Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Extracting Social Content Data

    You Ask, I Answer: Extracting Social Content Data

    Ateeq asks, “I just want to be able to get some conversations around Google Analytics from Facebook and Twitter programmatically. Is there a tool that does that or should I aim to write some code in Python?”

    You’re looking for social media monitoring. In this case, your best bets are tools like Talkwalker and Brand24. Unless, of course, you want content about it, in which case you want Buzzsumo. In this video, watch a quick tour of these three software packages as well as one of my favorite methods of analyzing this kind of data.

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    In today’s episode teak asks, I just want to be able to get some conversations around Google Analytics from Facebook and Twitter programmatically. Is there a tool that does that? Or should I aim to write some code in Python? Good question. You are looking for social media monitoring? Well, you’re looking for one of two things, you’re looking for social media monitoring, or you’re looking for content, visibility. So for social media monitoring, to have the tools that would recommend for this particular task would be either talk walker or brand 24. So let’s switch screens here.

    This is talk Walker talk Walker allows you to put in search terms at so I’ve got Google Analytics with and without the space here. And then for your specific request about things like Facebook and Twitter. You can isolate those channels and

    Provide reporting,

    for getting data out of these systems programmatically your, if you if you mean, you want to be able to take it out on a regular basis, you’re going to want to get access to the API’s for these companies. So here we have, we have Twitter and Facebook feeds. If when you look here, we’ve got, you can embed on another platform where you can use an RSS feed for the data. You can also use JSON feed as well.

    I typically will do CSV exports because I don’t have to do these on an ongoing basis usually have to do one shots. The other thing is you’ll you will notice there’s a substantial amount of non English here so you can use whatever the language of your choice is, if you want to use Arabic or Japanese or Russian or whatever, I forgot how many languages boarded, I can look.

    A whole bunch. So that’s that would be an option within talk Walker.

    extract the data. The same is true for brand 24. Go in, it’s set up your Google Analytics search, you can take a look at the mentions.

    And then you can do data, different types of data exports. And you can also set it up so that you can integrate with things like slack as well. And you can see there’s Facebook, there’s Twitter, you will get different numbers from the various different platforms and things. So you’ll want to make sure that depending on the type of data, you’re using, different social platforms are better at different things. So for example, let’s look at just the raw numbers here. I’m going to go with media types.

    So for Google Analytics in the last 30 days, talk Walker is pulling out 41,000 mentions of which the lion’s share are going to be

    Twitter and then at one Facebook mentions on the other hand on brand 24 when you look at that, they have pull 1000 Facebook messages

    for Google Analytics, only 5000 tweets so. So again, it depends on on which network you want different tools are going to be better at different networks. And if you want, both gonna have to, to subscribe to both. So that’s one set of options, the second set of options. The second option would be if you want to understand how content is is performing on these networks. So in this case, this is a tool called buzz Sumo put in Google Analytics.

    And now instead of what social posts on Twitter or on Facebook, our most popular This is instead of looking at which,

    which pieces of content which like web articles or blog articles were most shared on those different networks. So those are some options as well to look at

    if you want specific content to see what gets shared the most.

    Now, the question is what do you want to do with the information if you want to just get us

    what people are talking about maybe industry professionals of some kind, to understand what you should be saying, in conversation on those networks, you want to use social media monitoring hands down, to be able to talk the talk in my language that people are using. So I switched over here at the themes, for example.

    very broadly, I get a sense of everything that’s associated generally with this term, right? It’s a marketing tool. It’s calculations. It’s analytics. And then there are various different handles. Again, the different languages. However, if I want to use the data, to decide what content to create, if I’m if I’m looking for a longer form stuff,

    I will probably want to use an export the data out of buzz Sumo because you can get the URLs for each of these articles, and then build some text mining, some text analytics on

    What the top performing articles are. Typically when I do this, I will do a 9010 split. So I’ll take the top 10% of articles and analyze the major themes in an in that, and I’ll take the remaining remainder of the corpus. And I’ll analyze the themes that and what we’re looking for outliers, what are the things that are unique to the top 10% that are not in the bottom 90% if there’s a lot of content, in this case, there’s 943 articles. So you might want to do 2575. But that’s how you get the data from one of these three tools either talk Walker, brand 24, or buzz Sumo. And what you do with the data is exactly the same and in all those cases, you will take an export of it, and then you will start slicing and dicing it based on the top performing content and what it what it has in common. And then everything else. So interesting question, fun question. There’s a lot to be done in an analytics

    you will have to engineer a lot of the features yourself so by that i mean these tools provide really nice rich exports but at the same time they can only do so much with the compute power that they have while maintaining responsiveness and speed of applications you will need to do heavy engineering of your own if you want to use the data for machine learning for advanced analytics for data science

    these none of these software packages do that in a way that allows you to tune it and in a way that allows you to extract exactly the insights you want you’ll have to do the engineering itself so great question if you have follow up questions please leave them in the comments and of course please subscribe to the youtube channel and the newsletter i’ll talk to you soon one help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems this is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • Social Media Marketing World 2019 Day 2 Recap

    Social Media Marketing World Day 2 Recap

    Yesterday marked day 2 of Social Media Marketing World 2019. What were some of the key takeaways? Facebook gets rightfully stomped on, video rules, content shock continues, influencers don’t comply, and much more. Watch the video for full details.

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    In today’s episode recapping day two of Social Media Marketing World 2019 it was a crazy day in terms of a lot of the information shared by the various folks who are speaking. So to kick off the day Michael Stelzer, the founder talked about, he did a really nice recap of the history of Facebook in the last five years, and how it went from a marketer’s, best friend and this massively open platform to unify the world to increasing increasingly smaller and smaller and less open and less open until now. It is basically a completely self serving machine outside content doesn’t do well. marketing content doesn’t do well. It is only for what is AI optimizes for and for what people pay for, which I thought was a nice retrospective. He did have a

    Nice little takeaway in terms of a sort of a meme for your brain about marketing, and specifically about marketing on social networks, and that was that, instead of making a smaller impact on a bigger audience make a bigger impact on a smaller audience that I thought was helpful for folks to hear that they should stop trying to be a Kardashian right and focus on the audience they have and growing that not as quickly but trying to create much more loyalty. So people remember to go seek you out. He also was showing you the difference between Facebook’s video viewers and YouTube video viewers YouTube’s video of yours least in in his data, were much much more loyal, helpful.

    50% getting to the end of in many cases, five to seven minute videos, whereas he shows what he

    example where he had 20,000 on average 20,000 viewers start a video on Facebook, same five to seven minute video. And by the time they got to the end, the completion rate was was 19 out of those 20,000 so 19 people, so it was it was useful. Nick Nevin, who is a YouTube practitioner I felt like a quarter million subscribers really went over some useful stuff. Number one he advocated that we all and I will be doing this myself take the YouTube Creator Academy course just to learn the ins and outs in the same way that I advocate for Google’s analytics Academy would seem that we all have to get our homework done and go to YouTube Creator Academy so i’ll be doing that. Now. completely free of course, just Google for YouTube Creator Academy.

    He said the when you’re customizing your channel

    in a do it in

    Lot of time and I was actually actually had the trust insights YouTube channel up while he was talking just starting to make the changes right in the session.

