Marketing Mix Implementation
Offered By: IE Business School via Coursera
Course Description
Overview
In this Specialization we will delve into the marketing mix and the skill-set needed to implement successful marketing strategies. Join us and explore the four key concepts of the marketing mix model, also known as the 4Ps: Product (Brand and Product Management), Pricing, Place (Distribution Channel Strategy and Retail) and Promotion (Communication Strategies, PR and Advertising). This course primarily focuses on implementation so you can immediately apply the lessons learned to your work or to a business idea that you are thinking of taking to market. After completing the four courses, you will be able to take part in the Capstone Project where you will have the opportunity to put into practice what you have learned in this specialization by running a real product through the marketing mix.
Syllabus
Course 1: Brand and Product Management
- Offered by IE Business School. The main objective is identify the critical information needed to develop a product and brand strategy that ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: Pricing Strategy
- Offered by IE Business School. Pricing is one of the most important but least understood marketing decisions. Learn and practice concepts, ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Channel Management and Retailing
- Offered by IE Business School. Nowadays, a distribution strategy is part of the DNA of many companies and a correct channel management is ... Enroll for free.
Course 4: Integrated Marketing Communications: Advertising, Public Relations, Digital Marketing and more
- Offered by IE Business School. Just how familiar are you with a marketing communication campaign? Learn more about this key pillar in the ... Enroll for free.
Course 5: Marketing Mix Implementation Capstone
- Offered by IE Business School. After completing the four courses, you will be able to take part in the Capstone Project where you will have ... Enroll for free.
- Offered by IE Business School. The main objective is identify the critical information needed to develop a product and brand strategy that ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: Pricing Strategy
- Offered by IE Business School. Pricing is one of the most important but least understood marketing decisions. Learn and practice concepts, ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Channel Management and Retailing
- Offered by IE Business School. Nowadays, a distribution strategy is part of the DNA of many companies and a correct channel management is ... Enroll for free.
Course 4: Integrated Marketing Communications: Advertising, Public Relations, Digital Marketing and more
- Offered by IE Business School. Just how familiar are you with a marketing communication campaign? Learn more about this key pillar in the ... Enroll for free.
Course 5: Marketing Mix Implementation Capstone
- Offered by IE Business School. After completing the four courses, you will be able to take part in the Capstone Project where you will have ... Enroll for free.
Courses
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The main objective is identify the critical information needed to develop a product and brand strategy that generates both quick wins and long-term value. Along this course, you will learn brand and product strategy key concepts such as product lifecycle, product demand estimation, product and brand development and launching, product pipeline, competitors analysis, brand essence and identity, brand architecture, brand equity, brand portfolio, customer experience journey, purchase funnel, key customer touchpoints and brand engagement. By completing this course, you will be able to create an activity plan to bring your brand strategy to life - both externally toward consumers and internally toward employees. You will be able to define the right metrics for determining success when implementating your product and brand strategy, considering any adjustments that may need to make under a test-and-learn methodology. Luis Rodriguez Baptista - a professor at IE University and Marketing Consultant - will guide you through six modules that begin by explaining the challenge of managing products through their "lifecycle" and culminates with learning how to equip your employees with knowledge of how to deliver on your brand promise. The course features interviews with consumers and industry professionals, which help illustrate the importance of brand strategy. Brand and product management is a unique course that enables your understanding on the importance of brand and product management and then use brand development tools, architecture, and portfolios, to achieve success. This course is also available in Spanish. To join the fully translated Spanish version, visit this page: https://www.coursera.org/learn/gestion-marca-producto
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Nowadays, a distribution strategy is part of the DNA of many companies and a correct channel management is key for the success of your product. Distribution plans need to be prepared for the long run, combining the following main areas: company profile, portfolio structure and price positioning, go-to-market policy, trade and retail marketing, e-commerce and global retail management. In the last decade, there have been two main revolutions that have affected industries, increasing the importance of Distribution Channel Management. Profesor Maria Teresa Aranzabal guides you through: - The IT revolution: considering developments in CRM, supply chain, planning tools, merchandise and reallocation systems, amongst others. - The retail focus: how a clear retail strategy can be a differentiator for companies and a strong weapon of competitiveness. In this course you will learn how to stay up-to-date on how companies are adding these aspects to their main strategic guidelines and making them key points in their managerial decision-making process. The main goal of this course is that you understand how channel management and retailing can improve performance in your business. We use interviews with industry experts and give real-life examples of how to ensure your business makes the most of this vital area of marketing.
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Just how familiar are you with a marketing communication campaign? Learn more about this key pillar in the marketing mix and use it to give the push your product or service needs. Through this course you will understand the most important issues when planning and evaluating marketing communications strategies and executions in order to create valuable brands and win consumers. You'll be able to combine the appropriate theories and models with practical information to make better marketing communications decisions, and learn brand and product strategy key concepts such as, brand loyalty and equity, communications plans objectives and budgeting, AIDA model, FCB Grid, theoretical approaches to advertising design, message strategies, advertising appeals, executional frameworks, spokesperson selection, creative brief, among others. IE Business School professor Eda Sayin will guide you through the process with the help of expert interviews from international marketing firms and will provide interesting real-life examples. After this course you will be equipped with the knowledge to ensure that you make the correct decision when it comes to communications, the placement of advertising and digital marketing.
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Pricing is one of the most important but least understood marketing decisions. Learn and practice concepts, techniques, and get to grips with the latest thinking on assessing and formulating pricing strategies. Analyze how firms attempt to capture value, as well as profits, in the revenues they earn. Along this course, you will learn pricing strategy key concepts such as pricing psychology, price discrimination, willingness to pay of customers, optimal price and price elasticity. This course has an additional focus on pricing dynamics and the reaction to and by competitors, taking a highly pragmatic approach and one that is directly applicable to your day-to-day professional life. After this course, you will be able to contribute to the process of formulating pricing strategies for your own products and services, or those of your firm. Martin Boehm - IE Professor and Dean of the Business School with over 10 years experience - will guide you through four modules. We begin with the importance of pricing and how it ultimately can affect the bottom line. Then, we move on to methods to help you decide what is the optimal price for your product; and then price discrimination - should all your products follow the same pricing strategy or should you differentiate depending on the customer segment? Finally, we look at pricing psychology and how you can influence customers in order to drive the highest possible price for your product.
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After completing the four courses, you will be able to take part in the Capstone Project where you will have the opportunity to put into practice what you have learned in this specialization by running a real product through the marketing mix. Your analysis will focus on Tesla Motor's and the launch of their Model X automobile. After making decisions regarding each of the four P's in peer graded exercises, you will prepare a final presentation for the launch of the car.
Taught by
Eda Sayin, Luis Rodriguez Baptista, Maria Teresa Aranzabal, Martin Boehm and Ramon Diaz-Bernardo
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