{"id":10233,"date":"2018-07-03T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocketclicks.com\/?p=10233"},"modified":"2022-03-28T14:07:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T19:07:32","slug":"applying-the-scientific-method-to-your-digital-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocketclicks.com\/client-education\/applying-the-scientific-method-to-your-digital-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Applying the Scientific Method to Your Digital Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Science is knowledge about or study of the natural world based on facts learned through experiments and observation. Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value.<\/p>\n

Today we are going to discuss how we can use science to be better marketers by applying the scientific method to our digital marketing, ensuring an objective, standardized approach to our campaigns and minimizing the influence of our own biases.<\/p>\n

We are in a digital world; data is everywhere but are we using this data properly?<\/p>\n

Too often marketers – myself included – use data to prove an existing hypothesis. We have (or believe we have) the answers and are searching for the data to support our claims.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s too easy to have a theory and go out looking for data to prove the theory. Instead, we should use data to make observations and ask questions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then we can form a hypothesis, conduct an experiment to test this hypothesis, and use the experiment results to determine a conclusion.<\/p>\n

Before we get started here are some key foundations of the scientific method:<\/p>\n