The Science of Marketing: When to Tweet, What to Post, How to Blog, and Other Proven Strategies-Wow! eBook

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The Science of Marketing: When to Tweet, What to Post, How to Blog, and Other Proven Strategies

Author(s): Dan Zarrella (Author)

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Publication Date: 17 May 2013
Language: English
Print length: 208 pages
ISBN-10: 1118138279
ISBN-13: 9781118138274

Book Description

Scientific marketing research delivers proven marketing tactics and tips

The Science of Marketing applies a scientific approach to the way businesses and brands approach marketing. It uses a combination of marketing, statistical, and psychological research to explain why and, more importantly, how, companies should adapt marketing strategies such as blogging, social media, email marketing, and webinars to achieve maximium results.

The book contradicts what the author calls the “unicorns and rainbows” strategy that simply encourages companies to love their customers and hug their followers. Instead, the book offers more substantial, proven tactics and tips gathered through scientific research and techniques.

Lists what time of day and what day of the week the most retweets occur
Explains why weekends are best for Facebook sharing, which blog posts lead to comments, why early mornings are best for emails, and how to blog to acquire links
Describes how to avoid crowding your content

The Science of Marketing provides the research and tools to help you make a stronger impact in the digital marketing space.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“There s lots of interesting information here and some good one liners to boot. Weighty stuff written by someone with a real passion for Twitter el al. A recommended read for those of you grappling with the social media conundrum.” (FSTech, July 2013)

Not only did this book provide me with food for thought, but it ignited a fire within me to go and put his concepts into practice. (B2B Marketing, December 2013)

The Science of Marketing…is like a collection of well–written white papers . (Admap, May 2014)

From the Inside Flap

Forget the “unicorns and rainbows” approach to marketing that encourages companies to love their customers and hug their followers. Sure, it’s great to “be awesome” and “engage in the conversation,” but a successful marketing strategy requires something far more substantial. Author and “social media scientist” Dan Zarrella uses data, experimentation, and real science to understand how people behave online and how you can leverage that behavior in your digital marketing strategy.

The Science of Marketing shares proven online tactics and tips gathered through scientific research that will upend your approach to digital marketing. Using a combination of statistics, marketing, math, social psychology, memetics, and epidemiology, among other fields, this book brings a scientific approach to the way businesses develop content, SEO strategies, lead generation, and analytics. Learn why and how you should start executing social?blogging, social media, e-mail marketing, and webinars?according to data-driven metrics to achieve the greatest results.

The Science of Marketing provides the research and tools you need to make a stronger impact in the digital marketing space. It offers valuable takeaways such as:

Late in the day and week is when the most retweets occur
Weekends are best for Facebook sharing
E-mail newsletters to subscribers very early in the morning
Your newest subscribers are the most likely to act
Blog on the weekends for a higher number of comments
Blog early in the morning for a higher number of links
Don’t crowd your content
And much more!

The Science of Marketing delivers undeniable proof that challenges assumptions about how marketers should approach digital marketing. Let Dan Zarrella’s scientific approach lead you toward a better timed, highly targeted, more compelling, and incredibly successful online marketing strategy.

From the Back Cover

Praise for The Science of Marketing

“Dan delivers nitty-gritty facts, not theories. Loaded with charts, surveys, and actual data (!) about what’s working right now online.”
?Seth Godin, author of Purple Cow

“For decades, marketing has been about so-called ‘creative work,’ with success measured by ad industry self-congratulatory awards. It’s time to finally get serious about the science of marketing, and Dan Zarrella is the right person to set us straight. Dan holds no opinions of success that he doesn’t back up with hard measurements. In this book, he lays out the facts so your marketing will be more successful than the typical award winners.”
?David Meerman Scott, bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR

“This book equips you with the actionable real-world data you need to make your communications more scientific and successful.”
?Nancy Duarte, author of slide:ology

“Dan Zarrella has bagged a most rare bird: a book that’s actually useful to real, working social media pros.”
?Hugh MacLeod, cartoonist, gapingvoid.com

“Dan’s Science of Marketing is the toolbox of actionable data you need to vastly improve your online and offline marketing. Along with a wide range of critical datasets on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms, you’ll also find the pages brimming with useful stats and survey results on e-mail marketing, blogging, and other web channels. Keep this book close and read it often!”

?Mari Smith, top social media influencer, speaker, author of The New Relationship Marketing, and coauthor of Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day

“Zarrella’s Science of Marketing is the essential handbook for every business to thrive in our newly data-driven world.”
?Erik Qualman, international bestselling author of Socialnomics

About the Author

DAN ZARRELLA is an award-winning social, search, and viral marketing scientist at Hubspot, Inc., a prominent marketing company. He is the leader and voice of their popular “The Science of . . .” webinar series. He has been featured in a variety of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Forbes, and the Huffington Post, among many others. Dan is a recognized thought leader in social media marketing and research and participates in speaking engagements around the country.

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