Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Marketing

  • What World of Warcraft can teach you about blue ocean strategy

    I recently switched up professions that I use to generate gold in World of Warcraft. Prior to about a month ago, I sold glyphs via inscription – an intensely competitive, high volume commodity business that required a lot of attention and focus, not to mention vicious price undercutting. It was a good business, but it was a tiring one. Of the time that I spend playing World of Warcraft, about half of that was consumed by the glyph business – in other words, 50% of the time was spent not actually playing.

    I started to ask myself, what if there were a blue ocean strategy available here? For those unfamiliar with blue ocean strategy, it can be summed up succinctly as:

    Don’t compete if you don’t have to. Find an unexplored market niche to dominate, free of competitors, and you win.

    So I started looking around. I have high level characters with blacksmithing, tailoring, enchanting, inscription, herbalism, mining, and engineering professions. I took a look at each of them and then said, what about tailoring?

    Screen Shot 2012-07-16 at 7.04.17 AM

    Unlike professions that use mining or herbalism, tailoring’s raw materials are considerably more constrained, and it’s an uninteresting profession to slog through. Turns out, there are few tailors cranking out very few of the tailoring profession’s goods, and some of these are highly desired in order to make your character look a certain way. Jackpot!

    So how’s it been going? In the past month I’ve been able to reduce the amount of time I spend gold making by 75%, giving me that much more time to actually play the game. It’s a huge increase in efficiency for about the same amount of income generated, which has made things a lot more fun in-game.

    The lesson here? I found the boring profession that still had output people wanted. There was demand and almost no supply. Blue ocean strategy doesn’t have to be about trying to invent something new and fancy – look at the old stuff, the stuff that no one wants to do, the stuff that’s boring, the stuff that’s hard – and do that. There may be less demand (because people are accustomed to those goods and services simply not being available) but there’s much less competition for supply, so profit is still possible.

    Ask yourself this: what are you overlooking in your own business or industry that’s boring, unexciting, hard, or unappealing, and how can you profit from it?

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  • Marketing White Belt Webinar

    I had the privilege of hanging out with Dave Thomas and the Salesforce Radian6 crew to talk about the basics of digital marketing, a distillation of many of the concepts found in my Marketing White Belt book. You can tune into the MP3 recording from the event and the slides below.


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  • PEST analysis for marketers: Technology factors

    Pest analysis

    Have you ever heard of a PEST analysis? It’s not something you do with annoying people on Facebook or around the house. It’s a basic form of business analysis that looks at four key “big picture” factors that might influence your business, factors in the environment around you and your company. These factors are political, economic, social, and technological. Let’s take a look this week at what these might mean for your business and marketing efforts.

    If there’s one area whose impact is highly unpredictable, it’s technology. An investor sitting at the top of the game in 2006 with heavy positions in MySpace would have been shocked by the myriad twists and turns of that service to the present day, and today’s investors in services like Facebook are likely in for just as many twists and turns.

    Likewise, companies and marketers are constantly being buffeted by the changes in technology, the rise of the smartphone, the near-ubiquity of wireless Internet access in major population centers, and the endless platform wars. Where do you even begin to come up with a strategy for trying to manage technology?

    The most important thing to understand about gaining some control over technological chaos is Geoffrey Moore’s concept of crossing the chasm. Much of what you see in the news, especially on tech-heavy sites, is early-stage stuff that never makes it across the chasm. Early adopters get excited, the new technology or service makes a lot of noise, but ultimately it fails to be adopted.

    Once something crosses the chasm into the mainstream, that’s when it becomes important and worth implementing beyond a trial capacity. In order to identify those trends successfully and in a timely manner, you need a large audience and wide-open eyes. Look around the world and see what’s appearing and becoming commonplace. Listen to the words that your customers and prospects are using. Get out from behind your desk and in the field, go to conferences and trade shows, and see firsthand how people are using any given technology of the day.

    For example, I’d make the bold argument that Google+ hasn’t crossed the chasm yet. Why? Everywhere I look, I see Twitter and Facebook. They have crossed the chasm:

    Social Sharing in Real Life

    In all of my travels, I have yet to see Google+ be anywhere as close to being ubiquitous. When I start seeing it at the fast food restaurant, at the doughnut shop or the coffee shop, at the car dealership, then it will have crossed the chasm and exploded into the mainstream.

    Should you try early adopter things? Absolutely. Try them out, see if they work for you, see if they’re worth investing a little time or money in, but don’t stress out about being on every social network or on every new device. When you see the first average, non-early adopters really digging in, that’s when you should get serious about budget and energy invested in any given technology. That’s when it belongs in your PEST analysis and when it belongs in your overall strategy.

