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  • You Ask, I Answer: Favorite Marketing Data Tracking Tools

    You Ask, I Answer_ Favorite Marketing Data Tracking Tools

    Magdalena asks, “What are your favorite tools to track data and which one are you using on daily basis?”

    I’m a huge fan of source data, so whenever a practical API is available, I’ll use it.

    • For social media, I use Brand24 and Crowdtangle almost daily.
    • For owned digital, Google Analytics is my one source of truth.
    • For earned media, I use IBM Watson Discovery and GDELT, the BigQuery database that stores the back end feed of Google News.
    • For paid media, I use the APIs of individual ad platforms.
    • For search/SEO, I use AHREFS.

    Almost all these platforms are data sources. That’s an important distinction; most of the analytics in these platforms doesn’t suit my needs. In my day to day work at Trust Insights, I do most of my analysis in R, MySQL, and Tableau today. For reporting, when practical I use Google Data Studio.

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    In today’s episode, Magdalena asks, What are your favorite tools to track data? And which ones are you using on a daily basis? I am a huge fan of source data. So whenever API’s are available, I will use them. In fact, one of the criteria that I used to decide whether or not I wanted to work with a particular tool or vendor is what sort of data export Do they have Do they have the gold standard which is CSV, comma separated value files Do they have a JSON API that they have other forms of API’s, soap, XML, etc, do they have direct database access, where you can work directly with the back end. And the more data sources that a company has an the more that they are open and available to work with, the more likely it is I’m I’m going to use that tool because one of the things I found with a lot of marketing tools is that they are intended for the layperson marketer. And they are not intended for the the data driven marketer, the data driven marketer who would need to manipulate the data in ways that might not be foreseen by the vendor. And so that’s an important criteria. For me, I am a big fan of source data, like I said, so let’s take a look at some of the tools that I use on a daily basis. And on what data they supply. In terms of social media monitoring, I use brand 24, because it is relatively comprehensive, especially on the social networks less on on news and things and video because those are much more difficult API’s to parse. But it does a great job. And I can spit out into Excel, CSV formats and things and, and get data white Alba platform. This is the source platform I use when I make influencer graphs. Because I can

    drop a keyword in pull the data from an event that’s occurring, something like that, and, and get a really good insights from software I wrote to process the data a second what they use a ton more so now than ever is crowd Tango, which is a piece of software that was an independent company once, and then Facebook bought them. And it is bar none. One of the best data sources for Facebook, for Instagram, four Twitter and for Reddit, they can can export data, again, spits out in very nice CSV format. It also has an API, the CSV format, is actually more robust than the API with the API is, is heavily throttled. But you can get data out of crowd tangle that frankly, you can’t

    get anywhere else, including really good Instagram data

    for owned media media that are your digital properties. Is there any other source than Google Analytics? Well, I’m sure that you know, for some companies there are, but for what I use, and for what I recommend for clients, Google Analytics is is the one source of truth for owned media properties owned digital properties, where you can slap a tracking code on them. As part of that, of course, Google Tag Manager and the entire Google Mark marketing platform is is the tools that I use to track data there for earned media tracking the news specifically, I love Watson discovery. Watson discovery has a rolling 60 day window of news articles that are automatically tags, sentiment, concepts, hierarchies, and thanks. So it does a really good job of categorizing the news and then you can go right into Watson discovery and query the database and ask very specific terms builds queries and stuff. So it is a fantastic platform pay very powerful and for the first thousand queries every month totally free. So if you are a an earned media relations or program professional, if you’re a PR professional, this is definitely a data source you should be using.

    It has a learning curve to it. But once you get the hang of it, you will find that its ability to do really good analysis of data is fantastic. The other one I use is called g dealt G. Delta is

    an actual nonprofit project powered by Google. And it provides you with a back end to Google’s database of all the major news events that Google News sees 300,000

    stories day like yesterday, yesterday was the 12 when I’m recording this. So the yesterday 302,892

    news stories, which is just a phenomenal amount of news, but because it has a sequel interface, you can actually query the database as a data scientist or as a as a data analyst and get exactly what you want out of it in ways that you can’t do with traditional Google News. And of course, you can then dump it to your own Google Cloud account, and then export it to your own database for further analysis. But it’s a fantastic source

    for paid media. I, of course, use all of the different paid platforms like AdWords and stack adapted stuff, that they all have individual API’s and tools. And then for search and SEO, I use RF, the folks were kind enough to gift marketing over coffee with a a membership. So we’ve been aggressively using that to track and extract data, some fantastic tools,

    good data export. So again, data export so important, all these platforms that use all these tools, they use arm my data sources that and I I can’t explain emphasize that enough. It’s an important distinction. Most of the analytics in these tools and these platforms, they don’t suit my needs, I am admittedly not a normal marketer, I’m not the average person just

    trying to figure out what to put in, you know, this month’s slide deck that goes to the board. I am a data analyst, a data scientist in my day to day work at Trust Insights, I do most of my analysis of data and are the programming language, my sequel database and tablet, the visualization software. And then

    for reporting, particularly for clients. When practical, I try to use Google Data Studio only because it’s, it’s is an easily supported cloud environment for for great reporting. But for me, for my criteria of what is a favorite tool, it has to have robust data export, and it has to be in common, it used to work with formats and the date has got to be good, the data has got to be clean, and good and reputable. And that’s that’s another important distinction is all these tools because you’re very, very close to raw data, or in cases like Big Query that is absolutely raw data, you can validate that what you’re getting is the real deal is the good stuff. Same with crowd Tango, for example, and brand 24, you’re getting the individual pieces of data that you then have to go and summarize. But because you’re getting the you’re getting the the raw data, you can also look at and go, okay, something’s right or not right in it. And that is an important criteria as well for someone like me, where I need to be able to look at the raw data itself and, and validate Yep, this is good, or Nope, this is not good. Something’s wrong when you have a tool that just kind of side summarizes everything in in any easy to read chart. Cool. But you can’t decompose that chart and look inside and go, Hmm, something here doesn’t pass the sniff test. So

    great question. Magdalena. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Instinct Versus Data

    You Ask, I Answer: Instinct Versus Data 1

    Magdalena asks, “How much should our actions depend on what the numbers and indicators show us? Is there any space for what we feel works well, even if after a month or two, the results don’t prove that?”

    There’s plenty of room. First, consider the data. Data must meet the 6C Framework for Useful Data:

    •  Clean
    • Complete
    • Comprehensive/Cover
    • Chosen
    • Credible
    • Calculable

    When data fails to meet these conditions, experience and gut may be a better choice. Watch the video for full details.

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    In today’s episode, Magdalena asks, How much should our actions depend on what the numbers and indicators show us? Is there any space for what we feel works? Well, even after a month or two, the results don’t prove that as a really good question. It is a question of instinct versus data. When do you trust your gut? versus when do you rely on the data? And there have been a number of articles written about this. There’s a piece in Harvard Business Review not too long ago about how up to 50% eventual decisions in the C suite, our gut decisions that people will have the data and they’ll be data informed, but in the end, the decision is made by God. Why is this and Is this the right way to go? Well,

    there is plenty of room for gut for experience for instinct if you will, because what that is, is that

    Just accumulation of data at a personal level in business, where if you’ve got 20 years of experience in your industry, of course, you’re going to have a very different perspective than, say, the newest intern or coordinator who’s just copying and pasting data out of spreadsheets. And so there is value in that experience. More importantly, there are conditions that you need to meet with data in order for it to be useful for making decisions. And an awful lot of the time our data does not meet those conditions. So let’s go ahead and actually bring this up here.

