Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Marketing

  • You Ask, I Answer: Centralizing Content Marketing Ideas?

    You Ask, I Answer: Centralizing Content Marketing Ideas?

    Stephanie asks, “Is there a good system for centralizing ideas? What tools do you use?”

    For images, I store stuff in Camtasia’s SnagIt. For other stuff, I used to use Evernote, but I’ve since switched to the open-source package Joplin because of its full support for Markdown, one of the most powerful markup languages a marketer could learn.

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    In this episode, Stephanie asks, Is there a good system for centralizing ideas? What tools do you use? It depends.

    It depends on what the type of idea is.

    There’s so many different formats and things that you can use to store ideas.

    But there’s a few tools I think, are really essential.

    The first one, I’ll bring this up here is Snagit.

    So this is by techsmith.

    They make the software screen capture software, and the ability to just take screenshots include parts of your screen and store them in an X that was really helpful.

    And you can see here, I’ve got, this is the interface.

    And then you flip this around.

    What you can see is it has a library of all the screenshots you’ve taken in the past, which is, again, super helpful to be able to look at what you’ve done, what you’ve taken photos of, and catalog them things like that.

    When it comes to images in general, though, the absolute best tool by far is Google Photos.

    Because when you upload images, including like screenshots to Google Photos, it’s AI has automatic image recognition.

    And it’s going to automatically analyze and scan what is in the photo.

    So you could have been typing into the search box in your Google Photos account, you know, conference, room, table, dinner car, people smiling your dog.

    And in doing so, it gives you access to a huge essentially catalogue of your own stock photography and your own ideas.

    That includes having the Google Photos app on your phone.

    Because again, if you’re out and about and you see something cool, we take a photo of it.

    And obviously, all your phone is recording things like your location, the time, the day, all that stuff, but more than anything, it’s indexing it so you see a great idea on a billboard to take a photo of you does, you know some fun things happening outside I was going to say at an event, but those shouldn’t be happening.

    Take a photo of it and it goes into Google Photos for indexing.

    If you work on a content marketing team, setting up a generic gmail account for your team and having it linked to Google Photos is a super powerful way to have your own stock photography library, right? If you have people taking photos around the office and things loaded onto Google Photos, make sure they’re loading all of the stuff they intend to and not all their stuff.

    You don’t want people’s personal stuff in there.

    And then you have an index, you have a huge index that you can use for your own stock photography for writing, the tool I use, I used to use Evernote and I still do somewhat but when it comes to idea storage or retrieval, this one’s open source package called Joplin.

    I love Joplin for a couple of reasons.

    One, it’s free and it’s open source, which is cross platform to Joplin allows you Joplin allows you to sync with the cloud service of your choice.

    So drive Dropbox, etc.

    But most important, Joplin supports what’s called markdown.

    markdown is a scripting layer.

    It’s a markup language.

    So what you do is you write in plain text than these specific characters to denote things like typography changes like that.

    This is a bold word, this is an italic word.

    You can break things up like headers with a pound sign before a word and make, you know headers, header one, header two, header three.

    But it’s all in plain text, which means that there’s no formatting challenges.

    If you go to open up a markdown document in 20 years, you will still be able to read as plain as day as if you had written it, you know, 20 years ago, it would still be just as compatible and that’s what’s so powerful about it.

    There are rendering engines like Joplin has one built in pandoc, colbray, all these different free open source engines that can take a markdown document and then transform it into the format of your choice HTML Word document PDF EPUB or mobi for screen readers, latex and bibtex for no formal academic papers.

    having that ability to to write in an easy to use format that is always readable, but then transform it into the format’s you want is super powerful.

    So in Joplin, you can see here I’ve got folders or notebooks called and then text in those.

    And you can see that in this example here, we have this one, my pandemic newsletter.

    So there’s the markdown on the left side, and then there is what it looks like rendered on the right hand side and that’s really it right? Being able to store ideas in different folders and and driving down is super helpful.

    The last thing for centralizing ideas is all of the tools that we have with these smart assistants and the ones on our phones, there is nothing better than being able to just literally yell out in the air.

    Hey, smart assistant, remind me about content marketing vectorization that may not necessarily get the words right.

    But being able to just yell out into the air, hey, this is the thing I’m trying to remember.

    And then having the system dump it onto, you know, an app either on your phone or on your desktop is super powerful, because you don’t have to write anything down.

    You don’t have to remember to carry a piece of paper with you can just open up.

    Either a reminder, if it’s a short idea, or a voice memo app for longer ideas again, hey, hey Siri, open up a voice memo, start a new voice memo.

    And what the system will do then is start recording and then you can speak your idea out loud.

    That is really, really helpful for when you’re walking out and about, especially if you’re driving somewhere and an idea comes to you and you don’t want to be doing something other than like safely operating the vehicle.

    Having that handy is is just invaluable, especially if you wire it up to a system like if this, then that or Zapier, that will allow you to take ideas from one system and move them to another system, there’s a If This Then That routine that lets you take your Amazon reminders and sync them to your Apple reminders so that all your ideas still flow into one area where that you can you can get at them.

    At the end of the day, it’s just having tools available that can capture ideas as you have them because as we all know, they don’t last a whole lot.

    Long time they they come in and they’re gone like that.

    A lot of folks will keep like a journal or something right by their bed in order to be able to do the same thing.

    And you know, certainly if that works for you great.

    Again, being able to yell out into the air Hey, smart assistant.

    Now remember this idea, or remind me of this idea allows you to do that.

    In terms of being able to index it all Google’s photos is probably the best overall indexing solution.

    And then again, one of the things that’s nice about Joplin is that because it writes essentially markdown files to your computer’s disk.

    Any of this the things on your whatever your operating system you’re on to just find content in files will help you will find those Joplin documents.

    If you’re not, you don’t have them in the interface and identify the specific document and then again, because it’s all plain text to go in, you’ll look at it and go, that was the idea was working on.

    So those are the big tools that I use.

    Would love to hear about what tools you use for centralizing your ideas how you capture all these ideas together, and turn them into content later on.

    leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Focus on One Content Marketing Format?

    You Ask, I Answer: Focus on One Content Marketing Format?

    Stephanie asks, “If someone only has the bandwidth to create in one format, where should they focus their time?”

    Video. Why? Because a transmedia content strategy permits you to spin lots of assets from one video.

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    In today’s episode, Stephanie asks, If someone only has the bandwidth to create in one format, where should they focus their time? So for content marketing purposes, the answer to this question is really easy.

    The answer is video.

    Here’s why I bring up our video first content tramp transmedia content framework.

    One video video is the richest format.

    It contains moving images, it contains still images, it contains audio.

    And from that, we can turn that into many, many pieces of content.

    It’s much harder to turn other pieces of content into video than it is to turn video into other pieces of content because it’s the most dense.

    I mean, you know this, if you’ve ever worked with video files, they’re huge, huge files, that they’re just information dense.

    And so we can use video and transform it to all sorts of other stuff.

    Just like I do every day with you ask I answer I do the simple stuff this video, we pull the audio out the audio becomes the podcast that goes along with that the audio then gets sent to otter.ai that transcription services, I’ll link in the show notes below.

    And you will get from that text and suddenly, instead of just making a video every day, and having to make a podcast and then having to make a blog post, I get three for the price of one video is the center.

    So from video you get you get you take little clips.

    And those are great for Instagram stories, Snapchat stories if you’re still doing that, I suppose reels if you wanted to add some music to it and some fun stuff, animations animated GIFs being able to send stuff to like giffy if you wanted to, from the audio, like I said, you get the podcast, get a transcript out of it.

    And that transcript can be content then you can clean it up and turn it into blog posts, ebooks, white papers, newsletters, anything like that you could put together an entire set of transcripts as a book effectively.

    So if you’re doing a video show every day Every week, you could be writing your next book.

    From the video, you can also take still images right screen captures.

    Those become things like Instagram content, you can put them up on Flickr 500 pixels pixiv, all these different image sharing sites if you’re depending on the industry you’re in.

    And of course, the video itself, the native video, you can load that to YouTube, obviously, is the number one choice because of it.

    Functionally, just a giant search engine, LinkedIn, if you’re in the b2b side, you should be loading your videos natively to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, depending on the length.

    You can load your videos into systems like webinar Ninja, or go to go to webinar or any of this any service that supports pre recorded videos.

    And then, depending on the type of videos you have, you could put together an entire webinar.

    But even if you didn’t, just by having those videos on on say, YouTube, you can then go into a YouTube Analytics, look at them.

    It’s okay, which of my 250 videos I do a year? Which of the top 10 what the top 10 topics are just getting the views getting the views over time, like consistently racking up views, guess what that tells you, it’s time to do a webinar on those things.

    So it’s time to do a something virtual there a live stream or something like that.

    But whatever it is, that helps you understand, you know, this is a topic that is hot, and that that can webinar.

    If the webinar does well, it can become a conference talk.

    There’s not much of a difference these days because, you know, pandemic.

    But for events like content marketing world, for example, you might want to, to look at your video catalog and say, Hmm, what’s done really well, what’s done so well that I could turn this into a session that people would actually want to see.

    And if the idea continues to grow and grow and grow, that could become a keynote.

    So video encapsulates so much of this information and does so well that I can’t think of a better format for a marketer to really focus on if you only have the bandwidth to create one format.

    Create video because you’re creating multiple formats by default, especially if you do it.

    You don’t over produce it.

    Right? So you asked to answer yes, we’ve got a decent microphone got a decent camera.

    But there’s other than the question, text and a few notes.

    There’s not a whole lot that goes into these.

    It’s not like some long, elaborate script.

    It literally is just answering questions and it’s not over produced.

    Once I’m done with this video.

    It goes into Camtasia Camtasia renders it and read up to YouTube.

    So it’s not like it takes hours and hours every day.

    The whole process of this process for me every morning takes about 40 minutes from beginning to end.

    Some mornings a little longer than others depending on on on how tired I am.

    But you can be doing the same thing, right? You can borrow.

    I mean, the idea of us can answer comes from Marcus Sheridan from his book they ask you answer.

    And you can do the same thing for your industry or the same thing for you for all the questions that people are asking you go into your customer service inbox, go to your social media channels start pulling out and restoring every single question that comes in and answer them.

    You don’t necessarily have to tile it as you know, on the nose as you asked to answer.

    But you absolutely can just spend time answering people’s questions, doing it either by yourself or with partners or customers.

    But just do lots and lots of video.

    Another thing you can do is video if you want to create a lot of it.

    But you don’t necessarily want to do it as a regular process every day is do subject matter expert interviews, inside your company outside your company.

    If you can grab 45 minutes of questions that you have that for an expert, you ask them the questions then you take that video, slice it up, you know, maybe in five minute chunks, right? That’s going to give you nine videos.

    That’s a lot of content.

    They could be nine weeks if you want to do a weekly series could be due to nine, nine days, so almost almost two weeks to business to business weeks of content for weekdays.

    But then again, take that video and splice into all these different pieces.

    And instead of creating one piece of content or one social poster, you’re going to create a tremendous amount of assets from one core asset.

    So if you only got time to focus on a format, do a video.

    You don’t have to spend a lot of money this device if your phone is you know less than two years old, the likelihood that the camera on is good enough to do high quality video is pretty good.

    More importantly, you’ll probably need to get something for better audio because the audio on the is just terrible.

    But this is a good enough camera.

    Even if you it’s a little bit more work if you don’t have video editing software, you should get some there’s there are a number of free open source package.

    As well as the paid ones out there.

    Open shot I believe are open cut, shot cut as one.

    So there are some really good free tools that you can use and there’s obviously even what your computer comes with, you know, Windows Movie Maker, I think that still exists iMovie on the Mac, they’re good enough to generate decent quality video because you’re not gonna be doing fancy effects and Hollywood stuff, you know, it’s it’s just a lot of times just a talking head, you have a maybe some title to a title screen of some kind.

    And that’s it.

    It doesn’t have to be super fancy.

    Unless you work for a video production company in which case, you should be using a company’s full capabilities to demonstrate just how polished and professional you are, but anybody in any department can be creating video.

    If you don’t have a good camera and your phone as far away as it should be for a decent shot.

    You may want to have a little pocket recorder that can sit in your pocket or have a superstar super inexpensive, you know $9 lavalier mic that can record you talking and then you sync up the audio and video later in production.

    Really good idea to do that with subject matter experts because you want them to sound good.

    You want them to look good and sound good when you turn your video into other formats, so focus on video, and then we’ll make all the other content for you got follow up questions leave in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Causation Without Correlation?

    You Ask, I Answer: Causation Without Correlation?

    Vito asks, “Let’s assume we have the joint probability distributions of A and B. In that scenario, is it possible that A causes B, but A and B are not correlated?”

    This is possible and even probable when you have missing data, especially if the missing data is also partially causal.

    Some examples:
    – Distributions that are not normal, are causal, and have a Pearson R score of zero (like stress before a test)
    – Hidden data – A / B / C vs A / D / C – and B has no correlation to D
    – Unobservable data – like gravity, which is not something that can be measured at all because we have no quantum particle for it
    – Many causes of A > B and A is not the primary cause
    – Causes that collide – A > B and C < B, net R of 0, like treatment and illness

    You Ask, I Answer: Causation Without Correlation?
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    In today’s episode Vito asks, let’s assume that we have the joint probability distributions of a and b.

    In that scenario, is it possible that A causes B but a and b are not correlated? So this is a comment that was left on my website about a post I did a number of years ago on correlation and causation.

    It is generally accepted that correlation is not causation.

    Just because two variables are correlated, does not mean that one causes the other.

    The textbook example of this is ice cream and drowning deaths.

    Ice cream death, consumption of ice cream, and number of deaths from drowning are strongly correlated in a lot of datasets.

    Why? Well, logically, we know that there’s this thing called summertime and as people, the weather gets warmer, people eat more ice cream, people go swimming more Second years of pandemics, and you have an increase in drowning deaths.

    So what about the reverse which is what Vito is asking, Can the reverse be true? Can you have causation? Without correlation? The answer is yes, it is possible.

    In fact, it is probable in some cases where you have, you know, hidden data or missing data, things like that.

    So, let’s talk about a few of these situations, five of them.

    The first is, anytime you have a distribution of data, that is not a normal distribution, there may be something causal in it, but it may end up having a statistical correlation of zero.

    So, if you think about your typical plots, right, those dots scattered all over the places, or there may be a line of dots So, you can draw a line with the dots.

    That’s your typical Pearson correlation.

    If you have a shape, for example of dots that looks like a big square, guess what, you have a statistical Pearson score of zero, even though there may be something very causal in that data, you could have something it looks like a smiley face, right? Again, that would have a score of zero.

    But you could, that could very well be something causal happening there.

    So that’s an example where you have non normal distributions.

    And you still have a correlation, a mathematical correlation of zero.

    Even if those things are causal in nature.

    You can have hidden data hidden did that it is observe the unobserved you didn’t see it.

    There may be a pathway to because, but it’s not.

    But if you’re used to measuring in stages, it may not make sense.

    So for example, let’s say you have a, b and c column look at past conversion, your Google Analytics, a leads to b b leads to C and you may have Carlin’s Along those, there may be a D in there somewhere, right and maybe a D, C, and then B has no correlation to D, you may end up having a break in correlation, even though that fourth interfering factor there that you didn’t measure, or you didn’t know about, was playing a role.

    That’s where things like, especially with analytics, like propensity score modeling come really handy to be able to tease out Oh, there’s something else at play here.

    Even if the regression score is zero, net across your chain of conversion, they may be interfering factors along the way.

    A third way this can happen is when you have some bits on observable that cannot be measured.

    Again, textbook example here.

    We know there that gravity exists, right? Who’s the debate about this? by anybody who has even grade school education I’m sure there’s some people out there believe that because the earth is flat, there’s no gravity, but they’re idiots.

    Gravity has no particle that we’ve been able to find yet in quantum physics.

    So even though we know it exists is causal, we cannot measure it.

    And therefore, there is no correlation because there’s you can’t correlate something that you don’t have data for.

    So that’s an example that’s very obvious.

    Oh, there’s there’s a cause gravity, but there’s no data to back it up.

    A fourth situation, what happens a lot in marketing is when you have say A and B, and you’re looking for a relationship.

    And B has many, many, many, many causes.

    A, maybe causal but very weakly causal, it may not show a relationship, especially there’s a lot of noise.

    Again, in marketing.

    This is you see this a lot with attribution analysis was the impact of Facebook of Twitter of email of referrals of direct traffic of SEO of SEM All these different channels and any one channel may have a very strong or weak relationship to the the outcome that you’re looking for that conversions, you may not be able to show a, a correlation between A and B, because there’s like D that’s just making all the noise.

    But that doesn’t mean that a is not causal to B, it just means you can’t measure it because it’s you’ve got too much interference.

    And then the last situation where this is likely to happen is when you have causes that collide.

    Again, the textbook example is here is things like illness, right illness and mortality are two variables and there may be a negative correlation there and then a positive correlation and you may have treatment and mortality, you may have a negative karma And the more treatment, the less mortality.

    And if you put those together, if you were grouping them together, you would get a net of zero, right? Because the effect would cancel each other out.

    And so in that instance, you are zero.

    But that doesn’t mean that there’s no causal relationship.

    In fact, you would have to break up the data to figure out that, Oh, actually, the illness and mortality is positively correlated, the treatment and the mortality is negatively correlated, and you separate those two out, a and b and b and c should not be grouped together.

    Because if you’re trying to measure illness, and treatment and mortality together, yet, they cancel each other out.

    Correlation perspective.

    So those are five examples.

    And then they were just weird things.

    I guess the weird things would be like, stuff that fall in the first category, like if you if you’re trying to measure for example, performance on a test and academic test and you have like stress or fatigue or something like that is again not gonna be a normal a normal linear distribution, it could be all over the place and you might not find a a mathematical relationship even though there is a causal relationship like a little bit of stress for a test is good motivates you to study a lot of stress before tests that keeps you up all night.

    Not so good, right, because you go into the test a zombie.

    So, there are there are instances where causation and correlation mathematical correlation do not line up.

    They are much less rare and obviously the the case where correlation is not causation is much more common.

    But it does exist in cases where you’ve got pieces of data either missing or on observable or lots of interference, so be aware of them.

    A couple of examples talked about like an attribution analysis are real problems that marketers may have to face, especially if you’re doing more and more complex attribution.

    models, you may need to use different techniques than just regression analysis if you’ve got a lot of either contributing causes or cancelling causes, so being aware of how you’re doing your computations is really important.

    So that’s a set of answers.

    Interesting question a tough one to dig through hopefully made sense.

    You got follow up questions, leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Where to Find Data for Real Estate?

    You Ask, I Answer: Where to Find Data for Real Estate?

    Gina asks, “I’m in real estate and 2021 promises to be a very data active year for real estate, based on the market rise in 2020 and an expected fall in 2021. Would love to hear how and where you gain data for study – is it just via NAR? Other sources?”

    This is an important question because it’s not just the data itself that’s important – it’s also what we do with it. This kind of exploratory data analysis has three major components: the goal/requirements, the data, and the processing of it.

    You Ask, I Answer: Where to Find Data for Real Estate?
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    In today’s episode, Gina asks, I’m in real estate and 2021 promises to be a very data active year real estate based on the market rise in 2020.

    And unexpected fall in 2021.

    Would love to hear how and where you gain data for studies that justify things like National Association of Realtors or other sources.

    So this is an important question, because not just about the data itself.

    data by itself doesn’t really help us with anything.

    And one of the things that we say a lot around the shop is data without decisions distraction, we need to understand what decisions are we trying to make for the individual real estate agent? It could be things like forecasting and what’s likely to happen to your business.

    Is it a buyer’s market as a seller’s market what’s what’s likely to happen? For a firm like, say a Coldwell Banker, it could be macro economics, looking at the Market overall, what are the profitability? Is the market for the buyer or the seller? The individual homeowner? it’s things like probabilities, how easy will it be for me to sell a home or buy a home? will it cost me more or less.

    And one of the challenges with real estate, in general, but in in data specifically, is that there’s a lot of data that goes into real estate.

    So this is where you’re going to have an exploratory data analysis methodology that’s going to look at three major things, right? Number one, what’s the goal? Like, what is it what are you trying to prove? Or what do you find the research? Number two, what data do you need to prove that and then number three, what is the processing methodology, the algorithms you choose the tools, the techniques, the process that you go through to analyze the data, and it’s it’s gonna be an iterative process because there’s good chance that As you start digging further and further into all the different data that’s available, you’re gonna find a whole bunch of dead ends, you’re gonna find some things that don’t have even associations or correlations.

    And so causation is unlikely.

    And you may learn as you talk to people that there’s there’s some things that simply are unpredictable, they cannot be predicted.

    So, let’s talk about the data itself.

    Where would you go to get information like this, if you’re an agent, obviously, you have MLS, the Multiple Listing system that is probably going to be your best source of local data that you can find.

    Some of that information does get bubbled up to two sites that have API’s like Zillow, for example, realtor.com and realtor.com just started sharing its data with the St.

    Louis Federal Reserve Bank, their Fred database system which is really powerful because There’s about 200,000 other data sets in there that you can use to bring into your analysis.

    So think about all the things that go into real estate, there is the home, right the value, the vocal market, price of the of the listing, how many other listings are around it, those are all things that you would get out of systems like MLS, for example.

    Then there’s also the the economic aspects, what he has, for example, the mortgage rates 30 year fixed, 15 year fixed variable rate, etc.

    Those rates can have a causal impact on the market.

    If rates are low, people are more likely to buy because they can afford it.

    If rates are high, that tends to cool things down.

    So you’d want to find that data as well.

    And that’s something that again, is available in the St.

    Louis Federal Reserve Bank feeds.

    Their Fred database is fantastic.

    It’s one of the best sources for quantitative data, particularly anything economic the You can find, you’re going to look at things like okay in your area, then can you locate household income or real personal wages and stuff, all the things that would allow a person to buy a house? What effect do those have on the market? You’ll look at things like search data from places like Google and the SEO tools of your choice.

    Those will help you understand where people’s heads are in the marketplace.

    And you used to be able to forecast that from that data really well.

    Since the pandemic started, that date has been all over the place, it’s been really messy.

    And so much so that it’s not reliable for long term forecasts right now and probably won’t be for some time.

    For example, I’m recording this on August 23.

    It’s been about three weeks since government assistance stopped for employment share and stuff.

    And so that is starting to have real ripple effects in the economy.

    Depending on how long this goes on, you could have, you know, large scale bankruptcies, homelessness, all sorts of things that will that make forecasting the economic conditions, you know, any further up in a couple of weeks impossible.

    There’s just too many balls in the air.

    So those are cases where now we’re starting to get into the processing discussion.

    What do we do with the data? Do we try to forecast? I would say no, but I would say any real estate agent or agency worth its salt should be pulling this data frequently.

    And having near real time dashboards of what’s happening in your local market so that you can understand Oh, this is these are the conditions that are happening now.

    And how they might impact sales, how they might impact listings, how they might impact people’s even willingness to consider selling, or buying a home property value prices.

    One of the big question marks that’s going to happen at the state local levels in the next really two to five years, if not sooner, is what will municipalities have to do with taxes in order to make up for the huge shortfalls that they’re seeing everywhere, right.

    And it becomes something of a vicious circle as people lose their homes, you have a smaller tax base, so you have to raise taxes on those people who are still able to pay taxes to finance your local government.

    Again, these are all things that are very, very difficult to forecast.

    But the very straightforward I want to say easy but very straightforward to pull in, near real time data.

    And you can pull it in from the federal level, you can pull it in from the state level, depending on on your state, and how into the 21st century they are.

    And all of that can be boiled down into things like dashboards and indicators that give you a sense of here’s what’s happening and give you a chance.

    Two to four week horizon to look out and say, okay, job, unemployment rates in my region have gone up x percentage in the last two weeks that’s going to be a problem that’s gonna be a drag on the economy is gonna be a drag on home buying, be prepared for that and we’re working with sellers to say the sellers.

    Look, don’t be too picky right now on the offer because the local economy is softening, right? Or conversely you could say, hey, things have really picked up.

    It’s okay to be a little more choosy about your buyer.

    Because there’s gonna be more buyers coming out of the woodwork if you see that happens.

    So all of these processing aspects of the data are going to be really important.

    Where do you get started with something like this? Start with a business requirements, right? What do you need to be able to do and then start looking for the data.

    You don’t have to try and ingest everything all at once.

    You probably shouldn’t.

    But start trying to identify what are the key indicators that have driven Whatever KPI you’re you care about whether it’s home sales or price or whatever.

    What are the drivers, the top two or three indicators that drive that that’s, you’ll be doing a regression analysis for that.

    And then, based on that, start putting together your dashboards like maybe it is mortgage rates and local unemployment and recent sale prices.

    If that combination of variables is the is the magic number that says this really strongly predicts your KPI.

    That’s what you put on a dashboard.

    That’s what you start to monitor and you keep an eye on it.

    And you forecast as far as you can afford reliably, which again is like two to four weeks these days.

    That’s a good place to start.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Adapting Presentations for Virtual?

    You Ask, I Answer: Adapting Presentations for Virtual?

    Cathy asks, Can an in-person talk be adapted for a digital experience? What skills are different for virtual presentations?

    In a room, you are addressing one to many. In a digital/virtual environment, you are addressing one to one. For the most part, on the other end of a connection there won’t be a dozen people.

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    In today’s episode Kathy asks, can have in person talk be adapted for a digital experience? What skills are different for virtual presentations? A lot of different, a lot is different.

    And the most important thing I think to keep in mind, is that a virtual presentation when you are as we are right now, talking to each other while I’m talking to you, I guess is that it’s not a stage.

    Right? Look around you right now there.

    How many other people are watching this with you? Not many, right? When you’re onstage in a big room, it’s 100,000 10,000 people all there and there’s a definite different energy and the language that you use will reflect that.

    Walk on stage.

    Hey, folks, Great to see ya.

    Right? When we’re on a channel like this, I go Hey, folks, and you’re like, what? what folks? It’s me and my office, right? It’s me on my phone.

    It’s only me.

    So, from a communications perspective, one of the biggest change is that public speakers have had to make and should make and if you’re doing a talk, you should make sure you’re not talking to a roomful of people.

    Even if you see 25 heads on the bowl, zoom interface, whatever.

    From the customer’s perspective, you are talking just to them is a one to one conversation to them, especially on a webinar, like zoom calls, you can at least see, you know, the floating heads on a webinar where this you know, yeah, you take this to the list of attendees, 125 people or whatever listening, but it really is only you, and both and the speaker.

    So as a speaker, you have to change your language.

    You have to change your mannerisms.

    You change the way you speak.

    Speak when you’re talking to an audience one to one.

    I changed a lot of what I do my videos when I realized that it’s just you and me.

    Right? Even language like that.

    It’s like it’s not it’s not just me and my audience, right, that’s me and assuming that’s a one to many relationship, but when we’re talking like this, it’s one one’s just you and me.

    having a conversation.

    One of the challenges that people are going to face that speakers have a really hard time with in virtual environments is lack of feedback.

    In a roomful of people, you can see guys, everyone on their phones, right? People holding their phones, taking pictures, or they, you know, taking photos, your slides, you can tell when people are engaged in virtual environments, very difficult to do.

    So, as a speaker, one of the things you’ve got to get real comfortable with is talking to nobody.

    Right? talking to an audience that isn’t there.

    A silly trick that some people do enjoy doing is they’ll take a look at an actual photo of somebody they respected, they’ll put it right next to their camera, and they’ll talk to that photo.

    And, and and it helps make them make the mental connection that there is somebody on the other end of this piece of plastic and glass and metal.

    And it helps direct the conversation and the feeling.

    Because your brain is thinking I do see a person there.

    That helps.

    Just like with a zoom call, one of the things I recommend you do is like these little boom arms here, can you can put a camera on them and then you can move that around.

    I like to put the camera in the middle of the zoom window.

    So I’m looking at the zoom window.

    I’m seeing the people as as I’m talking to them when I do like classes and things.

    Other things that change, there is a a strong prohibition against having more than like 10 words on the slide for onstage talks.

    The reason In a simple, our brains are language based brains and image based brains left, right, whatever you want to call it.

    The language processor is a serial processor and ahead.

    So we can only interpret one language stream at a time.

    That’s why I have two people talking at the same time, it’s very hard to make out what they’re saying.

    But you can look at two different images at the same time, right, you can go to art gallery and see like a wall full of images.

    You can hear a bunch of different sounds and a piece of music because that part of the brain works differently.

    When we’re on stage.

    I want people listening to the words I’m saying and not reading off of the slide.

    In a virtual environment that’s different.

    There is no person to pay attention to.

    And so you can have a few more words on a slide.

    And that actually directs the audience gives them something to do if it’s just a slide of like a picture of your dog, which I have a fair number of, that’s fine, but then I had better be an even better speaker.

    Even more entertaining a different tone so that people are engaged with that because at that point, if it’s just a slide and a voice, you’re basically a radio show.

    Right? At that point you are a radio show with a billboard as if you are not a speaking human being that can be helped by having like little picture and picture.

    persons, you know, the the the webcam running, that shows that there’s actually a person there.

    When possible, do stuff live.

    A lot of shows a lot of conferences gone to, you know, canned talks, and that’s okay.

    Because it certainly is a very uneven experience based on technology.

    People have their houses about what kind of content you can deliver.

    But if you can do stuff live, if you can do stuff with tons of QA, virtual environments are great for that.

    There’s a chat room.

    You know, one of the challenges we have with on stage talks is you don’t want people to You’re raising hand the mill, you’re talking, hey, yeah, this is work, right.

    But you can absolutely have that happen in in the chat for a virtual experience and have people ask questions as they have money.

    Oh, yeah, that that’s a question I want to ask them.

    They, if you create that experience, and you’re amenable to that experience, when you’re talking, you can either weave it into the talk itself or have a longer q&a, like if you are talking, you’re 16 minutes in and the chat is filled with questions, you can say, Okay, you know what, I’m going to change my talk a little bit shorten up as we can tackle all these great questions that came in.

    So you have to be very flexible, to be able to deliver a lot of value like that.

    If you see there’s a ton of QA engagement already happening during the talk.

    The same is true for you.

    You can use interaction features.

    So there’s a lot of features in virtual environments, you know, people can raise their hands, they can, you know, put a little emojis in the chat and stuff like that you can stimulate some of that engagement to ask people to pay attention, essentially.

    But at the end of the day, it’s still conference call, it’s still radio a lot of the time.

    At best, it’s a YouTube video, it is not the same as being in a conference room.

    And the reason the big thing behind that is that you’ve not taking that audience member out of their comfortable environment that they used to with all the distractions of an office or a home office or, or, or whatever.

    And their mindset is different.

    They are not in the mindset of I’m here for two days to learn this thing there.

    their mindset is, I’m popping in for 45 minutes between meetings to learn this thing.

    And so you have to remember that and engage them where they are in that context.

    Okay, folks, if you’re here, you know, the dog is barking or the kids are crying, cool.

    Step out as you need to, this is being recorded.

    Copy will be provided to you.

    And one tip that I find super helpful is to make sure that you provide you with cereals in multiple formats when you’re done.

    So provide the slides, yes, provide the audio.

    So if somebody wants to read, listen, they can, which means you have to think about how heavily does your presentation or live visuals, provide the video, the recording, and provide an AI based transcript or real human transcript if you want to pay for it, but an AI based transcript so if someone just wants to read through the talk, people read way faster than we talk, people can read up to 400 words a minute, we kept pretty much to be intelligible at about 150 words a minute.

    So providing that that transcript can help someone find just the part of the presentation they want.

    You can take a digital presentation and slice it up in a whole bunch of different ways and provide a lot of post event value.

    So that’s how to adapt presentations for the virtual world.

    There’s a lot you can do.

    There’s a lot you should do.

    But it starts with recognizing that you’re not talking to a roomful of people anymore.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Customizing Speaking Presentations?

    You Ask, I Answer: Customizing Speaking Presentations?

    Cathy asks, So you’re a subject matter expert, but your audiences (i.e. seniority, industries, geography) from gig to gig differ. How do you go about customizing presentations while maintaining your core message?

    This one is straightforward: the more Q&A you include, the more every presentation is customized to what that audience wants to hear. If you leave no time or five minutes for Q&A, then anyone sitting in that audience who has heard your canned talk before will know it’s canned.

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    In today’s episode Kathy asks, so your subject matter expert by your audience’s seniority and industry, geography from gig different from gig to gig differ, how do you go about customizing presentations will maintain your core message.

    So this one’s pretty straightforward.

    customizing a presentation is something that you do to provide value to the audience, right? number one rule of presentations, is an old sales guy told me this back in the early part of the last decade, now the radio in their customers head is permanently tuned to one station wi I FM, what’s in it for me? So depending on the audience, what’s in it for them, if you’re doing a talk on, say, digital photography, what’s in it for an audience of artists who What’s in it for an audience of plumbers? What’s in it for an audience of industrial concrete specialists? If you don’t know the answer, you probably shouldn’t be on stage.

    Right? Because the audience cares very much about what’s in it for them.

    So a big part of customizing presentation is understanding what the audience is therefore, what do they want? And that may mean you have to do a hefty amount of research on their industry to ask, what are the problems they face and how does what I’m about to talk about apply to them.

    I did a talk on truck driving, recruiting a little while back and I had to do an actual research project to understand the needs of what it is that recruiters are trying to do.

    When I did a healthcare talk.

    Okay, what are the data challenges that AI is helping address in healthcare? So you’re going to spend a lot of time you should be spending a lot of time researching the audience, the industry, the challenges that they have understand some of the language, understanding some of the culture, all these things go into speaking, it’s one of the reasons why public speakers good ones cost so much, because it’s not the hour that you spend on stage.

    It’s the 40 6080 hours you spend up front and doing the research when I was talking, I did a keynote in Poland.

    I spent three weeks spending a whole lot of time with Duolingo and other things just to get basic ability to you know, basic customer mannerisms and, and phrases in Polish so that again, I could I speak Polish fluently? Absolutely not.

    Could I at least do basic hellos, goodbyes and show that I had some level of awareness of the culture? Yes.

    I absolutely spent time it was presentation on AI.

    Now what are the major challenges that that particular part of Poland was facing? It wasn’t even all of Poland It was a particular section called Pomerania? What were the challenges that They were having their big challenges was business development trying to attract more businesses to the region.

    So we talked about ways to do that.

    Looking at influencers, looking how to do network graphing and natural language processing in Polish, because polish is a Slavic language with a Western language character set.

    So that presents some real interesting challenges for people who are building natural language models.

    So you spend a lot of time doing research upfront to figure out what is it that this audience desperately needs to hear? And how did the core techniques or the ideas apply to them? You got to put yourself in the audience’s seat.

    What’s in it for me when they’re on stage, when they’re in the audience listening to you whether it’s in a room or on a virtual connection? That person is going what’s in this for me, what am I going to get out of this? Another thing that is I think, so powerful and so underrated is q&a.

    The more q&a you will Include, the more every presentation is customized to exactly that specific audience because you can give some ideas and people will say, Well, I don’t understand how this idea applies to me.

    And that’s when, as my friend, Gary Vaynerchuk says, that’s when you separate the adults from the children.

    Because if you are up there giving a canned talk, you know, you’re on the 15 Minute Webinar, it’s pre recorded, just go you push the play button, and then you’re done.

    You’ve given no time to the audience for q&a, and they don’t necessarily have to know how to apply your message, especially if your message is in any way shape, or form.

    even slightly technical, or even slightly detailed in terms of techniques.

    Now, if it’s just your motivational stories, like hey, I bicycle to the North Pole and what a great challenge it was though, there’s fewer questions the audience is going to have about that type of talk but if you are doing any kind of Typical marketing or business talk, there should be q&a if there isn’t.

    You might not have done such a good job because people don’t know how to ask more questions to apply what you said to them.

    I personally see it as a failure of mine If I give a talk and there isn’t q&a if there aren’t a whole bunch of hands up, or a little hand blinking things in zoom when I’ve talked, because it means that I probably went way over people’s heads, and they’re like, I don’t get it.

    So q&a.

    What’s the right balance? I would say up anywhere from a third to a half of the time has been allotted for q&a.

    So deliver the the big idea in 20 minutes, right, if you can deliver the big idea in 20 minutes.

    This, by the way, actually really helps with what my friend Tamsin Webster calls fire hosing, we just pour a whole bunch of data on someone’s head.

    Because in 20 minutes, you really only have time for one big idea or one big concept.

    And then the remaining 2025 3540 minutes left for QA.

    People can ask how do I do this? How do I apply this? What’s in this for me? Where do I find this? Do you know people who can help me with this all the questions that are valued race based questions, that’s when the audience is going to come out and say, I need to know how to do this.

    I need to know how to implement this.

    And when you do q&a, that presentation is as a whole, completely unique, because yes, you’ll always get the few of the same questions.

    And maybe if you keep getting those questions, it’s a sign that your talk needs to be adapted to answer those questions implicitly.

    After that, every talk is custom to the people who are in that room.

    It’s not even what industry you’re in.

    It’s just the people who are in that room that day that had those questions that you were able to answered, leave a ton of time for q&a.

    Leave a ton of time for it.

    Let people ask their questions, and you will never have trouble customizing.

    If anything, you’ll have the opposite problem, you will you the audience may go down some rabbit holes that you may or may not want to go down because it just is not relevant.

    I remember giving a talk on applications of AI for marketing.

    And there were a few questions on, you know, the the implications of, you know, political and legal and societal context.

    And I answered them at a surface level, but like, Look, that’s not necessarily the focus of this presentation.

    The focus was on the applications for marketing.

    Yes, absolutely.

    There are legal and moral implications.

    But that’s a separate talk.

    That’s a separate talk entirely.

    Sometimes.

    That’s okay.

    If the audience’s like, it’s one Ask the question, everybody leans forward like, oh, okay, you know, if you’re on zoom and suddenly, like every head comes up and everyone’s watching all sudden, like, okay, we’re gonna spend some time on this.

    But again, that’s a sign of a really engaged, customized talk that everyone is paying attention rapidly to figure out what it is you’re about to say.

    So customization of the talk adapter ideas, by spending a crap ton of time upfront doing the research that you need to do to make a really good custom talk for that audience.

    And then let the q&a run as long as you have the ability to do so leave a ton of time for it, so that you can demonstrate your actual subject matter expertise by answering quiz specific questions people have.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Growing an Ego-Less Personal Brand?

    You Ask, I Answer: Growing an Ego-Less Personal Brand?

    Cathy asks, “How do you grow a personal brand without talking too much about yourself?”

    Absolutely. One of my martial arts teachers, Stephen K. Hayes, says very succinctly to focus on the work. You are the conduit for the work; make that your focus.

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    In today’s episode, Kathy asks, How do you grow a personal brand without talking too much about yourself? Ah, yes, we’ve all had that experience being at a conference or a webinar or virtual event or something where it’s a 45 or 60 minute help God help you to our commercial for the person who’s speaking.

    And every, you know, 20 seconds out of the person’s mouth, like, Hey, you should buy my book, right? That’s no fun.

    Nobody enjoys that except the person speaking on stage.

    And more importantly, as audience members, we don’t get any value out of that whatsoever.

    So how do we, when the tables are turned when we are the ones on the stage or behind the camera or in front of the camera or behind the microphone? How do we do presentations in a way that is not self serving and this applies, by the way to both individuals and companies and companies, corporations, if you’re speaking on behalf of a brand, you have to be aware that you can’t just get up there and make it a 45 minute commercial for your company.

    Nobody wants to hear that.

    So how do you do this? There’s a very succinct way.

    But my one of my martial arts teachers, Stephen Hayes says, and that is you focus on the work, you, as the speaker, are a conduit for the work and so that should be your focus.

    What does that mean? When you’re talking on stage onstage in a video series like this on YouTube, the audience is there for the value you provide for the work that you do not for you.

    Unless you are perfect, like professional entertainer, and even then it’s not you.

    It’s the entertainment value you provide, right? It’s not how awesome you are.

    It’s how awesome the music is.

    Or the poetry or the art that you create is a provides.

    I used to work with a sales guy way back in the beginning of the last decade, who had this great expression.

    The radio in your audience’s head is permanently tuned to one station wi I FM.

    And he would make the joke, say it’s what’s in it for me.

    That’s what your audience is thinking the entire time.

    What’s in this for me? What am I going to get out of this? What value can I take from this? And if they’re there for entertainment, you better be entertaining.

    If they’re there to be educated, you better educate them.

    And you have to know what it is that they are there for.

    So when you show up, and you’re talking all about yourself, you are getting value, but the audience is not.

    Right.

    And I realize it runs contrary to a lot of the sort of the celebrity driven culture that we have.

    But for the most part, most people don’t appreciate that.

    So that means instead of talking about you talk about the work that you’ve done and how that work applies to the audience.

    So when I get up on stage and talk about analytics, I don’t talk about me.

    I talked about how do you separate out branded organic search from unbranded organic search in Google Analytics, right? That applies to you, you care about that, right? That’s going to help you do better reporting.

    I will talk about Markov chain models.

    And how Markov chain models are used to develop better attribution because it helps you understand the role each channel plays, as if they were basketball players on a court.

    Some players assist some players score but all are important.

    That helps you you when you hear these terms, you have more things to research or maybe there’s a technique that you can borrow or maybe There is something that you can, you can learn more about or partner with somebody to implement.

    But that helps you solve a problem.

    I am not the focus, the work that I do is the focus.

    And the same was true for you when you’re speaking on stage when you’re speaking in front of the camera.

    What value? Is it? What is in it for the audience? And if you don’t have a clear idea, that’s a really good time to stop and ask yourself, okay, well out of this thing, what value would somebody else get out of this? If I was sitting in the audience and this talk I’m about to give was the one that’s on screen, would I get any value out of it? We all want I know, specially as on the company said we all want one of the values to be Hey, come hire my company.

    We I get it right and that’s, that’s natural, and there’s usually a place where you can put in a gentle call to action.

    But it should be more than like a few seconds out of the entire talk.

    So how do you do that? You You show examples, you walk through case studies and again, the case studies are not, look how awesome we are.

    No, we did this thing.

    No, this is the problem the person focused.

    My friend Tamsin Webster says that nothing demonstrates expertise quickly.

    So well as stating the problem eloquently and thoroughly so that people in the audience who are hearing this going, that’s my problem, too.

    I have that problem, too.

    How do I tell me how to fix it? Because that’s exactly what I’m facing.

    So in your talks, you talk about that you say, here’s the challenge.

    And here’s the implications of the challenge.

    There’s a framework that marketer Dan Kennedy created years ago that I renamed because it makes more sense to have it be a word called pigs.

    You state the problem, you state the impact of the problem.

    What happens if you don’t solve it, you stick the general solution and then you stay specific solution.

    And when you’re adapting that framework for speaking, the problem is what you state the impact.

    What happens if you don’t solve this? The general solution is the solution.

    Hey, Mark off chain modeling to solve your attribution.

    Hey, customization of channels in Google Analytics to solve some of the reporting challenges people have.

    And then the specific solutions we can get into the case study.

    You can get into, you know, here’s how we solve this for a client.

    But here’s what the client did.

    And here’s the impact the client had and the results the client got, right.

    And that, again, if you’re in the audience, and you said, that’s my problem, and then you watch it and go, ha, that’s how they solved it.

    I could solve that.

    Or maybe that doesn’t apply to me, and then they raise the hand in QA.

    And then they go, Okay, I get that.

    But how does this apply to me? That’s, again, where you’re, you’re focusing on what’s in it for them, what’s in it for the people who are sitting in the audience.

    That’s being a conduit for the work that’s being encountered? Do it a channel where the knowledge that you want to share is flowing through you, without you being the focus to help the audience.

    And the good news is this, it feels counterintuitive.

    It feels counterintuitive.

    You, especially if again, if you’re speaking on behalf of company, your bosses by saying you got to get up there and make sure you mentioned the company 15 times a minute.

    No, that’s not how that works.

    But if you do a great job providing as much value as you can on stage, then when it comes time to wrap up, you can absolutely say hey, if you’ve got questions about this, ask them the q&a.

    And if we don’t have time with the QA asked me afterwards, give me a business cards.

    Let’s stay in touch.

    And yes, my company handles this.

    If you just don’t want to do it yourself.

    We’ll do it for you.

    At that point, you’ve proven your expertise.

    You’ve proven your knowledge you’ve proven you’ve built your brand by by building the value and giving the value You that you have.

    My friend Mitch Joel calls his givers gain from BSI, business, networking international and givers gain the person who gives the most wins.

    Because you’re giving away your knowledge.

    Again, just because you’ve given the knowledge doesn’t mean the person is going to run off and do it.

    Yes, like 1% of the crowd will actually go in and try and do it the other 99% of the crowd be like, you know what, I don’t want to do this, you do it for me, I will pay for it.

    So that’s how to grow that personal brand without talking too much about yourself focus on the work focus on the knowledge, focus on the value, what is the value of be crystal clear.

    If the person had no intention of ever buying from you would they still walk away happy.

    Your goal is to make sure that they would be happy.

    At the same time, recognizing that if you give away the knowledge and the perspective and the experience, there’s a very good chance that the vast majority of people in the We’ll say, I don’t want to do that you as the expert you come do that for me.

    Here’s a big pile of money.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Branded Search for Niche Industries?

    You Ask, I Answer: Branded Search for Niche Industries?

    Nancy asks, “If you’re selling something highly technical e.g., carbon fiber to replace traditional aluminum for fabricating airplane seats, would branded search be helpful e.g., assuming there are brand name aluminum makers who target the aerospace?”

    It depends on the behavior of your buyers. One of the most important, easiest things to do is configure Google Analytics to separate out branded and unbranded search as separate channels so you can better see how different types of search perform. Once you have that set up, you should be able to determine the importance of branded search to your business.

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    In today’s episode, Nancy asks if you’re selling something highly technical eg carbon fiber to replace traditional aluminum for fabricating airplane seats, that’s very specific.

    Would branded search be helpful assuming there are brand name alumina makers who target the aerospace? So it depends on the industry.

    And it depends on the behavior of your buyers.

    There are some industries where there’s very little digital interactivity at all, right? Where everything is done based on a few suppliers.

    Everybody knows who the suppliers are.

    And there’s a system like arriva for example, where all the RFPs are managed and search may not be a part of that at all.

    In other industries, absolutely.

    If there’s no more than a handful of vendors and people are looking for the company, buy in I mean, but number one, the number one terms people Google for is Google.

    Don’t know why.

    So the answer to this question is that you have to set up your analytics to understand the behavior of your existing buyers first.

    And then once you have that information, you can make a judgement about how important branded organic searches here’s the cash out of the box.

    Google Analytics, in no way supports branded search unintelligible fashion to do analysis on it.

    There is a built in feature where you can define branded terms in Google Analytics, but the channel groupings and stuff are not configured for that.

    So that’s step one is you have to reconfigure Google Analytics to support that.

    Without it, you’re kind of flying blind.

    Once you have that set up, then you can start looking at the importance of branded organic search and branded paid search on your business because what you can do is Once you have that defined as a channel grouping, you can then start to do things like customer journey mapping or page level conversion analysis with that as a defined channel in Google Analytics and say, I want to see just how brand organic search drives conversions for this goal or this goal or this goal.

    And then you can make the determination How important is it to us? Now, one of the other things to keep in mind is that you may have a blind spot because you may not be very good at branded or unbranded organic search.

    In that instance, the thing to do to essentially to validate your findings is to run a survey either a formal one or just pick up the phone and call 10 of the leading companies in your industry that buy from you, your your, your customers, or potential customers and say hey, not trying to sell you I just want to know when you go out to bid for, you know, AIRPLANE SEAT materials, how do you do it? Do a focus group, do a one on one, interviews, whatever it takes to get the information from the kinds of companies you want to do business with and say, Hey, you know, I just want to know how you how you make that determination.

    What’s the process of travel if you’re willing to share it? I’ll give you $100 amazon gift card for your time or something.

    That qualitative information will give you some useful insights on the behavior of your buyers and how they think about buying because again, you may be a sector where is a good old boys network right and the all the supplier decisions may be made on a golf course.

    There are industries like that where there is no amount of branded search that will have any impact Because all the deals being made over beers, the ninth hole, right? where most people drink after the 18th hole, but anyway, that may be the way that decisions are made in your industry.

    And if you don’t know that, then you may focus heavily on the digital analytics, and not pay enough attention to what’s happening in the industry overall, the only way you find that out is through those interviews.

    If you can’t get 10 prospective customers on the line, then call 10 of your actual customers actually should probably call 10 your actual customers anyway and say, Hey, when you were searching for us, how did you find us? Right? Again, you want to try and make sure that you’re sampling from your broad customer, potential customer base as a whole because the people who are already customers, there’s kind of a bias built into your company, and they may be blind spots in that that you can’t see without having the perspective of those people who have not bought from you yet.

    Just please don’t try and sell them anything on the phone, you’re there just to gather information.

    And if they want information about your company say great after the call, let me connect you with a salesperson.

    But right now I’m just trying to do the job of understanding the buyer behavior, people tend to respect them.

    So that’s the approach I would take is set up your digital marketing analytics, your Google Analytics or the system of your choice, specifically for branded organic search.

    And then separately, run market research to ascertain the buyer behaviors.

    Those two things in concert will tell you an awful lot about how people are making decisions in your industry.

    And if there are there may be what you may end up doing is depending on how your intake forms go, when your sales process goes and things like that, you may end up having two sets of data that That could be conflicting, especially if you do the the 10 existing customer surveys and then you have your web analytics.

    In that case, depending on how good your CRM is, and I hope it’s really good.

    You may end up having to do what’s called propensity scoring, where you look at people who have bought and did not do random organic search and people who have bought and did do branded organic search, and essentially do a propensity score model on those two things to figure out what is the treatment impact of branded organic search on your customer pool.

    The challenge with that is that your customer, your CRM has to be really good.

    So good, that it can separate out and and essentially pulling like assisted conversion data and last touch a lot of CRMs are stuck on last touch attribution.

    It’s a terrible attribution model.

    And if you were to attempt to do that propensity scoring with Alaska, You’re going to get garbage.

    You have to have the assisted conversions in there.

    And so your CRM has to be set up for that.

    Very, very few.

    I’ve actually think I don’t think any out of the box have set up to do that.

    It’s a pain in the butt to do it.

    For sure, Salesforce comm can be made do it unhappily.

    I think Hubspot can be made to do it.

    But it’s not you won’t be able to use any of their built in reporting for it.

    You have to do it as a custom field.

    Yeah, it’s a pain.

    But it can be done and if you want to be able to ascertain the impact of any channel on customers, that would be the way to do it.

    So really good question.

    The answer is not as clear cut as you might think.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Getting Started With Data-Driven SWOT Analysis?

    You Ask, I Answer: Getting Started With Data-Driven SWOT Analysis?

    Talesa asks, “How do you chip away at the progression of creating a data driven swot analysis on a small team that doesn’t already possess all the key skills?”

    In regard to a SWOT analysis using data, the place to start is to identify what data you do have, and whether it’s of any use to your company and competitors. For example, you might have lots of information on retweets – but is that a valuable measure? Doing this KPI identification is essential – start with the data you can get apples to apples comparisons about, and then determine if that data is useful.

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    In today’s episode to Lisa asks how to chip away at the progression of creating a data driven SWOT analysis on a small team that doesn’t already possess all the key skills.

    So this is very much a marketing data science question.

    In regards to SWOT analysis using data, there’s a bunch of different challenges here.

    But the place to start is to identify what data you do have, and whether it’s of any use to your company and competitors.

    For example, He could gather up publicly available for example, social media data like number of retweets or something.

    But while that is good to have that and be able to get it for competitors, the question is, is that a relevant metric? Probably not.

    Whereas, a relevant metric could be things like branded organic search, how many people per month are searching for your brand’s products and services by name? How many people are doing that by for a competitor of Starbucks coffee versus Dunkin Donuts, coffee.

    Once you’ve identified the data that you can get, you then have to run an analysis to look at is that data useful for SWOT analysis? Remember that SWOT analysis is basically strengths and weaknesses.

    Those are the things that you’re good at that you have control over.

    And opportunities and threats, which are, in many cases when you’re doing doing competitive SWOT analysis, as opposed to environmental, the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors.

    And so you do need to get that apples to apples data, what data can you get, there’s a whole bunch of data that for obvious reasons you cannot get ahold of.

    So the question is, what data can can you get ahold of and can you benchmark it against competitor search is useful social media can be useful, depending on how important it is, and how relevant is advertising data.

    Especially Pay Per Click ads, display ads, social media ads.

    And there are a number of tools out there that can get you that information.

    financial data can be available if it’s a publicly traded company, if you have a collection of publicly traded companies, whatever it is, you need to get the data first and then make that determination.

    Is this data something that we can get information about? So let’s talk to a quick example.

    Suppose you’re looking at search search data.

    You have branded and unbranded organic search, which is essentially people searching for you by name and people searching for your category.

    What percentage of the overall volume do you earn in branded search for people, some Search for your company’s name.

    What percentage of branded search? Do competitors get? How much traffic is right? If you get 10 branded searches a month and your competitor gets a million for their products and services, you know that you’ve got an uphill battle on it when it comes to building your brand.

    If you just no one’s searching for you by name, you don’t have mindshare.

    Nobody thinks I should search for Trust Insights when I need analytics help.

    If nobody remembers the company name, then that’s a pretty straightforward way to start your SWOT analysis right.

    You have your strengths, whatever they are.

    And in this example, if your weaknesses clearly brand organic search your your competitors threaten you with their strengths.

    Right? They have great brand organic search, what are their competitors, your competitors weak on in branded search? Are there certain product lines that are not as robust as they could be? Are there certain Negative searches like, you know, Starbucks, coffee socks, things like that.

    And so you can start to put together measurement based searches, then you can go a little further afield.

    Go down the demand or up the demand funnel, to unbranded search.

    So if people are searching for coffee shop near me, what do you strong on what keywords? What do you weak on? What are your competitors strong on? What are they weak on, and that now you’re starting to tease out the actual strategy of what it is that you can do.

    If your competitors are really strong on coffee shop near me, and you’re not you’re weak on it.

    But they’re weak on a suppressor shop near me, aha, that is an area of opportunity.

    And if you can build that into a strength, a position of strength, you can influence the mindshare and how much you how much search traffic you get hold of.

    So, this is a really great example of using a SWOT analysis Strengths, Weaknesses opportunities and threats for a specific type of data that is available for you and available for your competitors.

    Again, the same would be true for social media data.

    You can see, for example, how fast is a competitors account growing? How fast is your account growing? Can you determine why? What are their engagement rates look like, based on things like likes, comments and shares on their posts versus yours.

    The only caveat is that you need to have that benchmark of what data points are relevant to you.

    If social media accounts for, you know, 1% of the conversions that you have, then doing an exhaustive SWOT analysis may not be worth the time.

    On the other hand, for example, in organic searches, 75% of all your online conversions, you bet your but you’d better be doing an exhaustive, search based SWOT analysis.

    This is what that data.

    So the easy way to start there is go into your Google Analytics Look at your assisted conversions.

    And look at the channels, what channels are driving conversions.

    And then do you have available data for yourself and your competitors for those channels, you can get some level of referral traffic, for example, you’ll get a lot that through SEO tools, you can get some level of search data, actually a lot of search data, you can get some level social data, really tough to get email data other than things like you know, domains being blacklisted and stuff.

    But for the most part, email data is very difficult to get ahold of.

    You can probably not get do a whole lot with direct traffic in general.

    You can get some advertising data.

    So use your Google Analytics data to tell you what’s important to you on a channel basis because the channels that are converting for you may not be converting for customer competitors.

    But if they’re converting for you Then those are areas that you definitely want to win in and take share away from competitors as well.

    So that’s how it started chipping away at this progression, you’re not going to nail it straight out of the gate.

    But you can at least start getting the basic data together using Google Analytics to calibrate which data to look at.

    And then once you’ve pulled in that data, just start doing your best with with even just basics like which number is bigger, right? You don’t necessarily need to jump into hardcore statistical analysis right away.

    If you’re just trying to get a lay of the land.

    This is a really good question.

    It’s a fascinating question, because most people don’t use data this way.

    Most people just look at their own data or look at a competitor’s day, but don’t ever put it in that SWOT framework that is very helpful for understanding how the different data points compare and contrast with each other.

    This is a really good question.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Can AI Write as Well as a Human?

    You Ask, I Answer: Can AI Write as Well as a Human?

    Deborah asks, “Can AI write as well as a human?”

    The answer depends on what the human is writing. If it’s complex, original works like novels, the answer is no. If it’s marketing swill, the answer is yes. If we examine some common readability metrics – which are decent proxies for content quality – we see that marketing-centric content tends to be junk writing.

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    In today’s episode Deborah asks Can AI right as well as a human? Well? The answer is it depends on what the human is writing language generation models, natural language generation of models, like open a eyes GPT series of models, or the T five Transformers from Google can write reasonably well, you know, in a very general sense, but the more specific the task, the better they get, the more guidance you give them and more guardrails you put on the better they get something like a complex original work like say a novel answer’s no machines cannot write as well as human not without an extraordinary amount of training and resources.

    To the point where it’s not cost efficient, you’d be better off hiring novelist to write a novel, then you would be to try and train a machine.

    Even if the machine could generate, you know, 1000 pulp novels.

    The amount of editing time and QA that would have to go into it would effectively negate any gains you got out of it.

    Now, if it’s marketing swill, the answer is yes.

    And the reason for that is, a lot of what we write in marketing is junk, right? It’s not very good quality content.

    It’s actually it’s pretty appallingly bad content.

    And it’s easy for machines to replicate crap.

    Think about a bell curve, right? On one end, you have low quality content on another and you have high quality content in the middle is a bunch of mediocre stuff.

    As machines evolve, they go from, they can replicate total garbage, right, because that’s pretty easy.

    And then they start to iterate and get slightly better and now they’re kind of at the meeting.

    Yoker phase, right? They can write mediocre marketing as well, can they write good quality copy or great quality copy, not really not without, again, a lot of training to the point where it is not cost efficient to do that unless you’re a company that is dedicated to doing that.

    But if you or the look at the metrics, in fact, let’s do this.

    Let’s bring this up here.

    What we’re looking at here is four sets of readability scores for a lot of marketing copy.

    So this is articles, blog posts, press releases, essentially it is content marketing stuff, right and not very good.

    And this is 130,000 of these that we have stored in the TrustInsights.ai database.

    I have four quadrants, we have the jargon score, which is the smog score, simple measure of gobbledygook.

    We have the flesh Kincaid readability index.

    We have the Coleman layout index.

    And the flesh Kincaid grade level.

    What you notice here is that there is a definite skew towards the right side for three graphs and sort of a bell curve in the middle.

    So let’s walk through these briefly.

    The jargon score, lower is better, right? So you want that content be easier to read than harder to read.

    And in this case, there’s a very definite kurtosis or lean towards the harder to read side means that our content is full of jargon, and a lot of it on readability, the readability score, 100 is great.

    Zero is bad.

    And we see a bell curve there in the middle, you know, 5055 60 is where most continents so it’s, again, it’s mediocre content, right? There’s very, very little on the far side here of the readability index, it says, Yeah, you got great content, very thin.

    On Coleman Liao.

    Again, this is similar to grade level, you can see there’s a tremendous amount of very difficult to Read content on the far right hand side and then I’ll hold opposite field.

    And then on the flesh Kincaid grade level, we see that marketing content is around nine ninth to 11th grade content because of the jargon because of the amount of stuff that we put in our copy that is difficult to read.

    That is extensively polysyllabic, which means that we use real big words.

    You know, think about the, the list of corporate buzzwords that we love to use.

    And you can see that reflected here in this data that this data very clearly shows we love our our fancy, complicated language.

    When you have language like that, when you have, you know, buzzword bingo, you have templates, an awful lot of things like you know, basic blog posts are very templated when you have press releases, announcements, They all follow a copy that is so formulaic, that is very easy for machines to replicate and probably do a better job than the majority of humans.

    Because when these natural language generation models are trained on language, they’re not trained on just one specific domain.

    They’re trained on as much language as possible.

    The most recent version of GPG three was trained on something like 170 5 billion parameters, which is a massive, massive, massive amount of texts, basically, the bulk of the readable text in English online.

    That means that when these machines go to generate language, they will naturally use more vocabulary a little bit more.

    lexical diversity is the technical term than a human would because in a lot of cases, humans will just copy and paste the last thing they did.

    I used to work at a public relations agency and I would literally watch you know, Junior associates Just copy and paste from one press release to the next change the name of the company in the name of the CEO.

    But effectively, they all say the same thing.

    You know, the chief executive says, you know, we’re so excited or proud or pleased or release our new version, whatever, whatever, whatever.

    And we’re flexible, scalable, industry leading agile, you know, can a machine replicate that hundred percent, hundred percent a machine can replicate that and do better than, than the humans do? So can AI right as well as the human? It depends on the context.

    But for sure.

    machines can now right at, I would say the mediocre level, right? The they could they’ve got bad down.

    They’ve got a mat down.

    They’ve got they’re getting mediocre down.

    Now.

    As each model improves, as the technology improves, they will eventually get down good.

    Good writing.

    Right.

    And for those companies that have the strongest infrastructure and the greatest level of resources, some will get great writing down.

    What does that mean for you as a as a marketing practitioner, it means that you’ve got to be improving your skills.

    If you are on the bad side of writing, you probably need to stop writing for marketing and look at a different profession.

    Because the machines can already crank out swell better than you can.

    If you’re in the mat mediocre, you better uplevel those skills, take some courses, do some writing workshops, do anything that whatever you can do, that will improve your skills and get them to good write.

    If you’re a good writer, you’ll keep working to become a great writer.

    But whatever you do, you cannot stay static.

    You cannot just rest on your laurels at wherever you are this continuum.

    Because the machines are advancing faster than then we are collectively.

    Will there come a day when you push a button and the machine spits out a novel probably We are already seeing a prototype examples of this with GPT three open AI model.

    Is it good yet? No.

    But it definitely shows what is possible.

    What is what is theoretically possible.

    And what is possible today is easily achievable in five to 10 years, maybe less depending on how fast compute power goes up.

    So that’s the answer to this question.

    AI can write as well as humans who are bad at their job.

    AI can write as well as humans who were mediocre at their job.

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