Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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

    You Ask, I Answer: How To Do A Social Media Audit 1

    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: How To Make Red Profile Borders on LinkedIn

    You Ask, I Answer_ How To Make Red Profile Borders on LinkedIn

    Judi asks, “How do you get the red circle around your profile picture on LinkedIn?”

    The red profile border is a neat human trick I learned a while back; I like it because it sets your profile photo apart in the feed, and the red is exactly the same color as the notification icons. It’s eye-catching as you scroll through.

    Here’s a screencast walking through the process. You’ll need slide software such as Google Slides, Microsoft Powerpoint, or Apple Keynote, and a profile picture (ideally black and white).

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    In today’s you ask, I answered. Judy asks, How do you get the red circle around your profile picture on LinkedIn, the red profile circle. It’s a neat human trick I learned a while back. I like it because it sets your profile photo apart in the feed. And the red is exactly the same colors, the notification icons, it’s eye catching. As you scroll through, he’s an example. As a scrolling through, you’ll see there’s my profile picture. And there’s some other profile photos. And then that there’s that one has that red circle around that. Now this is not a feature that’s built into LinkedIn. This is simply something that you have to do separately. So let’s go through how to do that. I’m going to go ahead and you’re going to need you don’t really need a fancy software, Photoshop or anything a regular slide deck software will do. You will need a profile picture of some kinds of find a profile picture that works really well for you.

    I’ll use this one here and what you got.

    We’ll do a shrink that down to a reasonable size. See if we can make this fit this on screen here,

    like so.

    center that and now we’ll take a shape a nice circle

    with a circle. What we’re going to do is gonna have no Phil on the circle, but we’re going to set a a border we’re going to set the border thickness to something crazy like 96 point I’m going to set the color to that fire engine. Read that big, big, big red color and bring this around like so.

    Let’s actually make that border even thicker. Let’s go to 55. Okay, that’s good enough, I guess and just make it just tightened up a little bit

    with your software you can most all slide software has the ability to center

    So, and then we’re going to export this as an image. Now obviously, if you’re using Microsoft PowerPoint or whatever,

    you’ll have different settings. This is a keynote on the Mac

    will save this.

    And now we should have our profile picture right on a desktop. So let’s switch back to our browser. Go ahead and click on your

    profile photo.

    Find the picture you just created the slide and you’ll notice now that you can zoom in

    and what you want is just a nice thin layer. See how zoomed in around to not get as much of that red border looks good. It’s even on all sides. We apply it

    hit save and now you got that nice.

    red border around the profile photo. So that’s the process. It’s super easy to do. It works on most social networks that have a circle as the profile photo. So LinkedIn always crops to a circle Facebook for its profile photos, crops to a circle. So you can do this on Facebook. Twitter is different. Twitter has a square sometimes the circle other time so it will look a little bit off if you do it. If If you don’t mind that for Twitter, what you’d want to do because the the background is a square there is you would want to create at that same color as a Red Square.

    send that to the back

    and then take that circle have a color fill that is white

    and then send that backwards.

    Send the all the way back and you’ll have to crop out or or make transparent your background here so some software allows you to do what’s called an alpha we can mask out the background and that would allow you to pass through and basically have let’s see if we can do this year to edit mask

    instant alpha

    go

    so you would save this whole thing as your profile picture and then have the square

    would essentially be a red red circles squares kind of a read James Bond look if you remember the old Bond films The the openings to them. So that’s how you do that for Twitter. But do this for any social network where there’s the icon is cropped to a circle and you’ll get that nice red circle around it. That is again very eye catching and takes advantage of two things to take advantage of the fact that

    for

    wouldn’t use, by the way, with the corporate logo, I’d use it with natural face. Because human beings are keyed biologically to, we’ve evolved to to lock onto a human face first and then secondarily, that red circle gives us the ability to to look like a notification. So that’s how I do that. Again,

    if it’s off brand, if you don’t like that color, if you want to have it be a difficult obviously just change it to whatever color you likes. The other thing I do like about doing that is d saturating your photo. So if your photo is a color photo, you might be okay. You might want to think about making it a black and white photo, it sets the contrast off a little bit more. So give that a try. Play with it. See if you like it. And if you do like it, then roll it out to every social network where you feel it’s appropriate. But again, on LinkedIn, you get those nice red notification icons and it matches up really well. So thanks for the great question Judy. hope this is helpful. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and to the email newsletter and when

    We’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • #FridayFeeling: Why Influencer Marketing Fails, According to Aristotle

    #FridayFeeling_ Why Influencer Marketing Fails, According to Aristotle

    Over the past week, I’ve been doing a ton of market research for a client around social media marketing, and THE topic du jour is influencer marketing. One of the most critical flaws I’ve seen in influencer marketing programs, including some I participate in, is a failure to capture the four main dimensions of influence.

    This isn’t new stuff – Aristotle coined this in 322 BCE. The four aspects are ethos (authority/credibility), pathos (appeal to emotion), logos (appeal to logic/rational), and kairos (time and place, context).

