Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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You Ask, I Answer: How to Speak to Buyers In the Customer Journey
Sandie asks,

“How do I speak to my buyer at the right stage in the journey?”

This is a terrific question that has three parts.
- First, we must categorize all our customer communication in each stage of our buyer’s journey and run text mining analytics on it to understand what they say at each stage.
- Second, we sequence our customer journey by channel using software like Google Analytics.
- Finally, we map the language used at each stage with the channel sequence so that we’re using the right words at the right time.
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On today’s you ask I answer Sandy asks, How do I speak to my buyer at the right stage in the customer journey.

This is a great question. This is a more complicated question than you would think you’re going to need input from your buyers from your prospective customers that you have identified at the various stages in the customer journey. What does this typically look like you’re going to need principally email, although social media will also help what you’ll need to do

is get

the data that you have for your customers at each stage of the journey

into some sort of repository a database of big spreadsheet, whatever it is,

and you’re going to categorize all this input. So let’s say your customer journey is the standard awareness

consideration evaluation purchase the

very, very straightforward. You have these four stages,

you will have to categorize each set of emails each set of social media posts blog posts whatever correspondence in each bucket. So you have say let’s let’s you see me as an example. Sandy is in the first stage of awareness, she sends us some emails, where she asks us a question on social media and that goes in this awareness bucket and then

she asks comebacks and it comes back in a week or two weeks and asks a question.

She’s showing consideration

possibly of the problem or even

specific jargon around the problem comes through evaluations you starts asking about us. How do we rate against our competitors. What is our unique selling proposition all these things and then finally at purchase.

She says, I’m ready to do the deal sign the contract, whatever

you have to categorize all the input so that you know how people speak at each stage in the customer journey. Remember when we want to speak to the buyer. We have to do our best to speak to them in their own words and their language. And so if we’ve categorized all this input into these four buckets, then you run text mining. So for those of you who don’t know, we recently released a white paper on using text mining for employee

engagement or the same exact technology, the same techniques apply to this you’d use this text mining software machine learning software to

analyze

and and tell us what is in the awareness bucket. Once we’ve got all the emails and social media posts and stuff like that and made a phone call conversations have been transcribed if you have a customer service line or sales line

what’s, what are the words the phrases. The key phrases, the terms that are the most important in the awareness bucket and then you’d Repeat this process on each stage in the customer journey. And by the way, after purchase in terms of post purchase happiness loyalty evangelism. You don’t forget those stages of the customer journey, either

as you run the software, you’ll see the language change from bucket the bucket and once you do that, then you know to extract that language and start using it in your sales pitching and your sales and marketing language.

For example, if in the evaluation phase

you know that people always ask about pricing, but they don’t say the word price they ask about value, how much value or what’s my ROI, you know, that’s an evaluation question based on your experience

and then you map that to your digital channels. So if you’ve ever done customer journey mapping and Google Analytics, you can sequence out the channels by stage from awareness to consideration evaluation versus

if pricing is the word that you know

you shouldn’t use but value is that where you should use and you know say in Google Analytics says organic searches is your evaluation states at the stage where people start to cross over into evaluation, then you know that all the content that you use for SEO has got to use the word value in it.

So that’s the secret. That’s the process

awareness consideration evaluation purchase the words in each bucket and then you take the channels in Google Analytics that are sequenced out and you make sure that you’re using the right sets of words each segment of the channel and in each channel so social media is the awareness on this channel for you

and you know value and pricing or the evaluation words, maybe you don’t use them in social media right see what words people using social media or in in awareness that indicate they’re just becoming aware of you or aware of the problem and use those words in social media so really good questions. Andy how you speak to your buyer. It’s knowing what words to say and then knowing how each channel is sequenced in the buyers journey so that you’re using the right words at the right time. Thanks for asking. As always please subscribe to the newsletter and the YouTube channel and I’ll talk to you next time. Take care.

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April 16, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: How I Make Daily Video Content
Kathy asked, “How do you make daily video content? What’s the process?”

This process has been iterative – it’s not something I came up with all at once. Below is the outline; if you’d like a printable PDF version, just click here.

