Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Marketing

iOS 14.5 and Marketing Analytics: How Concerned Should You Be?
In the past few weeks, we’ve heard that the sky is falling and that marketing will forever be ruined with Apple’s new iOS 14.5 update which would put privacy popups all over users’ iPhones. Now that the update is out, what’s the reality? How much of the hype was true?

I upgraded my phone to iOS 14.5 and decided to do some testing. One of the things I noticed out of the gate is that there were no privacy popups. Why? iOS 14.5 defaults to the strictest privacy settings. If users want to have the opportunity to give data to marketers, they have to enable it in the operating system first:

What’s the probability of users doing this? Almost zero. I’m a marketer and I won’t even turn it on in my phone.

How Bad Is the Impact on Basic Analytics?

So how much of an impact does this have? I wanted to test this out with Google Analytics (the software of choice for a sizeable part of marketing) and see just how much data loss there was:

iOS 14.5 and Marketing Analytics: How Concerned Should You Be?
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The short version? There wasn’t any noticeable data loss. I could still see my phone browsing my company’s website in Incognito/private browsing mode in Safari, Google Chrome, and the browser viewers in the Facebook and Twitter apps. Not only could I see my activity (which requires a Javascript to fire in the client browser, because I haven’t enabled server-side tagging yet), but I could see critical information like source, medium, and browser type.

In other words, I could see all the necessary information I need for basic unpaid marketing analytics.

Now, I didn’t test my company’s Facebook ads, but given how well unpaid tracking works, it’s not a great leap of faith to guess that basic paid tracking works as well; some things, like more complex Facebook pixels, I’m sure ARE impacted. Facebook has made no bones about how much they oppose Apple’s efforts, and they wouldn’t be quite so vociferous over nothing. But for the most part, it appears that Facebook is the loudest and most affected company; we’ve heard very little out of, say, Google on the topic.

Key Takeaways

There are things we should be doing as marketers to ensure we still have enough data to work with.

First, make sure your analytics setup is in good working order. Perform the same test I just did in the video, with Google Analytics real-time running, and see how your site is doing. If your site is very busy, then do it at the slowest time of day if you can.

Second, slim down how much is running on your site and put as much as possible into services like Google Tag Manager. The fewer pixels and tracking mechanisms on the page, the better – you want your site to be lean and fast in general.

Third, rigorously enforce the use of things like Google Analytics UTM tracking codes on everything. Email going out? Make sure your tracking codes are embedded in the links. Social posts going up? Make sure your tracking codes are in use. Billboard on the highway? Put tracking codes on the link, then shorten the link to something people can remember as they’re driving by. UTM tracking codes are the best, most robust, most difficult to block form of tracking – and they’re non-invasive, only collecting data when the user clicks on your link.

Fourth, for the various advertising platforms you work with, implement their required changes if you haven’t done so already. Prioritize that effort commensurate with how much you spend in ads on any given platform; for this, my personal website, I’ll get around to it eventually because I don’t spend money on Facebook ads all that often.

Fifth and most important, from a strategic perspective, prioritize first-party data efforts. That means doing things like building your email list, your text messaging list, loyal readers of your blog, your Slack or Discord community – anything where you are the primary manager of the relationship with your audience. I’ll say the same thing I’ve been saying since 2006:

Stop building on rented land.

If you don’t own the relationship with your audience, you don’t own anything. You are at the mercy of third parties, and they can do whatever they want to you and you have no choice in the matter. Look how ill-used you feel by companies like MySpace back in the day, or Facebook constantly pulling the rug out from under you and and demanding your credit card just to get any results.

Own the relationship with your audience. That is the best, most durable, most robust strategy you can pursue in marketing. It’s hard because it requires you to care about your audience and create significant value for them, but it’s the only thing that truly stands the test of time – and no adtech change will ever disrupt that.

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April 28, 2021
Identifying Core Competencies
Tuong asks, “Hello friends, I have 1 situation: Company X has 20 years of experience in making agricultural products (rice) and supplying them to customers (production, distribution). CEO sees the growth potential of the livestock sector in the next 5 years, CEO of the company wants to expand the company’s core competencies into the livestock sector. So will the CEO decide to do M&A or set up a completely new company to add this core competency quickly? Now the company will have 2 core competencies, right? Thank you.”

This is an interesting question because it very much depends on what the core competency of the company is. Is it truly rice? Does the company have so much experience and domain expertise in rice that very little of that knowledge will transfer over?

One of the challenges people face with core competencies is identifying what their actual core competency is. Prahalad and Hamel defined the term in 1990 in Harvard Business Review as a combination of skills and resources that give a company a competitive advantage.

Here’s where people mess up core competencies:

What you do isn’t the core competency.

How you do it is.

Take a company like Amazon. They sell tons of stuff. Back in the late 1990s, when they were just a book store online, they began to sell things other than books, and they were lambasted in the press. Who would buy a coffee maker from a book store?

What Amazon’s management team recognized was that book selling was not their core competency. The logistics of ecommerce was, and that capability allowed them to sell pretty much anything online and get it delivered to people, like an autoclave for laboratories.

Another obvious example: what business is Netflix in? In 1999, Netflix appaeared to be in the mail order DVD business, and their announcements to start offering streaming entertainment were pronounced as the doom of the company. Again, the management team there recognized they were in the business of reducing friction between consumers and entertainment using the Internet, so first offering streaming and then offering original content both aligned with that core competency.

