Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • Mind Readings: Are You Serving Your Loyal Customers?

    Mind Readings: Are You Serving Your Loyal Customers?

    In today’s episode, you’ll discover the secret to long-term business success: prioritizing customer retention over acquisition. You’ll learn actionable strategies to reward your loyal customers and keep them coming back for more. I’ll share how to create exclusive content and experiences that foster a thriving community around your brand. Tune in to find out how to make customer loyalty your most powerful marketing tool!

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    “What about me?” This is a question I ask often; you probably ask this question often, too. When it comes to priorities from companies — acquisition versus retention — very often, acquisition gets most of the budget. That has an unfortunate side effect: we see companies bending over backward to entice new customers, while existing customers kind of get screwed — mistreated outright.

    Every time you get an email or an ad or a promotion, one that says, “Hey, there’s this new great thing! Get three months off, whatever,” and then there’s that asterisk at the bottom that says “new customers only,” you’re like, “What about me? Why don’t I get that deal when I’ve been a loyal customer?”

    The company is like, “Your customers only,” and you wonder why customers churn.

    In fact, I know plenty of people who just make a habit of flipping back and forth between companies as new deals occur. This company has an offer for the first three months free, then at the end of three months — yep — they cancel and they switch to the competitor and go back and forth. Boy, does that cost companies a lot of money. Boy, does that really diminish customer satisfaction when people are essentially just shopping around for the best deal because you’re not rewarding long-term customers.

    So, if you’d like a secret — a secret for long-term business success — if your acquisition budget is greater than your retention budget, flip that around. That’s it. That’s the secret: flip around the budget so that you’re doing more for the people who are already loyal to you than for the people who are just first in the door.

    What if you had discounts that increased the longer a customer was a customer? Maybe in year one, they get a 1% discount. After the first year of being a customer — after year two — a 2% discount; after year five, they get a 10% discount to thank them for being a customer that long. That comes out of your retention budget, which now should be larger than the acquisition budget.

    It doesn’t necessarily have to be money — although that certainly helps — but there are ways that you can reward people for their loyalty by making stuff just for them.

    I’ll give you a real simple, low-cost example:

    Marketers spend a lot of time creating content — acquisition-level content. We — you know, it’s the hero-hub-help model, making all this great content to try and capture search attention, capture social media attention, bring new customers into the funnel.

    What would it look like if you spent that amount of time creating loyalty content, creating retention content?

    What does retention content look like? Well, an easy example is anything that — any kind of thing that you sell: if it comes with a manual, then it probably needs some recipes. If you sell — if you sell a blender, the blender comes with recipes; that’s retention content because you’re telling people, “Here’s the thing that you already own. Let me show you how to make it more useful.” Here’s a phone; here’s the — you know, here’s some new apps that you should try out. Here’s a game you own; here’s some new things to explore in the game.

    It doesn’t — it’s not just B2C; it’s B2B, too. I’ll give you a real simple example: I run a Slack group for Trust Insights called Analytics for Marketers; we use it to stay in touch with our loyal community. There’s over 3,000 members there, and it’s a place we want people to come and hang out, but there’s got to be a reason — there has to be a reward for that loyalty. It can’t just be, “Hey, join the Slack group so I can pitch you stuff.” Nobody wants that.

    So, from time to time, we’ll publish stuff that you can’t get anywhere else as a gift to the people who are in that community, to stick with us.

    Yesterday, I shared a strategic marketing plan for podcasting. If you’ve got a podcast, this gigantic chart shows you all the different marketing options that you could do to build a podcast, to make it really grow. You’re not going to find that online; it’s nowhere else except in our Slack group.

    A couple of weeks ago, Google had that big SEO leak — you know, all these documents that came out about the way Google’s content warehouse works. I did a bunch of analysis and generative AI, and I published the results only in the Slack group — nowhere else online, you won’t find it anywhere else. We give that to our community first.

    Not true — we give it to our paying clients first. Paying clients get first dibs on anything, then our community, then maybe, or maybe not, the general public. That’s kind of the point, right?

    I did a version of my Unofficial LinkedIn Marketing Guide, based on the algorithm. There was a version that went to clients that was like, the best quality version — same for the Google SEO stuff. There’s a version that went to clients; it was the best possible version because it’s a hell of a lot easier to keep a client happy than it is to try and acquire a new one.

    If you do that — if you keep providing value to that client — then when it comes time for them to renew, or to become a customer again, or to buy something else from you, it’s not a — it’s not a hard proposition. Especially if you’re in a situation where you have things like renewals and recurring purchases, if someone subscribed to your streaming service, what rewards do you give them to stay a subscriber? Is it just new content? Is it — is there something that only long-time subscribers can get?

    Treat your loyalists better than you treat your outsiders, and in the long run, your marketing is going to flourish, your business is going to flourish. What things can you make that are so exclusive that people would tell their friends, “Oh yeah, you’ve got to be a member of this — this club, but you’ve got to stay a member because you don’t get it” — however long — if you get pushback from your company that loyalist marketing, retention marketing, isn’t hitting your acquisition KPIs, then it’s time to revamp those KPIs.

    Again, it’s a hell of a lot more expensive to acquire a customer than it is to retain one.

    So, whatever you can do with your community — we are in a situation now where audience and attention is the most valuable resource, other than money, that you can have as a marketer in business. There is so much AI intermediation in taking our relationship away from the customer. We’ve had this be the situation for the last decade in social media, where our reach keeps getting smaller and smaller. We’ve had it, to some degree, in search, as Google consumes more and more clicks.

    Now, with things like AI answers, we’re not even getting traffic, we’re not even getting awareness because Google is — is summarizing a bunch of results into a generic answer that doesn’t even surface our brand.

    So the only way that we get attention from people now is through:
    – Collaborations with others
    – Partnerships
    – Buying ads (which, that’s a whole other can of worms)
    – Doing such a good job with retention marketing that loyal customers can’t help but spread the word about what a good deal it is to be a customer, right? What a good deal it is to be a member of the club.

    So what are you doing to help people be a member of the club and see so much value that they can’t help but tell people, “Yeah, you’ve got to join this club. This is the place to be”? Give that some thought.

    Your retention marketing budget should be greater than your acquisition marketing budget because, in the long run, that’s how you’re going to defeat AI doing an end-run around you.

    That’s going to do it for today’s show. Thanks for tuning in! Talk to you next time. If you enjoyed this video, please hit the like button. Subscribe to my channel if you haven’t already. If you want to know when new videos are available, hit the bell button to be notified as soon as new content is live.
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    What’s On My Mind: Generative AI and the Synthesis Use Case Category

    This week, let’s talk about the seventh major use case category for generative AI, especially with regard to large language models. I’ve talked extensively in my keynotes, workshops, and webinars about the six major use case categories:

    • Generation: making new data, typically in the form of language or images
    • Extraction: taking data out of other data, like extracting tables from a PDF
    • Summarization: making big data into small data
    • Rewriting: turning data from one form to another, like translation
    • Classification: organizing and categorizing our data, like sentiment analysis
    • Question answering: asking questions of our data

    The seventh category, which is a blend of several of the tasks above but is distinct enough that I think it merits a callout, is synthesis. This is mashing data together to form something new.

    Why is this different? Because if we look at the use cases above, all of them except generation are about taking existing data and in one form or another getting a smaller version of that data out. None of them are about putting data together, and that’s what synthesis is.

    What does synthesis look like? Let’s go to a specific, tangible use case. My friend Amber Naslund works for LinkedIn and has been asked a bazillion times how LinkedIn’s algorithm works, why a post did or didn’t appear, etc. To be clear, Amber works in sales leadership, not machine learning or AI. She’s not the right person to ask these questions of, and despite her saying so very publicly, very frequently, people keep asking her.

    However, LinkedIn itself has told us how its algorithm works, at length. LinkedIn has an engineering blog in which engineers – the people who actually build LinkedIn’s algorithm – document the technologies, algorithms, techniques, code, and tools they use to create the LinkedIn algorithm. From how the LinkedIn graph is distributed across more than a dozen servers globally in real-time (which is a ridiculous feat of engineering itself) to how the feed decides to show you what, the engineers have told us how it works.