    • Brands go wrong with influencers by over-focusing on ethos and pathos – how popular or engaging an influencer is, while neglecting logos and kairos.
    • Influencers fail brands in the same way, just on the other side of the coin, by developing no logos – expertise – and equally by over-focusing on the brand, ignoring or not having any knowledge of kairos.

    Watch the video for the full explanation, including how both brands and influencers can use Aristotle’s framework for more impactful influence and better program results.

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    In today’s Friday feeling I’ve been doing a ton of market research for a client around social media marketing and the topic of the day of the period is influencer marketing.

    Everyone was asking questions about how do I measure influencers, how do I find influencers, what are the best tools were the best people, etc. etc. And

    there’s a lot of flaws in what’s happening and influencer marketing but the core

    is a fundamental misunderstanding of what influence is

    and how to achieve it. So

    influence is not new influence or persuasion or the ability to get people to do what you want them to do has been around for millennia. One of the classical definitions of influence. One of the ones that has stood the test of time is Aristotle’s which he coined in 322 BCE. So we’re talking literally almost 2500 years ago

    and Aristotle’s definition of of

    not influence because he didn’t use that word he used persuasion had four dimensions ethos,

    pathos logos and Cairo’s

    ethos is authority or credibility how credible is speaker or in the eyes of the audience what kind of authority, do they have to be speaking on the topic pathos is an appeal to emotion how emotionally engaging as a speaker. How well can they incite emotion from the crowd logos is the appeal to the rational to the logical to the The fact of the matter

    and Cairo’s is time and place, Greeks have ancient Greek language had two words for time Kronos which is time itself and Cairo’s which is more time and place, sort of context when

    when a speaker speaking, are they speaking when the audience is receptive to their message

    now where influencer marketing is going wrong is neglecting half of influence brands have gone overboard on Athos and pathos Athos the authority of the speaker in influencer marketing. This is turned into who’s got the loudest mouth or who has the biggest following and while there is validity to do that in terms of Athos you

    by definition, if a million real people are following you.

    You have influence my friend Tom Webster says that, but

    is it the right audience and

    the other aspect where brands over focus is pathos is how emotionally engaging is that influx of how popular are they how how excited they get the audience and and you see in some cases people hiring influencers who they have that emotional appeal, but their complete mismatch with the brand where brands just drop the ball is on logos and Cairo’s logos is is the appeal to the rational

    and a ton of influencers

    don’t really know what their marketing. They’re just talking about the thing and it shows when you ask any questions in depth

    and and brands also neglect that aspect of Cairo’s The context

    is an influencer a good fit for the brand is an influencer in the right time and place for them to be impactful for the brand or they just kind of doing their own thing.

    One of the criticisms of one of the programs. I’m in

    b2b tech program is that

    the influencers, the social

    influencers that participate don’t know the product and can’t advocate for it effectively and the perception among

    the

    brands loyalists or that the influencers are really more

    promoting themselves and and taking money from the brand to use the brand’s reputation to promote themselves which can be a valid criticism. So ethos and pathos

    go overboard logos and Cairo’s good don’t get invested enough and that’s where influences also dropped the ball to influencers focus on those things because what the brands were paying them paying the bills focus on

    but by if an influencer is not developing that logos that expertise that ability to appeal to the rational hey this pack of gum uses no genetically modified chemicals this server stores all of its data in particular type of encryption if if an influencer does not have or does not develop that expertise, then they are presenting an incomplete picture to their audience and in some ways dampening the credibility of their credibility with their audience. And if you don’t have logos eventually it

    ends up just corrupting your ethos and then Cairo says the other aspect that influencers don’t

    either know about or willfully ignore. And that is the context in which the way the audiences

    different influencers will impact different parts of the customer journey you think about the customer journey awareness consideration evaluation purchase

    that’s the path to purchase. If an influencer is all about reach, they would have an impact on that awareness. If it influences his focus more on authority or connection authority would be sort of that middle that consideration phase. Hey, is this product or service or company with something I want to do business with. I’m going to go ask an authority that influence needs to pay attention to to that part of the customer journey on behalf of the brand

    and then that connector someone who can make those connections there more towards the end, the buyers journey in some ways because

    you know when people say, Hey, who do I know that’s a good one resource for analytics. Oh, you should talk to Hillary Mason, you know that person that that connector helps bridge that gap to create that last jump into purchase. So depending on the kind of influencer you are

    if you don’t know where you fit into your your your the corporate brand journey customer journey, you don’t have Cairo on your side and influencer who does all for well who has authority who has emotional appeal, who has is backed up by data and facts and understands where they fit into the grand scheme of things is going to be a very successful influencer on behalf

    of the brand and then of course the influence themselves can increase the amount of money they charge or the types of work and projects, they’ll take on. So

    my feeling is that influencers don’t have that knowledge and brands who don’t have that knowledge of this classical definition of persuasion and using all four pieces are not going to get the results that they want.

    They may get some results, but they may not get a maximum

    results that they could be getting if they used ethos, pathos logos and Cairo’s appropriately to find influencers to set strategy around influencers and then to measure influencers, both in evaluating them up front and on the flip side at

    measuring the performance of a program.

    Go and read ourselves rhetoric, it’s out of copyright obviously never had one to begin with.

    It’s available for free on sites like Project Gutenberg you can just get it completely, totally for free read through it

    and give some thought to the this definition of influence because it will help

    enhance your own influence or marketing program. Whether you are a brand or whether you are an influencer if you develop all of these areas. You’ll be much, much more successful. So that’s today’s Friday for feeling as always please subscribe to the newsletter and the YouTube channel and look forward to hearing any comments you have about your experience with influencers,

    whether they they were able to do the thing and all four areas or whether you chose them or you are one and you focus just on one of these four aspects of influence and would like to increase the the amount of persuasion, you can do. Thanks for watching. I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Influencer Marketing Tips for Companies

    You Ask, I Answer_ Influencer Marketing Tips for Companies

    Genevieve asks,

    “What are some of your best influencer marketing tips?”

    What a great, complex question. Influencer marketing is done so poorly today. Generally speaking, we want three different outcomes:

    • Improved reach
    • Improved connection to decision-makers
    • Improved reputation

    These outcomes require three different kinds of influencers. Learn who each kind is, how to identify them, and how to measure our influencer marketing in this video.

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    In today’s you ask I answer john via asks, what are some of your best Influencer Marketing Tips

    companies do influencer marketing generally incorrectly. And the reason for that is they don’t have clear goals they don’t have a system for getting to those goals and they don’t have a way to measure them that’s intelligent, a lot of influencer marketing has devolved into who’s got the biggest mouth

    or who has the most followers, maybe a little who’s got the most engagement. These days, but even that’s kind of a not a great metric because it’s too general to to non specific

    so let’s talk about

    how to do influencer marketing in a more thoughtful way first. What are your business goals

    all influences are not the same. There’s three.

    broad categories of influencers, they are influencers who are loud and that’s okay. If you need reach if you just need market awareness. If you just need always

    allowed influencer with them. million followers is going to do the job for you right if you hire a Kardashian, you’re gonna get a good chunk of the Kardashians audience to briefly, pay attention to you pay, pay for that over and over again and it’s just like any other form of advertising and that’s okay. That’s why we do advertising.

    The second type of influence you might want the second type of outcome might want our connections to the right people. This is especially important if your business relies on a complex sale sale, which requires a connection a warm handoff and an ushering in an ambassador in into a tight knit community or to a close community where simply we don’t have access

    and the third outcome we might want from an influencer is reputational improvement being a.

    associated with this influencer being endorsed by that influencer would be something that would be beneficial because people would see us as more credible. So you have credibility connection and noise reach broadcast. Those are the three general outcomes that you could get from influencers.

    What does your company need

    if you buy the wrong kind of influence, you’ll get an outcome that doesn’t match what your company needs. That’s part number one part two

    is

    based on knowing the outcome you want what kind of influence or do you need again for the broadcast. You need someone loud a Kardashian will do if you just need a lot of loud noise and even in smaller niche communities. If you’re going to say a trade show like RSA conference hymns dream for CES

    having somebody who is loud who can help you be louder than the crowd is it.

    Good thing. So that’s a really good example of what when you’d want a loud influencer when you need to be able to shout above the rest of the noise,

    the connection influencer is somebody who is going to do that introduction that that warm referral that that that reaching into a community that you don’t have access to.

    They are going to be very different. They will not necessarily have a lot to say they will not be super present online in massive ways right there are probably gonna be a little bit quieter.

    But when you look at

    their network if you visualize the network you would see that they are the hub right they are they are the core of their network and everybody is connected to them and they’re connected to everybody.

    And then the third kind of influencer really is that authority somebody who has their own strong reputation everyone talks about them. They may not.

    Say, very much, but everybody talks about them. Professor Stephen Hawking didn’t endorse for, say, a whole lot about other companies, but everybody talked about Professor Stephen Hawking that late Professor

    that’s that third kind of influencer for those who with a little more gray in your hair. You may remember a commercial from the 70s or 80s. If you’re a little younger you can see these on YouTube, but they used to be a commercial for an investment firm called EF Hutton and headed by a person named EF Hutton and the tagline of their commercials was when EF Hutton speaks everybody listens and that’s that third kind of influencer when that person does speak everyone stops pays attention. What’s he gonna say What’s she gonna say they’re going to endorse somebody like

    when that person speaks about

    marketing or the best tool or the best fun to buy or the the best airline travel everyone goes all right all if it’s good enough for them it’s good enough for me.

    So that’s part two is knowing who the person is that matches the outcome that you want

    and you’ll use different analytics tools different influencer measurement tools for that the broadcast persons really easy to measure right loudness the connection persons difficult to measure you need visualization software that can do network graphs to understand how well connected somebody isn’t you want the person who is the center of their network. This type of algorithm called sensuality, you’d use that and then the authority is a different type of network graph where you’re going to measure who talks about so the number of degrees of connection inwards to a person.

    The third part is the measurement of influencer marketing and this is where again companies really fall down.

    They just assume loudness is what you want. Now if you’re buying reach if you’re buying broadcast then yeah, you’re going to measure it exactly like advertising where how much loudness did we get.

    How much brand awareness. Did we get how much traffic to our website that we get and you want, you’re going to want big numbers,

    you’re going to pay for big numbers, you’re going to want big numbers.

    And again, you may not buy the endorsement of Beyonce right but if you did, you would expect to see big numbers because that was not that would not be a small endorsement deal.

    So that’s the reach outcome. You’re going to measure that with stuff like web traffic top of the funnel big numbers big awareness, the connector, you’re going to measure in the CRM, you’re not going to see that in web analytics your connector may only get you five meetings, but those five meetings, could we have five multi billion as you want to write you a check for a billion dollars right let’s go look terrible and your web analytics, but your CRM, you’re going to be like wow look at this room full of Benjamin’s that suddenly appeared. And so the outcome. There is very, very different. The system you used to measure a connector influencer marketing program will be very different. You will have to use the.

    I’m for them

    the authority is even more difficult to measure because that looks a lot like

    in many ways, it looks like reputation reputation management. So how many people search for you by name, does that go up as the authority confer some of their authority upon you.

    How much coverage. Do you get in traditional press or media or within your community. How many more people talk to you because they heard the influencer talk about you and it looks very much like traditional public relations in many ways.

    So think about

    how you measure your reputation as the way to measure that third type of influencer now what you see here is that these three buckets of influencers have three outcomes three different kinds of influencers that require three different identification measurements and systems and then three different outcomes and metrics and analytics

    where companies go wrong.

    They assume all influencer marketing is the same, you just buy influencers. Well, that’s not how that works. That’s, that’s how you you waste a lot of money instead of buying the outcome that you want and identifying the partners, you need and then the measurement system that goes with it. So when it comes to influence or marketing. Those would be my suggestion identify which the other three outcomes you want find the right people based on the using the right technology and then measure the outcomes based on the kind of outcome that you’re looking for. So you’re you know that you you bought the right kind of influencer marketing to reach your goals so many companies do this wrong so many companies to swipe the credit card and hope for the best. And that’s no different than running a bunch of on targeted ads you might get the right people, but chances are you’re just gonna waste a ton of money john we have great question complicated question complicated question.

    Hopefully this provide some insight for everybody who is doing influencer marketing to be able to do it better. Thanks for asking. As always please subscribe to the YouTube channel and.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Marketing In a Privacy-First World

    You Ask, I Answer_ Marketing in a Privacy-First World

    Ann asks: “How do we analyze and target in an age of privacy?”

    In the wake of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress, which some Twitter pundits amusingly called the Zuckerbowl, some thoughts about privacy, data, analytics, and marketing.

    Disclaimer: I AM NOT A LAWYER

    • Consult an actual lawyer

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    We need to take three strategic steps: Own, Build, Learn.

    Own

    • If you’re not paying, you are the product
      • Doubly true for business services
    • Download as much data as you can right now
      • ESPECIALLY FROM APIs
      • Regulation is coming
    • Run backups in parallel of critical systems
      • Google Analytics? Matomo as your backup, on your own server
      • Cloud servers are $5 a month

    Build

    • First party data is essential – your analytics, your data
      • Understand and control as much as you can
    • First party data collection
      • How did you hear about us?
    • Strong data governance
      • Ask or have legal counsel review your data services
      • GDPR will require you to anyway
    • Clear user agreements and policies are the law of the land in places – be globally compliant as much as possible

    Learn

    • Learn to model on behavior
      • Do you need to know someone’s intimate details?
      • Behavioral targeting cannot be compromised if there’s no PII to begin with
    • Learn patterns in owned data from API data that may go away
      • Now is the time to construct those statistical models
    • Create AI/ML models for your data so you have a snapshot and algorithms in place to make inferences

    Will social go away?

    • No
    • Facebook isn’t losing substantial numbers of users
    • Which means marketer’s can’t afford to stop using it

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    In today’s you ask I answer game. One of the Zucker bowl as some people are calling it is over. Mark Zuckerberg co Facebook has testified to the Senate will be testifying to the house. Next I don’t expect any know brand new insights to come out of that and about five different people all messaged me and said. So what does this mean for marketers, how do we market in an age where privacy is the default were targeting is much more difficult. So how do we do this before we begin, I am not a lawyer. I don’t even play one on the internet, if you have legal questions, please consult an actual lawyer somebody who can certify the answers that giving you are correct. This is just my perspective as a marketer and as a data person not legal advice. So

    we will need to do three things own build and learn what’s dig into these number one own we need to own our day.

