Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Content Marketing Quality and Quantity

    You Ask, I Answer: Content Marketing Quality and Quantity

    Marije asks, “Do you think it is worth it to put a lot of effort into one piece of content or is one better off focusing on making more and smaller pieces of content?”

    Quality is job one in content marketing, but the ideal state is to produce high quality content at scale. There’s a catch: quality doesn’t mean what you think it means. Watch the video for more details.

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    In today’s episode Murray asks, Do you think it is worth it to put a lot of effort into one piece of content, or is one better off focusing on making more and smaller pieces of content. So this is the age old quality and quantity of content marketing

    today, quality for the marketer is job one, your content has to be high quality. And the reason why is this thing, these devices give us unlimited access to infinite amounts of information, or nearly infinite in nearly unlimited more than you could consume in your lifetime. More, you’ll run out of years before you run out of content. So as a result, the customer, the consumer, b2b or b2c, doesn’t matter. The customer never has to settle for anything less than the best when they are on this device. And they’re on YouTube, or blogs, or LinkedIn or wherever, they don’t have to spend any time on anything that is less than great, right? So good, or mediocre or good enough or Okay, doesn’t cut it anymore, your content has to be great, your content has to be worth spending the time which means that generally speaking, your content has to follow the three he rule has to be either engaging, entertaining, or educational. Engaging means that it is something that they’re emotionally invested, they get some kind of emotional benefit political news, for example, people are very emotionally engaged, and not necessarily to their benefit. But they are educational, they’re learning something, they’re improving themselves, they’re getting, they’re becoming a better person and entertaining, they, they are deriving satisfaction or enjoyment or contentment or something from that content, your content is got to be one of those three, ideally, it’s all three. But it has to do one of those things that has to do it really, really well as to better than then the other choices that the customer has in that time frame. So it doesn’t matter what the content is, if it’s a podcast, if it’s a blog, if it’s an email, if it’s a video like this, you have to be entertaining, educational or engaging. And if you’re not going to do for example, like the videos I try to publish every day are focused on education. And so I have to provide educational value better than what you’re going to get somewhere else, hopefully. And since I’m not particularly funny, and I’m not going to say outrageous, outlandish things, or swear at you know, for 10 minutes straight, I have to double down on the education aspect, because it’s not going to be that emotionally inciting.

    So that’s quality. Now,

    here’s on the question of where you should spend your time, you have to figure out how to get automation and technology working for you. So that you can create great quality content all the time.

    And you could do it at scale. So instead, it is not enough to publish one great piece of content per quarter, right? That’s just not enough people’s attention spans, they forget who knows what they forgot who should come to top of mind. And, and humans. We know this through the power of advertising. Humans remember more through repetition. When you seen that car insurance commercial 44 times

    in the last five days, you remember the brand you remember who it is. And there’s a good chance that by just saying just by saying the words car insurance, commercial, pretty much one of two companies has come to mind, right?

    Or

    you saw an ad your news feed for that Coffee Company, right? And it’s always there for for a month straight, there was nothing but pumpkin spice latte ads, pumpkin spice this right.

    Again, I say that Coffee Company. In your newsfeed. This probably one of three companies is going to come to mind because of the power of repetition. So in your content marketing, you do need to have frequency, you do need to be doing stuff often.

    So you need great quality content, and you need a lot of it, which means that you have to figure out how to make your content marketing processes faster and better. Now, here’s the catch about quality content quality content does not mean expensive. Content quality content does not mean a polished production, unless your company’s product is that content. So for example, if you are a video marketing company, yes, your videos should look expensive, they should look highly polished and publish, right? If you are in a podcasting company, your podcast should be like a spa massage for somebody ears, right? It should be that good for everybody else who’s core competency whose product is not the content format itself. Quality means that you’re providing education, entertainment, or engagement. That’s the definition of quality. So you can do something shot right on your smartphone like this with, you know, an inexpensive Mike like this in a basement like this. As long as you’re fulfilling the brand promise and creating entertainment engagement or education.

    How do you produce great quality content on a regular basis produce stuff that people want through stuff that people have asked you for? Go into your customer service inbox and pull out all the questions people ask you. And guess what? There is your content because, you know, people want to know the answers to those things.

    They wouldn’t email you about it if they didn’t.

    They is the whole reason that this series which is named after a book that Marcus Sheridan wrote called, they ask you answer. That’s the reason this series exists because

    I can inherently provide and you can inherently provide more educational, entertaining or engaging content by simply answering questions people have asked you or giving them what they want to know, in yesterday’s trust insights newsletter, I asked a question

    asked Would you be interested in a webinar or some content around personal branding? And so just don’t don’t worry about form just hit reply in your email client and reply Yes, I’d be interested to know it wouldn’t be interested in and a dozen people applied. Yes,

    I would like to know more personal branding. Well, guess what.

    Now I have a mandate from the people that I serve our customers that they want more content on personal branding. So it’s no longer I don’t have to guess what quality content is going to be for them. They told me they want stuff on personal branding. Cool, we’re going to do that.

    Ask your customers if you if your inbox isn’t full. Ask your customers

    What do you want?

    Our advisor Ginny Dietrich who runs spin sucks, calm has this fantastic one question survey that we sent out following her advice.

    If you read my newsletter, or you read the trust insights newsletter, you got this question, which is if we were to

    talk for an hour sit down to talk for an hour, what would we discuss?

    And I had over 300 replies to sort, categorize, filter, tag, etc. to categorize what you want.

    So ask your customers ask your audience

    that exact question. If you can’t think of a better question to ask

    that question. What would you what would we discuss for an hour people will tell you that some people give you silly answers. And that’s fine. Some people will complain if especially if your

    brand isn’t hasn’t done the best job but for

    the most part, people will tell you what they want. So that’s where you create quality content. And when people are asking questions like Maria asked

    if she could send me 15 questions to answer Sure, I’m going to answer questions, because that’s a great way

    to give you what you want. Because there’s a very good chance that you have very similar questions that Maria did. So great quality content just means being educational, entertaining, or engaging, and giving people what they want. At high frequency. You don’t need a lot of money. You do need a lot of knowledge in your industry, which I hope you have. And you do need to invest the time to create content and have a system put together to do it.

    Unlike some folks on you know, who have 10 or 15 or 20 person teams. This is a one person show literally the in the sense of what happens and I’ll put a link if you want to see how I produced the show every day is 45 minutes total to produce this show, you can do the same thing so I’ll put a link in the show notes to that as well. Thanks for the question. If you haven’t already, please subscribe to the YouTube channel the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon one help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Digital Marketing in Recessions and Predictive Analytics

    You Ask, I Answer: Digital Marketing in Recessions and Predictive Analytics

    Lisa asks, “What are your thoughts on the evolving nature of digital marketing and predictive analytics for the next year?”

    Marketing will be dealing with economic headwinds in 2019. Anyone looking at leading economic indicators sees the writing on the wall – a recession in 12-18 months driven in part by inept economic policies. Thus, marketers will need to be focusing on ROI and results. This will be an interesting time; marketers have had it easy over the last decade with sustained economic growth and ever-cheaper software and services. If we think back to 2008 when the last headwinds hit and we had the great recession, there aren’t a ton of marketers who were working in the space at that time – certainly no one under 30 as a full time marketing professional.

    Predictive analytics will be a keystone of marketing for the savvy marketer, because few things help conserve budget and resources like knowing what’s likely to happen. But there’s a catch that we’re investigating at Trust Insights. Watch the video to find out what.

    I’ll be covering some of this in my talk at Social Media Marketing World 2019. Be sure to register for Social Media Marketing World 2019 with us and get a bit of a discount.

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    Lisa asks, What are your thoughts on the evolving nature of digital marketing and predictive analytics for the next year? Hmm. So, um,

    there are going to be some

    substantial economic headwinds in the next year, year and a half, two years, anyone who’s doing any kind of investigation, any kind of watching of economic indicators, leading economic indicators, sees the writing on the wall, a recession in 12 to 24 months, 12 to 18 months, probably driven in part by natural market cycles, and in part by inept economic policies on the part of

    more than one government, but certainly in the United States government

    and its economic policies, not doing great things for global trade.

