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  • What is the Purpose of Marketing Strategy?

    What is the Purpose of Marketing Strategy?

    We read businesses, marketers, CMOs, and authors writing about marketing strategy, about which strategies are working and which aren’t. But have we ever asked, “what is the purpose of marketing strategy?”

    Defining Marketing Strategy

    For the purposes of this article, let’s define strategy using the standard definition in Leading Innovation:

    Strategy is the menu. Tactics are the cookbook.

    Why Marketing Strategy?

    In digital marketing, our environment is constantly changing. Yesterday’s SEO methods might be completely contrary to today’s, as has happened many times. Yesterday’s guidance on how to effectively use Facebook might change a minute after I publish this blog post thanks to a News Feed algorithm change. In that sort of environment of unpredictable, frequent change, it’s not out of the question to ponder why we need strategy as digital marketers. Wouldn’t it be better just to focus on keeping our tactics current, rather than worry about strategy?

    In short, no. Strategy is essential because it serves two core purposes: repeatability and scale.

    Marketing Strategy Is Repeatable

    Strategy is reusable. It may require adjustment or modification, but having a strategy as a starting point makes it easier to replicate results. Without strategy, we have to re-invent the wheel every time we want to do something. A strategy gives us a template for where to start the next time a similar problem appears.

    If we use the analogy of strategy as a menu, think about what a menu is. It’s a repeatable process, a repeatable framework. If, for example, our Thanksgiving holiday dinner menu is always turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, corn, and pumpkin pie, then we don’t have to reinvent the wheel every year. We might change our methods, our recipes, but the core plan remains the same.

    As marketers, our marketing menu probably looks similar from quarter to quarter. We work towards a similar outcome, usually brand awareness or lead generation, and we have a variety of “dishes” we prepare, from email marketing to SEO to social media to content marketing to even old methods like newspapers. Our marketing recipes change frequently, but the menu is more or less the same, which means we are free to spend more time improving our recipes than figuring out what belongs on the menu every week/month/quarter/year.

    Marketing Strategy is Scalable

    Once a strategy is robust enough to be repeated, we take it to the next level: scale. A good marketing strategy is scalable, meaning someone else can use it – another employee, another team, another division of the company. If we have a great mobile marketing strategy in our part of the company, wouldn’t it be powerful if the entire company adopted it for all our products and services? If we found a tactic that worked in content marketing, why wouldn’t we see if it applied to our entire marketing mix?

    Consider the Thanksgiving menu example. Suppose we were on vacation the week before Thanksgiving and we hadn’t thought through our holiday dinner. If our next-door neighbor gave us their menu, wouldn’t that be helpful? When time is at a premium, having a menu to work from relieves a tremendous burden on us. Instead of having to focus on the why and what, we simply focus on the how, on making the recipes. The menu scales to serve twice as many households. Next, imagine our neighbor’s menu was a hit. Suppose we then shared it with the rest of our relatives? The menu scales up to help many homes prepare great dinners.

    In marketing, effective strategy that scales is worth its weight in gold. As with the cooking example, we will be free to focus our energy and efforts on making the strategy work or improving it, rather than spending too much time deciding what the strategy should be. This is why having a Golden Cookbook is so essential. With it, our strategies scale to meet any size problem.

    Repeatability and Scale Provide Growth

    When we repeat and scale our effective marketing strategies, we grow. We amplify our impact. We increase the value of the work we do. We strengthen our competitive advantage. We achieve our marketing goals.

    As you build your marketing plan for the coming year, make repeatability and scale key parts of how you design your marketing strategy.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Impact of Google Ads?

    You Ask, I Answer: Impact of Google Ads?

    Alessandra asks, “I am running a Google Ads campaign for a customer, but results are not showing (yet). The conversions are few, thought CTR is over 7%.
    Besides analyzing ads, keywords and landing pages, what “business” considerations can I make to the client to convince him that it’s worthwhile to continue to invest in ads? What can he learn for his business from the results of the campaign?”

    How far down the marketing operations funnel can you see? Leads generated? Shopping carts filled? One of the challenges of ads is the potential disconnect once someone arrives on site – that’s where Bob Stone’s 1968 direct marketing framework helps lend a hand.

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    In today’s episode Alessandra asks, I am running a Google Ads campaign for a customer but results are not showing yet the conversions are few though click through rate is over 7%.

    Besides analyzing ads, keywords and landing pages, what business considerations Can I make to the client to convince him it’s worthwhile to continue to invest in ADS? What can he learn for his business from the results of the campaign? Well, the big question here is how far down the marketing operations funnel Can you see? If all you have access to his ads data, then you can basically show them that you’ve got you’re probably the right audience.

    A good offer a good creative, that’s Bob stones 1968 direct marketing framework.

    But one of the challenges with ads is that there’s potential disconnect once somebody arrives on site right? Imagine Imagine have this really compelling ad for a coffee shop, right? And you do a great job of getting people interested in the coffee shop and you do a great job of getting people excited.

    And they they fire up Google Maps and they get directions.

    They go there.

    And when they get there, the sole barista that’s working there is asleep on the floor.

    All right.

    Now, did the ads fail? No, the ads did their job.

    They got people to the front door, they got people even through the front door, and then the customer experience went off the rails.

    That’s not advertisings fault.

    That is a product marketing problem.

    While it’s technically just flat out business problems.

    So the question is, is the lack of results because of conversions because of something that you did wrong in the direct marketing framework? Or is it because there’s a disconnect between the two between the ad and the experience The way to figure this out is again, look at that old framework list offer creative list these days means audience do that.

    Do you target the right audience with the ads? The people who have a high propensity of buying or retargeted based on existing conversions or look alike? Audience? If so, your list is probably in pretty good shape.

    Is the offer in the advertisement, likely to entice somebody? And this is where? What is in the ad? Is it synchronous with what happens when you get on the site? Is it a Is it an offer that makes sense as an offer that it does not feel like a bait and switch? There’s this whole bunch of these ads on Facebook that are like advertising Oh, you could you know, get a free product and then you click through and it’s like, you pay money and you leave review and then they refund your money.

    Well, that’s not free.

    Right, though, by the way that you should immediately report those ads.

    camps.

    But that’s not free.

    It’s a complete disconnect between what was promised in the advertising and what was actually delivered.

    So you want to make sure that that’s not the problem.

    And of course, there’s a creative in this case, because you’re getting high conversion rates, higher high click through rates, it’s probably not a creative issue.

    So either the advertising offer is out of sync with what the offer actually is, or you’ve got a bad experience on site.

    The way to remedy that is ideally, have access to Google Analytics, ideally have access to the data that’s happening on site.

    What happens when somebody gets to the landing page? Do they immediately bounce away? If so, you’ve got a landing page problem.

    And that’s something you should again be looking at that the the offer the creative the layout, whether it renders properly on mobile devices, the usual things you do to diagnose a landing page.

    If you don’t see a super high bounce rate, then you have to wonder is there a In fact, a problem with the audience is this product that you made some assumptions on who you’re going to advertise to.

    Are they in fact not the right audience? Right? Again, if if you advertise, say espresso drinks right and people click through and they get to the homepage and it’s it’s a coffee shop, but you are just totally going all out on your frozen summertime beverages.

    People may look at that and go well that’s not really what I came here for.

