eCommerce Analytics

Let’s hope the aroma of coffee from the West Coast can wake up Mobile Tuesday because we’re still sleepwalking through it here in sunny Boston. Yesterday, I wrote about the potential - and potentially bad timing - of Mobile Tuesday. We definitely need a push for mobile marketing, but is this really the push we needed? Let’s take a look at the Mobile Tuesday problems at the present hour of 10:50 AM EST on this December the 2nd.
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I will be the first to admit that our industry, predictive analytics to support retail marketing strategies, is dense with technical words, phrases and methodologies all wrapped up into various umbrella groups or plans such as “Market Segmentation Analysis”, “Customer Analysis”, “Predictive Marketing”, “Retail Pricing Strategy” etc. Although each sounds a bit different all of these approaches strive to reach the same outcome:

• Use available data to describe customers and understand their needs, wants and actions

and each takes a different approach but all the approaches are based on well established principles of computer science and statistics.

Read Market Segmentation Research: Science Fiction or Non-Fiction »