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1.0crowdspring Bloghttps://www.crowdspring.com/blogRoss Kimbarovskyhttps://www.crowdspring.com/blog/author/ross/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="uYQzQ0cxpj"><a href="https://www.crowdspring.com/blog/marketing-science/">Why You Should Not Ignore The Science Of Marketing</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.crowdspring.com/blog/marketing-science/embed/#?secret=uYQzQ0cxpj" width="600" height="338" title="“Why You Should Not Ignore The Science Of Marketing” — crowdspring Blog" data-secret="uYQzQ0cxpj" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! 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Many competitive products (toothpaste, for example), have similar packaging. Do supermarket and toothpaste companies lack imagination? It’s possible, but a different explanation is more likely. Smart businesses apply science to marketing. Relying on psychological research, these businesses adapt marketing strategies to maximize revenues and profits. When companies unlock the innermost secrets of how and why people buy things, interesting patterns begin to emerge. For example, there’s good empirical data showing the best times and days to send marketing emails to maximize opens and click-through rates. However, as  people have grown to more heavily use portable/mobile devices, the science of email is gradually evolving. New research suggests, contrary to conventional wisdom, that many brands can benefit from sending email campaigns at night. How can you apply scientific wisdom to improve marketing for your business? Let’s look at two approaches. 1. Let data drive your decisions. Many marketers develop campaigns based on  intuition. Guerrilla marketing campaigns fit this mold. A marketer believes, based on experience or a “gut” feeling, that a stunt might work, and they invest time and money to execute it. Similarly, landing pages are often designed based on aesthetic look and feel, not on their ability to optimize user conversions. Paradoxically, the best looking designs are not always best. Sometimes, aesthetically better designs simply don’t convert as well. In contrast, marketing as a science looks to optimize campaigns and marketing tactics to maximize returns on investment. It’s become easier and more practical to apply science to marketing because marketing technology has exploded. For example, smart companies routinely A/B test landing pages in an effort to optimize conversions. A number of years ago, for example, major publishers were loosing print subscribers and wanted to find ways to convert print subscribers into digital subscribers. Many experimented with the decoy effect, also called the asymmetrical dominance effect. The decoy effect occurs when people tend to have a change in preference between two options when a third, asymmetrically dominated option is presented. One of the best examples of the decoy effect was an old subscription page of The Economist. The first option at $59 seemed reasonable. The second option at $125 seemed expensive. The third option offered options 1 and 2 (web and print) for the same price. Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, tested this phenomenon with his MIT students. When presented with all three options, zero students chose option 2. Most chose option 3. When the second option was eliminated, most students chose option 1 (online subscription only). Data can be very useful, as the above example, shows, but can have its own biases, as The Harvard Business Review cautions: Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations. Hidden biases in both the collection and analysis stages present considerable risks, and are as important to the big-data equation..