    The new and returning user videos, there’s a section in the, in your channel where you can put a video to show you that new user or returning users and his advice was that is where you put your goal generating video videos. If you want people sign up for an email list, you want people to buy something you want people to do whatever, that’s the place that it goes. He said that’s the most valuable real estate on your YouTube channel from a video perspective, so make sure that that is where you invest some some time and that’s involved.

    He had a really good point on

    your videos when you run analytics on the on your videos, instead of looking at what gets views because use can be very transitory.

    Analyze which videos give you new subscribers if you go to YouTube Analytics you go into the the video

    Section, you have to add a column for subscribers. But then if you sort your videos by that you can see these are the videos that generate real loyalty because people are saying yes, I’m raising my hand I want to watch more from you. So that was very helpful.

    Ursula random did a fantastic session on influencer program. She runs the sap influencer program. And one of the interesting things there was that they do their influencer marketing, planning and budgeting on an annual basis. So instead of having it be one offs, like oh, we need an influencer for this event for this event, they actually try out the whole year and assign influencers based on their their editorial calendar, which is a smart way of doing it. And her co presenter Megan Connelly,

    talk very I thought when I don’t think spent enough time on

    regulatory requirements for influencers are much deeper than most marketers think.

    The example they were giving because SAP is a German company is GDPR GDPR. The general data protection regulation, the EU directive about piracy

    extends through your supply chain. So as part of your compliance, if you’re working with an influencer, they must also be GDP are compliant. If you want to make sure that you’re you’ve mitigated your risk, your influences have to be as compliant as you are, they have to adhere to your policies and vice versa,

    in terms of data sharing influencers may not necessarily be able to do as much data sharing, or have to go take additional steps to make sure that they are passing along audience to you in a way that is compliant, which was I think, an important part of that. Again, they had to they had to do a whole

    the whole session and but I think that could probably be its own session on on regulatory requirements for influencers because it is if you do

    Wrong, a very serious risk.

    The fine folks at buzz Sumo through a lunch yesterday and there’s a lot of

    talking about just content in general. But one step that I thought was really very aligned with this idea of Mark Schaefer, his idea of content shock was that in 2018, we, the planet cranked out 912 million blog posts. Now we think about it. That’s a lot.

    Last year trust insights did analysis of Google news stories, and we cranked out as a civilization like 93 million news story. So the fact that we basically did 10 X, the number of blog posts mean, it’s really just swimming in, in content. And it’s about as a prize that as as more marketers are creating more stuff. It’s getting that much harder to get eyeballs on things. And finally, I did my talk which you’ll be able to

    You want to see the slides moment you can go to where can I get the slides calm right now. And the video and stuff will be up. I think I kind of plane ride today’s I’m sure I can get video at least edited on the plane ride today, back to back to Boston. But one of the things we did after the talks was I did a dinner with talk Walker. And

    we had we did like a 45 minute presentation on using AI and data to make better social media marketing. And one of the key takeaways from that was that search, your search marketing and your social media marketing must work together, they must share data. If you don’t do this, what will happen is you’ll be essentially spending money twice because they can use a lot of the same data they can use. When you look at social trends can pull that data out, feed it to your search keyword and regenerate new keyword lists or enhance your keyword lists and then

    From that pass that data back to social media about when things will be trending. So there’s a lot of value that you can extract when you put those departments together. Ideally, all of your digital marketing team should be collaborating together. But search and social in particular

    are really really important to bond together to be sharing data frequently and at at volume. So that was day two of Social Media Marketing World today I’m going to catch about half of the show because I got to fly back early afternoon flight but

    lots of good stuff to work on and and things to do as next steps. In terms of the courses we can take an additional training. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel.

    And the newsletter, I’ll talk to you soon take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • Social Media Marketing World 2019 Day 1 Recap

    Social Media Marketing World Day 1 Recap

    Yesterday marked day 1 of Social Media Marketing World 2019. What were some of the key takeaways? Content marketing strategies from Robert Rose of Content Marketing Institute, a bit of AI, do handles matter on Instagram, and more. Watch the video for full details.

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    in today’s episode we recap everything that happened yesterday at day one of 2019 social media marketing world it was the all access workshops and stuff day

    a few takeaways i thought were really useful one robert rose from cmi content marketing institute did a fantastic job of outlining different content marketing strategies and three things that really stood out for me this as of mental takeaways that you can just keep in your mind if you’re if you’re trying to determine what kind of content strategy to go after he said you can with your content solve a small problem for big audience or solve a big problem for a small audience by being very specific and the problem that you solve

    You can either appeal to a large group of people or you can drive tremendous loyalty from a small group of people. And he gave a bunch of examples of this, but I thought that was just a really insightful way of of

    communicating in a very simple matter how to build your content. So that was really useful. He also outlines two case studies of companies that had identified non traditional competitors when it comes to content market.

    He said for Netflix, when Netflix looks at

    its competition and getting more eyeballs and getting more views and getting people to remain engaged with the service. They don’t view

    Hulu or YouTube board or,

    you know, network television as a competition. And he said, they view the number one biggest company

    editor for getting more views as sleep

    because you know that that occupies honestly the the lion’s share of most people’s day. So what can they do to claim more time? Which is interesting, slightly scary because sleep is really important. But I thought it was a very interesting point.

    He said when you look at the way Airbnb does its content marketing, Airbnb did market research and found that they were not in competition with hotels of the world. What they were in competition with was people choosing not to go anywhere, people who weren’t traveling. And so their content marketing strategy pivoted to

    focus on being like a travel magazine of sorts of getting people to convince the people yet you actually should go on a vacation you should go on a trip in order to drive you

    usage and adoption of their products. So those are some really clever

    and interesting ideas. I attended a session as well on AI for marketers, given by somebody who runs an ad agency. And it was an odd mash up of

    some of the basics of AI. But then the speaker name eludes me focused largely on just using Google AdWords and what things do and don’t work within Google AdWords, which was good.

    But it wasn’t really he he could have done and he probably has done the AdWords portion of that talking not needed the AI part because I don’t know that it added any value. A couple things that were cool takeaways. The true view for actions which is allows you to convert to only pay when someone converts was interesting because it does put a nice end cap. Call to Action on your videos and

    A lot of the new call cost per action stuff within AdWords of getting people only paying when you get a lead or a sale, as opposed to paying per click or per day or per impression, which in this day and age when Facebook is, you know, trying to get in my market share in advertising. And a lot of people having issues with the way Facebook does its pricing. I’d be an interesting advantage for Google. And then have some fun Hallway Conversations as well. We talked I was talking to Melanie Desi all about the use of data when, when and where and how to get more data for projects that you’re working on. And fundamentally, it comes down to sort of the the 60 framework for for data, one of which is comprehensive, what are the questions you’re trying to answer? And once you know that you can go out and find data that will inform or

    Deep in or broaden the points that you’re trying to make. And if you’re trying to do things like

    explain to people how to be creative, for example, there is a tremendous amount more data on creativity on the ways people measure creativity and things that would probably be useful.