So in the example Tuong has given, the question I have is whether rice is their core competency, or bringing agricultural products to market – the production and distribution – is their core competency. If they truly are the biggest and best rice experts on the planet and they’re doing stuff like genetic engineering on rice, then yes, in that scenario, acquiring a livestock portfolio might be more of a stretch. A lot of the knowledge and domain expertise in their current staff might not be as easily transferable from, say, basmati to black sheep.

On the other hand, if their core competency is actually agricultural logistics, then rice, corn, sheep, cows – the product doesn’t matter as much as their capability to get products to market that is in some (difficult to copy) way better, faster, or cheaper than their competitors.

So the key question to ask is, what is the company’s actual core competency? Invest time and effort to understand that, and then the merger strategy will become clear – if you have a core competency that blends well with the acquisition, then you still only have one core competency. If you don’t, then chances are you’ll want the new acquisition to continue functioning as an independent entity, rather than try to mash it together with the existing company.

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April 26, 2021
Is AI Moving Too Fast?
David asks, “I understand from today’s Denver Post that governments worldwide are putting the brakes on technology, particularly AI. Do you think that that will be good?”

In my youth, I would have immediately and unquestionably derided them for doing so. Technology is an incredibly powerful tool… and with the wisdom of years and tons of bad experiences, I think that people should move forward with technology at a pace that’s commensurate with their ability to use it responsibly.

I liken it to any other powerful tool. A katana in the hands of a skilled swordsman is a magical thing to watch. The swordsman and the sword are indistinguishable, and their control means they can choose to do whatever they wish with it. They could behead someone, certainly. But they could also trim your mustache precisely with it, with you incurring no other harm.

Now, would you give that same sword to a white belt, to a person who just walked into your martial arts school? I would certainly hope not. That could be lethally irresponsible, on the part of both the student and the teacher. No, you give that person the sword made of foam rubber and you supervise them carefully over the years, until they gain proficiency and mastery.

AI is a set of tools, nothing more. Like a sword, they do nothing sitting by themselves. Only when human hands take them up do they create great good – or great harm. AI has already brought great benefit to people; every time you shop or search for something and you find exactly what you want, you’re reaping the benefits of it. Every time a medical diagnosis is corrected, a hidden cancer discovered that human eyes missed on your MRI, you’re reaping the benefits of AI.

But as with any tool, there are those who misuse it. Every time a social media post leads you further away from truth, you’re being subject to unethical AI. Every time facial recognition profiles you without your consent, every time you’re denied a loan by a system that gives no explanation, every time your Facebook or Youtube account is flagged for “bad behavior” with no reason given, you’re being subject to unethical AI.

Legislators aren’t, generally speaking, the most forward thinking people. They’re often tasked with legislating things they just don’t understand. Look how many years – and how many bad laws – accumulated over the Internet itself, because some fool thought it was literally a series of tubes. Like many humans, legislators create laws based on what they understand, and what they understand most often is firmly lodged in the past.

Combine that with a hyperpartisan atmosphere where political positions have the same fervor – and danger – as religious beliefs, and it’s not a bad thing for governments to slow down and give some real thought to what they’re doing with AI to ensure it’s fair and non-discriminatory. The nature of government is such that once you implement something, no matter how good or bad it is, it tends to stay around. For example, it is still illegal in the state of Massachusetts to swear at a sporting event. Thankfully, no one enforces that law, or else the entirety of the Red Sox nation would be convicted.

So, is AI moving too fast? I’d argue that in commercial usage, different parts are moving at different speeds and they need to be moving together:
- The technology is moving plenty fast.
- The incorporation of ethics isn’t moving nearly fast enough.
- The training of people on how to work with it isn’t moving nearly fast enough.
To return to the original analogy, we’re making better swords every day, but we’re still not teaching people how to safely and responsibly use them. If we want AI to be an integral part of our businesses and our societies, we need to teach people how to safely and responsibly use it. Until then, governments slowing down the adoption of AI isn’t a bad thing at all.

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April 22, 2021
Analytics Governance, UTM Tracking, and Privacy
Third party cookies.
Safari iOS tracking updates.
Ad blockers.
CPRA.

So many different initiatives are in progress now to increase consumer privacy (a good thing) and decrease marketing’s ability to target people (less of a good thing if you’re a marketer who relies on that data).

When other marketers ask what my strategy is to deal with these changes, my answer is always the same: focus on what you control.

You control, to a great degree, your email list and what you do with it.

You control, to a great degree, the value of the content you publish.

You control, to a varying degree, the technology behind your owned media properties, like your website’s server.

You could control a substantial part of your analytics structure.

But most of all, you control the governance around your analytics. Governance is just a fancy word for answering “who’s doing what?”, and one of the most obvious, overlooked, poorly run parts of marketing analytics governance is the humble Google Analytics UTM tag.

You know what these are; they’re tracking codes appended to the end of URLs that look something like this:

christopherspenn.com?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

These kinds of tracking codes are typically implemented by individuals preparing content for campaigns, and by marketing automation software, from social schedulers like Agorapulse to marketing automation packages like Hubspot or Mautic. Marketers who put them in things like newsletters and social posts often do so haphazardly and inconsistently, but there’s a secret to them that will make them critical in the weeks and months ahead.