    I’m not a cold coffee drinker, I’m I’m a hot coffee drinker.

    And they may they may choose to go away because again, you’re you’re presenting something that they didn’t ask for.

    They thought they were getting one thing and then not getting it in terms of other things that other business considerations.

    One area that you can explore and it is fraught with danger if you don’t do it properly.

    You can look at branded organic search.

    So the premise is that if you are running any kind of promotion, advertising, public relations, influencer marketing, and it’s doing its job, one of the things you should see happen is synchronous with the advertising.

    And commensurate with the spend on the advertising, you should see an increase in branded organic search of some kind.

    And by that we mean looking for the company’s products or services or name.

    If I take out a whole bunch of ads for my company Trust Insights.

    And I just go all out on paying cpms.

    I don’t care about click throughs.

    I just want to I just want people to know the name of the company.

    If the ads are effective, I should see a commensurate uptick in the number of searches for Trust Insights in organic search because again, people are aware of This company, hopefully, it has piqued their interest.

    Hopefully they have gone to click through and and are gonna search for us.

    Now I say that’s fraught with difficulty because it requires statistical analysis requires you to be able to do cross correlation functions to see, not only is there a relationship, but what is the time lag on the relationship? And is the time lag on the relationship synchronous with what happens for unpaid efforts.

    Those are challenging questions to ask for folks who don’t have a statistical background.

    So it’s something you have to keep in mind.

    But that is an additional business consideration you can look at, do you see? brand organic search, marching in lockstep with the paid advertising you’re doing? At the end of the day, though, it all comes down to conversion.

    If the conversions are not happening, that’s the number one priority, figure out why the conversions aren’t happening.

    Make sure that if you don’t have one in place, all right And you’re spending a decent amount of money, you may want to consider a website satisfaction survey, one of those four key ones that ask simple questions like, did you accomplish the task that you set out to when you came to the site today? Right? And you run it and targeted only on people only on the landing page with the ads, so that you can ascertain.

    Is there something on the experience side of the site that is preventing you from being able to pregnant the customer from being able to do what they wanted? If so, that then tells you it’s a customer experience problem and not an advertising problem.

    You can also ask, you know, you can’t new came to this page from an advertisement did this page fulfill the ad, the ads promise again, if you get feedback, saying Nope, it didn’t, then you know, you’ve got a disconnect between those two.

    So I would say focus on the diagnostic side to figure out why your click through rate is high, but your conversion Right is, is non existent, that’s going to be able to help you understand what’s going on with the advertising.

    And if the customer is not interested in running additional ads, at least you can take those best practices and put them towards the next customer.

    Maybe make it a part of the campaign that’s integrated, so that you’re running those diagnostics from the very beginning and you’re, you’re understanding how it is that people are finding the experience between the ad and the action that you want them to take.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Change a Podcast’s Brand?

    You Ask, I Answer: How to Change a Podcast's Brand?

    Jason asks, “What are the precautionary steps if I need to change the title, description, artwork and such for a podcast so I can avoid losing momentum and not break anything with the new version of the show? What are the implications for being discovered in the podcast searches?”

    Treat this like any move. Avoid changing the root domain if possible. Tell your audience and your customers what’s going to happen with plenty of advanced notice, and consider some transitional artwork and messaging. From a technical perspective, as long as the URL doesn’t change, you won’t break anything infrastructure-wise.

    Be sure to update the description and feed details – again, think transitional. Have stuff like “The show formerly known as” so that people aren’t surprised – and by having the old show name in your description and maybe even title, you’ll still catch those folks who are searching by the show’s old name.

    More than anything, do some basic SEO work and see where your existing show is getting links from, so that you can reach out to those places and get them to update the title and description.

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    In today’s episode, Jason asks, What are the precautionary steps? If I need to change the title, description, artwork and such for a podcast so I can avoid losing momentum and not break anything with a new version of the show? What are the implications for being discovered in podcast searches? So this is a good question.

    podcast searches, particularly on services like Spotify, apple, podcasts, Google podcasts, etc, are very rudimentary.

    They function like SEO did like 15 years ago, where it really is all just very primitive keywords and things.

    There’s none of the AI that you would expect from like a Google search that would detect intent and things.

    So specific terms specific names, brands matter a lot.

    So treat this move that you’re talking about like any other move, right? Treat it like a website.

    Try not to change the domain name.

    Try not to change URLs, if possible, because that adds a level of technical complexity that you do not want.

    Updating RSS feeds and things like that.

    If you can avoid changing the URL, then what you need to do is create a plan for transition period, maybe a month, maybe she wants it depends on the cadence of how fast you release your show.

    If your show is a daily show, you could probably make the move fully in about two weeks.

    Depending on I guess, the easiest way to look is is to look at how fast old shows stop getting downloads, you know, other than like the ones you twosie here and there.

    If your listenership tunes into a show and listens within 24 hours of of it dropping, then, you know, give yourself a few weeks to move.

    If on the other hand, a show doesn’t really taper off until like a month then you might need to Give yourself a couple of months of transition time.

    In the transition time, what you want to do is tell people that things are changing, give people advance notice, you’ll want to craft some transitional artwork that incorporates the old shows look and the new shows look at the same time.

    So if there’s a picture of your just your face for the old show, and there’s a brand new logo for the new show, maybe in the transitional artwork, there’s a picture of your face and the logo together.

    Your messaging has to be the same as well, letting people know on the air, hey, this is going to be changing in however long.

    When you next open your podcast listener, you’re gonna see start to see some of the changes.

    It’s still the same show.

    It’s still the same person.

    It’s still it’s still me.

    But don’t be surprised if in on you know, set an arbitrary date on July one.

    The name has changed in your podcast listener, and please keep tuning it.

    For more a technical perspective, as long as the URL doesn’t change, you’re not going to break anything infrastructure wise.

    You do want to update the description and the feed details.

    And, again, we want to be transitional here.

    If the show is, you know, almost timely podcast with Christopher Penn, or in this case, let’s say if the Christopher Penn show becomes the most timely podcast.

    The transitional name should be almost daily podcast with Christopher Penn or almost timely podcasts, the show formerly known as the Christopher Penn show, right so that a people aren’t surprised.

    Be the, the name is people get set to get familiar with the name in their their pod catcher of choice.

    And see, you want to take advantage of those very primitive SEO metrics, right, those SEO tools that are in podcasting, you know, Pete very primitive keyword searches.

    If someone is searching for the Christopher Penn show.

    I want to have that For sure in the description of my podcast forever, right, maybe at the end of my description we’ll say formerly known as the Christopher Penn show.

    But in the title of the show and the episodes, I will probably want to have that transition period of the almost timely podcast.

    The artist formerly known as Christopher Penn, whatever is in the description so that people searching for it, catch it.

    Now for a little while, that’s going to be ugly.

    Got some really long titles, but you’ll be giving people the chance to make the transition to mentally make the transition it depending on how large your listener bases and again how frequently or infrequently record, you might even start with flipping the names around.

    So if your show is the Christopher Penn show, and the new shows the almost timely podcast, but Christopher Penn show soon to become the almost time we podcast and then do four or five episodes like that, and then flip it around the almost half hour podcasts formerly known as the Christopher Penn show, and then four or five episodes that and then at the end You have the almost half of the podcast but in the description of each episode, and in the master feed description, you’ll have the show formerly known as Christopher Penn show that way.

