Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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IBM Watson Analytics Does Twitter Hashtags
Disclosure: IBM sponsored my attendance at their Analytics For All event. This post was written prior to the event.

I’ve written and spoken about IBM’s Watson (yes, the supercomputer that won Jeopardy) Analytics, and how it’s affordable Big Data analytics for marketers (for most small and medium businesses, $30 a month). IBM has upped the ante with its integration of Twitter hashtag analysis, which most social media marketers will find fascinating.

You begin by choosing Twitter as a data source:

From there, you can use any of the modules Watson is known for. As I spoke recently at Social Media Success Summit, I decided to use that hashtag to explore potential queries:

For example, how does sentiment influence retweets?

Above, we see that Watson’s sentiment detection shows that no, sentiment doesn’t seem to influence retweets.

Is there a pattern in retweets by sentiment over time?

So what does drive retweets? We jump over to the prediction module to ask:

For the #SMSS15 hashtag, geography and follower count are what influence retweets most, albeit weakly.

Watson’s Twitter import has restrictions; for the basic account, you’re limited to 25,000 tweets at a time, so if you wanted to tackle something like the 2016 presidential election, you’d need to upgrade. However, for most marketers, Watson will do fine out of the box. Give it a try with the hashtags you care about!

Disclosure: IBM sponsored my attendance at their Analytics For All event by paying my travel and expenses to the event. This post was written prior to the event. Full disclosures including potential financial conflicts of interest here.

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October 14, 2015
Exclude marketers for better social media influencer analytics
In social media marketing, we often want to identify social influencers to understand who we need to be interacting with. However, our fellow marketers often obscure the landscape by filling it with marketing and promotion. Do a simple search in the social media monitoring tool of your choice and you’ll likely see 500% more promotion than conversation on public channels.

Here’s an example chart of conversations in social media about Google Analytics, with everything and with marketing messages taken out.

What a huge difference. Marketing is clogging the airwaves.

Yet when we hear common social media advice, one of the most frequently repeated pieces of advice is to engage, engage, engage with our communities. Top influencers engage often.

Wouldn’t it be nice to know who was actually engaging, versus who was just mindlessly promoting all the time? What if we could dig into just the conversations and exclude the marketers from the party?

This matters more than you think. In a very, very simple word concordance (the counting method that forms the basis for word clouds), take a look at the difference in importance between words marketers use versus words used in non-promotional conversation:

The orange bars are the words that people use in conversation about Google Analytics. The blue bars are what marketers use, most often in promotional content. If you’re trying to reach influencers who engage, but you target your outreach using search terms that are blue bars, who are you going to recruit? Who are you going to reach? You’ll get marketers.

Bad marketing ruins everything.

Luckily, any decent social media monitoring tool should support boolean logic, boolean queries (such as OR, AND, NOT queries) that can help weed out your fellow marketers to identify actual engagement. In the monitoring tool of your choice, build in exclusions for:
- Links and URLs
- Sharing requests
- Shares
- Appeal language/calls to action
What you’ll be left with are the actual conversations.

For example, the above bar chart was generated with two queries, the first with everything:

(“google analytics” OR “googleanalytics” OR “@googleanalytics”)

and the second, without marketing:

(“google analytics” OR “googleanalytics” OR “@googleanalytics”) NOT (“pls share” OR “RT” OR “http” OR “https” OR “get your” OR “download now” OR “click here” OR “whitepaper” OR “webinar” OR “sign up” OR “subscribe now”)

In short, take all the marketing knowledge you have, all the best practices you’ve collected – and search for the opposite. Remove them. Clean them out. What you’ll be left with is actual conversation.

Apply this to your searches, to your conversational analysis, and most especially to your influencer identification, and you’ll see drastically different results for who is really influential in the industry or topic of your choice.

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October 12, 2015
Data quality and its impact on marketing analytics
When it comes to data, there are three C’s, three key factors that can impact your data. I discussed these at length in Marketing Blue Belt, but I wanted to reiterate one here that I screwed up royally.

The 3 C’s of good data are chosen well (selection), compatible (format), and clean.

Recently, I was doing attribution analysis to find out what has worked for me in 2015 as part of my personal 2016 marketing planning. I looked at my benchmarks and saw that email was underperforming:

I thought I was a pretty good email marketer. Maybe not? I ran a custom report to see what was happening under the hood, and then the answer became clear as day:

I don’t post to social media on the weekends, yet Twitter has been one of my top referring sources on Sundays.

If you don’t get my weekly email newsletter, for the past couple of years, it’s looked like this:

Do you see the problem?

By re-using my tweets as they were, I have been re-using the social media campaign tags built into the shortened links. Social media – Twitter, specifically – is getting credit for email’s impact.