The Secret Power of UTM Tags

To understand the secret, we need to understand how analytics software works. Today, the vast majority of analytics implementations use client-side tracking:

When a user visits our website, they type in or click on a URL that brings them to our site. Our content loads, and a small piece of code – a Javascript, typically the Google Analytics tracking code – runs on the user’s device, on their browser. With some of the tracking changes coming, users will either be able to opt out of the tracking code running, or depending on the browser and platform, the tracking code may not be permitted to run at all. Some browsers and ad blockers outright block trackers entirely.

More advanced marketing technologists may deploy something called server-side tracking, which collects less information, but isn’t reliant on the user. In server-side tracking, a user types in or clicks on a URL that brings them to our site. Our server logs which URL is being called for, and sends that data to our analytics software, and then the content on our site loads for the user.

Because server-side tracking is looking at what a user is consuming on our website, on our server, it is immune to blocking. You physically cannot stop server-side tracking as a user, because in order to use our websites, you have to type in an address.

What does this have to do with UTM tracking codes? In the server-side tracking scenario, our servers glean most of the information from the URL itself, and from a few basic pieces of information like device type and browser type. That’s not enough data to build any kind of useful analytics about the user. But if that URL also contains UTM tracking codes, then suddenly we have a lot more information to work with. We know the source, medium, campaign, content, and even keywords – but only if they’re in the URL the user is visiting.

Which means that if we do our jobs right and make sure every URL we have control over is properly tagged when it’s shared, advertised, or distributed, we’ll still get usable marketing information to do things like attribution analysis.

And once a user opts in – by self-identifying when they fill out a form or otherwise give us permission to contact them – we’ll have at least some data to work with.

Reality Check

Here’s the reality check: as marketers, we don’t need anonymous third-party data to do our jobs. We really don’t. Half of it is suspect in quality anyway, and what insights do we really garner from it?

Better quality data comes from the user themselves, from them willingly telling us who they are and what they want. If an anonymous user is on our website and chooses not to give us any information even after perusing our offering, then guess what?

They probably don’t want what we have to sell, anyway. If they wanted to do business with us, they would have taken action.

Does knowing that they’re a 40-45 year old Korean-American male interested in technology help us? Does it get us any closer to persuading them that our offering for our product or service is a good fit for them? Not really. Remember the lesson of Bronies: demographic information is not purchase intent or even necessarily purchase probability.

As marketers, we should be investing our time in two things that are sustainable, durable, and eternal:

Having products and services customers actually want.

Creating compelling enough marketing that people actively seek it out and want to share it willingly with friends and colleagues.

If we do those things, combined with solid analytics governance, then tracking changes and privacy enhancements will be minor annoyances instead of business-disrupting challenges.

Your to-do list after reading this content should look like this:
1. Improve your products and services.
2. Improve your marketing quality to make it valuable on its own.
3. Build and enforce strong analytics tracking governance.
4. Implement server-side tracking on all the properties you own.
Do these things, and you’ll be ready for any tracking change or privacy enhancement that comes your way.

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April 21, 2021
AI for Marketers, Third Edition, Available Now!
Is AI still a mystery shrouded in an aura of mystique?

Have you read report after report, article after article proclaiming its magical powers and wondered what exactly the big deal is?

With every software vendor and services provider proclaiming that they too are an AI-powered company, it’s more difficult to demystify artificial intelligence and its applications for marketers. What is AI? Why should you care? How does it apply to your business?

In the newly revised Third Edition of AI for Marketers, you’ll get the answers you’ve been looking for. With all-new practical examples, you’ll learn:
– Key marketing problems AI solves, such as:
– Attribution modeling
– Forecasting
– Natural language processing for SEO and social media
– Influencer identification
– Detailed explanations of what it will take to successfully adopt AI for your marketing
– How to prepare your career for AI’s impact
– Ways your AI efforts will go wrong
– Prerequisites needed to help your AI efforts to succeed

If you own the Second Edition, the Third Edition has more examples (and frankly, better examples), plus all-new sections on bias, more details on the problems AI solves, and is 100% less stuffy to read.

Purchase your digital copy here, or if you’d prefer, purchase a paper copy here.

Behind the Scenes

AI is one of those tricky topics to write about, because the moment you hit publish, chances are something’s out of date in the book. That said, many of the problems marketers face don’t change all that much. As marketers, we need to forecast more accurately. We need to know what’s working. We need to see who’s most influential in our industry. The AI solutions to these problems do change, but the way in which we solve them doesn’t change enough to avoid publishing a book about it.

When I got started on revising the Second Edition, I noticed something that was a little off-putting. The way I’d written it – the language I used – was so stuffy and uptight that I’m surprised the book didn’t implode under its own pretentiousness. Since the start of the pandemic, I’ve been doing much more creative writing, and going to back to re-read the Second Edition was painful. The biggest change, by far, in the Third Edition is that I wrote it as though you and I were having a conversation over a cup of coffee, rather than as someone presenting at a lectern in an academic setting.

The reality is, AI isn’t a magic wand. It’s closer to a spreadsheet than a genie lamp. And if we want people to adopt it, we have to make it feel as ordinary and familiar as a spreadsheet. My hope is that reading through the Third Edition takes a lot of the mystery away, so that you’re inspired to start your journey towards adopting AI.

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April 20, 2021
Accessibility is a Marketing Advantage
Katie Martell recently pointed out the following:

Only 1% of homepages are accessible according to a recent review of 1M top-visited websites. Inclusivity means asking “who are we excluding?” Are we excluding those with a disability? (1 in 4 US adults!)

