Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Marketing

Even canned kindness helps
If you’ve ever wondered whether automation of some content, of some customer experiences (not all, obviously) is a bad thing or impacts your brand negatively, one answer can be found in pick up groups, or pugs, in World of Warcraft. These are randomly assembled groups of 5 or 25 people who are given the task of clearing a dungeon or raid. Pugs are notorious for bad manners, inconsiderate people, and foolish behavior, but they’re also a necessary part of the Warcraft experience if you don’t belong to an aggressive raiding guild, since they’re the only way you’ll ever see most of the dungeons or raids.

Here’s the difference that even a bit of automated kindness can make: if you have pre-scripted, helpful language ready to go for in-game chat, you can transform what are otherwise at best silent affairs (and at worst, the worst language of humanity) into relatively pleasant dungeon crawls.

For example, I have a series of basic quotes that I use on my Death Knight that help to explain what a boss does (and what to avoid) plus simple pleasantries like hello, goodbye, and generic group thanks. These are bound to macros so that I don’t even have to type out the sentences, just a few letters and the canned text appears. It’s not necessarily sincere, authentic communication because it’s all canned, but it never fails that more people become talkative in-group, more people do their jobs better (like not standing in fire), and more people say thank you at the end of a dungeon crawl when you use canned, scripted kindness than not.

Why? Because the general experience is otherwise awful. The general experience is oppressively silent or consists only of people berating each other for screwing up. The general experience is a lot like the general public. Some nice folks, some bad folks, and a lot of folks in the middle. Whoever speaks up first sets the tone for the rest of the run, so if the first comment is something along the lines of “WTF NOOB” or like comments, the rest of the pack tends to follow along. If the first comment is a mildly entertaining introduction like this:

“Hi there! I’m your duly designated meat shield. A few basics: don’t stand in bad, we go only as fast as the healer can go because dying slows us down more, need if you really do need (even off spec), everyone needs on lockboxes. Ready to have some fun?”

Then the tone is set for the otherwise silent majority to go along with.

Your marketing, your management of groups, your handling of the general public is no different. The tone you set, the comments you make, the language you use set up the experience you are likely to have, assuming you can do what you say you can do. If you choose language in your marketing that is condescending, brusque, or unhelpful, don’t be surprised when your customers treat you that way. If you choose language that is helpful and kind, even if it’s canned, automated, or scripted, you’ll set the initial tone much more tuned to the success you want to generate.

Here’s an exercise for you to try. Grab any piece of marketing collateral, from an email auto responder to a product page on your website, and examine it. Is the language helpful and kind, neutral and boring, or condescending and potentially insulting? If this is the first interaction someone has with you, does the marketing collateral set the tone you want to have set in their minds?

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February 19, 2013
Credibility means an end to anonymity
In the age of the instant online review, the instant online recommendation, the instant product discussion, something funny has happened.

The phenomenon of astroturfing has exploded. Not the fake grass itself, but the practice of buying reviews and buying mass approval. Why? Tools like Fiverr and Amazon Mechanical Turk make approaching and building a paid crowd simple. Here’s an example:

Fiverr folks in the online marketing category will pimp your Amazon book. (professional marketers and PR folks face palm at the fact that there’s an online marketing and PR category at all on a $5/job website)

What this has done among the socially savvy is created a perverse counter effect, in which a product that only receives 5 star or top reviews is perceived as suspect, thanks to the prevalence and ease of gaming online reviews. Anecdotally, I know that I and others I’ve asked consider a four star review to be generally more credible – a few people who had bad experiences (which you’d expect of any product or service) and a larger number of people who had good experiences.

What a crazy world where something that could legitimately be stellar has to be perceived as less stellar in order to be credible, huh?

Luckily, the ground may be shifting in the favor of more honest marketing. Amazon already has the Amazon Verified Purchase review system, which gives additional weight to reviews by accounts that have actually purchased the item being reviewed. On February 1, 2013, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said:

“Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in most users naturally clicking on the top (verified) results. The true cost of remaining anonymous, then, might be irrelevance.”