    Jay Baer and I were sitting down in the speaker’s room, and we were talking about

    people who put like, like, tag 30 people per post on

    Instagram or Twitter. And so we used the data set that trust insights used for counting hash tag with a hash tags mattered and repurpose that to count the number of handled tags in posts to see does that matter? Does does that tactic work for driving engagement? And the answer is no, not really. What drives engagement is

    More than anything of courses is the content itself. And thanks, but in terms of a tactic to get people to pay attention to you, it’s not great, at least from the data set that we’re working on, which is about 4 million posts, on on Instagram and on Twitter. So some useful takeaways there. No need to spend a whole lot of time on hashtags. Someone, gosh, I forgot who was talking to. But someone wanted us wanted me to talk a bit about that study that we did on the first insights website about why hashtags don’t lead to more growth. And the short answer is

    when people search on Instagram, for example, they don’t actually search for the hashtag to search for the word right, you don’t search for hashtag coffee to search for coffee. So if your posts have naturally has those terms in any way, you’ll get the eyeballs regardless of whether you use the hashtag, which is a really

    Pretty basic observation. So today, a whole bunch of sessions to go to we’ll have some more interesting takeaways and things to share. But as always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter and talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Comprehensive Social Media Analytics?

    You Ask, I Answer: Comprehensive Social Media Analytics?

    Beatrice asks, “Can you recommend a tool to tie social media data and surface best performing content, campaigns, ads cost, abnormalities, and ROI?”

    In a word, no – at least not in the sense of a prepackaged, off the shelf product. You’ll have to do that yourself. There’s a multistage process for doing so. Watch the video for a high-level walkthrough of the overall process.

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    In today’s episode, Beatrice asks, Can you recommend a tool to tie social media data together and surface best performing content campaigns, ad costs, abnormalities and R Y? Well, in a word, no, at least not in the sense of a pre packaged off the shelf product that will just do it for you.

    You’re gonna have to do this yourself or obviously bringing a partner to help you do it.

    But it is a doable thing.

    I’m actually working on a project like this for one of my customers, which is has taken a long time and ISA still ongoing process on.

    The reason for that is that it is.

    The question here is many part.

    There is a data science aspect.

    There’s a exploratory data analysis expects there are.

    There’ll be some requirements to use things like machine learning, and in this case, there’s a whole bunch of things going on.

    So let’s unpack this question through the lens off the data science life cycle because I think that’s a good place to start.

    Let’s brings up here the data science life cycle begins with the definition off the goals.

    And in this case, in Beatrice is question.

    If we unpack, this is actually multiple goals.

    There is a goal to surface best performing content.

    There is a goal to look at.

    Ads cost There’s a goal for for anomaly detection.

    And then there’s this goal for R O.

    Y, and they will require separate techniques in orderto pull these things apart.

    For example, our wise actually a serious of statistical mathematical computations around the pricing and cost of your advertising, detecting abnormalities and anomalies that is, ah, data science for sure, machine learning somewhat on then for best performance.

    Even though it sounds simple, there is actually a set of machine learning tools that you would use to identify what variables lied to your best outcomes so that definition parts Step one of this multi step process is an important one.

    From there you have to ingest the data.

    This is harder than it sounds, too, because every social platform has its own AP eyes.

    Many of them have restrictions on what you can extract out, and you’ll probably have to use third party data sources so if youse ah posting tool like Agora pulse.

    If you brand monitoring tools like Talk Walker and Brand twenty four, If you use competitive monitoring tools like Spread Fast and Sprinkler and sprout social and simply measured, you’re going to see all these different tools that will have repositories for your data and don’t forget, then you have to go into Google Analytics and get data.

    How There you have to go into your marketing automation system.

    Get that out of there.

    Get Do you see around? Get data out of there.

    So that’s ingesting all these different data sources and finding a way to bring them into one place so that you could do analysis on them.

    The third step is the analysis of the data itself, and this is this is analyzing the condition of the data, says not even doing the full exploratory data analysis.

    This is just what did we get? Is it in good condition? Other anomalies with things that you need to fix in the data itself? Boys.

    Your Google analytics tracking code off for two days by accident? All those things.

    The next step is to repair the data.

    Fix it up clean up any things that are need to be removed.

    Normalize it some measurements.

    If you want to be able to do effective attribution analysis, you have to do some level of normalization and converting things to a different scale so that you could do apples to apples comparison.

    So there’s a lot of that repairing and cleaning and then preparing the Dina getting it ready for you.

    For your thorough analysis.

    The next step after that is augmentation.

    You need to be able to bring in more third party data.

    So search data, for example, is incredibly powerful and important when it comes to doing social media and house because you want to know if your audience is what they’re looking for, mirrors what they’re talking about and if, if so, you can use that later on.

    So you want to bring in that augmentation.

    Now you’re finally ready to do the data exploration it took a while to get here.

    The data exploration, his one.

    You look at men’s and maxes and mediums and core tiles and the characteristics of the data said.

    What is in this thing? What? What questions is, are you capable of answering with and If you can’t answer the question, you have to go back to the start and bring in new data and repeat those initial cycles.

    After that, you do your comparisons to figure out what happened, What’s important, what’s not.

    And then your predictions.

    What are the things that we need to build a forecast forward? So when we’re talking about things that are a Y or best performing content, can we predict what content performs the best? You’ll build some hypotheses around that you will prescribed based on the data.

    So if we know that Ah, Twitter tweets on Tuesdays are important, we wantto be able to prescribe something from that.

    All this rules up into a model.

    Yeah, it can either be a machine learning Moloch or statistical data science model, whatever.

    But it has to be something that essentially is the playbook of how your data behaves, and that gives you some rules and guidelines for what to do.

    Then you validate that model and refine it.

    Hypothesis testing If tweets on Tuesdays of the thing, then was due more treats on Tuesdays and see if our numbers go up off the key that keep before it’s in case we care about go up.

    Once we’ve proven that the model actually works, we deploy it on the observe and make sure that the models continues to work in the field.

    This process, it’s a lengthy process, and it’s an expensive process.

    But if you do it right, it has multiples on your return on investment because it makes everything else you do impactful.

    But is there a tool to lose? No, not even close.

    This is to do something like this requires typically multiple tools and custom code, so you’d have a big, big database of some kind.

    I personally use Google big query a lot for for stuff like this, there’s a programming language that sits on top of it.

    I use program in which our other people will recommend things like Python.

    You can use tools like IBM Watson Studio to help with some of this, especially.

    You wantto have a continuous production model, but that it gets even more expensive and you want to do this is a proof of concept.

    First, to make sure there’s that they’re there, and you can answer these questions before you drop a couple million dollars on a system and then you roll this out and you have it in production and have systems and software monitoring your model to make sure it’s working.

    So process wise, you would would build a proof of concept, proved that there’s there.

    They’re up level into production, deploy it and then and then monitoring not ongoing basis.

    It’s again.

    It’s not easy.

    It’s not fast and there is absolutely nothing off the shelf that we’ll do this.

    Beware of any vendor that makes the bold claim that they can do any of these things together.

    You can have individual point solutions that can help you with little things like you know what content had the most engagements.

    But that is only in a tiny silo.

    It is not a comprehensive picture of all the activities that you do have all the data you have access to.

