Digital Marketing for Success

Free Online course
Digital Marketing for Success

6 November 2017

This free online course will introduce you to the rapidly evolving world of digital marketing and the role it plays in driving awareness and sales for online businesses. We will go on a customer journey together, to discover how people use digital to search, engage, review and buy.

Learn how to create a digital marketing strategy
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll never arrive, which is why you need a strategy to direct your digital marketing decisions. We will provide you with a step-by-step guide to creating your own digital marketing strategy, to keep you on the right track towards engaging and retaining your most valuable customers online.

Explore digital marketing tools
There are so many ways you can engage online and new digital marketing tools evolving everyday. We’ll give you an overview of what’s available and drill down into the four main components: search, content, social and email. We’ll let you try your hand at using some of the tools and help you understand the opportunities each presents, to form part of a compelling digital marketing campaign, which will get your online business noticed.

By the end of the course, you will:

• understand digital marketing and the opportunities it presents for online business;
• realise the importance of a digital marketing strategy;
• know the different forms of digital marketing and best application of each;
• create the digital customer journey;
• prepare for developing content;
• and design measurement and analytics.

What topics will you cover?

1. The connection between traditional and digital media to develop an integrated a plan.
2. The differences between paid, owned and earned media when selecting the appropriate media tools to fit the online business needs.
3. Elements that create a digital marketing plan to reach identified target audiences.
4. The comparison between various digital marketing tools that impacts the return on investment.
5. How to leverage company owned digital resources to maximise internal resources.
6. The effect that search engine optimisation has on a company's target audience reach.
7. The types of listening tools that evaluate target audience attitudes’ to brands and competitor activities.
8. The types of metrics that measure effectiveness of a digital plan that achieve the business goals.

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

• Assess your business against competitors and market trends to determine the types of digital technologies that are most effective.
• Develop a digital plan by selecting the most appropriate digital marketing tools that align with the business vision and digital strategy
• Explore the elements that support a digital strategy by distinguishing between the different types of digital marketing tools and their impact on online business.
• Improve the overall reach to your target audience by testing and reviewing your effectiveness of the digital marketing tools.

Who is the course for?
This course is targeted at learners who have a small online business or are considering setting up a small online business and wish to understand the principles of digital marketing, how to create a digital marketing strategy, and how to develop components of a campaign and evaluate their effectiveness. No digital marketing skills are necessary.

Who will you learn with?
Brett Stavenuiter is an entrepreneur, business owner and business consultant with 25 years experience assisting over 5000 successful entrepreneurial business start ups in Australia and Indonesia.

Moreinfo: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/online-business-success-digital-marketing