affordable budgets. Eventually, the best ideas will win, unconstrained by talent.

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    In today’s episode, Stephanie asks, How do you see content marketing evolving in the future? Well, so there’s gonna be a bunch of things that are gonna happen already happening.

    Artificial intelligence and machine learning will be producing much more of the content that we create on a regular and frequent basis.

    And that will change our roles as the humans we will.

    As I’ve said many times in various talks, we will not be the first violin anymore, we will be the conductor of the orchestra, with the understanding that you only need one conductor of an orchestra where you can have you know, 100 people in the orchestra.

    99 of those jobs will eventually be held by machines in some capacity.

    And so our role will be to be the conductor’s be the prompters and the editors.

    So there are already some incredible tools like Nvidia’s Gao Gan, which does machine assisted painting GPT, the GPT family GPT One, two and three from open AI that do incredible natural language generation and code generation.

    Eva and wavenet not wait ml net that do audio synthesis.

    So there’s already a lot of tools out there today that are accessible today.

    That can generate a lot of content.

    Eva in particular does really nice, good enough music right for commercial applications in a way that sidesteps a lot of the licensing issues because it’s, you know, it’s all original machine generated works that sound okay, they all sound great, but not going to win a Grammy.

    But if you need background music to like your podcast, whatever, you will use that And so our role as the people will be to prompt the machines, as we see with Eva and with GPT three, to say, Hey, this is what I want.

    You go do it, right.

    And then we will be the editors and the QA people to inspect the models to inspect their outputs and say, You know what, this wasn’t what I was after.

    But I queue up a song and Eva, I’ll load up an influence and I’ll listen to the five compositions it creates and you know, one out of five will be good.

    Four out of five, three out of five will be mediocre too bad and one of them would just be hilariously bad like now that that’s not at all what I had in mind.

    And that’s going to be our role for the foreseeable future once these tools become more affordable, easier to use more widespread is the the beginning end Yeah, I suppose.

    A nice racing prompter be the content strategist, where it is actually true strategy.

    What do we need? What does the market need? What can we provide? Have the machines do it? And then we inspect the outputs and say yes or no, that was what we had in mind or that was not what we had in mind.

    When we look at what’s happening on the quality side, the quality side is unbelievable.

    I was watching a demo of the Unreal five engine for PlayStation five, and it is generating in near real time cinematic experiences.

    Now these are reserved today for triple A games, right? The big studios with the big budgets can use these to generate real realistic looking environments that are are so good, you wouldn’t know that you were playing a game except to the interface elements.

    The same thing is true of things, even even non machine learning driven tools and techniques like you know when you look at at FIFA 20 or Madden 20 on these gaming platforms, if you didn’t know that you were watching somebody play a game.

    From a distance, you might think you’re just watching a regular football game or a regular soccer game.

    And so, cinema level capabilities will be in reach for more and more creators at more affordable price points.

    Again, the top of the line today is is for the triple A studios.

    But what was top of the line five years ago for for triple A students is now a studios is now available in you know, the entry level production capabilities.

    So, all of this to say that for content marketing and its evolution, the tools are constantly getting better, sometimes making substantial leaps forward, the research, the capabilities, all the things that go into making content are getting better.

    And where the bottleneck is and probably will be for some time is going to be around the people in the processes the technology is doing just great.

    Is our limitations as people that hold our content marketing back and will continue to hold it back.

    We have to pivot from being the doers to being the coordinators, we have to pivot from being the tactician to the strategists.

    And ultimately, we have to figure out who among us has actual creative capabilities in terms of creative ideas, because when all the tools are the same, and when all the tools are really good, the best ideas will be the ones that when unconstrained by talent, if you don’t need to know how to paint, but you have an idea for a painting, and you can get a machine to do the painting, then your idea can come to life.

    If your musical concept is something that you care deeply about, but you don’t know how to score music and you don’t know how to play music.

    Again, not as much of a big deal.

    You can have a machine help you with the mechanics of that And so, for content marketers, the senior level ones be thinking a lot more strategically be thinking a lot more conceptually coming up with big ideas for more junior ones, learn how to be the conductors of the orchestra, learn how to run machines, so that there is still a role for you.