    So why don’t marketers and sales professionals know this? Because, engineers being engineers, they told us in engineering talk. And they’ve told us across dozens of blog posts, interviews, articles, podcasts, and videos around the web. They didn’t serve it up on a silver platter for us in terms a non-technical marketer can understand…

    … and they are under no obligation to do so. Their job is to build tech, not explain it to the general public.

    Until the advent of large language models, that meant very technical documents were simply out of reach for the average non-technical marketer. But with large language models – especially those models that have enormous short-term memories (context windows) like Google Gemini 1.5 and Anthropic Claude 3 Opus – we suddenly have the tools to translate technical jargon into terms we can understand and take action on.

    But to do that, we need to play digital detective. We need to find all these pieces, gather them in one place… and synthesize them. Glue them together. Put all the puzzle pieces in the lid of the box and sort them so that we can do tasks like question answering and summarization.

    So let’s go ahead and do that. I strongly recommend watching the video version of this if you want to see the process, step by step.

    First, we need to find the actual data itself. We’ll start with LinkedIn’s engineering blog. Not every post is relevant to how the algorithm works, but we want to identify posts that talk about content in any capacity, from serving it up quickly to sorting it to preventing abuse and spam. Any post talking about content may have clues in it that would be useful.

    Then we need to hit the broader web, with an AI-enabled search engine like Bing or Perplexity, something that can interpret large and complicated queries. We ask the search engine to find us interviews with LinkedIn engineers about content, especially on podcasts and on YouTube. Once we find those resources, we convert them to text format, typically with AI-powered transcription software if transcripts or captions aren’t provided. (Power move: YouTube closed captions can usually be downloaded with free utilities like yt-dlp, especially in bulk)

    What we don’t want are third party opinions. Everyone and their cousin has their opinion – usually uninformed – about what they think LinkedIn is doing behind the scenes. We should be careful to exclude any of that kind of content in our work.

    After that, we want to hit up those same AI-powered search engines for academic papers and research from LinkedIn engineers also about content, especially any kind of sorting, categorization, or ranking algorithms.

    Once we’ve gathered up all the goods from as many places as we can find them, we load them into the language model of our choice and ask it to synthesize the knowledge we’ve gathered, discarding irrelevant stuff and summarizing in a single, unified framework all the knowledge related to the LinkedIn feed that we’ve provided. Be careful in prompting to ensure the model uses only the uploaded data; we want to restrict it to credible sources only, those being the ones we’ve provided.

    After we’ve done that, we can convert the framework into a protocol, an actionable guide of practices we can deliver to our social media marketing teams that will help them get more out of LinkedIn – and spare Amber’s inbox.

    That’s the power of synthesis. Why is it so important? If you’ve ever worked with a large language model and had it hallucinate – meaning invent something that wasn’t true – it’s because the model is drawing from its long term memory, its training data. Some of the training data in the model is crap information, patently false stuff. Some of what we’re asking, the model simply might not know. In an effort to be helpful and follow our instructions, the model instead returns the closest matches which are statistically correct, but factually wrong.

    In the case of our LinkedIn synthesis, there are a LOT of people who have a lot of opinions about how LinkedIn works. Very few of them are LinkedIn engineers, and if we want to reduce hallucination – both from an absence of data as well as bad data – we need to bring our own data to the party, like all those documents.

    The rule of thumb is this: the more data you bring, the less the model is likely to invent and the less likely it is to hallucinate.

    We have our working guide for how to market on LinkedIn to take advantage of the information provided to us by engineering. If you’d like the PDF copy of this output, you can download it for free from the Trust Insights website in exchange for a form fill – but I would encourage you to try the process out for yourself so you can see firsthand how synthesis works. No matter what, you can safely stop asking Amber how LinkedIn works now.

    And so we now have our Magnificent Seven, the Seven Samurai of Generative AI: generation, extraction, summarization, rewriting, classification, question answering, and synthesis. Welcome to the party, synthesis. It’s nice to have you here.

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    What’s On My Mind: Your AI Future as a Professional

    This week, I’m finally off the road after a marathon of business travel that took me up and down the east coast, to the west coast, and to the south coast… of Australia. During that time, I had the pleasure and privilege of speaking to audiences large and small in industries like travel, automotive, food and grocery, architecture, engineering, and construction about generative AI.

    Throughout my journeys, a few common themes kept recurring, so I thought we’d go over them today.

    The first, biggest commonality among all the audiences is the partially mistaken belief that generative AI’s primary purpose is generation of content, from blog posts to social media content, etc. Believe it or not, generation (despite the name) is the use case category that generative AI is least good at.

    Why is that the case? Ultimately, generative AI is nothing more than a prediction machine, attempting to predict the next word or the next pixel. Prediction is inherently about probability rather than reality, about guessing what should come next. When you’re guessing, inevitably you’re going to guess wrong, and machines do.

    What are the other use cases? In the keynote I’ve been giving for two years now (which, despite the track record, has never been the same twice because everything keeps changing), I outline six major use cases of large language models: generation, extraction, summarization, rewriting, classification, and question answering (though I’m tempted to change the latter to synthesis). The other five use cases are all about using generative AI to transform existing data.

    What are some examples of the other use case categories, the ones people didn’t realize generative AI was capable of doing? I showed a whole bunch of examples, like:

    • Extracting meeting notes and action items from call recordings and transcripts
    • Analyzing social media content to determine what content resonated best with an audience
    • Synthesizing an ideal customer profile and then having conversations with it
    • Building a go/no go application that helps a company decide what RFPs to bid on
    • Analyzing a federal budget to determine second order effects on your industry
    • Inferring a competitor’s 12-18 month corporate strategy from public information
    • Validating that we completed a proposal to meet all the requirements given

    None of these are about writing blog content or Facebook posts. All of these are about leveraging a language model’s understanding of language itself to accomplish tasks that would take us a hundred times more time and effort to do.

    Why didn’t audiences do these things already with AI? Because in so many cases, what they’ve learned about AI, what they’ve read in the media or seen on LinkedIn or heard at conferences have been very pedestrian use cases. To be sure, if using generative AI to write social content saves you a few hours a week, that’s still a worthy use case, but these tools are capable of so, so much more.

    How do we fix this narrow scope of vision when it comes to generative AI? With more and more examples – and ideally, with examples that allow people to build their own tools, so they can explore their own use cases fully. In the workshop I taught this past week, participants went home with custom GPTs that they built with their own hands – and because of that, they were excited to use them. More important, they’ll be able to maintain and share them when they get back to the office.

    This brings me to the second common theme: generative AI does best when you give it more data to work with. If you’re going to use it for generation, your prompts are (or should be) huge, to give it the best chance of predicting what you want it to do. If you’re using it for summarization, chances are your prompt itself is going to be much shorter by comparison because you’re going to give it all the data it needs to work with. It doesn’t have to invent anything or generate any data.

    If you want better and better results from generative AI, provide more and better data. The risk of hallucination – meaning an answer that is statistically correct but factually wrong – goes down as you provide more data. Think of a large language model as a librarian in a library. The library is all the training data that the model was trained on, and the librarian is the small part of the model that does the retrieval (literally named retrieval heads).

    Really large libraries (models, in this analogy, like GPT-4-Omni or Gemini 1.5) are likely to have more of what you’ve asked for, but there are still plenty of books in the world that most libraries don’t have, and plenty of knowledge that language models don’t have. So what does the librarian do? In an effort to be helpful, they return the closest similar book. You ask for the Joy of Cooking and they come back with the Joy of Sex, and it’s very close in language… but not at all what you asked for. That’s a hallucination, and the smaller a model is, or the more specific your prompt is, the more likely it is to hallucinate because the library doesn’t have the books.

    One of the things I say at the end of my keynotes is that your present and future success with generative AI is largely contingent on the quality and quantity of data you have behind the four walls of your organization. Whoever has the most, best data will have a strategic advantage because everyone else has the generic, public data baked into every major language model. As a result, using just the model with none of your data will result in the same generic, public content that we can all generate.

