Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • Announcing Almost Timely Jobs!

    One of the ways I’ve been looking to make both my website and my newsletter more interesting is to include a scalable means of connecting people who have work with people who are looking for work. The economy is tough enough as it is, and our little community of digital marketers, data nerds, and friends should be able to help each other out.

    Get hired!

    As such, I am pleased to officially open up the Almost Timely Jobs Board on this website. As jobs become available, you’ll be able to find them and apply (or at least go to the company’s official application page) right here. For individuals looking for work, the jobs board is completely free to use. For companies looking to post jobs, there is a huge anti-spam fee of US$7 to post a job. If you’re a verified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, e-mail me via my contact form and I will be happy to put up your job for free. (be sure to include your Guidestar/Charity Navigator URL in your email)

    Why a jobs board when there are so many other jobs boards and services? I’d like to think that the community, our community, has some collective traits to it that are unique. People who follow this blog, subscribe to my newsletter, and belong to this community – like you – are by default smarter than the average bear (or the average marketer) simply for being here. Thus, the people looking for work should be a little smarter than average, and the companies offering work should have slightly more interesting work than average.

    Please give it a try, and let me know what you think of it:

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    I’d love to hear your feedback as well in the comments.

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  • 8 Ways to Start 2014 Well

    Starting off a new year is admittedly a symbolic gesture, but one we can leverage to great effect to make needed changes in our lives. Here are my 8 tips that will help make life easier or better for you in the new year.

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    1. Back that stuff up. If you have never thought about backing things up, there’s never been a better time to start. Take your pick of a zillion different cloud-based storage devices or the “getting cheaper by the minute” portable hard drives, but back your stuff up. Seriously, folks. Google Drive costs 60/year for 100 GB of storage, but your digital photos can never be re-taken. Amazon S3 1 TB is120/year on Glacier storage, and many backup programs can now use S3 as a repository.

    2. Move your blog to a service that can handle it. This past year, I moved the SHIFT blog over to a professional WordPress hosting service, and there is a gigantic difference in performance, security, and ease of use with a dedicated blog host. The industry averages 100 a month for a high traffic site or30-40 a month for a lower traffic site, but if your business relies on your website, then move your site. Malware protection, one click backup and restore, built in caching, and a variety of other benefits await you.

    3. Archive all the digital stuff you don’t need. Put 2013 in a nice, neat container on an external hard drive or some other place where you can keep it accessible but not be a daily distraction. Archive your email from the year. When the ball drops, mark every blog feed as read.

    4. Give away all the real life stuff you don’t need. If you’ve got analog, real life clutter, like too many shirts or kids toys strewn about the floors of your house, there are hundreds of charities ready and waiting to accept your gently used goods, from Cradles to Crayons to the Vietnam Veterans of America. Some of them like VVA will even come to your house or office and take the stuff away for you. Declutter and help other people at the same time.

    5. Do your three words. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, Chris Brogan created it. It’s a great replacement for resolutions that never seem to get done. Read about it here.

    6. Switch to a password manager. With as many services as we rely on for our personal and professional lives online, and with as many serious security breaches as we saw in 2013, you owe it to yourself to upgrade to a full-fledged password manager. That way, you can have a broad, diverse, secure blend of passwords, different for each service on the web, so that when services get compromised, you’re not needing to change your password on dozens of other sites. My personal favorite is LastPass.

    7. Turn on two-factor authentication wherever you can. Many digital services now allow you to add your phone to the password protection, adding an additional layer of protection for your accounts. Whenever and wherever it’s offered, unless there is a compelling reason not to, turn it on.

    8. Unfriend/unfollow/stop reading toxic people and sources. Whether online or offline, if you want to make the most of 2014, ditch people who are negative influences on you, from bloggers you read to ‘friends’ on Facebook. There are few areas of our lives we can totally control, but what we choose to consume online is one of them. Make a choice for much more positivity in 2014. That doesn’t mean only consume what you agree with; you can disagree with a viewpoint without being a disagreeable human being. It does mean making a choice as often as you can for inspiration rather than denigration.

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  • My 3 Digital Marketing Trends for 2014

    This originally appeared in my newsletter, Almost Timely News.

    Here we are, in the final days of 2013, as we look forward to the year ahead. What is on your radar? What is on mine? Let’s see what hints and clues we can patch together for the year ahead.

