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Understanding Strategic Marketing
4.5 (468 ratings)
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Understanding Strategic Marketing

A guide for managers and MBA students to master marketing theory and application
4.5 (468 ratings)
Course Ratings are calculated from individual students’ ratings and a variety of other signals, like age of rating and reliability, to ensure that they reflect course quality fairly and accurately.
2,613 students enrolled
Created by Chris Croft
Last updated 3/2020
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  • Certificate of Completion
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What you'll learn
  • Master a wide range of marketing techniques
  • Design a comprehensive marketing strategy for their company
  • Take control of your marketing strategy instead of being pulled along by the market
  • Feel able to take on a new marketing role at work!
  • Apply academic techniques to your company and sector
  • Deconstruct marketing terminology to use it in real life
  • Identify profitable gaps in your market for future development
  • Assess your product range for dead weight and future stars
  • Understand why some products excel and others flop - and how to make them all winners!
Requirements
  • No previous marketing experience neccessary
  • It's helpful to have real life examples in your mind to practise on
  • Paper & pen for notes and practising
Description

Understanding Strategic Marketing

A guide for managers and MBA students to master marketing theory and application


This course could save your business $1000s - if you're launching a new brand, moving into new markets, or wanting to grow your existing sales - marketing is a valuable skill that you definitely need to master.

Chris Croft is an international speaker and widely published author, who's been teaching Marketing skills to companies for over 20 years. He's taught all over the world, as well as online, and has an entertaining and practical teaching style. This course is guaranteed to keep you engaged and amused, and teach you life changing skills for home and work.

He covers everything you need to know from preparing and planning, understanding your customers and competitors, setting your prices, and ultimately getting the right products in front of the right people. This course covers all the academic models and theories you'd learn on an MBA course, but with practical tools and examples you can use right away to get better results for your business.

The course overview includes:

  • Getting your product in front of the right people at the right time, to see your sales rocket

  • How to understand your customers better

  • Spotting new lucrative markets to move into

  • Understanding you weaknesses, and minimising them

  • Marketing theories ranging from SWOT, 4Ps, Porters 5 Forces, Ansoffs Matrix, and many others

  • Setting your prices for maximum revenue

  • How to make sure your marketing budget gets the highest return possible

  • And lots lots more!

This course comes with a 30 day money back guarantee.

Who this course is for:
  • Anyone with an interest in marketing
  • Those who've never worked in marketing before, and those looking to deveop existing skills
  • Marketing experts wanting to revitalise and refresh their skills
  • Someone wanting to learn academic techniques in a practical setting
Featured review
Brandon Keath
Brandon Keath ( 73 courses, 5 reviews )
a year ago
To put it simply this course is very well done! Chris is a master at creating interesting and relevant business-related courses and conducting training. I was able to apply what I learned from this course and other courses by Chris almost immediately in my daily work. I now look like a hero, thanks to the knowledge I was able to gain from Chris's courses! I have already purchased 3 courses and will likely purchase many more from Chris!
Course content
Expand all 31 lectures 02:31:18
+ – Welcome
4 lectures 07:59
Welcome
Preview 00:26

Marketing is often mis-defined, but this lecture looks at the true meanings and types of marketing.

What is Marketing?
Preview 02:12

In this lecture we'll outline the whole course - everything you can expect to learn and why you need it.

Course Overview
Preview 05:21
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57 pages
+ – What Business Are We In?
9 lectures 27:53
Introduction
Preview 00:27

The first thing you'll need to decide about your marketing strategy, is where your product design starts - are you product led or market led to your product innovation?

Are You Product or Market Led?
06:08

In this lecture you'll learn all about the Product Lifecycle, what it means for your marketing and how you can extend the profitable life of your offering.

Understanding the Product Lifecycle
04:03

In this lecture you'll learn what the Boston Matrix is and how it applies to your company. This tool will help you identify which of your products are bringing in large profits, and which ones should be scrapped.

Identifying High Performing Products and Creating More!
04:39

What is Relative Market Share and why is it so important? This tool is a great way to translate your market share to a real life number and get a feel for your market.

Calculating Your Relative Market Share
02:32

In this lecture we look at how to use Porter's Five Forces analysis to identify threats to your market, and opportunities for the future.

What Threatens Your Market?
01:55

Here we look at the PESTLE tool can help you safeguard against future environmental developments. Make sure you're not caught off guard by changes you didn't foresee.

Predicting Future Events
04:11

Before we can measure our competiton we must first define them - harder than it sounds!

Defining Your Competitors
01:06

By analysing your competitors gives you opportunities to identify untapped markets, and avoid losing your market position to new threats. This lecture provides valuable structures for doing this.

How to do a Competitor Analysis
02:52
What Did You Learn?
4 questions
+ – Understanding Our Customers
3 lectures 09:12
Introduction
Preview 00:27

In this lecture we compare Fragmented to Concentrated markets - the benefits and drawbacks of each, and how you know which type you're trading in.

How Fragmented is Your Market?
02:22

Once you've worked out where you and your competitors sit right now, you need to start thinking about your goals. In this section we'll look at where your company and brands should be heading, then identify how to achieve that through effective marketing.

Determining Strategic Future
06:23
+ – Success Factors and Competitive Advantage
4 lectures 09:38
Introduction
Preview 00:20

In this lecture you'll learn what the SWOT matrix is and how to apply it to real life examples.

SWOT Matrix
03:15

When it comes to succeeding in marketing it's really important that you identify not just what you do well compared to your competitors, but which things really matter to the customer. This tool will give you exactly that.

Critical Success Factors
02:18

Identifying your competitive advantage is a vital step in successful marketing. Once you know what your unique strength is you can build on it to grow your market share, brand recognition, and sales.

Porter's Competitive Advantage
03:45
+ – Building A Strategy
6 lectures 26:38
Introduction
Preview 00:23

Identifying different customers, product groups, competitors and gaps can help you move into new profitable markets before anyone else. This lecture looks at how to segment your market, and mapping the product positions of all your competitors.

Segmentation and Product Positioning
04:14

Using the Directional Policy Matrix, this section will look at assessing your relative strength in variously attractive markets. Are you missing out on some opportunities and wasting your time with accidental losses in others?

Is Your Market as Attractive as You Think?
04:59

This simple, but age-old model, is a great way to think about your marketing mix. Are you investing in the right areas, and which area is holding you back from being a best seller?

The 4 Ps
04:11

In this section you'll learn how to price your product for maximum sales. Would putting your price up increase your revenues or lower them? And what makes your customers buy? This lecture will answer all your questions.

Mastering Price - Strategies and Tactics for maximum profits
11:03

Next, let's sum up everything we've learnt. SWOT is a really great model for this as it covers all areas of your business both present and future.

Summing up with SWOT
01:48
What Did You Learn?
3 questions
+ – Communicate to your Market
2 lectures 09:12
Introduction
Preview 00:32

In this final section we'll look at everything you need to know about product promotion. Who to target, how to reach them, how much to spend, and much much more.

Why do your customers buy, and should you invest in a brand?
08:40
+ – Wrap Up
3 lectures 03:46
Thank You
Preview 01:37

Congratulations on completing the course, please now leave a review and continue with the workbook!

Next Steps
00:31
How To Get Your Certificate
01:38