    If you are not paying you are the product that is that is the fundamental truth of all this and it is the truth of the internet today. If you are not paying money out of pocket. You are the product this is definitely true for business services you think all those free things from all the different tech companies or have no strings attached in the 75 page User Agreement. Yes. What you are the product. So if your business relies on these services

    they are an under no obligation to help you stay in business, except as that bet these tech companies

    need to further their own interest. So understand that they like you as a product they may like you as a customer. If you’re paying a nominal amount. But fundamentally, they have to stay in business, they will do whatever it takes to stay in business, including put you out of business. So Own your data. This also means download as much of your data as you can. Right now, especially if your business relies on.

    third party data from any number of API’s add systems analytics customer data platforms, whatever it is, if you if you have a third party company that is controlling substantial portion of your businesses data download it now because regulation is coming. It’s already here in parts of the world, the most well known. One is GDP or the general data protection regulation in the EU, which has planetary consequences, but more regulation is coming. Mark Zuckerberg and CEOs of technology companies don’t testify in front of Congress, because Congress has nothing better to do well i mean they they don’t necessarily have more productive things to do, but that’s politics

    regulation is coming. We know it’s coming what form. It will take we don’t know

    the third thing in own is have backups of critical systems run backups in parallel for critical systems really good example. Almost everybody on planet uses Google.

    analytics. It’s free. Remember the first lesson

    and it is the gold standard and marketing and for good reason. It’s a great product. It is a fantastic piece of marketing software and I would say it has advanced marketing and business growth for 10s of thousands of companies and created billions of dollars in value to the economy. It is a valuable product and I holy support Google Analytics and the Google team,

    but I’m not under any illusion that Google

    wants to provide this without strings. Right.

    So if your business relies on web analytics, you owe it to yourself to run a backup. There’s a package called matondo analytics, which you have to run on your own servers, you have to

    spin up a cloud server install the software and get it running it is a web analytics package to the differences you own the server and you have to pay for the server, but it’s your own data, then you own and so run in parallel.

    moto mo cloud services which again you this is now you are the customer, you’re paying money for these things. Anyway, we’re going to be between five five and 20 bucks a month so you can afford probably to do this yourself unless you have like zero dollars. So that’s part one

    part two build first party data is essential, your analytics your data. So you need to understand the control as much as you can

    and start if you have not already done so start doing much more first party data collection behavioral data preference data asking people how did you hear about us. I can’t tell you the number of web forms. I’ve been on where no one ever asks that question. It’s an important question. How did you hear bass. Who told you about us. You need to collect that data because that data may not be available from a third party systems second in build you need strong data governance ask or have your legal counsel review all the data services you work with all the everything that the.

    Everything data in your company needs legal review and then needs a strong governance policy, you need to have governance in place that dictates who is responsible for what, where, when, why and how gt PR is going to require you to do this anyway if you do any business outside of your nation that could potentially interact with them. He uses and GDP or requires you to do this anyway so having that is an important part clear user agreements clear data policies are the law of the land and places and the easiest thing to do is be globally compliant with the the the strictest standards which in this case right now is gt PR for many things except spam laws which candidates castle was sort of the strictest in the world right now be globally compliant with the highest standard and you’re and you’re good to go. Third as marketers, we have to learn how to learn to model on behavior we don’t necessarily need to collect as much data as we do, we can collect the minimum viable amount of data we need to make decisions, our systems.

    Dead. We should also be collecting lots of behavioral data because it can’t be compromised. You can’t steal someone’s identity by telling how many pages they visited on your website and in what order but we can make good business decisions as to whether someone’s a viable prospect based on the order and flow of the pages that they visited on our website as an example that’s owned data. It’s ours. We can build models on it and it’s not sensitive data in the sense that someone’s identity could be compromised with it. We have to learn patterns in owns data, especially for stuff like social media data search data web analytics data, whatever, anything that we are interacting with from systems. We don’t own and we need to do our best to build and understand patterns in in all this third party data and constructs statistical models today with the data we have the says when people do X, Y amp z and come in on this page and behave like this. They are likely to convert we need these patterns in case those API’s and that third party data goes away. If it does, we have models that we can use to can.

    Need to make business decisions from the data we have and third in the Learn category we have to if you have not already done this already, you must get good at machine learning, you must be able to build machine learning algorithms based on the data that you have today. Remember, Part One who are going to download all the data that you possibly can and build machine learning algorithms machine learning processes and methods to make inferences in the data that you have to make up for the data you will lose when companies and regulations take over Trust Insights just released a white paper on this on and we just did this with LinkedIn shares because LinkedIn stop sharing part of its API. So we have to go and backfill that data. This goes back to part one download all the data now so that you have it as a training library for when these things go away. Finally, will social media. Go away. We’ll Facebook going no no is not going away. Facebook is a losing a substantial number of users according to the.

    testimonial in the congressional hearing, which means that marketers can’t afford to stop using it.

    We will change and I will be blinded by some of the data loss but fundamentally nothing and Mark Zuckerberg testimonial indicates that social is going to lose any importance or that regulation and restriction is imminent social networks going to do the best they can to self police and that means pulling back a lot of access in his testimonial which will include a link in the notes and he talks about what they’re doing with additional restrictions on apps on developers on API is that will continue to be the case. So

    social is not going anywhere but allow the data we’ve gotten comfortable working with will now is the time to own your data build a good strong internal ecosystem with strong governance and build lots of machine learning models on top of it so that you are ready when the fire hose becomes a trickle again all the sources from this art in the show notes and stuff here. Please subscribe to the YouTube channel and to my newsletter which is my dad and I.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Top Instagram Marketing Tips

    You Ask, I Answer_ Top Instagram Tips

    Chiranjeevi asks:

    “What are your top 10 tips for Instagram marketing in 2018?”

