Introduction to Marketing: From Fundamentals to Building Campaigns
Learn everything you need to know to be a top marketer and deliver engaging marketing campaigns that reach your target audience.
Duration
Approx 7 weeks4 hrs per week
Introduction to Marketing: From Fundamentals to Building Campaigns
Grow your digital marketing skills to launch a successful career in marketing
This introduction to marketing ExpertTrack is designed to transform your marketing skills, taking you through the basic fundamentals of marketing, all the way to planning, testing, and analysing campaigns.
Once you’ve completed this course, you’ll be equipped with the tools you need to start your marketing career.
Lay the groundwork with the core marketing principles
On the first course in this marketing ExpertTrack, you’ll learn the fundamentals of marketing and use them to build communication plans and marketing briefs.
You’ll also explore brand identity to round out your base knowledge, looking at how to manage creative assets that tie into the branding and communications plan.
Put customers at the centre of your marketing activity through segmentation, personas, and CRM
On the second course, you’ll delve into marketing data and the importance of customer segmentation.
You’ll develop practical techniques to perform marketing analysis and create customer personas, and get to grips CRM systems.
You’ll learn how to deliver CRM programmes, and build CRM plans; all vital skills for a professional marketer.
Use omnichannel marketing to plan and execute effective campaigns
The final course on this ExpertTrack will explore each available marketing channel and investigate how you can determine which are the best ones to use for different audiences and campaigns.
You’ll also look at testing your marketing activities and why it’s so important to keep testing, analysing, and improving your campaigns and activities.
Learn from the marketing experts at the IDM
With over 30 years experience, The Institute of Data & Marketing have driven marketing excellence and helped advance the careers of marketers across the globe.
Through this ExpertTrack, you’ll learn exactly what you need from the experts that know it best.
Key skills you will learn
- Digital Marketing
- Marketing communication
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Branding
- Omnichannel marketing
- Data segmentation
- Customer analysis
- Customer personas
- Online marketing
- Offline marketing
- Marketing campaign planning
Learning outcomes
By the end of the ExpertTrack, you’ll be able to...
- Put your customer at the heart of everything you do
- Choose the right marketing channels from the options available, both offline and digital
- Combine your channels to maximise campaign effectiveness
- Deliver campaigns on time and on budget
- Understand the importance of branding and creative
- Use data to optimise your marketing activities, campaign after campaign
Experience required
This ExpertTrack is suitable for anyone with an interest in marketing. You don’t need any prior knowledge or experience of working in marketing.
The courses will start with the basics to give you a grounding in the core principles before going into more complex marketing techniques.
Getting started
This marketing ExpertTrack is designed for anyone looking to launch a career in marketing.
If you’re a junior marketing professional, this course will formalise your knowledge and teach you new techniques, making you more valuable in the job market.
ExpertTrack course overview
Course 1
Introduction to Marketing: Fundamentals of Marketing
4.3 (6 reviews)Learn the core principles of marketing and how to use them to build communications plans, briefs, and creative assets.
1 test
1 peer-graded assignment
2 weeks
4 hours per week
Week 1
Marketing fundamentals
- Welcome to the course
- The core principles of marketing
- The fundamentals of communications planning
- How to write a brief and what to include
- Peer graded assignment: write a marketing brief
- Congratulations
Week 2
Managing your creative assets and basic marketing math
- Week outcomes
- Managing your creative assets
- Brand identity
- Visual and linguistic creative assets
- Basic marketing maths part 1
- Basic marketing maths part 2
- Additional resources
- End of the course
Course 2
Introduction to Marketing: Understanding your Customers
Discover the importance of customer personas, and how to create and use them to develop effective marketing plans.
1 test
1 peer-graded assignment
2 weeks
4 hours per week
Week 1
Customer data
- Welcome to the course
- Consumer data
- How to segment your customer database
- Putting personas into action
- How to use personas
- Congratulations
Week 2
CRM programme
- Week outcomes
- Using customer data
- Delivering a CRM programme
- Developing a CRM plan
- Peer graded assignment
- Additional resources
- End of the course
Course 3
Introduction to Marketing: Omnichannel Marketing and Analysis
Explore the different marketing channels and how to use each one to reach your campaign goals.
1 test
1 peer-graded assignment
3 weeks
4 hours per week
Week 1
Understanding marketing communications
- Welcome to the course
- The power of cross-channel marketing
- Choosing your online channels
- Website marketing
- Email marketing
- Choosing your offline channels
- Television marketing
- Radio marketing
- Congratulations
Week 2
Marketing channels
- Week outcomes
- Print marketing
- Telemarketing
- Event marketing and case studies
- Testing your marketing activities
- Testing in practice
- Peer graded assignment
- Congratulations
Week 3
Discovering and using campaign insights
- Week outcomes
- Discovering campaign insights
- Using campaign insights
- Additional resources
- End of the 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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World-class learning with Institute of Data & Marketing
The Institute of Data & Marketing, part of the Data & Marketing Association, is a leading body for the professional development of data and marketing practitioners.
Meet your instructor
I have a history of expertise in digital marketing, customer-centric communication strategies, and transforming customer engagement in B2C, B2B and not-for-profit.
I am head of learning at The IDM
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