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  • PEST analysis for marketers: Societal factors

    Pest analysis

    Have you ever heard of a PEST analysis? It’s not something you do with annoying people on Facebook or around the house. It’s a basic form of business analysis that looks at four key “big picture” factors that might influence your business, factors in the environment around you and your company. These factors are political, economic, social, and technological. Let’s take a look this week at what these might mean for your business and marketing efforts.

    In the original PEST analysis the S stood for social, but in order to differentiate in the world of marketing between social media and society at large, we’ll say societal instead. This is the way that society is changing and people are changing in those societies that impact your marketing.

    What are the macro changes that happening in society that could impact your marketing? How is society itself being altered? For example, the baby boomer generation (born 1945-1965) is headed for retirement now through the next 20 years. How will this impact your company? Does your company serve this audience? For example, if you have a website that serves this audience, you could be losing a significant portion of your business if your font size is under 16px. Why? As we age, our ability to clearly and easily read letters on screen declines. This is also why the Amazon Kindle is wildly popular with retirement age folks – it instantly turns any book into a large print book.

    Think about macro changes in society in terms of career. How many people today have sufficient incomes and savings to be able to retire in 20, 30, or 50 years? If you’re doing serious long term planning for your company, you may have people in the workforce much longer than you think. We see this happening today in a down economy, with grandparents and their teenage grandchildren competing for the same jobs.

    The key question to ask is, how are your customers changing? What’s going on in their lives that is going to impact how you interact with them? For example, Facebook and social media are technological changes, but they have a huge societal impact on how we get news and information. For an entire generation, Facebook is their cable news network and search engine combined. How does that impact your marketing? If someone decides to run a grassroots campaign for or against your company, are you prepared and equipped to handle it?

    In your planning, you can and should also account for societal-wide changes. Consider the impact on society that 9/11 had, or that a major biological or nuclear event could have, such as the Fukushima fuel pools going critical or another Katrina. How does this impact your marketing? How does this impact your company?

    Tomorrow we close out the PEST analysis series with technology.

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  • PEST analysis for marketers: Economic factors

    Pest analysis

    Have you ever heard of a PEST analysis? It’s not something you do with annoying people on Facebook or around the house. It’s a basic form of business analysis that looks at four key “big picture” factors that might influence your business, factors in the environment around you and your company. These factors are political, economic, social, and technological. Let’s take a look this week at what these might mean for your business and marketing efforts.

    Today, we’re going to look at what I think is arguably the largest of the factors in PEST, the Economic factors. Why do economic factors matter so much? Fundamentally, if your customers (and their customers) have less money to spend, your business will have less potential growth. If your customers have more money to spend, your business will have more potential growth. We’ve seen this to be painfully true over the past 10 years as the economy has jumped from boom to bust and entire sectors thought to be “sure bets” turned out to be anything but.

    The way to make economic factors work for you as a marketer is to see the warning signs ahead on the road before they become crises. Pay attention to leading economic indicators that have meaning to your business. If you’re a B2C company, you should be very tuned into indicators like consumer confidence or consumer credit, as these tell you in advance how your customers are feeling. Low consumer confidence may mean having to change your pricing strategy or product offering – no matter how loyal consumers are, if they don’t feel safe spending money on you, they won’t.

    If you’re a B2B company, be looking at things like the ISM indices, which tell you the state of companies and demand for their services. Businesses that serve small businesses should be paying attention to measures like the NFIB business sentiment index.

    No matter what business you’re in, there’s a good chance that there is a leading economic indicator that serves your industry. You can even construct your own economic indicators out of publicly available data. For example, let’s say you were a B2B company. If any of your customers are publicly traded on the various stock exchanges of the world, then you could assemble a portfolio of those stocks and watch them as an aggregate index. When the portfolio drops in value, you know that it won’t be long before you start hearing from those customers.

    How often you need to look at your indicators of choice is highly dependent on your business cycle and your customers’ business cycle. Some businesses need only to look at the trends on a quarterly basis. Some businesses need to watch sales receipts daily. It all depends on how agile you need to be in order to keep pace with change in your industry.

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  • PEST analysis for marketers: Political factors

    Pest analysis

    Have you ever heard of a PEST analysis? It’s not something you do with annoying people on Facebook or around the house. It’s a basic form of business analysis that looks at four key “big picture” factors that might influence your business, factors in the environment around you and your company. These factors are political, economic, social, and technological. Let’s take a look this week at what these might mean for your business and marketing efforts.