    These are the six conditions that data should meet the call the 60 framework of useful data and your data must meet these conditions. Otherwise, it’s going to fall apart and you shouldn’t make decisions on it. Number one, is it clean is it prepared and free of errors. So much data is not clean so much data is

    corrupted, there’s all sorts of problems with it. And so you clean data is the first one

    requirement. If your data is not clean, you can’t make decisions from it. The second easier data complete Mini, there’s no missing information. Anytime you load the data set, if you’re the first thing you do when you load that data set, you do exploratory data analysis. And in exploratory data analysis, the first thing I look for is missing values. Where did collection go wrong? It could be something as simple as, hey, our website was down for that day or something as complex and

    ish issues like, Well, you know, the, this person didn’t report the date or the key that they forgot to key it in and stuff. So it is it complete. The third condition is, is the data comprehensive? does it cover the question being asked, and this is a a condition that we see a lot of, especially in social media marketing. We see it in finance to some degree, but

    does the data answer the question being asked of it? So real simple question. Hey.

    What is our social media program or what is our influencer program doing for us? And someone will

    put a big pile of data on the table back the truck up, as we like to say around here and it and it’s all just like here’s the number of followers we have and stuff well followers as a part of that answer but there’s not a comprehensive answer it does not cover the spectrum of attribution analysis is only one tiny piece of you may have a lot of data that only answers 10% of the question. And so that your data has to be comprehensive, it must cover the spectrum of the answer that you’re trying to get. And the bigger the question is, the more likely it is that you’re going to have a very wide spectrum of of what that data is. So comprehensive is very important, especially when you’re talking about are we making a decision that is data driven

    again, imagine you pulled up a an app the app on your phone and you said I want to drive from my house to my office and

    The GPS app gave you 10% of the the road or 50% of the road. And and they just stopped. didn’t give any more data after that.

    That’s not good. You can’t You can’t drive with half the map. I mean, you can, but it’s not going to go very well. So your data must be comprehensive forth, the data must be chosen. Well, this is the inverse of comprehensive in that

    sometimes there’s too much data. Sometimes we just pour all the data on the desk, you’re like, Okay, well, here’s all the data we have. Well,

    that’s not super useful. Choosing the data well means removing stuff that is irrelevant moving stuff that is unimportant. And this is where things like especially an attribution analysis and KPIs and metrics

    we need to figure out what data actually matters a techniques like multiple linear regression and other statistical techniques, random forest etc. can help us figure out these are the data points to really pay attention to and these the ones that Okay, we’ll make sure that we have them

    We need them but they’re probably not all that important if you don’t have that choice that choosing function as part of your your data preparation and loading

    you’re going to end up with a lot of garbage in your analysis. A lot of stuff that you just it’s technically clean it’s technically complete it is part of the overall universe but it’s poorly chosen the fifth category is is the data credible? Was it collected in a valid way did somebody Miss key information did you did the person who was typing information where they drunk that day at work I hope not but

    credibility of data truthfulness of data is really important you know it was the data in any way manipulated was the sample size wrong was the sample pool wrong this is especially important when you’re doing things like public opinion and and polls and surveys. You were the survey questions biased

    If you don’t have credibility in your data, there’s an issue with web analytics. Think about as much as I love, love, love, love Google Analytics because it is sort of the one source of truth for a lot of what we do in the digital realm.

    Is it credible to use Google Analytics to answer questions for which Google Analytics is not a great measure, like in store traffic like that, you will see people walking around unless you’re pushing that data into the application through third party integrations. It is not it is not a credible data source for offline, right. So understanding that even great tools and highly credible data sources in one domain may not be credible in other domains. And finally, and this is one that I think is really important that we overlook is the data calculable meaning can it be worked with Can Can people who are not data scientists work with the data and that means things like reporting and stuff have to be

    simplified down.

    For the layperson to us, so that they can, they can get analysis and insights out of the data and work with it within the limits of their skills. So that’s important. And this your data has to meet these six conditions in order for you to make data driven decisions if these conditions are not met,

    or if if these conditions are, in some cases, very badly broken, then guess what, you are better off with instinct, you are better off with experiencing gut than you are with data because you you in this case, you’re making a decision with incorrect data really good example, say you’re driving along around your house or your where you live and and the GPS is saying, you know, go this way. Well, you know, from experience based on time of day based on how people behave and stuff that actually this is there’s another route that maybe is 30 seconds longer on paper, but really, I’ll save it five minutes.

    Because the route that the computer chose data driven by incomplete, right, it was it doesn’t know that at this time of day, some monkey always parks in the middle of the road and the other the other house called the yard keeping truck parked along the side. And traffic just gets all fouled up. And so your experience on gut, which is really just nothing more than aggregated data that you’ve collected in your head overrides that same is true here. So there is absolutely room for what we feel works well, as long as our own data we’ve collected is sound and especially if the data that we’re working with doesn’t meet the 60s if you don’t check those boxes. Yeah, absolutely. Switch to instinct and gut because your data is not going to help you in a may actually harm you. So great question. This is part of the brand 2040 series. So you’ll see this on the brand 24 website as well. Thanks to them for providing these questions and the monitoring software that we use at Trust Insights as always.

    Subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and we’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Establishing Marketing Key Performance Indicators

    You Ask, I Answer_ Establishing Marketing Key Performance Indicators

    Magdalena asks, “From your point of view, what are the main indicators of performance in marketing?”

    It depends. What is the goal of your marketing? That’s what the key performance indicator is. I define KPI as, if this number goes to zero (or the maximum bad state), you get fired. So for every company, and every practitioner, that number will be different. For every industry, it will be different. For every company size, it will be different.

    The important thing is that a KPI has to have business impact. It has to, in some way, turn into dollars – and the closer it is to actual dollars, the more meaningful it is.

    Something that marketers should do as soon as possible is a multiple regression on all their marketing metrics, with their KPI as a target. Watch the detail for full answers about how to convert organizational KPIs into personal KPIs for everyone on your team.

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    In today’s episode, Magdalena asks, from your point of view, what are the main indicators of performance in marketing?

    Well, it depends

    what is the goal of marketing? What is the goal of your marketing because that’s what your key performance indicators going to be. And it’s going to be wildly different. Depending on your company, your industry, the company’s size, how you do business, and even very down to the practitioner down to the individual person, the marketing coordinator, just KPI is going to be very different than the CMOS KPIs as they should be.

    I think it’s important to define what a KPI is my definition that he uses if this number goes to zero, or whatever the maximum bad state is, but it is number goes to zero. You got fired, right? So the marketing coordinator at say, a massive fortune five company

    their personal KPI may actually be like yeah, you gotta guess more Instagram followers. And if you don’t, you’re fired, right? So that there’s a personal KPI there that that indicates whether that person is performing well or not. However, at a business level, at an organizational level, a KPI needs to have business impact. It needs to be it has to, in some way, turn into dollars. The only exception to this is when you have an outcome that is a non dollar outcome that your company or your organization is going after. And really the only non dollar outcome because even nonprofits for example, have things like donations and corporate donors and stuff like that to pay to keep the lights on the the only non dollar tangible outcome I can think of in as an example would be a politician seeking election where there’s a measurable outcome elected or not elected, but it is not a financial outcome. At least the election isn’t

    Is our collection isn’t Sorry, it’s maybe a little cynical.

    But in order for everyone else will have KPIs that are that have to turn into dollars. And the closer that your KPI is 2, the more meaningful it is, and the more valuable it is to your organization. So, for example, let’s take a in the b2b marketing world

    website traffic is pretty far away from dollars, right? It’s, you know, you got a whole bunch of stages, you know, some of the sales pipeline, they got like 44 stages in their CRM website traffic way on the end, and so it’s it’s really far away from dollars. On the other hand,

    if you were a super clever marketer and you’re using AI chat bots and all these crazy new technologies, and you could reliably deliver sales qualified leads or even real opportunities to your sales team. Guess what, that is a

    Very close to dollars. And so your performance as a marketer would be

    much more closely watched, but also much more valuable to the organization because you are delivering as close to dollars as you can get within your role. And so when you’re, we’re trying to decide what indicators to use for performance and marketing. The closer we are to dollars, the better. The same is true in any other industry. If you are

    if you’re working in b2c

    in retail, the closer you can get to know someone taking an idol off the rack and putting other register the better so if you are doing you know, end cap performance or in store walk ins and things those are much more valuable than say brand awareness that’s not to say that brand when there’s isn’t an important but it is part of the chain of evidence that gets you to take the item, put it on the register and and have the person checkout so that those KPIs need to be as close to dollars as possible. Now,

    you say welcome.