You Ask, I Answer: How I Make Daily Video Content
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Hardware
- Selfie mount: https://amzn.to/2IgARvo
- Headworn mic: https://amzn.to/2J4lTKe
- VModa Mic: https://amzn.to/2J6Llim
- iPhone X: https://amzn.to/2GDASMW
- Bose QC35: https://amzn.to/2IiRtmv
- Converter for VModa: https://amzn.to/2GFpVKW
Software
- Camtasia: https://amzn.to/2J6o2oX
- Apple Photos
- iMovie on the iPhone
- MoviePro on the iPhone – in the App Store
- MindNode on the Mac – in the App Store
- Canva: https://canva.com
- Ampermusic online – https://ampermusic.com
- Otter AI transcription – https://otter.ai
- ffmpeg audio converter – available from homebrew – https://brew.sh
- Amazon AWS S3 account – https://aws.amazon.com
Process
- Decide type of video – talking head only or screencast
- Script in Mindnode first
- Set a timer for 9 minutes
- https://www.google.com/search?q=countdown+timer
- Shoot talking head on the iPhone
- Screencast on the Mac with Camtasia
- Make still frame cards in Canva
- Create any necessary music in Ampermusic
- Assemble in Camtasia
- Export raw video file
- Rip audio with ffmpeg
- Upload to Otter for transcription
- Upload to YouTube
- Upload to LinkedIn
- Write descriptions
- Write blog post with transcription
- Export Mindnode notes
- Embed YouTube video
- Embed MP3 link
- Publicize blog post links on social
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Cathie asked what’s the process of putting together LinkedIn posts with video on a day to day basis. How do you do this any scale will do daily way. So this is a long and involved process everything I’m going to talk about is in the blog post the list of all the equipment so hardware, software and process and make sure that you see the blog post over at Christopher S Pen calm. So hardware of a silly little selfie stick mount here head worn Mike, which is Amazon purchase for desktop stuff have a headset or headphones and this V mode a boom mic that just plugs right into the bottom of the iPhone, of course. During the recording and for audio editing. I will typically do use the bows qc 35. So that’s kind of the main hardware. Of course I’ll laptop computer I use a Mac,

in terms of software. My primary video editor is a package called Camp Asia from Tech Smith have a link and.

The notes to that also have Apple photos from managing stills I’m moving on the iPhone for wanting to shoot some basic video for more advanced video like all the stuff that I’m doing here is an app called movie pro and the reason for that is that this wireless headphone plugs into the bottom of the iPhone and the iPhone can be real twitchy about what microphone you’re using. So you have to tell it in advance, like I’m using this microphone and movie one of the few apps that lets you do that and say I want to use this microphone so it’s not like picking up you know all the other noise around here.

I use mind note on the Mac, which is what I use for scripting canvas. The online service for doing the the beginning and end cards you see ampere music, which is a free AI tool that allows you to generate you know Stock Music pretty straightforward stuff, not the best music. The world doesn’t have to be. I use otter for transcription, which we’ll talk about in a bit the FF MPEG audio converter for converting video into audio files are super important for.

podcast part and then Amazon AWS s3 account to store audio files because YouTube’s is where you store the video files. So what’s the process for putting together one of these first we have to decide what type of videos are going to be talking head only or screen casts if it’s talking head only set up the iPhone in you know the microphones, get ready to shoot. If it’s screen casts set up camp on the laptop put these headphones on and that’s the audio setup for that I use Google to set up a little countdown timer. I say I want nine minutes on the clock never go over 10 minutes because you can’t upload it into LinkedIn LinkedIn restricts us 10 minutes or less. So you want to have nine minutes on the timer.

I’ll shoot they’ll talk about stuff on the iPhone and then obviously connected to the laptop and download the video screen cast on the Mac with can’t Asia and make the still frame cards in Canvas and typically for something Becker, you ask I answer. There’s a stock one so I’ll render the stock one and advanced in that way I can just pop it right in.

export the raw video fired. Well, it’s a symbol incantation putting all my transitions all the you know the fades and the audio level the audio in there and it has a lot of these utilities built in, which is super handy. It’s worth it’s worth the cost.

Once I’m happy with it and I export it as a raw video file that has a lot of options there for like different services you can upload to pain in the export to a raw mp4 audio yeah mp4 video file that goes to your desktop, then you use the FM peg utility to rip the audio out and make copy in mp3 format because you’re going to need that the mp3 file goes to otter for transcription, it takes you know for for every minute of recorded audio is going to take about two minutes for it to transcribe so if you do it a 10 minute show uploaded and expect it will be done in about 20 minutes while you’re uploading to otter your next step is to upload to YouTube and LinkedIn. Now, depending on how fast your internet connection is.

At home, you may want to do one and and and then the other or you may want to do both at the same time if you have a fast connection you can do both at the same time while they’re uploading because it’s going to take a while the camp agents files for a 10 minute show or nine minutes show can be around half a gigabyte of data,

I will write the descriptions. So you’re going to need descriptions, which is essentially a short paragraph and then any links to appropriate resources and those go in you copy and paste those that’s the post content and LinkedIn and that’s the description in YouTube. After that, or while that’s going on because YouTube in particular takes a while to process video I will write the blog posts. So in my node. What I’ll do is I’ll export the show notes as the sort of the still as the framework for the blog post and then I’ll if otter is done. I will take the transcription out of otter and I will

put that in the blog post.

embed the YouTube video embed in link from AWS to the mp3 file because what that does. I use WordPress is my blog if you have an mp3 file LinkedIn a WordPress post your WordPress blog feed automatically becomes a podcast because WordPress. It just converts it to enclosures and does all the formatting. So

you can then actually submit your blog as a podcast to WordPress to like apple and Stitcher music and stuff and you’ve got your podcast now. And then finally, of course, once you’ve got everything assembled all the pieces are in the right place you publicize the blog post shared on social reach out to any of the influences that you want to reach out to include it in your email newsletter, all that stuff. So it’s a it sounds like an extensive process and it is a reasonably detailed process, but it’s also one that once you get in the habit of doing it every single day, it becomes like clockwork. Again, all the stuff including the.

