Professional Curriculum Details : Integrated Digital Marketing

Integrated Digital Marketing

This is a curriculum designed to equip you with the competence and know-how required to turn you into a proficient digital marketing professional. Our series of comprehensive modules in this program are tailored to train you on how to practically incorporate vital digital systems into your marketing principles and practices. You will also be taught how to measure and replicate the success of your digital marketing strategy throughout any present and future projects in your organization.

Prerequisites

  • None

Who will benefit from this course?

  • Chief Communication Officer
  • Marketing Executives and Associates
  • Business Development Executives and Associates
  • Business owners and Entrepreneurs
  • Publicists
  • Bloggers
  • Bcom, International Relations and Business Administration Graduates
  • Anyone interested in venturing into digital marketing  

Course Content

This course module will give you and in-depth introductory look into what digital marketing entails. The different facets, resources and practices that are involved will be covered in the units that follow and from all this, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of the different parts required to create and execute a successful digital marketing campaign that is both efficient and valuable.

Prerequisites

  • None

Learning Outcomes

  • You will be able to comprehend and differentiate traditional marketing from digital marketing.
  • You will familiarise yourself with the major resources and techniques that are essential in the digital world.
  • You will gain a firm grasp on integrated digital marketing framework.
  • You will be able to look at and assess the digital communication networks and campaigns that currently exist.
  • You will be able to pinpoint and give any recommendations on improvements that can be made to a specific digital communications campaign.
  • You will be able to clearly explain how various forms of digital communications can be effectively appraised and monitored.

In this section, you will gain a deeper understanding on fundamental theories of consumer behaviour, how they can be applied in marketing communication. You will also gain vital expertise in managing digital marketing communication and brand support activities within an organization.

Prerequisites

  • None

Learning Outcomes

  • You will be able to effectively examine and assess the processes that are related to and drive consumer behaviour in detail.
  • You will learn to perform a thorough evaluation of the different approaches to consumer research.
  • You will be able to critically look at consumer behaviour from a sustainable outlook taking into consideration the theories and research that exists.
  • You will be able to comprehensively explore what drives the purchase decisions that consumers make and how that can be beneficial to your organization.
  • You will learn how to integrate the Marketing Mix (7ps) into your campaigns.
  • You will be able to put together marketing strategies based on the studies carried out on consumer behaviour and the part that consumption plays in the world.

This segment will take you through the world of creative branding and brand integration in its different visual forms. You will also learn the importance of utilising creativity in branding and understand how to connect with brands from a visual point of view.

Prerequisites

  • None

Learning Outcomes

  • You will understand the significance of a good digital presence to a brand
  • You will be able to evaluate your demographic and competition in the market by looking at a visual overview of your business
  • You will recognize the importance and impact of design and the use of colour, voice standards and typography
  • You will learn how to assess and influence the visual presence of a brand.
  • You will learn how to cultivate a visual strategy for your brand
  • You will learn the importance of having brand consistency and how it impacts on your brand
  • You will get to know how to develop a unique and identifiable voice for your brand

This unit will take you through the major techniques that are used in search engine marketing to ensure that a website ranks well on Google. You will also be taught on how to use Pay Per Click advertising to realize your paid marketing objectives and learn the strategies and techniques that are needed to execute successful Pay Per Click and SEO campaigns.

Prerequisites

  • None

Learning Outcomes

  • You will learn the important elements that make up an effective SEO strategy
  • You will learn the best practices and the vocabulary necessary to understand and execute Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and Pay Per Click
  • You will be taught the role that Pay Per Click plays in the search marketing setting
  • You will be taught how to raise quality scores and increase the number of high quality clicks
  • You will gain knowledge on how to effectively use Google Adwords and Google Analytics as part of a search marketing plan

This section will focus on teaching you how to come up with and use a wholesome and all-inclusive approach to display advertising. You will be taught how to write a creative brief and establish which sites and media are best suited to help you meet your campaign objectives. You will also learn how to budget for your online spend appropriately while showing you how to boost your return on investment.