There’s an even bigger, profit-driven reason for inclusivity, if the altruistic side isn’t enough to motivate you to action.

Accessibility is a marketing advantage.

If you look under the hood at all the major algorithms and machine learning models that power modern marketing, from Google’s BERT to the YouTube recommendation engine to how LinkedIn decides what to show to members, they all have one thing in common: text.

Lots and lots of text. And what helps generate that text, those features that these advanced artificial intelligence programs use? Accessibility and inclusivity programs. Let’s look at three examples.

YouTube

YouTube takes into account search queries as well as the content of the videos to help decide how relevant a video is to a user’s experience. If you read their academic research papers carefully, you’ll note that they pull in video attributes like title, description, and other available text into part of their deep learning algorithm.

Guess what feeds part of that algorithm? If you guessed closed captions for the hearing impaired, pat yourself on the back. In fact, closed captions are such an important part of YouTube’s engine that they have their own automatically-generated captions for videos that don’t have them.

It doesn’t take a great leap of imagination to guess that if you provide the closed captions – ideally with the keywords and phrases you care about spelled correctly and checked for accuracy – your videos will perform better, especially in video search and video recommendations.

SEO

While what webmasters can do on a website to influence search algorithms and machine learning is limited (to prevent gaming the system), Google does insist on a number of basic things to rank well. Those basic things include navigability, clear identification of parts of a page, layouts that can be processed by their crawlers, and useful, relevant content.

In fact, Google has explained exactly how they crawl websites and digest what we provide to the search engine in very clear detail; they have massive server farms of headless Chrome browsers (no displays) that visit pages as if they were people.

Unsurprisingly, many of these requirements for Google’s crawlers to successfully digest a page are also things that improve accessibility. Adding alt text to images? That helps screen readers, and it also feeds Google’s crawling. Clear, obvious layouts of your page? Same. Pages that load without excessive Javascript or fancy animations that obscure simple navigation? Same.

The more accessible your website is, the easier it is for Google’s search crawlers to ingest as well.

LinkedIn

Finally, LinkedIn has published in various blog posts, technical interviews with engineers, and patents that their feed algorithm is based in part on text. But not just any text – LinkedIn considers the words on your profile, on the profiles of your first degree connections, as well as on your posts, comments, and uploads as inputs for who to show your posts to.

What’s one of the tasks asked of us when we upload a photo to LinkedIn? Provide an alt text description. What’s one of the tasks asked of us when we upload a video to LinkedIn? Provide a closed captions file. These aren’t just for compliance. These are text inputs into their system to help determine who to show our content to. If your closed captions file contains profile-matching text, it likely stands a better chance of being seen than if you hadn’t provided closed captions.

Accessibility is Machine Compatibility

What makes social media and SEO work well for humans with impairments also works well for machines processing our data and preparing it for use. The easier, faster, lighter, and more clear our digital content is, with multiple modalities for everything, the better our content will perform in both humans and machines.

Make accessibility and inclusivity part of your standard marketing processes, and you’ll be rewarded by both your human audience and your machine audience.

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April 19, 2021
How To Set Your Consulting Billing Rates and Fees
I was asked recently on Facebook about consulting billing rates:

“Was wondering how you work your consulting business? Is it per project? Per month? etc. I have had a few people ask for my help and I just am not sure where to start.”

Great question. There are two methods for assessing your fair consultant billing rate, and both are important, the floor and the ceiling. But before we get into that, we have to answer a critical existing question.

What Have You Been Billing?

This is usually the painful part. We typically express billing rates or effective billing rates in currency per hour of time. So, our first step should be to understand what our rates are. Whether you do projects, hourly billing, etc. doesn’t matter; we just need to get to an understanding of what our rate is.

Let’s say you’ve got a handful of recent projects. Log what you earned for each project, and log the hours you invested:

What we see above are some wild variations in our billing example, from a minimum of $333 per hour to a maximum of $3,400 per hour. That’s a literal 10x discrepancy from minimum to maximum. So the question is… why? What was so different about these clients or projects in the toy example above that justified such huge variations in what you were charging per hour?

If we don’t know, then this would be a good time to find out. Knowing what makes one customer pay 10x more than another customer is vitally important, because it helps you understand some of your value. If you can identify more of the work that pays crazy good, then you can focus your marketing efforts on attracting more of that kind of work.

So, now that you know what your current billing rate is, let’s see where it fits in the grand scheme of things.

Your Floor Minimum Billing Rate

Here’s how to judge your minimum consulting billing rate. This is the rate you must charge in order for you to justify your time and the project you’re working on and is typically expressed in an hourly rate. First, you need to know what your mandatory annual income is, the money you must earn in order to be able to survive and reasonably thrive. As a consultant, there’s a good chance you will be a 1099 consultant as well, so you’ll need to budget between 30-50% extra for health insurance, self-employment tax, etc.

For example, let’s say you have $40,000 in actual expenses for the year, including rent, food, etc. If you’d like to make a copy, feel free to use this link to copy this Google Sheet for yourself. (choose File > Make A Copy in the Google Sheets interface)

Using the calculator above, I set a tax bracket of 25% for federal, 7% for state, and a healthcare cost estimated at 25% of all expenses. Before anything else, the total income I’d need in this example is $62,800.