    Learn how to QA the output of the machines and understand when the machines are not behaving and why they’re not behaving and what they should what you should be doing with them.

    And for everyone, learn how to analyze data and understand what the market wants what the audience wants, so that you can direct the machines to create the things that that they want and satisfy their needs.

    That’s the future of content marketing.

    And it is a future in which those who have important roles, the strategists the prompters the coordinators, the editors, the QA folks, I believe will make a good living, because they will be very effective at what they do with the understanding that there may not be as many seats at the table going forward.

    When you can have a machine spit out five new songs every 30 seconds, even if only one out of five is good.

    Do you need to have more than one or two musicians on staff to QA it and to make adjustments to it? The answer is probably no.

    I was playing around with music composition, I sent it to a friend whose images and they were able to take the the output file loaded straight into their digital audio workstation, tweak it and say yep, here’s the adjusted version took me about 10 minutes to to QA and adjusted but what the machines spit out was good enough for our purposes.

    That’s what it says even the future that’s today.

    That’s right now and what we have Continue to trend forward into more and more machines doing the the grunt work and us doing the coordination in the strategy.

    so plan accordingly.

    It’s going to be an interesting future.

    It’s going to be a fun future but it will also be a challenging future because they will not be as many seats at the table.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What Makes Effective Facebook Ads?

    You Ask, I Answer: What Makes Effective Facebook Ads?

    Jen asks, “How can brands find out which kind of Facebook Ads work best for them?”

    One way to approach this problem is with large scale data analysis. In your industry, gather up a list of Facebook Pages and use any service which can address the Facebook API like Facebook’s Crowdtangle, then filter to only sponsored posts. Sort by engagement, and then begin the work of analyzing what sets the top 10% apart from the rest. Is it copy? Imagery? Timing? Audience size?

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    In today’s episode, John asks, How can brands find out which kind of Facebook ads work best for them? Interesting question, the way that I think you would tackle this problem, or at least one way that you could tackle this problem was with large scale data analysis.

    The Facebook API does allow some limited extraction of data.

    And there are certainly plenty of services, competitive social media monitoring services, Facebook data services.

    One example is Facebook’s CrowdTangle service that allow you to extract large amounts of information that’s publicly facing publicly available, including advertising, and then do some analysis on it.

    So one approach you could take would be to go to one of these services, put in your company’s Facebook page, put in a list of all the major competitors.

    You have in Your space.

    Maybe some companies have functionally similar business models to you.

    So for example, if you’re a coffee shop, you might put in like tea shops and pizza shops and things like that.

    And extract out all the Facebook posts paid and unpaid that these companies have run in the last, you know, however long and then sort it.

    Look at which of the the pieces of content that were paid, and then assess what worked.

    What resonated.

    Now, with this technique, you won’t get every single ad because they’re certainly you know, there’s so many different types, but you will get thematically, the types of messaging and imagery and copy and timing and audience sizes.

    For what’s working best in that sector.

    It may be, you know, five or 10% of all the content available for your industry, but that’s enough to give you a sample that looks like Okay, these are the things that seemed to work.

    Maybe it’s images of a certain type, or even a color palette, maybe it’s a day of the week or an hour of the day.

    When you have that large scale data set, you can look at what is in the top five or 10 or 20% of the data and say, Okay, what got engagement? What got people interested? Is it and are those things unique? Now, here’s the challenge.

    The data is only semi ready to analyze, there’ll be some things that you can obviously look at right away engagement types, you know, likes, comments, shares, the different reactions, you’ll be able to get URLs to the various images, but then you’re gonna have to spend a fair amount of time as a human or team of humans, manually appending some of the information so you’ll need to, for example, look at the imagery on the post.

    And then maybe, in this, think of it as a spreadsheet, you’d have to add columns for like what types of images are in there and you’d have to be somewhat similar Like, you know people cars, coffee cops, silly clipart drawings, whatever the image type is you need to manually note that in the spreadsheet, you would also need to append because you won’t get the text of the comments, general themes in comments if people have left comments at all.

    And for those comments you would need to append and say like this is generally positive, generally negative, things like that.

    That manual augmentation of the data is essential in order to make this process work because there is a lot to a Facebook ad that is not immediately visible to a machine, right, again, systematically understand what are the themes of the images, particularly if you’re looking at images across different pages.

