Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Marketing

  • The popup is gone!

    I’ve been saying for a while that I’ve wanted to get rid of the popup on my site in place of a built-in call to action for the newsletter. That day has arrived.

    someone (chelpixie) on Twitter

    Thanks to the ridiculously hard work of someone, my go-to implementation expert on WordPress, I have a new site design that has exactly that – a bright orange call to action that replaces the popup.

    If you’ve ever been tired and frustrated with the popup, you can be glad that it’s gone for now*, and hire Chel to fix up your WordPress-based website to be awesome.

    * I’ll be watching my email subscriptions analytics very closely to see if the built-in call to action is more or less effective than the popup. If I see a dramatic decrease… well, you can guess what will make its return 🙂

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  • Stop begging and start marketing

    I’ve gotten this email/Facebook post/tweet a gazillion times in this past week:

    TweetDeck

    I’m sure you have too. Folks, your business is not a lottery. Hoping and wishing for a magic fairy to grant you the chance at $250,000 is not a substitute for a business or marketing strategy.

    Think about all the things you’ve done to promote someone else’s business – and make no mistake, you ARE promoting someone else’s business, the bank sponsoring this. (may I remind you that said bank’s CEO is currently testifying in Congress about how badly they’ve gambled and lost)

    Think about all of the things you’ve done for them, and then ask yourself this very serious question: why haven’t you done this for yourself? You’ve hit us up on Twitter, posted to Facebook daily, emailed every other day, asked us to share with friends – the perfect recipe for a marketing campaign, only instead of promoting you, you’ve given away all of your link juice, social currency, and word of mouth “ad space” to someone else.

    Next time you see an opportunity like this, instead of hoping the bank fairy will grant your wish, use it as a reminder to emphasize your own marketing instead.

    Oh, and feel free to send this post to the next person who sends you that same bloody tweet/Facebook post/email.

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  • Marketers must become media makers

    After watching both WWDC and Google I/O, I’ve walked away with this firm conclusion: success as a marketer means becoming a media maker. Just in the digital space, look at all of the forms of content you can now consume on iPads, Nexuses, Apple TVs, Google TVs (now with more ball shapes), the iTunes store, the Google Play store, and so on…

    Google Play

    Books. Music. TV. Movies. Photos. Blogs. Apps. Magazines. Social Networks. Games.

    Here’s what our challenge will be as marketers: picking the right channels that fit our message and content. To do that intelligently and in a well-informed way, we’re going to have to try nearly all of them and see how well our content and our message fits to the channels.

    You can make content fit in some fairly strange forms if you’re creative about it. Once upon a time, I did a financial services podcast for student loans to an audience of about 10,000 daily for almost 5 years. I would never have guessed that a 20 minute daily audio program would have worked that well, but it got traction and grew to a very respectable audience.

    Try everything. There’s no rule that says you have to publish what you try. If something doesn’t work out, then toss it and try again. Fire up a copy of Audacity with a basic microphone and see what you come up with. Turn on Windows Movie Maker or iMovie, go grab your phone w/video or a cheap video camera at Target, shoot some material, and see what you can come up with. Use the office productivity suite of your choice (Google Docs available for the low, low price of free) and write a short eBook, then publish it to the Kindle store or iBooks or Google Play also for free.

    The bottom line, however, is that you need to try things, to see where your content and message resonates. Your audience is on more platforms, more devices, more media than ever before. They are paying less attention to traditional methods of marketing and advertising than ever before. Be as ubiquitous as time, talent, and budget permit you to be, because if you’re not, someone else will be.

    Photos from PAB2007

    You’re not competing just with the big name in your industry vertical any more. You’re competing with Apple, Google, Amazon, Congress, Justin Bieber, and the rest of the planet for that wafer-thin slice of your customer’s attention. The more dishes you’ve got on the buffet, the more likely it is that people will grab a bite.

    Need a starting point? Drop a few bucks and pick up Content Rules, by CC Chapman and Ann Handley, to learn the basics of many of the content forms mentioned above.

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  • Use moving averages to diagnose your digital marketing efforts

    I was watching Bloomberg TV yesterday (I’m an economics junkie) and at one point, one of the investment analysts showed an interesting methodology for choosing when to buy a stock. They showed the stock’s performance over a 30 day period aligned with the stock’s 200 day moving average, and their strategy was to buy into the stock when it was ascending past its 200 day moving average, and dump it when it was about to cross below the 200 day moving average. The rationale behind the strategy was that the 200 day moving average showed a reasonably big picture view of the stock, and you could determine whether or not the company was on the right track by how its current performance was doing versus its 200 day average.