    You’re continuing to attract any searches for people who are looking for the old show while you’re capturing the new show.

    One other thing that’s really important with podcasts is there are tons of podcast directories and things like that, that have links to shows there are syndicators and aggregators, more so with podcasts and blogs than with like social media.

    By the way, make sure you update all your social properties, usual stuff for any any kind of brand change.

    You need to go into the SEO tool of your choice and look for all the inbound links to the old show, including individual episodes.

    And then if you have the time, go and hunt down those links and ask people To change the title, the description of those links, the the wording, the anchor text on those links.

    If you don’t have a ton of time, I would take that same data extract from the SEO tool of your choice, sorted in descending order by URL URL rank, or whatever your tools equivalent is, and at least take care of the top 10%.

    Right, so that you’re getting the most equity redirected, in terms of branding and name and anchor text changes possible to help boost the new show to help to get the new show up and running.

    The messaging for that could actually be very similar.

    So if somebody is linking to Episode 14 of the Christopher Penn show, I would reach out to them and say, Hey, I just want to let you know thanks so much for linking to me, I’m changing my show’s name.

    Would you consider changing the link text to Episode 14 of the almost highly podcast formerly known as the Christopher Penn show so that again, I’m capturing both of those things.

    I want to make sure that getting as much of the link redirects the anchor text changes as possible to boost helping people find the new name of the show.

    Finally, like all things in podcasting, make sure that you’re doing your outreach, your your rounds, your promos.

    It’s so funny people have forgotten how to do promos.

    It used to be nothing to do in podcasting back in, you know, oh 60708 and people just don’t do it anymore.

    And it’s a shame because it’s a good way to get in front of another audience easily as long as the audience’s is a peer of yours and non competitive.

    So give that some thought as well.

    There are tons and tons of podcasts and nobody remembers that should write about that.

    At some point.

    I just lost podcasting culture.

    So that’s it.

    It’s treated like a brand chain, treat like a brand move to all the things give people transition time.

    Try not to break the technical aspects and you should be fine.

    Keep the old name around.

    titles and descriptions especially so that you can attract searches for them and let the directories know where they are.

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  • IBM THINK 2020 Digital Experience: Day 2 Review

    IBM THINK 2020 Digital Experience: Day 2 Review

    Day 2 of THINK 2020 was much more meat and potatoes, from use cases for AI to process automation. Rob Thomas, SVP Cloud and Data, showed a fun stat that early adopters of AI reaped a 165% increase in revenue and profitability, which was nice affirmation. But the big concept, the big takeaway, was on neurosymbolic AI. Let’s dig into this really important idea presented in a session with Sriram Raghavan, Vice President, IBM Research AI.

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    Today we’re talking about day two of IBM think 2020 digital experience, which was much more meat and potatoes than day one day one was a lot of flash and showbiz and big name speakers as typical for many events.

    Day two was what many of us came for, which is the the technical stuff, the in depth dives into all neat technologies that IBM is working on.

    The one of the cool stats of the day was from Rob Thomas, whose title I can’t remember anymore because it keeps changing.

    But he said that for organizations that were early adopters of artificial intelligence, they saw a 165% lift in revenues and profitability.

    That’s pretty good.

    That’s pretty darn good.

    At unsurprisingly, because of the way IBM approaches, Ai, a lot of the focuses on automation on operational efficiencies, things like that.

    So less huge radical revolutions and more, make the things you do better.

    Much, much better.

    The big takeaway, though, for the day came from a session with Sriram Raghavan, who is the VP of IBM Research AI.

    And he was talking about his concept called neuro symbolic AI, which is a term that I had not heard before today.

    I may be behind on my reading or something.

    But it was a fascinating dive into what this is.

    So there’s there’s two schools of artificial intelligence, there’s what’s called classical AI.

    And then there is neural AI.

    And the two that sort of had this either or very binary kind of battle over the over decades, classical AI was where artificial intelligence started with the idea that you could build what are called expert systems that are trained.

    And you’ve thought of every possible outcome.

    And the idea being you would create these these incredibly sophisticated systems.

    Well, it turns out that scales really poorly.

    And even with today’s computational resources, they they’re just not able to match the raw processing power of what’s called neural AI, which is why we use things like machine learning, neural networks, deep learning, reinforcement, learning, transfer, learning, active learning, all these different types of learning.

    And you feed machines, massive piles of data and the machine learns itself.

    The revolution that we’ve had in the last really 20 years in artificial intelligence has been neural AI, and all the power and the cool stuff that it can do.

    The challenge with neural AI is that Deep learning networks are somewhat brittle and easily.

    It’s called spiking a bet you contaminate them with even a small amount of bad data and you can get some really weird stuff happening.

    That combined with a lack of explained ability, and interpretability makes them somewhat challenging you a model comes out and does great things.

    But no one could explain exactly why the model works.

    We can guess we can maybe put in some interpretability checkpoints in the code, but it’s very difficult and cost intensive to do that.

    So you have these two different schools.

    You have the classical, let’s have a pristine knowledge system and have the let’s throw everything in see what happens.

    neurosymbolic AI, at least from what Dr.

    Raghavan was explaining, is when you weld these two things together, so you have all this data but it from the neural side, but the expert system side effectively forms guardrails that say, here are the parameters where we’re which the model shouldn’t drift out of So instead of making it a free for all and risking having having contaminated data in there, you say these are the guardrails, which we’re not going to let the model go outside of.

    A really good example of this is, if you’ve ever worked with a chat bot of any kind, there are things that chat bots are and are not allowed to say.

    And as we develop more and more sophisticated Chatbots the risk of having them be contaminated with bad data.

    You know, internet trolls typing in hate speech into these things, is a real risk.

    But having this idea of neurosymbolic AI says these these not just you know these words in our lab, but these entire concepts or categories are not allowed.

    And so neurosymbolic AI brings these two worlds together, if you can do it well.

    Last year, IBM did a thing called Project debater, which was their first attempt at having a public demonstration of neurosymbolic AI the debate Architecture had 10 different API’s of which several were expert systems saying these are the types of data the look for, these are the things that are allowed.

    These are the things that are explicitly not allowed.

    And then the neural side said, here’s the corpus of every English language article on in the database.

    And by having the two systems play off of each other, it delivered better performance than either kind of AI would have delivered alone.

    So what does this mean for us? It’s a change in the way we think about building artificial intelligence models instead of having to choose either or trying to handcraft an expert system again, if you build chat bots, you’ve done this because you’ve had to drag and drop the workflows and the IF THEN statements and things you know, classical, not true, deep learning NLP.

    The chat bots, you’ve built by hand like this very limited.

    There’s a range of what they can do, but it’s sort of a classic expert system.

    And then you have the free for all.

    If we can develop neurosymbolic systems that are relatively easy to use and relatively easy to scale, then you get the best of both worlds, you say these are the things I want to allow in my chat bot, but it can have conversations about other things as long as it doesn’t fall afoul of, you know, this area of things I don’t want to allow.

    So you could say, allow customer service interactions, allow sales interactions, allow marketing interactions, but also allow history of the company also allow profiles of the executives.

    And if a person interacting with your chat bot said it was all like, well, who exactly is who exactly is Christopher Penn? It would know and be able to use the neural side and the expert system side to say, I’m going to go and look at Christopher Penn data that I have in this database.