While seen by many as an endorsement of AuthorRank itself, Schmidt’s comments presage the larger trend that is happening now and will only get stronger: if you want authority or influence, you must have credibility, and that means an end to anonymity, a willful effort to end your obscurity.

Remember, the future is all about you. Build your platform now, because the low-value, low-cost tactics like the Fiverrs of the world are squarely in the gunsights of the big companies and search engines, and only those with platforms will thrive.

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February 15, 2013
Marketing with no used cooldowns
One of the longtime jokes in World of Warcraft is that the only thing worse than ending a fight with all your cooldowns blown is ending a fight with no cooldowns used. For those who don’t play, the term cooldown refers to any ability of a Warcraft character that has long durations between uses. Typically, these are powerful abilities, and when you use them, you can’t use them again for a while so that your class of character isn’t overpowered or unbalanced.

If you play your character well, you should be able to time your cooldowns in big fights to do the most damage possible, which often means coordinating with other members of your group and knowing when one of the bad guy bosses is especially vulnerable. If you play less well, then when one of those special windows of time opens up, you can’t throw the kitchen sink at the boss and your damage per second metric (or your tanking survivability, or your heals per second) craters:

See how a good number of the buttons at the bottom have timers on them? There’s nothing left to throw besides the basics.

The only situation worse than that? Not using them at all, for fear of them not being available – a fairly frequent occurrence:

In fearing the risk-taking completely, you never reach or even approach your potential. It’s impossible to see on the small versions of the pictures, but the difference between throwing the sink and playing it safe is a 10x difference in damage per second.

Now think about your marketing. How many cooldowns do you have? How many buttons can you push for maximum effect? How long does it take them to come off cool down and be ready to use again? For example, an email marketing list will only tolerate so many sales pitches. A social audience will only deal with so many posts a day. A pay per click ad budget only has so many dollars to spend.

What are your marketing cooldowns, and more importantly, are you using them to their maximum potential, or are you playing it super safe and never even touching your marketing potential at all?

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February 14, 2013
You are the future of marketing
Let’s take a look at a few recent emerging trends.
- Google is rolling out Author Rank. This favors giving search authority to authors who have built up a reputation for quality content.
- Facebook is rolling out Graph Search. This favors giving search recommendations to your friends based on things you’ve engaged with.
- Twitter’s new search algorithm rewards originators. This favors you sharing things first and/or being authoritative about your content.
- Bing is testing out listing search results based on Klout. This favors giving search recommendations to people who have platforms and strong networks of friends.
Sensing a theme here? The world is transforming from a “what” world to a “who” world. The reason for Google’s dominance in search was because they mastered what. They mastered being able to answer what questions – what’s the best this or that, what’s the most reputable company for this or that.

Social changes the what equation, however. We first saw this with Facebook ads and LinkedIn ads that targeted the who. Who matches the job titles for the product you’re selling? Who matches the interests of your product or service?

Why? I suspect that in terms of search quality that who is somewhat harder to fake. Sure, you can have dummy accounts but if search marketing platforms are rewarding long term quality then even those dummy accounts must provide value. The who matters. Back in the really bad old days of content marketing, it was trivial to take any database of information and simply republish it. If you did that today, you’d need to provide significant added value in order not to be penalized in search, and one of the most straightforward ways is to add people, from reviews to social engagement to socially generated content.

Who is the platform. You are the platform. Digital marketing will increasingly reward both who you are and what you do, rather than just the stuff you create.

So what does this mean for you? As a company, start thinking about platforms in your recruiting. Imagine two employees of roughly equal capability, but one has a platform. They have a social community of peers that goes with them. Who is more valuable? All other things being equal, the one with the platform is more valuable. Why? They bring more resources to bear. This is true even outside of marketing and sales. For example, imagine two PHP developers. A developer with his or her own platform is more valuable because they have that many more peers to engage with and ask questions of when they encounter difficult problems to solve.

As a person, you need to build out your community and platform. Have a personal presence, have a network, be a resource or become a resource. Grow yourself into a hub that generates new business for whoever you work for. Participate in others’ hubs, from interacting with them socially to creating content for their platforms. Be a powerful connection for your community (whatever that community is) and you’ll add powerful influence to any place you work.

