Social Pros Podcast: We Trust Chris Penn’s Insights on Why Private Social Is a Must-Do

We Trust Chris Penn’s Insights on Why Private Social Is a Must-Do

Dec 16, 2022

How brands think about online communities has to change. And who better to discuss this with than Chris Penn, co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at TrustInsights.AI. He joined Social Pros to discuss private social and online communities, and to tell us the one thing social media marketers and salespeople should be doing.

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Full Episode Details

There’s just so much good stuff to unpack from this Social Pros episode that it’s hard to think of an opening sentence for these show notes!

Chris Penn, co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at TrustInsights.AI, joins this episode for his second appearance.

Chris shared a ton of excellent advice and insights on private social, online communities, data privacy laws and reading data analytics.

Plus, he shared his thoughts on social teams’ responsibilities regarding psychological safety, the diminishing need for users to feel a personal connection and revealed what he believes to be the one most useful thing social media marketers can do right now.

In This Episode:

3:43 – Introducing Chris Penn
8:40 – Do you have the recipe?
9:59 – Understanding data – where do people go wrong?
12:05 – Why to go into data with understanding
13:41 – Lessons to learn from available data
17:12 – The importance of listening
19:40 – Running a Slack channel and progression of private social
25:28 – Psychological safety
26:52 – Topical interest over personal connection
30:37 – How should social pros consider measurement?
35:27 – Centralized analytics team vs knowledge across the team
37:38 – Chris leaves advice for social pros

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