Prerequisites

  • None

Learning outcomes

  • You will learn the fundamental philosophies that drive online display advertising
  • You will get to know the different types of online display advertising media and when it is prudent to use them
  • You will be taught the fundamentals of a display media plan
  • You will learn about managing costs especially with regards to CPM vs CPC
  • You will learn how to use different advertising technologies for example targeting and exchanges
  • You will get to understand how to quantify display performance in order to generate leads and develop brands
  • You will get to understand the different targeting opportunities available from contextual to behavioural
  • You will learn how to fit display advertising into an overall campaign strategy

Here, you will learn how to stand out in email inboxes by utilizing the knowledge acquired to come up with profitable and email campaigns that generate leads. You will gain the knowledge of split testing which will enable you to use to use open rates, unsubscribes and bounces, Click-Through-Rates (CTR) and other essential benchmarks to measure how effective your campaigns are. Your knowledge on how to evaluate email marketing analytics will also be increased.

Prerequisites

  • None

Learning Outcomes

  • You will learn how to acquire relevant data and breakdown subscribers
  • You will get to understand what Email design and content creation is and how essential they are to email marketing
  • You will gain knowledge into how to utilise the psychology of motivating response in email delivery for an effective campaign
  • You will learn how to evaluate campaigns and make comprehensive reports on them

This particular segment will impart in you the skills needed to engage effectively with customers across a wide range of social media platforms. Additionally it will explore a variety of the main social media platforms while at the same time defining clear goals and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that will be used to gauge the effectiveness of your social media campaigns.

Prerequisites

  • None

Learning Outcomes

  • You will learn the current trends on social media and how to spot which opportunities can be leveraged on to convert potential customer online
  • Enhance your expertise on how to effectively engage with consumers across different social media platforms
  • You will learn to pinpoint which social media platform best suits your needs at any given time

This section takes the knowledge you acquired in Social Media Marketing Part 1 to the next level, by expanding on the topics and platforms that were introduced to you. You will get to understand the challenges that can arise in executing an effective social media strategy for your business or product and how to face them. It will also help you to develop the skills necessary to utilise the full scope of social media platforms available to you in order to create and maintain relationships with your customers and increase your conversion rate.

Prerequisites

  • None

Learning Outcomes

  • You will learn the essentials of social media management
  • You will gain knowledge on how to effectively use insights and analytics on social media platforms to your advantage
  • You will look at the best social media practices with the help of case studies and examples

This module teaches you will learn how to leverage on mobile devices by creating and delivering successful mobile marketing campaigns. According to Google’s official statistics, more than 50% of the search queries globally come from mobile devices and this module will teach you the importance and essential elements of a mobile optimized website. Furthermore this module will go over the main concepts that highlight mobile marketing; you will get to understand the value of immediacy, mobility and personalization within any mobile marketing activity.

Prerequisites

  • None

Learning Outcomes

  • You will understand the current mobile trends and how to leverage them in digital marketing
  • You will learn the importance of mobile platforms to a marketer
  • You will be taught the essential requirements and approaches that are necessary to ensure success in mobile marketing
  • You will get to learn how to integrate mobile platforms into the digital and traditional marketing mix
  • You will learn how to create a mobile marketing plan and how to effectively measure the return of investment on the same

This segment will impart the proficiency to enable you to evaluate your digital marketing activity in order to determine what needs to be improved to ensure better results.

Prerequisites

  • None

Learning Outcomes

  • You will learn how to use certain specific quantifiers to help you evaluate your online traffic
  • You will be taught the significance of aligning your KPIs with the goals of your analytics configuration
  • You will gain knowledge on how to effectively use the features of Google analytics to develop a comprehensive outlook of your target audience to enable you to plan better
  • You will learn how to use social media metrics and analytics to assess how successful your digital marketing activities and investments have been including the ROI in order for you to learn if anything needs to be changed in future
  • You will learn how to evaluate the effectiveness of a website by looking at its operation, performance, speed and measuring the levels of engagement from users and conversion rates from those engagements

This segment will teach you how to set up a suitable digital marketing strategy for your business. You will also learn how to determine the best way to put an effective digital marketing plan into practice.

Prerequisites

  • None

Learning Outcomes

  • You will learn how to incorporate a digital outlook into the marketing strategy as a whole in order to guarantee success on all marketing fronts
  • You will get to understand how to conduct a situation and SWOT analysis on your digital marketing activities
  • You will learn how to choose the right marketing combination for your campaign by learning to go with what works
  • You will learn how to organise, quantify and budget for your campaign