    Not everybody in the organization, whatever can have, you know the register checkouts or mortgage applications or or car sales or oil wells drilled as as their KPI that is true so what you need to do in order to get to get to take the business KPI and decomposes you need to do what in statistics was called multiple linear regression a multiple regression

    you’re going to take your KPIs laid out on a giant spreadsheet bought as with as as fine a resolutions you can get so maybe its monthly day a cool weekly did a better daily data great and then you’re going to take all your KPIs they’re going to be columns in the spreadsheet and then you take all your other metrics so social media followers mentions brand awareness clicks on ads

    newspaper articles, press releases sent out that day to talk shows that your your executives were on all that stuff everything you could possibly lay out

    into a spreadsheet that has a nonzero value.

    And then you’re going to run this statistical tests this multiple regression to figure out what combinations of variables have a strongest statistical relationship to your KPI. So it might be like, okay, with a number of Instagram comments, plus clicks on a pay per click ads, plus

    talk shows plus articles in our trade magazine plus number of conversations at conferences equals it has a strongest mathematical relationship to to sales or sales qualified leads or or store walk ins. Once you’ve done that math, you established correlation. And then the next step is to do testing and you say, okay, for whatever reason, Instagram comments plus

    videos on YouTube seem to have the strongest relationship. So let’s double the amount of work that we do on those variables and see

    If leads increases proportionally. So if we double the amount of YouTube videos that do well, and we double the amount of Instagram comments we get do leads also double,

    and that’s your test causality. Once you’ve tested causality, and you’ve established that, yes, this mathematical relationship is because these variables, cause the KPI. Now you have the ability to take those variables that you know cause the KPI and assign them to people like a Social Media Manager instead of followers on Instagram. Turns out that doesn’t have a mathematical relationship or causal relationship with leads, but comments containing the word great, do so make stuff that people comment, that’s a great, that’s your new KPI. Hey, pay per click management

    and now CPA around25 and click through rate above 10%. That’s your new KPI. And so you can decompose based on all of the metrics you have. You can decompose your business KPIs into individual KPIs, and everybody now knows what to focus on. And that’s so

    valuable because it means that instead of having to try and do everything, you focus on the stuff that is mathematically working 80% of the time, and then you leave 20% of your time and efforts to experiment with new stuff to always be testing and trying out new things. But if you do that, you’ll waste a lot less money, you’ll waste a lot less time trying to measure and do everything, you focus only on the things that you mathematically proven first, through correlation, then through testing and calls out to establish causality that works that generates the business outcomes that you’re looking for. Now that math is not necessarily easy, but it works because you’re you’re using the scientific method you are proving that what you’ve done will have a a real business outcome that is measured in dollars or as close to dollars as you are allowed to get in within your role so well, great question. The main indicators of performance and marketing or whatever is working to generate the

    Business outcome. Great question. This is also a part of the series for brand 24. So you’ll see this on the brand 24 website as well. If you have questions for you ask answer or for any of the the podcasts and blogs and stuff that that I do for myself and for Trust Insights, please leave it in the comments. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and to the newsletter and we’ll talk to you soon. Take care

    if you want help with your company’s data and analytics visit Trust Insights calm today and let us know how we can help you.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Value of Social Media Posts

    You Ask, I Answer_ Value of Social Media Posts

    Matthew asks, “A client asked me to attach a dollar value to social media posts’ reach. How do you value posts? Is it just the cost of the post if you boosted it with ads?”

    An old enemy returns from the grave – ad value equivalence (AVE). This is AVE in different clothing, but fundamentally the same thing. The problem with AVE is that it assumes the value of a piece of media is equal to its cost – the opportunity cost of putting something else in its place. This is patently untrue – the value of a piece of media is the business result it generates. Only attribution analysis, done properly, will yield that answer.

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    In today’s episode, Matthew asks, a client asked me to attach 1 value to social media posts reach How do you value social media posts? Is it just the cost of the post? If you boost it with ads,

    and old enemy returns from the grave, long time, PR professionals should be shaking their heads on this one. This is a concept called add value equivalence. Back in the old days when people still read paper newspapers in great numbers

    the way that some public relations folks would value the story would be okay if you hear substituted the amount of space on the page that the story about your client took up with what it would cost of purchase that spaces and add that’s the value of the story. This is of course a stupid way evaluating.

    Public Relations.

    Matthew’s question is add value equivalents in different clothing. It is saying, okay, the value of a social posts, the reach it gets, which is a proxy for attention is what it would cost to buy it.

    The reason why add value equivalence is a bad measure of any form of media, old media, new media, social media doesn’t matter is that it assumes that the, the value of a piece of media is equivalent to its cost, the opportunity cost for the publication to put something else in that space. Now, in the early days of social media, we would say, of course, your space is infinite. But we know that’s not true. There’s unlimited number of ads slots available on a Facebook feed, or an Instagram feed compared to the number of advertisers. So that’s not it. What what’s wrong with this concept and it is a very old concept that just keeps coming up over and over again, is that it makes the assumption that value equals cost in that’s not true.

    The value of a piece of media is the business result that it generates. So if you care about awareness, then yes, the you may want to use views or reach as a measure. If you care about engagement, people actually interacting with a piece of media that you’ve created. That’s a very different number, right? A million people have seen a post, but if no one commented on it,

    did it ever have any actual impact? Think about how you use a mobile device, right? You’re sitting there just scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll.

    Yes, that counts as a view even if the person can’t recall anything about your your company your brand

    things like brand recall matter. A great deal more for measuring the effectiveness of a piece of media. Hey, you read this story or this Facebook post or this ad or this Instagram image about this coffee shop? Name a coffee shop and if the person who just read that story can’t remember the name of a coffee shop other than like y’all met

    Good chain,

    your story had no impact, your media had no impact. If you measure on things like lead, lead conversion on site traffic, physical brick and mortar, traffic, all of these are things that are business metrics that you want to be able to run attribution analysis to work back into, to say, Okay, this combination of, of channels and this combination of media and these combinations of days and times, and all the attributes that you use to gather information about your marketing program, all that mathematically will lead to a result

    and you get to that by running is formally called attribution analysis and the mathematics behind it depending on which system you use

    will dictate whether something is actually working or not, but simply swapping in the cost to reach people for the value of reaching people is the completely wrong way to do it.

    Not a knock on Matthews question. Matthew is asking a question that his, his client is asking him,

    the way to do it is with attribution analysis. Now, some forms of attribution are readily accessible. So if you were to go into Google Analytics, for example, assuming your goals and your goal values are set up correctly and valued properly,

    there are attribution models the bottom of the conversions menu on the left hand side, and you can choose from five or six built in models. And you can go to the Google Analytics gallery and select more models. If you want to get even more sophisticated, you can put all of this stuff into a massive database and use machine learning and statistics and data science to extract out what your what your true attribution is. That requires a bit more background on statistics and mathematics of course, but it is a doable thing. It is something that people are able to do today it’s not something theoretical and then of course, for if you want to get really, really

    Advanced there are separate products and services and companies, just dedicated attribution analysis. One of them that you’re probably will be most familiar with the Google attribution, which is part of the Google Analytics. The 60 sweet it is sticks, pens, a piece of software. But if you’re spending you’re trying to figure out where you want to spend your80 million in, in TV, and ad and display and digital advertising and and what resources you want to hire for the cost per month of that software is probably quite reasonable. It’s just a fraction of a percent compared to 10s or hundreds of millions of dollars in media spend. So

    can you substitute the value of a post for the cost of the post know what should you do instead, find an attribution method and model that works for your business that’s affordable and that will give you a much close to answer to what’s actually working. Great question Matthew. Difficult question I recommend

    That, you know, if you don’t have a whole lot of gray in your in your hair, you may not have seen this particular beast crop up before in your career. But know that this has been something that has been debated for decades upon decades as a way of valuing media. And the general consensus among those folks who specialize in measurement is that it is probably the worst form of measurement.