    Politics can have incredible influence over your business. A party in power may change your industry’s tax rates or change how your industry works entirely. For example, in 2008, I was working in the student loan business. That year, Congress decided that only the federal government could issue federal student loans, and wiped out about 70% of the company’s business model nearly overnight.

    Some key questions to ask:

    Who’s running for office and what are their plans for your industry specifically? It’s not a bad idea to email candidates and outright ask them. This applies not only to national figures, but state and local ones too. I was recently at a conference where a CEO of a manufacturing firm was told to close up his plant (it was allegedly an environmental hazard) in 6 months’ time by the local environmental controls board.

    Do the candidates/officials have any understanding whatsoever of your industry and how it impacts them as elected officials? One of the most basic forms of lobbying is to simply provide clear, easy to understand information that gives them some basic thinking and talking points. As a marketer (presumably a competent one), you should be ideally positioned to be able to influence your elected officials with helpful, useful information as it benefits them.

    Have you checked to see which of your competitors are spending money on political lobbying, and how much? Competitors will sometimes use lobbying efforts (especially in highly competitive industries) to craft legislation that is specifically advantageous to them and disadvantageous to others in the industry. Check out websites like OpenSecrets.org for your competitors to see who they’re backing.

    Finally, as a marketer, how strong are your community building efforts? Do you have a large, vibrant audience? The reason is simple: if something happens that will politically or legislatively impact your business, positive or negative, you want the ability to mobilize a large number of people to support you as quickly as possible.

    Everyone at every level of business needs to have some awareness and understanding of the politics that impact your business. If you don’t, you’re liable to be badly blindsided by political changes.

    This week, we’re tackling the details of a PEST analysis! Stay tuned tomorrow for economics.

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  • Remember to include common sense in your analytics

    I was looking at my email subscription analytics this morning to see how the new site without a popup has been doing. The raw statistics don’t look so good:

    Microsoft Excel

    If you are a purely data-driven company, this is where you hit the panic button. You declare it a failure, agree to “fail fast”, and try to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. So why am I not panicking?

    Because there’s an invisible factor at work here:

    Wollaston Beach

    That’s right – half the audience is on vacation. Literally half – I’ve sent two newsletters this week, one personal and one corporate, and both have had half the open rate as normal. Site traffic is down about 37% week over week. All of the major indicators suggest that it’s not the website that is performing badly, it’s the audience. The logical thing to do before making any changes is see what happens the week of July 9th, when everyone’s out of office messages says they’ll be back. Then and only then will I look at the data and see if things are still in bad shape or not.

    The lesson here is straightforward: if you focus only on the data, you are liable to make some bad decisions. You have to inject a certain amount of common sense into your interactions with the machines or they’ll lead you astray, sometimes literally:

    3630 Peachtree Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30326 to Tokyo, Japan - Google Maps
    (driving directions in Google Maps from Atlanta, GA, to Tokyo, Japan)

    Common sense and an understanding of the people behind all of your analytics will help save you from some disastrous conclusions, not to mention avoiding kayaking across the Pacific Ocean.

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  • What marketers can learn from bond spreads

    With all of the financial world focused on the LIBOR-gate scandal, now’s a good time to examine the concept of yield spreads. In the world of financial services, a yield spread is effectively the comparison of one investment to another. For example, people often compare the yields between the 90 day Treasury bond and the 90 day LIBOR rate as a measure of the level of risk in the economy, one famously known as the TED spread.

    TED Spread

    The gap between the rates is the spread; in this particular case, the wider the spread, the more risk there is in the economy. That’s why the LIBOR scandal is such a big deal – banks like Barclays were allegedly systematically manipulating LIBOR to make them appear less risky than they actually were.

    So how does this apply to your marketing? Spreads fundamentally indicate a disconnect between two different measurements. In the case of the TED spread, we’re not only concerned about the spread itself, which is a snapshot of risk in the current moment, we’re also concerned about the trend of change between the two. A widening of the TED spread indicates that risk has increased, while a narrowing indicates that risk has decreased.

    How does this relate to marketing? Think about all of the different metrics and rates of change data that you have access to, and think about how they relate to each other. In the cases of Treasury bonds and LIBOR, these are rates of borrowing, so they’re different numbers for effectively the same activity. What rates might be similar in function but different and important to your organization?

    For example, suppose you have an email subscription box on your website and an ability to buy a product on your website. Are you capable of measuring those rates independently? What’s the spread on those rates, and is it increasing or decreasing? Is there some seasonality or cyclicality to the changes in the spread?