    So what’s the impact of marketing? Well, my marketers are going to need to focus very, very heavily in the next year on ROI, and results, what’s really working, what’s putting money in the bank, what’s putting customers in the door, what’s feeding sales,

    and this is,

    you know, I’m, I’m in my 40s, I’ve got some

    great here, this is kind of a really interesting time, because

    marketers over the last decade

    for the most part have had it pretty easy. We’ve had sustain economic growth since the really, I mean, since 2011, when,

    when a lot of the economic measures to counteract the Great Recession really started accelerating. We’ve had very good sustained economic

    growth we’ve had good times,

    marketers have enjoyed ever cheaper software ever cheaper services

    for a number of years, marketers had it super easy with organic reach on social media being said, ridiculously easy to

    get it is much harder now. But it used to be a lot easier. And so, you know, folks who are under 30, I have not had to deal with

    the a recession in their professional careers. When you think back to 2008 and the Bear Stearns crash, and Lehman Brothers, and all that stuff.

    Digital Marketing wasn’t a very different space, it was still very problems. Seo was by far the most common channel and I was working, I was working in the financial services industry at the time. And SEO was the only thing that really kept us fed MySpace was space was the hot thing at the time.

    But there are not a lot of marketers, and certainly no one under 30, who has the experience of trying to market in a recession when people don’t want to buy things. Or when they do you want to buy things price, they come much, much more price sensitive all the sudden, as opposed to being brand sensitive.

    And so marketers are going to need to focus very heavily on ROI and results, what’s going to get results. And in some cases, what’s going to get results in a timely fashion.

    If you are in marketing. And you’re not investing time learning all the different paid media systems out there from native retargeting to display to, you know, whatever the the, the new story format of the week is YouTube stories now

    you’re missing an opportunity to, to build those skills and those those skill sets in your toolbox.

    Marketers,

    especially when you go into a recession, when you know you’re going into a recession, you need to focus very, very heavily on your personal brand on your name on your reputation. Because when and it is a when, when it comes to when when when the economy slows down. And companies start making staffing changes, aka layoffs.

    You need to have share of mind with people who can hire you, you need to be present in people’s minds when they think Gosh, who do I know that would be a good Facebook marketer

    who do I know that would be a good Google Analytics person,

    if they don’t think of you, then they’re going to go the traditional recruiting route, which means that will be that much harder for you to get a land a new position somewhere else. So make sure you’re focusing personally on your personal brand and building your professional network. And really building and not like randomly following people on Twitter. But actually having conversations with people

    on the front of predictive analytics,

    predictive analytics is going to be the Keystone for the savvy marketer, it is going to be the secret weapon that a marketer will deploy to make the most of the budget and their resources, because nothing helps you plan like knowing what’s pretty likely to happen. If you know that, you know, the fourth week of January is going to be your company’s week in your industry in your vertical, you know, you have to invest heavily there. And you know, you can pull back budget from say, like the the second week of July, when no one in your industry is going to be searching for anything, no one for you’re interested in talking about anything. So using predictive analytics will help you plan your social media plan, your paid media plan, your search campaigns, plan, your your email marketing,

    it will be the cornerstone, and companies that have got a handle on what’s likely to happen

    will outperform

    those companies that are just going by gut or by instinct, or by past experience. Now, on that note, past experiences, really, really,

    it’s a double edged sword

    with two really sharp edges. On the one hand, relying on the immediate past

    has the potential to be risky, because when a recession hits, people’s behaviors change very, very quickly. Consumer attitudes change,

    business, attitudes change, purchasing cycles change. And so using the last five years of data, which is what most predictive analytics

    software

    looks at, you know, a year, two years, three years, you know, within that five year span is making the assumption that the conditions under which people were doing things the last five years are consistent. And that’s not necessarily true. Once a consumers behavior changes, you need to model the new behavior. So

    one thing I’m looking at, in my work of trust insights is modeling the data from 2006 to 2008 as well to see how did how do we account for changes in consumer behavior, when the consumer knows, oh, something’s, something’s different here.

    And the good news is that there are data repositories out there like Google’s news database, like the trends database, some SEO tools have data that stretches back to 2004. So we have the data available to model with we just have to get it but be very careful in your predictive analytics models to account for is something like this, like a recession, likely to change how customers behave in our segment. And if so, look back at the last recessions data to see how, for example, if you are in a charity that serves,

    say, the homeless,

    your search volumes, and search queries are going to spike really fast as as more and more people lose

    the ability to pay for their housing.

    On the flip side, though, the amount of corporate donations coming in are going to drop off pretty substantially, too. So by predicting and forecasting both of those transition you could be able to do to plan and account for them for what’s potentially likely to happen. This requires data science, it requires advanced modeling. It’s not something that you can do with a spreadsheet in a way it’s going to give you good results. But if you are a savvy marketer, you can take advantage of this and I hope that you come to see my session on events analytics at Social Media Marketing World is where it leaves it works there’s a link below in the notes to register there’s a bit of a discount right now. So if you go to trust insights.ai slash s m m w, Social Media Marketing World, you can register to attend for an all access pass and you get to see my session on a lot of the stuff and we’ll walk through bits of this at Social Media Marketing World full disclosure, my company trust insights is an affiliate of Social Media Marketing World. So if you buy something we’re getting a nonzero amount of compensation for it. So predictive the key to the future with Academy let your models have to account for the recession. recession is coming digital marketers who are under 30 talk to the folks have a little more gray hair but what they did last time to get through and to be successful thanks for the questions please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon one help solving your company’s

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Conference Gear for Audio and Video

    You Ask, I Answer: Conference Gear for Audio and Video

    Amy asks, “I saw this cool setup you were using at the marketing profs conference – would you mind sharing what hardware/software you used? I am in the events space and trying to do more independent recordings like this. Thanks!”

    Hardware

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    In today’s episode, Amy asks, I saw this cool setup you’re using at the marketingprofs conference, would you mind sharing what hardware and software used I’m in the event space and tried to do more independent recordings like this

    great question. So Amy was referring to the fact that the, unless explicitly forbidden, I tend to record all of my keynote talks. Because a, I want to know how I sound and I said anything that was useful and be because a lot of cases I want to be able to produce the content and distribute it very, very quickly. Typically, when I do my own video, I will have the video edited and available within 24 hours of the event. So one of those things where

    it’s, it’s helpful to the attendees, they if they wanted to remember something, they couldn’t remember exactly what

    I said, Hey, here’s the video, here’s the audio etc.

    So let me describe some of the equipment that I used do this and some of the software and there’s a separate

    video that

    I have. It’s up on the trust insights YouTube channel, how I do the actual editing process, but I can describe some of it here. So first, let’s talk about the hardware. This little contraption here is a three part tripod and there’s two

    pieces the clamp is by square jellyfish. By the way, all this all the technology pieces are links in the blog post. So check the show notes to get to the actual URLs for all these pieces. They are affiliate links on Amazon. So full disclosure. So there’s the the the smartphone tripod mount. I love this out. Because it rotates

    it can really do portrait or or landscape mode for your phone. I don’t know why anyone would ever record themselves in portrait. But if you want to do video chat or something that’s useful, and it’s just got the expandable clamp so it can take up to a gigantic phone.

    This is a mount by ultra pod. This is the ultra pod to I used to use the grill apologize amounts, but the legs keep breaking on me. So this one’s handy. x is equal to go tabletop or I’ll fold up and I can

    take the Velcro and just sort of strap it

    to a pole and then adjust the head so that I can it’s it’s the correct orientation. I do this a lot with lighting polls. So if there’s an event that has lighting of some kind of strapped to the pole, you know, clamp it down and it’s ready to go. And of course the the smartphone goes in here now the video and the audio are separate.

    So I don’t try and do the audio on the same thing. What I do next

    is

    I will take I have a task cam Dr. 05 which is a very nice audio quarter that the mic goes right in the top here. And then I have the the team of fun the head

    worn headset which is a wireless thing so there’s a piece down here this is piece over here has about a range of 10 ish feet I think give or take and so it’s it’s not bad for for that what I do with that is very straightforward. I take the

    put the chemo fun on the podium usually, or the lectern or whatever is nearby. And then I will record the audio from that on on this got

    here. And this gives me your mp3 or WAV format. Typically for voice, you can restore an mp3 format. I know that if you are doing something high fidelity, like sing or music, you definitely want to record and wave but for voice, it’s fine.

