ABSTRACT

With businesses becoming ever more competitive, marketing strategies need to be more precise and performance oriented. Companies are investing considerably in analytical infrastructure for marketing. This new volume, Marketing Analytics: A Machine Learning Approach, enlightens readers on the application of analytics in marketing and the process of analytics, providing a foundation on the concepts and algorithms of machine learning and statistics. The book simplifies analytics for businesses and explains its uses in different aspects of marketing in a way that even marketers with no prior analytics experience will find it easy to follow, giving them to tools to make better business decisions.

This volume gives a comprehensive overview of marketing analytics, incorporating machine learning methods of data analysis that automates analytical model building. The volume covers the important aspects of marketing analytics, including segmentation and targeting analysis, statistics for marketing, marketing metrics, consumer buying behavior, neuromarketing techniques for consumer analytics, new product development, forecasting sales and price, web and social media analytics, and much more.

This well-organized and straight-forward volume will be valuable for marketers, managers, decision makers, and research scholars, and faculty in business marketing and information technology and would also be suitable for classroom use.

chapter Chapter 1|21 pages

Introduction to Marketing Analytics

chapter Chapter 3|16 pages

Evolution of Data Analytics

chapter Chapter 4|22 pages

Segmentation and Targeting Analysis

chapter Chapter 5|17 pages

Important Marketing Metrics: A Snapshot

chapter Chapter 6|21 pages

Consumer Buying Behavior

chapter Chapter 9|19 pages

New Product Development

chapter Chapter 10|32 pages

Natural Language Processing for Branding

chapter Chapter 11|19 pages

Forecasting Sales and Price

chapter Chapter 12|37 pages

Sales Prediction and Conversion

chapter Chapter 15|16 pages

Marketing Analytics and Its Applications