Mind Map and things the timer the hardware, the software that bits and pieces are all going to be in the blog posts, so don’t worry about trying to write all that down just print it out and then you can follow literally step by step. But the other thing real simple is a your set. It’s not a bookshelf here and some curtains from IKEA I’m actually in my basement, so you don’t have to spend a ton of money in terms of investment. Probably the most expensive thing besides the smartphone

is going to be the cam software. I believe that’s like 199, the head warned microphone is $49$

the Wiimote a boom mic is30 out of the Bose headphones can be expensive. You don’t need to use Bose headphones so I just do because I work in a relatively noisy basement. I want to want to make sure I can hear easily Canvas free Emperor’s free otters free FM peg is free Amazon AWS is pay, but a pay as you go and you know unless your podcast becomes wildly popular it’s not gonna cost you very much in the beginning. If it comes wildly popular they.

You can start getting sponsors and they can help pay for that as well

as anything else that costs money WordPress your blog, all that stuff. The, the things you’re probably already doing. But that’s the process from beginning to end. Kathy hope you find this helpful if you’re watching anyone who’s watching if you’ve got suggestions about how to do this better, please feel free to contribute those suggestions I am always looking for ways to improve always looking for ways to to make things faster and cheaper and better because in the digital era, you can have fast cheap and good all the same time, but thanks for watching and I’ll talk to you all soon. Take care.

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March 30, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: Diagnosing a Failed Marketing Strategy
Pradeep asks,

“Even after making the most calculated decisions, we have seen that Digital Marketing Strategies may fail due to improper implementation or a possible disruption in the Market. What is the best way to redesign the strategy when your previous strategy has failed?”

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You Ask, I Answer: Diagnosing a Failed Marketing Strategy
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In this episode of you ask I answer Pradeep asks, even after making the most calculated decisions some digital marketing strategies may fail due to improper implementation or disruption in the market. What’s the best way to redesign your strategy when your previous strategy has failed. Well, that’s a loaded question

in order to understand failure or success for that matter. You need to follow the hierarchy of analytics. So if you remember the hierarchy of analytics is descriptive what happened diagnostic why predictive what’s going to happen next proactive prescriptive What should we do about it. And finally proactive. Can we get it machine to do it for us

if we want to understand a failure, failure analysis is inherently looking backwards. So that’s going to be descriptive and diagnostic what happened and why

when we look at what happened. We have a KPI of some kind. Some outcome that we were.

aiming for. It could be

lead forms filled out. It could be purchases shopping carts completed it could be, it could be awareness. We just want to know that people are finding us but whatever the outcome is that we didn’t get we need to run intensive analysis on the data on the KPIs to identify

what was the KPI

what how far did we not achieve the goal. And then what we’re contributing factors that went into those KPIs.

The there’s two machine learning methods that I really like for understanding that one is called random forest and the other is called a Markov chains either one. If you have the right data that supports them will help us understand. Yep, that

KPI failed because these three variables did not add up these variables did not perform.

In doing that, analysis, we not only understand what happened we start to understand why we start to understand why we didn’t meet our KPI

and then we have to dig in qualitatively into our strategy to figure out why those variables didn’t match up. So let’s let’s use a real simple example I want to drive subscribers to my newsletter and I run a campaign run a bunch of ads do as a bunch of social posts

and I’m running and analysis and say, Okay, what variables feed into email subscriptions and if it turns out it’s a combination of social posts plus

say YouTube ads plus organic search. Let’s say those are the three variables that are machine learning spits out and says, yeah. These are the things that went wrong

with these are the things that lead to email subscriptions. I can then go and look and say okay well let’s take a look at each of these are the channels.

Which one which one did the least. Good job, and find out it was YouTube ads. Why, why did YouTube ads not do as well as they could have what we have done better. Maybe my content was boring. Maybe my lighting was terrible.

Maybe my microphone didn’t work. Something went wrong in that channel or in that method that failed.

So what do we do from a repair perspective, we could try and experiment where we shoot 1235 new YouTube videos as a way to determine did this is is this challenge. Actually the problem and and if we run a whole bunch of new ads and YouTube still doesn’t perform, then we have to say okay let’s elevate our questioning from

the data itself to the strategy.

Because

when you reverse engineering a campaign. It’s kind of like reverse engineering getting lost when you go driving. If you get in your car and you know Google Maps up and running on your phone.

There are wrong directions which could be provided to you by the system that would lead you astray.

But if you fix the directions or the data sources fine on the roads are fine and you’re not achieving your goal at some point you have to question. Did I am I going to the right destination. You ever have that happen we yeah you run into, put your stuff in the GPS real fast and you realize that you’re starting to drive this doesn’t seem right. And then you realize he put it into like completely one place he went to want to go to the fast food place in in your town but he actually put the fast food place in like three towns over like whoops,

that wasn’t so good

and so

strategically you pick the wrong destination.