    And to be clear, this isn’t just spreadsheets and databases. This includes EVERYTHING that’s your data – from the emails you write to the conversations and calls you record to the piles of imagery laying around in photo albums to the photos of whiteboards in the office. For example, if AI isn’t capturing your voice or writing style, it’s because you’re not providing enough examples of it. Given enough examples, both digested and as-is, most generative systems can quite capably replicate a writing style.

    And that leads to the third theme, voiced by several different folks: “Do these tools really know our industry?”. The answer is maybe. They know surface details about every industry, but they don’t necessarily know what you know, because so much of the specifics of an industry is behind the four walls of companies in that industry.

    I often refer to generative AI systems, especially language models, as the world’s smartest interns. They’re knowledgeable in general, very capable, very clever, but they know nothing about your company specifically. They haven’t read your emails, sat in your meetings, made work product for you. Asking an intern on day 1 at your company to build your company’s go to market strategy with no provided information and no specific, highly detailed instructions is a recipe for failure. In exactly the same way, asking generative AI to do that same task in the same way is also doomed to fail.

    AI tools know as much as is generally available plus the information you provide them. Provide the most, best data in your work with them, and you’ll get the best results out of them.

    The final theme I want to touch on is who you are as a person, as a professional. We are now in the age of AI, when we are more than just human beings. People have said, somewhat cleverly, that AI stands for augmented intelligence, and that’s true, if vague. It means more than just being good at a specific tool. Augmented intelligence, if we really want to extend the metaphor to encompass the true power of AI, is about you plus your AI team.

    Let me underscore that. AI is about you plus your AI team.

    What does that mean? It means that you’ll have your own tooling that’s part of your secret sauce as a working professional. Today, we have systems like Custom GPTs in OpenAI or Gems in Google Gemini or any of the systems that allow you to build easy-to-use, pre-programmed, pre-prompted utilities, you’ll have a library of applications based on the prompts you’ve written that travel with you, that are part of your value as a professional.

    Suppose, for example, of the 140 architecture professionals I taught this week, one of them develops THE killer app for go/no-go proposal bidding. That person would have an outsized advantage in that particular task, to the point where other companies might seek them out specifically for that skill. It’s not just them the person, but them and their portfolio of apps that give them superhuman powers.

    And that’s today. We already see the trend, the direction this is going. Google and Microsoft both announced that you can create virtual team members, virtual employees within a workspace. The technology to build a virtual team member exists today, but it’s technically challenging. The technology to build that tomorrow will be as straightforward as a prompt and some documents – and no one said that the capability needs to be restricted to just enterprise companies.

    We already have a model for this – agencies. You don’t just hire Christopher Penn, you hire Trust Insights which contains the various team members, each of whom add value to an engagement. In fact, last week I showed one of our clients the virtual team member we constructed just for them.

    In the age of AI, you and your AI-based team members are an agency in your own right.

    The implications for this are huge. For individual workers, you should be thinking about building such a team, a virtual office of capabilities that enhance your value as a professional. As you build that, you’ll also need to keep in mind that your employment contracts will – or should – look less and less like employee/employer contracts and more like business to business contracts, the same way that you would contract Trust Insights as a partner. What does your future agency of you the human plus a dozen or a hundred of your AI team members look like?

    For companies, you should be avidly protecting your data, because your data is your strategic advantage, and giving it away is going to be far more harmful tomorrow than it is today. You’ll want to negotiate carefully with partners, be clear and fair with your employees, and be cautious about what you share with technology vendors. Anyone who works in the AI space understands just how valuable any good quality data is, and how difficult it is to obtain; in fact, one of the new jobs AI has spawned is dedicated content creation roles specifically to build training data for AI, content that never sees the light of day outside a server room.

    Is this going to be the future of every professional? No. Is it going to be the future of the most valuable professionals? Probably. Someone who understands the value of their knowledge also understands making that knowledge scale, making that knowledge work even when they themselves are not working. We have old models like books and self-paced courses where people can make use of our knowledge indirectly. Now, with virtual team members and AI agents built in our image, we have far more capable, rich ways for people to work with us any time they want.

    I look forward to meeting the agency of you in the near future.

    As always, shameless plug, if you want me to come speak at your event or train your team as I did the last two weeks around the world, this is literally what my company does, so hit me up.

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  • Almost Timely News: 🗞️ How to Create Unique, High-Quality Content with Generative AI (2024-05-05)

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    What’s On My Mind: How to Create Unique, High-Quality Content with Generative AI

    Marcus Sheridan and Robert Rose both made the following comments:

    Incorrect: “AI creates bad content.”
    Correct: “Humans that don’t understand how to properly use AI create bad content.”

    AI doesn’t create bad or good content – it only creates the most probable content. Whether or not it ends up “good” is entirely up to us.

    These are both true statements, but the challenge with them is that there’s not a lot of, as Katie likes to say, “So What?” What do we do with these statements?

    Well, first, we have to come up with what constitutes good or bad content. If you can’t define that, then you can’t judge whether AI is creating good or bad content. CMI defines content marketing (and by proxy, content) as follows:

    Content marketing is a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience — and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action.

    So, great content should be valuable, relevant, and consistent, made for a clearly defined audience, with the intent of driving useful action. That’s a decent starting point.

    Can AI do this? Certainly, consistent is no problem. Machines can scale the creation of content so that you have a never-ending amount of it. That leaves relevant and valuable, for a clearly defined audience, so that’s where we’ll start our exploration.

    First, we should recap how generative AI – large language models in particular – generate anything. As Robert pointed out, AI models generate based on probabilities. Inside a model is a library of statistical data, huge piles of numbers that document the relationships among pieces of words, words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and documents.

    In fact, in recent academic papers that study how large language models actually work, about 5% of the model is what’s called a retrieval head, a part of the statistical library that has pointers to the rest of the library. The best analogy for this mechanism is a real library. Suppose you walked into a library looking for a book, and you walked up to the librarian and said, “Hi, I need help finding a book.”

    The librarian might naturally say, “Great, what kind of book?”

    If you answered, “Oh, you know, a book,” what kind of result are you going to get? Yeah, you’re walking home with the nearest book to the librarian, which is probably not what you wanted.

    If you answered, “Oh, I’m looking for some 18th century romance novels,” you’re going to get directed to a specific shelf within the library, and if the librarian is bored, they might go and get you a selection of books.

    If you placed a book on the counter and said, “I need volume 2 in this series”, you’re going to get volume 2, assuming the library has it.

    We know today’s biggest, best models like Claude 3 Opus, Google Gemini 1.5, and probably GPT-4-Turbo all likely use the latest model architectures, which means they have a small staff of librarians waiting to help you, with a head librarian who will direct you to the appropriate subordinate librarians based on your needs. If you go in asking for cookbooks, the head librarian will route you to the librarian who knows the cooking section well, and so on.

    Great, so what does this have to do with building valuable, relevant content for a clearly defined audience? It’s exactly the same thing. We need to know what constitutes valuable, relevant content, and we need to know who the clearly defined audience is. If we don’t have either of those things defined, then when we approach a large language model to generate content, it’s going to generate content that’s not valuable or relevant.

    Valuable content itself is too vague. What constitutes value? What makes content valuable to someone? Generally speaking, I’ve always gone by the 3Es of content – entertaining, emotionally engaging, or educational. If your content doesn’t hit at least one of these, it’s not going to resonate. People want to feel stuff when they consume content, which is why they watch Netflix more than C-SPAN. People want to be entertained and educated, learn how to do things, learn how to make their lives easier. So valuable content should hit at least one of the 3 Es, two out of three ain’t bad, and the trifecta is your goal as a content creator.

    Relevant content is entirely based on the target audience. You can’t create relevant content if you don’t know who the audience is. This is where you create an ideal customer profile of some kind so that when you generate content with a large language model, it creates content that’s highly relevant to that person. We talked about how to create an ideal customer profile along with a step-by-step tutorial about a month ago in this issue.

