Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Marketing

  • Scaling Innovation: My MarTech SF 2016 Talk

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

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

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

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

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

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  • Why is Twitter over-represented for influence?

    One of the recurring questions people asked yesterday about my post on influence was why agencies and marketers focus so much on Twitter, when other channels like Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook are equally, if not more impactful. The answer comes down to data. We manage what we can measure, and we give preference to what we can manage most easily. Twitter provides more usable data on a per-post basis.

    What are the kinds of data we care about as marketers? At a post level, meaning on any individual piece of content, we care about:

    • Dates things happened, to measure over time
    • Usernames, to know who we’re examining
    • Relationships, to learn who talks to who
    • Content, to know what our audiences said
    • Likes/Votes, to discover what’s popular
    • Comments, to know what our audiences said to us
    • Shares, to judge how worthwhile the content is
    • Views, to uncover our reach
    • Follower counts, to uncover our potential reach
    • Location, to discover where our audience is

    We also care, as marketing technologists, how much data a social network will give us over time. How fast can we receive our data?

    Look over this chart of post-level data. What do we get from each network?

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    We see that Twitter provides us the most data at a per-post level. Facebook appears to come a close second, except that Facebook’s data is limited to Pages for the most part; we can see Page post content, but not individual content. On Twitter, we can see both. Instagram comes in third, and YouTube comes in fourth.

    We can’t manage what we can’t measure. We can measure Twitter especially well, even if it’s not the most robust or popular social network. The tools of the trade focus on Twitter because they can generate more measurement and analysis from the data – and that means an easier sale to companies and agencies.

    Does this bias create distortions in our ability to identify influencers? Yes. Tom Webster, VP of Strategy at Edison Research, often points out that social media tools’ bias towards Twitter means bias in their reporting, especially of politics. Twitter is very bad, for example, at predicting election outcomes. Why? Twitter’s demographics are far from representative of the population as a whole according to Pew Research:

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    For example we see black and Hispanic users outnumber, as a percentage, white users, when we look at the Census Bureau’s data:

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    Twitter’s predictive power for elections is very poor because of the bias in its user base. Thus, when we examine influence, Twitter may or may not be the best choice, depending on what biases influence our influencers.

    Should we, as marketers, examine more than one channel? Yes, if resources permit. The more data we can gather from every social network, the more complete and representative a picture we can paint, and the better our influence identification will be. Twitter will likely remain our bias until the other networks provide comparable quality of data, so we must account for its biases when we work with its data.

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  • Are professional influencers impactful?

    Olivier Blanchard started a conversation yesterday on Facebook by positing that professional influencers may not move the needle for the brands that hire them, if we vet influencers only on audience reach/follower counts. He asked what the performance differences might be if we judged influencers on things like engagements or down funnel metrics like link clicks. Is there a difference? Is paying a ‘professional’ influencer worthwhile?

    Using the advanced research facilities at SHIFT Communications, I took him up on the challenge. We pulled a list of 16 influencers on Twitter in the business and technology sector. 8 of them are brand-side influencers who generally do not accept money to promote content, other than from their employer. 8 of them are professional influencers who accept significant sponsorships above and beyond their employers, celebrities of sorts. Olivier provided the lists and classifications.

    Let’s first look at the distribution of audience reach:

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    Our influence pool has an average following of 140,000 and a median following of 98,000. We see a reasonable distribution of unpaid (organic, in blue) and paid (in orange) influencers in our pool.

    Let’s move beyond raw audience numbers to engagement. How much engagement do organic and paid influencers generate? We define engagement as the sum total of actions a person can take on an influencer’s status; on Twitter, that’s replies, likes (formerly Favorites), and retweets. We looked at the last year of data for these influencers and charted it out:

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    What we see is a sizable difference in overall engagement levels; organic influencers generate up to 6x the engagement of paid influencers. Why? Part of the reason is volume of content. More content isn’t necessarily better; paid influencers generate significantly more content:

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    Above, paid influencers generated a median of 10,050 posts per quarter; unpaid influencers generated an average of 1,770.

    How impactful are influencers at engaging their audiences? We measured engagements divided by total audience size:

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    What we see above is neither organic nor paid influencers are especially good at engaging a significant portion of their audience. Organic influencers engage 0.015% – that’s 1.5 out of every 10,000 people – while paid influencers engage 1 out of every 10,000 people who follow them. Organic influencers do slightly better, but not by a significant margin.

    Let’s talk about where the rubber meets the road: clicks and audience shares. For the links influencers share, how many shares do those links get from the overall audience? How many clicks do influencers generate? Here’s where the stark difference lies:

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    We see that links shared by organic influencers garner significantly more shares and clicks than links shared by paid influencers. Why such a difference? Most of what organic influencers share is news, content audiences are likely to share anyway. Because paid influencers generate so much more volume (due to promotion of sponsorships, etc.) we would expect their performance to be significantly lower. I invite you to download the anonymized raw data here.

    What does all this data tell us? Be very careful how you vet influencers. The biggest megaphone in the room doesn’t necessarily mean spurring action we want as marketers. Take into account reach, of course. Take into account other factors, such as engagement, topical alignment, what else the influencer shares, and whether they generate any real action down the marketing funnel.

    I encourage you to download a free eBook I wrote for SHIFT on cultivating influence for even more insight.

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  • The hardest part of VR video

    Does your company need to be creating VR video? Or 360 degree video? Or podcasts? The hardest part of any new technology is solving a problem with it. Should you create media with these new technologies?

    Yes, if you can find a reason to do it that’s entertaining or educational for your audience.

    No, if you’re doing it just to do it.

    To quote Jeff Goldblum’s character from Jurassic Park:

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    Consider what a technology is good at. 360 degree immersive video and VR help our audiences to experience an environment virtually. If our primary customer experience is sitting unhappily in a waiting room, then turning that into a VR experience only magnifies how bad our core service is.

    • “Experience the thrill of sitting in the waiting room at the Department of Motor Vehicles!”
    • “Marvel at the virtual reality experience of waiting on the cable company to answer your call!”
    • “Enjoy the immersive experience of boarding a plane and stuffing your luggage into the bin while avoiding surly fellow passengers!”

    Doesn’t really work, does it?

    We must fix our core service first. Innovate in the core experience first. Once our business makes customers happy to do business with us, we can explore ways of sharing that experience with immersion video or any other new technology.

    This isn’t to say we should avoid investing in these tools. By all means, run internal tests. Learn the how. Develop our capabilities.

    Don’t release your experiments to the public until you know the why.

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  • Share of Engagement vs. Share of Voice

    Marketing is an ever-evolving field that requires constant adaptation to stay ahead of the curve. While metrics like share of voice have been widely used for years to measure a brand’s success, they are becoming increasingly outdated. Consumers are no longer passive participants in brand conversations, and their engagement is a crucial factor in determining a brand’s success.

    One metric that is gaining traction is share of engagement, which measures how much consumers engage with a brand’s content. This metric is more valuable than share of voice as it shows that consumers are actively participating in conversations and engaging with the brand. Engagement metrics can include comments, likes, shares, and clicks on links, and they can provide valuable insights into a brand’s relationship with its customers.

    The rise of social media platforms has made it easier than ever for brands to engage with their customers. Brands can use social media to share content, start conversations, and respond to customer queries. In turn, customers can provide feedback, share their opinions, and ask questions. This engagement can provide valuable insights into what customers want and need from a brand.

    However, engagement metrics can be challenging to measure, as they require a more nuanced approach than traditional metrics like share of voice. Brands must develop strategies that encourage meaningful engagement, rather than just likes or shares. This can include asking open-ended questions, responding to comments, and creating content that resonates with their audience.

    Another benefit of engagement metrics is that they provide a more accurate picture of a brand’s success than traditional metrics. For example, a brand with a high share of voice may not necessarily have a strong relationship with its customers. Conversely, a brand with a lower share of voice but high engagement metrics may have a more loyal customer base.

    Ultimately, the key to success in marketing is to understand your audience and build meaningful relationships with them. Engagement metrics provide a valuable tool for measuring these relationships and can help brands tailor their marketing efforts to their customers’ needs.

    In conclusion, while share of voice has been a widely used metric in marketing for years, it is becoming increasingly outdated. As consumers become more active participants in brand conversations, engagement metrics like comments, likes, and shares are becoming more valuable. Brands must develop strategies that encourage meaningful engagement and use these metrics to measure their success in building relationships with their customers. By doing so, they can stay ahead of the curve and continue to thrive in an ever-changing marketing landscape.

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  • Measure share of engagement instead of share of voice

    One of my least liked measures and metrics in marketing, and especially in marketing communications, is share of voice. Share of voice is theoretically what part of the conversation your brand owned during the reporting period. However, share of voice is incredibly easy to fake. Want to own share of voice? Print a press release every hour, and set up a thousand spam Twitter bots to just @ reply your Twitter account 180 times every 15 minutes (the Twitter API limit). On paper, you will be the dominant winner.

    We know these are faked measures. They appear great but have no bottom line impact. Yet we may find ourselves called on the carpet by our CMO, CEO, or board of directors because we aren’t winning share of voice, especially if a competitor is engaging in useless tactics like hourly press releases.

    What’s a better option than easily faked numbers? Engagement. When people engage with our brands, with our companies, they’re indicating more than casual interest. A single Like tells us more about consumer engagement with our brand than a million press releases. Active engagement, such as comments, conversations, and re-sharing indicate our audience cares about what we have to say.

    Let’s look at an example, using two very well-known brands, in aggregate share of voice for the last year:

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    The analysis above indicates across major publishing channels – news, blogs, forums, and Twitter – that Coke and Pepsi have equal share of voice. Does this help us understand the perspective of the customer?

    Are these two brands truly equal in the eyes of the customer? If we rely solely on share of voice, it would appear so. However, if we examine the actual conversations they’re having, we might see a different picture.

    Let’s look at the same timeframe – one year – and consumer engagement on their respective Facebook Pages. Each has millions of Fans. Each posts regularly, creating opportunities for consumers to engage.

    Here’s how consumers comment to these brands:

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    This is a very different story. Coke has the lion’s share of comments some months. On average, consumers have 70% of the conversations in a given month with Coke. Of course, we could state that perhaps those comments are negative. Perhaps they’re more complaints. If that were the case, we would expect to see Pepsi shared more; generally speaking, people do not share things they hate.

    Here’s how consumers re-share content from these brands:

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    Most months, consumers are overwhelmingly sharing Coke’s content more; on average, they share Coke’s content 79% of the time.

    If I were Pepsi’s brand manager, I’d be concerned about the enormous gulf between traditional share of voice measures and how consumers are behaving. Choose your metrics carefully! Consider using a measure like share of engagement as a supplement to or replacement for share of voice.

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  • Marketing Over Coffee: Facebook Instant Articles and AMP Tips

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  • Do Twitter direct messages boost sales?

    One of the ‘best practices’ touted by social media ‘experts’ is to never use direct messaging features in a social network to advertise. This has become such an ingrained belief that social media users take umbrage when it happens to them.

    Why? If the end user doesn’t want to hear from someone, unfollowing is a click away. Unlike email marketing, once a user unfollows, we marketers cannot message them again. They are protected from ever hearing from us.

    I question the belief of never sending direct message solicitations because our efforts to build an audience must have a business-impacting goal. Why build a large audience if you never ask anything of it? Do we value the vanity number – followers – so much that we’ll forfeit leads, conversions, or revenue?

    Why build an audience at all, especially on services like Twitter, where our tweets are visible whether or not someone follows us?

    When I began promoting my book last month, I chose to incorporate Twitter direct messages as part of my outreach plan. Using followers’ biographies to write targeted messages (CEOs, for example, got a CEO-centric message), I reached out to several thousand followers about the book.