    Channel fragmentation. In contrast to banks that are labeled “too big to fail”, there are some social networks that could charitably be called “too big to survive”. Topping this list, of course, is everyone’s favorite 800 pound gorilla, Facebook. Already being challenged by Google and Twitter, Facebook’s true Achilles’ Heel is the mobile experience. They simply have not gotten it right soon enough. As a result, upstart apps like WhatsApp are rapidly encroaching on Facebook’s audience. It’s not Facebook’s world alone.

    In 2014, channel fragmentation is likely to get much worse. As marketers, our audiences will be scattered all over different channels, and one of our major challenges will be to keep up with our audiences where they are, when they want to be in touch with us. (assuming that they want to be at all) More marketers will be purchasing content management solutions and the winner in that particular race will be the solution that can keep track of and manage as many channels as possible.

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    Pay-to-play dominates. We’ve already seen social networks take major steps towards putting up pay walls in 2013; Facebook is probably the most prominent example of this, but it is not alone. Twitter was the last of the four major social networks to go public on the stock exchange in 2013; now that the major social networks are publicly traded, they are all being held to Wall Street’s expectations of profitability and short-term results. The easy win for these companies is pay-to-play; expect more of your results from organic social network activities to decline, and more of your results to rely on a budget.

    Determine what you’ll need to pay in order to reach at least your existing audiences on your social networks. As of today, Facebook is averaging about .38 per 100 fans in sponsored post fees in order to reach all of your audience. If you have 5000 fans, expect to spend about19 per post, and budget accordingly. Got a post for each of the 251 working days in 2014? You’ll need $4,769 just for 1 sponsored post a day with 5,000 fans. No matter what size your corporate brand page, you will be paying if you want to be seen this year.

    The alternative strategy if you simply do not have budget is to get more and more of your employees participating in sharing. So far, individual profiles do not seem to be affected as much by the News Feed algorithm changes. Get your individuals sharing!

    Creative destruction accelerates. Oracle bought Eloqua and Responsys to build Oracle Marketing Cloud. Salesforce bought ExactTarget and Pardot to form Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud. Adobe bought Neolane and rolled it into Adobe Marketing Cloud. Look for other major players like Microsoft, SAP, and IBM to roll out marketing automation and e-mail marketing acquisitions of their own. If they follow the trend, don’t probably be branded as Microsoft Marketing Cloud, SAP Marketing Cloud, and IBM Marketing Cloud. Dark horses in this race include Amazon and Apple – business and marketing acquisitions aren’t out of the question, though they’re longer shots for these two companies.

    While the trend of mergers and acquisitions races on, look for more upstarts to try to shake the status quo, especially as the acquiring companies will need significant time to integrate their acquisitions. We are at the stage in the lifecycle of these companies where mega-mergers and startups are dominating landscape. As marketers, we will probably be asked to choose sides in these massive battles; choose wisely!

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  • Use content curation to power your email marketing

    Do you want a successful, well-read, valued email newsletter but you don’t have the time to do a ton of writing each week? Consider content curation as an avenue to building a great newsletter.

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    Content curation is the art (and it is very much an art) of finding great stuff online and sharing it with your community via email, social media, and a variety of other channels.

    In order to be successful at this practice, you need to fulfill three pre-requisites:

    1. Strong expertise in your subject matter. Curation is often touted as an “easy” button, but to do it well, you need to be able to discern and discriminate what’s useful, valuable information from what’s not, and be able to provide at least limited commentary on it. Know your subject matter expertly before you embark on a content curation strategy!

    2. A deep understanding of your community and what they want. Ask your subscribers what they want to learn more about. Ask them what’s most important to them. Ask them what they wished they knew. Put all of these responses together and you’ve got a lens with which to focus your curation efforts.

    3. A broad set of high-quality sources from which to draw, and sufficient time to do so. There is no shortage of content online. There isn’t even a shortage of truly great content, truly great authors, truly useful material. What there is a shortage of is time and energy to sift through it all and find the diamonds in the mud. A lot of what’s published online is mediocre at best, absolute swill at worst. To be a great curator, you will need to invest time daily in finding the best of the best. The good news is, if you’re focused on continuous learning, you’ll be sifting through blogs and other sources daily anyway. Be sure to allot 30-60 minutes a day for reading, research, and curation.