    I will say that if you have absolutely no other measurement

    capability, and you have no other way of providing any kind of analytics, then you could use this as a last resort. But that would mean that the company itself has no understanding of its business goals or metrics and you should probably find a different company to work for because they’re doomed if they have no idea what their business goals are. They’re doomed once you know your company’s business goals. add value equivalence goes out the window.

    So great question. As always, please subscribe.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Data Analytics, Intelligence, and Science

    You Ask, I Answer_ Data Analytics, Intelligence, and Science

    Yariv asks, “What are the differences between data analytics, data science, business analytics, and business intelligence?”

    It depends on who you ask. Thanks to consulting and marketing, these terms all have varying degrees of overlaps, and companies which make their money on clarifying terms like this – consulting shops – often have conflicting definitions. You’ll get a different answer, and sometimes an opposing answer, if you ask a McKinsey consultant and then ask a Deloitte consultant.

    Based on a roundup of existing literature, we classify these terms based on whether they are past or future looking, and how technical or non-technical the various tools and processes are. To be clear, a business needs all four; this isn’t an aspirational contest to reach one magic corner of the diagram.

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    On today’s you ask I answer your reef. I hope that’s how you pronounce your name asks, What are the differences between data analytics data science, business analytics and business intelligence?

    Well, depends on who you ask.

    Thanks to marketing,

    sorry, and consulting. These terms all have varying degrees of overlap. And

    companies that make their money on

    on perspectives and positions on terms like these mostly consulting shops often have conflicting or oppositional answers, you’ll get a different answer. For example, She asked McKinsey consultant for their definitions, and then you go ask a Deloitte Consulting or Forrester consultant, you’re going to get totally different answers. Even

    within those organizations, depending on which

    division you’re talking to, you may get very different answers. So

    based on a roundup of existing literature, you can classify these four terms, data analytics, business, analytics, data, science, business intelligence, based on whether they’re their past, or future looking and how technical or non technical they are. So let’s, let’s look at a diagram of these, put this up here, and,

    and walk through this. So

    on the bottom of the diagram below, we see the types of analytics we’re doing the types of analysis, are we doing descriptive, which is what happened, what’s, what’s in the data? What does the data tell us and diagnostic to the extent that you can, why did something happen? And then on

    as you move further to the right on the diagram, you see predictive

    and prescriptive analytics. This is

    can

    you build a model the forecast the future

    and can you build a model that tells you what to do on the vertical axis, we have less or more technical, so less technical tools and processes for business users, people who are not analysts or data scientists by profession, they just your average executive or line of business user, and they want to log into a friendly interface and get some answers.

    And then as you go up

    the the chart, it is

    more technical users. So analysts, statisticians, data scientists, programmers, developers,

    machine learning and AI specialists. So this is how we classify the terms business intelligence tools that are descriptive and diagnostic and nature they’re less technical. Really good example of this would be something like IBM Watson Analytics or Tablo software that lets you just go in and and very quickly just organize your data and go Okay, what am I looking at what happened in here on the predictive and prescriptive side, this is where you see sort of like some of the things like big Watson, being able to just kind of come up with an answer is for you, or modeling software modeling tools, nine alter x companies like that, that allow you to assemble drag and drop workflows with your data to try and make the day to do stuff that visualization tool by itself would not do

    on

    the more technical side, data analytics, descriptive and diagnostics, hardcore statistics, software, SAS, SPSS would be a good examples of these are. And then in the data science realm, that’s where you, that’s where you see schools like our like Python, TensorFlow Charisse, all those the data science, machine learning and AI tools. So when we’re trying to figure out

    organizationally, what capabilities we have and what capabilities we need, this is a way to, to explore these four areas.

    Now, it’s really important, I think it’s worth mentioning that

    with these with

    this diagram, it

    a lot of times a two by two matrix, these people say, like I, I just need to go from here or here, all the way up into the upper right hand corner, or that depending on which consulting firm you’re talking just the upper left hand corner,

    that’s not the case,

    with this sort of data

    landscape,

    you need all four,

    you need the ability to understand the past,

    descriptive and diagnostic. And you need the ability to predict the future and to

    to prescribe based on what your your data says, You also need the ability to have these capabilities available to business users, people who just

    want to get their jobs done,

    and to the hardcore, technical statistical math folks who need the tools to build

    these models.

    Now, what tends to happen organizationally,

    is that the sore top row here of the hardcore stuff is the back end or the fuel for what eventually becomes the business users. So the ability to take those those key findings at a tactical level, and distill them down into the the business level that said, the business level then sort of feeds back and informs

    the technical stuff to help refine models, or to construct a new software or new templates, or whatever the case may be, in order to, to tune the findings to be more effective. So that’s this sort of spectrum of these four terms. Data Analytics, data science, business intelligence, business analytics. And again, it’s super confusing

    because of marketing. I mean,

    you would think that data analytics and,

    and business analytics would be in the same category of like, descriptive diagnostic, but they’re actually different in the sense that what, you know, data analytics looks tends to look back at words at past data and business analytics, at least in a lot of the way organizations describe it

    is very predictive and forward looking.

    Again, this is all marketing and, and people trying to mistake a thought leadership position by

    being contrary

    whatever you call these in your organization, and you may end up developing your own lexicon, you just want to be able to do all four things you want people with technical looking back abilities to will, technical looking forward abilities, business users, giving them the ability to look backwards easily, and the ability to look forwards easily. That’s what you want within your organization. If you can do that, you create those capabilities, then whatever you call, it doesn’t matter. You just need to have all four. Like I said, it’s not a contest, you’re not trying to go from here, you know, trying to all get into the magic corner, you need to have a good balance of all four capabilities

    to really make the most of it. So great question. You’re you’ve

    if you google this, you’re going to get 400 different answers from like 200 people.

    And even if you were to ask

    a person on any any given day, what their answer is, the answer may change. So just know that it’s going to be confusing. Focus on the capabilities as opposed to the brand labels that go on them. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel into the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Google Data Studio Dashboard Best Practices

    You Ask, I Answer_ Google Data Studio Dashboard Best Practices

    Glen asks, “What’s the best way to use Google Data Studio for marketing reporting?”

    While I appreciate the sentiment, there is no one best way. Rather, there are ways to think about setting up Google Data Studio that help you get the answers you want as quickly as possible, Google Data Studio Dashboard best practices. Watch the video for a tour of how I set up Google Data Studio dashboards and ideas for setting up yours.

    I like Google Data Studio for 3 big reasons:

    • Free of financial cost
    • Connects to Google Analytics
    • Connects to Google Search Console

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    Today’s you ask I answer. Glenn asks, What’s the best way to use Google Data Studio for marketing reporting? Great question. There is no best way there are ways to think about setting up Google Data Studio or any dashboard, a tool that will help you get the answers you want as quickly as possible. That’s the point of all dashboard and visualization software is can we get to the answers we want as quickly as possible without having to go all over the place. And one of the advantages of Data Studio is, well, there’s like three main advantages of Data Studio One, it connects to Google Analytics natively, which, you know, 80% of marketers or some crazy high stat like that use Google Analytics even if they have another analytics package as well alongside it, and you can connect natively in Data Studio second, Google Search Console connects natively, which is super important

    if you’re a marketer and you’re not using Google Search Console.

    You’re kind of doing it wrong. And third,

    that’s price tag of zero for up to five dashboards. So there’s absolutely no reason why marketers should not be using Data Studio, even if you’re using other solutions for data visualization with dashboard in general, you want to tell stories with your data. You want to be able to lead people through a logical sequence of the data. So before you sit down and do a dashboard, you want to catalog what are the KPIs, what are the metrics, what are the overall goals, what are the things that lead into those goals and that’s what you want to use to organize a dashboard intelligently. If you don’t do that what you’re going to do is just put a whole bunch of stuff on the screen and no one’s going to have any idea how to read it’s very very difficult to read I am guilty of that eight ways to Sunday so

    let me show you an example of what I use this is not the right way by any means. This is unique to my personal website and we’ll talk about some of these these variables and and data points and feel free to adapt to these ideas to your own Data Studio dashboards

    what we’ve got here five sections

    First up top are the big numbers, these are the things that are most relevant that if you looked at nothing else you’d want to know these numbers second section on the right here, the control selected so you can change dates and things and and dynamically adjust your data. Third, the green section are important KPIs and sort of the information that feeds into those. The yellow section is more granular detail about some of those

    those KPIs and their diagnostics. And then the red section is very granular detail about one specific look, one specific way of of digging into the data. So let’s go ahead and and look at this up top in the in the big numbers. I have revenue, I have an e commerce website. I sell books on my site, so I can track e commerce transactions. If you don’t do e commerce. If your b2b for example or b2c, brick and mortar, you may want to put like goal value instead. Here assuming that you’ve got goals goal value set up on your website. The second is goal completions. goal completions is of course any goal that you set up in Google Analytics that is meaningful to

    This shows you the the overall number of goals within the time here that you selected to look at. Third for me is users. You’ll notice throughout this report, I use a user’s instead of sessions or page views. And the reason why is I want to know the total number of human beings that I’m reaching, I don’t necessarily care how many pages they look at. If you’re a publisher, you obviously care about page views, for example, because you’re getting paid on ad impressions. So users might be a less interesting number to you than those ad impressions. And finally, here, this is a search console number, I want to know how many branded search clicks I got. So people searching for me personally. Now, if you were a company, you’d want to do something like branded searches for your company, your products and services and things. So like for Trust Insights, I’d want to know how many people are searching for Trust Insights or our marketing GPS service, and that would be a number I roll up here. So that’s the top line numbers again, if I look at nothing else, these are the numbers that I need to pay attention to to know how my website is doing revenue go great.

    Goal going great users and that’s a good

    and then you are all clicks. Not so good. Now if we expand the timeframe, obviously, you know, numbers change around a lot and things we see users and all these charts we adjust. So

    you can tell a different story based on the data you choose to look at. I like 28 days because it’s, it’s a rolling and I don’t like 30 days, because 28 days is four weeks for physical calendar weeks, which means that when Google does the though, the period over a period reporting it’s the same physical number of days, if you do 30 days, sometimes you’ll have like a weekend in there and extra weekend or in there that can really throw your number so stick to 28 days as much as you can. Now on the left hand side, what we see here we see goals and traffic. So blue is the number of users red is the number completions. Is there a trend and how well do these to relate. Now what I’ve had to do here is set to different axes, one for the users one for the goal completions, otherwise you wouldn’t feel seat the red lines will be miniscule. So is there a relationship between the

    And then you can see there’s a weekly relationship, obviously, in terms of a trend relationship there actually isn’t. So that’s something that I would want to know. And maybe think about, like, why would why it is that users don’t necessarily lead to goals. And so a good question asked there. But this this graph answers the question, what’s happening? What are the big trends? Second is the brand awareness. This is Search Console data. This is a filter this to just branded searches. So I built a filter that says, I want to match only on like my name and and then take a look, what are the trends here? I should change it over to having data labels on here. But what are the what do I see impressions, the number of times people search that my site came up in a search and then the clicks of the number of times I got the click obviously, if if I’m not getting a substantial number of clicks for each impression than my search, SEO is gone horribly wrong. So you can get a little bit of insight to different ways people search for your branded

    products and services. But more than anything, you want to make sure that you’re getting a decent amount of of clicks for things that are clearly your brand, Nick, you’re not you need to work on your SEO. So that’s what question this question. This answers this section here is where’s my traffic coming from by source Google. And then what is the relationship between these the users and the goal completions, if you should, if they’re looking for anomalies here. So like here, Twitter gives me slightly more goal completions and saving. So I use for for, you know, relatively comparable amounts of traffic. That’s a useful thing to know. So I want to know what’s giving me

    my conversions. What’s giving you a new I traffic and then other things where

    this will help you prioritize. So clearly, I need to if I care about conversions really got to focus in on on Google because that’s where all the traffic’s coming from. Likewise, organic search clearly as a major traffic driver the email referral traffic this is interesting, I might

    Want to dig into this, some more might even create a separate death or to see where my referrals are coming from, as a way to understand it better. And then here on top content by traffic, what pages are getting my users and what how many of those users are new. I like to know the new user number personally, because I want to know how impactful pages for search the more new users typically the more you know, if your site is search heavy, which mine is I want to know what pages are attracting lots and lots and lots of new users. Here’s one that is in the top 10 97%

    new and this is from 2010. So this is clearly a page that I need to go and freshen up and to improve what it does for people. So that’s my dashboard. Again, you’re going to want to customize this for your own goals for your own metrics for the things that will help you answer questions. The golden rule is if if you can’t clearly articulate what question this answers on a dashboard, it shouldn’t be on today.

    dashboard because you’re just spinning update at that point and it doesn’t tell a story biggest numbers okay someone looks at this and goes okay well why is this up or down you should be able to look through here and dig in and go oh okay that’s why it’s up or down I can see a a story being told across these different sessions sections of the dashboard not everything needs to be on a dashboard or certainly if you if you have a lot of stuff that us and there’s numbers you adjust so in love with put them on a separate page but for your big page only focus on the things that your stakeholders care about and make it tell a story third, with dashboards, make sure that you’re making different dashboards with different stakeholders This is mine for me for my business, if I was preparing this for

    CEO is the school look very different. The CEO pie doesn’t care about this whole section here. They may not even care about this section. They may only care about this section, this section so I could eliminate these two sections. I might have a white space here where I just write some descriptive narrative so that the CEO can can get an update on a

    less frequent basis but just see the numbers of care about if this is the C fo I might have this section here might be all the, you know, what are the different products and the revenues that are being that can break out because they would want to know that they would want to know sales and inventory and things like that. So your every death was going to be different based on the audience you’re making it for the rule of thumb, I uses that by vertical within a company. Each vertical has its own type of dashboard, you know, operations is going to have a different one from finance is going to have a different one for marketing. And then every level in your organization also has its own dashboard. So what the account coordinator or the marketing coordinator gets is very different than what the CMO should get should be very different dashboards. So that’s what I use for Data Studio and this is the best way to use it is to customize it for the audience that’s going to be watching it and looking at your dashboard. So great question, Glen. As always, subscribe to the newsletter at the YouTube channel. I’ll talk to you soon. Take care if you want help with your company’s data and analytics. Visit Trust Insights calm today and let us know how we can help you.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Measuring Social Media Engagement Rates

    You Ask, I Answer_ Measuring Social Media Engagement Rates

    Judi asks, “When measuring engagement rate on SM platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, FB and LinkedIn, which metrics do you recommend using for an accurate measure? Is it # of engagements (likes, comments, shared) divided by post reach OR total followers OR other metric?”

    Great question, and it depends on what data you have available. If you’re analyzing just your own metrics, I’d suggest using the post reach data divided by the total number of engagements. If you’re doing competitive analysis, you’re going to have to use size of audience overall divided by engagements.

    That said, coming up with a blanket engagement rate isn’t super helpful. Why? In the same way that we don’t just look at one average measurement of our heart rate for an entire year, nor should we treat digital marketing and social media metrics as one blanket rate. It’s much better to visualize and study the rates over time, to see what’s happening. A continuously declining engagement rate is more important to know than an average of that rate.

    Watch the video to see some examples analyzing Instagram accounts of large B2B companies and one major warning about social media engagement rates.

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    Today’s you ask, I answered. Judy asks, When measuring engagement rates on social media platforms, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc?

    What metrics do you recommend? use for an accurate measure? Number of engagements, likes columns, common spheres to buy by post reach for total followers or some other metric? Great question. And it depends on what data you have available. If you’re analyzing your own metrics, you don’t care about what anyone else is doing. I would suggest using your own data, the post reach divided by the total number of engagements that it’s going to be the most accurate love will engage because when you download data from the social platforms, especially a LinkedIn, you get a lot more data about your own stuff, but you get nothing but anybody else’s. Now if you’re doing competitive analysis, landscape analysis, you’re going to have to use overall size of audience and the device

    that by the number of engagement because for a lot of the third party tools, they can only see the size bones, you can’t see the individual folks reach. Now that said, one of the things that that social media marketers do wrong with databases that they go for the sort of blanket average engagement are really is you know, 4% and they tend to be over a very long period of time like 4% is our annual engagement that’s not really helping us and why is that in the same way that we look at

    one we don’t look at one engagement with one average rate for health metric we shouldn’t do the same for digital marketing your doctor would never say I’m going to take your one average heart rate for you for the year and that will be that’s what we’re going to make all your health assistance on though is resting heart rate fitness, our target heart rate and maximum say party stuff like that

    you want to know during exercise is going the right direction.

    Things like that

    in the same way you don’t want to do that with your bed blanket average social media engagement said you want to measure engagement

    over time and visualize and study those rates drinks you know each of these time periods to see what’s happening because it continuously declining engagement rates that would be more important to know than an average of that rate overall the average kind of swishes the trend down nothing so let’s look at a real quick example here and we’re going to go ahead and let’s take a look at some social media data for b2b companies

    first thing going to do is put together that the engagements and settles

    to likes plus comments this is Instagram data so we we don’t have access to shares that are here’s the script yet and then we’re going to need to create engagement rate

    it’s called rate which is engagements divided by in this case because again, we don’t have access to the individual page

    data we’re gonna have to use

    that so if we put up engagement rate as his

    engagement rate

    and make this an average that can see the average better

    and slap a label on it

    you so what we see here is we see engagement rates tues company called Myers client which is a shipping company there by the 2% average engagement rate for the year of 2018 see VMware here see

    down years with Dell so these are you know the average engagement rates of their Instagram posts which is ok but again that kind of flattens things out if we were to go down to say week level

    that’s like pretty crowded obviously

    month level you can see there’s a lot more spikes up and down so the amber spike much more here they are supplying spike too much more here so you can

    Now you can see in more detail okay this this variability there’s some this jumping around in these different rates. Now if I was just focusing on for example

    if I was

    let’s do management if I was Justin management team, just that one. Now I’ve got

    a sense of what’s going on let’s slap a trend line on this.

    And now we know that’s monthly. The trend is headed down. Let’s let’s look at day level and we see it is still going downwards.

    That tells us that even though they’ve had some decent successes, the overall trend is heading in the wrong direction. So for them, it would be time to take a look at what are the things that might be contributing to that declining engagement.

    We might even want to for example, let’s duplicate best with this right here. Instead of doing engagement rate, we break it out into the individual post comments, likes

    making those averages to disprove it up, we see that it’s the likes that are going down comments are actually slightly going up on a daily level. So if we are being measured on engagement rate this would be we want to increase those likes to boost that right now here’s the other catch the engagement rate itself is a meaningless metric in the grand scheme of social media marketing, unless it is tied to something else. So we did a statistical analysis that determine that engagement rate resulted in more traffic to the website and board form fills, and so on and so forth down that marketing operations funnel, then this would be worth spending a lot of time on. But until we have that attribution analysis, the engagement rate itself is not super important, right? It’s a metric that has no content. So

    the first part for measuring any kind of social media is to figure out the attribution model. How much does social media contribute?

    Work is the last touch within the marketing operations funnel for overall versions. And then if we see that there’s a good strong mathematical relationship, then go up the social media funnel into all these different mentors to figure out what of the social metrics we have access to is driving that that down funnel activity. So great question Judy. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the email newsletter. Happy answer questions about this. Maybe we’ll do a follow on video at some point on attribution analysis. But this is how you would do these engagement rates based on the data that you have. So choose wisely. Thanks for watching and talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Measure Brand Equity?

    You Ask, I Answer_ How to Measure Brand Equity_

    Marcus asks, “How do you measure brand equity?”

    Huge question, but the answers have been well known for decades.

    One of the best summaries of brand equity measurement comes from the Spring 1996 California Management Review. In that review, Professor David Aaker cites the following 10 dimensions of brand equity measurement:

    • Price premium
    • Satisfaction/loyalty
    • Perceived quality
    • Brand leadership and innovation
    • Perceived value
    • Brand personality
    • Organizational associations
    • Brand awareness
    • Market share
    • Price and distribution indices

    When this paper was written in 1996, based on a 1995 book, the Internet wasn’t really a thing yet. Professor Aaker cited the exceptional expense and difficulty of measuring these dimensions. Today, thanks to our hyper-connected world, you can measure far more of these without ever leaving your desk. For several of them, the gold standard remains market research by a highly-qualified market research firm like Edison Research. For others, digital marketing analytics and customer data will provide the needed insights. Blend them together and weight them appropriately for your organization and industry.

    You Ask, I Answer: How to Measure Brand Equity?
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    On today’s you ask I answer. Marcus asks, How do you measure brand equity? That’s a big question.

    The good news is that measuring brand equity is something that has been well known a number of really good answers on this. For decades, consulting firms have had their own proprietary blend of measures. One of the best summaries I think of measuring brand equity comes from a an issue of the California Management Review. This is the spring 1996 issue. Professor David Acker cites the following 10 dimensions as good ways to measure brand equity one price premium satisfaction, quality, innovation and leadership value personality Association awareness market share and

    Distribution price indices so let’s dig into a few of these

    price premium is one that he and a number of consulting firms sort of rely on as the the gold standard for measuring brand equity, which is how much more of a premium does your brand command versus comparable alternatives.

    For example, if you are looking at CRM software, how much cheaper does an alternative to Salesforce. com have to be in order for someone to say, Yep, I will choose that over over the reputation of Salesforce. com or how much more would you pay for a How much more do you pay for a soda that has a Coca Cola logo on it versus a generic so like, you know, the Rite Aid brand of soda, even though chemically they’re probably going to be fairly similar. What is the premium that that I think commands loyalty is obviously one that you can match.

    Your

    repeat business, how much people out will come back and buy from you

    repeat customers things like that. And recommendation How much will people talk about your brand in a positive way and you can measure that

    any number of ways. But your CRM is going to be a huge source of that data. price premium data. By the way, we can come from depending on where you sell on how you sell, that can come from market research, or it particularly on the b2c side you can use shopping API’s to pull pricing data across the internet whereas previously you would have had a massive in store surveys quality, how much do people perceive the brand as being higher quality than its competitors, that something that you would measure through surveying, brand innovation and leadership

    is in a leading brand and again, that’s that

    Serving unaided recall, if I were to ask you to name three coffee franchise, three coffee shop franchises, probably you’re going to names Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts and one other and who that is, we don’t know.

    But almost certainly, Starbucks is going to be in one of the answers and and that’s that that kind of leadership again, serving perceived value do do people perceive that your brand is worth buying over competitors brand is it doesn’t provide good value for the money and that would be another

    question you answer through serving

    brand personality and reputation. Does the brand have a personality does is a brand aligned with the audience’s personality? You’d measure that through sentiment about the brand

    organizational association is one we’re

    the best.

    brand itself has trust. So people say, I admire the company that makes this this product or service. So the if the brand is the iPhone, do people admire Apple as the organization and so there you’re measuring portfolio strength along with the overall corporate reputation strength. Again, that’s gonna be a lot of surveying, you’ll get some you can get some qualitative data through social media,

    but you’re still probably going to need to do real market research to answer that question in a balanced way.

    product differentiation is a part of that as well. Is this brand How does this brand differ from other brands?

    Again, if you if you pick a

    enterprise SAS Enterprise software appliance, how does this router differ from this router? is there is there a difference and if people can’t explain the difference than you have a brand strength problem a brand equity problems brand or

    awareness, you know, name the brand’s this product less Have you heard of this brand? Do you know do have an opinion about this brand? That’s something that you can actually use search data for searching for if people are searching for anti virus software, what brand are they searching for? Or is there no brand? And it’s it’s a commodity in which case you have a brand equity problem

    market share based on market. How much of the market does that brand have name a search engine?

    Your first answer is probably not in the within the United States is probably not Baidu,

    your first answer is probably Google Now go to China and very different answer them. First answer will be Baidu. But even there people have heard of Google even if they may not necessarily have access to it. So certainly market share market share based on revenue as well. How much of the the available dollars does that brand consumed?

    And then price and distribution indices which are less relevant than the internet age. Because back in the in when this paper was written,

    it was

    functionally still not the internet era, even though the internet was starting to rise in popularity, but the percentage of stores a carrier brand or the percentage of people who have access to your brand. Well, now if you have a website, technically 90% of

    the 45% of the planetary population technically has access to your brand. Now

    that’s where again, search data would be very useful comparing search data and traffic data to see what percentage of traffic among your peer competitor set does your website get versus competing websites? What percentage of available engagements and social media does your brand get versus other brands? So there’s there are ways to do that with digital metrics. And that’s an important point when the paper was written. He was 19

    95 the paper. The paper was 1996 Professor ackers book was 1995 and he cited that you know measuring these these different dimensions will be extremely expensive. Extremely difficult.

    Today, that’s less true. It is a much different world. Now 25 years later, and measuring some of these particular digital metrics is a lot easier. Things like market share, things like price indices. Things like brand awareness are much easier to measure pricing premium through shopping API’s depending on your marketplace. That said, for a good number of days, particularly around quality leadership value perception personality, the gold standard remains market research conducted by a highly qualified market research firm. I personally like Edison research but there are a number of them out there

    but you still need to do the research properly. just slapping up any old survey and Survey Monkey

    is not going to give you reliable intelligent answers you need, you need professional help for that. For the other measures, digital marketing analytics and especially CRM data, customer data will provide you a good chunk of the needed insights. So ideally a blend all those together and wait them to come up with an index that’s appropriate for your organization in your industry. And if you don’t have access to the funding, you can still put together some of these metrics

    through things like search data and traffic data and stuff from from reliable third party data sources and come up with a blended brand equity measurement that is directional. It may not, you may not be able to slap $1 value on it. But you can put a directional number saying we have more brand strength this quarter than we did last quarter. We have greater branded search awareness for the company and for the products we have greater traffic data, we have generally more sentiment or more positive sentiment on social media.

    Yeah, then we did the previous quarter. But again, the the gold standard is still market research. So use that as much as you can. So great question. Marcus is a very big question. So this is a very short answer to a very what is going to be a very, very detailed process for you to go through. As always, if you have questions, please leave them in the comments. Please subscribe to the newsletter and the YouTube channel. We’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How To Do A Social Media Audit

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    Mariya asks, “What is a proper social media audit?”

    Social media audits have a simple purpose: to find out what’s working in your social media program and do it better. The components of a social media audit revolve around my social media marketing strategic framework. At each stage, we audit what exists, what’s missing, what’s working, and what’s not. Our goal is to identify these four characteristics for each stage, then use that as a plan of action for making repairs.

    The key to any audit is the output. Whatever we do, we should end up with clear next steps. By using my framework, you’ll have a laundry list for each stage, and then you fix them in order of importance, ease of correction, and urgency.

    enterprise social media strategy framework

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    On today’s you ask I answer Maria asks, What is a proper social media audit? That’s a good question. There’s a lot to a properly done well constructed social media audit. The function of a social media audit is simple as simple purpose to find out what’s working and your social media programs do it better. Now the components of a social media audit revolve around

    social media marketing strategic framework, use any framework you’d like I’m sure your mind he’ll bring it up here

    at each stage in this social media lifecycle. We audit what exists, what’s missing, what’s working and what’s not working. So those four things so what we want to identify for each of the stages around this wheel. Our goal is to identify these forecast for characteristics for each stage and then use that as a plan of action for making money.

    pairs so let’s go through these stages real quick here I’m bring bring bring this here

    number one in the first stage of clarify stage what are our goals and our business objectives and so a lot of this is where a lot of social media programs run into trouble it right away what they have his goals and business objectives are not tied to the business itself so they may be like hey let’s let’s get more shares on Facebook cool

    it’s measurable but doesn’t have any bearing on the business doesn’t create any business impact and a good chunk of the time the answer is going to be known

    for your goals this is also going to force you to think a lot about your analytics because you need to be in to be able to measure your goals and if you don’t have any set it’s going to be a struggle. So that’s section one. Section two creation

    what content you’re creating, what formats are you creating text, audio, video interactive, etc.

    So again I’m going to audit what’s there what’s the what’s not there what’s working what’s not working and again you’ll have to rely a little bit on your analytics to understand you know for example our videos doing it for your brand on the platform of your choice the third stage is choosing what channels are you on so what what social media channels have you evaluated and are you participating on and again you’ll need some audience analytics here to understand what channels should you be on where should you be you may need you may find you need to do qualitative survey to ask people flat out hey when you’re checking social media for whatever your product or services where do you go for it Who do you listen to and so on so forth

    this is also where you make choices out budget well how much are you putting into paid how much you putting into organic stage for his connection? Are you connecting to your audiences have you identified your audience as well? Have you identified your influencers well, and

    How well you connecting with them? How well are you staying in touch with them? I’ve been a part of some influencer programs where their contact with the influences is pretty nominal. And as a result, they don’t get the impact. They’re looking for us. We want to assess connection. What’s working? What’s not, what do we have? What do we don’t?

    Number five is coordination. How well are we executing our social media program? How will we budgeting time how we’re using our resources, how well scheduled, how much is automated, that should be automated, these are important questions. And this is where you’ll get into a lot of tools and stuff. I we’re using the right software for the for the purposes that we’ve set out. Number six is collaboration, how well are we collaborate, how are we engaging with our audiences? How will we building a community so this is where we look at things like returning users to our website, from our communities looking at things

    amount of activity within our communities. There are a lot of companies that are doing a great job with private groups, slack channels, things like that, where social media is not the public social networks is now private. And how much engagement Are you getting out of those?

    Number seven is communication. How well are we monitoring? how effective is our monitoring and identifying issues? What are our response times to identify issues? This is also where we get into crisis communications. What kind of crisis communications plan do we have in place? When was the last time we ran a drill simulating a crisis? And if if we did that relatively recently, how impactful or effective were we at executing the drill a well and finally the conclude stages What do we have for analytics What do we have for insights how well we turning analytics into insights and then into strategy, tactics and execution on

    A real time basis or near real time basis, what software, what systems do we have in place to automate all that to make it as easy as possible for everyone who is participating in our social media strategy to get good insights. Now, this framework, this strategy, it’s big and it is designed for the enterprise. If you are a smaller business, all this may be done by one person and it may not even be their full time job. That’s okay. As long as that’s a conscious choice.