    I know what’s allowed and I know what’s not allowed from the expert system side and I’m going to return a an intelligible answer neurosymbolic I think has the potential to be a way for us to build more trust in artificial intelligence, because we know that the expert system side is there to guide us is there it’s handcrafted by somebody to, to really build the rules, the safety, the trust, the things that are explicitly not allowed the things that are encouraged in the system.

    That’s where I see a lot of potential for this concept.

    Now, it’s going to be challenging for organizations to build this because it requires knowledge of both schools, AI and a lot of folks particularly last 10 years or so have been solely on the machine learning and neural side.

    The idea of the expert system side is something only folks with a lot of gray hair in the AI field will have done because that was you know, the 70s, the 80s.

    The 90s was sort of that time period when expert systems were the thing.

    So it’s neat to see this concept coming around.

    And again, a few other things I thought were interesting from the day talk on propensity modeling and causal inferences within machine learning, I thought was really cool being able to use different algorithms to start to hint at causality you can’t prove without a shadow of a doubt.

    But there are some definitely some algorithms that can get you closer to causality rather than correlation.

    That was really cool.

    And of course, the quantum stuff, always mind blowing.

    And always, I still can’t put it into into words, I can understand it yet.

    But a terrific wrap up.

    That’s the end of the live sessions for think but the thing digital experiences open to the public, I think for least a few more weeks, so I’m going to dive into some of the on demand sessions and dig through those.

    As always you have follow up questions, please leave them in the comments box, subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter, I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Re-Using Blog Content For Other Channels?

    You Ask, I Answer: Re-Using Blog Content For Other Channels?

    Danielle asks, “I have started writing blog posts on our company website. Should I use the same content for email marketing? Should I just reuse the content or link back to the site? What about social media?”

    Content re-use is a fine strategy to get the most out of high-value content. The reality is that we’re only going to produce a few amazing pieces of content at a time, except for those companies that have heavily invested in large content teams. So absolutely, repurpose your best performing content in a technique called content atomization.

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    In today’s episode, Danielle, so I have started writing blog posts on our company website.

    Should I use the same content for email marketing? Should I just reuse the content? Or link back to the site? What about social media? So content reuse is a fine strategy to get the most out of high value content? Look, the reality is we’re not going to create the best content all the time, right? We’re going to create YouTube’s model I think is probably the one that makes the most sense hero hub help you’re gonna make a lot of help content How do I do this? How do I do that? Is it going to be award winning and groundbreaking now, it’s it’s very tactical content.

    It’s, it’s good.

    It’s not amazing.

    You’re gonna have hub content, monthly campaigns, major promotions, and then a couple times, you know, maybe once a quarter, you’re gonna have hero content, that big piece of thought leadership that you put out that that massive, groundbreaking research.

    And the more you invest in a piece of content, the more you should be looking at reusing it.

    My friend Todd different created a concept back in 2008, called content optimization, where you take a piece of content, you break it up into as many pieces as possible.

    You take individual quotes, turn them into graphics, you, you take images, and you make photos that go on photo sharing services.

    you record a webinar and you extract You know, one minute snippets of video for the Instagrams of the world, the TIC tocs, if you want to.

    But fundamentally, you’re taking a piece of content, you’re breaking it up into as many pieces as possible, distributing that to as many places as possible in formats that are appropriate for each channel.

    So when you talk about blog posts for a company website, yes, absolutely.

    Those or pieces of those should go In an email newsletter, if you’re blogging at a high frequency, you may want to do a summary of each of the posts that goes into the newsletter.

    So like a one paragraph for each post, if you’re doing a daily post, that’s a great email newsletter because it helps people encapsulate and see everything you’ve published.

    And it doesn’t overwhelm them.

    They can read the teaser the trailer, if you will, and go Well, I’m not going to read that one that does sound interesting or that actually is worth paying attention to.

    In doing so, you’re going to make it a lot easier for them to figure out what’s worth reading, what’s not.

    Should you do the whole thing in the newsletter? It depends.

    If your newsletter is powered by a service that publishes your newsletter on the web for the view and browser functionality, and it’s publicly accessible.

    Now, don’t put the whole content of the blog post in the newsletter because you’re going to create duplicate Get content, right? Create excerpts instead and put those in the newsletter.

    If on the other hand, you have a newsletter where there is no public, publicly available web page version, then yes, you can if you want to make that the entire newsletter.

    Another option, depending on your blogging service is services like WordPress can email a blog post to people who subscribe to it.

    So you may want to look into that.

    Other services like feed, press do the same thing.

    Whatever the case is, you’re going to want to make sure that the content is optimized for each particular medium that it’s on.

    So if your blog post is 3000 words, you may not want to put that in email.

    Right? That’s just a that’s a really long email.

    And unless you write for mobile device screens, there’s a very real possibility that it will it will not interest people.

    blog posts also typically, depending on how you structure them, meaning Be as visually appealing in an email.

    The shorter excerpts may do better for social media, look into multimedia look into even something as simple as reading your blog post out loud.

    turning that into a podcast or using a text to speech generator, Amazon has a fantastic one called poly that allows you to create very natural sounding audio from text.

    So if you don’t feel like reading something aloud, you can feed your posts to that, turn them into mp3 and now you’ve got a podcast.

    It’d be the world’s best podcast, but it’s not bad.

    So yeah, absolutely.

    Repurpose your content.

    Now the one other thing that I would suggest you to think about is don’t necessarily immediately go and put every blog post into a newsletter.

    If you can, if it makes sense to do so.

    Give yourself a little bit of lag time, maybe a few days, maybe a week, you know, maybe put the previous week’s blog post in the newsletter because What you want to do is you want to look at the analytics.

    If you’re blogging at a high frequency and you put out, you know, one post a day, what would happen if you ignore it, if you stack up all five days, looked at the analytics on them, and said, I’m only gonna put the top two, or the top three posts by traffic into the newsletter to to reinforce the fact that not every post is a great one.

    That’s a really good way of handling a situation where you’ve got a lot of content.

    When I do content curation, I will look at the analytics for different pieces of content that other people have written and share only the ones that rank most highly because I don’t want to put things in an email newsletter that aren’t of interest to other people.

    By having filtering by having scoring, you can create sort of a newsletter that is the best of the best and that’s that’s really what you want to give people you want to give people your best.

    Email is still a great way to get the attention of others.

    So those are the suggestions for reusing content is absolutely a good idea.

    Make sure that you do it well.

    Make sure that you make content for each channel as appropriate to that content, and focus on the analytics so that you’re only showing the best stuff to people in any medium in any format.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Podcast Landing Page Best Practices?

    You Ask, I Answer: Podcast Landing Page Best Practices?

    Lindsay asks, “What are your suggestions/best practices for a podcast landing page?”

    Podcast landing pages need to do three things. First, explain why someone should give you any of their time, even a minute. What’s in it for them? Second, it should present an option for listening that the listener can use. Third, you should have analytics tracking clicks to your podcasting services.

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    In today’s episode, Lindsay asks, What are your suggestions or best practices for a podcast landing page? podcast, podcast landing pages are really simple and really straightforward.

    They require a lot less maintenance and thought than, say, a regular landing page where you have to figure out is somebody going to, you know, not fill out all the form or scroll far enough to read all the exciting copy.

    podcasts landing pages are much simpler.

