Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Marketing

The toughest fire to start
The toughest fire I ever remember having to start was when I was on a Boy Scout campout in February. One of the challenges issued to scouts during that campout was the one-match fire: you’re given exactly one match to start a fire, and if it doesn’t work out, you don’t earn whatever merit badge that you were competing for. On top of that, if you don’t get the fire started, you don’t get to cook dinner, either. Picture this: it’s February. There are 7 inches of snow on the ground, and anything flammable is covered and imbued with frost. It’s also 15 degrees out, and you’re 11 years old trying to start a fire to cook on and stay warm by in two hours before it gets dark.

Starting a fire requires three things: heat, air, and fuel. Air was no problem, even if it was frost-laden. Heat was a single match, and all the fuel was wet. Oh, and we couldn’t cheat, or I would have just poured a gallon of gasoline on the wood and called it a day (and a fireball).

The trick with starting a fire under those conditions is careful preparation. You have to find some dry tinder and kindling (deadwood still on trees), break it off, and then shave it with your pocketknife until you have what looks like a loofah made of wood shavings. Around that you put twigs and smaller branches in a sort of tent shape, then larger branches around that. When you’re done, you have what looks almost like an American Indian lodge. It’s okay for the outer layers of the wood tent to be wet – as long as the first few layers are dry wood, the rest will dry over time from the heat.

I made my pile of shavings eventually. Did I mention it was 15 degrees out? Shaving wood with a small penknife when it’s cold enough to numb your fingers in minutes is painful, but the alternative is worse: if you don’t make enough shavings, the twigs and kindling won’t warm up enough to catch. I couldn’t make a big pile either, because I was running out of time and the sun was setting.

Finally, I had my wood tent set up. I checked the time – about 15 minutes to sunset. It was now or never – and if my preparation wasn’t sufficient, I was going to be very cold and very hungry that night. I grabbed the one match I was allowed from the scout master and lit it as close to the wood shavings as possible. Smoke, some initial sparks, and then finally a flame. The wood caught fire, and I could have a warm dinner that night.

There’s a fine balance between rushing to get the job done before the deadline and doing it well enough that your single match will catch fire. Likewise, in digital marketing, there’s a fine balance between building your base (audience) and making your offer, lighting the match. Like the campfire, for any given campaign, you get only one match, one shot to start a fire or go hungry. Most marketers these days err on the side of rushing to light the match with too little preparation, and it’s no wonder that they and their sales teams are going to bed with empty stomachs and cold feet.

Do your preparation work as best as you can given your time constraints, and you’ll go hungry a lot less often.

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January 4, 2012
Looking back at the three words for 2011
Back at the beginning of the year, I shared with you the three words I chose for 2011. If you’re not familiar with this, here’s the original post. Let’s see how they panned out, shall we?

System

The original idea was to see how many ideas from automation of the World of Warcraft Auction House could be put to use in real life, and this year was an excellent year for systems. Together, you and I developed some fairly useful templates for making exciting things happen. The most telling example of this was the sheer number of “How to” blog posts I wrote this year, many by request, from Facebook Insights to Google+ analytics. Some of the templates turned out to be case studies in their own right, such as my book launch roadmap. Other systems you can see the results of, but not necessarily how the machinery works.

Overall, 2011 was a very good year for systems.

Shatterpoint

The original idea of shatterpoints was to find where little things can make or break a company, make or break a system. Thanks to many different events this year, I got a chance to clarify many of the frameworks I talk about and where the exact shatterpoints are. The method you use to judge how a lead is qualified in a sales and marketing funnel can make or break your company’s entire revenue stream and simultaneously break all of your marketing efforts. One of the biggest shatterpoints this year was around metrics. So many people are choosing the wrong metrics to measure by, which in turn either invalidates or outright breaks their marketing programs entirely.

Shatterpoints were clearly important as part of 2011.

Leverage

The flipside to shatterpoints was leverage, or where little things can make a big difference. If there was one defining factor of 2011, it was that social became an integral part of other marketing efforts and added to them with unforeseen synergies. For example, one of the biggest was that search engines began to use social to adjust search results, which was a giant game-changer. That turned little habits like #the5 into legitimate search boosters, and this became obvious by the number of people asking to be listed in it. Other simple things like a welcome message on Twitter generated giant results:

Little things created great leverage in 2011.