    Um, one of the thing I’ll do is I’ll take a power pack, you know, this little,

    these little ribbon thing is that people give away a conference and trade shows these are fun because

    I stick on the back of the power pack of this. Typically I will put

    on the band of the tripod, right. So I’ll weave this this through here. And this way, I can plug in my power cable right to the smartphone, the phone mount, and that way I don’t have to worry the phone running out of battery wallets do recordings. One critical thing at least for iPhones, I don’t know about Android,

    make sure it’s an airplane mode. When you’re recording video,

    I have had

    unfortunate cases in the past where

    I’ve been recording video, and it went of call came in or something. And that interrupts the app and the video app. I don’t know why Apple doesn’t fix that. But so be it. So those are the major hardware pieces. Remember, audio and video are separate. The audio is at the podium, the video is typically in the back of the room, I’ll try to put as far back as I can, because

    you want to capture the audience if you can, at least as a speaker. So you can see their reactions like everyone’s like, on their phone, playing games, whatever. Okay, clearly no one’s paying attention to this part need to rewrite that part of the speech.

    Now the editing process the audio comes in from the task cam

    take that into Audacity. I like the audacity editor. Because frankly, it’s free.

    And it’s really really good. It now if you are already paying, especially if you’re at an institution, an organization if you’re already paying for Adobe Creative Cloud, then use although we audition to do the audio editing because you’re paying for it will use it.

    The things to do there are trim it normalize that because you can get some

    interesting effects. And you want to do dynamic compression on the audio. So like right now what we’re doing

    here because I’m speaking in a relatively narrow band of audio, meaning I’m not yelling, and I’m not whispering I can just do your typical leveling, but you want to do normalization if you’re doing public speaking, because as a public speaker, some the old have a lot more variants and how loud you are. And so you want to normalize that then

    make a WAV file of that take that take put it into campaign Asia, put your video into camp Asia, and then you line up the audio in the video together so that they are in sync but not a header behind each other. This gives you one additional benefit at least as a speaker and it gives you the house

    and by that I mean house noise because the phones in the back of the room. So the phone is going to pick up some the reverb right. So you want to to do a little ducking incantation to reduce that but for things like q amp a from the audience and especially as a speaker and an events manager if you’re in the if you’re producing audio for events you want applause right you want you want the sounds of the event that people Leo cheering or or laughing along lines and

    the head one Mike does a really

    good job of getting rid of the surrounding noise. So you want to bring some of that back in when you

    when you are doing the editing to. And that’s what the phones audio is going to give you gives you the ability to bring in out the house sounds as you need them.

    And then I’ll take that WAV file typically. And also I’ll take the stage at video once it’s done. And then I’ll feed it to a free tool called f f. MPEG. It is a command line tool. It is a technical tool it is not there is no user interface you have to type commands into the command line but is a very, very powerful tool for converting one type of media to another. And what I will do is I’ll take the final video file and I will have that turned into an mp3 that then becomes either a podcast episode or I will send it to an app called otter Ott er otter.ai that will do machine learning transcription of the audio so for the event I’ll take the transcript I’ll take the audio and turn into a transcript and that way

    you can see the video you can download the audio if you want to listen to it the car you can get the slides as a PDF but you can also get the transcript of the talk as a PDF

    now

    if you if you are running an events company you will want to polish it up because

    it comes out very much as is for a speaker you can find get away with either depending on how much time you have and if you have a VA or not but I really like that because it gives everybody those your talks in the format that they’re most comfortable consuming they Some people like to listen Some people like to watch some people like to read so that’s sort of the process

    for turning a talk into lots of different media and for giving it to people in the form of that they want all this hardware probably after all said and done probably about $200 total

    except for the phone to pay whatever you pay for the phone

    this guy I think it’s like 25 bucks the headsets 50 this guy’s 72 I think there’s anything else

    that’s that’s about it contagious a couple hundred bucks I believe

    but you don’t need to use it you could use like I movie or Windows Movie Maker I personally wouldn’t but I like camp Asia because it can also do is like picture in picture and and diagrams. If some talks at the video isn’t great. I will like show the slides I’ll have the slides been picking a picture and picture whatever if I want to talk to be like really, really well professionally edited.

    Or if I can’t see the screen in the video I captured so that’s the process watch the other video

    and check out the links in the show notes. If you want to get any of this equipment again, disclosure or affiliate links in it. Thanks for watching and please subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter i’ll talk to you soon

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Measure The Value of Influencer Marketing

    You Ask, I Answer: How to Measure The Value of Influencer Marketing

    Mark asks, “How do you find the value in influencer marketing? What’s the best way to determine what’s working?”

    Influencer marketing is nothing new. Companies have been marketing with celebrities for decades, and we have well-defined ways to work with celebrities – and measure their outputs. Let’s take a walk through an effective way to measure influencers.

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    In today’s episode Mark asks How do you find the value in influencer marketing what’s the best way to determine what’s working this is a very popular topic a very important topic and one that a lot of folks in influencer marketing are not doing well and it’s not because it’s not because influencer marketing is some kind of snake oil although the absolutely are certain influencers who probably over promise and under deliver the problem is that we’re treating influencer marketing like something that’s brand new and it’s not companies have been using influencer marketing for decades it was just called something else. It was called things like celebrity sponsorship or celebrity marketing. We look at influencer marketing for that perspective. There are very well defined ways to work with celebrities to work with influencers and measure their outputs measure what it is that they’re bringing to the table. So the problem isn’t that we can’t measure this thing. It’s that we just haven’t made a solid, rigorous efforts to do so. So let’s walk through ways we can do this to measure the effectiveness of influencers. The number one thing with as with any form of marketing campaign is to set goals, what goal are we after. And there’s different kinds of goals based on the type of influence you want to work with. But that has to be set body of business strategy,

    the three major goals, most influencers

    are, can be effective at driving towards our brand awareness, prospect, or lead generation or referrals, word of mouth and conversions or sales.

    So it really is sort of,

    if you think about it, in classical marketing, operations, terms, top of funnel, middle of funnel, bottom of the funnel, what are the different ways that influences can can deliver those results, all those goals are, again, things that we as marketers have defined in the past and can work with pretty easily. The second step is to then set our KPIs to match those goals throughout the marketing operations funnel. And I call the marketing operations funnel because we know the customer journey is nonlinear. But in terms of responsibilities within our organizations, and in terms of measurement systems, we do still have to have a a quasi linear path to measure on. So we do want to have that setup for the operation side internally. So what are the KPIs that measure those goals? How do you if brand awareness is your goal? How do you currently measure brand awareness. And this is where the influence of marketing disconnect works, because in a lot of cases, companies don’t have really good rigorous system setup to measure something like brand awareness.

    So

    for brand awareness, there are things like unaided brand recall, focus groups, surveys,

    one of the easiest ones that I’m always baffled that companies don’t do a very good job of analyzing this, how did you hear about us, when, when you have an intake point for a newsletter signup, or a new deal, whatever the cases, very few companies ask, so how’d you hear about us and leave it open ended? Like there’s usually the companies that do have a drop down with like, six things, and almost everyone puts in other because the six things that they picked were from a pick list from like, 1997. So asking people, hey, how did you hear about us is, is a really important simple step for things like measuring brand awareness when you’re measuring prospects and lead generation and referrals. That should be fairly straightforward. Howard, how do you track those things currently is it in your marketing automation system, your email system,

    and of course conversions, and sales, where are those tracks

    acting in a CRM and in your P system in Excel spreadsheet, and some guys cubicle wherever it is, you track it, you’d be able to identify the systems that go with the KPIs that are are bonded to those goals. The third thing you do is you establish the metrics that feed those KPIs. So

    if sales is your KPI, what are all the data points that feed a sale if prospect or or

    generation of new audiences is a goal as your KPI? How do you track those things,

    looking at things like branded organic search Are you looking at things

    like referral traffic from outside websites,

    once you establish the metrics, the KPIs and the goals you are effectively building a chain of evidence

    that you would use for any marketing method, but with influencers

    in particular with influencers, you have the ability to to require tracking

    in ways that you can’t do with say like earned media. If someone says something nice about you, and you don’t have a formal agreement in place, it’s very hard for you to go in and make changes or updates or things like that. When you are paying somebody as an influencer to do work on your behalf you absolutely can say hey, you need to use all these tracking links as part of the contract

    we want to be able to measure the impact of what you’re

    doing when you’re when you’re talking about the brand here’s the custom URL the custom one 800 number the custom whatever

    but you need that infrastructure in order to be able to draw that chain of evidence and say hey here’s how

    your influence is leading to business outcomes we care about and if the influencer is actually good at what they do they have actual influence you will see that show up you will see that show when someone fills out a referral form on our your website and when they say how did you hear about us say heard a talk by john wall at at your conference

    they felt the full text box and say I watched a video of gaining Roberto on YouTube.

