This course is part of the Master Digital Marketing Strategy ExpertTrack
Master Digital Marketing: The Marketing Mix
Get your brand or product seen as you learn how to include a pricing strategy, promotional mix, and more in your marketing.
Duration
3 weeksWeekly study
6 hours100% online
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Master Digital Marketing: The Marketing Mix
Improve your customer loyalty with a targeted marketing approach
Whether you’re a small business owner, a marketing professional, an influencer, or an affiliate marketer, you need to have a marketing strategy to be successful.
On this three-week course, you’ll learn the importance of a marketing mix in your strategies and how it helps you put the right product in the right place at the right time.
You’ll examine how you intend to get your message out there as you’re guided through implementing the marketing mix.
Unpick the four Ps of the marketing mix
The four Ps are the building blocks and help define your marketing mix. They are; product (or service), place, price, and promotion.
On the course, you’ll delve into the four Ps to answer important questions such as what are you selling? Where are your customers? And how will you advertise your marketing messages?
This understanding will help you create impactful strategies for customer loyalty, product roadmaps, and promotion.
Examine the seven Ps to expand your marketing strategy
Once you have mastered the four Ps of the marketing mix, you’ll look at expanding this to seven to include people, process, and physical evidence.
You’ll examine each one and how it interacts with the other Ps to give you a comprehensive understanding of the marketing mix.
With this targeted marketing approach, you can generate more leads and revenue, and stay ahead of the competition.
Syllabus
Week 1
Product
Getting started
Let's set ourselves up for success over the next three weeks.
Overview of product
Develop an understanding of what a product or service, how it is developed and the product lifecycle.
Product key characteristics
Gain an understand of the importance of key characteristics in developing differentiation from competitors through unique selling points.
Review, reflect and prepare
Review what you have learned this week and check your knowledge before moving on to the next week in your course.
Week 2
Price
Welcome to week 2
What to expect in Week 2 as we explore how the role of the marketing mix in digital marketing.
Overview of price
Find out about pricing policies and how to set one, including setting pricing objectives.
Pricing strategy
An overview of pricing structures and strategies and how to adapt and alter them.
Review, reflect and prepare
Review what you have learned this week and check your knowledge before moving on to the next week in your course.
Week 3
Promotion, Place and extending to 7 Ps
Welcome to week 3
What to expect in Week 3 as we explore how the role of the marketing mix in digital marketing.
Place
Find out the different paths for a product to get from creation to consumer.
Promotion
We'll cover the various aspects included in the promotional mix and the channels available for your digital marketing strategy.
The 4 Ps vs the 7 Ps
The initial 4 Ps were expanded to 7 and now include, people, process and physical evidence. We'll look at what each one is and how it interacts with other parts of the marketing mix.
Review, reflect and complete
Review what you have learned this week and check your knowledge before moving on to the final assessment for your course.
Prove you're job ready
Highlight the new, job-relevant skills you’ve gained and supplement existing qualifications with a hard-earned, industry-specific digital certificate – plus one for every course within your ExpertTrack.
- Learn the latest in your chosen industry or subject.
- Complete each course and pass assessments.
- Receive certificates validated by the educating organisation.
- Impress employers with learning outcomes you can add to your CV.
- Make your career dreams a reality.
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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.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Understand your product and how to present it to the market
- Apply strategic thinking to product pricing
- Demonstrate clear knowledge of merchandising and product placement
- Deliver a comprehensive product sales strategy
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for those who have been introduced to marketing and would like to delve deeper into creating effective marketing strategies.
It will be particularly useful if you are looking to apply the concepts to progress your marketing career. Marketing assistants, admin workers, students of all levels as well as small business owners will be able to understand and apply the concepts taught in this course to progress their careers.
Who developed the course?
The Left Bank
Master Digital Marketing and get #FutureReady Left Bank ensures tomorrow’s Digital Marketing experts learn from the best, and master all aspects of Digital Marketing.
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