Friday, February 17, 2017

WRITING

Creative Writing

The 10 Biggest Mistakes New Authors Make
By Brooke Warner


I have to preface this post by noting how easy it is to make mistakes when you’re on the road to becoming a published author. This is an emotional journey, and ego can sometimes get in the way. Then there’s the many details you must hold, which even publishers get wrong from time to time. I’ve experienced firsthand the pain of a few or more projects that went to print with pretty egregious problems. And it hurts. Sometimes entire print runs are destroyed as a result. These top 10 mistakes are among the most common I see in my work with authors. Some are about mindset and others are more technical oversights. If you’ve made any of these mistakes, you’re in good company. The best we can do is learn, and spread the word so others take heed.

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Saturday, February 11, 2017

Deep Customer Segmentation Marketing and Habit Forming Technology


ARTICLES

Chart Mogul

Using Deep Customer Segmentation in SaaS
https://blog.chartmogul.com/deep-segmentation-in-saas/

User segmentation is an incredibly powerful tool in analytics and is critical for understanding the types of customers using your product, as well as targeting and measuring the impact of your customer success.

There are many platforms that support advanced customer segmentation, most of which provide their own built-in segments which act as a suitable starting point. To really get the most from such a tool though, you’ll want to create your own custom segments, based on as the most relevant data available for your customers.

With segmentation employed in the right way, you can answer the following questions and much more:
Which types of customer are most profitable for me?
Which marketing channels produce the highest value customers?
How can I better understand where my customers are losing their way in my onboarding process?
Which 20% of customers are using 80% of my customer support resources?

Facebook

#Facebook is using #AI to help it better understand what content you like. Useaful for a #DeepCustomerSegmentation

Facebook wants to improve your ad experience and is using AI to help it better understand what content you like
Mid-roll video ads, ads in Instagram Stories and ad experiments in Messenger are just the beginning.
BY JAN DAWSON FEB 6, 2017, 3:00PM EST
http://www.recode.net/2017/2/6/14489088/facebooks-ads-video-advertising-news-feed-mark-zuckerberg

Harvard Business Review

Having More Options Can Make Us Evaluate
Risk Differently

Uzma Khan
Daniella Kupor
FEBRUARY 09, 2017

How does this make any sense? We found people generally believe that larger, more significant outcomes are less likely to happen than smaller outcomes. But the odds of the larger outcome happening seem even smaller when placed alongside the higher odds of the small outcome. For example, a 10% chance of winning a prize feels small already, but it feels much smaller when it is compared to a 60% chance of winning other prizes. As a result, people feel that they have less chance of winning an unlikely large prize, and that makes the whole sweepstakes feels less valuable.

Thus, adding prizes that make a sweepstakes objectively more valuable ends up decreasing the sweepstakes’ perceived value. Similarly, noting smaller side effects that make the drug objectively more dangerous can in fact make it appear less dangerous by making the larger side effect seem even less likely to happen. This biases us against taking positive risks and avoiding negative ones.

These results have wide-ranging implications for both marketers and policy makers. For example, public service campaigns often describe every single negative consequence of some dangerous behavior, with the hope that this will make it seem riskier. Our research suggests that this well-intentioned strategy can backfire. Showcasing a single large risk instead may deter dangerous behavior more effectively.

Along similar lines, marketers should consider highlighting a single large potential advantage of a product to generate greater sales, instead of highlighting that same large potential advantage plus smaller ones. Companies should think about how employees may be more motivated if their incentive schemes offer a single large payout rather than that same large payout in addition to incentives of lower value. In other words, when it comes to helping people evaluate risk, less is more.

Chart Mogul
SAAS
https://chartmogul.com/

Cambridge Analytica
Psychometric Analysis

Facebook
NLP/AI on 'likes'


12 ways to grab millennials using gamification
https://thenextweb.com/business/2017/02/13/12-ways-to-grab-millennials-using-gamification/

CUSTOMER SEGMENTATION: A GUIDE TO THE BEST B2B PRACTICES
Tien Anh Nguyen @tienanh
Head of Analytics at UserTesting - interested in big, disruptive ideas, voracious reader, and learning how to build great startups
http://labs.openviewpartners.com/customer-segmentation/

6 Reasons You Need Customer Segmentation (And How It Drives Increased Profit)
including 
Content Personalization
http://www.fieldboom.com/blog/customer-segmentation/


5 Ways to Use Psychology to Increase Social Engagement
https://blog.hootsuite.com/social-media-psychology/

Bill Widmer

How to Repurpose Content for Maximum Social Reach

Bill Widmer

The Unbelievable Future of Habit-Forming Technology
The Unbelievable Future of Habit-Forming Technology

Nir Eyal & NirAndFar.com

WOOTRIC
Your customer experience is your brand
https://www.wootric.com/why-wootric-cx-vision/

The Forrester Wave™: Predictive Marketing Analytics For B2B Marketers, Q2 2017 6sense And Lattice Engines Lead A Diverse Field Of Emerging Solution Providers by Allison Snow and Laura Ramos June 14, 2017
https://user-assets-unbounce-com.s3.amazonaws.com/b702f5d3-7e67-4348-98cd-1e7d399f8f84/30772302-ed67-4bdb-82d1-8f1def4d929f/forresterwave-predictiveanalyticsforb2bmarketers-2017.original.pdf




Sunday, February 5, 2017

Facebook Business: Target Facebook Ads to people on your contact list


Target Facebook Ads to people on your contact list

https://www.facebook.com/business/a/custom-audiences

Creating your Custom Audience

Using your Custom Audience

THE COMPUTER SCIENCE OF HUMAN DECISIONS

BOOKS

CHRISTIAN AND GRIFFITHS’S

ALGORITHMS TO LIVE BY: THE COMPUTER SCIENCE OF HUMAN DECISIONS
https://jasoncollins.org/2017/01/20/christian-and-griffithss-algorithms-to-live-by-the-computer-science-of-human-decisions/

Kindle edition
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015CKNWJI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1


ML & Behavioral Science
Machine learning improves our ability to predict what person will respond to what persuasive technique, through which channel, and at which time.http://behavioralscientist.org/scaling-nudges-machine-learning/