    Oh, the tools could help you with ad cost.

    Of course, that’s fine.

    If you’re if you’re trying to confine your study just to that little piece of data.

    But if you want the big picture, this is the process you have to do.

    Ah, it’s a lot.

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  • Fun Fact Friday: Social Influencer Benchmarks

    Fun Fact Friday: Social Influencer Benchmarks

    In today’s episode, I take you behind the scenes for what went into the Trust Insights 2019 Social Media Influencer Benchmark report. Learn why we chose the measures we did, what surprises we found along the way, and how the report could save you a whole bunch of money on influencer marketing. Watch the video, then get your copy of the report here.

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    In today’s episode a bit of behind the scenes on the new trustee and sites 2019 social media influencer benchmarks report would you can get trust insights.ai slash influencer benchmark this report is something that originally was actually going to be just a initially it’s just like a single infographic but then as start pulling the data to get this like wow this is a little bit more than just a one page infographic although certainly can have

    the top line results so some behind the scenes about how we put this thing together This is a really fantastic service from Facebook they bought a company a number years ago called crowd tangled which is available for free but only to academics, researchers and journalists and anybody who was grandfathered in from the from when it was a separate company that was a paid service and we

    What’s amazing about crowd tangle is that it allows you to gather up lists of accounts or they provide pre made lists of essentially influencers of wall of any public account on facebook twitter instagram and read it and we took the top influencer lists from Facebook Twitter and Instagram because those are the sort of the Big Three that people tend to use a lot these days and pulled a set day by day because there’s so many posts day by day everything that those influencers were posting this is about 50,000 influencers on each network so hundred 50,000 total all of those decent amount of overlap particularly between Twitter and Instagram this

    like I forget exactly how much but it’s it’s the majority isn’t isn’t overlap

    and extracted out 4 million posts per network

    and put it all together in this massive database and then

    From the database, we used the our programming language didn’t have to do a whole lot of machine learning really any I mean nothing that you would classify as like high end machine learning. Because a lot of what’s in a lot of what’s in the benchmark is statistical in nature. It’s not something that requires advanced computation, looking at things like means and medians and modes and stuff. And basic stats is stuff that are as a programming language does have a box really brilliantly so not much in the way of machine learning, but a lot of statistical analysis. So what were some of the things that we found

    let’s bring this up here. I mean, I call it up it’s easier to see the graphic

    the

    the Instagram top to your audience. So one of the things we did was to divide the audience into decimals which is like a core Tyler quintile, but decibel meaning 10 so take every large audience and divided into 10 pieces of the top 10% to the bottom 10%

    and we had to look at what

    Was that top tier the people that everyone’s always looking at, like the mega influencers? How big are those audiences? And one of the thing that’s funny about social media marketing in general, but social media specific as you have to use mediums a lot, because what happens is

    it’s sort of like a Pareto principle at 20, right? Where there’s a few influences the very high end who like ginormous Lee famous, and then there’s a whole bunch of people who aren’t. And if you use an average, those outliers at the very top end skew everything and it makes it makes the data unreliable. Like for example, if five people were sitting in a room of the five normal people single and Bill Gates was in the room,

    or Jeff Bezos was in the room. The average salary would be something like half a billion dollars, but only one of the people in that room was a multi billionaire. And so you have to use the medium and a lot of cases for social media data. So I was surprised to find the Instagrams the medium.

    Top to your audience for those people in the top 10% about 5 million people, whereas for Twitter and Facebook is about 8 million people so Instagram, even though it is the the influence of platform does your

    deal isn’t the people the top and don’t have, you know as as large an audience as they do on those other two networks that are arguably more mature older, but Instagram’s engagement rate is

    literally 70 times better than Facebook’s, and something like 100 times better than a little bit less than 100 times better than Twitter’s. So if you’re looking for

    where to spend your time getting influencers if your audience is on Instagram, Instagram is the place the engagement rates are fantastic and this is a really important clarification about the support. These are the benchmarks across the audiences. We did not segment down into specific industries and verticals or niches or even in the

    Inside your micro audience, because,

    well, frankly, that’s be like 5000 page report, no one read it, but

    your mileage will vary, right? Unless you are rock, right? Or unless you are

    a Kardashian or Warren Buffett or whatever you’ll be able to talk to your influencers you’re going to get different results. And one of the interesting things I found in the report was that when we were putting it together

    micro influence is this idea of people who are not like super mega famous but have maybe one or five or 10,000 followers actually get much higher engagement rate says Dave Cutler calls that the law of diminishing influencer returns but if you are working on building up your company’s following and your audience and your community emphasis on community,

    you don’t need big numbers to get good engagement rates and to be able to be seen by the algorithms and

    For the love of all that’s holy in whatever you profess, do not buy followers do not buy audiences because it just damages your engagement rates like crazy. So please don’t do that. And if you have, do that, maybe unfollow those people or something like that.

    So there’s a lot to unpack in the support. How you should use it is you want to use it in three ways. You want to use it to calibrate your strategies, or as to which platform to be on remembering that your mileage will vary. You want to use this to set expectations with if you’re going to be paying money to an influencer, you want to have an idea of where they stand in terms of because one of the pages in here we actually show by tier so if you’re buying somebody who’s got, you know, a half million influence audience members, then their engagement rate for that should be close to 1% on Instagram, right? So if you if you buy in and you get like one 10th of 1%, then you know that that influence was not up to scratch you can all

    Also use social media monitoring tools or

    you know social social intelligence tools to figure out is is that person worth buying so now you can evaluate the influence of before you spend money and say like wow you’re really below the benchmark for an audience your size so why should I pay you you know $40,000 if your your individual data is is so far below the median and you can use it to benchmark your own efforts right if you got a couple thousand followers on Instagram check out your engagement rates and say hey actually we’re not doing so bad so there’s a lot to unpack in the report it is free you can get it at trust insights AI slash influencer benchmark I hope you enjoy it find it useful and can and can make some good decisions with your influencer marketing with it so go pick up your copy today and thanks for watching as always, and please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trusted insights.ai

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Tactics for Building Followers?

    You Ask, I Answer: Tactics for Building Followers?

    John asks, “I see you have a massive amount of followers and was wondering how you did you do this?”

    There’s an expression in the martial arts that explains a lot of this: energy flows where attention goes. The question is, how are you catching attention? And how are you keeping it? For more than a decade, the “secret” of keeping attention for me has been my newsletter.

    That said, there’s a mind shift I want you to make. Stop thinking about followers. Start thinking about community.

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    In today’s episode, john asks, I see you have a massive amount of followers. I was wondering how did you do this?

    Well

    so there’s there’s an expression in the martial arts that explains a lot of this. And yeah, I learned it from one of my teachers can savage from the Winchester Martial Arts Center who said that energy flows where attention goes, you direct somebody’s attention somewhere, and their energy goes with it. And the same is true for groups of people as well. If you can catch somebody’s attention, you can direct it and where you have attention, you direct their energy, which may be things like getting them to follow getting them to sign up for things eventually, ideally, some percentage of people you can get them to buy something. And for those people who won’t buy something you get them to be evangelists to talk to other people to get

    To buy something but

    there are two questions number one, how do you catch attention? And how do you keep it now I’ll tell you one of the secrets of keeping attention that I’ve used for a decade now wow it’s been a decade

    has been an email newsletter I send out a weekly email newsletter that just offers perspectives and recaps a lot of the important stuff that happened during the week being able to do that allows me to provide value

    now here’s here’s the shift in mindset that I want you to make. Stop thinking about followers

    and start thinking about community it’s a change in your mental thinking hit the delete key on the word followers and and type over that the word community because what you want is not a mindless clustering of people just passively sitting around what you want or people who are in your corner. You want people who are supportive of you.