    We don’t need 10 tips. We need to rigorously follow one:

    If our content does not entertain, engage, or educate, it will perform poorly.

    That’s the sum total of an effective Instagram marketing strategy and where 99% of brands go wrong in their marketing. Watch the video for the nuances, but that’s our first and foremost focus.

    You Ask, I Answer: Top Instagram Tips
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    Chiranjeevi asks for top 10 tips for today’s you ask I answer you don’t need 10 really only need one and that is make content that the audience actually wants. Remember the three E’s rule entertain engage or educate

    those are the golden rules for all forms of content marketing of especially for

    people are on Instagram to see interesting stuff. Nobody wants to see your product over and over and over again unless it is illustrating what they can do what their life will be like

    an aspirational channel. Look how beautiful your food could look Look how wonderful your vacations could look Look how much more relieving you your time and the office could book because the purely visual channel is a visual storytelling channel and it is an entertainment channel your content on Instagram has to do one of those things. So

    if you’re just showing stuff on Instagram. That’s your product over and over again. That’s not entertaining. It’s not educational it’s not engaging nothing what you post on there’s going to matter the camera doesn’t matter the lighting doesn’t matter the video quality doesn’t matter

    entertaining entertain engage or educate

    I was working, not too long ago with a kitchen appliance company they make stuff for the kitchen and they’re like, Well, why doesn’t Why doesn’t anyone like our stuff. Well, there’s stuff was boring. There’s just their product over and over again. I mean, there was no sense of what you could do with it. That was unique makes food like everything else makes food that’s not helpful.

    There was no special angle. There was no aspirational aspect, like, look how much better your food could be if only you use this gadget.

    And so that entertain engage or educate strategy is what you need to do. Now let’s take a few examples. Let’s say you have a smartphone right as smartphones is pretty easy to to show how it will make your life better. But you also need to have that aspect of uniqueness how your product is not going to be completely unique and still be valuable probably it will probably have competitors. It will probably have something

    some kind of aspect that other people can replicate. What’s your unique spin on it. How do you showcase that visual storytelling. Suppose you have a webcam. Well, everyone’s got a webcam. These things are pretty count. Right. They all look like little eyeballs that go on top of your computer. What’s different about this one. What could you show that would be different about yours, maybe show how yours is resistant to hacking by the government or Russian hackers, something along those lines, something that’s a unique and different storytelling approach with

    the product of the subject of your photos is

    not the protagonist of the story, the story. The protagonist of the story is the viewer who was thumbing through a feed and if they see something that helps them understand this is how I become the the movie star poster hero version of myself. They will stop, they will take a look. May May tap on the ad to to learn more. So think of it from that perspective as well, something I learned from my editor.

    The protagonist is not who we write in the book a protagonist is the reader.

    Finally, you can’t using Instagram story to tell somebody what the benefit of your product is or the reason why it’s important or unique or any of this, and you have to show it.

    I was talking to one person at Social Media Marketing World who helps a market cutlery and they’re like well you know our steel is better than all the phones are still because it’s this particular type of sweet is stealing like i don’t care i care about if I throw this knife against a tree will the blade break or will the tree break

    and I’ve got to be able to see that as silly as those ads were remember the old turbo Ginsu knife ads when they’re like salto a lead pipe and then a tomato right the steel was terrible. The knives were not particularly good knives,

    but the gimmick was really obvious like wow this is a couple of metal pipe, nevermind. That was lead, which is both toxic and soft and then color tomato, I can cut the issue right nobody’s going to cut through a shoe sensibly with a knife, but it illustrates the point and you can you could do that in a story or photo or add very easily here kind of shoe and half cut up a bamboo Poland half cut the second half and it would be a way of illustrating the benefit of the story of the product not telling somebody that this is the sharpest knife in the world now show. Hey, I just cut through, you know, a fence post. That’s how you use Instagram to educate entertain to engage. If you don’t do one of those things visually

    nothing else you do on Instagram matters. So that would be my one and only tip and if companies could get better at that they will be so much better off than focusing on anything else. Don’t worry about lighting. Don’t worry about beautiful photography, be able to tell a good story with your camera. First, as always, please subscribe to the newsletter and the YouTube channel. Thank you for watching.

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  • THINKing Out Loud: Quantum Leaps Forward

    THINKing Out Loud_ Quantum Leap Forward

    Things I learned at IBM THINK, Day 2:

    • Looking at quantum computing and the future of everything.
    • Watson Discovery, the free news monitoring service (and unstructured data analytics service) that will make life easy for marketers and communicators
    • What will we focus on once AI does most of the work
    • How to take advantage of social media at trade shows more effectively for the bottom of the funnel

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    So why don’t we been thinking about this is day three of IBM think the first full day of the event technically in terms of the general public Sunday was champion day Monday was sort of think Academy and today is when people are going to be doing sessions and stuff and and as the chairman’s keynote this morning in terms of what really caught my eye yesterday that I think was a value. I got a chance to see the Watson discovery session which was fantastic. Watson discovery allows you to to process. Lots of unstructured text. But if you are a marketing or PR professional who would like access to a good analytical news engine Watson discovery gives you the last two months of news categorize tagged and sorted for free you get up to 1000 queries, a month to be able to ask the database questions about the news and it’s refreshed. As far as I can tell, on, on a near real time basis of the 17 million articles and they right now from the last two months. It’s a rolling two month window so it’s if you haven’t already signed up for Watson discovery. You should go do that because that’s valuable

    and again free at the light here as far as I can tell them they don’t seem to have any plans to change that to

    more expensive plan, you can upgrade to lots of different plans obviously

    got a chance to sit in

    a quantum computing lab, which was just head shredding I mean

    the things that you can do with quantum computing the rock computing power of quantum is

    it is quite literally a quantum leap.