Above you can see the tags Buffer automatically adds to my tweets. When I reuse those bit.ly URLs in email, they keep their social media attribution.

This is the essence of insight from the MAISTER framework in Marketing Blue Belt. We have the data. We know what happened. We had to establish why. Now we know what to do to fix it.

Be careful as you do your marketing analysis of 2015 and planning for 2016! Understand your data. Don’t blindly assume that it’s correct and infallible. Mine certainly wasn’t – and I have only myself to blame.

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October 8, 2015
How to stack rank Google Analytics data
As part of a post I did over at the SHIFT blog this morning, I needed to normalize some attributes in my Google Analytics data, a feature that isn’t present in the application itself. So I fired up a spreadsheet to make some attractive charts that told me about the normalized composition of the traffic to my website:

What the above chart tells me is how much, as a percentage of the whole, each major channel comprises of my traffic. I can see how search’s share of traffic has declined relative to social, etc. which is useful information for understanding my marketing mix.

Here’s how to do it, if you want to analyze your own traffic composition:

How to stack bar chart 100% Google Analytics
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October 5, 2015
Do social shares correlate at all with SEO?
Rand Fishkin of Moz wrote a fascinating Whiteboard Friday article recently, making the claim that except for the top 10% of content producers, social media sharing appears to have no impact on SEO. Go read the article first.

This struck me as a very broad claim. I wanted to see how I might find that out for my site. As with so many things in digital marketing, your mileage may vary, and I felt instinctively certain that my experience is different from the aggregate.

Using one of the many SEO tools at my disposal thanks to SHIFT Communications’ data-driven marketing technology toolkit, I took a look at my website’s inbound links vs. social shares. I did a Spearman regression with Rand’s hypothesis that there should be absolutely no correlation between social shares and inbound links.

What did I find?

Above, we see a modest positive correlation between social shares and referring domains (which are the domains that contain inbound links to my site). While it’s not amazing, it’s also not zero.

I even took a look at Rand’s own site, Moz.com (and Rand, that link with equity is on the house):

Above, an R value of 0.445 with a p value less than 0.001 is far from no correlation. In fact, it’s a moderately strong correlation.

What we’ve proven is that the aggregate statement “social has no bearing on inbound links” is an extremely broad statement. As with anything in metrics, analytics, and statistics, there is no substitute for doing your own work, with your own data, and analyzing for yourself. You can start with a hypothesis derived from a broad, aggregate statement, but do not make the fatal mistake of assuming the aggregate whole also represents your business. You’ll drive your business into the ground.

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October 2, 2015
Marketing Plan Framework Template
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September 29, 2015
End of Q3 Economic Check-In for Marketers
Once upon a time, when I worked in financial services, I checked charts and quotes daily. I watched the world’s markets like a hawk, because macroeconomic issues that could impact my work often had leading indicators days, weeks, or months in advance.

Even today, I still check in, though not nearly as frequently because my day to day work doesn’t depend on it. It’s still important to have a general sense of what’s going on in the marketplace – and even better if you know why.

Let’s see where things are, now that we’re at the end of the third quarter of the year. The economic indicators I pay attention to are listed out here.

So how are things? First, let’s look at the broad exchanges, the DJIA…

and S&P:

Broadly, the markets had mostly a good year until recently, with the dislocations in China spreading. If you’ve got overseas exposure to China, you’ll continue to feel it.

We see this in the CBOE VIX:

Any time the VIX goes above 30, it means that confidence is uncertain, things are less stable than markets would like. For the majority of this year, things were predictable. The China shock is what caused the large spike in September. The VIX is what you keep your eye on if you want to gauge market sentiment.

On the lending front, interbank rates are still quite low thanks to the Federal Reserve keeping effective interest rates at zero. We see the 30 day chart:

and the 90 day chart:

We see that these two lending rates are marching in virtually lockstep pacing, and the spread between them is healthy. While there may be unease in the stock markets, the impact to banking and lending has been a flight to quality. It also hasn’t impacted mortgage rates domestically:

Overseas, no surprises here as emerging markets have taken some punishment:

Again, if you have overseas exposure in your business, in your marketing, you’ll want to carefully watch indices like the MSCI Emerging Market index to see how exposed you are. Weakness in the market tends to spread to B2C in a quarter and B2B in two quarters, historically.

We haven’t seen the China shock show up yet in shipping:

As you may recall, BDI, the Baltic Dry Index, is the price to ship a container overseas. It’s expensive to do so; companies don’t speculatively purchase space.

We also haven’t seen China show up in gold prices, which typically spike vigorously when investors are truly spooked:

Instead, gold is still relatively cheap at the moment, less than half of what it was during the Great Recession.

Geopolitics are also playing a role in commodities. WTI Crude Oil still remains low:

The reasons why oil is cheap are varied and complex. Some believe that Saudi Arabia is flooding the market to deprive the Islamic State of needed revenue (which comes from oil fields they hold). Some believe that it’s an indirect economic sanction on Russia. Some believe that renewable energy is finally beginning to make a dent in carbon fuel usage. Whatever the reason is, the net effect is cheaper gas at the pump and lower heating costs. If you’re a B2C marketer, this is welcome news because the consumer should have more disposable income not being consumed by energy.

Finally, in looking at corn, wheat, and rice commodities, only the latter is under some pressure:

Which should be no surprise – when one of the largest economies (China) is feeling disruption, its principal commodity should show that as well.

What does it all mean?

So what does all of this mean for us, as marketers and business people? Right now the world is in fairly unsteady shape, except for America. Between conflicts and refugee crises in Europe and Asian contagion, the flight to quality is coming to America – and that isn’t a good thing in the long term.

In the short term, marketers will find more dollars in America, but no country is an island. In rougher times in other markets, use the opportunity to build and grow your audiences. Ad dollars will stretch further and you may be able to negotiate better deals outside America, especially if your business is being bolstered by American profits. Strategically, make the money in America and invest it in weak markets to seize marketing advantage while you can.

Take advantage of relatively good conditions for the American consumer, with lower energy and food prices. The upcoming holiday season has the potential to be a good one. Consumers tend to spend what they have without a ton of foresight or planning, so if they have more money in their pockets on the days they go to the mall, they’ll spend more of it. Leverage hyperlocal advertising in real-time to make the most of this trend!

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September 25, 2015
How to build your customer journey, part 4
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We’ve established what a customer journey is not (even if we wish it were), how to use data from Google Analytics to understand our customer journey, and how to identify and create a plan for improving our customer journey. What’s next?

I once had a manager who was overly fond of the phrase “take it to the next level”. I was asked in my early days in marketing, “what can we do to take this website to the next level?” and “what is your plan for taking our traffic to the next level?” Years ago, I would struggle with this answer; today, we have the tools to answer that question and then some. If we can identify what the next level looks like in terms of customer journey, we can begin to provide that today, paving the way for bigger, better, and more customers.

Let’s begin with Google’s Customer Journey tool. You’ll note that each industry also has a size selector. Whatever tier you’re at, look at and investigate the other two tiers (small, medium, and large):

In the medium-to-large example above, we can see conceptually how the channels change as a site moves from a medium business to a large business in this sector. The journey becomes longer and more spread out; social media moves to the forefront of the journey rather than stacked in the middle of the pack. We see paid search move further forward, while referral and email move back in the journey.

We’re now armed with a general sense of what order we might want to do things in that’s different from what we’re doing. What sort of resource requirements are we going to need? For that, we turn again to Google Analytics benchmarking. Note that at the top of the screen, Google selects the tier of competitors that our site traffic belongs in, based on the data our site has provided to Google. Instead of going with what Google selects as our default, select the next tier up – the literal next level:

What will happen is that most of your benchmarks will turn red and look scary. That’s okay: instead of telling you how your peers are doing, you’re now learning what it’s going to take to get to that next level. Here’s my site:

Sure does look scary, but that’s okay. This is aspirational, where the site needs to go to compete at a higher level. The easiest way to understand this chart is to export it and do a benchmark vs. actual calculation to see how much more the benchmark is than your actual:

Above, we now have a sense of how much more time, effort, money, and people we’ll need to dedicate to each channel to hit that next level. To reach the next level of SEO, I’d need to invest 121% more effort than I am now in building links, in creating link worthy content, etc. I don’t have to do a huge amount with social media. My public relations efforts are quite terrible; it will take 8x the amount of resources to reach that next level, so I’d better be prepared to invest heavily in talent or contract out to a PR agency. Let’s not even get started about my email game.

Once we build a new strategy to get to that next level, keep a close eye on your paths to conversion. Look for new paths or paths that previously were in the cheap seats to suddenly take prominence. In the example of medium to large from the customer journey tool, we saw that overall path to conversion lengthen. Validate this in your analytics to see whether your unique path to conversion lengthens as you reach that next level:

Above, we see paths going past 10 steps at line 2, a sign that the path to conversion has gotten longer.

While this method isn’t completely foolproof, it’s a far better, more informed answer to the question of “what can we do to get to the next level” than shrugging your shoulders or simply making things up. Try it as you begin your next year’s marketing planning and see what answers you get.

This also brings us to the end of our customer journey series. Thanks for reading!

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September 24, 2015
How to build your customer journey, part 3
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We’ve now established what the customer journey is not, and what your customer journey currently looks like. Now what?

