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Hands-On Data Science for Marketing

By : Yoon Hyup Hwang
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Hands-On Data Science for Marketing

By: Yoon Hyup Hwang

Overview of this book

Regardless of company size, the adoption of data science and machine learning for marketing has been rising in the industry. With this book, you will learn to implement data science techniques to understand the drivers behind the successes and failures of marketing campaigns. This book is a comprehensive guide to help you understand and predict customer behaviors and create more effectively targeted and personalized marketing strategies. This is a practical guide to performing simple-to-advanced tasks, to extract hidden insights from the data and use them to make smart business decisions. You will understand what drives sales and increases customer engagements for your products. You will learn to implement machine learning to forecast which customers are more likely to engage with the products and have high lifetime value. This book will also show you how to use machine learning techniques to understand different customer segments and recommend the right products for each customer. Apart from learning to gain insights into consumer behavior using exploratory analysis, you will also learn the concept of A/B testing and implement it using Python and R. By the end of this book, you will be experienced enough with various data science and machine learning techniques to run and manage successful marketing campaigns for your business.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction and Environment Setup
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Section 2: Descriptive Versus Explanatory Analysis
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Section 3: Product Visibility and Marketing
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Section 4: Personalized Marketing
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Section 5: Better Decision Making

Retaining Customers

As customers have more options for similar content to consume or similar products and services to shop for, it has become more difficult for many businesses to retain their customers and not lose them to other competitors. As the cost of acquiring new customers is typically higher than that of retaining and keeping existing customers, customer churn is becoming more and more of a concern than ever before. In order to retain existing customers and not lose them to competitors, businesses should not only try to understand their customers and their customers' needs and interests, but they should also be able to identify which customers are highly likely to churn and how to retain these customers at churn risk.

In this chapter, we are going to dive deeper into customer churn and how it hurts businesses, as well as how to retain existing customers. We will...