Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Social networks

  • How I schedule social media content with Buffer [VIDEO]

    No fewer than a half dozen people have asked me recently how I’m scheduling my social media content. Here’s a quick video that shows the entire process in just 11 minutes a day or so, depending on how fast you read.

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    In this video, the following things are mentioned:

    Feedly.com for content curation
    Flaticon for default art (paid)
    Flickr for photo storage and sharing
    Buffer, obviously
    Buffer’s Pablo app
    Tamsen Webster’s Buffer image tip
    Moz FollowerWonk for Buffer timing
    Buffer Optimal Timing Tool for Buffer timing

    I do want to emphasize strongly that this process is my particular way of doing it. It is not “the right way”, nor is it appropriate for a company with an actual social media team that can devote lots of hours and effort to curating content that’s unique and tailored to each channel. This is a methodology more suited for a solo proprietor/individual practitioner who doesn’t have hours a day to devote to content scheduling.

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  • IBM Watson Analytics Does Twitter Hashtags

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

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

    You begin by choosing Twitter as a data source:

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

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    For example, how does sentiment influence retweets?

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

    Is there a pattern in retweets by sentiment over time?

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

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

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

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

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  • Exclude marketers for better social media influencer analytics

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

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

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    What a huge difference. Marketing is clogging the airwaves.

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

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

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

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

    Bad marketing ruins everything.

    Luckily, any decent social media monitoring tool should support boolean logic, boolean queries (such as OR, AND, NOT queries) that can help weed out your fellow marketers to identify actual engagement. In the monitoring tool of your choice, build in exclusions for:

    • Links and URLs
    • Sharing requests
    • Shares
    • Appeal language/calls to action

    What you’ll be left with are the actual conversations.

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

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

    and the second, without marketing:

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

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

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

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  • Do social shares correlate at all with SEO?

    Rand Fishkin of Moz wrote a fascinating Whiteboard Friday article recently, making the claim that except for the top 10% of content producers, social media sharing appears to have no impact on SEO. Go read the article first.

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

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

    What did I find?

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

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

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

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

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  • Digital Marketing Trends, Part 4 of 5: Make it Stick

    As part of the daily curation I do with #the5, I get a chance from time to time to aggregate all the news I collect to look for trends. In the fourth of our 5 part series, we’re going to examine some current trends in digital marketing and what they mean for you. Today, we’re looking at…

    Make it Stick

    Here are a few of the choice headlines in the last 7 months worth reflecting on:

    Twitter to start recycling best tweets in “While you were away”
    Facebook rolls out Timehop-like new feature
    Should you repost your social media content all the time?
    7 Ways to Stop Pogo-Sticking From Killing Your Website’s SEO
    Opens, Clicks, And Blocks In The Third Age Of Email Deliverability
    Does a daily social media ask help to sell more?
    LinkedIn, Notorious for Sending Too Many Emails, Cuts Back

    When it comes to stickiness, there are two distinct schools of thought. The first is content stickiness – how sticky is your content? How much do people remember what you have to say? How compelling or engaging is your content? Content stickiness was best described and operationalized by Chip and Dan Heath’s excellent book, Made to Stick.

    Make it stick!

    The second school of thought on stickiness is algorithmic. When you look at the list above, what you’re seeing doesn’t relate directly to your content. What you see above relates to the way your content is distributed and how different digital marketing platforms try to re-attract users.

    Consider this: who do you get the most email from? If you’re the average consumer, retailers, spammers, and social networks – and not necessarily in that order. Social networks fall back on email to get consumers to re-engage with content. Facebook offers its “On this day”. Marketers adore #ThrowbackThursday and schedule huge quantities of content to tie into that trend. Twitter recycles tweets. Even Google’s venerable SEO algorithm measures the stickiness of your site and how fast people come back to search results.

    Sticky is the new sexy, from an algorithmic perspective. Everyone is giving favor to things that bring users back.

    How To Make Use of This Trend

    Obviously, your content should be sticky first, in the Made to Stick perspective. Master that first. Once you’ve figured out how to make content people actually want, the next step is to become far more proactive about inciting stickiness.

    You can’t wait for a social network algorithm or a search algorithm to benevolently bestow more eyeballs on your content. You can’t leave re-engaging users to chance. You’re looking to Make It Stick, proactive stickiness. Proactive stickiness means seizing the reins and driving stickiness with your own efforts before the algorithms.

    Why would you do this? To incite the algorithms to work with you and not against you. If your content shows signs of trending from your efforts, algorithms that favor stickiness will reward you even more. On the other hand, if your content seems like just a flash in the pan, algorithms will pass you by because you’re not showing any signs of bringing users back to benefit them.

    What can you do? In the old days, I used to advocate that any time you sent an email, you would post on social media that you sent an email in order to encourage open rates (which improve deliverability). The reverse is also true – your emails should promote your social posts and social actions.