So the same thing is true of analytics. If you do, you’re just died descriptive analytics and you do diagnostic analytics you figure out what happened you figure out why.

And

you’re still not achieving an overall outcome, then you know your strategy is wrong when you know that no matter how many different tactics and executioner methods and measurement methods used you just got the wrong destination in your corporate GPS,

then you have to pivot there.

That’s the best way to redesign the sort of thing is to understand at what layer. Did we fail at that we felt execution. We just didn’t do the thing right did we choose the wrong things. And that’s what the machine learning analysis your variables comes into play and

our we’ve to setting the wrong destination in the in the corporate GPS

if you

the in terms of strategic identification.

That should be the last.

resort because you should have done that research up front. Now he didn’t do any research and you just said the strategy and you don’t hit go or a strategy was handed to you and then you probably want to do the research before you launch the campaign so that you prevent the strategy from failing entirely. Before you begin,

it’s the same as yes the GPS might be wonky but if you just set the wrong destination. It doesn’t matter how good the GPS is you’re going the wrong place. So the strategy is something that should be data driven and research driven to begin with. If it’s not, if you’ve been hand the strategy, then to avoid failure to avoid putting your own neck on the line on the chopping block do the research yourself and if the strategy is clearly wrong and you provide the data and you provide the analysis and you provide the insights to your stakeholders and they say, No, no, this is the strategy and you just know what’s wrong

might be time to update your LinkedIn profile because you know when we research. It’s just not going to go well and.

No matter how clever, you are with your marketing tactics and execution. If you’re going to the wrong place. You’re going to the wrong place. So

that’s the answer to redesigning your strategy when previous strategy has failed you go from the bottom up. Okay. What happened, why and then you can figure out what’s likely to happen and what you should do about it

tuned up the execution first understand the execution first was that a bad execution then got his tactics, did we choose the wrong make the wrong choices to implement the strategy and then get to the strategic layer and say, I’m not sure we got the right strategy. I think we went to the wrong place. We had the wrong destination and the GPS. That’s the set of models that I would use that allow you to document your thought process that allow you to prepare intelligent responses to difficult questions, particularly if your strategy was handed to you by another stakeholder and to ultimately protect you against making a career ending the.

stakes so pretty great question probably could dig in for hours on end into this, but that’s the 10 minute or less summer. Thanks for asking if you’ve got questions for you ask I answer, go ahead and put them in on my website Christopher S Pen calm. I’m happy to answer them at any time and please subscribe to the YouTube channel and also do the weekly newsletter which will see at the end of this video. Thanks for watching.

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March 28, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: When To Pivot Marketing Campaigns
Sandie asks,

“How often should I report and adjust my marketing campaigns?”

We marketers should report on our campaigns whenever we’re asked to by our stakeholders. We should have internal reporting that’s near real-time so we can spot anomalies.

In terms of pivoting, we should pivot once an action cycle has passed. Action cycles are however long it takes us to execute our primary responsibility. At some companies, we might own the entire sales and marketing process. At other companies, we might own a very narrow part of the overall process.

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Sam. Yes, the question today on you ask I answer how often should I report and adjust my campaign. Well, you should report your campaign on whenever you your stakeholders tell you to. That’s pretty straightforward. If your boss says I want to report every week you give them a report every week we give her report every week

in terms of adjusting a campaign. It depends on the segmentation of the campaign. So most marketers have something that looks like an operations funnel so awareness engagement evaluation

consideration evaluation purchase and that goes for b2b b2c no matter what you should be pivoting based on the mechanism that you’re using and the result of that mechanism spits out. So

if, for example, you are measuring the entirety of your sales and marketing process,

however long that entire sales cycle is that’s.

When that’s the minimum time, you should use before pivoting so if you have a seven day sales cycle from male to say you sell like now iPhone cases,

then if you are trying to measure the effectiveness of the entire process. You want to wait that full cycle to see how it’s going pivoting your entire strategy would be a poor choice in anything less than the time it takes for the strategy execute if the strategy is a short strategy meaning like you have a very transactional relationship with your customers. You might even want to wait two cycles.

However, if you have a longer sales cycle or you have a very limited scope in what you do like let’s say you run just Facebook ads and

your output from those Facebook ads is only website traffic you don’t have responsibility for anything else than whatever that window is that’s the period that you measure and then that’s also the period, less than, which I.

would be hesitant to pivot on without having some type. So if from awareness to click through to the website that’s on a Facebook app that’s two days in your analytics, then you’re reporting period should be about that. And also, you’re pivoting period should be about that. So I wouldn’t change your strategy and less than two days if those are your goals.

If your goal is form fills then and you’re using Facebook ads and then and say it’s five days and you’re pivoting peers is no less than five days the exception to this rule is that when you’re looking at your data if something is really wrong is clearly not working correctly then use common sense and say not gonna do that, we’re gonna we’re gonna turn that off and and and do something different. Instead, so there is an element of common sense to it as well.

But

whatever period you have responsibility for.

That is the window that you should be reporting in and that is the adjustment time the minimum adjustment time if you can wait long a little bit longer up to two cycles, depending on what you do that might be better.