    Look for increasing and decreasing spreads in your marketing funnel as well – does your lead generation rate diverge significantly from your closed sales rate? If your business typically generates leads at 8% conversion and sales at 30% conversion, then you have a 2200bps spread. Suppose you noticed that over the past few weeks, that spread had widened to 2600bps. Would that be enough of an early warning signal that you should stop to investigate why the spread is widening? It might be – depending on which number is rising or falling, you could uncover changes that would be worth asking about and investigating.

    Spreads aren’t the answer to all of your business marketing metrics, not by a long shot. But as they are in the financial world, they can be an important diagnostic measure that lets you know of potential changes in the system, changes that you can be made aware of very early and react appropriately.

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  • Start with the trend

    Let’s say you’ve walked into an existing situation, whether it’s a new job at a company, a promotion to project leader, a new client you just took on. What’s the first thing (after understanding the goals and objectives) you should do?

    Look at the measurements for the trends.

    Start by grabbing the top 2 or 3 KPIs and getting up to 12 months’ of historical data on them. Grab them, put them in your favorite spreadsheet, and start looking for trends.

    Here’s a quick way to do this. We’ll use my web analytics as an example, but you can apply this to any KPI that is in good condition (data collected correctly and without errors). First, decide what constitutes a reasonable moving average for your data. For example, when I’m looking at website traffic, I like to measure by the week for business blogs (that smooths out the rapid drops in weekend traffic). In turn, because businesses run most often in quarterly cycles, I think a 13 week moving average makes a great deal of sense.

    If my blog was consumer-facing, I might choose a different moving average that more closely fits how consumers behave. The average business cycle for a consumer is typically more monthly (rent/mortgage, car payments, etc. typically occur monthly) and therefore a 4 week moving average might make more sense.

    So here’s my blog’s weekly and 13 week moving averages:

    Microsoft Excel

    Now if your number crunching software allows it, add in up-down bars:

    Microsoft Excel

    Look carefully. There are a great deal many more misses (weeks below trend line), especially in the second quarter, than there were hits (weeks above trend line). If this were a full-time business, then there would be heads rolling in the cubicle farm.

    Once you’ve gone through the 2 or 3 top KPIs, find the one trend that is in the worst shape. This is a really critical distinction: the number that’s the lowest isn’t necessarily going to be the number with the most negative momentum behind it. For example, let’s say you’re a martial arts school. You have 3 basic key metrics: students who sign up, students who come in for a trial class, and people in your audience. If you look at your data and see low signups with a flatlined trend and trial class appointments with a negative trend, which is more important?

    The average sales and marketing person would say, hey, sales are low! We need to focus on closing more sales! But this would be incorrect – the most negative trend is the fact that you’re losing trial appointments. That negative momentum is the battleship you need to steer first, and once you fix that, all of the boats tied to it will start to change as well.

    Start with the KPI that has the worst trend and fix from there.

    Tomorrow the blog will be off for the 4th of July, and Thursday we’ll look at something else from the finance world as applied to digital marketing.

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  • Announcing the Q2 Quarterly Report!

    quarterly-cover-largeI’m pleased to announce that my newest publication, the Summary of Commentary on Marketing, Social Media, and Current Events for the Second Quarter of 2012 is now available.

    The Almost Timely newsletter is the weekly summary of everything interesting that’s caught my eye over the previous week, 20-25 items that were worth your time. However, sometimes we miss things. Sometimes the day gets by us, or sometimes we just take some time off. Sometimes the mail doesn’t get delivered, and we fall out of habit. Or sometimes we just delete stuff accidentally.

    Well, now you can get caught up with this new publication. It’s a play off of what the Federal Reserve Board calls their quarterly report, which is their Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions, and it fulfills a similar role: a look back at the quarter that was, all of the highlights, all of the news, all of the premium content, bundled together for your review and safekeeping.

    It’s available directly from me in 3 different formats in one compressed file:

    + PDF for the desktop computer
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    Important: If you are a premium subscriber of my newsletter and you have been subscribed since March 31, 2012 and have fastidiously kept all of the back issues, you don’t need this eBook. It’s for people who are not premium members and who are relatively new to my newsletter. Thank you for being a premium member, and feel free to ignore this post.

    The report is $9.99. Please download it below:

    Christopher Penn’s Summary of Commentary on Marketing, Social Media, and Current Events, 2nd Quarter 2012

    If the button above doesn’t work, you’ll find the eBook available here.

    Thank you in advance for your support.

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