    So, you need two things.

    Well, three things really.

    First, and by far the most important.

    Your podcast landing page has to explain in clear, short, unambiguous text, why someone should give you the time of day.

    We are in a world where there are still 24 hours a day but Everybody’s got one of these things, has literally millions of choices.

    There’s millions of podcasts out there.

    There are millions of YouTube channels, there are millions of apps in the app store.

    You are competing for time with every single thing on here, right? Which means that you have to explain to somebody Why in the world, they listened to your podcast for even a minute, compared to all the other options they have available to them.

    So why the number one mistake I see for podcasts landing pages is that the podcasters spend a whole lot of time talking about them, hey, here’s who I am.

    Here’s what I do.

    And here’s how awesome I am.

    And here’s how many awards I’ve won and how many people listen to my show.

    Nobody cares.

    Nobody cares.

    One bit they, your audience wants to know, what are you going to do for them? so short, upfront, here’s why you listen to the show.

    Show, example the In-Ear Insights podcast that I do with Katy robear.

    Less than 30 minutes, you’ll get a deep dive on some type particular type of marketing and analytics related thing or marketing and strategy.

    If you want to hear a balanced perspective of human and technology, you listen to that show.

    Marketing over coffee, the show I do with John Wall in 25 minutes or less.

    catch up on the latest marketing news by two grumpy old guys who just grabbed at the world at the silliness that some marketers do.

    Those are make very clear what you’re going to get.

    So make sure that’s the case for your podcast.

    Think of this, your podcast is functionally a product right? So the same effort you would put into Product Marketing, the four P’s right product price, price, place promotion.

    There’s no price obviously, for the most part.

    So what is it that is unique and worthwhile listening to your show that somebody can get from your show? They’re not going to get anywhere else.

    Okay, so that’s number one.

    Number two, present listening options.

    One of the things that I have seen done most wrong and I’ve done it myself, I’ve done it myself is not to put all the major options for listing on a page.

    So in fact, let’s bring up the In-Ear Insights one here.

    You can see we’ve got a bunch of different options here.

    And they’re really really blatantly clear, right? There’s no doubt giant text here.

    What it is that somebody can do, where you can find the show, Google podcasts, Apple podcast, Stitcher, Spotify, YouTube.

    Don’t forget about YouTube.

    YouTube is a huge listening platform as well as video platform.

    A lot of people forget that YouTube exists and can be a good distribution channel for yourself.

    Comcast, because people listen to things.

    And if you are super clever, you will get your podcast transcribed and closed captions so that you can put that text into YouTube and then YouTube search engine will do a better job of helping people find your show.

    These listening options should encompass every major podcasting channel based on where you’re the services that you use for your podcasting service distribute to so I use libsyn, for example.

    And they can distribute to all these different platforms pretty easily or their RSS feed.

    You are only limited by what channels you choose to publish your podcast on.

    So that’s number two, number three on the landing page, and I think this is an optional one, but I think it’s still important.

    You’ll notice that on the landing page, all these links go to someplace you don’t control.

    Not a single one is on your site.

    So you have no analytics on this.

    What you can do Do with Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics is set up a goal to track outbound clicks from these links, and record them as essentially podcast clicks to say, Okay, I did enough to convince somebody to go to this page and click on one of these things.

    And in doing so, they may or may not have subscribed, they probably will subscribe because the mechanisms are all pretty straightforward, right? And I can count that as a goal completion now.

    Is that a valuable goal? Is it as good as someone subscribing to a newsletter or filling out a form to download a white paper or webinar? Probably not.

    But at least you want to know the activity you want to know is anybody clicking on these things? if nobody’s clicking on our podcast links, sad sauce, right? We’ve we’ve not done a good job.

    So those would be the three major best practices that I would focus on with your podcast landing page make it obvious as to why somebody cares about you.

    Make it easy for them to subscribe, and then track your messaging.

    Bonus.

    If you set up a podcast listening goal in Google Analytics, and you use Tag Manager to track it, you can then use software like Google Optimize to do a B testing on the landing page to see if you can do something to increase the click through rates on it and changing copy changing images, things like that.

    Remember that a podcast is a product.

    It is a product and it will do as well as any product would with the appropriate amount of product marketing effort.

    Which means that if you just kind of slap something up, which again, I’m guilty of it, I’ve done it, I’ve done it more than I care to count.

    You will get results commensurate with your lack of effort if you invest the time.

    If you focus on making things easy, if you focus on the customer, your podcast landing page will do better.

    A will function better for you.

    The other thing thing with, it’s not about the landing page itself.

    But make sure that in all of your other communications, you are cross promoting your podcast.

    If you’re going to put the time and effort into it, make sure that there’s a link in your newsletter.

    Right make sure there’s links in the navigation on the rest of your website, make sure that you are mentioning it in the episode itself, especially if you put it on like YouTube where there is no feed, put the you know, link to the subscription page in your YouTube comments and the description on your video and mention it in the show that hey, I’ve got a podcast please listen to it.

    Right.

    I always say at the end of these videos, please subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter.

    Because I want you to go find those things if you’re listening to this.

    So this you may want to have a custom domain redirected domain for your podcasts, easy to remember.

    That’s probably the the simplest way for people to hear so if you’re doing a promo for another podcast, You could say to somebody go to marketing over coffee.com if that was not your URL and redirect that, so, your podcast here.com whatever the case may be, give those things a try.

    If you have follow up questions, please leave in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Tips for B2B Public Relations?

    You Ask, I Answer: Tips for B2B Public Relations?

    Katy asks, “I recently started at a startup and am responsible for all marketing. I’ve been doing digital marketing for a long time, but one of my weaknesses is PR. I would appreciate any advice on how to approach B2B PR.”

    PR is a sales job, without the commissions. It’s one of the most difficult jobs you’ll ever hold – all the pain of sales, none of the reward. Like sales, it’s all about building a book of relationships with publications and influencers in your industry’s vertical, and giving more than you take.

    • Get organized with a sales CRM. Use Hubspot’s free sales CRM – a “deal” is a pitch. Contacts are your publication relationships. Treat it like sales – and track your closing rate.
    • Get organized with your company. What do you have that is legitimately newsworthy? No one gives a hoot about your press release, newest product, executive hire, or other BS. Influencers and publications want news that attracts eyeballs. Remember how reporters and influencers get paid – with traffic that drives their ad business.
    • Set realistic expectations. Know the difference between short and long lead pitches and treat them as such.
    • Do your homework. As part of relationship building, know clearly who the top 10 people in your vertical are and what their angles are.
    • Never send a bulk pitch. Ever.
    • Give before you get. Follow the Gini Dietrich rule. 10 days, 10 touches, giving only, not asking for anything.
    • Make your own company a publication of record. No pitch is easier than to your own site – but make it an industry authority.
    • Build a community, like a Slack channel, LinkedIn group, etc. Like being a publication of record, owning the relationship with the audience directly is always better.
    • Unless you are required to by law, don’t bother with press releases. Waste of money.
    • Top tier publications matter very little (WSJ, NYT). Trade publications matter a lot (Industrial Concrete Magazine).
    • Measure the impact of your PR efforts, not the volume of activity. Focus on things like traffic, branded organic search, and prospect generation.

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    In today’s episode, Katie asks, I recently started at a startup and I’m responsible for all marketing.