Now here’s the part almost every consultant does wrong. They assume 100% utilization, meaning every hour they’re clocked into work, they’re doing billable work. That’s far, far, far from the truth. The reality is that consultants are lucky to get 50% utilization. If you’ve ever done business with an agency, the average billing rate is 3x the salary of the person doing the work; that 3x multiple translates into 33% billable time. The other 67% of your time will be spent building your business, marketing yourself, speaking, etc.

In the example above, that $62,800 in necessary income is $188,400 in what you must bill in total for the year.

Don’t forget things like time off. If you want to take time off – and you should – that must be budgeted as well. In the example above, I removed 80 hours of billable time, or two weeks’ vacation. Want to take more? Remove more billable hours. Live in a nation where there are minimum requirements for time off? Add that in.

Once you have your hours and the total amount you must bill, divide the two. Above, in order to meet expenses, grow the business, and take time off, I would need to bill $94.20 per hour in order to sustain a consulting business. This is my floor billing rate, the rate I must not bill under, or else I risk losing money and/or harming my ability to grow the business. Most large consulting agencies follow a similar model, either the 3x rule or maintaining 40% gross margin.

For individuals and small boutique consulting firms, I strongly recommend the 3x rule.

Don’t accept any project under that rate unless there’s some massive leverage that comes with the project, like the opportunity to move up the food chain somehow. If you’re billing a project with a fixed fee, decide how many hours it will take you to accomplish it, multiply times your hourly rate, and be sure to specify in your contract that the project is restricted to X hours, with additional hourly charges for every hour after that point.

Remember the exercise you just did? If any of your projects or clients are below your floor billing rate, those are clients or projects that, if ongoing, you either need to raise your rates on, or consider parting ways.

Your Ceiling Maximum Billing Rate

The ceiling is where you make the big money, but it’s much harder to judge, much harder to assess without a lot of experience.

Your ceiling rate is based on how much your work is worth to your client.

For example, let’s say you’ve been asked to speak at a conference and you’re a popular speaker. You know that you can put 50 butts in seats just by telling your fan base that you’ll be there. You know that the conference is charging $495 per ticket. Effectively, your value to the conference is $495 x 50, or $24,750. If you don’t speak, the conference may or may not fill those seats.

It’s reasonable, therefore, to ask for a percentage of that ticket fee as your pay. How much should you ask for? Some conferences are offering up to 50% of the ticket price as a commission in their affiliate program, so it’s reasonable to ask for that as your fee outright or in an affiliate program if you’ve got a great audience/community.

Think about the contrast between floor and ceiling in this example. If you charged your floor rate of $94.20/hour, even if you billed for an entire day (8 hours) for the conference, you’d only make $753 at your floor billing rate. If you got 50% of ticket under your affiliate program (assuming 50 seats at $495/seat), you’d get $12,375. That’s a gigantic difference, and it’s why you must find your ceiling as quickly as possible.

In order to develop a fair ceiling rate, you must know and understand deeply the industries and companies you’re serving so that you know the economic value of the work you’re providing. As another example, say you know a particular method for looking at Google Analytics, a way that can instantly increase the ROI of a company by 30%. If you know the company’s industry and know that 30% more in their digital marketing ROI is worth X, you can justify charging a percentage of X and explaining how your pricing works. In Alan Weiss’ excellent Value-Based Fees book, he recommends a 4:1 ROI fee; for every $4 in new revenue you help a business earn, you keep $1, or 25%.

A third example might be a graphic designer whose work increases website conversion from 2% to 5%. What does a 3% increase in conversion mean? Well, if the designer understands the companies they work with, they can say, “you’ll earn more with my design because my methods improve conversion from 2% to 5%, and that’s worth X to your company in additional revenue, thus my fee is 25% of X’s value over the first year my design will be in operation as long as my design hits 5% conversion. After that first year, 100% of the increased value will be profit to you“.

That’s the power of ceiling billing rates – it goes far beyond day labor rates because you know what your work is worth, and once you explain that to your clients, you stand a far better chance of earning more. Why? Because you demonstrate understanding of their business and the value you are providing, and you have a performance target built in. If your client reaches 5% website conversion, you get paid a large fee because you created the value they were seeking.

Finding your ceiling requires you to ask, ask, ask your customers what the impact of your work will be, and/or asking peers, colleagues, or even competitors what results they’ve generated. There’s no substitute for domain expertise or knowledge in finding your ceiling.

The Big Question

Now, from the exercise you did at the beginning: how far off is your current maximum billing rate from what you believe to be true about the market maximum billing rate? Are you netting more than what you estimate? Are you substantially under?

If you calculate that your impact for a client is in the millions of dollars and you’re charging them hundreds of dollars, then that’s a pretty good sign that it’s time to raise your rates.

On the other hand, if your current maximum exceeds what you think the theoretical maximum is, then congratulations: you are setting the realistic market maximum rate because that’s what you’re getting paid now.

Conclusion

Floor billing rates are typically expressed in hours – $50/hour, $500/hour. Ceiling billing rates are typically expressed as percentages of fees or flat budgets. This project will cost $25,000, this work will cost $5,000, etc.

You know you’re closer to your ceiling billing rate when you stop quoting hours.

Your goal in doing any kind of consulting is to achieve your ceiling billing rate as soon as practical, while never violating the floor rate. That means developing a strong, deep understanding of the value of your work to your clients and moving away from the floor where you’re just another hired hand whose work quality may or may not impact their business.

Disclosure: this post was first published in 2012 and has been revised several times since. The most recent revision adds current billing rate calculations.