The other exception is if you have a super super super long sale cycle, like say you sell Gulf Stream Eritrea airplanes and you sell one every five years as a private dealer because your businesses that’s that you only need result what every five years to make bank.

In that case, you’re definitely going to need to segment up by those little pieces and even in those pieces if nurturing a lead takes you three years of consistent stuff then you at least want to measure the interim steps. So let’s say

you have a buyer and they they buy every seven years like a real estate agent

your measurement should be the interim activities that lead to that reengagement so if you’re setting out a monthly newsletter that.

You want to validate that and track the performance of every newsletter. If you’re publishing content on social media. You want to validate that performance of that social media at least two interim goals that lead up to the the final outcome. The other thing that’s really important to do here is using analytics technology and using attribution analysis to determine what metrics to measure, especially if you have a longer sales cycle and you have less urgency in your day.

You need to run these forms of attribution analysis so that you know what to focus on what to report on and whatnot to that’s something my company does is

machine learning based attribution analysis because sometimes,

particularly in digital marketing. We have so many different things to measure it’s it’s difficult to understand which ones are important, which ones are not so it’s an important thing to take into account some tools like we.

Google Analytics attribution 360

does that really well it’s a it’s a great towards a quarter million dollars a year.

And the reason why is because it’s a very, very thorough tool will do probably I would say best in class attribution analysis for digital marketing but you pay for.

So very long as to how often should you report and adjust your campaign. One of the thing I would say on reporting is that regardless when your boss is asking for answers

you as the marketer should be should have a dashboard that you can check on anytime of day. I would recommend tools like Google Data Studio Tablo Watson Analytics Saif all these different dashboards that bringing multiple data sources and allow you to visualize very easily

have those handy have those running on a display or a TV or something in your lobby or in your own.

office that any given time, you can look at because you do want to be able to see anomalies. I personally love to have the Google Analytics real time dashboard up I’m like my iPad my desk.

It’s not super important, but it’s always there. I can always glance over oh hey what’s going on on the website right now or did somebody mentioned my blog on social media and get seeing a lot more traffic, it’s a it’s a good thing to have handy. So that’s how often you should report and adjust your marketing campaigns. Thanks for asking. Sandy Sandy sent a huge list of questions. So we’re going to go through these if you have questions that you want answers to fill out the form you ask. I’ll answer and will publish it and let you know how to find it.

Also, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and to the newsletter. Thanks for watching. Talk to you soon.

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March 27, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: Learning Marketing Analytics Resources
One of the most common questions I receive is, “where do I get started learning marketing analytics?”

You Ask, I Answer: Learning Marketing Analytics Resources
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Here’s the logical progression of training for burgeoning measurement folks in digital marketing today. Do these in the following order – courses, to build a foundation of knowledge. Then read the books for deep dives into specifics. Finally, subscribe to and read the blogs for continuing education.

Courses

Unless otherwise noted, all courses are free of financial cost.
- Analytics Academy: Google Analytics
  - https://analytics.google.com/analytics/academy/
- Analytics Academy: Google AdWords
  - https://landing.google.com/academyforads/#?modal_active=none
- For solopreneurs and consultants: Google Digital Sales
  - https://support.google.com/partners/answer/7626223
- Google Data Studio training
  - https://support.google.com/datastudio/answer/6390659?hl=en
- Hubspot Academy: Inbound Marketing
  - https://academy.hubspot.com/
Books

Read these books. All links to Amazon are affiliate links for which I earn a small but non-zero financial payment.
- Read Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
  - https://amzn.to/2F7FhDD
- Read Daniel Waisberg’s Google Analytics Integrations (officially endorsed by Google):
  - https://amzn.to/2pI6ypM
- Read Avinash Kaushik’s Web Analytics 2.0 (officially endorsed by Google):
  - https://amzn.to/2G84uTh
- Shameless plug, my book on analytics:
  - https://gumroad.com/l/marketingbluebelt
Blogs

Subscribe to these blogs on marketing analytics, data, and thinking about data. Unless otherwise noted, all blogs are free of financial cost.
Analytics Tools

My favorite analytics tools, for helping people start analyzing data.
- Google Analytics, the gold standard in digital marketing:
  - https://analytics.google.common
- Watson Analytics from IBM for analyzing multiple data sets together, ~$35/month:
  - https://www.watsonanalytics.com
- Watson Studio for advanced data analysis, ~$0.03/hour:
  - https://www.ibm.com/cloud/watson-studio
- The R programming language for the most sophisticated statistical and data science uses, free:
  - https://www.r-project.org/
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In this episode of you asked I answer one of the most common questions I’ve asked is how do I get started learning analytics learning Google Analytics learning any kind of digital marketing analytics and so I put together a blog posts. Before we go any further. This everything I’m talking about us any blog post with clickable links. Some of them affiliate links on my blog Christopher S Pen dot com so be sure to go and get that blog post that. So how do you get started. Well, there’s three sets of content. I think are really good. There’s courses books and then blogs and the important part to me is the order, you need to have the courses first as the foundation so you get the frameworks, you get the way to think about stuff in the big picture. One of the things I’ve seen people do wrong as they’ll rushing to start reading blogs and it’s kinda like hopping on a treadmill that’s already in motion. You can do it, but it’s probably not the best safest way to do it. So you do the courses. First, get the basics down and really do of course is not for a certificate having you do get certificates for some but not for the purposes of getting the piece of paper. It’s for the the acquisition of the knowledge they need to read the books for the deep dives into