To quote Mitch Joel, it’s not about what you know. It’s not about who you know. It’s about who knows you (and why).

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February 12, 2013
Very clever SEO hack: naming winter storms
As we sit on the morning of a lot of snow, I was thinking about why The Weather Channel (TWC) even bothers to name winter storms. It’s not a convention anyone else uses, and it doesn’t measurably improve the forecasting.

What does it improve, then? TWC’s SEO – by quite a lot. Go Google for “winter storm Nemo”. Who owns the prime position? TWC, of course. But that also takes advantage of Google’s rumored (but officially neither confirmed nor denied) co-citation algorithm, the one that says even if you don’t link to TWC’s page on the storm, Google will associate the terms TWC and winter storm Nemo together and give TWC a bump in rankings if enough credible sites mention them together.

And because of the nature of keywords, who do you suppose owns the first position for “winter storm”? TWC. Look at the quality of the incoming links and citations, too. MIT, Yale, and area colleges refer to the storm by name and with links, nice .edu domain placements. Tons of credible news outlets leveraging the AuthorRank algorithm. And almost every town in Massachusetts, using their harder-to-get-links-on .gov domains.

If there’s a repeatable phenomenon in your industry or vertical that you can own in the same way that TWC has now effectively owned winter storms, there’s a bounty of search marketing rewards waiting for you. Find a way to capture one, and you’ll see your inbound links explode.

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February 8, 2013
How to build podcasting audience
Once upon a time, I did a talk on podcast audience building. We’ll have to go back to that well sometime soon, but in the meantime, Lon asked:

@cspenn @chrisbrogan how about audience growth? I find discovery to be the biggest challenge in podcasting. Too many steps for listeners.

— Lon Seidman (@lonseidman) February 6, 2013

First and foremost, plant the flag everywhere you can. Get into the iTunes store. Get into Stitcher. Buy or hire someone to make you an app for mobiles. Anywhere that your audience could find you, get your show there.

Next, pick a place to make your stand. What percentage of your audience is using what device? Go to your web stats. Go under mobile devices. Turn it into a pie chart. What’s the platform of choice?

Once you figure that out, make your push in all of your media to get people to that platform’s repository for podcasting and your show in particular, or if there’s no clear answer, send people to your website for instructions.

After you’ve done these basics, it’s all about audience-building, and that means media – paid, earned, and owned. You can, if you have budget, hire a PR firm to do it, but most podcasters don’t have that kind of budget, so build it yourself. Try out pay per click ads and advertise to the narrowest segment you can for very short money, like $5 a day, and see how that goes. Publish your podcast on every platform you own – let people know when a new episode is available on social media, in your email list, on your website. Earn some attention from other people influential in your niche and ask them to mention or feature your podcast.

For example, here are three you probably haven’t checked out yet.
- The Work Talk Show with DJ Waldow and Nick Westergaard. How people work.
- Riffing on Writing with Jason Konopinski. How people are creative and how they write.
- The Socialized Business with Justin Levy and Michael Brito. Trends in social business.
And of course a few of the ones you’ve heard of, even if you haven’t listened.
- Marketing Over Coffee with John Wall and me. Marketing.
- The Human Business Way with Chris Brogan. Interviews and thoughts on business.
- The Beancast with Bob Knorpp. Business, news, marketing, and current issues.
- Six Pixels of Separation with Mitch Joel. Mostly thought leader interviews.
This is what I mean by earning mentions. Go out and ask people in your space, in your niche, in your vertical for mentions, and help them put together a list like the one above on their websites. When I was doing the Financial Aid Podcast, I asked every financial aid administrator at every college in the nation to put my show on their websites, long before podcasting was as easy as linking up to a Stitcher or iTunes page. It worked – in the old days of podcasting, when it was a pain in the ass to listen to any podcast, there were 5,000 listeners tuning in daily.

Go make a promo. Ever since the old days of podcasting, making audio promos for other shows was a way to earn some mentions on the air. People seem to have forgotten this, as I haven’t seen a single promo hit the Marketing Over Coffee inbox in years. Not sure what I mean? Give a listen (and if you have a podcast, please put this in your show with my blessing):

Then I ship the promo out to other podcasters:

That’s one way you build audience on the cheap.