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April 16, 2021
IBM Watson AutoAI Time Series Forecasting Bakeoff
Today, let’s take a look at a new offering from IBM, the new AutoAI Time Series Forecasting module. Before we begin, let’s define a few things.

What is Time Series Forecasting?

Time series forecasting is predicting one or more data variables over some future time, based on previous data.

Why is Time Series Forecasting Valuable?

Because you want to know what’s likely to happen.

When is Time Series Forecasting Not Valuable?

When you’re trying to forecast something that hasn’t ever happened, or you’re trying to forecast something that cannot be forecasted because there are too many inputs.

For example, let’s say you were forecasting your restaurant business, and it’s February 2020. All your forecasts are based on previous data. No software in the world, no matter how good, would have successfully predicted the global pandemic.

The Bakeoff

We’ll compare two different methods for time series forecasting. First, we’ll use the traditional, code-based method in the R programming language. Then we’ll compare it with IBM Watson AutoAI’s Time Series Forecasting.

We start with good ol’ Google Analytics data. For this exercise, we’ll keep it simple. Based on the last few years of data from my website, can I forecast ahead what my likely traffic is going to be?

This is nearly ideal data for time series forecasting – lots of back data to work with, well-structured, nothing missing. If one or more of these conditions weren’t true, we’d have a hard time doing any kind of forecasting.

The Highly Technical Forecast with R

Using the R programming language, we feed our data into 6 different algorithms: ARIMA (autoregressive integrated moving averages), ETS (error trend and seasonality), Facebook’s Prophet algorithm, with and without XGBoost (extreme gradient boosting), GLMNet (generalized linear models with elastic net model paths), and random forests. These are all tried and true time series forecasting techniques with varying levels of technical sophistication.

We look at the outputs from our backtesting first to see which model gives us the greatest accuracy levels:

Gold stars to the Prophet models for having the lowest SMAPE (symmetric mean absolute percentage error) rates; this indicates that these models performed the best for time series forecasting. That said, R squared is a little on the low side for all of them, which means the models may not necessarily have done a great job of predicting what’s likely to happen.

Next, let’s look at the forecasts themselves. What do the models look like?

We see some models, like Prophet (lime green), really get a decent model of the ebbs and flows of website traffic. Others, like ARIMA (red), literally just project a straight line. That’s super not helpful.

Okay, so we’ve got a time series forecast (or set of forecasts, really) from R. Quick list of pros and cons.

Pros of R forecasting
- Free, you run it on your desktop
- Goes as fast as your computer goes (don’t try this on a weak machine)
- Highly configurable, you write the code to do what you want
Cons of R forecasting
- You have to know how to code
- You also have to have deep statistical knowledge to understand the performance of your models
- Need addons (also free) to make the process easier
The IBM Watson AutoAI Forecast

Next, let’s follow the same process with IBM Watson. We load our data in:

We see what it’s going to test, which is handy. Right now Watson can only predict 60 days ahead. Below, we see its backtesting process, which will check its predictions against known historical data:

Then, as we did manually, it automatically tests dozens of different combinations of algorithms and models. Note that I don’t have to do any of this as the user. It does it for me.

And it settled on BATS (Bayesian Analysis of Time Series):

We see that the SMAPE error for Watson’s choice of BATS is not only lower than the algorithms we tested in R, but the R squared error metric is MUCH better, almost 3x better.

When we look at the forecasted line, the dotted green line above, we see that as well. The series looks like a much more reasonable growth model. In the R forecast, the Prophet models looked good but they climbed ever higher; the Watson model increases, but seems to do so at a much more reasonable rate.

So, let’s look at the pros and cons of Watson AutoAI time series forecasting.

Pros of Watson AutoAI Forecasting
- More accurate out of the box than our custom built model
- No coding!
- Many more models and techniques tested out of the box
Cons of Watson AutoAI Forecasting
- No data export of the forecast itself
- Limited to a 60 day forecast window
- Not free
What’s the Best Time Series Forecasting Solution?

The best choice for time series forecasting is going to depend on your needs and use case. IBM Watson AutoAI delivers very high quality forecasts in a no-code environment, suitable for offering short-term (60 day) prediction windows. It’s not free, but it’s substantially easier to use than the open-source option.

R delivers high quality forecasts that are free and can extend out very far into the future (within statistical limits), but require substantial technical and statistical skills to implement.

Which you choose depends on what you need more, but both are good solutions for some organizations, not as good a fit for others, and both will continue to evolve and improve over time.

Important Compliance Disclosures

I am an IBM Champion, for which I receive non-monetary compensation from IBM (mostly apparel). IBM did not solicit this review.

My company, Trust Insights, is an IBM Registered Business Partner. Should you purchase something from IBM through Trust Insights, I would receive indirect financial benefit.

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April 15, 2021
How To Break Down Marketing KPIs
When we think about KPIs, key performance indicators, we tend to think of them monolithically. We think about them as though there are one set of KPIs that apply to everything we do in marketing.

“Marketing’s KPI is qualified leads.”

“Marketing’s KPI is brand awareness.”

These monolithic statements are fine for a big picture view of our marketing, but they aren’t terribly actionable for anyone except the biggest stakeholder. Those KPIs would be fine for a CMO. What about for a marketing coordinator? What about for a marketing director?

When we have monolithic KPIs and little else, we tend to run around in a scramble. Everything becomes a crisis, firefighting this and that, scrambling from metric to metric, in the hopes that something moves the big picture needle.

