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Advertising and Marketing Communication Strategy 

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Advertising and Marketing Communication Strategy
 at 
Northwestern University 
Overview

Develop a rigorous, systematic approach to defining goals, effective targeting and method for creating insight-driven messaging

Duration

8 weeks

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Total fee

1.63 Lakh

Mode of learning

Online

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Course Level

UG Certificate

Advertising and Marketing Communication Strategy
 at 
Northwestern University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Northwestern University
  • Learn from expert faculty
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Advertising and Marketing Communication Strategy
 at 
Northwestern University 
Course details

Who should do this course?
  • For Junior- to mid-level marketers
  • For Senior executives with responsibilities in marketing/advertising
  • For Advertising, communications, and PR consultants
What are the course deliverables?
  • Learn to create strategic, persuasive communication across multiple platforms
  • Develop the most meaningful strategic advertising objective to drive your business
  • Select and prioritize target audiences to maximize effectiveness and efficiency
  • Identify, evaluate and select appropriate consumer insights that allow you to build the right message for your target
  • Assess the effectiveness of media plans and identify key steps and best practices in ad production
  • Discover how to evaluate ads for their strategic merit and develop proper tests
More about this course
  • In the world of digital advertising, platform selections, utilization of influencers and creative decisions often dominate the conversation
  • Solid strategy tied to the business goals behind tactics such as these, even your best marketing efforts won't succeed

Advertising and Marketing Communication Strategy
 at 
Northwestern University 
Curriculum

Module 1 -Introduction: The Creative Brief as Strategic Roadmap

Summarize the creative brief

Evaluate/critique 'brief-work

Recognize common pitfalls

Design a clear, creative brief

Module 2 -Setting Objectives

Discover how to select the most meaningful objectives for your communications

Align advertising objectives with business goals

Construct a clear, meaningful, measurable objective

Module 3 -Targeting for Growth

Understand the importance of targeting in advertising

Select the appropriate targets to drive growth

Learn to manage and prioritize multiple targets for growth

Module 4 -Consumer Behavior and Paths to Persuasion

Identify the characteristics of human behavior that enable you to persuade your target audiences

Assess potential consumer insights

Select the strongest insight to accomplish your marketing communication goals

Evaluate core consumer behavior -and what drives it

Recognize persuasive techniques

Module 5 -Positioning Decisions

Develop the ability to write and evaluate positioning statements

Understand Frame of Reference and how to use it appropriately

Recognize Points of Difference and their importance to messaging

Module 6 -Executing the Media Plan

Learn key terms and processes within media planning and develop a keen eye for evaluating media plans

Grasp the basic mechanics of data-driven digital media

Understand the overall process of ad production and how to avoid the most common errors

Module 7 -Evaluation and Measurement

Learn what makes an ad effective -and how to evaluate its effectiveness

Develop a mindset of experimentation

Define the process involved in proper testing and the right questions to ask

Recognize common testing failures and how to avoid them

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Advertising and Marketing Communication Strategy
 at 
Northwestern University 
Faculty details

Derek D. Rucker, Professor of Marketing
Dr. Rucker holds the Sandy & Morton Goldman Professorship of Entrepreneurial Studies in Marketing. His research focuses broadly on social rank, compensatory consumption, persuasion, and consumer behavior. His work asks, and seeks answers to, what makes for effective advertising and what motives underlie consumer consumption.
Kevin McTigue, Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing
Kevin McTigue is a Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management teaching multiple classes for the MBA Program and Executive Education. His career spans over 20 years in teaching, consulting, brand management, and advertising.

Advertising and Marketing Communication Strategy
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