    You want people who are supportive of your brand of your company, if somebody says something negative about your company, you want those people to be the first ones jumping in, you know, with the, with their, their gloves on, ready to ready to throw down a little bit.

    But you could only get that through community, you can’t get that, through passive followership, and there’s a framework for building community if that works really well. It’s a lot of work. It is a lot of work, but it works really well for getting people to unite around a common interest. So let’s go ahead and put this up here.

    This is the framework of effective community management. There’s a PDF that you can download. I’ll put a link in the notes below that you can grab the PDF from. Nope, don’t need to fill out a form just grab it off the website. But the pieces are all about the things that you do for your community. You have to give first a lot in order to eventually get

    So you have to put that in your head to anytime you’re talking about growing an audience, whether it’s followers, whether it’s a community, whether it’s an audience, you have to give way more than you take.

    So what do you have to give, you have to give content, what stuff is valuable? What would legitimately help people and probably won’t even benefit you, right? You have to share stuff, give stuff, create stuff for people like this framework, right? giving this away, just giving it to the world,

    you have to engender conversation. If to stimulate conversation. Your community has to have a common interest of some kind. So

    the slack group that I run with the rest of the trust Insights Team, we call it analytics for marketers, because it’s for people who are interested in this have this common interest there has to be something something greater than you as the common interest it’s it’s fine for them to want it.

    Talk to you. But there has to be more to it than that than just the common interest. You have to care which is hard. If you don’t like people believe me, I know

    but you do have to care about your community. And it’s it’s easier when you have a common interest. It’s easier when you have conversations with people because you do develop relationships with those people and that’s your community, your tribe and those your your folks from the olden the way I feel about is I love I love my community, the rest of the world can go burn

    you have to create connection within your community. So the really important thing to do is to have to be the hub and broker connections between community members to say hey, you know Bob over here was looking for some help with email marketing. And Sarita over here she she’s a real issue outstanding email marketer. Let’s make sure that the two of them are connected so that people know who they are.

    need to have control over your community in the sense of providing guidelines and guardrails keeping people from Behaving Badly real simple example. You know, you just gotta knock out the spammers. There’s folks that are Russian and the first thing you do is post that long diatribe about themselves or or promotional stuff and just got to get the ban hammer and knock them out.

    You need to have a community platform that allows you to reach people

    in a in an unfiltered way. So a con course one of the reasons why we use slack is because we tried Facebook groups didn’t work Facebook’s algorithm throttled so much that people never saw anything we posted which is terrible. So out with Facebook in with slack

    and your platform can change if you’re targeting a certain demographic big gaming demographic. You better be building on discord because that’s where people are. If you are if you have a group of people who are

    Super privacy minded, maybe build on mastodon or telegram or something. But you need a good concourse, you need to be able to cure people to remind them to to gently prompt them to participate. So you, however, whatever tool you choose, needs to be able to reactivate people. And of course, you need to be able to measure, measure your community, measure the health of your community, see how it’s going, getting analytics for your community. If you do all these things, but predominantly give value start conversations and care about people in your community. You will grow it it will take time. You can accelerate the initial capital of attention with things like advertising dollars, and you know, public relations campaigns and evangelists and influencers and all that stuff. But

    you still need to be very patient because it will take a long time to grow a community

    I have

    pipe and 27,000 followers on LinkedIn. Now I have almost 100,000 on Twitter. This is after the result of a decade right? It is not overnight days. great success now this is what its expression 10 year overnight success. Yeah.

    So be prepared to invest for the very long term for building a community. And here’s the other thing and we’re going to have some research from trust insights real soon,

    probably tomorrow about this, but you won’t you don’t need a ton unless you are like Walmart you don’t need a ton of people in your community. You don’t need millions of people to be influential to achieve your business goals. You need the right people and maybe you know a couple thousand at most to really get rolling

    because if you’re as long as you’ve got that common interest and

    You serve that common interest? Well, you will find that there will be plenty of people who want to work with you in some fashion. So it doesn’t take much. So how do you do it? You give way more than you take. And you do it for a really long time. no easy answers, no fat, no shortcuts. Unfortunately, that’s just the way it is. If you want something that is sustainable, that will work for you in the long term. So great question. I hope that you take away remove the word followers and replace it with the word community and you will be in a much better headspace for for building for the sustainable future. As always, please leave your comments in the comments below and subscribe to the YouTube channel. In the newsletter I will talk to you soon want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Measuring Contest Effectiveness

    You Ask, I Answer: Measuring Contest Effectiveness

    Ziring asks, “I want to run a social media contest, how do I measure the success of mentions of my account and hashtag?”

    This is an interesting question, because measuring a contest with social engagement may not be a great business objective. While we talked in the past episode about vanity metrics not always being bad, generally speaking, our metrics and KPIs should be as close to a business goal as possible most of the time. What’s the purpose of a contest? To grab new, enrolled audiences for first reach. Watch this video for my recommendations about how to best measure contests.

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    In today’s episode Ziering asks, I want to run a social media contest How do I measure the success of mentions of my account and hashtag? This is an interesting question because measuring a contest with social engagement, particularly very trivial social engagement may not it may not be a great business objective. It may not get you to where you want to go

    in the past up. So we did talk about how vanity metrics are not necessarily always bad, but generally speaking from a planning and strategy perspective, you want your metrics to be as as close to a business goal as you can get them so let’s think about this contest for a second the contest purpose any contests purpose is to essentially acquire new audience right? Have a contest you have

    giveaway you have some kind of promotion what you want to do is you want to get new audience that you don’t have access to already because presumably you’ve already gotten something out of your existing audience and you want people to share and talk about your contest that’s why when a car or when a this or that the other thing is something that there’s a prize that is big enough that people go Oh, wow, I want to be a part of that thing.

    So there has to be something that’s attractive of value to the end user

    in order for the contest to be successful in getting you new reach getting a new audience so if we think about the the campaign goal is being new reach new audience then what are the

    what are the metrics the KPIs that go downstream from their that lead to the business goals the business goals always almost always going to be something like make money right so how do you map backwards from make money to this contest? Well, there are

    bunch of steps along the way that somebody could take. Somebody could Yes, follow your account, in which case you then have access to them through the social media platforms, advertising tools, you can advertise to anybody who follows you. You can advertise to people who use specific certain terms. But generally speaking, the more concrete the the action, like, follow or subscribe or whatever, depending on the platform, the easier it is to advertise to that person. However,

    remember that just building that audience if there’s contest is wildly successful, you get a million followers, right? Great. Congratulations. Now you have to have the budget to advertise those million followers that can get expensive. So what’s the next step after that? Well, after that you would leave the social media property and go to like a website. A website would be a place that you only have control of and you can pixel and cookie people who visit your site

    in compliance with local laws like

    GDPR.