How do we manage our KPIs better? How do we avoid turning our marketing operations into constant firefighting, into behaving like a terrible Tarzan, swinging from crisis to crisis?

The Definition of a KPI

Our first step is to clarify what a KPI is. In the simplest terms:

A KPI is a measure for which you get a bonus or get fired.

Nothing makes KPIs more clear than that statement. If you won’t get a good or bad performance review for a metric, it’s not a KPI. If you won’t get a bonus for exceeding a number, it’s not a KPI.

Take a hard look at all the numbers you report on, right now. Which ones will get get dinged on in your next performance review?

If the answer is none of them, then you need to have a sit down with your manager or stakeholder and ask them for one, maybe two, at most three numbers for which you will be judged. If they can’t figure out any with you, then you need to update your LinkedIn profile, because your organization is in a lot of trouble.

Understanding KPI Hierarchies

Our second step has to be to understand KPI hierarchies. KPIs expand – or should expand – to match the organization responsible for them. If you’re a one-person sales and marketing team, then yes, revenue generated is pretty much your KPIs, and everything else is a metric.

But once you have multiple people working in sales and marketing – be they fellow employees, contractors, or agencies – then you need to start splitting up your KPIs. Here’s how. Ultimately, everything we do in marketing in a for-profit environment must lead to revenue. If we’re not creating revenue, then we’re not doing our jobs.

In your organization, what’s the next number that feeds directly into revenue, and who’s responsible for it?

This is where people get lost with KPIs – and they don’t have to. Let’s say you’re the VP of Sales and you report to the Chief Revenue Officer. Their KPI is revenue; the next number that feeds revenue is probably closed sales. Thus, their metric – closed sales – is likely your KPI. Now, you have a sales team. The number of closed won deals is directly fed by open deals. Thus, your sales team’s KPI could be open deals.

Extend this thinking all the way down your marketing operations funnel, and suddenly it becomes more clear what each person’s KPIs are in your operational hierarchy – a KPI hierarchy:

Each person has a KPI, and the metrics that feed into that KPI are the next person’s KPIs. Draw this out for your entire marketing organization, and what you should be focusing on should become very clear.

Map KPIs to MarTech

KPIs are no use if we never look at them, if they’re not part and parcel of our everyday life. Data ignored are data unused, and data unused are decisions unmade.

So, how do we truly integrate our KPIs with our work? By understanding where in our marketing technology stack they live, and then making that the primary reporting tool for each person.

Where should a sales person spend their time? In their sales CRM, of course. So where should their dashboard with KPIs live?

Not in systems they don’t use. They should be front and center in their CRM.

When we map our KPIs to our technologies, it becomes clear how we should structure our reporting:

Each person’s KPI reporting should be in the system they use the most. If they’re not… then they’ve either got the wrong KPIs, or your organization’s marketing technology is deeply broken.

KPIs Mean Decisions

A KPI is a speedometer for your efforts. Too fast can be bad. Too slow can be bad. Going just at the ideal speed limit for your efforts is the goal – to hit or exceed your goals by a reasonable margin so that you generate the results expected of you.

Like a speedometer, your KPIs should be in front of you almost all the time, and you should be making decisions based on them. If you’re going too slow, what should you do to speed up? If you’re going too fast, what should you do to slow down just the right amount?

This is especially true when you’re working with things like paid advertising – too fast means you’ll burn through your budget much too soon.

So, identify your KPIs. Watch them closely. Make decisions often. That’s how you break them down and make them useful.

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April 14, 2021
How to Measure the Marketing Impact of Public Speaking
One of the constant questions about thought leadership and public speaking, especially when you’re speaking on behalf of a brand or company, is how do you measure the impact? How do you know when your public speaking is delivering any kind of benefit?

There are several ways to quantify the impact of public speaking; let’s look at a few of them.

Public Speaking Measurement Prerequisites

Before we dig into measuring public speaking, we need to have some base data in place. We will need a working Google Analytics (or the web analytics system of your choice) account in place, with data collected, for a minimum of 6 months of data. Why 6 months? For some of the more advanced techniques, we’ll want lots of comparison opportunities. The Google Analytics account should be set up to track at least one goal.

You’ll need some kind of trackable offering for your speaking as well, something that audiences can take action on, be it a simple “subscribe to my email list” or a download that provides some benefit.

Finally, we’ll want some kind of URL shortener and/or custom domain names assigned to each speaker, for ease of tracking audience response.

Direct Impact

The first, easiest way to track the impact of public speaking efforts is through direct impact. This is where our speakers share custom URLs that drive traffic back to our websites, and we’re then able to measure that impact. For example, when I speak, I typically will share the custom URL WhereCanIGetTheSlides.com, which redirects to the Trust Insights website and appends custom UTM tracking codes that indicate any visitor to that link is coming from a speech I’m giving.

You can, of course, use URL shorteners or redirects off your company website, but in general, the easier a URL is to remember after hearing it, the more likely it is that an audience will take action on it. My simple test for this is to say it to a smart assistant like Siri or Alexa (“Hey Siri, visit the site WhereCAnIGetTheSlides.com”). If they don’t get it right on the first try, I know the URL isn’t simple enough.

How do we find the information we’re generating? In Google Analytics, we create a segment for that traffic’s UTM tracking codes, and then we can see traffic coming in from it:

We can see the traffic to that speaking segment of the audience very clearly, including when I spoke at a large event.