Irony: today it’s easier than ever to create a podcast and harder than ever to build an audience for one.

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February 7, 2013
Why tagging and categories are essential content strategies
You want to create a lot of content.

You want to blog.
You want to write newsletters.
You want to record videos.
You want to publish books.
You want to podcast.
You want to host webinars.
Maybe you want to speak on stage.

At the end of the day, it can feel overwhelming, can’t it? One of the most frequently asked questions I get are how to create a lot of content on an ongoing basis, in a sustainable manner. The answer is simple: tagging and categories.

I can see you scratching your head. The basis of a good content strategy that won’t drive you insane is a system that encourages you to create a little something every day. Most of the time, that’s blogging. Just about anyone can knock out 100-500 words a day. The problem with blogging is that because it’s bite-sized content, it’s very difficult to see how that plays into a bigger picture. The secret is to use tags and categories that are accurate when you’re writing your regular blog posts. Make sure every post is tagged or categorized accurately when you’re writing.

Why? Because when it comes time to crank out other formats of media, other formats of content, you can simply head to the categories page on your blog and look at all of the work you’ve done in any category:

Look back after you’ve been blogging for a while, and you’ll find the posts by category you created that can be sewn together into an instant eBook, with each relevant post in that category a chapter (or at the very least a start of a chapter). Summarize the links for a category (especially if you’re prolific in it) and you’ve got a newsletter. Look back at the posts in a category and find some imagery that matches the post (or larger versions of in-post images) and you’ve got slides for a webinar. Read them into a microphone and you’ve got a podcast. Record the webinar and you’ve got a video or video series. Get really good at delivering your ideas on a category and you have the makings of a public talk.

All of this is based on the work you already do every day. Don’t panic and stress about trying to do it all. Blog on the categories and topics that you are expert in, that you have experience in, and with proper categorization, turning it into other forms of content will be relatively easy.

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February 5, 2013
All marketing metrics are relative
Over the weekend, I was doing more reading of the Heart Sutra, a popular Buddhist scripture, and this one line kept leaping out at me:

Form is nothing but emptiness
Emptiness is nothing but form

Without getting into the technical details about what each word means (if you’re curious, go read Red Pine’s outstanding translation), it basically says that everything is empty of its own self-existence. There is nothing in this world that is absolute, nothing that doesn’t rely on something else for its very definition. Think about it for a second and you realize how true this is. A meal’s deliciousness depends heavily on our own state – if we’ve just eaten, even the finest meal may not be appealing. 70 degrees Fahrenheit could be warm if you’re from Boston but cold if you’re from Caracas. A beautiful woman or man means something different in the mind and eye of a 25 year old vs. a 75 year old.

Everything is relative. Nothing has a meaning that is inherent (except possibly something in your own belief system, which is a topic for another time). However, this lesson extends far beyond Buddhism into the realm of marketing metrics. Every metric we have, every metric we make the claim to live or die by is ultimately relative.

Think about the metrics you value and treasure. Twitter followers might mean the world to you but mean nothing to someone else. Visitors to your website is a metric that online marketers live or die by, but if you run a small local business that doesn’t have a website, website traffic is meaningless. Even the measures that in theory provide the most value can lose their meaning. How many marketers have worked at a company where they’re on fire with qualified lead generation, but the sales department couldn’t sell water to a man dying of thirst in the desert? Or how many sales professionals have worked at a company where they close like Blake from Glengarry Glen Ross but the company loses the customer immediately afterwards because the company couldn’t fulfill the promises of the salesperson? Closed sales are only valuable if the company nets revenue from them.

What’s the lesson here? Metrics are unquestionably important for understanding how we’re doing, but they are empty of their own meanings. Place too much emphasis or faith on any single metric and you will get burned, because you stop paying attention to the things that metric depends on, or other things that depend on that metric suffer. For example, let’s say someone decides that absolute unique visitors is the be-all, end-all metric to live or die by. They focus all their energy on visitors and nothing else. Projects like website redesign to improve conversion fall by the wayside. Projects like salesforce automation never get started, and all those visitors come into the website and do nothing. See how other things suffer from a belief in the absolute value of a metric?