    One other aspect of content that is part of relevant and valuable is uniqueness. Very often, people value that which is scarce and unique, which means if you’re invoking very broad generalities with generative AI, you’re going to create fairly generic, not unique content.

    Let’s look at a step by step process for generating unique, high quality content. We’ll use Robert and Marcus as our ideal customer profiles as our starting point, and we’ll tackle the topic of creating great content on LinkedIn as the kind of content we want to generate. How do we do this?

    First, we prime the model by having it define an ICP, then we load their profiles and have the model build an ICP from that.

    Once that’s done, we re-prime the model to come up with general LinkedIn content strategy guidelines.

    Then we provide a LOT of knowledge from LinkedIn’s engineering blog about how LinkedIn actually works.

    From that, we then employ contrastive prompting to generate a content outline, which may take a couple of iterations.

    And once that’s done, we generate the actual content.

    I recommend you watch the accompanying video to see each of these steps play out.

    When we’re done, we have some really nice content that’s much more unique, highly relevant, probably valuable, and created for a specific target audience. Now, is this content that’s right for everyone? Nope. It’s made for Marcus and Robert, not for me, not for you, not for anyone except them. Are there parts of the content that are relevant to all of us? Sure. But the process of making unique, valuable content inherently makes content that’s most valuable to the target audience – which means it’s less valuable to everyone not in that audience.

    That’s how to use generative AI to create great content.

    And shameless plug, if you want help with building your generative AI systems and processes, this is literally what my company does, so if getting started with this use of generative AI is of interest, hit me up.

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  • Mind Readings: The Future of Social Listening in the Age of AI

    Mind Readings: The Future of Social Listening in the Age of AI

    In today’s episode, get ready to dive into the future of social listening and discover why the methods you’re using now will soon be obsolete. You’ll learn how large language models are changing the game, why social media companies are guarding their data more closely than ever, and the steps you need to take to adapt your social media strategy. Prepare to be challenged and gain valuable insights that will keep you ahead of the curve!

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    Christopher Penn: In today’s episode, let’s talk about social listening. Social listening, social media listening as we know it, is going to be a thing of the past—for real. Let’s talk about why this might be the case.

    First, let’s define social listening: listening to social media. It is listening to conversations. There are really good tools like Talkwalker, Brand24, etc., that you can use to listen—Sprout Social does this as well; I’ve got their shirt on today.

    What can you listen for? Brand mentions, replies to your stuff, mentions of competitors, trends, ideas, general conversations—there’s a ton of information available to listen to. Humans—we are a font of useful data. These conversations have been used by social media marketers for years now to navigate the landscape, understand share of voice (which is not my favorite measure, but a lot of people still use it), and just get a feel for what people have to say on any given topic.

    Granted, social listening systems have to be fairly robust because there’s a lot of crap. There are a lot of people with some, shall we say, less than correct information, very confidently sharing that information online. But in general, people are really good sources of this kind of data that marketers can use to calibrate their efforts, come up with product ideas, and address market needs.

    So, you’d think the future is bright for social listening—social listening is more valuable than ever. And that’s why it’s going to go away. The culprit: AI models in general. Here’s why:

    Companies that make these massive AI models—OpenAI, Google, Anthropic—they all need data. They’re starving for data, and they’re trying to buy up as much of it as possible. I saw a news article not too long ago; one company was approaching Photobucket—for those folks who were on the internet in the early 2000s, you remember Photobucket. This company was like, “Hey, you’ve got a lot of labeled data, we want to buy it—buy the license to that archive.” I’m thinking, “I remember all the trash people shared on Photobucket. Do you really want that in your model?” But the answer is yes. These companies are starved for more data, and many of them are concerned about running afoul of intellectual property rights laws by using data. So they’re trying as much as they can to get this data legally.

    And the social media companies, the social networks, they don’t have to ask permission to use data because in the terms of service for pretty much every social network in existence, there is a terms of service. And in that terms of service, it says things like, “You give them the right to create derivative works of what you submit” on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, you name it. An AI model is a derivative work. An AI model is a derivative work of content we share, and we agreed to this when we signed up for Facebook and Instagram and so on and so forth.

    Think about all the content that we have created for these companies. Microsoft bought LinkedIn, and that is obviously going to feed models like the ones that Microsoft is building, that OpenAI is building. Twitter has its decades of data to feed the Grok model. Meta has Facebook and Instagram and Threads and WhatsApp to feed their LLaMA models. Google has YouTube and Gmail, their search catalog, Google Photos—yeah, every time you put a photo on Google Photos, you’re helping train their model—Google Podcasts, you name it, to feed Bard and its other models.

    So why does this matter? Because social networks realize that exporting their social network data fundamentally undermines their ability to make general AI models, to make money on their general AI models. Right? We saw in the last couple years some really big throttling. Twitter just outright canceled its API except for the enterprise version to access their API because they closed the doors on a whole bunch of stuff. Meta recently announced the isolation of its CrowdTangle service, which has been in existence since 2015, that used to give marketers access to raw data from Facebook and Instagram. No more; that door is closed. Microsoft shut down most of the APIs for LinkedIn years ago now and has taken people to court for scraping LinkedIn—it already has many, many safeguards in place to prevent people from scraping data and crawling data. You, for example, try to scrape a bunch of YouTube data—you’ll get locked out, either temporarily or permanently. Don’t ask me how I know.

    Basically, if a social network or any service that relies on user-generated content has data at scale from us, expect them to lock it down. And that also means locking out more and more social listening tools. These companies recognize the value of that data, and they don’t want to give away the little goldmine that they are sitting on.

    So, what does this mean for social media marketers?

    In all likelihood, you’ll be able to keep grabbing data when you post to LinkedIn, Instagram, whatever—you’ll be able to get your information, but the days of endless buffets of broad social media data, data that is not yours, data about what competitors are posting, data that random people post, those days are coming to a close rapidly, as social networks grasp the value of their data and either sell it or make their own models from it. But either way, they’re going to put up as many walls as possible to prevent other people from taking it. And it’s their right, that’s their right—it’s their data. Well, it’s our data, we’ve given it to them.

    So what do you take away from this?

    If you’re a social media marketer, expect it to get harder to get broad data. You may have to come up with your own system for doing that. If you have some skilled programmers, or you’re skilled at using generative AI to write software, you may have to write some workarounds that look at narrow slices and can simulate a human being using a social network. That probably does in many cases violate the terms of service, so be aware that if you do that, you may get kicked off of that social network and banned from it.

    Be aware that that’s probably the direction many things are going to go. That also means that if you have access to data now, you should be hoarding it as much as you can because you may need to make your own models at some point just to be able to predict what happens on a social network once that data gets locked down.

    And if you are a truly enterprising person, you might just make your own social network. Maybe it’s not huge, maybe it’s just a community on Discord, or maybe you clone or fork Mastodon and turn that into something, but you might—if you truly want continued access to data from your audience—you may have to build your own social network to do that. For example, we run the community Analytics for Marketers; it’s a Slack group. Go to TrustInsights.ai/analyticsformarketers to join it. In that Slack group, as an administrator, I can do an administrative export of that data and archive it, and then I can use that data as I need to. Trust Insights owns that community; we own that information. And so the conversations that people have in there, we can use to triangulate and understand our audience better. You’ve got to own that data, you’ve got to own that network to do that.

    So, some thinking for you to do about social media listening. That’s gonna do it for today’s episode. Thanks for tuning in, we’ll talk to you next time. If you enjoyed this video, please hit the like button, subscribe to my channel if you haven’t already, and if you want to know when new videos are available, hit the bell button to be notified as soon as new content is live.

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  • Mind Readings: AI is Amplification of Intelligence

    Mind Readings: AI is Amplification of Intelligence

    In today’s episode, you’ll learn how AI can enhance your existing skills without the need to become an expert. You’ll discover strategies for overcoming skill gaps and staying ahead in a rapidly changing work environment. You’ll find out how to focus on developing your ideas while AI takes care of the manual work. Get ready to transform your role and boost your productivity!

