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Overview

Grow your marketing skills and learn to connect your business with your target audience

Duration

2 weeks

Total fee

4,450

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Credential

Certificate

Understanding Marketing Basics
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Understanding Marketing Basics
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Course details

Who should do this course?

This course is designed for anyone interested in understanding more about marketing and how to use marketing effectively within businesses.

This may also be of extra interest to anyone studying business at degree level or business at level 3.

What are the course deliverables?
Identify the key concepts in the study of marketing.
 
Compare the key differences between domestic and international marketing
 
Explain the principles of the marketing mix
More about this course
  • This course has been designed to take you through the basics of marketing. From the key concepts to marketing plans and strategies, you'll develop the core marketing skills you need to grow a business.
  • On this course, you'll learn the techniques needed to profile and break down customer groups into segments. By using customer segmentation, you'll be able to market your product around the needs of your target audience.
  • The marketing mix makes up the core foundation of every marketing endeavor. It consists of the 4Ps of marketing: Product, Price, Promotion, and Place.
  • This course will take you through each part of the mix to help you identify the key features and how to utilize them when developing your business.
  • By the end of this course, with your new marketing skills in tow, you'll be able to begin piecing together effective marketing plans and strategies to tackle different customer groups and markets
  • Paid certification course
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Understanding Marketing Basics
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Curriculum

Introduction to Marketing

Welcome to Course 2

What is Marketing?

Customers and Markets

Weekly Wrap Up

The Marketing Mix

Welcome to Week 2

The Marketing Mix: Product

The Marketing Mix: Price

The Marketing Mix: Promotion

The Marketing Mix: Place

International Marketing

Weekly Wrap Up

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Faculty details

Imran Butt
I am a Tutor in Business Management at the University of Kent, and have been working within higher education for almost 20 years. I also work as a consultant and run my own consulting boutique.

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