Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Marketing

Layer your marketing like a BLT
When was the last time you ate a BLT in which the lettuce, tomato, and bacon were kept on discrete portions of the bread?

Chances are you’ve never had a sandwich like that, and probably never will unless you make it yourself. No, the BLT you’re accustomed to having probably looks a lot like this:

There’s the lettuce for texture. The tomato for the natural source of glutamic acid and zing. The bacon for saltiness and umami. The mayonnaise to bind ingredients to the bread and provide more umami flavor. The bread toasted for a nutty flavor. The ideal sandwich has each ingredient in balance, layered together so that you get all of the textures and flavors in every bite.

That should be your marketing strategy in a nutshell. Strangely, as marketers, we still serve the ingredients of a marketing BLT separately. PPC is kept away from social, which is kept away from direct mail, which never touches the email marketing. It’s a recipe not only for marketing failure, but also a crappy sandwich.

All of our marketing tools and methods are designed to work together. They function best together, capturing and driving attention. Let me outline what I do personally so that you can see how the pieces of the sandwich create a greater experience.
- Each day I blog, or try to. That’s content marketing.
- Each day I recommend other things I’m reading in #the5. That’s content curation. The curation part, unsurprisingly, also mentions my content, so there’s one avenue of reinforcement.
- Each day I participate in conversations and reply to comments. That’s community, and it reinforces the content and the curation.
- Each week I wrap up the content, curation, and community in my email marketing. That reinforces everything over the past week.
Each ingredient does not stand alone. Each ingredient contributes to and reinforces the other ingredients.

Every time you choose a new marketing medium or channel, figure out how it can reinforce all of your existing efforts, layered with them, so that you get greater gains and returns from the synergy than from just using the channel alone. Serve your marketing sandwich neatly prepared with everything working together, and you’ll get some darned tasty results. Serve each ingredient separately, in ignorance of the others, and you’ll have a deeply unsatisfying sandwich with equally unsatisfying results.

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February 22, 2012
Social strategy for controversial industries
Mark Bevans posed this fascinating challenge to me:

“Social media strategy for big tobacco firm? How should they approach, what can they try? am looking for ideas.”

Before we can entertain any discussion of social strategy, we have to be honest with ourselves. It is human nature to willingly make bad choices. Alcohol, tobacco, firearms, warfare, drugs, violence, pornography, addiction – it’s part and parcel of human nature, for good and ill. Sometimes we can manage bad choices and mitigate their effects, as in the cases of a glass of wine or beer every now and again. Sometimes we can’t manage bad choices, like a kilogram of cocaine in an evening (with lethal consequences). When it comes to tobacco usage, common sense should indicate that putting something that is actively on fire in our mouths is generally unwise. Tobacco is a choice, though due to its nature (it’s on fire), it’s more heavily restricted since the exhaust smoke can impact people who have made the choice not to use tobacco.

If you’re a tobacco firm of any kind, your business relies on people making a generally bad choice for their health. That said, 1.1 billion people using tobacco products and as much as 33% of the adult population (citation, p.26), the market for tobacco isn’t likely to ever go away.

Those people who are customers of yours are likely loyal customers, and that’s where social strategy begins. My grandfather, for example, smoked Marlboro cigarettes and refused to even entertain the idea of using another brand unless it was absolutely necessary. Brand loyalty based not only on image but product preference can be incredibly strong.

Create social properties designed around the reasons people use your specific product, and then actively find and collect the people who are already talking positively about you. 20 seconds on Twitter search found this set of mentions about the Altria brand Marlboro among others:

You have a community of people who love your brand. Gather it, and then proceed to execute on standard community management strategy like any other product or service. Except for the adverse health consequences and regulatory requirements, there’s not much different in terms of B2C social strategy for tobacco compared to any other consumable product. That’s the secret, if there was one.

One final area worth considering from a marketing perspective is the unique nature of recreational substance usage, which includes tobacco, alcohol, and other currently legal drugs. At the very least, society tends to deeply frown upon (if not outright regulate) attempting to create new customers, especially from certain demographics (tobacco marketing to children and teenagers, for example). Likewise, because the product itself is harmful in greater than occasional quantities, encouraging customers to consume more of it actually reduces your customer base through illness and death.

That puts you in a challenging catch-22: you are restricted in new customer creation and existing customers suffer adverse consequences for more than casual usage. The area for growth, at least in terms of marketing and profitability, is most likely in artisanal brands and products.

For example, tobacco production at an industrial level creates a product that’s on par with other industrially produced goods. There’s a strong contrast in flavor and nutrition between a loaf of commercial white bread and an artisanal bread from your local bakery, a fact that many food marketers have leveraged to great success. If you’re constrained, as tobacco is, about who you can market to and your product is inherently harmful, going the artisanal route would give some additional grist for community management and provide a viable upsell for increased profitability.