Try as best as you can to see metrics as being links in a never-ending chain. Some parts of that chain you have no control over, and that’s fine. But look at all of the ones you do control or have influence over, and work to understand how they all play together to drive business results. Avoid putting faith in any one to the exclusion of others, and you’ll get maximum results from your marketing efforts.

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February 4, 2013
How can I do X on a shoestring budget?
Hands down, the most popular question I’m always asked at conferences and events is, “how do I do X on no budget or a very tiny budget?” (where X is social media, marketing, SEO, etc.)

The answer is simpler than you think. Most of the time, when you pay big money for top talent or the best tools, you are paying for expertise. The talent you hired costs a lot of money (assuming they’re worth it, of course) because they have expertise and experience to get you great quality results in a timely manner. The tools you bought cost a lot of money because developers had to take a set of practices developed by those with expertise and codify them into a working tool that others could use.

Thus, the principle thing that costs you so much money is expertise. So what if you have no budget? The answer is obvious: you then have to develop the expertise yourself. Want to do SEO on a shoestring? Get really good at it. Read all of the gajillions of guides out there, watch Google’s entire video library that they provide, learn to use all of the free tools yourself, do a whole lot of trial and error, and become an SEO practitioner in your own right. Want to learn social media? There’s no shortage of information on that front, either. In fact, for most areas of marketing except paid advertising, the amount of freely available information and tools can feel limitless. Paid advertising information is equally easy and free to come by, but learning it does require money to make your own ads.

It won’t be easy, and it will not be quick at all – expect it to take at least a year of intensive work (at full-time pace, 40 hours a week) to become competent and work through all of the trial and error you’ll need to do. But the end result will be good, and it will cost you very little money (but a whole lot of time).

Of course, about half of the time, that answer is deeply unsatisfactory to people, because what they’re really asking is, how do I do X on no budget but get the same results in the same time as someone who has a big budget? The answer there is equally simple:

Fast, cheap, and good are impossible when it comes to developing or acquiring legitimate expertise. That’s just the way the world works.

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February 1, 2013
Facebook’s 2012 teaches us that mobile strategy is mandatory
For those brave souls willing to dig through analyst calls and investor statements, a bounty of interesting tidbits awaits in Facebook’s 2012 financial results. The social networking behemoth clocked in at $5.089 billion in revenue, up substantially from the$ 3.711 billion from 2011. More interesting for us marketers are these few tidbits.
- Monthly active users (MAUs) were 1.06 billion as of December 31, 2012, an increase of 25% year-over-year
- Daily active users (DAUs) were 618 million on average for December 2012, an increase of 28% year-over-year
- Mobile MAUs were 680 million as of December 31, 2012, an increase of 57% year-over-year
If that doesn’t jump out loudly enough, Mark Zuckerberg had this to say:

“2012 was a big year for us. We made the big transition where now there are more people using Facebook on mobile everyday than on desktop.”

And finally, deep in the slide deck for the call comes this gem: in Q4 of 2012, 157 million of Facebook’s Monthly Active Users – about 15% – are mobile only.

15% of Facebook users are accessing the site from only a mobile device. That’s an absolutely stunning number. Here’s the big takeaway: if Facebook drives any amount of traffic to your web properties, and if that traffic is representative of the Facebook audience as a whole, then up to 15% of your inbound traffic from Facebook is on a mobile device exclusively, and more than half is coming from Facebook at least some of the time on a mobile device.

Your site, your properties, your content, your media must be mobile-ready if you interact with the Facebook audience at all. I did a quick look in my own analytics this morning.

All mobile site traffic on my personal website clocked in at 17.35% for Q4 2012. But Facebook-sourced traffic?

23.8%, which is a 37% increase. If I were to do a massive campaign or spend on Facebook, I’d need to know that making it mobile-friendly for that crowd was an imperative. Close to 1 in 4 visitors would be coming from Facebook on a mobile device.

Bottom line: If you’re marketing on Facebook, you’re marketing to a mobile-heavy crowd. Alter your strategy accordingly.

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January 31, 2013

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