This course is part of the Marketing Strategy with Advertising Week and Raja Rajamannar ExpertTrack
Strategic Brand Management with Advertising Week
Discover the secret to great brand management and learn how to implement an innovative, long-term brand strategy.
Duration
2 weeksWeekly study
3 hoursIncluded in an ExpertTrack
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Strategic Brand Management with Advertising Week
This course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles. Find out more.
Create a well-defined, strategic brand identity and vision that lasts
A recent study found that 77% of consumers surveyed have stayed loyal to a specific brand for 10 years or more.
This two-week course will give you the brand management skills you need to implement a brand strategy that keeps your consumers coming back for more.
Discover the value of brand strategy
Almost every organisation has a brand or reputation that should be maintained.
On this course, you’ll learn how to identify a brand’s identity and formulate a defined brand strategy that aligns with consumer needs, emotions, and the competitive business environment.
Learn how Coca Cola built a brand worth $36.2bn alone
Using Coca Cola as a case study, you’ll discover why $36.2bn of Coca Cola’s $200bn net worth belongs to its brand alone – and how it did it.
Designing a strong brand identity requires honing and experimenting with your brand vision and mission.
You’ll develop your knowledge of key strategic branding tools and techniques to consider when curating a brand’s identity, including segmentation, targeting, and brand positioning.
Build a brand plan
Alongside the experts at Advertising Week, you’ll learn how to produce a brand essence framework which accurately represents your brand and its values.
Once you’ve honed your brand identity and strategy, you’ll learn how to model this strategy into a brand plan which resonates with your audience, as well as your organisation’s wider marketing goals.
What topics will you cover?
- Understanding brand strategy
- Using segmentation, targeting and positioning
- Brand visions and missions
- Brand identity and design
- Brand architecture
- Creating a brand plan
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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Who is this accredited by?
The CPD Certification Service was established in 1996 and is the leading independent CPD accreditation institution operating across industry sectors to complement the CPD policies of professional and academic bodies.
Learning on this course
You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. 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...
- Demonstrate how to segment and target an audience
- Demonstrate how to position a brand
- Experiment with creating brand vision and mission statements
- Produce a brand essence framework
- Model brand strategy into a peer-graded marketing plan
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone who wants to understand the basics of branding and brand management.
This includes marketers who are working on brands for the first time and those moving into a role in an organisation where brand management is important.
Who will you learn with?
Managing director for global education at Advertising Week. I run our thought leadership and our learning platform AWLearn.
A supporting educator for the course is Brendan Porter, a practitioner and constantly curious consumer of marketing. Working across a variety of industries including hospitality, CPG and entertainment
Who developed the course?
Advertising Week
AWLearn is the education arm of Advertising Week. Advertising Week is a global thought leadership organization. The AWLearn philosophy is that all our courses and learning follow the same philosophy: Educate, Entertain, Enable. This means our courses offer the educational oversight on a particular topic; we use real-life entertaining case studies featuring professionals who already do these jobs; and show you the tactics that will enable you to get ahead in your career.
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- Pay $39 per month to keep learning online
- Have complete control over your subscription; you can cancel any time
- Work at your own pace and set your own deadlines at every stage
- Only pay while you’re learning; the subscription will cancel automatically when you finish
- Complete online assessments to test your knowledge and prove your skills
- Earn digital course certificates and a final award that you can share online, with potential employers, and your professional network
- Keep access to the content of courses you complete even after your subscription ends
Learning on FutureLearn
Your learning, your rules
- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps, but you can complete them as quickly or slowly as you like
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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