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    Christopher Penn: Let’s talk about amplification of intelligence today. I suck at Python coding. I really do. I’m bad at it. It’s never been something I studied. It’s not my favorite language. I’m much more proficient with and comfortable with the programming language R—I’m old, right? I grew up with structured languages like C and C++. And so Python and the weird, wacky way that it’s structured, it’s not my favorite thing. And as a result, I’m not very good at it.

    So here’s the thing about coding, though. If you can code in any language proficiently—any Java base, Visual Basic, COBOL—you have a fundamental understanding of how coding works: you understand logic, you understand loops and conditions and all these things. You know, broadly, what questions to ask; you know, broadly, probably what’s going to go wrong; you know how to write solid requirements; you know the best practices of coding, right, to document things, to name variables sensible things instead of obscure names—which means that in an era when machines can write code, when generative AI can do the actual coding, as long as you know what to ask for and how to debug it, it’s a very powerful tool. If you know what the architecture of the script or the app should be, if you know what shouldn’t happen, then you can have generative AI do the grunt work of pressing the keys on the keyboard and writing, “def function name” and tabbing in one tab, and then subsequent loops have to be tabbed in two tabs and stuff. That’s—machines can and should do that.

    This is the separation that AI creates in knowledge work. This is a nuance that a lot of folks miss in the conversations about what jobs AI will or won’t take. When we say that AI is going to replace X or Y or Z or this job or that job, very often we’re talking about the actual work effort, not the work thought or the work idea. Do you need a developer to press the keys on a keyboard to generate code? Probably not. Do you need a developer to design the architecture and know when AI is making mistakes? Absolutely, yes.

    Do you need a good writer to physically type the words? No. Do you need a good writer to analyze the words that a machine types and say, “That’s incoherent! That makes no sense whatsoever?” Absolutely, yes. This is how our role as workers, as professionals, as people is changing. We don’t have to be the ones doing the physical labor—we have—but we absolutely have to be the ones managing the machines that do the labor. That is a key distinction.

    This morning, I was brushing up on a piece of Python code that I had directed AI to write. It does—it’s pretty simple. It crawls a website, it scans each page, and says, “Here’s where your various Martech tracking codes are. Here’s your tag manager tag. Here’s your GA four account. Here’s your HubSpot tag,” etc., on a per-page basis. This is—there’s a number of tools in the market that do this. I just wanted my own. Did I handwrite that Python code to do that? Nope. Sure didn’t. Did I give generative AI the clear, detailed instructions and the requirements? “And here’s what this thing has to be able to do. And here’s how I want to use it.” Yes, I gave it the idea. I gave it the concept, and I gave it very stringent requirements. Did I debug AI’s many, many errors in the code? Uh-huh. Sure did.

    And here’s the thing, as a not-so-good Python developer, I got done with a piece of code that works. It’s in production. And it’s, frankly, it’s better than I could have written on my own. I have a tendency to skip things like error handling. It was done in a fraction of the time it would have taken me to write that code otherwise. AI didn’t replace the ideation. It didn’t replace the architecture of the idea. It didn’t replace the tuning and the debugging of the idea. And it didn’t replace the implementation of the idea—taking the outputs of code and doing something with them. It just replaced the manual labor of actually writing the code.

    If you are unskilled with ideas, you’re going to get unskilled outputs from generative AI. If you are skilled at ideas, you will get skillful outputs from generative AI—as long as you can prompt it correctly. What AI does in this example, and in many examples like it, is expand my capabilities as a professional. I can now do more in the same amount of time. I can create better work product than I could have before. It’s less—it’s less artificial intelligence and more amplification of intelligence. It is amplifying the intelligence I already bring to the party. It makes me better at what I do.

    Once you’re competent at the use of AI, the only thing that limits your capabilities are the quality and quantity of your ideas. The most best ideas will win. And so the takeaway here is that this is not about AI outright taking your job. Yes, there are some jobs it will absolutely outright take—those are single-task jobs or jobs with a very few limited number of tasks. For example, I used to work at a PR firm, and there’s this one job at this firm, a media monitoring job. The person in that role, that they were a junior person, was copying and pasting results from Google into a spreadsheet, eight hours a day. There is no reason for that position to exist. You do not need a human for that. That is something that we need to be aware of—that is something a machine absolutely should do because it’s mind-numbing work. That person could be reskilled or upskilled to using AI to do that thing. And then maybe instead of doing it for one client, they could scale to do it for ten or twenty or thirty clients because they got machinery doing the actual physical work. They still need to exercise judgment; they still need to interface with the rest of the team; they still need to talk to the client. There are still parts of that job that might be valuable. You might have fewer people in that new job because AI makes them more productive.

    And that’s where—to the extent that AI is just going to eat jobs—it’s not going to take away the entire job. What it’s going to do is make the people in the job more efficient, and you’ll be able to do either more with the same number of people or do the same workload with fewer people. That’s the impact AI is going to have there.

    So it is all about amplification of intelligence, and the faster that you can adopt it, the faster it will amplify the things that you’re already good at and make you more productive, make you more powerful, make you more valuable to the company that you work at. But you got to get on board and got to get using it. That’s gonna do it for today’s episode. Thanks for tuning in. Talk to you next time.

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  • Mind Readings: You Are The Moat in the Age of AI

    Mind Readings: You Are The Moat in the Age of AI

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    Christopher Penn: In today’s episode, let’s talk about moats. One of the most fascinating parts of AI evolution is how fast software development happens. So many of the building blocks of today’s AI are—and should be—open source and open weights models. That is, you can go on to GitHub or Hugging Face or any of the other technical sites that host code, and you can download the code for these projects or download the models for them and run it yourself. Which means, given the speed at which generative AI enables things like code writing, no company has a moat for long.

    Now, if you’re unfamiliar with the colloquialism, a moat refers to some defensive capability that you have in your product or service that allows you to hold a position of advantage for some time. For example, Google, by virtue of the fact that it’s had search engine capabilities for decades now, has a substantial moat—really in the data that they’ve collected and how their systems use it. If you are running Google ads, Google’s got twenty years of data that they can use as a strategic advantage that prevents a competitor that’s just getting started today from being as effective at running ads as Google is. In the world of AI, this isn’t nearly as true. Take, for example, perplexity. If you aren’t familiar, it’s the AI-enabled search engine.

    We’re perplexity.ai. It’s a pretty cool product. You type in queries, and it will process that, turn it to search results, and then extract out and digest down what it thinks. Suppose you like this product, and it goes away, or its pricing model changes to be untenable. What would you do if you’ve come to rely on this tool? Well, it turns out there’s actually an open-source project that replicates the perplexity environment. If you have the technical skills to deploy it, you can build and run your own perplexity for the cost of electricity and the computer to run it on.

    Now, you might say that is an awful lot of work to replicate a free tool, and it absolutely is. But you might want to do that if you love the idea of owning your own AI-enabled search history—maybe there are things you’re searching for that you don’t want logged by a third party. And there are an awful lot of search engines and search tools that collect data and make use of that data for things like generative AI and ad targeting. Maybe you don’t want that; maybe you want to be invisible. Maybe you might want to do that for a very specific document catalog inside the walls of your company. Think about how useful AI-based search would be with your data—not stuff that’s on the web that’s public, but your stuff. Maybe it’s plans and strategies or decks of PowerPoints that you’ve got. Or maybe it’s things like transaction data, financial data, or even healthcare data.

    Imagine how useful a tool like perplexity would be, but with your own data. And that’s the value of having that open-source solution. To the extent that a company has a moat like perplexity, it’s mainly because they were there first, but you could start up your own competitor if you wanted with that code, as long as you had the compute power to do so.

    Christopher Penn: Look at the discussion that’s been happening in recent weeks about OpenAI’s voice matching software that they claim is too dangerous to be allowed in public. With fifteen seconds of audio, you could create an accurate clone voice. Oh, I mean, that technology already exists in the open-source world. It’s not a secret. It’s out there. You can use it today. You can download it today and use it today if you have the technical skills. If you’ve got the chops, it’s yours right now. Just go out and download it. There are so many of these projects.