    And then you can advertise to those people or get them to subscribe to something that you control. Ideally, that would be something like an email newsletter. And the reason for that is that email it other than the service costs, email is a lower cost channel for earning back attention. As long as what you’re sending people is actually valuable, that helps them, it entertains them, it does something along those lines that is of benefit to them. Email is a great channel for that. So is a blog subscription for people who have subscribed to blogs. There’s a certain audience which that works really well for

    and then downstream from there. What are the goals after that? Okay, got somebody to to

    subscribe to an email. Do you want them to install an app? If so they’re at metrics and you should use a tool like Google Firebase to measure that

    is there is there a purchase funnel some kind you would use marketing automation software and CRM software to measure that and ultimately get down to your business goal, so

    In terms of measuring the success of this campaign,

    I would for you, social media is the channel. But this is not where I would build the destination of the campaign, I would try to get people either to a website or to an email newsletter list so that you can capture that audience. Because remember, when you have somebody’s email or their mobile phone number, either one,

    you can then re upload that list back to social media advertising sites, and target those people with custom audience advertising as long as the audience is big enough. So

    because you can do that email is a great choice for being able to reach back out to people in multiple ways. You don’t have to just email them. You can show them ads on YouTube and Google and Facebook and Twitter and all these different platforms. So I would say a good campaign goal might be to get the email address rather than tracking hashtag usage, right? Because that doesn’t really do anything for

    You and

    the other thing that’s dangerous to me about hashtag usage if you are competing for attention and you are successful and competing for attention is a hashtags are public, which means that a competitor can also target your hashtag and vacuum of people. That way, when someone signs up to your email list, your competitors can’t get hold that they shouldn’t be able to as long as your information security is good. And so

    another consideration of campaign successes,

    what what are you letting competitors see Now granted, if you’re doing something that’s very common, you know, it’s it’s not going to be a big deal. But if you’ve got fierce competition for eyeballs, you may want to pull that back. So email I would say you should be the goal of your campaign and then from there, keeping those people engaged, keeping you that’s the toughest part of a contest is a part of contests that companies do the most wrong they run this big contest they get a lot of new people on

    mailing list

    and they don’t segment them they don’t treat the audience definitely they don’t warm that audience up with nurture campaigns with starter campaigns with a drip campaign have some content whether it’s blog content video content email content they just throw people into the usual marketing crap that that we get companies and as a result

    contest end up costing a lot of money and contest end up generating lists of audiences that are in many cases poor quality of them had the company not been anything at all and that’s bad for things like email and social media where algorithms determine deliver ability right the number of people who report you a spam goes up significantly may it may seriously impact deliver ability and then on social networks it’s even worse because

    the with email an algorithm for letting a user see your content needs binary either they get it they don’t vote with they get

    They get all your content with social media, the algorithms filter down at the post level. So you’ll get that you may have noticed this, especially on Facebook. And the first time you like a page, you’ll see that pages posts for like a day. And if you don’t engage with them, they vanish from memory, right?

    That’s the danger with contests, you could get this huge enrolled audience. And if nobody engages with you after that, then your visibility throttled back down. Maybe even worse, because you have a lower engagement rate at that point. And Gosh, now you’re worse off because now you can’t reach the people who are already engaged with you because your your overall engagement rate has dropped. So be very careful about that with Qantas, get the email send really valuable content to folks, warm them up, get them introduced to you, and that will be a good way to measure the success of your campaign. It’s a good question. As always, if you

    Have follow up constantly them in the comments below and subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Analytics and Social Media Marketing Strategy

    You Ask, I Answer: Analytics and Social Media Marketing Strategy

    Sherry asks, “How do you use analytics to set marketing strategy, especially for social media marketing?”

    While this is a very broad question, we can use our AI-Powered Social Media Marketing Process as the starting point for discussing the use of analytics in setting, informing, and executing strategy. Watch the video for a walkthrough.

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    In today’s episode, Sherry asks, How do you use analytics to set marketing strategy, especially for social media marketing? This is a really broad question. But we can use analytics to inform, to set and to execute the strategies in marketing and and and social media, as long as we have a strategy or a plan or a framework to work from analytics is data and the analysis of what happened. And so if you’re starting from net new then obviously going to have a real hard time creating something from essentially nothing right from just a bunch of data points. You can use it to you can use analytics to to build on on your strategy, but it’s very hard to create a strategy from data itself in the same way that it’s very hard to build a recipe just from ingredients, you should generally have the

    The idea of what you want to make first and then see, okay, what ingredients do I have? Can I substitute things? The grandma told me some things out of the things definitely about critical. That’s how you should approach this kind of question is what recipes? Do you know how to cook? And then do you have the ingredients necessary. So let’s look at at one recipe. I’m going to bring this up here. This is the AI powered social media marketing processes is something that I do for trust and sites, customers, and something that that you can do as well, as long as you have access to the technology. And it is a 10 step process for using artificial intelligence, machine learning and data to build a really comprehensive marketing strategy around social media. So the first step when the the step, I think probably Sherry’s alluded to most is that inventory step are we do have a good catalog of existing content, existing data, existing analytics and metrics, what do you have to do this is stuff that you have

    in good condition, what does it tell you? What happened, what worked, what didn’t work and so on and so forth. And that’s the basis the starting point we in data sciences is called exploratory data analysis What do you have? Is it is it any good What does it tell you the next step is based on you identifying the things that worked you would then take for example if you’re doing social media marketing and you isolate the top 10% of know Instagram posts in your industry enrich that extract out the the general content the topics too broad lists ideas to terms to phrases to keywords to images, two themes and figure out how to extend that so if the top 10% of Instagram posts you know 90% of those are like pictures of cats okay this is all cat so it’s just house cats is a certain color cat. You want to get a broad idea after that you would use

    artificial intelligence actually wouldn’t even use it at this point. This point you’d be using

    Research Tools to determine things like search volume. So things like Google Trends or sem rush or at our reps or spy food

    to determine broad volumes that you use services like talk Walker and ran 24 and and all the media monitoring tools to help understand

    what are the broad big discussion points and use those tools to determine the competitive landscape as well who’s talking about these things? How are they talking about them from those you would you would select the things that you think you can credibly address so if you know nothing about cats, guess what you have to discard that 10 that top 10% of those cats posts and and you know about dogs, find the dog post, select them and then start to enrich that and this is where you would take all the social posts about dogs are all that were high performing, or all of the articles about coffee or SAS based software or server appliances or whatever the case may be and you would use

    You would use media results. So articles, blog posts, Reddit posts, Facebook posts, you name it, and extract out a language model, a topic model of those things. So let’s bring up an example here. This is from

    a conference called shop talk, which is a retail conference. And we’re running in an assessment of the right now. And what we can see in shop talks data is things like digital transformation, digital natives and things. These are these give us ideas and starting points to then go and do the opposite of that broadening. Now, we want to narrow down so we would take something like digital natives feed it into our SEO tool and get 5100 200 300 500,000

    search terms related to that. The next step in the process is to use predictive analytics to forecast Okay, when will each of those thousand terms be at its most popular which ones are going to be popular on an ongoing basis?