    I’ve been doing digital marketing for a long time, but one of my weaknesses PR out appreciate any advice on how to approach b2b public relations.

    Okay, so I spent five plus years at a PR firm and picked up a lot of interesting experiences during that time.

    Pr is a sales job.

    It is actually the worst sales job in the world because you are following all the processes of sales, the pitching the outreach, the relationship building, but none of the rewards because there’s no Commission’s right instead of selling your product to someone, you’re selling a story to an influencer or a publication of some kind.

    So when you pivot your thinking to realizing it is a sales job.

    Then you treat it like a sales job, right? You build relationships you focus on on that Relationships between you and other people in your industry is vertical, and you give more than you take.

    So let’s look at like 10 tips on this stuff, right? Number one, get organized with a sales CRM, use hub spots, free CRM, use any of the free CRMs that are out there.

    Remember, PR is a sales job.

    So you need to treat it like sales.

    Every time you pitch a reporter that’s like a deal, right? You’re trying to win, close the pitch, and get them to publish your story, your company’s story.

    So in your CRM, treat it like a deal, right, your contacts or your relationships with publications and influencers and track that stuff so that you don’t lose track of things and that you know what closes and what doesn’t and who closes and who doesn’t? Don’t rely on on anecdotes and memory, treat it like sales.

    use software to make your processes better to get organized.

    With your company, what do you have that is legitimately newsworthy that other people will care about? Remember publications of any kind, whether it’s an individual, a blogger, newspaper, magazine, whatever.

    They want stories that attract eyeballs because they have to pay their bills and they pay their bills with traffic that gets them to sell ads.

    Right.

    So what do you have that will help that company sell ads to its customers? Right? What will you What do you have that is so newsworthy? That they will get traffic to their website? No one gives a crap about your press release your newest product announcement, your executive hire all the BS that PR people typically do.

    poor ones do.

    People want traffic, they want traffic to sell ads.

    So what do you have that is newsworthy enough, that won’t get you that traffic, add another publication Number three, set realistic expectations.

    Pr is not like advertising and advertising, you swipe the credit card and your ads are running PR takes a long time.

    The best PR professionals are those that have a lot of gray hair because they have, you know, decade long relationships with specific outlets with specific individuals.

    They can pick up the phone say, hey, I’ve got this thing I know it’s worth your time.

    Let’s talk.

    At the very least you also have to know the difference between short and long lead pitches long lead pitches are things like magazines where they’re planning out one or two quarters in advance and you can work to get your story into in you know that issue six months from now, short leads are things like digital publications where they are looking for stories sooner than that.

    And you have to set expectations with your company that depending on what your focus is, it may take months to see any results from public relations.

    Next Do your homework.

    As part of relationship building.

    Be sure you know who the top 10 people are in your industries vertical and what their angles are.

    They have a specific point of view, or a specific subject matter expertise that they want to focus on.

    If you send them a generic pitch, you’re going to get tossed in the trash, right? You have to send something that is on target for what they want to talk about.

    So read their stuff, dig in, scan their articles, watch their social feeds, learn what they care about, and what gets them results.

    Use great social media monitoring tools like Talkwalker to identify like this is a this is what this influencer or this publication is published and these are the performance metrics on it and look at the top 10 things that got them traffic, focus on that.

    never send the ball pitch ever.

    Just don’t do it.

    You should never be having sending a pitch to more than one person.

    Ever.

    Give before you get our advisor and PR professional extraordinaire.

    Gini Dietrich has called the 10 by 10 rule 10 days 10 touches, giving only so you follow a reporter you share their stories, you comment to them, you apply, you promote them 10 days, one touch a day for 10 days, never asking for anything, all you want to do is make sure that you are lodged in their brain as a name they recognize, so that when you do ask for something later on you, you have that share of mind.

    And it may not it may take longer than 10 days, it may take 30 or 50 or 70 days for them to respond to you genuinely and say Hey, thanks for sharing my stuff, but at the very least you need to be present of mind in your, your contacts before you can ask for anything.

    Make your company a publication of record.

    If your company doesn’t already have a blog, a podcast, a YouTube channel a social media accounts, etc.

    Invest in those no pitches easier than one do your own site right.

    As long as you’re an Industry authority, you can leverage that audience when I ran, blogs and podcasts and stuff for all the companies I’ve worked for in the last 15 years.

    Becoming an industry authority means then you don’t have to get approval, you don’t have to wait for anybody you can publish.

    And as long as the news is worthy is quality, people will pay attention.

    And it’s so much easier than pitching third party publications.

    That is a whole strategy unto itself, but it is worth doing because in the end, you have that relationship with the audience directly.

    You don’t have to wait for an intermediary unless you’re required to by law, such as the SEC regulation fd.

    Do not bother with press releases.

    They are a waste of money.

    Because most people do them so badly.

    And they get one click and it’s usually you when it comes to B2B specifically, top tier publications matter, very little Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, it’s not the place for you and you won’t get the results or are disproportionately Worse than the effort you put into trade publications.

    And individual influences matter a lot.

    So individual people that you can reach out to about, and they, they have their own audience, they have a podcast, they have a YouTube channel, they have a LinkedIn group that they run, they have a Slack channel, trade publication, industrial concrete magazine, if you’re in the industrial concrete space, guess what that is the place for you to be focus on the niches in b2b pr works so much better.

    And build your own audience to build your own community you’ll build a slack group build a LinkedIn group something like that where you have access to the audience directly it’s kind of part of building you know, your your publication record, but if you build your audience, then again, you don’t have to wait for an intermediary to do it for you get the credibility of them doing it your name with in like network World Magazine.

    But in turn performance that actually matters.

    That’s it.

    And finally, measure what you do not measure how much you’ve done but measure the outcomes of what you’ve done.

    Did you drive traffic? Did you get links for SEO? Did you get mentions on social media that drove traffic to the website? Did you see branded organic search, increase? measure the impact of your PR and what it did for the business and if it’s not having the impact you want? consider doing something else.

    So that was a lot lot to throw at you.

    But that is b2b public relations.

    In a nutshell, do those things, and you will be more successful than less.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Reposting Year-Old Social Media Content?

    You Ask, I Answer: Reposting Year-Old Social Media Content?

    Lindsay asks, “Does anyone repost content from a year ago on social media? Like “one year ago today” – has this been successful?”

    Reposting and recycling content is a fine idea as long as the original content performed well, or circumstances have changed that would make the old content do better now. Look at 3 data sets when you consider old content – yours, your direct competitors, and the overall landscape. Are there topics done by others that you could do a recap perspective on (which would technically be original content but using old, top-performing ideas)? Never plagiarize, but do tap into the historical zeitgeist.

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    In today’s episode, Lindsay asks, Does anyone repost old content from a year ago on social media, like one year ago today time hop stuff that has this been successful.

    So reposting old content, reshaping it, recycling it, etc is fine.

    It’s a it’s a perfectly good idea that can get, you know, decent performance on older content as long as the original content performed well, or circumstances have changed that would make the old content do better.

    Now, there’s videos that you released, for example, that didn’t get much traction the first time because people were watching other things and you feel like now your viewership on your YouTube channel has gone up.

    For example, now it’d be a fine time to reshare that and see if it does any better.

    reshare reshoring old content is it’s just tapping into this.