    So many of these projects that give you capabilities that you can run on your computer. And I will say as a personal thing, I like having access to tools locally on my computer because, yeah, things go away. Things get discontinued all the time. Things get canceled. If you have something that is mission-critical, or that is so wonderful that you’ve got to keep a hold of it, find a local version of it.

    Christopher Penn: For example, if you really love generative AI, and you’ve got a beefy enough laptop, like a really good gaming laptop or the equivalent in the corporate world, if you would like the way that the GPT-four class of models behaves, you can actually download a GPT-four class model. There’s one called Command R, that is really good—like, it is as good as GPT-four in some use cases, and it’s close to it in most use cases—and it runs on your laptop. That is mind-boggling. A year and a half ago, we were just starting to figure out that generative AI was a thing with ChatGPT. That’s when it came out—a year and a half ago. For those who are nerds like me, we’ve been working with it for a little bit longer, about three years now. But the reality is, up until six months ago, a GPT-four class model was something you needed a server room for; you needed tens of thousands of dollars of hardware to spin it up. Now, you run on your laptop. There’s no moat.

    The technology isn’t the moat. Here’s the reality. To the extent that any company has a moat, it is because of something other than technology, something that my CEO and co-founder Katie talks about all the time. Within the Trust Insights five-P framework, technology isn’t the focus; technology cannot be the moat. Technology is so easy to copy now, that you got to look in other areas. So purpose, people, process, platform, performance—of those five Ps, platform—where technology is—is the easiest to copy.

    The hardest things to copy? People. The people who do the thing and have skills and knowledge are the hardest to copy. Which also means, by the way, if you are just going to go and fire all your employees and use AI instead, probably a bad idea from a competitive safety perspective, because someone else is going to be able to copy your technology really, really easily. Copying your people? A lot harder. The purpose—why we do something—and the people—who does the thing—those are the defensible moats. Those are the moats that you can defend in an age when technology makes it easy to copy any other technology. So give that some thought.

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    A lot of people have made a lot of commentary about Tom Davenport’s HBR article recently on generative AI and your company data. Some of those takes have been good, some less so. But let’s dig into a bit of the nuance behind the headline.

    TLDR on the article itself: companies need to have their data in order to unlock its value with generative AI, and most companies aren’t ready. That’s not a terrible surprise. Davenport (who was one of my professors at Boston University many moons ago) said:

    “For generative AI to be truly valuable to companies, they need to customize vendors’ language or image models with their own data, and do the internal work to prepare their data for that integration. The relatively unstructured data that generative AI uses needs to be well-curated for accuracy, recency, uniqueness, and other attributes if generative AI models employing it are to be highly useful. Poor-quality internal data will yield poor-quality responses from genAI models.”

    Broadly, this is true. But there’s a bit of nuance, a twist in this statement. The reality is that today’s models – language models in particular – are so robust that you don’t need a ton of data to make them operate well. You need enough to evoke a response from the model that fits the situation you’re using it for.

    Today’s language models have read literally the entire public Internet plus books, code, news, and YouTube. They’re well versed generalists with knowledge about everything, so we don’t need to overwhelm them with lots of data. What we need to provide them is the right data to activate those models and have them provide precise, specific results.

    Let’s look at a very concrete example of this. Inside your marketing organization, you probably have a CRM. Inside that CRM, you have data about your customers and their interactions with you. Do you need all the data in there to make generative AI work well for you?

    No.

    What you need is data about the best customers or prospects you have. And this is the linchpin: there will ALWAYS be very little of that data. Most organizations follow a normal distribution when it comes to customers. You have a small number of really amazing customers, a big selection of okay customers, and a small number of terrible customers that you try to get rid of as fast as possible.

    On the marketing side, you have the same thing. You have high quality prospects, middle quality prospects, and low quality prospects – and there you may have a Pareto distribution. You might have, in aggregate, a whole bunch of terrible quality prospects, looky-loos who are never, ever going to buy anything from you and will be a complete waste of your time to market to.

    When it comes to using generative AI, you don’t need a ton of data (that’s already baked into the models), you need the best data.

    Suppose you wanted to build an ideal customer profile to use with your generative AI systems. Should you put all your customer data in it? Absolutely not. You should put just your best customers into the ideal customer profile – hence why it’s called ideal – and that’s probably what, ten customers at most? You could literally copy and paste that little amount of data into the consumer version of your favorite language model and get great results from it.

    In fact, if you are too focused on the technology integration and you pour all your data into a generative model, you’re going to tune and train it on all your customers – including the ones you don’t want. That’s going to give you subpar results and deliver no value from generative AI.

    Try this exercise. If you’re B2B, go to LinkedIn and find the profile of someone who’s a decision-maker at an ideal customer and copy the contents into a text file. If you’re B2C, go to the social media channel of your ideal customer, find their profile, and copy their last few dozen posts into a text file.

    Then, with the generative AI model of your choice, have it help you build an ideal customer profile. There’s a good chance just that one customer’s data will be enough to populate a profile that will apply to 80% of your overall ideal customers because our ideal customers all pretty much want the same thing. Repeat the exercise 4 or 5 times and you’ll probably have 90-95% of the data needed for a really good ideal customer profile.

    Do you need the entire enterprise’s data to do that? No. And even if you had it, a lot of it wouldn’t be the best data.

    That’s key takeaway 1: your generative AI data strategy should be all about better, not bigger.

    Next, let’s talk about the neural network that stores the absolute best data you could possibly have. It’s a complex network that requires some specific prompting skills and a relatively slow, inefficient way of accessing the data, but the data is the highest quality data you could possibly ask for. What neural network is this?

    It’s the one between your ears, the OG neural network, the natural intelligence that begat artificial intelligence. You and the team at your company have all the information and data you could ever want trapped inside that neural network, and all you need to do is prompt it to get the data out and into an AI tool.

    Here’s how: you get the beverage of your choice, sit down with the voice memos app or AI meeting assistant/transcription app of your choice, and you answer questions out loud about your current customers. You do this with a couple of people from every part of your value chain, then take the transcripts, merge them together, and feed it to the generative model of your choice. Boom. You have an ideal customer profile that’s built on data straight from the humans who work with your prospective and actual customers every day.

    And then you repeat the process with your actual best customers if you can. You spend some time with them, get their permission to record the conversation, and ask them what they like about your company, what they don’t like, what they would improve, and what they would never want to change. Do that with the people at your customers, feed it into a language model, and you’ve got all the ingredients you need to have today’s modern language models turn that into actionable, useful data.

    Davenport is right that the time to start preparing your data for AI is now, but it’s not about technology, not really. It’s not about CDPs or CDOs or databases, though those certainly can be situationally helpful and useful. It’s about the people you interact with – the people who work at your company, and the people who buy from your company – and what’s stored in their heads.

    This, by the way, is why it’s a generally poor strategy to try firing as many people as possible and replacing them with AI. It’s short-sighted not because of the technology, but because of the vast databases of knowledge inside the heads of people that companies have largely neglected – and once you let those people go, that knowledge decays rapidly. The moment something’s not our problem any more, we mentally stop remembering what was important at an old job as we focus on what’s important at the new one.

    This is key takeaway 2: your generative AI data strategy should be all about people, not technology. If you’re not putting people – and the data they carry around in their heads – first, you’re going to get very poor results from generative AI.

    Finally, if you focus on people, you’re going to get less resistance to generative AI adoption. We’ve all been giving lip service to things like the voice of the customer and listening to the customer for decades. Very few people and organizations actually do. Generative AI is a good excuse to get started with this practice, and the data you gather from people will pay dividends far outside of just generative AI.

    For your employees, it will show that you value their perspective, their experience, and their human relationships they have with each other and with the customers.

    For your customers, it will show that you’re actually listening to them and doing something with the data you collect to make their experiences with you better.