    One of the examples in a factoring problem

    that the the doctor who was showing it said was, you take this problem of factoring and you scale it the problem linearly the processing time scales exponentially. So a problem that could take a massive supercomputer two seconds to solve for 128 bit factor when you get to attend 24 bit problem will take more time than the universe is old does it will take several like six or 7 billion years for that same computer to solve that problem with quantum computing because of the nature of the way it works. It will solve that problem and about 10 and a half hours so 6 billion years 10 and a half hours. Is it is such a radical change. But the thing that stuck out the most for me and something that we’re all going to want to keep an eye on. Is

    he ended the session by saying we are not able to think about quantum computing and what it can do yet. And he’s like, it’s so early. It’s, it’s so new and it’s so

    capable so powerful that

    it really is is is beyond anything so it’d be like the people in the 1950s when they were building the first regular classical computers had no idea that you know 50 years later, or 70, years later, there’ll be the things like smartphones

    was so far away from that room full of technology. So that was really

    worthwhile and entertaining.

    I had an opportunity to do a podcast yesterday on sort of analytics and where things are going. And one of the things that really came up that bill Jensen said during that things that once we remove all the tasks, because at some point AI is gonna be able to do most of the tasks. What’s left is the unique human experience. And so,

    focusing on on soft skills on the ability to work with each other to

    to have empathy to have judgment, all these things that are uniquely human right

    now and will be for some time, or where we need to spend and invest a lot of time if we wanted to

    run

    successful organizations that integrate humans and technology together.

    And then the last really powerful takeaway was that one of the of the fellow influencers was also an IBM champion

    said yesterday that people just don’t use social data at conferences. Very well,

    you said just kind of do stuff and throw things out there

    instead of cherry picking

    the 10 people, they want to have a meeting with and he said you’ve got the data may as well use it and use it in a more targeted fashion so so good advice there that will be taking into advisement and stuff at the Maya remaining days here at the event today and tomorrow but

    really just so fascinating to see what’s happening today we’re doing a Facebook Live at 7am Pacific.

    Then we have the chairman’s address Ginny remedy telling us all things new that IBM stuff

    I have some executive meetings this morning and then some

    other activities for influencers

    and then looking at looking forward to hearing from Dr Michio Kaku, who was a futurist later this afternoon. So lots to learn so much to learn so many new frontiers that it’s really exciting. It’s a it goes to show you that in while you’re in the regular world and your regular work that you don’t see stuff like this, the advancements on the frontier of computing and technology and what’s possible. And it’s it’s so exciting. It’s so refreshing. It’s like

    though there’s so many new possibilities that are coming in the world and so many new ways that will be able to do things so much more capabilities. So as long as we can

    get our or our own human foibles the future looks incredibly poor right, it will require a lot of thought and a lot of care to make sure that we don’t abuse these new technologies, but at least we will have them and at least there is

    there’s more. And there are changes ahead. That will be

    literal quantum leaps from what we can do as a

    as a human race. Now, so thanks for watching as always please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the email newsletter and we’ll have some more updates from IBM think soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Brand Impact of Facebook Fighting Fake News

    You Ask, I Answer_ Brand Impact of Facebook Fighting Fake News

    Suzanne asks:

    “How does Facebook’s efforts to fight fake news impact non-news Brand Pages?”

    Great question, Suzanne. In short: Brand Pages have virtually no organic reach anyway. The algorithm for fighting fake news is secondary to Faceook’s beating up any content that doesn’t get interaction and engagement.

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    Welcome to another episode of you ask, I answer? Suzanne asked today:

    How does Facebook’s effort to control fake news affect non-news Brand Pages?

    Short version – Brand Pages, if they weren’t already at zero organic reach, are headed that way rapidly for all but the most popular content providers.

    What Facebook did in its most recent algorithm is heavily favor individuals, groups and anything involving in engagement in conversation, so their premise on engagement is that if something is shared, but there’s no conversation, no interaction between users, then it’s not as important. This is as of January 11 of this year.

    So what the impact does this have? Well, if you look at your average Brand Pages’ Facebook post, they don’t get a ton of interaction, they don’t get a ton of conversation.

    I’ve seen plenty of pages where there isn’t any conversation and it’s just a couple of employees randomly hitting the like button.

    So in the new algorithm, which is so heavily engagement focused, these pages are going to take a pretty heavy hit.

    You’re going to see performance decline.

