Customer Segmentation in a Large Database of an Online Customized Fashion Business

Introduction and the Research Problem The paper “Customer segmentation in a large database of an online customized fashion business” (2015) by Pedro Quelhas Brito, Carlos Soares, Sergio Almeida, Ana Monte and Michel Byvoet sets out to explore how data mining (DM) techniques can be used to drive marketing approaches in highly customized industries, such as…… Continue reading Customer Segmentation in a Large Database of an Online Customized Fashion Business

Interested in Short Form Advertising?

Formulating short-form advertising messages with little ad content that work and choosing high-performing channels to disseminate them are persistent challenges in multichannel marketing.  Drawing on the persuasive systems design (PSD) model, we experimented with 33,848 actual customers of an international telecom company.  In a real-life setting, we compared the effectiveness of three persuasion strategies (rational, emotional, and social) tested…… Continue reading Interested in Short Form Advertising?

Persona Analytics: Analyzing the stability of online segments and content interests over time using non-negative matrix factorization

Personified big data and rapidly developing data science techniques enable previously unforeseen methodological developments for longitudinal analysis of online audiences.  Applying data-driven persona generation on online customer statistics from a real organizational social media channel, we demonstrate how personas can be deployed to understand online customer patterns over time.  We conduct 32 monthly rounds of…… Continue reading Persona Analytics: Analyzing the stability of online segments and content interests over time using non-negative matrix factorization