Ask, Measure, Learn: Using Social Media Analytics to Understand and Influence Customer Behavior

Praise for Ask, Measure, Learn;
Introduction;
The Fourth V of Data;
The Promise;
The Data Focus;
Analytics Focus;
What This Book Covers;
Safari® Books Online;
How to Contact Us;
Acknowledgments;
Media Measurement by Function;
Chapter 1: Marketing;
1.1 Marketing and Social Media: The Promise and the Reality;
1.2 Three Myths about Social Media;
1.3 Branding;
1.4 Purchase Intent;
1.5 Summary;
Chapter 2: Sales;
2.1 Introduction;
2.2 Reach Versus Intention;
2.3 Recommendation Systems;
2.4 The Technology of Recommendation Systems;
2.5 Trust, Personality, and Reason;
2.6 Summary;
Chapter 3: Public Relations;
3.1 PR Often Has No Measurable ROI;
3.2 Measuring People;
3.3 Measuring Distributing;
3.4 PR to Warn;
3.5 Summary;
Chapter 4: Customer Care;
4.1 New Voice of the Customer;
4.2 Customer Care 2.0;
4.3 Dos and Don'ts;
4.4 Is Social Customer Care the New Commodity?;
4.5 Automation and Business Intelligence;
4.6 Summary;
Chapter 5: Social CRM: Market Research;
5.1 Case Study: Customer Lifecycle;
5.2 Analytical CRM: The New Frontier;
5.3 Which Data?;
5.4 Summary;
Chapter 6: Gaming the System;
6.1 Spam and Robots;
6.2 Creating Reach;
6.3 How to Spot Bots;
6.4 Smearing Opponents;
6.5 Creating Influence and Intention;
6.6 Spreading Paid Opinions: Grassroots and Astroturfing;
6.7 Contagiousness;
6.8 The Opposite of Virality: Suppressing Messages;
6.9 Blurry Lines;
6.10 Summary;
Chapter 7: Predictions;
7.1 Predicting the Future;
7.2 Prediction of Learning;
7.3 Predicting Elections;
7.4 Predicting Box Offices;
7.5 Predicting the Stock Market;
7.6 Closing Predictions;
7.7 Workbook Questions;
Build Your Own Ask-Measure-Learn System;
Chapter 8: Ask the Right Question;
8.1 Case Study: Major Telecom Company;
8.2 Formulate the Question;
8.3 An Industry in Search of a Question;
8.4 Summary;
Chapter 9: Use the

LUTZ FINGER, a director at LinkedIn, is an authority on social media and text analytics. He's also co-founder and former CEO of Fisheye Analytics, a media data-mining company whose products support governments and various NGOs, such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Olympic Committee, which was acquired by the WPP group.

Lutz is a highly regarded technology executive who built a sales center for Dell Europe as well as an incubator for mobile applications at Ericsson. He is a popular public speaker on business analytics and serves as an advisor and board member at several data-centric corporations in Europe and the US. He has an MBA from INSEAD as well as an MS in quantum physics from TU Berlin (Germany).

SOUMITRA DUTTA, an authority on the impact of new technology on business, is the dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Previously he was a Professorat INSEAD, a leading graduate business school. He is also co-founder and former Chairman of Fisheye Analytics.