    Work with people to get the relatively small amount of best quality data your organization and customers can provide, and you’ll be able to leverage the power of generative AI right away. Yes, data governance and getting your internal data in order is vitally important foundational work, but you don’t have to wait three years, two consulting firms, and five million dollars in projects to start reaping real value from generative AI while you get your data in order. Start today with the best of your data while you clean up the rest of your data.

    And shameless plug, this is literally what my company does, so if getting started with this use of generative AI is of interest, hit me up.

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    This week, let’s get down to brass tacks. We’ve talked a lot at a high level about building an ideal customer profile, and the very best ideal customer profiles are built on a foundation of lots of high quality data. That’s still the gold standard, the way you want to do things if you can.

    But let’s acknowledge reality. A lot of companies… don’t have that data. Either because the data is a mess, or because the company just doesn’t have it. There’s a reason why social networks have ALL locked down their data, cancelled their APIs or raised prices to make them unaffordable, and put up walls to interoperability as fast as possible. They recognize just how valuable that data is.

    The good news is, you can still build a strong ideal customer profile with relatively little data. It will not be as good as having lots of high quality data, to be clear. But it will be good enough to at least start using generative AI more powerfully than basic starter “you’re a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter” prompts.

    For today’s use case, I’m going to pretend I’m back at the public relations agency I used to work at – but this technique will work for just about any kind of role where you need an ideal customer profile, from sales to marketing to advertising.

    First, we need to be clear on who even is in our ideal customer profile. Let’s say I work at a B2B PR agency. I know that I need to get press coverage for my client – we’ll say Trust Insights, my company, is the client. Trust Insights has a fancy generative AI course (shameless plug) and wants to get the word out about it.

    We’ll need a media list, or at least the start of a media list, of people who even cover the generative AI space. So our first stop will be any AI-enabled search engine such as Microsoft Bing, Google Gemini, or Perplexity. We’ll ask it for a few names of prolific journalists in the generative AI space.

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    At the top of the list is author and influencer Bernard Marr. That’s as good a place as any to start. Next, we should get a sense of what kinds of things Bernard writes about. Let’s download and store his last 20 or so articles in plain text format; you can automate this step or do it by hand, so long as you end up with plain text articles when you’re done.

    After that, let’s grab the contents of Bernard’s LinkedIn profile. The easiest way to do this is to simply download the PDF version of it.

    LinkedIn Example

    Great. Now we have quite a lot of raw materials to work with. Let’s start building Synthetic Bernard. Open the generative AI tool of your choice that can handle large datasets, such as the paid versions of Google Gemini, ChatGPT, or Anthropic Claude.

    Start your session by asking the model what it knows on the topic, like so:

    “Today, we’re going to build an ideal customer profile. What do you know about best practices for this kind of thing?”

    Every model will behave differently, but this will give you a starting point for framing out the ICP and more important, help the model give structure to all the data we’re about to give it. Once the model has returned its answer, tell it you’re going to give it some raw data to start inferring a profile, a persona:

    “Great. I’m going to provide you with a large body of data of a person who is our ideal customer. This person, Bernard Marr, represents the ideal customer for my company, Trust Insights. From this information, and the best practices you’ve outlined, I’d like you to infer an ideal customer persona using the key elements you’ve highlighted and the information I’ve provided from Bernard’s publicly available information.”

    After it has a good long think, it’ll come back with a profile that looks like this:

    Based on the provided information and best practices for creating ideal customer profiles, here’s an inferred persona for Bernard Marr:

    Demographics:
    – Age: Mid-50s (estimated)
    – Gender: Male
    – Location: Milton Keynes, England
    – Education: Highly educated, with degrees from Cambridge University and Cranfield School of Management

    Professional Profile:
    – Occupation: Internationally best-selling author, keynote speaker, futurist, business, tech & strategy advisor
    – Industry: Technology, Business, Management Consulting
    – Company: Founder and CEO of Bernard & Co. and Bernard’s Wine Cellar
    – Expertise: Business performance, digital transformation, data strategy, AI, big data, blockchain, IoT

    Psychographics:
    – Values: Innovation, efficiency, data-driven decision making, continuous learning, human-centric technology
    – Interests: Emerging technologies, business trends, future of work, social impact of technology
    – Motivations: Helping organizations improve performance, understand and leverage new technologies, make better decisions
    – Challenges: Keeping up with the rapid pace of technological change, educating businesses on the potential and risks of AI, ensuring ethical and responsible use of AI

    Behaviors:
    – Regularly reads and writes about technology and business trends
    – Attends industry conferences and events
    – Actively engages on social media and shares content with a large following
    – Consults with businesses and governments on strategic initiatives
    – Seeks out and uses innovative tools and technologies

    Media Consumption:
    – Forbes (regular columnist)
    – World Economic Forum (frequent contributor)
    – LinkedIn (highly active)
    – Other social media platforms
    – Online publications and research reports

    Inferences:
    – Bernard is a thought leader and influencer in the technology and business space. He is highly knowledgeable and passionate about emerging technologies, particularly AI, and their impact on businesses and society.
    – He is likely an early adopter of new technologies and seeks out solutions that can improve efficiency and effectiveness.
    – He values data-driven decision making and is a strong advocate for ethical and responsible use of AI.

    – He is a prolific writer and speaker, reaching a large audience through various channels.

    This is a great start for this kind of persona. If the people I’m pitching for my PR agency are like Bernard, this persona will be super helpful. Let’s now put it to work. Suppose I have a pitch like this (yes, generated by AI):

    Subject: New Course Exposes Marketing Potential and Pitfalls of Generative AI

    Dear [Journalist’s Name],

    With generative AI tools like ChatGPT booming, many marketers are scrambling to grasp their potential and manage the risks. A new course by Trust Insights, “Generative AI for Marketers,” aims to bridge this knowledge gap. I saw your recent piece on [topic related to AI in marketing] and believe this course would be of interest to your readers.

    This 5-hour intensive course goes beyond basic prompt engineering to tackle topics crucial for marketers: AI governance, scaling, risk mitigation, and career impacts. Could an interview with course creator Chris Penn [or a lead instructor] offer valuable insights to your audience navigating this rapidly changing landscape?

    Key Benefits for Marketers:

    • Deep dive into AI foundations
    • Practical skills for enhanced marketing strategies
    • Real-world use cases and guidance
    • Who is it for? Marketers interested in, or currently using, generative AI seeking to maximize its benefits while mitigating risks.

    Please let me know if you’d like to learn more or schedule an interview.

    Best regards,
    [Your Name]
    [Your Contact Info]

    Now, I can say without hesitation, this isn’t a super great pitch to start with. (and yet I’ve gotten hundreds of pitches just like this). So how do we use our Ideal Customer Profile, our synthetic Bernard? From the profile generated… we ask him.

    Gemini roleplaying Bernard

    In other words, Synthetic Bernard has basically said… pass. As someone who receives a lot of pitches like this, I can say that Gemini’s predicted reaction is much kinder than what usually goes through my mind. So, now that we know our pitch isn’t going to land, what do we do about it? I’ll leave the rest as an exercise for you to complete, but it’s not a great leap of imagination for you to have an ongoing conversation with Synthetic Bernard to ask how to fix this pitch.

    The key takeaways from this exercise are that ideal customer profiles can be built with minimal data. In this case, I had the contents of a LinkedIn profile plus 16 articles from the web. That’s it – no multi-year sales data, no deep dive into a person’s background, no secret agent stuff, just a pile of data from publicly available sources.

    If you were doing this for your PR agency, for your marketing agency, for your sales team inside your company, for your corporate communications team, you’d want to broaden this beyond just a single person. Maybe you’d have 5 or 10 people’s publicly available data as a starting point and create a rollup synthetic persona or ideal customer profile from that data.

    If you’re a job seeker, this technique applies to you. Synthesize a persona for the hiring managers you’re working with – especially the ones that have rejected you – and then use that persona to critique your materials, your interview responses, etc.

