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Marketing Content Strategy and Developing Content Marketing as a Competitive Advantage

Understanding how New Media Communications and Content Marketing can grow business is important in the context of commerce

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  • Duration

    2 weeks
  • Weekly study

    1 hour

Explore content marketing as the route of producing valuable content

Content marketing lets marketers grow into publishers by building their own audiences and attracting their own attention. By creating and distributing content that buyers find valuable, marketers grow their brand awareness and preference by forming a relationship of trust with consumers as they move through the sales funnel. Moreover, content marketing is thought as a less costly strategy than some others. It can have a bit of a relaxed start while your content library grows and reaches a larger audience.

Personalised messaging does not just involve targeting by demographic or firmographics criteria, it means proactively creating content that is appropriate for each stage of the buyer’s journey. This kind of content shows consumers that you recognise and value their ability to evaluate and make decisions for themselves.

What topics will you cover?

  • Content strategy
  • Categories of consumer
  • Plan the design of mobile site/app
  • Segmenting consumers
  • Converting visitors to customers
  • Analysis of mobile users
  • Achieving optimum conversion rate
  • Mobile customer journey
  • Segmenting site visitors
  • Create a mobile customer journey
  • Measuring web marketing performance
  • Comparing with competitors
  • Human and cultural values in print advertising

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

Who is the course for?

Students of the MSc Digital Marketing with Data Analytics degree

Who developed the course?

Coventry University

Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.

  • Established

    1992
  • Location

    Coventry

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