Our three words exercise gave some great focus for 2011. Tomorrow, we’ll talk about the three words for 2012.

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December 27, 2011
Always on
We live in the age of always on. I don’t just mean the electronic devices that surround us, but that the audience itself is always on, which means we are always on. There is no time now when you and your employees are not potentially on YouTube, on Twitter, on Facebook. Your average smartphone or handheld camera can boot and be ready to record in 3-8 seconds, so if you and your company are not performing up to expectations, the cameras are rolling.

Some of the more famous examples of always on that have bitten companies?

FedEx Guy Throwing My Computer Monitor
Watch this video on YouTube.

(what’s especially scary for the brand is that searching for Fedex in YouTube brings this out as the first result)

Dirty Dirty Dominos pizza
Watch this video on YouTube.

(again, search for Domino’s Pizza on YouTube and this is the first result)

Pop quiz: how often do you search for your company’s name on YouTube?

In the age of always on, how do you operate effectively? Well, I suppose you could always back draconian Internet censorship legislation and try to legislate your way out of failure, but that’s not really an effective way to operate.

A more viable strategy might be something like this:

1. Run a company worth working for. We talked about this a while back, about having a legitimate vision and mission.

2. Hire people who genuinely want to work for you because they believe in what you do. Small businesses can do this relatively easily – once you become a large corporation, it’s exponentially harder (but not impossible) to bring on employees that have belief in you.

3. Figure out what the operational impediments are that keep employees from doing a 100% job. In the case of the Fedex guy, it could have been an employee having a bad day, or it could have been a delivery schedule that put added pressure to just “get it done” and not “get it done right”.

4. Encourage your employees to have a digital presence (this is dependent on steps 1 and 2) so that their other human aspects show regularly. It’s much easier to say, hey, I’m human and was having a bad day if you have a well-run blog, Twitter feed, etc. that’s showing other aspects of your professional life. Your CEO should have a blog, and so should your marketing intern.

5. Say I’m sorry, but say it in a couple of different ways as humanly as possible. Domino’s did well with their CEO apologizing for their employees’ misdeeds:

Domino's President Responds To Prank Video
Watch this video on YouTube.

In the case of Fedex, where it was an employee not behaving with gross misconduct, having the employee appear with the president/CEO explaining why the package was delivered like that in an honest, sincere way would go a long way towards reassuring the public that the majority of Fedex packages are not delivered so carelessly.

In the age of always on, we have to be able to demonstrate that we are all human beings, not robots, who cannot be always on and delivering perfect performance 100% of the time. Having dedicated employees and dedicated media channels well in advance of a crisis are the necessary ingredients to mitigating those times when we are not on.

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December 26, 2011
#re2011: Top and bottom 10 posts from my blog this year
Beginning tomorrow, I’m starting a Twitter series until the end of the year called #re2011. It’ll be a replay of the top and bottom 10 posts from my blog as determined by Google Analytics. Each post will be tagged, indicating whether it’s in the top or bottom 10. At the conclusion of the series, we’ll have a wrap-up blog post with everything in one place. If you don’t follow me on Twitter, you can find me at @cspenn to see the updates every day.

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December 21, 2011
Should you have a formula for creating marketing programs?
Yesterday on his Kitchen Table Companies chat, Chris Brogan asked:

“Should you have a formula for creating marketing programs?”

The answer should be relatively evident to anyone who’s ever tried to cook something: it depends.

If you’re cooking a dish for the first time, following a formula, following a recipe, is probably a good idea. After all, if someone says, make me a Beef Wellington and you have only a vague idea of what Beef Wellington is, the outcome is probably not going to be what your diner is expecting. So the first time, you follow the recipe religiously. You render the Duxelles, you braise and wrap the beef in the puff pastry, and you make the peppercorn sauce. The first few times you make the dish, you screw it up a lot. The beef gets too tough or the pastry gets soggy, but eventually you get the hang of it.