    Another simple example: a relatively small amount of paid media spend can make content appear sticky to algorithms, particularly if you belong to an ad network. Pay $500 to promote a piece of content to a very targeted audience, and native platforms like Facebook or LinkedIn will see the increase in popularity and returning visitors. The algorithms will interpret that as more popularity, and potentially give you an added boost.

    Made to Stick was the first generation of stickiness. Make It Stick is the current one. Make your content stick proactively to win.

    In the next post in this series, we’ll look at some of the winners and losers in 2015 to date. Stay tuned!

    Digital Marketing Trends, Mid-2015 Edition
    1. Discontent Marketing
    2. Broadcast Social
    3. Video Games
    4. Make It Stick
    5. Winners and Losers

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  • Digital Marketing Trends, Part 2 of 5: Broadcast Social

    As part of the daily curation I do with #the5, I get a chance from time to time to aggregate all the news I collect to look for trends. In the second of our 5 part series, we’re going to examine some current trends in digital marketing and what they mean for you. Today, we’re looking at…

    Broadcast Social

    Here are a few of the choice headlines in the last 7 months worth reflecting on:

    The BBC launches Your Story, tying your Facebook timeline to news events
    63% of Facebook/Twitter users get their news from social media
    Facebook now lets you flag fake news
    Google indexes tweets from higher social authority accounts more
    Facebook’s Talks To Host Publishers’ Content Are Heating Up
    FTC Puts Social Media Marketers On Notice With Updated Disclosure Guidelines

    What we see here is nothing less than major social media channels attempting to become broadcast media. Users of these services now get their news from them. Social channels are the places that artists debut albums, TV shows premiere pilots and teasers, and advertisers spend like drunken sailors on shore leave.

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    Admit it, this reflects your viewing habits already.

    What does this trend mean? Broadcast Social Media largely abandons the pretense of community in social media as part of main news feeds and timelines. Twitter looks more like a news ticker than it does a conversation. Pinterest and Instagram carousel ads look like catalog displays instead of conversations. Facebook’s eponymous News Feed is, well, a news feed.

    There are certainly still plenty of places where community gathers; Facebook private groups, Linkedin Groups, etc. We haven’t lost those communities yet. But the main thrust of Broadcast Social is to behave like broadcast media.

    How To Make Use of This Trend

    Broadcast Social means rethinking where social media fits in your marketing funnel/customer journey. Instead of being lumped into one broad “social media” category, Broadcast Social means splitting your social media efforts into two different focus areas. The first area, community management, remains focused on engagement and building loyalty through conversation. The second area, your Broadcast Social team, focuses on broadcast media-like placements, advertising, and brand building/brand awareness.

    Community management remains more in the middle of the funnel, behaving like email marketing to nurture and retain prospects and customers. Broadcast Social moves more towards the top of the funnel, behaving like other broadcast channels.

    Finally, the change of social media to Broadcast Social changes how you measure social media. You can’t measure with one set of metrics any longer. By becoming a broadcast channel, Broadcast Social now has to be measured like other forms of broadcast media such as TV, radio, and print. It’s not inconceivable that we begin to measure Broadcast Social with something like digital GRPs (gross ratings points, how TV and radio are measured).

    Stay tuned for the next trend in this series!

    Digital Marketing Trends, Mid-2015 Edition
    1. Discontent Marketing
    2. Broadcast Social
    3. Video Games
    4. Make It Stick
    5. Winners and Losers

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  • What’s your actual social media reach?

    One of the key metrics to pay attention to at the very top of the funnel is reach. How many people are you getting in front of on a regular basis?

    Facebook fans, Twitter followers, LinkedIn connections are all great and important as a very first step towards growing your presence. That said, how much of the audience you’ve accrued actually sees your stuff?

    Here’s an example. In Twitter’s Analytics, this is the information we see by default:

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    So far, so good. Over 86 days, I accrued 1.2 million impressions. With 80,000+ followers, that works out to 14,000 impressions a day, or about 17.5% reach in aggregate.

    But there are details and nuances. Above, I’ve highlighted how a recent tweet has performed. It’s accrued only 1,100 impressions. What if this is the more common scenario? How would we find out?

    I downloaded my stats from Twitter (just push the Export CSV button) and plotted average impressions out on a line chart:

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    It looks like the median reach of my tweets on a daily basis is actually about 2,150 impressions. This tells a very different story: my actual reach for any given tweet is 2.69% of my audience size.

    Imagine, if you’re trying to benchmark yourself against competitors, and you see a particularly fearsome competitor with a million followers, how much less fearsome they appear if only reach 26,900 of them?

    What’s the antidote to this lack of reach? We of course know what the various social networks would like us to believe the antidote is:

    Slackershot: Money

    Beyond that, what else can you do? The simplest thing is to cross-pollinate; by sharing the same content on multiple networks, you can reach potentially different audiences. For example, if we examine my Google Analytics traffic, we see that Twitter generates slightly more than 2/3 of my social visits:

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    If I focused only on Twitter, I’d be missing 30%+ of my traffic from other networks. That’s why I typically will post the same content on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc. I also use email marketing to reinforce what I share socially, to ensure that content gets seen by as many people as possible.