specific areas specific points of focus. And then finally, then once you’re running once you’re up to speed. Then you get on the blogs and you start reading the blogs and building on the knowledge you have Cyrillic continuing education so courses Google Analytics Academy is number one by far is the gold standard in the industry go through the entire thing too is the AdWords a certification and this again gold standard helps you think about advertising how to deploy it how to measure it three Google has a certification called digital sales, which is really powerful for solo printers for consultants for agency people who people who have to work within the agency context or in any service type business because it tells you how to talk to your customers about analytics. I think it’s also valuable for people who work inside larger organizations where you have to essentially sell the ideas of measurement and stuff to executives and stakeholders for the Google dude Google Data Studio certification. So this is, again, this is a course that’s a training for using Data Studio, which is Google’s visualization and data product very very good product it’s free and then finally doing the HubSpot inbound marketing HubSpot Academy courses is like 40 of them, but the inbound marketing. One is very good

those courses I think those those what five courses or. So a really, really a good they’re solid foundation and there are also free of financial cost, which is a big deal because yeah there’s a lot of paid courses out there. I wouldn’t pay for any to start maybe down the road, but these ones to begin with our great introduction, then the deep dive into into books so the gold standard in books is Dr. Edward tough DS the visual display of quantitative information. This is the book to think about analytics because it helps you understand and see how to display data, how to show data to people in a way that they’ll understand this is an older book as if I have I copy on the shelf here

must be having upstairs, but it is still the one of the best books for showing people data and facts for learning how to think about showing people data, how do I communicate data in unintelligible matter Daniel Weisberg’s Google Analytics integrations a great book it is officially endorsed by Google and there again a good Julian and a half analytics books out there but I tend to recommend the ones that were endorsed by Google. Google has endorsed on publicly at events or has in fact just given them to people at events and Daniel Weisberg’s a Google Analytics integrations is one of those. Another one is Avinash Kaushik web analytics to point out now from a technology perspective. This book is pretty far out of date. It’s about nine years old, but the parts that are valuable are the how to think about analytics, how to think about an analytic strategy also very useful stuff that is timeless. How do you think about setting objectives setting out

planning and communication of your data objectives and shameless plug my book marketing blue belt. And then finally, on the blog side of things we have Avinash his blog construct met Andy Cushing’s blog analytics Katie nuggets, which is a fantastic big data and analytics blog. It isn’t advanced blog is one that’s that treadmills going at full speed. So, but it’s a good one to read at least for no other reason than gets

the kiss metrics blog is excellent. Kevin hail storms mine that data blog is excellent. Tom Webster’s blog brand savant excellent and Thomas, one of the most clear thinkers about data analytics and insights in the world, his company’s website Edison research all has a ton of good stuff on their blog. The IBM Big Data hub blog is excellent because it’s it’s a ton of resources again about how do we think about analytics, how do I present this data to people and presumably hopefully if you’re reading this you subscribe to my blog. So that’s the sequence courses for the foundation books for the deep dives into specific topics and then blogs to once a once you’re running you get on one of the many, many treadmills and read. Can you do it in a different order. Yes, I think it’s not as efficient and can be a little bit more confusing, especially if analytics and mathematics and statistics, don’t come naturally to you.

I think the one other thing I would add maybe I’ll add this into the blog post is that in terms of programming languages are software to dig into obviously Google Analytics is the gold standard for basic marketing analytics sense a great starting point. I think after that Watson Analytics will let you bring in different data sets, including Google data and analyze it to understand it better. And then once you really again up to speed and you are comfortable doing all kinds of analysis either move into Watson studio or just jumping right into the programming language are either one of those would be sort of the advanced level analytics. So those those against tools that you can use to help understand and make and practice practical use of these things. So Google Analytics Watson Analytics and then Watson studio or are the programming language, the programming languages for your financial costs. So it was Google Analytics Watson Analytics is like 35 bucks a month and a Watson studios paper using this like three cents an hour or something along those lines. So

answering the question very, very common question Where do you get started learning analytics. That’s where again. Everything that I’ve just talked about all the links are on my blog Christian press. com. So make sure that you hop on over there to get them so that you don’t have to replay the video on that scribble it down. But thanks for watching subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter. Talk to you soon.