    Whatever the influencer is doing

    you should see that show up in your audience when you’re working with them. For whatever the the outcome is now for squishier things like

    brand awareness. brand. Awareness isn’t squishy. It’s just that most companies don’t want to spend the money to measure their brand effectively.

    One of the most straightforward ways to do this, it’s not perfect if you’re not if you’ve got some money to spend, be running surveys in market using you can use Google surveys to and and do continuous one question survey

    or maybe a two questions survey, like a like an NPS survey to your target audience and say, Have you heard of this brand? And then or what is your intent to purchase from Brand X and the next 90 days or what is your likelihood that you will recommend Brand X and the next time you days

    if you’re running those surveys

    you can ask a third question possibly

    have you heard someone so recommend Brand X and if the answer for and you’re serving a population of thousands of people or 1500 people or 2000 people as a sample pool if not a single one says yes so and so recommend I heard someone so recommend Brand X then you know your influencer marketing doesn’t have any effect you want because you’re you’re asking people and they’re like, yeah,

    so there are very clear ways to measure influencers, the measure the value of influencers, based on the KPIs, map those KPIs to the value that they’re that have your company and then you track the living daylights out of the influences you’re working with and

    expect absolutely expect if you

    make the requirements more onerous for reporting on the behalf of the influencer, then you’re probably gonna have to pay more for them as opposed to just handing someone a some money and saying hey, just talk about this. So there is rigor required an effort required for both the brand and the influence in order to make the measurement work but you absolutely can measure influencer marketing you can establish the value of an influencer and you can determine what’s working and who’s working out for your brand and who’s not but you just have to do the work and treat it like celebrity marketing or any other form of advertising where you are being detailed and thorough and you’re tracking great question mark. If you have additional questions, please leave them in the comments. And as always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care what help solving your company’s data

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  • Fun Fact Friday: Feature Engineering

    Fun Fact Friday: Feature Engineering

    In this episode, we talk about feature engineering and text, especially social media content. Social media text is often accompanied by very little data, so what can we do to enhance and expand it? That’s feature engineering. Watch the video for details about what kinds of features we can add to social media content to make it more understandable.

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    In today’s episode of Fun fact, Friday this week at the trust insights annual summit, which

    was held in my dining room, because we’re startup

    we were talking about some of the different ways you can do

    data tasks like feature engineering because the ability to use topic modeling and text mining and all these different machine learning algorithms is contingent upon what you put into the algorithm.

    The more data that you have that’s valid, clean, compatible, chosen, well, the better the algorithm will perform.

    When you think about it from that lens, then

    the average piece of texts that you feed to

    an algorithm, it isn’t very rich,

    for example, take a tweet, right? 280 characters at most probably 1015 words

    that in and of itself, this not a lot in that it’s just a bunch of words, what are the things that you can extract from that that could help you to better understand it better quantify it and and build better predictive outcomes around

    it?

    feature engineering is a data science term, which means, well, it’s engineering features. A feature is a dimension if you think about

    putting a tweet in the first column of a spreadsheet, right? And you put all your tweets in one column that is one feature the text itself, what other columns could you add to that spreadsheet that would be meaningful, that would describe the data that you could engineer out of that single tweet you can get from Twitter, for example, the author, you can get the date and the time, those are useful meta attributes that could provide some clarity about

    the tweet itself, you know, tweets sent in the middle of the night might have a different point of view, different language than a tweet sent in the middle of the day,

    if you run automated sentiment analysis, you can start to pull out things like specific emotions that are tagged from

    very well known libraries like UD pipe,

    you can get this the sentiment numbers plus one minus one and the scale along that line. And you can start you can extract things like character count, word count, number of capital letters, number of emoji in in

    in a tweet, for example,

    why would you want to do this? Why would you want to add more columns, given that we’re already talking in many cases about all this too much data, and there’s too much they have for us

    to analyze? Well, the reason you want to do feature engineering is

    you want to be able to start chipping away at the why now, no amount of this very clearly no amount of feature engineering can substitute for good qualitative research, no amount,

    but it can help enhance your qualitative research.

    It can give you more interesting questions to ask in your qualitative research. And it can eliminate things

    that are might be questions you would ask and qualitative research if you can show that there’s no relationship whatsoever.

    So for example, time of day, if you do feature engineering, and you have the data and you run it through

    an algorithm that says, hey, time of day, it’s not important to the end result that you care about,

    then you can eliminate questions in your in your focus group about time of day if there’s

    complete lack of statistical significance about time of

    day because say, okay, we don’t need to ask that question. It can make your

    your qualitative research more focused. The other thing that

    feature engineering does is it helps you

    start to, to understand

    hidden relationships within your data

    that you might not think to ask. Otherwise, if you use a

    user, build your own feature engineering library,

    you can have it do very specific things like how many capital letters do something using that’s, that’s not something that a person who’s analyzing, say, a book might think about, because it’s not helpful. But think about the people in, for example, social media conversations, if you got a tweet, that’s all in caps, either the caps lock key was stuck on a keyboard, well, that person’s really angry and wants to yell really, really loud, well, then us angry, they want to yell really, really loud.

    That’s a feature that knowing how many capital letters, or what percentage of a social media post is all capital letters is

    actually could be a distinguishing feature, especially when you pair it with something like emotion.

    And if you have a target variable, like number of clicks, or

    number of retweets, or shares or comments, or whatever it is, you want to use your endgame

    metric, then creating all these additional features could help you understand what are the little subtleties within that text that

    indicate the up there’s a there there, there’s something else to dig into this deeper to dig into. So

    give some thought, when you’re doing your social media analytics, when you’re doing your marketing analytics, when you’re doing

    your blog analysis, your content marketing, give some thought to how you analyze text, how you extract features, what features you look at, remember, features or columns in the spreadsheet,

    and ask whether you’ve done enough

    on the feature engineering front to find hidden meaning. Now, a a prerequisite of feature engineering is that you’ve got to have an algorithm that allows you to analyze all these features in combination and figure out which ones that matter the most

    trusted insights this we use three or four different algorithms depending on the type of data set and what’s in it.

    But all of that software is free. It’s open source software, academia has done an incredible job, the academic world of sharing working code for all of us to do enjoy and use important to make sure that academia remains well funded for

    that very reason.

    But the answers are knowable. And I think that’s probably the most important thing of this entire Fun Fact Friday is that

    the code is available, the data is available, we have to be the ones to engineer the features

    unless you use deep learning, in which case it can do automated feature engineering.

    And

    it’s just a matter of putting the pieces in the right order and having everything prepared well, to do this extraction, what do you get out of it, at the end,

    you get a model that says these are the top five or 10 things that create

    should not create that have a high statistical correlation to the end metric you care about. So if it’s retweets, for example, these are the five or 10 things that matter most out of this library of

    of data

    for example, I am working right now with a data set

    that is medium posts 1.4 million medium posts and

    the this is a massive massive data set

    and there’s an end target

    collapse and then there’s not much else right so I have to engineer

    about 15 new variables in order to do the feature engine but at the end of the day I want to know what has a high mathematical relationship to collapse and then we use that as the basis for

    our testing plan to say okay let’s go and test to see if we do more of X y&z do we get more claps

    at the end on medium

    that’s what you do with this that’s the value of this is gives you a much more focused testing plan. and that in turn means that your marketing can get more effective. So

    feature engineering is the name of what you do in data science to get

    at this stuff, try it out

    dig into your data you already have and see what’s in there see if it if there’s value that is hidden within your data and see if you can use feature engineering and then some machine learning statistical techniques to

    to unlock that

    value. As always, please please please leave comments and questions in the comments box below and subscribe to our YouTube channel and I newsletter and I’ll talk too soon.

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  • Solicited Review: TechSmith SnagIt 2019

    Solicited Review_ TechSmith SnagIt 2019

    In this review, learn the two features that matter most to me as a marketer, one which protects personally identifiable information, and the other which makes design feedback much easier.

    FTC Disclosure: I was provided a review copy of the application at no cost.

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    In today’s episode a solicited review of campaign of text myths, new snag at 2019 product be screen capture product, full disclosure, I was provided a review copy to take a look at this thing. So if you’re not familiar with screenshots, software, it’s really elementary stuff, you take a screenshot of your screen or a portion of your screen. And then you go ahead and you use that picture as you would any other graphic things for like presentations and stuff like that, in this regard, snag it really no different than the default functionality on your computer. What makes it interesting are all the things you can do with the the shots afterwards, and the post processing. So let’s take a look at this. First, I’m going to take a screenshot of some blog comments here got the lovely stuff here enough, I was going to just use this, let’s take a picture of it.