    Let’s look at how you might set up a curation-based newsletter with the four S strategy of content curation: Sift, Store, Send, and Share.

    Sift

    Gather your sources and read them daily. Applications like Feedly, Reeder, Flipboard, Zite, Google Currents, and many others are excellent for pulling together the raw sources of information in one spot so you can sift through them all. How do you find those sources? Google for them. Ask your readers what they read. Ask your colleagues in your industry what they read as well. Subscribe to industry newsletters and discussion lists. Follow industry leaders on social media and see what they post from.

    Aim for at least 100 sources, so that on any given day, there’s always something for you to read, investigate, and think about.

    Store

    You’ll want to sign up for a free curation service like Instapaper, Feedly, Read It Later, Evernote, or the many other ways to store raw content. (I use Evernote and Feedly) Any of these services is excellent for pulling together items of note. As you read and sift, store items, ideally in categories or folders so that you can go back and find things easily later.

    Send

    When it comes time to pull together your weekly newsletter, open up your vault of stored items and choose just a handful of them. It isn’t necessary, practical, or good to publish everything you find. Be selective! What are the things that are most aligned with your understanding of your community? For example, I help to publish a weekly newsletter for SHIFT Communications that is partly curated content, and those folks subscribed to my personal newsletter get a healthy dose of curated content as well.

    Put together your newsletter with your commentary about why the items you picked are important to you and might be important to your readers, and then publish it to them.

    Share

    Just because you hit the send button doesn’t mean you’re done. Be sure to share your newsletter with your other online communities, like your Facebook Page, your Twitter followers, and most importantly, your Google+ followers. If you’ve shared or mentioned prominent figures in your industry in your newsletter, drop them a note or call them out (positively) on your social outlets, ideally encouraging them to share your content as well. Why Google+ as a mandatory share? Because Google indexes and is believed by some to give a tiny, tiny search boost to things shared on Google+.

    Conclusion

    Content curation works incredibly well for keeping readers engaged and happy as long as the content you’re sharing is of excellent quality. Follow this basic outline to add more value to your existing email newsletters or jump start a new publication as a first attempt at brand journalism.

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  • Build a better marketing tradeshow booth

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    Walking around the floors of Dreamforce, I’m constantly astonished at how bad sales and marketing demos still are by many companies. This is supposed to be the era of 1:1 marketing. This is supposed to be the era of customization. Yet far too many marketers are demonstrating products and services with the same kind of mass demonstration.

    Walk by the majority of the booths on the conference floor and you’ll experience religious marketing: spray and pray, in which booth staffers shout about the benefits or the features loud enough and hope that it catches the interest of a passerby.

    By contrast, the best booths and the best demos all start with a simple question. The sooner you ask this question, the better the experience is for the average trade show attendee.

    “What questions can I answer?”

    Or, for the particularly bold, “What questions can I answer, or are you just here to grab a piece of tradeshow swag? It’s totally fine if you are, we’re rather proud of ours.” I heard that once or twice and acknowledged the booth staff for their selling skills. By the way, “what questions can I answer” is a better sales question than “do you have any questions”. If you are trying to elicit feedback from someone, you want to make sure to ask questions that do not have a binary yes or no answer.

    Finally, the very best trade show pitchers know when to stop. They know when to stop when the prospect is not interested, but more importantly, they know when to stop when you are ready to talk to a salesperson. I had that positive experience yesterday at the Domo dashboarding service booth. I said quite clearly, “I am interested in your solution and want to talk to a salesperson”. The booth employee, whose name I did not catch, didn’t try to force me through a script or a prerecorded demo, she just sent me along to the sales consultants immediately – and that was exactly what I wanted. No fuss, no muss, no hassle.

    Building a better tradeshow booth isn’t about the carpet, or the swag, or the flashy demo. Building a better tradeshow booth is about training your staff to do better, to ask better questions, and to recognize different selling situations almost immediately.

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  • A simple, powerful use for Twitter Collections

    Riffing off of one of DJ Waldow’s original ideas about using Favorites as a testimonials feed, now you can make dedicated testimonials feeds with custom Twitter Collections (formerly called Custom Timelines). All you need do is open up the TweetDeck application, start a collection, and start adding tweets to it.