    Again, using the coffee shop example if you have Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts and things like that they may have their own visual palette that is unique to their brand that you would not be able to replicate, you’d have to use your own design palette to do that.

    But the ability for you to at least get a head start with the the raw data itself, and especially the engagement data is where you’re going to get a lot of value out of this procedure.

    Now, again, this is not every ad type, this is going to be mainly things like sponsored posts and stuff, but it’s a good starting point.

    Because if you can’t get any traction at all on a sponsored post where the engagement rates are so terrible, then you know that whatever ad strategies are currently being used out, there may not necessarily be all that effective.

    There are other tools that can pull in some fate, some social media advertising data as well.

    I haven’t used them in a while.

    So I know back in the day, I believe sem rush did that.

    But you can look at comparable performance of Google ads.

    Also to see from a messaging perspective, are there common themes, tools like sem rush and spy? Are refs all? Do they have the ability to extract out that type of data? And one of the things you could test is, does a ad copy, theme, title, etc? That works on Google ads? also work on Facebook here? Are they similar audiences are different audiences.

    One way to tell this for your own brand page is to look at your Google Analytics, demographics data, look at your Facebook Audience Insights, demographics, data.

    And if there’s a wide disparity on basic things like age and gender, then you know that you don’t have the same audience and what works in say, one platform may not work on the other.

    On the other hand, if there’s substantial overlap between the two audiences, there’s a good chance that if something’s working for you, or a competitor in your Google ads, that may also have applicability in your Facebook ads.

    So there are a lot of ways to attack this problem with data to try and determine what are the things that could work or should work and build a testing plan.

    That’s the important thing is the next step in this process is not just William nilly stop start copying things you want to build an actual testing plan, that is an A B test, where you have a would be the ads, you would have run anyway.

    And B would be these new ads that you have designed based on the data you found.

    And you run them in parallel, same audiences, same budget span, same timeframe, etc, to see which ad set works better.

    When you do that, you’ll have a sense over a fairly long period of time about whether your data driven approach is a better approach than the normal creative that you would have done otherwise, depending on the skill of your creative team.

    And depending on the the themes and the data you get out from your competitors, you may not find an advantage, you may find that the data driven approach works worse because your competitors suck.

    And you’re drawing on data that they’ve produced.

    So be aware of that possibility.

    Just because you’re using data does not guarantee a better result.

    On the other hand, if you have a creative team like me that can barely put together a stick figure art, the data driven approach probably is going to work better for you.

    Because you’ll be able to pick up on themes and use your reasonable commercially available clipart and stuff to make better stuff then your incompetent, creative team I was putting together again referring to myself here.

    So that’s the approach.

    Do the data analysis, identify the common themes, build a testing plan, run the testing plan and see which performs better? with the understanding that the data you find may not be all that high quality? Good follow up questions on this, please leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Statistical Significance in A/B Testing?

    You Ask, I Answer: Statistical Significance in A/B Testing?

    Wanda asks, “How do I know if my A/B test is statistically significant?”

    Statistical significance requires understanding two important things: first, is there a difference that’s meaningful (as opposed to random noise) in your results, and second, is your result set large enough? Watch the video for a short walkthrough.

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    In today’s episode, Wanda asks, How do I know if my AB test is statistically significant? This is a very good very common question, particularly with things like web page optimization, and email marketing and even social media marketing.

    What happens is we’ll get results back in fact, let’s do this.

    Let’s, let’s show you an example here.

    This is an AB test I did yesterday.

    And what we see here is I sent out an email to different subject lines, subject line a was eight steps to improving your LinkedIn profile and B was a question is your LinkedIn profile working working for you? And we see in my marketing automation software here, this a here has been marked as a winner right? Let’s look at the stats.

    When we look at the stats, we see a was sent to 330 9000 574 people B was sent to 39,573 people.

    So far so good.

    A got 3990 opens, which is what I was measuring on B got 3873 opens.

    So A is the winner, or is it? To answer Wanda’s question.

    This is a very common scenario.

    What we need to do is we need to do some statistical testing we needed to do what is called a proportion test versus a two sided test.

    And then we need to do a power test to figure out whether our sample here is large enough.

