Master Digital Marketing Strategy
Achieve a competitive edge as you build your knowledge and learn up-to-date skills in the changing digital marketing landscape.
Duration
Approx 12 weeks6 hrs per week
Gain in-demand digital skills as you start your career in digital marketing
To ensure your brand or product is seen by the right people, it’s important to know how to successfully implement a digital marketing strategy.
With the rise of the digital landscape, it can be difficult to keep up with new technologies, tactics, and marketing channels. This ExpertTrack will help you build your knowledge and develop up-to-date skills in digital marketing to help you stand out as you start your marketing career.
You’ll examine case studies from top brands to learn best practices in digital marketing strategies. With this knowledge, you can deploy effective tactics right away in your organisation, or build a strong portfolio piece for your future role in marketing.
Develop an effective marketing strategy
You’ll build a strong foundational knowledge of marketing skills before being guided through creating your own marketing mix strategy.
You’ll walk through case studies and learn how to carry out in-depth analysis to help you implement a successful strategy that aligns with your business objectives, positioning, and target audience.
Understand key marketing philosophies
You’ll explore historical and fundamental theories of marketing to understand the proven tactics that underpin our strategies today.
With this knowledge, you’ll investigate human behaviour and key marketing channels to help you create your own marketing strategy.
Discover marketing fundamentals to improve your customer journey
You’ll gain a solid understanding of the whole customer journey to examine where you can improve your customers’ experience.
Exploring automation and real-life case studies, you’ll learn how to improve lead generation and conversion.
Explore the marketing mix to increase revenue
Delving into the marketing mix, you’ll learn how you can create a more targeted approach to your marketing strategies to increase your chance of sales.
You’ll explore the four Ps to promote your product or service, understand your unique selling points, and examine the channels available to you in your digital marketing strategy.
Learn from top educators and media experts
Throughout this ExpertTrack, you’ll learn alongside industry experts with 5-15 years of experience.
You’ll learn skills from specialist areas including; user experience, information architecture, social media, SEO, and more to help you kick start your digital marketing career.
Industry statistics
Median base salary
£42,500UK job openings/month
1,966
Key skills you will learn
- Digital marketing strategy
- Inbound marketing
- Marketing mix
- Project planning
- Website marketing strategy
- Content marketing
- Storytelling
- Social media strategy
- Engagement
- Email Campaigns
Experience required
This ExpertTrack is designed for anyone interested in furthering their marketing career with no prior experience required.
It will be particularly useful if you are looking to gain sought-after digital skills.
Getting started
This ExpertTrack will help you transition from traditional to digital marketing and gain a deeper understanding to help transform your career as a digital marketer.
ExpertTrack course overview
Course 1
Master Digital Marketing: Introduction to Marketing
Boost your marketing skills as you explore the rise of the digital landscape and what makes an effective marketing strategy.
3 weeks
6 hours per week
Week 1
Overview of marketing
- Getting started
- Marketing foundations
- Review, reflect and prepare
Week 2
Getting started with digital marketing
- Welcome to week 2
- The state of digital
- Digital marketing channels
- Review, reflect and prepare
Week 3
Digital strategy
- Welcome to week 3
- Strategy fundamentals
- Digital transformation
- Developing a digital strategy
- Review, reflect and prepare
Course 2
Master Digital Marketing: Marketing Fundamentals
Learn how to optimise your customer’s journey as they move through the sales funnel with these effective marketing tactics.
3 weeks
6 hours per week
Week 1
Introduction to the marketing mix
- Getting started
- The marketing mix
- Review, reflect and prepare
Week 2
Customers and sales funnels
- Welcome to week 2
- The sales funnel and the customer
- Review, reflect and prepare
Week 3
The customer journey
- Welcome to week 3
- The customer journey
- Review, reflect and prepare
Course 3
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.
3 weeks
6 hours per week
Week 1
Product
- Getting started
- Overview of product
- Product key characteristics
- Review, reflect and prepare
Week 2
Price
- Welcome to week 2
- Overview of price
- Pricing strategy
- Review, reflect and prepare
Week 3
Promotion, Place and extending to 7 Ps
- Welcome to week 3
- Place
- Promotion
- The 4 Ps vs the 7 Ps
- Review, reflect and complete
Course 4
Master Digital Marketing: Marketing Strategy
Develop a marketing mix strategy that aligns with your business objectives, positioning, and target audience.
3 weeks
6 hours per week
Week 1
Digital marketing objectives and audiences
- Getting started
- Setting digital marketing objectives
- Target audiences
- Review, reflect and prepare
Week 2
Internal and external analysis
- Welcome to week 2
- Competitor Analysis
- PESTEL, SWOT and other analysis
- Legal, ethical and policy considerations
- Review, reflect and prepare
Week 3
Applying the marketing mix to a strategy
- Welcome to week 3
- Selecting the marketing mix
- Monitoring and adjusting the marketing mix
- Review, reflect and complete
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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How ExpertTracks work
Join an ExpertTrack to master new skills in your chosen specialist area. Work through a series of topic-focused courses at your own pace, and pass the final assessment to earn a digital certificate award which proves your expertise.
Decide if the ExpertTrack is right for you with free access to the full suite of courses and assessments for a week.
Pay a monthly subscription fee of $39 for as long as it takes you to complete the ExpertTrack. You can learn at your own pace and cancel at any time.
Receive a certificate for every completed course and pass the final assessment to earn a digital certificate.
Use your specialist training to progress further in your career or build expertise in areas you’re passionate about.
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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.
Meet your instructor
Jillian is a digital marketing strategist with over 15 years corporate and consulting experience. She is the on campus and online educator for Left Bank's Diploma of Digital Marketing.
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