    Here’s an example of mine – I’ve wanted to separate out the nice things people have said about me on stage from the nice things people have said about me in other contexts. Now I have, and I’ve embedded it on my public speaking page.

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    Here’s one for my newsletter, which I’ve put on my newsletter subscription page so people can see the collection at “point of sale” to reinforce the idea that subscribing is a good idea.

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    Add this simple use case to your sales and marketing mix anywhere you’d normally use static, boring testimonials!

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  • Which format do you prefer for my newsletter?

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  • ICYMI: LinkedIn for Businesses and Brands Webinar

    If you missed it yesterday, I had a chance thanks to SHIFT and Vocus to do a webinar on LinkedIn for Businesses and Brands. It was a lot of fun and I thank the nearly 2,000 people who signed up for it – talk about a packed house. If you missed it, were unable to stay for all of it, or the audio sounded like I was on a Starfleet Deep Space star base near the entrance of a wormhole, then I’m pleased to let you know that the recording is available in glorious high-fidelity video with an associated MP3.

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    Enjoy it, and for those who left such positive feedback, thank you for your kind words.

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  • In case you missed it, the Facebook algorithm

    Facebook recently detailed an algorithm change to its News Feed, aiming at resurfacing older updates that it thinks are relevant, even if they’re not as fresh. It’s based on something simple: if Facebook registered that you never saw the item and it’d be an item that you’re statistically likely to engage with, it’ll bubble the item back into your “current” news.

    In case you missed it, the Facebook algorithm 1
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    They specified 4 signals that indicate a News Feed item is important to you:

    • How often you interact with the friend, Page, or public figure (like an actor or journalist) who posted
    • The number of likes, shares and comments a post receives from the world at large and from your friends in particular
    • How much you have interacted with this type of post in the past
    • Whether or not you and other people across Facebook are hiding or reporting a given post

    Take note of the fact that the behavior of hiding a post is specifically called out, and it’s one of the metrics that’s now included in Facebook Insights for Pages. This is critical to the success of your Facebook Page! Go into your Page Insights, switch to Post view, and choose Post Hides, Hides of All Posts, Reports of Spam, Unlikes of Page by post.

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    If you see anything other than zeroes, you need to retune your Facebook content strategy immediately because what any one Facebook fan does impacts what their friends see. Facebook clearly stated that what one person likes impacts what their friends in particular see bubbled up in their News Feeds. A hide is likely to not only impact the user that hides but also reduce the impact of that post among all of their friends.

    This, by the way, is the answer to whether you’re posting too much on Facebook or posting the wrong kind of content. Anything that triggers a hide – cadence, content, etc. – is bad news and calls for an immediate reassessment of what you’re doing.

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  • How often do you unify your community?

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    Every community’s strength is built on common ground. From belief in a religious perspective to love of a certain set of cartoon characters, all communities share a common ground. However, common ground isn’t enough to keep a community together. There needs to be a unifying mechanism that brings together that community, that reminds and refreshes the reason it exists.

    Some communities have conferences and conventions. Those events bring the like-minded together for intense bonding experiences with other community members.

    Some communities have simple physical proximity. Living in the same neighborhood reinforces the sense of community among its residents.

    Some communities have publications. What graduate of any major college doesn’t get the quarterly alumni magazine, increasingly filled with pictures of people you don’t know?

    The most successful communities have an active connection mechanism. Discussion groups, forums, even just a Facebook Page are enough to keep members in contact with each other and strengthening the community in the absence of another form of feedback. If you recall social impact theory, a community’s influence over its members is based on three factors:

    1. Strength: How important is the influencing group to the target of the influence
    2. Immediacy: How close in proximity and in time is the influencing group to the target of the influence
    3. Number: How many people are in the influencing group

    One of the reasons I advocate strongly for a weekly newsletter, for frequent (relevant) social postings, for staying in touch with your audience is that you may not necessarily have 100% control over the number of people in your community. You may not have control over how important your customers perceive you to be in their lives. You have 100% control of how often you contact them, how often you interact with them, how close you are to them in frequency. The channels we have access to – email newsletters, social media, telephone support, our web properties, our podcasts, etc. – are our unifying mechanisms, but they only work when we use them. As long as we’re providing relevant, helpful services, an increased tempo works better than a decreased one these days in order to keep that sense of immediacy.

    WHat is your community’s unifying mechanism, and how often do you use it?

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