    Some basic stats, what we’re talking about these statistical significant tests, significance tests, what we’re talking about is is there enough of a difference between a and b, that it could not have happened randomly? It could not have happened by chance.

    You know, is there a difference enough in the audience that you could measure it and say, yeah, this is not chance this did not happen by accident was a real impact.

    Or could this have been noise is there enough of a difference that that’s so small that it could have been random.

    And that’s really what we want to find out.

    Because if we want to make a judgement about his subject line A or B better, we need to know if a, in this case, which is the winner, really actually one was luck of the draw.

    To do this, there are a number of different ways that you can tackle this in every math and stats program available, I’m going to use the programming language are here.

    Again, there’s there’s even web calculators for some of the stuff I just like to do, because it’s super compact.

    I have my a population, which is the number of people sent it to and the number of opens that a got.

    I got my B population here and the conversions and I’m going to run that proportion test.

    What I’m Looking for is this number right here, the p value, a p value of under 0.05 means that there’s a difference.

    There’s a big enough difference between the two, that, gosh, something has happened that is meaningful.

    Here.

    It’s above point 05.

    It’s at point 164.

    So there, these two audiences maybe have behaved the same, which means that a didn’t necessarily win.

    Now, just to show you an example, what if I take B down to 3400 conversions? Right? If I do that exact same test, and run it, we see that the p value shrinks to an infinitesimally small number, ie minus 10.

    Right? That’s a you know 10 zeros before the decimal.

    That is a clear difference that the the result was not random luck, but when in doubt, crank up B to 3900 make us super close, right? Watch what happens.

    Point 851, that that P value has gone up even higher.

    And so just with this very simple mathematical test, we can determine that in this case.

    The the test itself was not statistically significant.

    Now, here’s the other catch.

    One of the things that goes wrong with a lot of AV tests, particularly with social media marketing, is that there’s not enough of a result to know.

    So in this test, we see here about 10% of people opened the email in each in each category.

    Is that big enough? Is that a meaningfully large enough size of the audience to tell.

    To do this, we’re going to run this power test.

    And the power test says that out of 3900 people in order to achieve a minor measurable effect of some kind, I would need to have at least 200 People take action, which is that n two number there.

    If I did this test and you know 39 people clicked on a and 38 people clicked on B, would that be enough to judge whether there was a winner? The answer is no, because there’s not enough people who have been sampled to give that determination.

    I need to I need to have at least, you know, call 200 rounded up 200 people in order to know Yes, this is a real significant value.

    This is really important, because why don’t we talk a lot about you know, smaller population, smaller populations need bigger samples.

    So let’s say that I want to talk about the fortune 500 how many people know how many CEOs in the fortune 500? Do I need to survey in order to get a meaningful result? 322 of them, right, because it’s such a small population, that there’s a variation.

    That could be another variation and just a few people to really throw things so in this case, I would have to survey basically 60% of this very small population to know, yep, there’s a real thing here, the larger the population gets, assuming it’s, you know, well sampled, the smaller my sample size needs to be with regard to that population in order to get a statistically meaningful result.

    Because again, that could be small variations in a very small population that could have a really big changes, as opposed to a bigger population, where you’re going to have more of a evenly distributed result.

    My friend Tom Webster likes to call this like soup, right in a large population.

    If the POTUS stirred well enough, a spoonful can tell you all he needs to know about the soup, but if you’ve got like a gumbo or a stew, you know once we want to have like a huge chunk of beef and then the like you would draw the conclusion this pot is full of beef.

    Well, no, it’s not just happen to have a very lumpy sample there.

    And so because it’s smaller, that those lumps could could be more confusing.

    So the composition of the entire soup pot.

    So these are the two tests you need to run.

    And again, there are plenty of web calculators out there that do this stuff.

    The challenge is here, a lot of them don’t do the second part, they don’t do the power test to determine whether your sample was big enough in the first place, they just do the first part.

    So know that.

    And in this case, if you can use the programming language, or SPSS or SAS or Stata, or any of these stats tools, do so because you will get better answers out of them as long as you can know what you’re interpreting.

    But that’s how you know if your test is statistically significant, it’s big enough sample and meaningful enough difference.

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