After a number of tries, you need the recipe less and less. You don’t need to remember what ingredients go in the Duxelles. You don’t need to remember how to render peppercorn sauce. You just do it.

After many, many tries, you can do it from memory entirely, and you even start to improvise on the dish. Maybe you add curry or garlic to it, maybe you try brining the beef or using a different cut than filet. Now not only are you not using the recipe, you’re slowly deriving a new twist on the recipe, a recipe that is different than you’ll find in most cookbooks or online. If people love it enough and ask for it enough, you may even publish your own take as a recipe of its own, and then someone else will take up your Beef Wellington recipe, starting the cycle over agian.

Should you have a recipe for creating marketing programs? It depends on how talented and experienced you are at creating marketing programs. Like the chef, you’ll want that recipe for the first bunch of times until you’re proficient at it. As you gain more and more experience, you’ll use the recipe less and less and begin adapting it more and more, until someday you publish your own marketing recipes.

Bon appetit!

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December 21, 2011
Be your own social media customer
If you want a viable long-term social media strategy, there’s one that is nearly foolproof: be your own customer. This has been phrased in many, many ways, such as eat your own dog food, etc., and for good reason: it’s true. Despite being true, however, we rarely do it.

More important, we have to expand this idea from just the product or service that you’re marketing to everything that you’re doing with your social media marketing. Think of your marketing as a service unto itself, a service that adds value to the salable goods or services you’re promoting. In that light, is your social media marketing a valuable service?

Ask yourself this: how often do you go back to check your own blog for something you wrote previously? One could argue that this is just a symptom of a variety of attention deficit issues, but it’s also a sign that you’ve stored valuable information on your blog. If you never go back to reference your own blog for yourself, it might not be valuable enough.

The same is true for your social media channels. I store links and URLs on my Facebook page in order to archive them somewhere for reference when I publish my weekly newsletter. I am my own customer – I go there to remember what I published. How often do you check your posts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Google+? Never? Your content in social media might not be valuable.

Much has been made of influence scores and retweet/share metrics, but the simplest metric of all is to look at your own behavior. If you never go back to look at your own stuff, if you find no value in what you publish, chances are that no one else does, either. Start repairing your social media marketing by publishing things that are of value to you, and you’ll automatically be publishing things that are of value to others.

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December 20, 2011
3 methods to power social media success
I wrote the other day on Google+ that the “secret” to social media effectiveness is to give first, without expectation. Mitch Joel cites this as giver’s gain, one of the best ways to build up social currency. One of the most common questions about giver’s gain that stops people from doing it is this:

“But what do I have to give?”

The answer is straightforward: give what people need. You may not be a great content creator, you may not have a lot of experience, but you can learn content arbitrage in about 20 seconds. It goes like this: learn what your network needs, learn who has it, and connect the two.

Learn what your network needs.

There are some universal needs that everyone in the business world wants. Revenue, obviously. Press and media attention. Employment. Very few people will say, no, I don’t want more customers. Very few people will say, no, my business doesn’t need any more press. Very few people will say, no, I’m not interested in more or better career opportunities.

How do you know what your network needs? Listen to them. The people who are top of mind for me are the people who respond to me, people who talk to me, people who overcome their own shyness or hesitation and say hello at a conference. They’re the people who make a solid impression that tells me in a very short period of time who they are and what they do in an impactful way.

Your network is telling you this every day. Look on Facebook for what people are saying to you. Read what they tweet. See what they’ve edited on their LinkedIn profiles. Then start a running mental or physical list of who needs what.

Here’s a “top secret” phrase you can search for: “anyone recommend”. Look at the results for the metro Boston area:

People are asking you for your help all the time. You can easily provide it.

Learn who has it.

A 6 year old can search Google pretty easily. Answering the question of who can provide what your network needs is a matter of asking for data sources. Want to find press opportunities for your network? Subscribe to Peter Shankman’s Help A Reporter service and read through the 3 emails he sends each day that have limitless press opportunities in them. Find relevant queries for people in your network and forward the individual queries by email, and you’ve given people in your network opportunities for free earned press.