    Did I get pushback? Absolutely. I got some delightful hate messages in response. I also lost followers at a faster rate than during non-promotional periods. Here’s a quick chart showing promotional period growth rates vs. non-promotional periods:

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    What else did I get? An 11% increase in website traffic from Twitter, and a 22% increase in sales from Twitter direct messages compared to regular, organic tweets.

    I will gladly trade losing a few followers per day for a 22% increase in sales. My bank doesn’t accept followers as a form of currency. My bank gladly accepts dollars.

    What should we learn from this experiment? Test direct messaging for major initiatives. It may not be the right tool for every marketing campaign, but when we’ve got to show results for a major launch, direct messaging should be in the mix.

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  • IBM Watson Analytics Maps Social Media Conversations

    We struggle as marketers to identify influence in the context of conversation. We see who has the biggest audience, who has the highest number of shares or retweets – that’s table stakes. What we cannot easily visualize are the networks of conversation people have about a topic.

    Wouldn’t it be valuable to know who talks to who? If we were running an event, we’d certainly want to know who the resident experts are – especially if they’re niche influencers?

    Answering these questions requires the use of network mapping tools. Technologists have had access to network mapping tools for years, with free, open-source products like Gephi. However, these software packages are difficult to generate clean data, and aren’t the easiest to use.

    When IBM announced Watson Analytics had gained the ability to build network maps from any data source, I rejoiced. Watson Analytics already accepts common data formats like CSV files and Excel spreadsheets, formats that specialized tools like Gephi do not. Watson Analytics also doesn’t require the strict edge/vertice mapping data that more complex tools demand. To use it, all you need is data that contains conversations with distinct entities.

    For example, here’s a collection of tweets about SxSW. I’ve separated out the respondents into a username and who the message was in reply to:

    This raw data has some useful facets to it; knowing who is talking to whom and the audience size are helpful facts. Information in this format is not intuitive; we have the data but cannot analyze it to know what happened. Without analysis, we cannot create insights.

    I loaded this same data into Watson Analytics, which produced this lovely exploration:

    What do we see in this map? Here’s an annotated version:

    Clusters 1, 2, and 3 are well-defined conversation hubs. The user account in the middle of the hub is a high-conversation account, an account that many people talk to. If we were using this analysis for influencer identification, we’d want to investigate these accounts carefully.

    Clusters 4 and 5 are nascent conversation hubs. These aren’t as popular, but we should make note of them in case they continue to grow. If we see them expand in subsequent network maps, we’ll know these are trending influencers and should interact with them .

    These are actual conversations happening, as opposed to simple likes and retweets. This is an important distinction, especially for an event like SxSW. Having influencers who are retweeted and shared is important; having influencers who participate actively in conversations to change minds and set opinions is vital. Standard social media analytics provides the former quite capably; network mapping with Watson Analytics helps us achieve the latter, creating a comprehensive, powerful influencer program.

    We use network mapping to visualize any set of interactions between entities. We could use it to find the most malfunctioning part of an IoT system. We could use it to identify which pages on our website send the most traffic to other pages. We are limited only by our imagination and data quality.

    Give network maps a try today in Watson Analytics!

    Disclosure: I was invited to be an IBM Futurist and attend the Analytics for All without cost. IBM paid for my travel and expenses. IBM has not compensated me to write about Watson Analytics. I am a paying customer of Watson Analytics.

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  • Learn basic regression analysis for marketers [VIDEO]

    In this short 12 minute video tutorial, you’ll learn why regression analysis is important, what tools to use for getting started, and how to do a regression analysis on some marketing data. You’ll also learn what a hypothesis is and how to prove or disprove one. This tutorial is taken from my new book, Leading Innovation.

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    An important note: exceptions exist to almost every rule. This is doubly true in statistics. Everything in this video has exceptions, contradictions, etc. as we dive deeper down the rabbit hole of statistics; this is merely our starting point.

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