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The University of Adelaide - Marketing Essentials 

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Overview

Make your marketing successful by learning how to work with your customers, your media channels, and the changing landscape.

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

2,763

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Marketing Essentials
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Highlights

  • Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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Marketing Essentials
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Course details

Skills you will learn
More about this course
  • There are many common mistakes businesses make in their marketing efforts, such as spending high amounts or starting campaigns without a clear reason why.
  • This four-week course from the University of Adelaide will help demystify marketing to ensure you master the basics and avoid marketing mistakes.
  • Whether you run your own business, you want to develop in your current role, or you simply want an introduction to marketing, this course will arm you with the marketing skills to grow your business.
  • To successfully target your audience, you first need to understand who your customers are. On the course, you will learn how to identify your customers and their needs.
  • With this knowledge, you will learn how to create a marketing message and strategy that not only aligns with your customer needs, but also meets the needs of an ever-changing audience.
  • Next, you will explore the marketing channels available to you and how your customers use these channels.
  • You will learn the best practices of each marketing channel to reach and connect with your audience with the right language and product features.
  • On the final week of the course, you will discover how the market landscape continues to change and how the pandemic has impacted customers. Through this exploration, you will learn how you can effectively respond to these changes.
  • By the end of the course, you will have a firm grasp of marketing concepts, know how to connect to your customers, and will have the mindset you need for continued success.
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Marketing Essentials
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Curriculum

Understanding the basics

Getting started

Introduction to Week 1

What is marketing and what makes for successful marketing?

The frameworks of marketing

How good marketing works

Assessment

Bringing it all together

Understanding customers

Introduction to Week 2

Understanding our customers

Customer needs and your brand

Customer needs and your message

Assessment

Bringing it all together

Understanding the channels

Introduction to Week 3

Why understand the channels that are available?

The channels you can use

Best practice use

Assessment

Bringing it all together

Understanding the landscape

Introduction to Week 4

Why understand the landscape?

The essential mindsets you need to succeed

What's just over the horizon?

Assessment

Bringing it all together

What's next?

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