This diploma provides participants with a practical approach to marketing applications that can be used at work by providing relevant, recent, and practical methodologies to marketing problems and strategies. This will be done by exposing participants to strategic marketing issues faced by marketers, contemporary marketing strategies and solutions, and methods for evaluating marketing performance and return on investment.
Program Objectives
This Program has been designed to aim at producing graduates who are;
- Work in a marketing team and across other functions
- Understand the backgrounds of people in different functions in an organization
- Realize the importance of market-driven organizations
- Work in a market-driven organization and help transform organizations
- Identify trends taking place in marketing
- Know the fundamental pillars in marketing management
- Identify marketing problems and recommend solutions
- Analyze marketing problems and suggest a course of action
- Convert threats into opportunities
- Develop a fully integrated marketing plan
- Understand the role and impact of marketing on an organization, industry, and country
- Compare local, regional, and international markets
- Analyze future marketing trends
- Respond to marketing threats and opportunities
- Respond to competitors’ actions
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INTRODUCTION TO MARKETING
- The contemporary nature of marketing and role of marketing in organization
- How to become market oriented?
- Marketing research tools
- Examining the marketing environment: marketplace, consumers, competitors and the external environment
- Segmentation, targeting and positioning
- Relationship marketing and value-driven marketing
- Branding and reputation management
- Developing a marketing plan
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CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
- Trends in consumer behavior and customer experience management
- Analysis of the consumer buying decision process
- Factors affecting the customer perception and behavior
- Challenges in the future segmentation, targeting and positioning strategies
- Linking between new trends in marketing communication and attitude change
- Analyzing the diversity in customer behavior and future needs of new generations
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ENTREPRENEURIAL AND INNOVATIVE MARKETING
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DIGITAL AND DATABASE MARKETING
- Examination of the importance & power of search engine marketing
- Demonstrate the important role of social media marketing through social media engagement and affiliate marketing themes
- Development and assessment of e-marketing campaigns
- Differentiation between online advertising types and appeals
- Comprehending current database marketing trends and practices
- Integrating web marketing into a project management process
- Appreciation of the rationale behind digital and data-based marketing
- Demonstrate the ability to evaluate websites from a marketer’s perspective, as well as gaining the knowledge in regard to how and what content to place on a website
- Gaining the fundamentals of evaluating and analyzing e-marketing intelligence by using the appropriate tools
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SERVICE AND RETAIL MARKETING
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STRATEGIC MARKETING
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