Thanks for the challenging question, Mark!

On a personal note, as I mentioned before, my grandfather smoked Marlboros. Unfortunately, it killed him, as he died of a heart attack induced by emphysema when I was 7 years old. I’m personally not fond of tobacco companies, especially in efforts to create new users of the product among younger audiences. Adults, however, are generally capable of making their own choices, good or bad.

I’ve also been friend to and active supporter of American Indian organizations and cultures locally and recognize that tobacco itself has a legitimate place in our shared human history and culture (originally it was used by American Indians as an entheogen, part of shamanic rituals). Writing this post was especially challenging as it required holding separate, conflicting views and emotions together at the same time in order to produce some level of insight for a legitimate challenging question.

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February 21, 2012
A week of bringing old content back to life
One week ago, I shared with you some ideas about how to bring old content back to life and revive long-dormant pages. I then showed through example how to revive those posts using Buffer and Twitter.

For those that follow me on Twitter, the posts each day tagged with the #obg (oldie but goodie) hashtag were the ones I was bringing back to life after cleaning them up a little.

So, how did it work out? On a week over week basis:
- I saw an overall increase of about 2.3% in traffic to the website.
- Bounce rate decreased by about 1%.
- Time on page increased by almost a minute.
- Returning visitor rate increased by the same 2.3% as overall increase in traffic.
- Traffic from Twitter was up by about 37%.
Here was the surprising number that leapt out at me, however:

In terms of conversion to new mailing list subscriber (which is the primary call to action), I saw an increase of 51.28%.

Why? Lots of retweets. Resharing oldies but goodies intelligently and methodically brought a host of retweets throughout the week that brought in new people, people who then took action and subscribed to my mailing list.

A week’s worth of data suggests that cleaning and resharing is a worthwhile practice, certainly worthwhile enough to keep experimenting with and testing more. If you’ve been following along, what have your experiences and numbers been like?

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February 20, 2012
How to bring old content back to life
Want to get some easy wins under your belt? One of the easiest opportunities to increase your site’s traffic and conversion is to look for neglected things that you’re already ranking for and take advantage of them.

For the purposes of this post, I will assume that you already have a Google Analytics account, a Google Webmaster Tools account, and that you have bound the two of them together. I also assume you are familiar with Google Docs spreadsheets, have a free Bit.ly account and API key, and have a free Buffer account. That’s a lot of prerequisites, but I hope you’ll see why it’s worth it.

Identify High Potential Content

Start by heading into Analytics and looking at your Traffic Sources. Choose Search Engine Optimization, then Landing Pages. If you haven’t bound your Google accounts together, this is the point at which Analytics will ask you to do so.

What you’re looking at here are blog posts that could have a lot of potential, but are currently languishing in obscurity. These could be powerful pages, if only people actually saw them. Perhaps they don’t have enough links. Perhaps the content was good but not great. Whatever the case may be, there’s high potential but it’s largely untapped.

Identify these pages by the high impressions count and low position. Here are a couple of examples:

See all the pages that have high impressions but simply aren’t showing up in search results anywhere close to page 1? (ranking 1-10 is page 1 of Google search results, 11-20 is page 2, etc.)

Polish the Content

Let’s see some of the pages and why they might not be ranking well. The content curation one reads well and checks out okay, so that’s likely an issue of not enough attention. The Google Reader post was topical and timely in its day, but it’s old news now. Writing a new post might be a better choice than trying to revive that one. There’s a timeless one on stabilization of video that’s almost 5 years old now but the content is still good. That’s a good one to revisit, make sure any content is still relevant, and update.

So we’ve gone through and identified posts that are okay but need some love. Why do they languish? If you’ve been blogging for any period of time, you likely realize that attention has a very short shelf life. Only by putting content back in front of people over and over again can you sustain traffic to it, especially if your audience is very social. If you’ve been building up your audience, there’s an even better chance that new people in your audience haven’t even seen the old stuff, good as it is.

Promote the Potential

Let’s take our list of posts we know to be good but old from this Google Analytics report and feed them into Buffer. Hit Export to CSV at the top of the Analytics report. Load it into the spreadsheet of your choice and sort by impressions, then by position. If you’ve taken my advice about leaving the date in the URL of your blog posts, you can also screen out newer posts so that you can focus on the oldies but goodies.