    This in and of itself is I would say probably not the world’s most interesting picture, right, this is just comments on the blog. One of the things that I might want to do. And one of the coolest features I think, is the ability to simplify it down to screen and or mask PII, personally identifiable information. Now, in this case, it’s already been obscured by the common thing software. But this is there still may be more information than I would like. So I’m gonna hit the auto simplify button here. And it’s going to go through and essentially use a bit of machine learning to identify with the types of content that are on screen blocks of text, things like that. And then as you can see, simplify it down, it has reduced a lot of the screen down to this very basic stuff. And then this could go in a screenshot. This is cool again, because the PII aspect I think, is cool, let’s take take any kind of screenshot from any kind of application that you use for work. And you can mask out anything that doesn’t belong, but still get a sense of the interface still get a sense of the layout of the design. One of things you look here, it’s it’s done a really good job of just blurting out stuff that is not the most relevant things. And then, of course, additional things you can just simply draw on. And it will, it will attempt to detect an N remove additional pieces. So that’s cool. I think that is a very, very helpful

    particular type of tool. The second thing, and this is where if you

    if you ever provide tech support for your relatives,

    this is an essential feature, it is the ability to record not only short tutorials as videos, but and then turn them even to end to animated gifts. So let’s look at this, I’m going to again, take this year,

    let’s say we were working on our blog, I hit the video record button, turn on recording. And you can see the us a little count down here. And then I’ll go ahead and click on things like is this a pending comment, cleanup, comment, spam, comments, things like that, I will turn off this the recorder here.

    And what it’s done is record eight, a nice little video of this where this gets really cool, click the animated GIF button. Choose screen video doesn’t need to be super high fidelity.

    But by turning a screen recording into an animated

    GIF,

    this can then just go right inside of an email. So instead of having to call up your, your cousin, or your uncle, or your dad, whatever, and say, the walk them through the same procedure over and over again, for some of the solving technical

    just send them the gift. And then because it’s a looping gift, they can see it as many times as they want.

    This has enormous value, you know, not only for relative tech support, but also for any of those business emails where somebody’s got a question about something can just immediately throw that in there. When you are interacting as the consumer as the end user providing feedback to developers about an application. This feature is very handy when you are and these this is a gift file. It’s an animated GIF, which means that you can then drop that into any place that accepts a graphic. So slack email, instant messenger text messages, what it wherever the case may be, you can do that right from the application. Now, there are obviously are a ton of other interesting little features in here. One of the ones I thought it was kind of cool was in there. In the stepwise thing if you want to, again, do some tech support here. Let’s go ahead and just choose the red theme here. And you can then just click on here and say, Okay, this is step one, then this is step two, this is step three, this is step four, and put these little annotations to help people understand in the static graphics, this is the flow what it is you’re supposed to be doing.

    It’s a huge time saver. Because you can you absolutely can do this yet, like PowerPoint or whenever, but it’s going to take you a while. And there’s of course, all the other things, there’s stamps in here, which steps are

    I if I personally don’t clutter up my documentation on this kind of stuff. But I could definitely see for somebody where you wanted to include specific types of symbols, or you just want or you’re just a person who likes to communicate with images rather than words, you know, the Instagram generation, if you love stickers, and labels and stuff, and Instagram or Snapchat, you’ll love having this within your screenshots as well. I don’t know that I would use the I would do business communications that way. But whatever makes you happy. And then of course, there are other other relevant features that we’re all used to our was called out texts and things like that. But really, to me, the the standout features are that simplification feature. And then some of the stamps and things I think those are, those are really, really cool things, there’s one other thing you can do,

    you can do a what’s called auto detect lift, where you can identify if you want to, if you want to find something in the in the air drying to select, it’ll pull out the pieces and make it easier to grab individual pieces. I can’t do that with this one. Because it’s already been

    the handheld suit. Good to do this. So let’s take another screenshot here. Maybe we’ll just do the right hand side of this page for now.

    And now on in this drawing. If I wanted to move some stuff around, I can choose move to smart move here, it’s going to go through and again, using some basic machine learning, identify things that I can just pick up and move around. So if I wanted to, for example, UI purposes, do a mock up of have a take a mock up of a page and rearrange, here’s what this page would look like with this content move down. This is kind of a ridiculous example. But in the UI business in the ad business if you’re doing kind of any kind of ads ad comps, this would be invaluable for being able to rearrange a page and show what it would look like after changes were made while preserving the look and feel and you’re not having to recreate every single thing within a design tool. So lots to appreciate within the new snag at 2019. If you are working with screenshots if you’re doing any kind of technical documentation if you’re providing tech support to your relatives where you want to be able to show in motion graphics how these things work. This is definitely something to to grab the the free trial for trying it out and see if it makes your life easier. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Ways to Optimize for Social Media Algorithms

    You Ask, I Answer_ Ways to Optimize for Social Media Algorithms

    Judi asks, “Why am I not seeing the content of people who matter most to me on LinkedIn?”

    We know from an interview with LinkedIn’s chief data scientist that the algorithm is doing both a combination of tradeoff analytics and boosting (which in itself is amazingly sophisticated) in its news feed. In this video, you’ll learn a little about how the algorithm works and what you need to do to work with it. Then, you’ll learn the one proven way to get the content you want.

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    In today’s episode, Judy asks, Why am I not seeing the content of people who matter most to me on LinkedIn? Well, the short answer is algorithms. The long answer is a couple of different algorithms a few months ago,

    the podcast this weekend, machine learning and AI, which is an

    excellent technical podcast, if you want to learn the details, like dive super deep into what’s happening in AI, and and hear all about the different algorithms that people are using and stuff, that’s a great podcasts to subscribe to. We know from their interview with LinkedIn, LinkedIn, chief data scientist, that what they’ve got, they’ve got two different algorithms going on in the background, plus some human qualities checking along line one is an algorithm is called a multi objective optimization also knows trade off analytics, where instead of having one outcome that they optimize for their optimizing for sounds like based on the interview of five or six, obviously, user engagement was one of them quality of another complaints, they do actually measure complaints to see if complaints of trending up or down, they obviously measure for things like engagement with sponsored posts, getting people to do things like sponsored posts, list, jobs, etc. So these two, that’s the first algorithm is this trade off analytics. A second

    algorithm that they use, if I remember correctly from was it was using gradient boosting, which is how they do a lot of the, I guess summarization, to get to the trade offs. And what boosting does is, it takes a whole bunch of individual variables that can be dozens, hundreds, thousands, even millions,

    and it starts rolling them up until so that would be one indicator, like number of posts you’ve liked, may not carry much weight by itself. But that combined with Taiwan page, Taiwan site time on individual authors combined with comments, engagements, shares,

    recommendations, endorsements, all the possible variables, think of everything that you could possibly do on LinkedIn, you know, do you interact with an author in their feed? Do I interact with an author in a group, and so on, and so forth. And by rolling up all these variables together, you can create stronger predictors of the outcomes you want.

    And so what LinkedIn is doing is combining these two techniques. And I think there’s actually more than two, but these are the two that we’re going to publicly talk about

    into a master algorithm that dictates what you see in the news feed. And

    the answer to Judy’s question is,

    in order to get these algorithms to work for you, you have to do a lot of things engagement with the individual people you want, if you want to see their content on LinkedIn. So every time that somebody whose content, you want to see posts, you need to like it, and you probably need to comment on it, and it wouldn’t hurt to share it.