    That is okay as long as you still have tasks for that person to do that scale down to the individual level. So you may not have a full crisis communications team but you still need their crisis plan even if it’s just a pile a post it’s taped somebody’s wall you still need influencer identification. It may not be a data science firm like like Trust Insights.

    Doing massive scaled data site date I’ve infants identification it may be again that may be an intern googling for people as long as that’s a conscious choice that’s fine. There’s nothing wrong with that.

    So it needs to the stages you’ll scale them up or down based on your company and the resources you have allocated to social media.

    The one thing the one area i would i would not skimp on if you can avoid it is in analytics. huge surprise. I know but the ability to measure the impact of social media and to show increasing results will dictate how much additional resources get in order to do more social media or to do it better. So if there’s a place that I would not skimp on on spending money on tools and analysis and people and process that’s the area I would start and finally, I can’t say this enough those goals those social media program goals of

    Got to be aligned to business objectives. That is where 99% of bad social media programs run into troubles. There’s no value to the business that can be explained in a concrete, tangible, measurable, repeatable way. So that’s where you got to fix it up. So that’s what a proper social media audit would look like.

    Again, depending on how large your company is and how

    and how thorough you need to be and what resources you have this could be a couple PowerPoint slides or maybe a one page document at the for the smallest of companies all the way to this could be a massive binder like a multi hundred page behind her findings and next steps that all gonna hand out to different departments, different people within the company because your company will need it. So the social media audit when properly done as Marie asked, What’s a proper social media audit is going to be as thorough as your social media marketing efforts are

    expansive. So great question. Social media or audits also going to take a lot of time. If you do an audit, and you are a large company and it takes you two hours, you’ve done it wrong. You skipped a bunch of stuff. Now, if you’re a one person solo printer, then yeah, a couple hours would be sensible to but even then, you might have a lot to do, depending on how good you are at social media. If you’re terrible at it. It’ll be a quick audit,

    though, the better you are, the longer it will take because you’ll have to gather that much more data. So great question. As always, please subscribe to the to the newsletter and to the YouTube channel and stuff and we’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What Is Data-Driven?

    You Ask, I Answer_ What Is Data-Driven_

    Judi asks,

    “In a recent NY Times article on analytics in media, they make a distinction between being data informed as opposed to data driven, prizing human judgement over data and not letting data like pageviews dictate content strategy. What are your thoughts?”

    Data-informed and data-driven to me are largely semantics; both indicate we are making decisions using data. I use the example of the GPS for what it means to be data-driven. Most of the time, we don’t ask our GPS to tell us our destination, just how to get there. A select few times, we’ll use an app to suggest destinations, but human judgement still matters most.

    The article itself is an excellent read.

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    In today’s you ask, I answered Judy asks, in a recent New York Times article on analytics and media, they make a distinction between data informed, as opposed to data driven pricing, human judgment and editorial over data, and not letting each of us dictate content strategy. What are your thoughts? Well,

    that’s a good question. Um,

    data informed and data driven to me are largely semantics. And the reason for that is that both of these indicate we are making decisions using data, I use the example of a GPS, right for what it means to be data driven. When you open your smartphone, or for those older versions that are physical separate devices, you punch in your destination, and the software talks to the system. And the system figures out how to get you from where you are to go to where your destination is the best radio show, Mr. Fastest stories, you know, around traffic, things like that. Nobody, almost nobody

    just

    asks the GPS for a destination and randomly and how to get that right. I mean, you might do it for fun with like playing on Google Maps, like, hey, what is driving directions to get to,

    you know, from Topeka to Tokyo, which you can’t do that anymore. But the point being,

    we don’t ask the GPS for our destination, we asked the GPS for our journey, how do we get there in in the most optimal way. Same thing is true about being data driven, or data informed, we need to know the best way to get to our destination. But we are not asking our systems to tell us where to go. And that’s an important part, because that is the distinction in many ways between

    strategy and tactics and execution,

    right. Strategy is why we even in the car tactics are, you know, how are we going, you know, what, what choices are we going to make to get there and execute our other pieces of data. We used to make a safe and expedient journey. At no point in your strategy setting for marketing or for business in general, should you be

    there going, Hey, wait a minute, why are we going?

    That’s something that should not happen? So strategy is, why are we going, and that involves the setting of the destination? Is it possible that we will have reached a day where artificial intelligence and machine learning and deep learning

    can suggest destinations? Absolutely, in some ways, we already do that. So

    again, going back to driving,

    there are plenty of times, particularly if you are a business traveler, where you get to a destination, and then you get to your hotel, and you’re like, I want to find someplace to eat. So you open up an app, and you ask the app know what places to eat. Are there that are nearby though the cuisine, they’re like in a price range. I like that are open right now.

    And in this case, we’re using data to eat to to solve the problem of Where should we go? Or where should we get our food for, we still have the human judgment part of why are we doing this, why are we doing this, because we’re hungry, we want something to eat. And then we use the machine technology to help us identify where

    how we want to solve that problem. And then again, you would then use the GPS to figure out how to get there in order to get something to eat.

    Likewise,

    many of the biggest business problems that we solve with marketing, like we need more revenue, we need to meet our help the team needed sales numbers, we need to retain customers, our problems that we still have to decide, we still have to decide that how metaphorically hungry, the organization is for new leads versus retaining customers, right, they’re going to have so much time and money unless you’re, I don’t know, like a bank.

    And even though there’s resource constraints. So which of these pressing problems. Do we have to solve with human judgment and with informed by the biggest business and then we can use

    machine technology to suggest all the different options that are available. And then we pick the options that make the most sense to us.

    So we’re not at a point. And we will not be at a point for quite a while, where we just turn everything over to a machine. And a lot of people believe that that’s what data driven means. It’s even in this new york times article where they’re, they’re saying, We don’t let page us dictate our coverage. Our approach, you shouldn’t let page views dictate anything paid user, not a great indicator of anything other than ad sales.

    But

    instead, we need to have our machines helping us make our decisions better, and making our decisions faster.

    How long would it take you, if you’re, if you’re under the age of,, this reference will make no sense to you, how long did it used to take you in business travel, to find a place to eat while you dig out the the yellow pages in, you know, buried in the, in the restaurant, dress in the hotel, room, dresser, and, and sift through all the different categories, all the different cuisines and stuff like that,

    that would take a really long time and I just open up the app, find what’s open, you don’t make any phone calls to see if some places open and if they deliver to your hotel, you just

    do that and and you get the answer. So the machines. Help us make better decisions because we know what’s open and make faster decisions, because you want to call every single restaurant in the area. Likewise, on the business side. And in the marketing side.

    If we are building great machine learning models to truly be data driven, we don’t have to guess and try out a B tests every single possible marketing channel, we use things like attribution modeling, we use things like

    subset modeling to figure out which combination the predictive analytics driver analysis to figure out what combination of things

    is going to be most efficacious,

    but we still need that human judgment to go,

    I know something’s not right in that data.

    I know something’s a little off, or I know we had an analytics problem here. So we need to, you know, select not you incorporate some of the data that we know is bad. So to sum up, data informed and data driven our semantic differences like a GPS, it is important that we, the humans

    set the strategy

    why we’re doing something set the destination

    or use machine learning and and data to

    figure out which destination is optimal for our

    limited resources. And then use data

    use analytics use insights, which is

    the higher form of analytics

    to get us to that destination in the most efficient and effective way possible. Great question, Judy complex question. And there’s a lot to unpack in this.

    I do think that a lot of people do get mixed up as to what all these different terms means to be clear in your own lexicon and what you mean by data driven what your own semantic differences are,

    as well as what you define strategy tactics, execution measurement as because that will help you disambiguate and and not get confused when you

    are trying to explain your strategy, your tactics and your execution to your stakeholders. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and to the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care.

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