Let’s begin where we left off in the last post. We’ve established our specific customer journey and noted where our journey differs from the generic journey:

In the example above, we see that direct counts much more up front in my website’s customer journey than it does in the generic model. The generic model, however, hints at what else we may want to be trying. In the direct model, there are channels I’m not currently using, such as generic paid search, display advertising, and branded paid search. These channels might be good opportunities for me to explore.

The other thing the generic model doesn’t talk about is how well each channel should perform and what percentage of the marketing mix I might want it to occupy. Fortunately, Google Analytics’ benchmarking feature gives us answers to these questions. You’ll find Benchmarking in the Audience menu in your Google Analytics account; depending on your setup, you may need to enable it. For a detailed walkthrough of the basics of benchmarking, see this post first.

Above, we see from my benchmark against other marketing sites of similar size that social media and organic search are performing well already. I’m far above the baseline for the marketing space. What we also see is that other channels aren’t doing quite as well. Based on the customer journey we’ve mapped out above, I need to be doing a better job with email, and as my custom customer journey above shows, I’m not doing anything with paid search.

Now, not only do I have a customer journey mapped out, I know which parts of my customer journey are working well and which parts need help. I can work on improving email and adding paid search and display advertising to the mix if I want to make the journey as comprehensive as possible.

The benchmark also tells me at what levels I’d need to invest. Look above at line 7, paid search. Sites comparable to mine get almost 10,000 visitors from paid search, where I get 10 (likely accidental/bad data, since I’m not running any paid ads). If I needed to get 10,000 visitors in a month, that’s roughly 333 a day. Based on this, I could go to Google’s AdWords keyword planner and see what 333 clicks a day would cost me:

To reach the levels of my peer competitors, I would need to invest $300 a day, or$ 9,000 a month.

You can perform the same assessment for any channel in which you have performance data. For example, I know what efforts are needed to achieve the social media numbers in the benchmark above. If I want referral traffic to match those numbers, it’s a reasonable starting point to experiment with investing the same amount of time and effort as I do in social.

In another example, I know what time and effort I currently put into email, and I see the results above. I’m at half of what my competitors are doing. Thus, it’s a relatively small leap of logic to test doubling my effort to see if I can double the results and get on par with the industry averages for peer companies.

With these tools, I can now make the necessary changes to my customer journey to improve it, to reach customers where they are, in the right order. My marketing effectiveness should substantially improve if I fit the journey to the way customers actually behave and adapt quickly when I’m out of alignment.

In the next post, we’ll talk about taking your customer journey to the next level, quite literally.

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September 23, 2015
How to build your customer journey, part 2
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In the previous post, we emphasized what the customer journey was not. It’s not just another name for the funnel. It’s understanding how your customers act, not necessarily in a linear fashion, on their way to becoming customers.

Let’s look at a model of a customer journey, using Google’s Customer Journey tool as a starting point. If you’ve never used it before, it’s a handy tool to understand the basic customer journey model.

Let’s say I wanted to see how a website like mine, which is a medium-sized site, should be expected to perform:

According to the generic model for sites like mine, we would expect to see generic paid search and organic search leading the way, followed by referral traffic and display advertising. These would be the front end, the early ways audiences find me. After that, they’d engage with social media, email marketing, and branded search, and respond as customers to direct marketing.

The output of the tool gives a good general concept of your customer journey, but you might have noticed that the tool’s categories lack specificity. Business and Industrial is technically the category my site fits in, but I’m being lumped in with things like industrial concrete manufacturing, and I’m fairly certain my audience differs from a concrete manufacturer’s audience.

How could we get more specific about our customer journey? If you have goals and goal values specified in Google Analytics, the tool provides you with much of the raw data you need to create your own customer journey. Let’s look at where to get this data. Inside Google Analytics, go to Conversions, Multi-Channel Funnels, Top Conversion Paths:

What you see here are the top customer journeys by channel grouping. This is a decent start, and indeed, you could make operational plans just from this information. However, we are never ones to settle, so export this data into the spreadsheet of your choice:

What we see here are our conversion pathways, broken down by conversion. However, what this doesn’t tell us are the individual stages. Using the text editor of your choice, break apart this data using the > as your delimiter and put some header labels up top of the sheet to make it easier to read.

Next, split up each step into separate tabs (for ease of viewing) and subtotal your channels. Repeat this process for the first 3 or 4 steps:

Move all your subtotals to one table and color code it with the Customer Journey colors, and you’ve now got a look at your specific customer journey versus the generic customer journey:

Above, we can see that in my customer journey, direct actually comes first, rather than last. That’s an interesting twist, and one that the generic tool missed completely. The rest – organic search, referral traffic, social, etc. are aligned with the generic tool.

You’ve now constructed your customer journey. Congratulations! In the next post in this series, we’ll look at how to improve it.

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September 22, 2015

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