    What weeks of the year with those things

    be powerful there’s a example I’ll put a link in the notes to our cheese OF THE WEEK forecast which uses a lot of this technology to innovate frivolous fun way to say like this is when the this the most popular cheese will be but use predictive analytics to guide your social calendar to guide your execution strategy to say this is when we’re going to talk about these things we’re going to create video content about digital natives we’re going to create interviews about digital natives and we’re going to have YouTube videos up about digital natives and we’re going to time it so that when people search for digital natives the most and the next year our content is waiting for them they’re they’re ready for them

    after that you like I said you build the content you constructed and then you have to go out and and from all those conversations you just had find your key opinion leaders your influencers based on those topics. So this is another example this is the the shop talk one and we use network graphic technology to figure out who are the people who are being talked about the most when

    comes to this particular conference. Now, you would also do this for things like that your big topics like digital natives, or new age of retail, or whatever the thing is, but this is the distill phrase, the phase where you are identifying those people. And then if your content is good, then you do your outreach to those people at using the predictive calendar. So it’s at the time that those people should be most interested in your topics.

    So it’s influencer marketing. But with instead of just kind of being scattershot and haphazard, using the data using your analytics to say this is when I should approach this person about this thing because this relevant to the industry and then you just repeat the cycle over and over again for each of the topics each of the areas of expertise, each domain knowledge area of domain knowledge that you have to do until you get the results that you want or or or you find out that maybe the area that you’re creating.

    content and doing outreach and isn’t generating interest, right? So if you are

    if you are a coffee shop and you’re trying to reach out about coffee influences about your coffee shop, and it turns out that that may not be the reason people go to coffee shops, then you would have to switch over to doing pure market research and figure out why if we’re reaching out about coffee and people like coffee, and we’re a coffee shop and we’ve got coffee influencers. Why are we not getting results. Now, it could be your pitches bad, but assume it’s not. It could turn out that people go to coffee shops for reasons other than the coffee Starbucks calls that third space, but whatever you call it, you have to do market research and then restart the cycle again, so that you can build new content, identify new influencers and so on and so forth. So that’s a very cursory way to use the analytics and data that you have and build strategy from it. enrichment validation selection, extraction prediction construction Association

    distillation and outreach as a process, it takes time and it takes some technology to do it. But if you do it well, you will, on average get much better results than someone just guessing and hoping to get lucky because you’re using the data that customers and your audience are already creating and giving to you on a silver platter for your for your social media and content marketing strategy. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and talk to you soon want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Best Social Media Listening Tools?

    You Ask, I Answer: Best Social Media Listening Tools?

    Hannah asks, “What do you recommend for the best social media listening tools?”

    The tool is dependent on the use-case. I have a suite of tools I use depending on what the need is.
    – For your own stuff: Agorapulse
    – For a list of known competitors on Tw/Fb/Reddit/IG: Crowdtangle
    – For traditional media and most social media: Talkwalker
    – For Instagram and Facebook: Brand24

    In order to provide comprehensive monitoring, I’ve had to write my own software that blends the data together.

    FTC Disclosure: My company, Trust Insights, partners with some of the vendors above and we receive financial compensation if you purchase their services through us.

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    In today’s episode, Hannah asks, What do you recommend for the best social media listening tools? The answer to this question is dependent on the use case on what your needs are. different tools do different things. And there are a lot of options out there that will say this up front, there is no one tool that I have found that does it all. That isn’t like a billion dollars, right? If you’re Google, and you can write your own stuff. Of course, obviously, that’s that’s a totally different game. But for the rest of us,

    you kind of need a suite of tools put together in order to to get a comprehensive picture. So what are the tools if you want to monitor your own channels, the tool I recommend there is a Gora pulse agriculture Michael and somebody pigeon from from the company tell me how this company’s name to pronounce name was pronounced.

    Love it because it is a

    consolidated social media inbox you have all of your replies all your ads all your DMS all in one place and you can manage them and sort them and mark them as read and and assign them Agoura pulse has great multi user capabilities as well so if you have a team and you want to delegate and assign stuff, terrific program for that it’s also good for scheduling if you want to be able to schedule social media posts definitely a great tool to use they have a CSV upload, which I think is really important to be able to upload batch updates as your as your content framework. Only thing I don’t like about it is it’s limited to 100 posts, which is silly in this day and age.

    Full disclosure a Gora pulse is a affiliate of my company of trust insights. And so if you buy anything for the link in the show notes, which I hope you do, we receive a nonzero commission from them

    for monitoring competitors on four networks Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, the tool to use there is crowd tangle if you can get access

    access to it you have to be a journalist, a researcher or a some kind of accredited institution in order to be able to get access to it. But it’s by Facebook. It is fantastic for extracting 100% of a channels known post not the replies not the conversations to have but what the channel itself post so if you want to know what a competitor is posting on those four channels crowd tangles the tool to do it because you can just dump the data right out of there. They also have lists of like popular influencers but it’s a really terrific tool. If you can get in if you can get in it is for your cost for most traditional media and most social media. I recommend talk Walker talk Walker is media monitoring. It does a really good job and actually a fantastic job with traditional news. It also does a terrific job with Twitter, some Facebook I found it’s Instagram coverage to be a little on the light side. Even with define hashtags. I found its coverage to not be as good but

    If you had to pick just one tool out of the suite for external monitoring, I would say that’s a good one to look at.

    They have a a good interface and they have some decent machine learning under the hood to help try and sort things. So a good one there. If you are doing a ton of work on Instagram, I recommend a tool called brand 2424 is a Polish company and they have fantastic Instagram coverage. I can dig into Instagram, I don’t know what they do or how they do it. Hopefully they’re doing it in accordance with the terms of service but they’ve got they’ve got really really good Instagram data. Now here’s the catch if you want comprehensive monitoring, meaning that you are getting information from all these sources and putting them together again, there is no one tool that does this. I had to write my own software I wrote my own code in our the programming language are to pull together this stuff and to blend it into the D duping normalize it and all that stuff.

    If you want the best possible picture of your social media monitoring, you’re probably going to have to do something similar to that. Because again, there’s no one stop shopping. Yet, there are companies that say they do. And I have found all their claims to be somewhat lacking. So those would be the tool that we’re coming.

    I would say, however,

    again, another, it’s not a blind spot, because the tools are not designed to do this. But when it comes to listening, social media data is qualitative. It is you can quantify it to some degree. But remember, there’s a whole bunch of biases that go into it. There is a non response by us, meaning that if someone doesn’t feel strongly about something, they’re probably not going to talk about it. And if you care about elicited responses from an audience, you do very much care about that middle layer of neither unhappy nor happy just like Yeah, right. You want to activate that part of the market you will not get that on the social media listening.