    Is that was and the advantage you have with older content is that you already have the analytics for it.

    Obviously, every time you put a new social media post, you have no idea how it’s going to do me think that a piece of content is brilliant or fun or whatever and it flops.

    And Alternately, you may find that something that you didn’t expect to do well took off.

    Well, good news.

    You never have that problem with old content because you know what happened, you know where it went, you know how it performed.

    So look at three different data sets for older content number one, and the one that you’ll draw from the most is your own content.

    What did you post that did well, and if you go to reshare, it repost it is there a new spin or a new point of view or a new perspective that you can put on it that would give you a fresh take on something old, even if it’s just a new caption on it at all.

    This picture from a year ago, a throwback Thursday, whatever.

    You’re seeing a lot of this right now, in the middle of a crisis that we’re currently in.

    people sharing photos and videos and things of parties and stuff of good memories they have of times past.

    That’s a really good example of something where the circumstances have changed.

    And so the context of the old content can be updated to be contextually relevant today.

    The second data set you’ll want to take a look at is for that same time period, plus or minus seven days in either direction.

    You have yours.

    What are your direct competitors doing what stuff of theirs did? Well, if you go back into the older social feeds, do you see posts of theirs that did really well? Is there an idea or a topic that you could refresh like a year ago in our industry? This idea was popular without plagiarizing.

    Never plagiarize? But without outright stealing their content, is there a perspective of your own that you can offer on what was happening a year ago? And then the same is true for the sort of the overall landscape in your industry, you know, non direct competitors, vendors, partners, things like that.

    Looking at those three different data sets, which you can get from any social media monitoring application that lets you go back a year in time, what was going on? What was doing well, and then how do you create a new perspective on it? How do you create something that was really relevant, this works really well, really well, when you’re about to go to some kind of event or conference under normal circumstances.

    But even now, being able to look back like we’re coming up, it’s the end of March, as I record this, coming up in April would have been a marketing Technology Conference can look back at the previous years and say, hey, these are the topics that were popular back then.

    And while the event this year has been cancelled, the the context has not been canceled.

    People still need marketing technology.

    What were the trends that were identified at last year’s event that we could see how they’ve changed or grown since then, that gives you the ability to stay timely to leverage the data you collected about that conference or that industry event previously, and offer a spin on it.

    And because the current event in this example has been cancelled, you might be one of the few voices actually talking about the thing during that time period instead of being a diamond among millions, right? If you’re is a major event that would have happened what what would you be saying that would have gotten drowned out because of bigger or, or better funded competitors that you could now get a little bit more of the spotlight for you know, Hey, remember With this great time we had at this, this past thing and some of the ideas from it.

    Here’s what we took away from it, then here’s what we think has changed now.

    And we’re not able to go to that event.

    But here’s what we would have shared if the event had been on.

    But the look back works fine No matter what, as long as you’re dealing with older content that is still relevant, or old content that’s not relevant that you can offer a new point of view on.

    So never should never plagiarize, create new context around the old content, and then identify the content that performed best those are the three things to do to repost old content from a year ago or two years ago or five years ago or whatever, on social media that can give you really good results.

    Because you know, the original stuff did well and can help you stay relevant even take advantage of the fact that people are looking back at better times.

    That’s just the nature of things.

    So if you have follow up questions, leave them in the comments box below.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Mental Wellness, Self-Care, and Marketing in a Pandemic?

    You Ask, I Answer: Mental Wellness, Self-Care, and Marketing in a Pandemic?

    Isaac asks, “How are you keeping your mental health afloat right now? With the covid news everywhere, its really hitting me hard. I deeply wish I could stop looking at social media right now, but its my job!”

    Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional. Consult a qualified medical professional immediately, especially if you feel unsafe, such as considering self-harm.

    I can only tell you what works for me. What I find helpful is staying informed from the most qualified sources. A lot of the regular news media tends to oversimplify, distort, or hype up news, taking accurate information out of context.

    Other suggestions: schedule your time on social media rigorously with a timer, so you can fulfill your job requirements.

    Use a management tool like Agorapulse (disclosure: partner) to interface with customers so you’re not on the networks themselves.

    Set aside mental health breaks – you’re more than allowed to go outside and enjoy some sunshine.

    Stay in touch with friends – use your network for support. You’re not alone in this – literally everyone is in the same place.

    Find a form of meditation that works for you – everyone is different. Some people need to move, others need to sit, some need to sing, etc.

    Finally, suspend your normal rules. This is a highly abnormal situation. As long as you’re obeying quarantine/distancing rules, do what’s fun for you. Bust out those guilty pleasures. Watch that series on Netflix.

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    In today’s episode, Isaac asks, How are you keeping your mental health afloat right now with the Cova news everywhere it’s really hitting me hard.

    I would deeply Wish I could stop looking at social media right now but it’s my job.

    You’re not alone.

    Full disclaimer first, I am in no way shape or form a qualified medical professional or mental health professional.

    If you feel unsafe, please, you know, use the telemedicine option on your insurance or whatever.

    please get in touch with a qualified medical professional or qualified mental health professional if you feel unsafe is priority number one is keeping yourself safe.

    So that’s it.

    I can only tell you what works for me.

    What works for me is finding the most credible sources of information and following them.

    What you see in the mainstream media is Typically oversimplified it is distorted.

    It is a little snip out 10 second sound bites, in some new sources cases, just absolute outright lies.

    There’s a lot of hype, and these publications need the eyeballs.

    So a lot of accurate information gets taken out of context.

    I like to go to rigorously qualified sources like New England Journal of Medicine journal, the American Medical Association, World Health Organization, the Lancet, all the medical publications that have a strong interest in sharing correct information, even if it’s technically dense, even if it’s not thrilling or exciting prose at this point, I don’t want exciting prose I just want to know, as close to accurate information as possible.

    Same for following people on social media.

    I follow epidemiologists infectious disease spec specialists virologists, anybody who has a qualified perspective and is doing good work and releasing data.

    Those are the people I follow because I trust that they are working towards a solution.

    They are working towards giving the public as accurate information as possible.

    And in a lot of cases, they’re not the ones on news because they’re not media trained, and they’re not.

    They’re not people who can communicate in five second sound bites, although some of these concepts take 10 minutes to explain, and that’s okay.

    So I like that’s how I stay informed about this.

    other suggestions for marketing purposes? Yes, you do have to do your job.

    So schedule your time, particularly on social media right now.

    Set a timer on your phone or something like that so that you can fulfill your job requirements and do what’s required, but not more than that.

    If you don’t have one look at a tool like Agorapulse that’s a social media management tools, you know, social inbox.

    That way you can interface with customers or Respond to inquiries, review things and stuff but you don’t have to be on the main network itself where you see your newsfeed I you know it’s on a project coronavirus.

    Set aside, mental health breaks, you know you’re allowed to take a break, you’re allowed to go outside for a walk.

    Enjoy some sunshine, sometimes the best disinfectant kills viruses like you wouldn’t believe.

    Just stay away from other people.

    You’re allowed to take a break from meditation, you’re allowed to, you’re working from home, probably.

    So go find a quiet corner, wherever it is you live and you sing your favorite song.

    But take those breaks as you need them.

    Stay in touch with your friends, especially digitally, right? Because that’s where we all are, and use your network for support.

    Literally, you’re not alone in this literally every single person is in the exact same situation.

    So use your network, right use your connections, use these tools.

    For relying on others fire up a video chat.

    Now just have coffee with somebody to turn on video chat and you guys can sit down and talk, you just are not doing it in person, you can still see the person’s face and such.

    Find a form of meditation that works for you.

    A lot of people say meditation, but there are a lot of forms of meditation.

    And there’s going to be forms that work for you in forms that don’t some people can are totally good with the, you know, the standard type of sitting meditation, Zen style, meditation, she Conway are sitting quietly breathing, focusing on your breath, other people that drives them up the wall, like they just can’t do it.

    There are they’re sitting meditation, there’s moving meditations.

    There’s, you know, singing, painting, whatever it is, it gets you in the zone of focusing on something other than the noise in your mind, right.

    So you experiment around, figure out what works for you, whatever it is.

    That gives you that feeling of I’m focused on one thing only.

    And this is the thing, you know, painting, drawing, coloring books, whatever the case is, whatever works for you.

    It’s going to take some experimentation, but hey, we got time, right? So find that actually will be a great outcome from this particular situation to be able to figure out what really does work best for you.

    And finally, suspend your normal rules, right? This is a highly abnormal situation.

    This is a once in a century situation.

    As long as you’re obeying the rules that the authorities have set down for you, regarding social distancing and quarantine, do what’s fun for you, you know, have that extra bar chocolate, drink that bottle of wine, maybe not during work hours.

    But give yourself the permission to to do stuff a little outside the box right now.

    Because it is an unusual situation.

    It is a challenging situation for many and You want to be able to give yourself some forgiveness, right? Give yourself some permission.

    So keep that in mind.

    Again, I’m not a qualified mental health practitioner.

    If you feel unsafe, please dial up some help right away.

    In case you feel unsafe.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Building Communities on Slack?

    You Ask, I Answer: Building Communities on Slack?

    Belle asks, “I’ve always picked up from you guys something along the lines of ‘don’t build on other peoples land’ and ‘work on building your email lists’ which all make sense if other platforms disappeared you still have your contacts and I’ve lived by it. But now you seem to be promoting building on Slack, am I missing something here? What if the community you build on Slack you can no longer access? Or are you exporting emails?”

    You’re right that Slack isn’t an owned property, but the registration process through email certainly is, and that’s how we’d restart a community in case things changed. That’s not something you get from other social networks. We have looked at alternatives on servers you host, such as Mattermost.

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    In today’s episode Bell asks, I’ve always picked up from you guys that something along the lines of don’t build on other people’s land and work on building your email list which all makes sense of other platforms disappeared.

    You still have your contacts and I’ve lived by it.

    But now you seem to be promoting building on slack.

    Am I missing something here one of the community you built on Slack, you can no longer access? Are you exploiting emails? Bell you’re exactly right.

    on both counts.

    slack is not an own property.

    It is a SaaS based platform and unless they could theoretically vanish at any time, but what we’ve done for the analytics for marketers community which by the way, if you’re not a member of go to Trust insights.ai slash analytics for markers, is used a piece of software called Community inviter community divider captures the email address and make sure that you’re invited to the community, but it also of course, gives the community owner a list of the people who have registered To join the community, that in turn gives us the ability to reach out to that list if we need to, for any reason, but especially if we would have to migrate services.

    And that’s really one of the major benefits of using a system like that.

    You can always reach out and ping somebody.

    And unlike a standard email form, the good news is that all the emails work, because that’s how you get into the community.

    So if somebody wants to join the community, that would be how to do that.

    You don’t get that from any other social network at all.

    You used to up until November of 2018, you used to be able to get out of LinkedIn.

    But that has since largely been deprecated, by LinkedIn making, sharing your email address with your contacts, not the default, you actually can still go in and set that but that is typically done mostly by sales professionals who want other people contacting them which was totally fine.

    So this particular A system of using community inviter for slack does give us access to the emails that people used to register for the community.

    We have looked at other collaboration software that would be run on servers that we run that we own.

    The principle one there would be a piece of software called matter most, which a lot of companies that are in highly regulated industries use.

    Because you run it on your own servers, it can be run inside your firewall if you need to.

    It is more cumbersome.

    And the reason we didn’t go that route for the Trust Insights community is not because we wanted to run our own servers or not, but because it is an uncommon platform.

    When somebody has the slack client on their desktop and on their phone, browser and such.

    It is easier for them to just add themselves to a new slack community than it is For them to install, yet another app that they may or may not check.

    Again, we did give it some thought because if somebody installs an app just for you, that’s not a bad thing.

    But there is more overhead and less likelihood of them participating than if it’s an app that they have to have open for work all the time, right? If you’re at a company that uses slack internally for collaboration you have it on.

    And therefore, if the communities you’re also a part of dropping messages and things, then you will be more likely to participate because it’s, it’s no extra overhead.

    You don’t have to open up an app, you don’t have to open up a new tab in your browser.

    It’s there already.

    And that was the primary consideration for why we stuck with slack.

    Now, if that changes, then we activate the backup plan.

    But until that changes, I don’t see a need to make that pivot yet but I think your point is a fantastic one, which is, have a backup plan, right? Be where and when possible build on land that you own your website, your email lists, your text messaging, list all that stuff, and have a plan B so that if things do go sideways, if slack loses all its funding, it will, or it decides that we’re going to charge everybody now you have the ability to pivot and go do something else.

    So I would say, keep your eyes on the collaboration space.

    I think 2020 as the year will be an exciting year for collaboration for what is possible.

    The other thing that we really like about Slack, which is tough to replicate with a lot of other standalone platforms is that it has a tremendous number of third party add ons.

    The ability to do all sorts of fancy polls to do integrations with Google Drive and Dropbox.

    The other packages are not there yet.

    They will get there they should get there.

    They won’t have any hope of competing with slack.

    But for right now, because it’s the market leader, there are a ton of integrations for it that make it the best default choice, at least for reaching a certain type of audience, which is another consideration.

    There are plenty of marketers who are not on slack.

    And that’s where other social media channels where your email newsletter in particular is very useful as you have some avenue of communication with folks who aren’t on slack.

    But what we found is when we look at our customer base, we look at the companies they work at and the technologies they use.

    A significant majority of them are also the type of company that uses slack.

    So when it comes to how you want to configure community collaboration and what service to go on, unfortunately, a big part of it has to be where people are.

    So for some companies as much as I I would strongly discourage it.

    They might have to build on like a Facebook groups, if that’s 100% of where your audiences and your audience is unwilling to go anywhere else.

    At the end of the day, you have to go where your audience is.

    We chose not to do that because the group’s compete with a newsfeed.

    And so the engagement was incredibly low, incredibly low.

    When we ran a Facebook group, it was, you know, two or three people seeing a post out of at the time 100, much less responding to it.

    So when 98% of your community can’t even see what you’re posting is definitely an issue.

    So good question.

    The mindset is great.

    build on what you own control as much as you can, so that if the ground changes if the rug gets yanked out from under you, you’re not left high and dry with something that you no longer have control of.

    There is a nonzero possibility that slack will do that.

    We don’t see any signs of it yet.

    Doesn’t mean it can’t change.

    They got acquired tomorrow or they got bought out.

    Who knows but having the list and having Plan B ready to go, definitely helps with that.

    So really good question.

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