    I can’t tell you one way or another whether this investment strategy will make you a dime or lose you a fortune, but it did inspire me to look at how we look at web analytics. One of the biggest problems I see in web analytics is that we get caught up in the very short term picture. How many visitors did we get today? How many conversions did we get this week? It doesn’t occur to us very often to look at the very big picture and see how our site is doing overall compared to a long term average.

    What if we took that methodology from investing and applied it to our website, asking how we’re doing compared to a long moving average? Would it tell us overall whether our recent efforts in whatever we’re doing in digital marketing make sense compared to our bigger picture view?

    Microsoft Excel

    Here’s an example from my blog. I took my Google Analytics traffic data and plotted out 4, 13, and 26 week moving averages to see how things were going. What am I looking for? In an ideal world, the 26 week moving average should be the lowest, then the 13 week, then the 4 week, and then the weekly data should be the highest line on the graph. That would indicate consistent growth and an upward trajectory.

    Instead, we have a graph that is almost a what-not-to-do. Look at the right hand side of the graph. The 26 week moving average at the very right is highest, then the 13 week, then the 4 week, then the weekly. That’s a trajectory that is headed downwards, and it’s got a decent amount of momentum behind it, which means that what I’m doing on my personal blog to market it isn’t enough. (understandably so, since my day job takes precedence).

    Let’s look at the opposite situation and examine the basic traffic data for WhatCounts, which is where I spend the vast majority of my time and effort:

    Microsoft Excel

    That is indeed a very healthy site with a lot of momentum behind it. On a consistent basis, the weekly traffic is the top-most line, followed by the moving averages at 4, 13, and 26 weeks. That’s what you want your website’s traffic to look like all the time; this is a very healthy website.

    Obviously, there will always be up and down days on your website, but by looking at the bigger picture of these moving averages, you’ll see what’s truly working and what’s not – and you’ll know when things are flagging dangerously and you need to change strategies.

    The next step for me on my personal website would be to look at those periods when there was consistent growth and upward momentum, check my calendar for that period, and see what practices I was doing that were working better than what I’m doing now. (I have a fairly good idea of what’s wrong, but that’s another story entirely)

    The next step for me on the company website would be to look in our analytics a little more deeply and double down on the things that are working best.

    For premium subscribers to my newsletter, you’ll get a sample template of the spreadsheet needed to put together this analysis for yourself in the upcoming week’s newsletter.

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  • Understand your most valuable marketing channels

    A while back, I had suggested that you would want to balance your traffic sources so that your website and digital marketing properties were not overly reliant on any one source of traffic. I still very much believe in balanced pie, but I wanted to add some subtlety to the idea.

    For calendar year to date 2012, here’s what my site traffic looks like, in terms of balance.

    Traffic Sources Overview - Google Analytics

    I’m overweight on search, about right on referral traffic, and underweight in campaigns and direct. The question is, which of these pie slices is actually most valuable? Let’s head to our assisted conversions report.

    Assisted Conversions - Google Analytics

    Hmm. Even though organic search is 45% of my traffic, it’s not 45% of my conversion value. In fact…

    Assisted Conversions - Google Analytics

    That’s right – referral traffic accounts for 37% of the conversion volume on a last touch basis, and because the ratios of assisted to last touch are so low (see the above table), referral clearly dominates the value being generated.

    So we know that referral traffic constitutes the more valuable traffic. What if I want to double down and try to boost the most valuable sources of traffic? What specifically in referral traffic is driving value? On the assisted conversions report, filter by referral and we see:

    Assisted Conversions - Google Analytics

    A good portion of the juice is in Twitter and LinkedIn. If I were trying to ascertain what were the more valuable activities I could be doing to drive revenue, clearly whatever I’ve been doing on Twitter and LinkedIn this calendar year, I need to be doing more of, as that’s what’s driving conversion in the referral category.

    I still maintain the position of the original article, that you should bring balance to your pie. However, add to that strategy this dimension of looking at your traffic sources and seeing which ones are driving the most traffic, and as long as you’re not grossly overweight (at risk) in that traffic source, find the one or two pedals you can step on a little more and see if that generates additional valuable activity on your website.