Even more important, if we have goals and goal values set up and properly tracked, we can see that same traffic segment and the goal completions it generated:

This is a good start to measuring public speaking, but advocates of public speaking will say – correctly – that it’s an incomplete picture. What about people who hear a speaker and then go look them up later, or get back to the office a few days after an event?

Indirect Impact: Brand Impact

Indirect measurement of public speaking is our second level of analysis. Take a look at the analytics chart above, on conversions. We see that there was a big spike on the day of the event, but that isn’t where the impact of speaking stopped. For a full 21 days after the event, we saw conversions happening. For a full 10 days after the event, we saw above-average site traffic happening. It stands to reason, logically, that there was a halo effect during that extended period of time.

So the question is, what other things might our public speaking have impacted during that timeframe? Here’s the challenge that almost every marketing organization has run into with public relations, brand building, and public speaking: interference. Very few organizations are doing one and only one thing at a given time. On any given day, various ad campaigns may be in flight. Something may be happening in social media. A direct mail campaign might be going out. Broadcast ads may be running.

All that makes it very difficult for the average marketer to figure out what the contribution of public speaking is to our marketing efforts because of all that interference. So how do we de-noise that, and still look at public speaking’s impacts on our marketing?

If we go back to our traffic data, we see when there are clear periods of time when public speaking is delivering direct impact. Using that information, we’ll make note of the fact that those periods are when we should be looking for impact. In an ideal situation, we’d be able to conduct A/B tests between days when we have speaking and days we don’t, but we can’t just shut off our marketing for a few days.

So, the next best thing is to use a statistical technique called propensity score modeling, which takes days when we’ve got something going on – like speaking – and tries to match them up with days when we don’t have speaking going on, but we’ve got other similar activities. For example, suppose on a given day, we’re speaking, but our company is also running PPC ads and has an email going out. We wouldn’t want to compare our speaking days to just any other day; we’d want to compare it, as best as possible, to another day when no speaking is happening, but PPC ads and an email are going out, to get as close to an apples-to-apples comparison as our speaking days.

What do we find?

We obviously see the increase in speaking traffic during speaking periods; that’s a good sanity check. If that didn’t increase, it would mean we’ve done something wrong in the data processing itself. However, we also see other sources improving concurrently, such as Facebook and LinkedIn; this tells us these channels may be experiencing benefit from our stage presence/brand presence.

Many of the events we’re at are sending increased traffic as well, so our stage presence is complemented by event promotions.

Bear in mind that techniques such as propensity score modeling hint at causation but don’t provide definitive causal links between speaking and other marketing channels. Nonetheless, we do see some increases, so we’ve got at least the grounds to make a case for public speaking’s impact.

Now, this is a really good way of seeing what happens while we’re on stage and during a few days after. But what about the long-term impacts of public speaking? Public speaking is supposed to bolster awareness and trust in a company, so how do we measure that in the big picture?

Blended Impact: Attribution Modeling

The third level of measuring public speaking is to look at the behavior of the audience in the long-term, as opposed to narrow windows of time when events are happening. What does the halo effect of speaking look like?

To make this determination, we need a technique that can track users over long periods of time, to better understand their behavior in the big picture. That technique is attribution modeling. The very best attribution models, ones based in advanced data science and machine learning techniques, take into account channels like public speaking’s ability to attract users and then see what happens to those users over longer periods of time, sometimes as much as years.

The challenge with this kind of attribution modeling, the reason it’s not more common, is that it requires extensive, high-quality data typically gathered in a system like Google Analytics or ideally, inside a CRM. Especially for companies that have very long sales cycles (think years), the only reliable data will be on a per-customer basis in the CRM.

What does that kind of model look like? Something like this:

This model, which spans 13 months, shows that public speaking played a role in over 150 conversions. How much of a role? The output of this particular machine learning model for our purposes is something called variable importance; essentially, it’s saying that public speaking played a contributing role in conversions that accounted for 4.5% of conversions. If we stopped doing public speaking, we could lose those conversions – and that would be a sizeable hit to our marketing.

What’s critical is the timeframe; we’re using models and data that span months, long after we’ve exited the stage. That’s what’s missing from the earlier methods – it’s good and important to measure our impact on stage and immediately after we get off stage, but what about a month, two months, three months later? Only attribution modeling, properly done, will tell us the long-term effects of our speaking.

Depending on your company’s data, you might even be able to attach a dollar value to that number. How much is a prospect worth to your company? A lead? A legitimate sales opportunity? Imagine a lead is worth $100 to your sales organization. If you had the same performance for public speaking as we do above, then the value of public speaking could be inferred to be $15,051. Now, if you know how much you spent on public speaking – which for the past 13 months (pandemic, for readers who read this after 2021) has been nearly zero because no one has traveled anywhere except your Zoom call, your kitchen, and your restroom – then the ROI on public speaking has been astonishingly high. Even in the before times, if you spent $10,000 on speaking expenses and you earned $15,000, you’d have a speaking ROI of 50%.

This is how you ultimately find the value of public speaking. With rigorous data collection and modeling, it’s possible to see the marketing impact of public speaking in multiple different ways.

If you’re a fellow public speaker, make sure the organization you represent – be it yourself or a company – is set up to track data aggressively, so that you can demonstrate the value of what you do.

If you’re a marketing organization, the same advice applies. Ensure your data collection and analysis is robust and you’ll be able to understand the value of public speaking to your overall marketing efforts.

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April 12, 2021

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