    Individual networks have their own biases. We know this to be true. Pinterest skews gender wise. Female Reddit skews gender wise mail. Right. It’s also skews younger. Twitter, for example, skews minority and lower income except for like the Russian bots. So you have to be very aware that what you’re getting out of social media is a biased perspective. And you need to complement what you’re doing with your listening efforts on social media with quantitative and proper qualitative market research surveys, focus groups, customer advisory boards, conferences, trade shows, one on one interviews, you need that total view in order to get an understanding of what your customers actually care about. And so

    don’t make the mistake of relying solely on social media data because it is not clean and it is not comprehensive and that means it fails to have the six major

    characteristics of great data so

    Those that are listening tools, supplement them with proper market research and you’ll be off to the races in terms of what it is that you’re capable of doing and understanding from social data. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter will talk to you soon want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Instagram Business Profile Reach?

    You Ask, I Answer: Instagram Business Profile Reach?

    Taylor asks, “Is there any fear that Instagram is going to set up their algorithm to marginalize business profiles that aren’t paying for advertising like they did with Facebook’s Pages. We still have our IG profile set up as a personal page for fear of this.”

    In a word: yes. Facebook has made it abundantly clear on its earnings calls that it’s always seeking to improve monetization. COO Sheryl Sandberg always makes a note of how many businesses use Facebook properties and how many are participating in ads. Their roadmap to monetization is clear: companies need to pay to be seen. Watch the video for what one strategy could be.

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    In today’s episode, Taylor asked Is there any fear that Instagram is going to set up their algorithm to marginalize business profiles that aren’t paying for advertise like they did with Facebook pages? We still have our Instagram profile setup as a personal page for fear of this in a word. Yes,

    we know Facebook wants to monetize more, right? It is a profit for profit company. Its goal is to generate more profit, and its profit comes from businesses. By and large. If you look at the most recent earnings calls, ads are still the vast majority of their business. And as a result, they need people to buy more ads.

    The CEO Sheryl Sandberg, always on every quarterly earnings call makes a note of how many businesses use Facebook, how many have pages and how many are participating in ADS. And she started mentioning that with Instagram as well and the way they’re trying to monetize Instagram together.

    Things like the stories format their messages through that common code base that that CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about over unifying the WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger back end systems to create more ad inventory. So their roadmap to monetization is super clear. Companies need to pay to be seen. So

    it’s pretty much a given that at some point, they will look at Instagram companies spending money on Instagram and say, we need to make more money out of this. What’s the easiest way to do that? Well, as simple as they did with Facebook, once they convinced businesses to switch over to pages or to business profiles and give businesses something like a little bit of reach for some time and better analytics. Then they get to turn the screws and say, Yep, now you got to pay to be seen.

    That’s just the way it isn’t. It’s a it’s a perfectly rational thing to do. Right? It is their business. This is not a public utility. This is not

    A charity This is a business that needs to make money.

    And if they have a whole line of business with relatively untapped revenue, of course, they’re going to say, let’s get more money out of this segment of the business. So what’s your strategy? What’s your play for this? A lot of people say, should we convert our profile? Should we do this? We that the answer is start a second profile, start a business profile and then pivot the existing profile to something that is related but maybe has a slightly different point of view or has a slightly different purpose. One of the things that I see people do

    not as well on social media is not have a defined purpose for each of the channels that they use. So

    they do pretty much the same thing everywhere and treat every channel as pretty much the same thing. Even though behaviorally we interact with all these different channels in very different ways. We go to YouTube for very different reason that we go to Instagram we go to

    For a very different reason that we go to LinkedIn and to see them all as one sort of monolith is doing ourselves and our audiences a disservice. So when someone goes to your LinkedIn profile or your LinkedIn page, what are they getting? That they can’t get anywhere else? What are they getting on Facebook from either they can’t get anywhere else.

    What are they doing on Twitter? And what are you doing on Twitter that they can’t get anywhere else? So for myself, Twitter is where I post a lot of stuff, particularly at conferences and events. I shared news throughout the week, but it’s where I go to interact with people very publicly and where I share stuff when I’m at events because I can live tweet along things I think are interesting. Facebook, my Facebook page functionally exists to show ads, right? There’s there’s not a ton of value that my Facebook personal profile is where I spend time with friends. My Instagram profile is where I share aspects my personal life, my company’s Instagram profiles, where we show off interesting cool looking data visualizations and

    And so it’s sort of a proof point for the work that we do. My personal LinkedIn profile is where I connect with people and have meaningful personal interactions, especially around things like hiring or careers or questions. People have the company’s Facebook the company’s LinkedIn profile is very much about sharing thought leadership sharing stuff that is interesting out there. And so with every one of these channels, there is a purpose and a function.

    What’s yours? What are you doing with Instagram right now? And what could you turn your Instagram profile into the strategy I recommend and the one that I pursued with Facebook as you keep the personal profile maybe make it more personal, maybe make it you know behind the scenes or the people of whatever your company name is and then you have the business profile which is the the one that you expect to get penalised and you expect it to require it be required to pay money for at some point and that’s what you use to share fully full on business stuff that’s still relevant to your audience with the expectation that you

    You’re going to put be sinking some money into this, you’re gonna be sinking some money into this to have certain types of content seen. This also maps back to your content strategy to each channel and then yourselves, your company overall needs to have an overall content strategy. And the one that I recommend that I use personally and that I teach other people about is called the hero how the health model this is from Google circa 2014 it’s been tuned up over the years

    but fundamentally there’s a hero idea or campaign or something that once a quarter you put like 60% of your money into that campaign and and that and your time and your effort and it’s the big idea what’s the big idea for your company that this quarter you’re going to hammer home so for real the last couple months for for my company trust insights we’ve been promoting the

    it’s actually a march 1 today so that’s that can get start to get retired now, but that was for about three

    months, the thing that we pushed, and that was the big hero content, the the hub content is monthly campaigns monthly things, it’s a, it’s a promotional piece, it’s something that you want people to see and engage with. That is really an ask in many ways.

    And then there’s the help of content. The Daily stuff like this video, for example,

    where you’re creating content on a daily basis that is helpful, that is educational is entertaining, that is something that people would want this very tactical and a lot of ways. And so if you have hero hub help, and you have a budget divided like 60, 3010,

    then you have the ability now to allocate budget and say, Okay, now on Instagram, we’re going to, you know, promoting the hero stuff on these days, the hub stuff on these days and then maybe start using stories to do help content and you would do that on the business profile while reminding people from time to time on the personal profile that hey, we’re still around and then sharing personal stories and personal things on

    On the personal profile you do as a person or as a, as a collective of people. I’ve seen some companies very successfully do sort of like HR and recruiting stuff with a personal profile like hey, these are these are the people who work at x company and seeing that be very successful.

    One thing I would suggest you do is in your space using the social analytics tool of your choice, look at what other companies are doing with their Instagram profiles, look at the data they’re generating and see

    what is working for them, what types of content types of images what types of stories and that will help you give give you some ideas about ways to tell personal personal level stories on the personal profile and business level stories on the business profile, keeping the two separate and then expecting the business one to be the one that you pay for. So good question.

    We know we know Facebook will monetize Instagram more heavily. We know Facebook will monitor

    What’s up more heavily? We know Facebook’s going to monetize Oculus as soon as they can get by thing so expected be ready for it have a strategy that’s rolled out for it now so that when the change comes you’re not surprised and you have you have allocated the amount of budget and resources you need to make it work for him so great question please leave any follow up questions in the comments and of course subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon one help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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