Award in Marketing
If you are new to marketing, or looking to strengthen your understanding of best-practice marketing fundamentals, this course is for you
- You will learn to
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During your Award in Marketing, you will learn to:
- Discover the importance of putting your customer at the heart of everything you do
- Gain a strong understanding of the marketing channels available, both offline and digital
- Learn how to combine your channels to maximise campaign effectiveness.
- Ensure your campaigns are delivered on time, and on budget
- Understand the importance of branding and creative
- Explore how data can optimise your marketing activities, campaign after campaign
See below for further course details and full programme information.
Details
- Level
- 4
- Duration
- Online (31 CPD hours)
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Qualification Information
Lesson 1: The core principles of marketing
- The fundamentals of good marketing
- How to use the 4 p's framework
- How to ensure your company is customer centric
Lesson 2: Delivering a CRM programme
- What is customer relationship management?
- How can you identify different types of customer and their needs?
- How to deliver an effective CRM programme
Lesson 3: The power of cross-channel marketing
- Learn what the multiplier effect is
- How and why it works
- How to plan and execute it effectively
Lesson 4: Choosing your online channels
- What are the main digital marketing channels?
- Understand the importance of online marketing
- Why and when do we need to use online marketing channels
Lesson 5: Choosing your offline channels
- What the main traditional marketing channels are
- Understand the importance of traditional marketing channels
- Why and when do we need to use traditional marketing channels
Lesson 6: Managing your creative assets
- What are the creative elements of a marketing communication
- How you should approach them
- Great examples of award-winning creative
Lesson 7: An introduction to consumer data
- What customer data is
- Why customer data is so important to the success of a business
- How to use customer data to make your marketing more effective
Lesson 8: How to segment your customer database
- What customer segmentation is and how it is useful for shaping your communications
- What the different types of segmentation are
- How to use your data to influence channel selection
Lesson 9: The fundamentals of communications planning
- What communications planning is
- The common primary objectives and supporting targets for campaigns
- How to develop the appropriate strategy that can be turned into an actionable set of results
Lesson 10: Putting personas into action
- How personas will help you create more effective marketing communications
- How to select the right communications channels to suit your audience
- How to develop creative that will appeal to your audience
Lesson 11: How to write a brief and what to include
- The importance of a good brief
- How to write a good brief and what to include in it
- How to manage agencies
Lesson 12: Testing your marketing activities
- Why testing is so important in marketing
- The key areas to test across your marketing activity
- Things to consider when implementing your testing plan
Lesson 13: Discovering and using campaign insights
- Why and how to analyse your marketing campaigns
- Where analysis and insights should sit in your campaign planning process
- How to develop and use your insights
Lesson 14: Basic marketing maths
- The importance of maths in marketing
- How to calculate a range of metrics
- How to use metrics to optimise your marketing campaigns
Lesson 15: The marketing regulations you need to know
- Which data protection regulations impact your work
- How you can make sure you are compliant with advertising standards
- Which sectors have industry-specific regulations relating to advertising
This is a practical course which is designed to take you on a step by step journey, to develop your understanding of marketing, the importance of putting the customer at the heart of what you do, with the use of data and developing an understanding of the different ways to communicate with your audience.
At each stage of the strategy you will see practical applications to deepen your understanding and demonstrate how to go about it.
You will be provided with practical templates to take back to your office and share amongst colleagues. We teach marketers how to improve their processes and planning activity through real life applications, processes and templates
- This course is designed for the following people
- You want to start a career in marketing OR
- You are have already started working in marketing but have you have no training or qualifications
- You want to be an effective Marketing Executive:
- Create successful campaigns
- Understand your audience
- Know how to deliver a campaign on time and on budget
- Assumed knowledge
- This course assumes that you are working in a marketing environment
- You do not need to have any specialist marketing knowledge
- You may already have been involved in delivering some marketing campaigns
- This course assumes that you are working in a marketing environment
You can accrue CPD points as you study through this course.
You can enrol directly via the IDM website.
If you would like to discuss your enrolment or have any questions please call us on 020 8614 0277.
Exams and assessments
In order to attain the Award in Marketing, you must successfully pass an online exam.
Pass marks and Grades
To pass this programme you will need a minimum of 60% in the exams. In the event that the minimum pass mark is not met you will have the opportunity to resit at a later date.
Get in touch...
To discuss your options, please get in touch with one of our learning and development team: