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Welcome to Talking About Everything. As you scroll down you will find all of the audio & blog content I have created. If you are looking for specific topics please visit the channels page.
– Harry Hawk, Hawk Digital Marketing

Chat Bot’s & Facebook Ads: Perfect Together

February 25, 2018 by Hawk Leave a Comment

Chat Bot’s & Facebook Ads: Perfect Together

Let’s Chat Bot

Here is a short video I made to showcase how to create a Chat Bot inside of Facebook Messenger. Then I demonstrate how to create an an Ad (in Facebook) that will drive folks into Facebook Messenger (where folks will engage with the Chat Bot).

The way I set it up, support staff can also answer the questions. Staff members answer any question that have stumped the ‘Bot, and also easily program in those answers
— so that the next person who asks that question gets an automated reply.

 

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Making an AI ChatBot in 30 minutes

February 17, 2018 by Hawk Leave a Comment

In just 30 minutes I made a ChatBot with MobileMonkey for Leske’s Bakery. Check out the video to learn how it came out!

Check out the “live” ‘Bot on Leske’s FB page LINK

 

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Why Facebook Needs Authorized Retailer Locator Tools

February 12, 2018 by Hawk Leave a Comment

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The Future of Ad Tech with JD Prater

December 17, 2017 by Harry Hawk Leave a Comment

The Future of Ad Tech with JD Prater

I enjoy thinking about the future of Ad Tech… but it’s more fun as a group sport.

https://media.blubrry.com/harryhawk/content.blubrry.com/harryhawk/The_Future_of_Ad_Tech_with_JD_Prater-au-au.mp3

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I was fortunate that AdStage’s JD Prater agreed to join me on a journey into the future. As head of Growth Marketing for AdStage he keeps focused on every trend and every bit of breaking PPC news…

We talked about:

  1. Digital Billboard ads that might target just a single person,
  2. Why limited inventory insures it’s in Facebook’s interest be a great “match maker” for advertisers and users
  3. How interactive voice based ads might work “Hey Google…,”
  4. Speculate about Amazon’s future, how well they play with other ad networks (and their billion dollar net income from advertising),
  5. What it means if we all literally owned all the data that was captured (and enhanced) while tracking us,
  6. My notion that the future of ad tech is more reward ads,
  7. How Facebook Analytics allows attribution of Reactions (like, love, etc.) right into eCom sales funnels
  8. How the lose of Net Neutrality might drive update of lightweight HTML like AMP & Facebook Instant Articles
  9. and much much more!
JD Prater wearing a dark colored shirt
JD Prater, Head of Growth Marketing at AdStage.

If you don’t know JD, you probably should — even if you are not someone who is buying ads online —

“JD Prater is the Head of Customer Acquisition and Growth Marketing at AdStage. He’s a performance marketer and digital media strategist with a passion for organizing data into actionable stories. His expertise is in crafting marketing strategies and campaigns that drive acquisition, retention, and engagement across the customer lifecycle.

AWARDS
– 2017 Top 25 Most Influential PPC Experts
– 2016 Landy Awards Finalist for Best Mobile Search Marketing Initiative — SEM
– 2016 Hero Conf – Most Innovative Session

CONFERENCE SPEAKER
– Hero Conf London 2017
– eMetrics Chicago 2017
– Hero Conf 2016 London
– Salt Lake City Digital Marketing Conference
– Hero Conf 2016 Philly
– Adworld Experience (Italy)
– PPC Hero Live Summit”

Links:

JD Prater (Twitter)

Personal Data.io (Paul Dehaye‘s company)

Is Advertising Dead? Wired 1994

The PPC Show (podcast)

AdStage’s Blog

Transcript

 

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Harry Hawk:

Hello, this is Harry Hawk, and this is Talking About Everything, and today we’re talking about the future of Ad Tech with JD Prater. JD, welcome to the show.

 

(00:00:39.7) JD Prater:

Hey, thanks, Harry, for having me on.

 

(00:00:41.1) Harry Hawk:

We’re talking about Ad Tech. You’re with AdStage. What makes you sort of interested in the future of Ad Tech?

 

(00:00:50.2) JD Prater:

I’ll give you two-folds. For me, I’ve been in marketing now for quite a while. I’ve had a really fun time with a lot of the advertising side of marketing, more specifically. I don’t know. It’s one of those things where you can immediately get some kind of immediate result, so I launch something and I get a result, and that becomes really addictive, and that’s something that I really like about advertising, whenever you’re putting out different messages or different ads or you’re testing…that, for me, is kind of my personality as a kind of a performance type of marketer, and for AdStage, AdStage is really trying to help people like me, and that’s really trying to connect marketers to the data that they need to understand performance, to understand insights, and really draw them out in order to take action that they need.

 

(00:01:35.4)

We’ve got a reporting solution, we’ve got an automation solution, and then we also have our API solution, if you just want it shipped into your own database.

 

(00:01:45.3) Harry Hawk:

It really gets to something we were sharing in email about, you know, my own vision for the future of AdTech, at the time, in the ’90s, thinking more about TV, but this sort of master station where a marketer, a buyer, or a planner, somebody can just sort of be there and start spinning up ads and seeing results and checking marketing databases, and that seems like a lot of what you just described.

 

(00:02:11.5) JD Prater:

It seems like you had the vision a while ago, but I mean I think we’re slowly able to kind of piece all that together. I think that was one of the things, you know, as a younger company, at just over 5 and 1/2 years old, it took us a little bit to kind of figure out where the market was going, where it was headed to get the engineering resource that you need to build out this product. Now, I feel really good about where we’re headed, going into 2018.
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Leasing a Smart Phone? Dumb?

July 21, 2017 by Hawk Leave a Comment

The best cell phone I ever used, I never owned

— until I just bought it for $22.27 — Find out WHY 🙂
I leased a phone from Sprint in March of 2015 for $18 a month. I wasn’t really sure if this was a good idea. For 24 months it was going to cost $432 – a lot cheaper than $600-$800 for a new phone.
I was really scared..
I was really worried if this was a “good” deal or not.. it was!!

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Facebook Metrics Don’t Matter

July 7, 2017 by Hawk Leave a Comment

Facebook has 1.2 Billion 2 Billion Active Monthly Users.

Facebook is Amazing

Facebook literally is the most perfect marketing system ever created.

But – It doesn’t work the way you think it works – Harry Hawk
I’m going to give you some examples of how I use Facebook

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Brands Tracking You

July 7, 2017 by Hawk Leave a Comment

Privacy and Data Security: Are our “papers” safe

Data privacy, online security and tracking should be a concern for all of us. Harry has put forward ideas and concepts for modern marketing that give consumers choice over how they wish to consume content.

When consumers opt for ad sponsored content, media buyers, ad network operators, and publishers should have the data they need to best monetize their content.

Consumers should feel safe that their data isn’t being mishandled or misused.

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Educated Content: Why Content Marketing Works

July 7, 2017 by Hawk Leave a Comment

Content Marketing Works

I promise you that content marketing works but it takes time and effort; critical details need to be thought through. Producing the first piece of content, in the first format that comes to mind is no more likely to work than asking the first person you see to marry you.

Let’s think about Content & Choice

Large or small, if you are looking to build awareness and influence for your brand, most experts will tell you that content marketing is crucial if not a critical step. I agree. 

As critical as it is would be content marketers often fail to think beyond the first few content types they know. Just because a marketer knows about blogging doesn’t mean it is the right choice. Educational content (for example) is often overlooked.

There are many questions to ask about tone, voice and style, assuming blogging is right for your audience

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Real Time Marketing

July 7, 2017 by Harry Hawk Leave a Comment

Real-time marketing doesn’t restore the balance of power to brands, but it does give brands a better footing and platform to define themselves in the dynamic and chaotic world of real-time communications.

Remember, real-time marketing technologies are only now emerging, and they will continue to evolve for years. Some people use the term only as it relates directly to social media and real time engagement. (See: How to Market in Real-Time.)

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Site Change Log

July 5, 2017 by Harry Hawk Leave a Comment

Site Change Log

Dear friends,

July, 2017

The transformation of this site is nearly complete. Hawk Digital Marketing’s home page has been merged into this site. It can be found at:

https://www.talkingabouteverything.com/hawk-digital-marketing/

Channels

We have added channels for the sub-topics covered by the Talking About Everything podcast. More will be coming in the months and years ahead. Each of the sub-channels is available as a stand-alone podcast on iTunes and Google Play. The channels will allow folks to subscribe to the precise content they wish e.g., Food Culture vs. Integrated Marketing and Communications.

https://www.talkingabouteverything.com/channels/

Podcast vs. Blog

Nearly all of our posts contain audio, and those are available through our main podcast “Talking About Everything.” We do have a few posts which contain no audio. These prose only posts are listed under the blog category Hawk Digital Marketing.

https://www.talkingabouteverything.com/category/hawk-digital-post/

January, 2017:

This site has been transitioned. This new site is running on WP, and the podcasts themselves are being hosted with Blubrry. The prior vers. of the site was running on Blogger and the podcasts were hosted at LibSyn.

The AMP vers. of the site is largely working. If you are on a mobile device try:

https://www.talkingabouteverything.com/amp/

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