    And that may mean for a time when you’re not seeing someone’s content, you may need to bookmark their profile or their activity page on LinkedIn, and manually check

    it, you know, once a week, and if they posted some stuff, like a comment and stuff like that

    for the marketer, that means that if you want your content to be seen, you have to share content that you know, is going to get engaged

    that you know, others will engage with. So if you’re just sharing random stuff, and you’re not focusing on what actually gets clicked on what actually gets shared the most things like that, then you’re going to be publishing content that doesn’t get engagement and the less engagement your content gets the worst you do in these competing algorithms. Because the boosting algorithm will not get enough signal from you to roll you up into stronger predictors. And then the predictors that go into trade off analytics will say, Gosh, this, this profile is really not doing well. And we want to optimize for quality. So you’re out. So focus, make sure you’re focusing on stuff that gets shared the most. And the catch with that, of course, is that LinkedIn turned off their public sharing feed. So you have to use other indicators of sharing quality, and it’s typically other social shares. So if your post is getting great traction on Twitter, or Facebook, which are pretty much the two surviving networks, you can get sharing data on now,

    you can use as a proxy to say, Okay, this might get good sharing on on LinkedIn as well. And it’s not guarantee it’s not perfect, but it is better than nothing. So that’s how the algorithm works and why you’re not seeing certain posts. If you are not, as the user are not actively engaging with your favorite people, whoever they are, you will see less and less of them, because the algorithm is also doing sampling, whether it’s tossing other stuff into your feed that you maybe you don’t even subscribe to feel stuff from influencers, LinkedIn influencers, for example.

    And if you’re engaging more that stuff, obviously, it’s going to crowd out other people. Now, here’s the way around this

    as a user,

    the easiest way to guarantee get the stuff you want is to subscribe to people’s newsletters, to email newsletters. It’s old school is old fashioned, but it is the easiest way to make sure that you’re getting what you want. And that’s important. So there’s a link at the end of this video, of course, to subscribe to the newsletter, the for the marketer,

    you need to have an email newsletter, and it needs to be frequent, it needs to be available, you know, in a timely manner. It’s one of the reasons I call my newsletter almost timely, because the timely publication that wraps up all the stuff that I know people missed, because the algorithm that powers all this stuff,

    the algorithms on the social networks isn’t showing it to everybody, it may be showing, you may be seeing five or 10% of what I publish it and given a week. And so

    as a marketer, I’m going to publish this email newsletter that summarizes what’s happened that are what is of interest that I think you should pay attention to.

    And that way you get the benefits of without having to do a lot of active work on social networks, like wonderful if you do, I’m happy if you do, but at the same time, that’s probably not the best use of your time. So

    subscribe to newsletters if the user and if you’re the marketer, make sure you’re publishing a newsletter, heck, call your newsletter, in case you missed it, right? We publish social posts literally with that, is that

    the hashtag I see why am I in case you missed it? So

    why wouldn’t you make your newsletter that and and if someone really wants to hear from you and and catch everything and publish

    make that make it easy for it, make it as easy as possible for them to get caught up. So

    that’s how Lindsay algorithm works. And that’s how we get around it as both users and marketers. We

    sidestepped email and Handley said

    at a recent talk your content marketing email is the guaranteed way to beat the social algorithm because nobody is controlling what content appears in your newsletter except for you as a super important point. So as always, please subscribe to the newsletter so you don’t miss stuff and the YouTube channel if you want a notification when these videos come out as soon as they do, and if you have additional questions, please leave them in the comments. Thanks for watching and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Training Social Media Algorithms

    You Ask, I Answer: Training Social Media Algorithms

    Carl asks, “LinkedIn seems like it’s full of spam and junk. Are you getting any value out of it?”

    I listened to this terrific episode of This Week in Machine Learning with Sam Charrington and Dr. Romer Rosales, lead data scientist and AI expert at LinkedIn. In the episode, Dr. Rosales gave away the secret to making LinkedIn work for you, and that’s the secret I share in the video.

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    In today’s episode, Carl asks, LinkedIn seems like it’s full of spam and junk, are you getting any value out of it, I listened

    to a terrific episode of one of my favorite podcasts in that’s not in marketing this week in machine learning and AI with Sam Jackson, when he

    interviewed Dr. Romero solace, who is the lead data scientist and AI expert at LinkedIn. And Dr. Gonzales talked about how LinkedIn algorithm works, it’s fairly straightforward from a machine learning perspective, from a deep learning perspective. And that is that they have a few different outcomes, like three or four different outcomes, and then their algorithm optimize around each of those outcomes. But trying to balance them all it’s it’s was called trade off analytics. So on one hand, they want user engagement. But on the other hand, they want satisfaction reports, user satisfaction reports to be mostly positive, they want people interacting with core parts of the platform, like updating their profile. But they also want companies posting jobs, they want advertisers to run ads, but they also again, want those quality scores for user satisfaction to remain high. So what they’re doing behind the scenes is optimizing for all these different outcomes. Facebook, by the way, works on the very same principle. If you look at the way Facebook displays data, and and what’s going on behind the scenes, it is a deep learning algorithm. And it’s trying to optimize for things like user engagement for those target variables like deep engagement, where someone leaves a comment, rather than just press the like button, because your cat can have a Like button, right,

    where you share with annotation, all these social networks are using very similar algorithms. They may be make trade offs differently, Dr. Rosen was wasn’t able, obviously, to comment on what other networks besides LinkedIn, we’re doing him. But on LinkedIn, specifically, the trade offs are balancing that satisfaction with

    the the display.

    And one other thing that I thought was interesting is the meta value for LinkedIn is delivering as much value to the user holistically as possible. So if you’re not getting value out of LinkedIn, the reason why is that your profile, and by this I mean, you the user on LinkedIn, have not sufficiently trained the machine, you have not sufficiently trained the algorithm to display what you do and do not want out of LinkedIn. I tried this experiment, I listened to this episode over the previous weekend, it’s now Thursday of the following week. And I’ve been following a very simple practice for three minutes a day.

    But you know, once in the morning, once around, lunchtime, wants to in the evening, for a

    minute each, I scroll through my feed, and I mark hide this,

    if for any posts that frankly, I don’t get value out of, you know, on LinkedIn, there’s like, people posting these little motivational quotes don’t get much value that hide this, someone saying my company showing off this thing. Cool,

    okay, hide this on Facebook, so and so politician does something silly. Okay, seeing that read the news elsewhere. Hi, this,

    the change has been remarkable in just three minutes a day per network. So

    nine minutes total a day, because Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. For me personally,

    the value I get of LinkedIn is substantially better, I no longer see a lot of that content, like, you know, this, this, this person or this silly thing, I’m training the algorithm, I’m doing active training of the algorithm say, I don’t want to see that stuff anymore. This stuff is not not delivering value. To me, it is it is bad for my user experience, I do the same thing for ads to also like, this ad wasn’t relevant to me. And in just four days, I get a better experience out of LinkedIn, I get a better experience at Facebook, the thing that’s important is that because these algorithms are powered by deep learning, which is constantly readjusting constantly passing data back and forth through the layers of machine learning that power the algorithm, it’s not like you do a bunch of stuff. And then you have to wait a week, a month, a quarter a year for a software engineer to update the product, these algorithms are operating in real time, or in very near real time. So the changes that you make, and the train that you do with them takes effect almost immediately. So it’s important for all of us, as individually users to understand how these algorithms at least conceptually, you don’t have to understand the math behind them, and to train them to provide them data to provide them feedback in in near real time. Yes, this is good. No, this is not good Google search algorithm, by the way, does the exact same thing, these algorithms are not broadly trained, like, Hey, this is the one algorithm that rules all and this is the one the one right type of data show on LinkedIn, they are custom to your profile their custom to you what you want,

    you may be the sort of person who loves getting motivational quotes against pretty pictures on LinkedIn. If that’s your jam. Awesome. Make sure you like those posts, hit the like button on them. And you may find, you know, long winded

    essentially many blogs on LinkedIn. But to be the pits hide those so and your algorithm or your profile in the algorithm will show you what you want, it will not damage the experience and some other people around you. So you’re not worried about training it and then, you know, nobody gets valuable thank goodness, it’s specific to you and your experience

    Google Search operates the same way YouTube operates the same way all of these networks and networks got more than I say, one than 500 million users it’s using deep learning or if it’s not that networks gonna have a massive scalability

    problems, and it’s probably place nobody wants to be.

    So it’s got more than 500 million users is using deep learning. If it’s using deep learning, it can be trained by you, for you for your use. So invest a few minutes every day, do it for two weeks,

    just two weeks, and you will start to see a difference almost immediately. But keep training, keep training and keep training until it is the way you want it to be. And you will find that

    it’s a much more pleasant experience. Now,

    here’s the catch.