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March 26, 2018
IBM THINK 2018 Wrapup Video
Let’s look back at IBM THINK 2018. What were the big things, the eye-catchers, the thought-starters?
- Amazing New Technologies
  - Quantum
- Easier to Use Technologies
  - Watson Studio
  - Watson Discovery
- The New ABCs
  - AI
  - Blockchain
  - Cloud
  - Data
  - Encryption
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March 23, 2018
THINKing Out Loud: The Importance of Practical AI
My summary of Day 3 at #THINK2018:
- Sales lessons learned from an IBM sales exec
- Facebook Live sessions coming up
- Inevitable Disruption talk
- Practical applications of AI
The last is the most important. AI will never reach its fullest potential if people don’t understand the value it delivers. Let’s commit to simplifying AI and focusing on the outcomes it generates.

THINKing Out Loud: Practical AI
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Is the morning of day for IBM think and today I’m going to be presenting a new brand new talk never has never

been seen before even pieces of it called

inevitable disruption avoidable failure

and this talk today will be largely about digital transformation and detecting when you’re being disrupted

short version for those who are not I think anomaly detection tells you when there are unknowns or oddities in your data. And if you have really good software and frequent analysis. You can you can know sooner rather than later that something’s up

and then we have unstructured understanding which is digesting down all the data

all the stuff that we have cost service in boxes social media conversations media coverage competitor websites, all those things that are just blocks of text and that need to be able to digest and understand defined sort of why one thing I thought was really insightful from the first day I think was

quantitative is what and then qualitative is kind of why and so unstructured understanding helps a lot with that.

And then the third step in the in the framework is predictive analytics. So once you know what happened once you know why predict forward the things that are likely to change and you will understand

what to do or at least when to do the

the upcoming things, assuming you have a solution to mind. So that’s what’s gonna be happening today at 1130. That’d be live streamed on Facebook. So stay tuned to the IBM Analytics Facebook page and you can see that talk live if you can’t make it. That’s okay. I will be recording it

because I’d like to have all my old stuff recorded, just in case the internet goes out did a great piece yesterday with a dire Hinchcliffe from constellation research that it is also on the IBM Analytics Facebook page may see IBM data science page one of the two but you can check those out on Facebook, assuming that you haven’t deleted your Facebook account which is sort of the talk of yesterday here at the event of course online. A couple of other really useful insights yesterday from yesterday’s think event had a good chat with the one of the executives who are in charge of sales at IBM and really liked what he had to say about what is the IBM cells. He said

we don’t really sell technology and we do, but we could build a million blade server if nobody actually bought the thing that you know just be colossal waste of money. He said,

IBM cells making money saving time and and reducing risk

I. Those are very punchy insights, a way to explain all the things that they do and they got me thinking in terms of, you know, for your organization.

How can you do the exact same thing. Can you simplify it down into three bullets or maybe four bullets what you do. It’s very so much of what what my co founder and I Katie and I were discussing about Trust Insights of what are the things we sell we sell make more money, save more money, save time or don’t get fired

and those are really the all the analytics all a consulting all the everything boils down to one of those four things that the audience cares about and that’s a super important thing for marketers is nobody cares what the features of benefits are in except as to say like, how is this going to make my life better. The other thing that was a lot of fun yesterday got a chance to see Dr Michio Kaku talk about the scientific future and what he sees as the next set of her horizons and it was artificial intelligence. It was neural networks in the sense of brain computer interface and quantum computing a lot of very high level stuff. Not a lot of detail there but it will say that

of all the technologies. I’ve seen that the event this event, the one that is immediately applicable

to almost everyone is artificial intelligence.

It’s just that there’s still too much, too much theoretical and not enough practical.

If you use a very simple

set of machine learning algorithms like predictive analytics like text mining. These are things that have practical outcomes, you can say, I’m going to run an assessment of your inbox your customer service inbox and tell you the 10 things that people always say to you. That’s very practical because we can act on that

we can say, okay, people always seem to hate the products

you know left button feature. Cool. We can fix that we can make something of that we can adjust that predictive analytics is very practical on this week audience interest in your product is going to go up so you should plan for that it’s

week of November, 17, you should plan for that and that way when it happens, you’re ready and your competitors may or may not be and the difference and timing and the difference in results can be like a one or two week window.

So that’s a very practical application. There are tons of AI technologies that are

more and more complex, but we have to be as marketing technologists are technologists, in general, the ability. We need the ability to say here’s

what this does for you.

Here’s how you’re going to use this to make money, save money, save time or or keep yourself from getting fired prove your value

to the organization. Maybe I should change that prove your value sounds better than not get fired. Although not get fired is certainly very clear. So lots of other interesting takeaways from thank but those kind of the big ones from yesterday again today I’m going to be going to a bunch of sessions very tactical sessions and then the presentation 1130 and then

thought leader panel in the afternoon. And so looking forward to seeing people’s reactions. If you can catch us on Facebook Live. Please do. But I hope that you have a great day ahead. I’m looking forward to greet they had for the folks in France were in the northeast United States

the snow shovels. So thanks for watching please subscribe to the YouTube channel and everything and we’ll talk to you soon. Take care.