Does someone in your network need a job? Subscribe to appropriate geographic and industry feeds on Craigslist (there’s an RSS feed at the bottom of every job category). Listen on Twitter for people posting job ads. Check LinkedIn for who is hiring in your area – just go to News > Signal, and type hiring in the search box and you’ll see everyone asking for people to hire.

Who wants more business? You can be the provider of connections. Look for complementary businesses in your networks and proactively reach out and connect people. Who needs business? Learn who does what in your network and broker introductions.

The power is in your hands.

Here’s the most important lesson of all: none of these tasks require a marketing degree, a large business budget, or anything other than the ability to search intelligently. If you’re a college student looking to build a network before you graduate, if you’re someone looking for work, if you’re a sales guy or gal looking for deeper business relationships, these are all things you can do right now, today, at no cost except your time.

Social media success is waiting in front of you right now. Go get it!

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December 16, 2011
Making mountains out of molehills
Making mountains out of molehills is an old idiom that refers specifically to someone blowing an issue far out of proportion. In cognitive psychology, this is known as magnification. It’s such a common psychological phenomenon that we’ve had cultural idioms for centuries describing it, such as Shakespeare’s play, Much Ado About Nothing.

Magnification works based on a simple principle, the feedback loop. For example, someone who makes mountains out of molehills would take a bad grade on an exam and repeat the event over in his head repeatedly until it became so magnified that he leaped to the conclusion he would fail college. In this case, magnification serves a harmful outcome.

Suppose, however, you wanted to use magnification for a more productive end, such as marketing? What makes it work?

First and foremost, magnification hooks onto one or two key points that get repeated in your mind over and over again. Rarely does anyone magnify a complex thought pattern, because the thought pattern needs to be able to loop quickly in your mind.

Second, magnification has to create a derived future outcome. Rarely do we conclude that the original event is the outcome; in the example above, the bad grade wasn’t the focused outcome – failing out of college was. In order to get your mind to create a derived outcome, there has to be some element of predictive language at work. Fail an exam becomes magnified to fail out of college.

Third, magnification has to be able to synergize with itself to create a large distortion. In the case above of the bad exam grade, every repeat of the loop adds additional energy to the original negative feeling. If a situation or consequence doesn’t compound itself, you won’t magnify it in your head. Conversely, if you’re out to create a positive feeling, the feeling must amplify itself with every iteration of thought. Every time your prospective customer repeats the positive feeling, it should build on itself.

Let’s examine a case of magnification done really well: the marketing around Apple’s iPad. First, it’s a simple campaign: a magical device at an unbelievable price. There are only two hooks to grab onto, so the marketing of it is kept simple.

Second, it creates a derived future outcome. The key there is how we treat the word magical. Everyone’s interpretation of magic is different, but the general future outcomes are relatively similar: things just happen. Thus, if you view the iPad as magical, you can create outcomes in your mind that are specific to you but are aligned with the idea of magic.

Compare that to how many Android tablets are marketed, emphasizing faster graphics or dual-core processors, and it’s quite clear that much of the Android tablet marketing can’t help you create a future outcome in your head. Old sales professionals will recognize this clearly as marketing the benefit vs. the feature. This takes benefit a step further and emphasizes open-ended future benefits beyond something very specific.

Third, repeating that derived future outcome in your head synergizes with itself. Every time you imagine the magical outcomes you could create (if only you owned the product), you amplify and build it up. You add new positive outcomes or grow the ones already in your mind. The appeal of magic inspires you to want to repeat the message in your mind again – who doesn’t want the easy, magical solution? Again, if you emphasize a specific feature or benefit, you close off the mind from wanting to go back and explore other related outcomes.

Take your own marketing messages and examine them for simplicity, derived future outcomes, and repetition synergy, then rework your messages so that they are more likely to be made into mountains by your prospective and current customers.

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December 15, 2011
5 Google Currents tips to power your personal brand
Much ado has been made of Google’s new offering, Currents, which is a Flipboard-like mobile app that presents you the news. What’s not been made mention as much is how powerful this app is for consolidating your personal brand as a publisher and blogger. You can do much more than just publish your blog through it.

Here’s a few power tips I’ve found that might prove helpful.

