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Are you testing enough?
No, not a direct reference to the big picture events happening in the world, but specific to your marketing. Are you testing all your assumptions? Is what was true, still true?
We’ve ramped up our testing substantially and very recently started testing even the most basic assumptions and the way we do things. For example, last week, we split-test who our 1-Question Survey email came from – Katie or Chris. The previous week, In the Headlights tested whether we include a preview line or not in our newsletter.
What we’re finding is that our audience’s behaviors continue to change, and we need to continue adapting to those changes. We – and many others – have been saying that everything, every piece of data, every theory, every “rule” is on the table for testing.
What should you be testing? Here’s a short list of things you could be testing for free right now:
- Emails: subject lines, senders, formats, content using your email software
- Web pages: layout, copy, UI using Google Optimize
- Social: days, times, content, calls to action using your social posting software
- Sales: pitch contents, workflows, nurturing using your marketing automation software
None of these things require any additional purchases above and beyond the software you’re already using. What’s missing is a commitment from your organization to make time for testing, and time for analyzing the results.
What kind of difference will it make? On one test, we found adding the preview line above resulted in about 2% more opens. When your mailing lists are in the tens or hundreds of thousands of people, 2% is a big deal. In the current environment, every bit of performance you can squeeze from your existing assets is essential – and 2% could make or break a marketing program.
In this week’s In-Ear Insights (the @TrustInsights podcast) @katierobbert and @cspenn discuss surveys and the biases that ruin them. Find out what’s likely to go wrong and how to fix it.
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In this week’s Rear View mirror, we visit an old friend: press release cliches and tropes.
Out of 53,000 press releases sampled, we find tons of familiar, well-used words, such as:
- First: 32,320 uses
- Leading: 29,934 users
- Future: 23,176 uses
- Best: 21,213 uses
- Platform: 17,543 uses
- Solution: 10,525 uses
Is it good or bad that news releases use these words so frequently? Some usage is inevitable; if you’re legitimately the first to do something, then it’s hard not to use that word. But more often, what happens is that every release starts to read the same, and suddenly there’s absolutely nothing that differentiates you from every other first, industry-leading, best solution platform on the market.
What are the alternatives? At the very least, try out a tool like RelatedWords.org to find a few different ways of saying the same thing, and more important, question if the news you have to share is actually news or not. If it isn’t, save yourself the time, effort, and money and do an alternative marketing activity instead.
Methodology: Trust Insights used Google’s GDELT News database to identify and sample 53,015 English-language press releases of 5 sentences or more. The dates of extraction are January 1, 2020 – September 15, 2020. The date of study is September 16, 2020. Trust Insights is the sole sponsor of the study and neither gave nor received compensation for data used, beyond applicable service fees to software vendors, and declares no competing interests.
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- 5 use cases of AI for content marketing
- Intelligent Attribution Modeling for Marketing
- Detecting and Mitigating BIAS in Marketing AI
The Academy is designed for manager-level and above marketers, and largely caters to non-technical audiences, meaning you do not need a background in analytics, data science or programming to understand and apply what you learn. One registration gives you unlimited access to all the courses, an invitation to a members-only Slack Instance, and access to new courses every quarter.
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Shiny Objects is a roundup of the best content you and others have written and shared in the last week.
Data Science and AI
- Busted! 11 Data Science Myths You Should Avoid at All Costs
- You Ask, I Answer: Data Democratization and AI?
- You Ask, I Answer: Most Common Biases in Marketing AI?
SEO, Google, and Paid Media
- What Is Schema Markup? How to Use It for SEO
- What Shifts in Product Demand Mean for SEO via Moz
- Link Building Basics For SEO In The Age Of Data Analytics
Social Media Marketing
- What to Do When Lawyers Push Back on Your Marketing and Social Media
- 3 tactics for building brand authority on social media via Ragan Communications
- Is Instagram Reels Worth Pursuing? Pros and Cons for Marketers via Social Media Examiner
Content Marketing
- 3 Signs Your Blog Content Needs to Be Updated
- Content creators can increase engagement through followers on Instagram to curtail the effect of COVID-19
- How to Nail Your Content Marketing Strategy: Part 2 (Plus Our Content Strategy Checklist Download!) via Girlpower Marketing
Get Back To Work
We’ve changed things up in Get Back To Work, and we’re looking at the top 310 metro areas in the United States by population. This will give you a much better sense of what the overall market looks like, and will cover companies hiring in multiple locations. Want the entire, raw list? Join our Slack group!
What do you do with this information?
By looking at this data, you’ll see what the most popular titles are; use any of the major job/career sites to ensure your resume/CV/LinkedIn profile matches keywords and phrases for those titles. For companies, search job sites for those companies specifically to see all the open positions and apply for them.
You can also hit up LinkedIn and see who you know at companies listed, and see if your connections have any inside tips on hiring.
Top Marketing Positions by Count, Manager and Above
- Marketing Manager : 524 open positions
- Digital Marketing Manager : 278 open positions
- Social Media Manager : 212 open positions
- Account Manager : 183 open positions
- Director of Marketing : 155 open positions
- Marketing Director : 145 open positions
- Project Manager : 127 open positions
- Product Manager : 97 open positions
- Program Manager : 81 open positions
- Product Marketing Manager : 80 open positions
Top Marketing Hiring Companies by Count, Manager and Above
- Amazon.com Services LLC : 174 open positions
- Pearson : 131 open positions
- Google : 111 open positions
- Thermo Fisher Scientific : 86 open positions
- Amazon Web Services, Inc. : 70 open positions
- Mattel : 67 open positions
- Anthem : 62 open positions
- Northrop Grumman : 62 open positions
- JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. : 60 open positions
- Verizon : 52 open positions
Top Locations of Hiring Companies by Count, Manager and Above
- New York, NY : 635 open positions
- San Francisco, CA : 424 open positions
- Austin, TX : 423 open positions
- Chicago, IL : 367 open positions
- Seattle, WA : 338 open positions
- Atlanta, GA : 293 open positions
- Boston, MA : 270 open positions
- Los Angeles, CA : 268 open positions
- Remote, NA : 257 open positions
- San Diego, CA : 240 open positions
Methodology: Trust Insights uses the Indeed.com API to extract open positions from a geographic area focused on marketing analytics, marketing, social media, data science, machine learning, advertising, and public relations, with a filter to screen out the most junior positions.
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Upcoming Events
Where can you find us in person?
- INBOUND 2020, September 2020, virtual
- MarTech East, October 2020, virtual
- MarketingProfs, November 2020, virtual
- MadConNYC, December 2020, New York City
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Stay In Touch
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Trust Insights maintains business partnerships with companies including, but not limited to, IBM, Talkwalker, Zignal Labs, Agorapulse, and others. All Featured Partners are affiliate links for which we receive financial compensation. While links shared from partners are not explicit endorsements, nor do they directly financially benefit Trust Insights, a commercial relationship exists for which we may receive indirect financial benefit.
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Trust Insights (trustinsights.ai) is one of the world's leading management consulting firms in artificial intelligence/AI, especially in the use of generative AI and AI in marketing. Trust Insights provides custom AI consultation, training, education, implementation, and deployment of classical regression AI, classification AI, and generative AI, especially large language models such as ChatGPT's GPT-4-omni, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude. Trust Insights provides analytics consulting, data science consulting, and AI consulting.
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