    When you train the algorithm, you’re also limiting your worldview, you’re also limiting it to the things that you like. Which means if there’s something new that you don’t necessarily like or dislike, you may not see it in time. So don’t be too restrictive, obviously, stuff that’s just flat out not useful. Like for me motivational quotes on I’m pretty pictures just not valuable to me. So those things are included, hide some other stuff and like and company news, you know what, this one’s not too bad. I’m going to let leave it as is because I still might want to see stuff like that, particularly from relevant companies be be aware of that, especially on Facebook in you know, in your personal use, if you only see and hear the things that you like, you’re going to miss some stuff. Now, that might not be a bad thing depending on how angry certain news makes you but but know that you are intentionally constructing a filter bubble

    and you do need to get data somewhere else in order to to retrain and and expand the filter bubble in appropriate ways that that’s a great question, Carl. Interesting question. Because, again, machine learning and deep learning or what’s behind all these social algorithms. Knowing how they work means that you can take advantage of that. As always,

    if you have comments, please leave them in the comments field below. Subscribe to the YouTube challenge and the newsletter and we’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • Win With AI: IBM Cloud Private for Data & Watson Studio

    Win With AI_ IBM Cloud Private for Data & Watson Studio

    The IBM Win With AI Summit was a powerful event for IBM Business Partners and AI practitioners. Watch the video to learn what’s new with IBM Watson Studio and the all-new IBM Cloud Private for Data. If you’ve ever wanted one view of your customer or data management with strong governance built in, you’ll want to learn more.

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    In today’s episode it look back at the win with AI summit full disclosure, I am champion of my company is a IBM bridge to business partners. So we do receive financial benefit. If you do happen to buy something from IBM,

    the one with AI summit was a combination event. The first half of it was for IBM business partners to understand what was coming down the pike.

    And then the second half was sort of a public event where people could could see and hear about some of the use cases. There were two product lines that IBM focused on. And I think both of them have profound positive implications for anyone who is a data driven marketer or well, frankly, for anyone who’s data driven period. The first product line is

    Watson studio there have been a number of advances since studio deployed in March. I’ve been using it since March when it was announced at IBM think. And I like studio. It’s a good environment, especially if you want to be using modelers rather than writing code. So one of the main advantages of studio is that if you know the architecture that you’re going after, whether it’s statistical in nature, and we’re using the SPSS modeler, or it is machine learning and deep learning in nature, we using the neural network model as long as you know what you’re doing conceptually, you can drag and drop the pieces of the statistics you want to do

    right in the interface. You don’t have to write code and then you just plop the output into the system and feed your data in and it does its thing and you can’t with results, which again is a great way for somebody who doesn’t necessarily know how to

    To write code and our or Python to be productive in machine learning, deep learning statistics, etc.

    But

    most marketers don’t need the full power of public cloud, which is the cloud environment in which Watson studio lives. And, and there are a few quirks in the system here and there, but particularly when you’re moving files in and out, or you’re moving in large amounts of unstructured data.

    But one of the major announcements was at Watson’s to us coming to the desktop as a desktop application,

    and it will function as a native app, which means that it’s not just a window that goes to the browser version, which is fine with the browser version, but it will actually be full native application with the ability to use files locally, which makes me very happy because again, that’s much faster. You can use it like you with the same ease of use that you’d use a spreadsheet application.

    Or that you would use your email on your desktop. And that that’s phenomenal. Because I look forward to being able to roll that out to

    to customers to the team at trust insights and to

    partners to say, Hey, we built this model using this combination of techniques.

    And while the model me proprietary, if everyone’s on the same platform, we can pick the model up and move it around. And even if a customer doesn’t necessarily have studio desktop, because it’s it’s all one code base

    will be able to take that model and just give it to them to run in the cloud environment.

    The net benefit of this is faster algorithms, faster machine learning models, faster deep learning models, it’s

    fewer errors because again, you’re not slinging rock hold you slinging.

    abstracting code in in models and

    for portability, being a being able to get to answers and and let other people who are not hardcore coders get two answers to. So I think it’s gonna be a major leap forward for the platform. It’s going to also normalize stuff like the data science experience and and make it all one uniform experience which will be good.

    The other thing that was really interesting about the event from the Watson studio perspective is that I actually got to sit down with the Distinguished Engineer who built satchel port part of it, which is something that doesn’t often happen and it’s one of the things I love about about working with IBM is that you get to talk to the people who are actually making the product and say, Well why does it do this and

    showed the the engineer one thing less the last night and he’s like, Ha.

    I shouldn’t do that, give me an email said a book report on this,

    which is fantastic. Because we all we want the product to be better. We want the product to be usable by everybody. We want our customers and our clients to be able to use the product as well and and iterate on what we do. So Watson studio a lot to look forward to there. And

    again, I’m really looking forward to that desktop app. The ability to to share my work and my ideas with my team and have them makes knowledge just make suggestions but actually be able to jump in and reorder concepts

    that way they can spend their time on the strategy and the implementation and not the How do I code this? What’s the function for this? Am I missing a semi colon here?

    things that get in the way of right now

    the second major announcement

    Was

    it really was around the they call cloud private for data

    which is an abstraction layer for those for those folks who have been in the IBM ecosystem for a while, as developers

    and no blue, what we should call blue mix is now just called IBM Cloud. There was a service debuted

    two years ago, I think called Blue mix Lyft which said, Let’s take your databases wherever they are, and pick them up and move them into the cloud. And it was a relatively quiet product. And not too many people knew about it.

    But what IBM has done since then is convert this thing to this thing called Cloud private for data, which is an abstraction layer that

    allows you to have a cloud like environment for your databases, but it doesn’t require you to pick up the move of the data.

    basis because for a lot of companies, particularly ones in highly regulated industries, you can’t move your database into the cloud, you are forbidden to do. So

    there may be geographic restrictions, they may be security restrictions, and so on and so forth. So wouldn’t it be great to be able to, to have an environment in which you simulate that the benefits of it, the being able to access all of your data at once in one spot, but not have to

    not have to deal with the regulations and that’s what cloud private for data promises in the marketing world. There’s this concept and there’s some companies that that do this called a customer data platform. And the idea being that your customer data is everywhere, right? You’ve got social media data, that email data, you’ve got CRM, data, marketing, automation data, you’ve got all this stuff in all these different systems all over the place. And because all the systems are

    scattered everywhere summer on premise like your CRM or your P system some of them are in the cloud some of them are not even really databases like you know your Twitter analytics yet Twitter has the base but you don’t

    because everything is everywhere you don’t really have a good sense of

    your customer right you the the promises called like one view of the customer or a 360 degree view of the customer which has been a popular thing for a number of years

    these companies you CBP platforms promised to bring all that in, use their proprietary mix of machine learning data whatever to try and and unify those customer records and

    and give you a like, Hey, here’s the thing but

    there are issues with obviously regulation with compliance.

    With governance with data governance around these systems, and they’re not, they’re not cheap for the ones that are hosted services. And they’re not easy for the ones that are on premise services or, or private cloud services.

    I was working with one customer not too long ago, looking at the inner workings of their platform they built themselves

    it was a little messy

    and it wasn’t working really well. And

    what they needed was strong data governance,

    the ability to say like, let’s,

    let’s set some rules about this data, where it came from, how it can be used, how it should be used, and what the logical outputs are.

    What cloud private for data does is essentially that it’s a it’s an essentially it’s an ingestion engine.

    It is a unification service that you configure the rules for us a this is related to this

    powered by machine learning and and some deep learning because one of the things it does is it tries to do use deep learning to to build semantic relationships between tables so if one table has Chris pan and the other table has Christopher pen

    he understands is a semantic relationship between the two they’re they’re closely related and will auto suggest Hayden you should probably link these things together

    and

    it will also brings in natural language querying. So

    if you instead of having to write sequel statements all there’s nothing wrong with sequel statements. I like them.

    Your average non technical user is not someone who is fluent in in the sequel language, the structured query language they are good at asking.

    Regular questions like how many people signed up for our services yesterday? That would be the kind of question that a business user would ask. And cloud private for data allows you to ask regular normal questions as well as, as see all your data in real time.

    What is I think is so powerful about it is the governance you write rules in the system

    that govern things like data sovereignty? Where did this data come from? And where is it allowed to go?

    What is or is not protected health information, personally identifiable information, sensitive personal information, all the different categories that we have to deal with as marketers and as business people to say, like, yes, we can use this data. No, we can’t use this data. Where can the data transit so

    if you are still working on your GDPR compliance, you need to know like Yes, I can.

    will permit the state to move to hear from here? No, I will not permit the state of to go here. So for example, if you are working with you folks, people within the European Economic Area, you have a very specific set of rules about what you may and may not do with that data.