1. Unless you’re someone who already has a recognizable logo, use your head for your edition icon – literally. It instantly draws recognition and action in the mass of Currents icons.

2. Turn on and set up your Google Analytics. Currents shows up in your Analytics as a pathed page, so go to Content > Site Content > Pages and filter for the /currents path. You’ll see exactly what people are viewing and using in it.

3. Bring in your social! Did you know you can include Google+, Facebook, and Twitter feeds? You can. Look for the RSS feeds for each service and then use Publisher to bring them in as social feeds. For example, I wired up Google+, Facebook (page), and my #the5 tweets. Important: if you use the feed selection, you will be required to verify ownership, which you can’t. If you use the social updates selection, it won’t force ownership verification.

Facebook RSS Feed

The Social Feed option

Power tip: Twitter still has RSS feeds, but they’re hidden. Premium content subscribers to my newsletter should hit the back issues and grab the tutorial for installing these manually. I’ll re-publish that tutorial this week, so if you’re not subscribed as a premium member, now might be the time.

4. 302 redirect Google’s ugly URL. No one wants to try to remember that. I redirected mine through cspenn.com/currents for easy sharing. This puts handles on it that you can easily carry around.

5. Make it obvious on your site. Currents will display it in Search, but to make sure people are getting the right edition, promote it on your site and in your social outlets with the direct link.

Of course, this wouldn’t be a marketing post if I didn’t pimp it. Please subscribe to my Google Currents edition.

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December 13, 2011
How to improve marketing ROI
Let’s talk a bit about improving marketing ROI today. How do you improve your marketing ROI? First and foremost, decide whether the outcome you want to measure is financial. A non-financial outcome, by definition, has no ROI because ROI is a financial formula. For example, if your goal is to get elected to political office, the outcome is either you are or are not elected. Unless you count bribes and “favors” as your actual outcome, you cannot by definition measure election to office with an ROI calculation. You can determine how much you spent to achieve that result, but that’s it.

So, assuming that our outcome is financial in nature, what comes next? Let’s go back to the Line of Sight Digital Marketing formula.

We know that net profit comes from margin times volume. To improve ROI, we can either move the margin lever up or the volume lever up.

There are two ways to move the volume lever up. We can either convert more people (increase action) or grow audience. There’s a catch with growing audience: without more investment of resources, you plateau fairly quickly with audience growth. You can invest more time or money to grow audience, but you have to watch your numbers like a hawk so that increased spending on audience growth doesn’t actually reduce your ROI.

The place you can move the needle much more is action. When you look at the numbers surrounding action, from clickthrough rates on emails to conversions on your website, you’re often looking at single or low double digits. We may say that a Twitter DM campaign has a highly successful conversion rate of 4%, but when you think about that, you’re effectively saying 96/100 people aren’t buying. An email campaign might have an open rate of 10%, but that’s saying 90/100 people never laid eyes on your email. There’s a tremendous amount of growth there, and is probably the first place you should look for moving the lever up on the volume side.

There are two ways to move the margin lever up. We can either increase income or reduce expenses. There’s a catch here as well! Imagine a rubber band holding these two levers together. Pull income up hard enough and the expense lever eventually comes with it. Logically, this makes sense – if you make some kind of good or service, you eventually need to hire more people to help you produce it if you want to grow your business beyond your capability to do it all yourself.

The converse is also true. Drag the expense lever down hard enough, and the income lever comes with it. You can only cut so far in expenses before you reduce your ability to create income. Logically, this also makes sense – fire everyone and you’re out of business.

As a marketer, there’s a good chance you will have little ability to change the pricing of your products and services. There’s a good chance you will have little ability to change what your company spends on salary, benefits, and other large expenses as well. Thus, if you have a directive to increase your marketing ROI, focusing on the margin side of the house is likely going to be a long and difficult uphill battle. Make changes where you can for easy increases in income or decreases in expenses, but then turn your attention back to conversion and audience growth, as these should be your domains.

Improving your marketing ROI means measuring your margin and volume, plus the subsequent subcategories. Keep an eye on your key performance indicators and attaining improved ROI should be within your reach!

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December 12, 2011

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