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  • Use LinkedIn to analyze your B2B audience

    One of the most powerful yet understated abilities of LinkedIn as a social network is the ability to understand your customer base better and see who you’re talking to, especially in the B2B marketing world. Because no one really promotes it all that much, it goes largely unnoticed and unused. Let’s change that today.

    First, you’ll need to get your audience onto LinkedIn in one of two formats, either a discussion group or a company page. How do you choose between the two? As of this writing, company pages are largely non-interactive, very similar to personal profiles, while groups are highly interactive, like a discussion forum. Choose depending on how many resources you have.

    Get your audience to your LinkedIn group or company page using any variety of techniques, such as sending out a mass email telling people where to go or cross-posting on your other social networks. Take as much time as you need – the more data you have in this particular instance, the better.

    Once you’ve gotten your audience into LinkedIn, either in the Group Statistics or Company Statistics, take a look around:

    Statistics about Marketing Over Coffee | LinkedIn

    Some more group statistics (company statistics are substantially the same):

    Statistics about Marketing Over Coffee | LinkedIn

    Does this look like the audience you expected to find? Does it reflect the audience you want to have? Or is it totally skewed? For example, you might have thought you were marketing to senior-level people in organizations, but your most avid fans (remember, this data in inherently biased towards those people who like you enough to do something) are more junior. That raises the questions of whether your marketing is effectively reaching the people you want to reach, or whether you should pivot your content focus to serve the people who are already your fans.

    Take it up a notch with the advanced search for groups. Look at the people, geographies, and company names that are the most populous in your group:

    People Search Results | LinkedIn

    Again, is this what you expected to find? Are these the people, the companies, the areas that you’re focused on in your marketing? If not, then either something is going wrong with your marketing, or you’ve uncovered some hidden opportunities to potentially pivot your marketing strategy on.

    Try this set of techniques out and see if they lend you any additional insight into your online marketing efforts!

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  • Chat with Mark W. Schaefer on Influence

    Mark W. Schaefer asked me a few questions at Blogworld NYC about what’s new and different in the world of influence. We talked a bit about heuristics as well as groupthink and cults of personality. Take a watch:

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    Thanks to Mark for the chat!

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  • Stop trying to go viral and start being symbiotic

    Think about what going viral means to you in the marketing sense.

    virus

    Now think about what the most successful viruses have in common in the biology world.

    1. They’re ubiquitous. The most common viruses are rhinoviruses, which cause the common cold. At any given time, there’s a cold going around.

    So far, so good. Marketers like ubiquity.

    2. They’re easily transmitted. Most rhinoviruses spread through aerosol transmission – tiny droplets of liquid that are airborne and can take hold in a new host simply through breathing.

    Marketers like transmissibility.

    3. They’re mostly harmless. For example, the herpes simplex virus (the virus that causes cold sores) is one of the most successful viruses ever, because it does very little harm to its host organism, which ensures it a lifelong infection. If you think about it for a bit, a dead host can no longer support the virus, so the ideal virus does almost no harm at all, or does so over an exceptionally long period of time.

    That’s actually fairly contrary to what a lot of marketers want. Most marketers want something very hard hitting and impactful, not something that’s “mostly harmless” and nearly invisible.

    Or is it? If you’re thinking strategically and very long term (which most people don’t), you actually do want marketing that’s mostly harmless. If you give more than you ask for, if you willingly turn down the “BUY BUY BUY” dial to the lowest setting that can still sustain your business while providing value over the long term, then you’re not “killing the host” in the sense that they no longer want your marketing. They won’t tune you out, and indeed may even welcome you, in which case your relationship with the host changes from being parasitic to symbiotic.

    For example, in the biology world, Lactobacillus Acidophilus bacteria lives inside your guts, literally, and helps not only to kill off the more harmful Escherischia coli (e. coli) bacteria, but also helps to metabolize vitamin K and lactase. How successful is the acidophilus bacteria, biologically?

    Stonyfield Farm, NH

    That’s right. Healthy symbiosis has managed to get a simple bacteria to be part of major corporate marketing campaigns. A life form incapable of sentience is getting sentient lifeforms to not only willingly consume it, but to sell it to others. Now that’s some serious influence.

    Stop trying to go viral with short-term thinking and short-term campaigning in your marketing, and start thinking about how to behave symbiotically, giving more than you take. You might just find that your prospects and customers will want to consume more than ever from you.