Pick out the top 20. Go to the content, clean it up, and prep it for re-attention. Got that URL list ready? Now you’ll need a Google Doc spreadsheet. Start a new one. In column 1, paste in the URLs you’ve identified as love-worthy but attention-starved. In column 2, you’ll need a Bit.ly free account and API key. Make the formula for column 2 equal to:

=importData(concatenate(“https://api-ssl.bitly.com/v3/shorten?login=YOURBITLYUSERNAMEHERE&format=txt&apiKey=YOURBITLYAPIKEYHERE&longUrl=”,A1))

Fair warning: if you’re reading this at any time other than February of 2012, you’ll want to check the bit.ly API documentation as the syntax above may have changed.

Now drag that down column 2 and watch as all of your URLs are magically shortened. Take the time to write out a tweet for each URL and then concatenate all of the cells together, and you should have something that looks like this:

Voila! You have a nice spreadsheet of tweets ready for Buffer. Queue them up, and you’re now on the road to bringing your old blog posts that have high potential back to life thanks to your current-day audience:

I hope this guide helps you bring back to life the valuable content you’ve already written that just isn’t getting enough love. Look for my #obg (oldie but goodie) posts on Twitter.

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February 13, 2012
The zero resilience Warcraft PvP marketer
In World of Warcraft, player vs. player combat (PvP) is one of the most engaging, frustrating, and defining aspects of the game. You match up with other players in battlegrounds, arenas, and out in the virtual world, looking to gain honor and rewards for defeating the opposing faction.

One of the greatest advantages a player can have is proper PvP gear loaded with resilience, a property that reduces the damage you take from other players. Players with high resilience gear are extremely difficult to kill. Players with no resilience gear can be crushed relatively easily. Getting resilience gear is something of a catch 22: to get the best gear, you have to play a lot of PvP, but you die an awful lot as you earn that gear.

The other night, I was playing in a battleground on my druid and noticed that one particular member of the opposing faction was fairly easy to kill but was playing their class very effectively, a warrior. This particular warrior wasn’t trying to kill us outright – we were too overgeared for him to do so, and he had relatively little resilience on his gear.

What he did have working for him was knowledge of how his class worked and what abilities that were gear-independent, like stuns, snares, silences, and other forms of crowd control that make life difficult and inconvenient for your enemies. He’d keep a healer silenced and unable to do their job while his better geared buddies would kill the rest of us. He’d do stuns and fears which kept our team out of commission just long enough to achieve their objective.

What does this have to do with marketing? As a marketer, you don’t necessarily need to have the best of the best in gear, equipment, paid services, and ad budget in order to be effective. You do have to know the tools, tactics, and methods you have at your disposal inside and out. If you only have a few dollars in your ad budget, you know how to play them for maximum benefit. You know what social media channels work best for which kinds of content, and as a result, you can dance around competitors that are slower, less agile, less aware, and less effective, even if they have bigger budgets, more staff, better tools, etc. Eventually your proficiency with the tools you have will yield greater rewards, enough that you can play on an even footing with previously better equipped competitors.

How do you become this legendary marketing professional? The same way you become that player in PvP: lots of practice, lots of reading up to see what abilities you have access to, lots of watching videos and studying your competitors and the best-in-class models for how they do things. Copy what they do until you can mimic it effectively, then adapt it until you’ve fine tuned it for how you work best.

May you soundly beat your competitors in the marketing battleground.

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February 10, 2012
Get the first cup on the table as fast as possible
This morning, John Wall and I were discussing the merits and drawbacks of the diner in which we do Marketing Over Coffee each week.

One of the hallmarks of good service at a restaurant is that things initially happen at a rapid pace. You get seated quickly and your first order of drinks or appetizers is taken quickly. If you run a tight shop with great service, you get that first cup of coffee/drink/appetizer on the table as soon as possible.

Why? Because up until the point that goods and services are actually delivered, it’s really easy for the customer to walk out. There’s no check to pay because nothing of value has been delivered. Once that first cup is on the table, you have now created a legal and social obligation between you and the customer. If they walk out, they now must pay for the goods and services already rendered.

If you want to sell more, if you want to get more out of your marketing and sales efforts, try getting the first order on the table as soon as possible. Deliver at top speed. Get the commitment, even if it’s something as meager as a cup of coffee, and you’ll be on your way to bigger business opportunities.

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February 9, 2012
Twitter favorites power tips
When I first started working with Blue Sky Factory, I noticed something peculiar about the company’s Twitter favorites. It wasn’t actual favorite tweets at all – it was instead a collection of praise the company had received online. This was the brainchild of DJ Waldow, the community manager, and what started effectively as a content management system (because Twitter doesn’t provide search outside of a 2 week window) has become one of my favorite sales and marketing tools.