    And cloud private for data allows you to write those rules. But then it converts those rules into into system policies that you can auto manipulate the data with. For example,

    if you are using data for machine learning to better understand the customer and do forecasting and you’ve got this huge data set from the EU

    unless the consumer explicitly gave you permission to use that data for machine learning. You have to de identify you have to anonymize it

    right now. I can’t think of a single

    A customer data platform service that will do that in compliance with the rules but still permit you access to the models in cloud prior for data. You set up the policy, you set the rule. And the rule triggers the software to D anonymize all the personal identifiable columns. And

    even with permission list may or may not even allow certain people within your organization, even access to the data. But your data science team or your marketing data team would get the de identified data set. They would not get the raw data set.

    And then they could do machine living predictions on stuff that is not personally identifiable like time on page or number of tweet replies, whatever, but they have no idea who the person is. And so the data is then being used in compliance with GDPR and

    and still not inhibiting your ability to do business. One of the quotes I heard yesterday which I thought was phenomenal was

    the more

    sensitive and personal the information is the less useful it is from Sheila me because you’re not you’re not able to draw strong trends and forecasts and predictions on uniquely individual things.

    If you had my

    my social security number and there is zero predictive power in that number, but knowing that I am

    identify as male, that’s a much bigger broader aspect and that is probably a better predictor and my social security number so the less personal data you have

    you’re probably better off removing that data anyways so having cloud pirate for data either mascot DNR de identified or or prohibit access to it is going to be a good thing.

    And then of course being IBM you can take all the data that you do build in cloud private for data and pass it to things like Watson studio for

    That modeling for that advanced machine learning and deep learning, and so

    having the to work together, but still, the quote was yesterday move your AI to your data rather than trying to move your data to your AI, move your data, your data, make the I live close to the data.

    That’s a important idea because

    it lets you and it lets the people who work in your organization, do the analysis where the data lives, not screw up the the data and

    really apply that strong governance to it, but

    all the identification, the quality of the data,

    and so

    wrapping up

    these two products cloud prior for data, which unifies your data and it’s going to take you some work it’s not a magic wand it will take you some work to get it to get it implemented well, but cloud private data and then Watson studio

    Then the Watson machine learning platform and sort of the machine learning engine

    really paint a picture of

    you being able to take your data

    cleanup, manipulate it, prepare it for machine learning, pass it to Watson studio, and then you being able to drag and drop your way to working models. As long as you know you’re doing conceptually, it will save you a substantial amount of time in and then be able to immediately hand that off for business usage.

    It’s

    the best analogy I can think of is that IBM has significantly declutter your kitchen, right? Instead of having 44 different types of frying pan and that’s 37 spatula. You’ve now got maybe a half dozen of each and

    it’s easier to find things it’s easy to do things you do still need to know how to cook

    but the kitchen is much neater

    The kitchen is much easier to use than it used to be.

    So

    I extend my thanks to the business partner team to the social VIP Team into the champion team at IBM for having me at the event and for letting me and my my fellow partners and stuff, work with the software

    actually do hands on and

    let us talk to the people who are building the thing and asked very, very technical questions of them.

    And I would strongly recommend that if you are interested in

    data unification

    if you are interested in machine learning that you try out these services as a registered business partner trust insights is happy to

    make whatever introductions need to be made

    to an IBM team and will help you build the models if it’s appropriate to do so.

    But there’s so much to be optimistic about. There’s so much to be excited about with

    where machine learning is going, where AI is going and how much easier it’s getting and how much more accessible it’s getting for everyone, not just for the the super technical folks. So I hope you give it a try. And as always, if you have questions or comments about

    this, leave it in the comments on on wherever it is you singles video or reading the transcript to listen to the audio and please subscribe to the YouTube channel, my newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Strategic Reasons for Content Curation

    You Ask, I Answer_ Strategic Reasons for Content Curation

    Jo asks, “Why are we sharing around this much content on social media in your expert opinion? What are we all gaining from it?”

    We post high-quality content on social media for four reasons:

    • Appreciation: sharing high-quality demonstrates our appreciation for our audience by giving them valuable information that educates, entertains, and engages.
    • Algorithm: because not everyone sees everything we post; different content is shown to different people. Having multiple pieces of high-quality content available means people are more likely to see and engage with something.
    • Amplification: when sharing high-quality content from others, we help amplify their message and share audiences.
    • Authority: sharing high-quality content creates a perception of expertise for the sharing account.

    Note the phrase that continually re-occurs above: high-quality content. To achieve the outcomes we care about, we must create and share only the best stuff. Sharing just anything will have no positive impact, and may be detrimental to our brand.

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    In today’s episode, Joe asks, Why are we sharing around this much content on social media? In your expert opinion? What are we all gaining from it? she’s referring specifically to sharing a lot of curated content with a recent episode of we talked about the 8020 rule, how about 80% of what you should share on social media is high quality third party content, so not your own stuff. So it’s not me me me all the time. And her following questions logically, why? what’s what’s the point of sharing that much stuff this this four reasons, we post high quality content on social media to accomplish for things. Number one, I call them the four A’s of curation appreciation, when we share high quality content and meaning it’s valuable stuff, that stuff that entertains that engages, that educates our audience, this that is a demonstration from us to our audience to say, we value we value that you’re being here, we want to share with the best stuff with you. Because that might help you do your job better, or might make you laugh or something. But it’s that high quality content

    shows our appreciation in a tangible way for the audience. It shows we respect them, we respect their

    their opinions, we can we respect their presence, the fact that they’re willing to just hang out and, and and see our stuff when they do see it. The second reason is algorithm that not everyone sees everything, we post every social network, I think without exception, now

    least the public networks

    filters what we share. So

    you know, Facebook has its newsfeed Instagram has its its algorithm, Twitter has its algorithm, and so on and so forth. And so different content is shown to different people having a lot of stuff to share. That’s high quality means that people are more likely to see something of value and engage with it. And of course, engagement is how

    how these algorithms work. So the high quality stuff that you do share, if it engages people, it gets them to do something, then they’re more likely to see your stuff. In addition, the third reason is amplification. When we share high quality content created by other people, we help amplify their message and in some cases, share their audiences. When you share something that is from someone’s website, and and you tag them and you let them know that you did. So they may share your share with their audience and stuff. And they may be more likely to say, Well, I was nice of

    Joe would go share some of her stuff and make it a reciprocal engagement.

    And the fourth reason is perceptions authority. When we share high quality content, when we share the best stuff, we create a perception of expertise for ourselves for our brand. When you look at someone’s Twitter, Facebook page, or any of these things, and you see article after article of stuff that’s on topic that is valuable, that’s useful, like wow, this this person or this company really seems to have their finger on the pulse of their industry, they’re sharing highly credible content, they must know what they’re talking about. It’s amazing that

    people have create this perception of authority based on what someone is sharing now

    is that the only reason do it, of course not. There’s there’s all these other reasons as well. But appreciation algorithm amplification and authority. Other reasons, we share so much content that somewhat high quality content on social media, here’s the catch,

    the phrase that continues to reoccur through this list is high quality content. If we want to achieve the outcomes we care about, we have to create and share only the best stuff sharing Okay, stuff or sharing stuff that you whipped up in a hurry

    will not have a positive impact. And in some cases, may even have a negative impact on our brand. And our interactions with the algorithms on our audience audience saying, This is not valuable, I can get better stuff somewhere else and may dampen our perception of authority. We don’t want to do those things. So we need to make sure that we’re sharing the best stuff and using any of the content scoring tools that are out there to say this is what is the highest quality, highest engaging highest rate, most read stuff.

    And so if we don’t have the ability to score that stuff, we probably should not have curation as it as a strategy because it’s not going to work out well, the exception being if you have a ton of time every week to manually curate to read through dozens or hundreds of articles and say up that was educational useful. I know that was not

    I would strongly recommend the automated route because you’re going to you’re going to have a bad time otherwise.

    So good question. It’s an important strategic question. Because is it’s rare that people stop this and take them out and say, why are we doing this thing? So the fact that now Joe asked that I think is an important thing, why are we doing something? Well, these are the reasons why. And if we, if you haven’t been able to codify why obviously you can use this explanation when you’re talking to your own stakeholders and your managers and stuff about why would we spend so much time sharing stuff on social media? Well, these are the reasons why the next step and this is a an exercise left to you is how would you measure this, how would you measure each of these areas

    and quantify that you’re generating appreciation that you’re generating more visibility and now that you’re generating amplification and network reach and you’re generating authority that is an exercise left for you. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and to the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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