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  • My daily content reading workflow

    Todd Chandler recently asked:

    Twitter / trchandler: @cspenn what's your daily

    Good question! My daily reading workflow starts on the iPad with Mr. Reader and a big pile of blog feeds. Generally speaking, I try to add one new blog a week to my Google Reader subscriptions and take one blog away a week. It’s my way of challenging myself to stay fresh, a sort of “weakest link” competition. I have about 15 different pure marketing blogs I read, another 15 economics blogs I read, plus an assortment of others. Along the way, I’m hitting the Star button and storing noteworthy pieces for #the5 and my newsletter.

    Mr. Reader

    Once blogs are done, I flip into my inbox, where I look for news updates from Help A Reporter, Bloomberg News, and a select few other newsletters, reading those when they’re there. I also have a few people who send me stuff from time to time to look at. It’s during this time that I populate my Google Calendar for the day with appointments as well, which is my de facto task management system.

    After that, I scan through a few lists on Twitter, a few circles on G+, and a few lists on Facebook for folks I know who share good stuff (and not too much of it).

    All of this takes about an hour a day, give or take a few minutes. It really depends on kind of news day it is. Some days, there are a dozen articles that all deserve a close read and careful analysis. Some days, it’s skimming right past the Kardashians at warp speed. This morning, for example, the marketing blogs section was really light, but the economics section had some massive posts that required reading in depth.

    So there’s my content consumption workflow in a nutshell. Thanks, Todd, for the question!

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  • Method matters as much as ingredients

    I was making grilled chicken yesterday and realized that my chicken was reasonably good. It’s kind of a funny method, but one I discovered after years of eating other people’s bad chicken. Here’s the thing about chicken: as a meat, it tends to dry out really fast, especially on the grill. Having thoroughly cooked chicken also tends to mean having dry, tough chicken unless you specifically focus on chicken that isn’t dry or tough.

    So, to prepare chicken well, here’s how I handle it. First, I use chicken thighs rather than other parts. Thighs are inherently higher fat, about 6% fat rather than breast meat, which is about 1% fat. The higher fat content means that it takes longer to dry out and is more forgiving of mistakes with heat. It also, at least to me, has a better texture.

    Typically I mix some barbecue sauce with an equal volume of water and let it marinate for a minimum of 4 hours. After that, it goes in a baking pan and on the grill over low heat for 12 minutes, 6 minutes per side. The goal here is to get the sauce and chicken to a simmer, about 170 degrees with a thermometer. This is essentially poaching the chicken to achieve sterilization and cook it thoroughly without denaturing the meat proteins (which causes toughness).

    Grilled chicken

    Once I’ve gotten the chicken simmered for about 12 minutes, I move it out of the pan and crank the burners to OMGHOT, 3 minutes per side, while dumping the contents of the pan in the flowerbed. This puts a nice sear on the chicken, giving it that “barbecue” look and taste, but 3 minutes a side isn’t long enough to toughen it up.

    Grilled chicken

    After it’s done, it goes in the now-empty pan and rests for 5 minutes to normalize the heat and let the meat re-absorb moisture that it would lose if you cut it open right away. After a rest, it’s ready to eat and is a wonderful flavor and texture while still being safe from food-borne bacteria.

    What does any of this have to do with marketing, besides possibly making lunch for your team? Simple: if you looked at the final product, there’s a very good chance that you would be unable to reverse-engineer the process. You could definitely copy the ingredients, but the method is largely invisible. That’s what makes a successful marketing secret recipe.

    Everyone has the same marketing ingredients. We all have websites. We all have social media. We all have SEO. We all have email marketing. Some marketing ingredients are slightly better than others, but it’s not the ingredients that matter as much as it is the proficiency of the chef and the methods that you use to cook with. Great ingredients in the hands of an incompetent chef are just wasted. Great tools in the hands of an incompetent marketer are wasted or worse, are abused and cause damage to your company.

    Conversely, mediocre ingredients in the hands of a great chef sing to as much potential as they can offer, and will often make a memorable meal even if they’re not top quality. Even on a relative shoestring, a terrific marketer will be able to generate some results, enough to pay for additional investment (better ingredients) in a virtuous circle.

    If you want to be a successful marketer or a successful chef, get what you can afford for ingredients, but spend the majority of your time and efforts focusing on improving your methods, how you use those ingredients, for maximum results.

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