Here’s why this is powerful. In many ways, it’s just like recommendations on LinkedIn: a public set of testimonials and endorsements that other people have given you. What makes it more powerful to me than LinkedIn is that it’s a pile of tweets: very short, very compact praise that you can easily aggregate and show to any prospective customer. They can see for themselves just how many people think highly of your company (or you), and do so quickly through a very fast scan. For individual sales people and marketers, you can favorite any tweet you want, so if you don’t want to leverage a company’s entire collection of positive tweets, you can always favorite just a subset and showcase those.

Want to kick it up a notch? Take the raw text of your Twitter favorites page, clean it up a bit, and feed it to Wordle. (the process for preparing text for Wordle is outlined in this blog post)

Now you’ve got an idea of what words people are consistently using to praise you or your organization. Start using those words in your marketing materials instead of your standard marketing-speak, because what other people say about you now will resonate with the experience prospective customers should have with you.

Kick it up another notch! Using the SimplePie PHP library, add your Twitter favorites to your blog and suddenly you’ve got a curated feed of nice things people have said about you or your company available right on your website:

You’ve earned the praise already. Take these powerful methods of aggregating it and displaying it so that it can work for you to land new business, reassure and reinforce your value to existing business, and help grow your business reputation even more.

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February 8, 2012
Performance Based Social Media at Social Fresh East
I have the pleasure of speaking to the Social Fresh East crowd today. For those interested, here’s the slides that I’m speaking about.

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February 7, 2012
Build your base to build your momentum
One of the most important lessons I teach to my students in the social media course I teach is that it’s vitally important to build your social base. We have so many platforms on which to market that if we try to be everywhere all the time, we’ll effectively not be anywhere. This is especially true if you are budget or resource constrained and trying to make social media work for you.

How do you choose a social base? Look around at all of the social networks and figure out which one you are most comfortable working in. For some people, the way Facebook works is ideal for them. They love how Facebook’s community management features work. For some people, the way Twitter works is ideal for them. For some, it’s LinkedIn, for others it’s Google+.

The one criterion I would strongly recommend is that you pick a network that offers federated identity. These are the networks that have login capabilities on other sites – Sign in with Twitter, Sign in with Facebook, Sign in with Google, etc.

Set up an outpost on each, but then pick the one you like the most and devote most of your resources to building it up. Participate on others as needed or required, but give your energy to one to help it grow.

Why? Because the federated identity platforms allow you to move your network from place to place. Here’s an example. I hadn’t used Stumbleupon in ages, and last year I decided I’d go back and see what was still happening. It turns out that my account had been so inactive that it had been purged from their system, so I had to start fresh.

When I logged into Stumbleupon and created my profile, I was asked if I wanted to find friends from another network. I connected with Twitter and within minutes, I had built a Stumbleupon network of nearly 1,200 people. Now I could make use of that network without having to arduously build it up too.

As these networks get ever larger and more popular, your ability to be successful with them will be partly dependent on the solid base you have that you can direct and manage well. Build your base, build your momentum.

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February 7, 2012
When was the last time you were your customer?
When was the last time you were your customer?

You say you’ve got social media strategy. You say you’ve got great service. You say you’re customer-focused, customer-centric, and the customer is always right.

When was the last time you tested it out?

If you manage business for more than a sole proprietorship, then give your business a service test. Set up a list of a few tasks and go test out your sales and service teams. Call them up anonymously or set up a fake email account and try your internal processes out. If you work at a small business where you’d be recognized on the phone, have a friend do it for you.

“Press 1 if you would prefer to talk to a machine.”

Back in the day when I helped to run a call center, I’d have old college friends give the team a series of calls with a list of 3 tasks to accomplish:

1. Call in with a question. The correct answer the representative should give you is X. Score them 1-5 based on how close they get it right.

2. Call in requesting an application for the product. Write down the questions the representative asks you to ensure you’re qualified. At a minimum, they should ask you these 3 questions. Score them 5 points for each question they ask.

3. Email in requesting an application. A representative should respond and try to get you on the phone. Time how long it takes between your initial email and a response from a representative. Start with 30 points and deduct one point per every 5 minutes you wait. Scores can go negative!

At the end, they’d total up the number of points and email it to me. They’d call in at different times, different days, sometimes calling in and hanging up if they’d already talked to that person recently. Based on that, we’d know who was doing their jobs more or less well. Most important, we didn’t need to rely on guesswork to assess how we were doing.

Setting up a system like this isn’t difficult at all. It requires some thought about what tasks you value the most to be measured, and it does require having some friends willing to do it (or alternately, paying strangers to do it), but beyond that, it’s just a matter of having the testing pool go out and test your team.

Go out and be your customer. See if the experience you have matches what you expect your customers to have, and then make corrections as appropriate.

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February 6, 2012

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