    And, of course, the solution that Facebook offers is get out the credit card and start spending money on ads. There are a couple other ways around this. Number one, obviously create content that is conversation-worthy, without creating offensive things or stuff like that because that doesn’t help anybody. The other way is to use employee advocacy; in the most recent algorithm change what has happened is that Facebook in general is favoring the individual person, rather than the corporation or the brand.

    If you have employees, and your employees are representative of your customers, meaning they’re connected to people like your customers, employees advocacy will work.

    Now, there are a whole bunch of caveats with employees advocacy. One, your employees need to have reach, access into the customer base. A real simple example: if all of your employees are baby boomers, but your customers are ideally millennials, you’re not going to have a good time. You’re not going to have an audience that is in sync with who your employee base is. That’s a major consideration – and it doesn’t just have to be demographics. It could be behavioral, too – if all of your employees love Pink Floyd, but all of your audience likes Justin Bieber, you’re going to have a bad time.

    The third approach and the approach that I personally like more is diversification.Facebook is not social media. It is a social network, but is not the only one out there.

    There is Twitter, there is Pinterest, there is Instagram, which is still a Facebook property, there are a whole bunch of secondary networks. There is LinkedIn, which is my personal favorite for B2B because it tends to be more professionally focused folks, there is YouTube.

    YouTube is a gigantic social network.

    It just happens to be a social network focused around video; it’s also the second largest search engine on planet. There is spotify, and Apple Music and all of these entertainment networks. It’s less a question of what’s our Facebook strategy and what’s our overall social channel strategy – where where is our audience?

    Where do they want to participate? What do they like? There are private social networks – anyone who’s ever used Slack has been in a private social network because Slack is very much that. There are still old school bulletin boards – great places for you to have interactions with your audience depending on where your audience is. Technically, email is the oldest social network, right? It is still the most decentralized.

    So, where’s your audience? Where do they want to hear from you? Are the places where they hang out immune to the Facebook effect or reducing the Facebook effect? There are tons of private discussion groups – Whatsapp has them, WeChat, Kik, Line, Tango, Viber, all these different companies have all these different channels. Facebook Messenger, iMessages.

    People have individual communities, so the way you ultimately get around Facebook’s algorithm?

    Create content people like and that they want to share and distribute on your behalf.

    Two, focus on more than just Facebook.

    Three, if you have to be on Facebook because you’re convinced that’s where your audience is, spend the money on the ads right now. Te ads are still relatively affordable. They will not stay that way as companies find more and more, organic reach is going to zero, they’re looking for any option to activate that huge Facebook following they spent years and dollars building, and Facebook ad pricing will go up.

    So that’s the answer.

    Thanks, Suzanne, for submitting a question to you ask, I answer!

    If you’ve got a question, submit it at this URL and I will gladly answer your questions – doesn’t matter what kind, how complex, how simple, happy to answer them.

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  • Social Influence Network Graphs Improve Social Media Marketing

    Social Influence Network Graphs Improve Social Media Marketing

    Madalyn Sklar asked how the various network graphs I make work. They’re based on a few different components and ideas, but the big idea is using a centrality algorithm to determine influence.

    What is Centrality?

    Centrality is a way to calculate how one node – like a Twitter handle – interacts with other nodes. The more a node is referenced, the more important it is.

    Why Does Centrality Matter?

    Centrality is, for me, the best way to judge influence in social media. Why? Because it’s easy to be loud and relatively easy to build a large audience (especially if you have dollars to spend). It’s less easy to organically convince a lot of people to talk about you (bots aside). The more other people talk about you, the more they reference you (whether or not you talk a lot), the more important you are in an influence network graph.

    As mentioned above, there are certainly ways to game centrality mapping, such as the use of bots; however, the average social media marketing practitioner is unlikely to deal with them in any substantial way on a day-to-day basis.

    How Do We Build Influence Network Graphs?

    I walk through the process from beginning to end in this video. The only caveat is that my data-processing middleware is confidential. The data source used in the video is by Brand24, and the network graphing software package is an open-source package named Gephi.

    How Do Network Graphs Identify Social Media Influence?
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    What Do We Do With Network Graph Outputs?

    Once we’ve built our graph, we use the data to:

    • identify influencers
    • identify influencer precursors
    • perform outreach to connecting nodes
    • identify trends
    • find unexpected connections among groups
    • build influence key topics
    • build advertising lists

    Properly done, influence network graphing provides us with nearly unlimited uses to turn our analysis into action.

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  • Four Failures of Social Media Marketers

    Four Failures of Social Media Marketers 2

    I’ve just returned from Social Media Marketing World with a list of things we social media marketers should be doing better. Here’s a summary in about 7 minutes:

    Followup Thoughts from Social Media Marketing World 2018
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    Social media marketers face four major obstacles to their success:

    1. Failing to create audience-centric messaging.
    2. Failing to create and give value first.
    3. Failing to measure what matters.
    4. Failing to focus on what’s practical and applicable.

    Most of all, we have forgotten the basics. We have forgotten how to execute the basics of social media, and we’re seeing the performance penalty for those lack of basics. Get back on track by fixing the four failures above. These are my key takeaways from speaking with dozens of marketers at Social Media Marketing World.

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