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March 21, 2018
THINKing Out Loud: Quantum Leaps Forward
Things I learned at IBM THINK, Day 2:
- Looking at quantum computing and the future of everything.
- Watson Discovery, the free news monitoring service (and unstructured data analytics service) that will make life easy for marketers and communicators
- What will we focus on once AI does most of the work
- How to take advantage of social media at trade shows more effectively for the bottom of the funnel
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So why don’t we been thinking about this is day three of IBM think the first full day of the event technically in terms of the general public Sunday was champion day Monday was sort of think Academy and today is when people are going to be doing sessions and stuff and and as the chairman’s keynote this morning in terms of what really caught my eye yesterday that I think was a value. I got a chance to see the Watson discovery session which was fantastic. Watson discovery allows you to to process. Lots of unstructured text. But if you are a marketing or PR professional who would like access to a good analytical news engine Watson discovery gives you the last two months of news categorize tagged and sorted for free you get up to 1000 queries, a month to be able to ask the database questions about the news and it’s refreshed. As far as I can tell, on, on a near real time basis of the 17 million articles and they right now from the last two months. It’s a rolling two month window so it’s if you haven’t already signed up for Watson discovery. You should go do that because that’s valuable

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

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

got a chance to sit in

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

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

it is quite literally a quantum leap.

One of the examples in a factoring problem

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

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

capable so powerful that

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

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

worthwhile and entertaining.

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

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

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

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

run

successful organizations that integrate humans and technology together.

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

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

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

instead of cherry picking

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

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

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

I have some executive meetings this morning and then some

other activities for influencers

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

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

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

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

literal quantum leaps from what we can do as a

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

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March 20, 2018
Why I’m Leaving SHIFT Communications and What’s Next
I’m leaving SHIFT Communications.

What's Next: Life After SHIFT Communications
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Background: Figuring out Public Relations

In late 2012, I joined SHIFT Communications with a burning question. I had mastered the basics of digital marketing, of the middle of the funnel. I was a proficient email marketer, web marketer, and social media marketer. But I had a challenge. I didn’t understand the top of the funnel. I wasn’t strong in 2012 at digital advertising, and I had no exposure to the art and science of public relations. Frankly, I thought PR was BS.

So I sought out Todd Defren and SHIFT Communications to broaden my horizons, to deepen my knowledge of this industry that companies pay millions of dollars for. Todd and I agreed that I would introduce digital marketing and analytics to PR, and I would learn the PR industry to complete my understanding of the top of the funnel.

Over more than half a decade, we’ve done just that. SHIFT Communications became the first PR firm to earn certification as a Google Analytics™ Certified Partner, years before anyone else. SHIFT Communications became known for high-impact PR and measurement capabilities that are second to none. I’ve personally learned that with the right people, PR isn’t BS at all, but a vital corporate function. Ask any company that’s had a PR disaster how much it matters.

During my time at SHIFT, I noticed something, especially among the largest clients. Companies were sitting on treasure troves of data, data that was locked away in digital filing cabinets and digital desk drawers, never to be used. Dark data. Everything from marketing analytics to ERP data to customer experience to product development – companies generate enormous amounts of data that goes unused. In the right hands, they could unlock that data and create tremendous business impact; in some cases, even save lives.

What’s Next for Me: Co-Founding Trust Insights

That’s why, after five years and change at SHIFT, it’s time for me to move on. I am forever grateful to the team at SHIFT Communications and especially to Todd Defren, Jim Joyal, Amy Lyons, and Paula Finestone for taking a chance on a new idea in 2012 and helping grow the agency to be so successful, it was acquired four years later. I still believe that SHIFT is the foremost data-driven PR firm, especially with my marketing technology colleagues at the helm.

I’m leaving SHIFT Communications and the world of PR to co-found a new company, Trust Insights, whose mission will be to light up dark data. We’ll be using predictive algorithms, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to help businesses make better decisions, faster, to transform companies, and ultimately, to make the world a better place.

For example, suppose you ran the operations for a major retail store. Using predictive algorithms, wouldn’t it be great to predict just how much staffing you’ll need at a given set of stores based on what your customers are likely to do?

Trust Insights will help you build that prediction.

Suppose you needed to understand the customer experience, the customer journey of high net worth individuals as a financial institution. Wouldn’t it be great to digest and understand everything these future customers are saying to align your products and services with what’s on their minds?

Trust Insights will help you develop that understanding.

Suppose you managed employee relations within a large, distributed corporation. Wouldn’t it be great to connect what employees say inside with the performance of the company to find what the real issues are that diminish productivity?

Trust Insights will help you connect your data sources and find insights.

Would you like to save time and resources in managing your data? Would you like to make more money with your data?

Come chat with us at Trust Insights, and we’ll help shed light on your dark data.

See you there.

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March 13, 2018
Measuring YouTube and Video at Social Media Marketing World 2018
At Social Media Marketing World 2018, I sat down with live stage host Sunny Lenarduzzi to talk about measuring the impact of video marketing, especially on YouTube. We have so many great ways to measure video today, but I strongly encouraged her and the audience to use the tools already at hand, such as:
- Google Analytics™
- Google Tag Manager™
- Google Data Studio™
- YouTube Analytics
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March 8, 2018

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