    If your social media program isn’t performing as well as you expect it to, take a look at your actual reach metrics. Find out just how many people are truly seeing your content, then test alternate methods and schedules to find what generates the best results for you.

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  • How does social media sharing impact the sharer?

    Yesterday, I wrote a blog post over on the SHIFT blog about whether social media sharing matters. Jason Falls asked the following question in return:

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    I’m glad you asked! Logically, if you’re sharing someone else’s content, one would expect that you should see a greater lift in your engagement rates, in things like retweets and favorites, likes, comments, etc. Let’s see if that holds true.

    I’ll start by downloading publicly available data about Jason’s Twitter usage, since Twitter’s data is the most accessible. From that data, I want to differentiate what’s owned media – his own content, going to JasonFalls.com or mentioning his Twitter account – and what’s not. This is a relatively straightforward Excel formula; if you’re a subscriber to my newsletter’s Premium Content, you’ll learn how in this Sunday’s issue.

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    This is a good start. We want to trim out any @replies that Jason has made and remove any Tweets that don’t contain any URLs, since the topic of discussion is the sharing of content, owned or otherwise.

    When we condense all that data down and summarize it, does sharing other people’s content net you less engagement or more? Below is a chart of engagement (favorites and retweets) by owned media content (promoting your own stuff, in red) and shared content (in green):

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    For Jason, the answer is less; his own posts get more favorites and more retweets on average than posts he shares of other peoples’ stuff. This makes some amount of logical sense; after all, if people follow you for who you are, then they might engage more with your content.

    Now, that might be just a case of a personal account. What about a brand? Let’s take the poster child of social media engagement, Oreo. What can we see in their public data about owned vs. shared content?

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    Interesting that the difference is even more pronounced. Despite the constant mantra in social media marketing to share, share, share, we see that owned media content has performed better for driving engagement in two prominent examples.

    As always, I’d urge you to examine your own metrics and data. Look how sharing impacts your social media engagement, then consider what and how you share to either improve shared media numbers, or double down on your owned media creation and sharing.

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  • How to measure shared social media content

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    In many social media analytics tools, you’re often given the choice of downloading just your own content metrics or your content plus content you’ve shared. You might download just your tweets, or your tweets and retweets, as an example. The question is, does this matter? Should you measure shared social media content?

    The answer is a “yes, but”. Yes, you should measure your shared social media content, but you should differentiate between what’s owned and what’s shared.

    Re-shared content helps to boost the engagement rates with your account, which matters for networks like Facebook. Facebook’s algorithm favors engagement, even of re-shared content.

    However, it’s important not to conflate re-shared content with your own stuff. Your own content, the original materials you’re sharing in the hopes of being re-shared, has to be measured on its own so you can determine whether people like it. If you aggregate all your social media metrics together in one bucket, you can’t tell how well your own content resonates.

    Here’s an example from my personal Twitter account. If I look at the average retweet rate of all my tweets in the last year, on average I earn 63 retweets per tweet, and have a median of 20 retweets per tweet:

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    If I remove all retweets that I shared, the numbers change drastically. On average I earn 3.5 retweets and a median of just slightly more than 3 tweets:

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    That’s a huge difference. While the content I share is very popular, my own content needs work. I need to improve my stuff to be on par with the stuff I re-share. If my Twitter account were a business, I might even change my social media strategy to favor a curation-first model rather than a creation/curation blend.

    Understanding the difference between your content and your sharing is vital for evaluating each component of your social media marketing plan!

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  • How to make Twitter objective-based advertising work

    Twitter recently announced that it was making objective-based advertising available to everyone. These new campaigns ensure that you pay only for the specific result you’re aiming for:

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    On the surface, this seems like an excellent deal for advertisers. You pay only for what you want to buy. The question is, are these things you want to buy?

    The answer depends on understanding what your objective is. If you haven’t already mapped out your social media funnel then it’s unlikely you’ve got a solid handle on what to buy:

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    Before you spend a dollar on any kind of social media advertising, understand what you’re buying.

    You’ll need to invest serious time digging around your analytics to find what’s working least well so you understand what to buy. For example, inside Twitter’s analytics, people following you and the reach of your tweets would be metrics that fall in audience. Favorites and replies would be engagement, as would media engagements. URL clicks might be actions. What’s most broken for you?

    Which of these areas is your greatest problem in?

    If you try to skip the entire top of the funnel by buying leads, you might find yourself disappointed with the outcome. Likewise, if you don’t engage or drive people towards the bottom of the social funnel in any way, you might spend a lot on growing your following but not produce a business outcome.

    Buy first what’s broken most!

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