    No matter what route you take, building an ideal customer profile is within reach for any organization, big or small, wealthy or poor. Leverage the data you do have, plus the best models available to you today, and you can get started making use of generative AI with ideal customer profiles to answer questions you have about your marketing (or anything else you want to ask it).

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  • You Ask, I Answer: More Work for Humans in the Age of AI?

    You Ask, I Answer: More Work for Humans in the Age of AI?

    In today’s episode, we explore the complex relationship between AI and the workforce. You’ll hear my honest take on whether AI will eliminate work or usher in a new age of opportunity. We’ll discuss the urgent need to adapt… and some surprising ways AI might change everything.

    You Ask, I Answer: More Work for Humans in the Age of AI?
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    In today’s episode, KS asks, it’s a very interesting what’s going to happen.

    I think AI simply consuming jobs is way too human and pessimistic way to look at things.

    At the same time, AI is rising, we have millions of individual professions having access to AI is not just companies.

    And that is a very interesting scenario.

    I have a gut feeling there might be a lot of work for humans because everything will just get supercharged.

    What do you think? Okay, so in the long term, the long term horizon, it will be humans plus AI.

    We will have we will generate entirely new professions that do not exist today, to manage machines to provide value above and beyond what machines can provide to provide those human connections.

    Real simple example, 10 years ago, was, you know, professional Tik Toker.

    Is that a profession? No, did not exist.

    Today it exists.

    And there are people making bank on it.

    Only fans professional did not exist 10 years ago.

    You know, today, there are people like Ayala, who are earning hundreds of 1000s of dollars a month.

    Those are our new professions that are that are coming out of the woodwork.

    Same is true for things like climate change, climate change is going to create entirely new professions because it’s a major disruption.

    My issue with AI is not that it’s going to change or eliminate some professions because that’s inevitable.

    My issue is the timing.

    Right? In past generations.

    Generally, progress has been measured in terms of decades, or sometimes even centuries.

    Right? Now, there are exceptions and folks have pointed out, I’ve having this discussion on threads, folks have pointed out things like, yeah, the car was a real fast innovation, right? You had a 10 year period where horse and buggies went away, and cars were the thing.

    But in a lot of cases, there’s a lateral transfer of labor there.

    The car example, in particular, people could learn how to drive cars pretty quickly.

    And the person required to drive a horse and buggy and the person required to drive a car, that same human being is still employed, right? They’ve changed their method of employment.

    The analogy I like to use is agriculture to manufacturing in an industry, right, where you have things like a spinning Jenny or a combine that removes hundreds of people from the fields, and you have to do something else with them.

    Now, there’s other parts of the process that still need human intervention, someone has to do QA, like, hey, that’s not a corn stalk, that’s a piece of wood that finds its way into the combine.

    But generally, a lot of people displaced by industrial machinery in farming made their way into industry.

    And that happens over generations.

    If you are handpicking corn, your kid might be operating the combine or your kid might work in the combine factory.

    You, the person picking corn don’t have to reskill because the change is slow enough that in life, or if you do have to reskill, it’s it’s relatively slow.

    With AI, we are seeing the labor is not getting shifted to another human to a human in a different job is not going from person copying and pasting spreadsheet data to person telling AI to copy and paste spreadsheet data, what’s happening is that AI is capable of doing the task entirely.

    And so there’s less person time needed, in many cases, dramatically less.

    And again, this is not a problem in the long term, right? In the span of 100 years, we could easily adapt, you know, if I, if I’m in my 50s, and my kids are in their 20s, and they’re learning how to use AI, and I don’t know how to use it.

    That’s fine.

    I’m close enough to retirement that I’ll finish out my, my next 15 years in upper management, whatever.

    And that’s that and the kids have made already made that jump.

    But if that happens in a five year time span, suddenly, there’s a problem.

    Because many people struggle to reskill.

    Many people struggle to do something substantially different.

    There was an effort in the 2010s, to reskill coal miners as coders.

    It didn’t go well.

    It didn’t go well for a couple reasons.

    One, the program was really badly run by the US government, go government.

    Two, those are radically different skill sets.

    Yes, they both have required attention to detail.

    Yes, they both require perseverance.

    Yes, they both are required.

    Christopher Penn: determination.

    But they are radically different skill sets and radically different ways of thinking.

    And so a lot of the people, they were able to get some of the basics down, but it was a hard transition.

    And many of them did not stick with it.

    Even though there were promises of things like higher wages, there’s also an issue with with wages.

    So in a gradual rollout of AI, across multiple professions, you would have people have the time to reskill have the time.

    Christopher Penn: to adapt generationally.

    But if it’s fast, if in pursuit of higher and higher profits, you’re like, we’re firing everybody, and machines are gonna run it and Neil got five, five PhDs, who are chief AI officers, and they’re gonna run all the machines.

    That’s not enough time for that those people that you’ve laid off to adapt to something different.

    And this is this is likely to happen in a lot of industries.

    Not because AI technology is so amazing.

    It’s pretty cool what it can do.

    But because, at least in the country where I am, I’m in America, I’m in the United States of America, the United States of America is kind of a hyper capitalist nation in that we pursue profits, really, really, really assertively.

    And not necessarily with a long term perspective, a lot of folks, the way they run their business, they try to make a quick buck and get you know, cash out and move on.

    But the way they do that is they try to build systems that help them retain their wealth.

    And wealth isn’t bad.

    I certainly would like more wealth.

    But it’s what you do with it, and how you manage it, that that matters.

    And so a likely outcome for a lot of the use of AI is to reduce cost substantially reduce head count substantially within companies and replace that with machinery and yes, with people who are highly skilled in the use of AI.

    That’s one of the reasons why so strongly emphasizing that everyone who is capable of doing so should become minimally proficient with AI you should learn how to use generative AI in particular.

    How do you prompt how do you get good results? How do you get repeatable results out of machines? How do you proactively identify things that machines can do and you get ahead of your company, you’d be the pioneer in your company and your organization for the use of AI so that you are the one in charge of the machines.

    Because that is the best insurance in the short term to be one of the leaders within your own organization.

    Are there long term jobs that will come from AI? Yes, absolutely.

    Real simple example, there is the possibility to use generative AI chatbots in particular, to provide mental health care services.

    Now, that is going to require a lot of supervision could conceivably, it might be a good idea to have a require a doctor’s prescription, right and have a qualified therapist monitoring to make sure the machines are doing what they’re supposed to do.

    But the mental health care profession is so short staffed, right? Therapists are so hard to come by, at least again, in the country where I am, that having machines be sort of the first line, not the, if you think about it, like almost a customer service aspect, you have that front line of machines that can help people having, having a bad day, but not being in danger.

    And then a triage, right, of prioritization, so that the machines, the language models would identify, hey, this person seems to be having a harder time than normal, let’s elevate this to a human.

    And then you bring in your human therapist to help the human therapist who comes in and says, Hey, it looks like you’re really having a hard time today, let’s talk.

    By providing more access to mental health care, we can maximize the value of the very few people we do have.

    And so and those therapists would be, they would have a lot of work, right? To your question, there might be a lot of work for humans.

    Yes.

    In anything that is high risk, there absolutely should be human beings.

    Christopher Penn: Managing the process, overseeing the results, and tuning and training retraining the machines to say like, hey, that response that you gave there, that was not effective or appropriate.

    Let’s train retrain you this way.

    But it’s all a question of time.

    If we can take measures like universal basic income in the short term to bridge that gap for new generations to be able to take on these new positions for those positions to flourish and grow, then I think we’ll be fine.

    If we don’t do Christopher Penn: that, then in the short term, you’re going to have some pretty severe economic dislocations.

    Software development is a really good example.

    Software development is a field that is highly automatable.

    And if you look at the data from indeed.com, it is that field has not recovered from the pandemic, right? Hiring the number of open positions has been low and was remained low for years now, because machines are capable, it turns out of being really good software developers.

    So that’s Christopher Penn: my point of view on this, AI will consume jobs, a will create AI will create jobs, but the pace at which it consumes jobs has to be slowed down long enough for it to also create the new jobs as well.

    Thanks for asking.

    Talk to you next time.

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