Marketing

  • Authors:
  • Lynd D. Bacon

  • Affiliations:
  • Senior Vice President, Product Development, Knowledge Networks, Inc., Menlo Park, California

  • Venue:
  • Handbook of data mining and knowledge discovery
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Data mining applications in marketing should complement marketers' sources of knowledge and provide results that are relevant to the kinds of business problems that marketers want to solve. Marketers have a well-developed knowledge domain that is expressed in the practice of marketing management. They have evolved their own methods for using data that are consonant with important marketing issues. Many of these are not well suited for use on large and complex data sets, so there is great potential for data mining to make useful contributions to the marketing discipline. These consist of providing analyses that are not feasible using traditional methods and of providing direction for traditional, expensive marketing research activities so that the overall research process is more efficient. The important problems for marketers involve maximizing marketing effectiveness. They include increasing sales and profitability, market segmentation, and customer retention management. Marketers will also benefit by having more knowledge extracted from the legacy data sets produced by panel and tracking studies. Data mining procedures can in general be a very useful addition to the set of methods used to manage and analyze marketing information.