Advertising
An overview of digital advertising, how it works and how to align it to your customer journey. The various buying and targeting options; the technology and key enablers, and native advertising.
Kick off your Econsultancy microlearning with a brief look at what digital marketing is, what the fundamentals of good marketing are and how the digital landscape provides new challenges and opportunities for marketing teams. Alternatively, dive straight into one of the topics below.
An overview of digital advertising, how it works and how to align it to your customer journey. The various buying and targeting options; the technology and key enablers, and native advertising.
How sophisticated tracking techniques are giving marketers better ways to target consumers.
Understand what programmatic means and the key terminology for marketers.
How the video advertising market provides new targeting and content opportunities.
The key types, how they appear to users, and the rich data targeting capabilities.
10 tips for success in optimising programmatic media.
Learn how to actively get your message in front of the right people through all forms of paid, earned, owned and shared activity; and how technology is accelerating opportunity.
What content marketing is, what it’s used for and how you can tailor it along the user journey.
How YouTube’s ‘Hero, Hub, Help’ model can help you understand your content ecosystem.
Maintaining consistency over tone of voice, personality, content themes and proposition.
Planning ahead to ensure you have the resources and content available to meet objectives efficiently.
The difference between evergreen and ephemeral content and the value both add to your strategy.
How to plan, deliver and manage your content across digital channels. Building content marketing into your customer journeys, the distribution channels available, and the importance of brand alignment.
What a persona is, the information you need to create personas, and the data sources that will help.
What the customer journey is, the multiple touchpoints involved and opportunities to leverage.
The difference between multi and omnichannel and providing a seamless CX across all.
What a good user experience is and the website elements that can impact it.
A proven way to increase ROI and revenue, and increase customer loyalty and retention.
A test and learn approach makes it possible to refine the customer experience.
10 best practice tips for ensuring a good customer experience.
Learn the fundamentals of customer experience, from who is responsible, to what makes great CX, to how marketing can improve CX. We also explain the concepts of UX and omnichannel in the context of CX.
Learn what customer experience is and how to successfully fuse classic and digital thinking.
How the DIKW (Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom) pyramid can be used to extract value from data.
Key insights on the importance of embedding measurement into planning.
What analytics is, what data can be analysed and the key to drawing value from analytics.
Learn what attribution modelling is and the key considerations for marketers.
Why marketers need to consider the relative impact of each touchpoint in a conversion funnel.
Learn about the purpose and value of qualitative data for CRO and discover different tactics.
The different kinds of data for digital marketing, and how to turn them into insight and action. First, second and third-party data, the role of website and channel analytics, and importance of data privacy.
Learn more about what data you need to support your marketing (including to machines), and how to measure and optimise performance.
What ecommerce is and key considerations for providing an effective online selling platform.
Why digital teams need to understand and improve on-site conversion funnels.
How performance marketing works, what affiliate relationships are and the associated cost models.
Discover the basics of CRO and the challenges of doing CRO effectively.
Discover what good optimisation is, the types of data that can be used and how it can be used.
Why test design needs to be aligned with customer profiles and how to segment for testing.
Why optimising the checkout funnel is critical and techniques to reduce abandonment.
Learn the purpose and value of qualitative data for CRO and the different tactics.
Seven steps to checkout success, from minimising distractions to building trust.
Critical steps we can take to navigate the complexity of omnichannel.
Learn the key components of ecommerce and the competencies needed for it to be successful. As well as online merchandising principles and the optimisation tactics you can put into practice.
Learn how to select target segments based on relevance using both classic and digital methods.
Key uses of email marketing and the common challenges marketers face when planning campaigns.
The purpose and benefit of marketing automation, and the metrics to measure.
Learn what marketing automation means and the benefits of doing this.
The data sources marketers can use to drive marketing automation campaigns.
Good practice insights on the governance around the quality, storage and processing of data.
Common KPIs used in marketing automation and good practice for lead management.
The importance of creative copywriting in email marketing.
Fundamental rules for achieving successful email deliverability.
Top tips to maximise the powerful tool of testing in email marketing.
Developing a strategy for distributing automated emails based on behavioural triggers.
Get to know email marketing, how it works, and what’s involved in CRM. How to align your email with the customer lifecycle and customer journeys, optimising email performance and the power of personalisation and targeting.
What GDPR is and the key rights that marketers and data controllers need to understand.
What lawful processing means and the six lawful bases for processing personal data.
Understand the five conditions for how consent is obtained.
Discover the requirements for providing a GDPR compliant privacy notice.
How marketers can use legitimate interest to capture and process user data.
What accountability means and the steps you need to take to be compliant.
A look at the ICO’s 12-step guide to preparing organisations for GDPR.
Understand the key media and marketing trends for mobile marketing.
Learn about the importance of a mobile site and presence in app stores.
Learn about the principles of good mobile design in the context of Google’s own guidelines.
Discover some of the key ways to improve your page speed.
What search marketing is and how paid and organic search aid visibility.
Key good practice insights for external link building and management.
Discover which factors and on-site capabilities determine where you rank.
What PPC is, how it works, the different ad formats and the importance of optimisation.
How to approach keyword analysis and the impact of different types of keywords on CPC.
Learn how shoppers are using voice and what this means to marketers.
Learn some of the key ways to track and measure PPC performance.
Learn some of the key ways to track and measure SEO performance aligned with business goals.
An introduction to SEO: why it’s important and how it works. Learn about the key principles of SEO and be introduced to on-page and off-page activity, along with keyword research and how to apply it.
Gain an understanding of Paid Search and PPC, how it works, and how it differs from SEO. Learn about the auction model and how this affects costs, along with keywords, key phrases and targeting options.
How to effectively manage online communities and respond to problems professionally.
How brands can give themselves the best chance of having their content shared.
What influencers are, how brands can work with them, and the common pitfalls.
Learn the role content plays in social media and why you need to pick your metrics carefully.
Get practical insights on planning your social media channel strategy.
From major trends to key planning considerations, this module provides a great introduction to the social media ecosystem. Plus, targeting options and how to future-scape for social media.
What is affiliate marketing? What is influencer marketing? In this module you’ll gain an understanding of how they work and how to align this with your customer journey.
Learn what digital strategy means and the practical tips for developing your own.
The whys and hows of creating a strong digital brand presence.
Discover what disruption means and how you can learn from disruptors in your industry.
Four key digital trends that require special attention.
Objective and KPI setting, to budgeting for digital marketing, using data for planning, segmentation and targeting and customer journey mapping
How to make your marketing strategy quantified, agile and future-proofed.
Ways you can add value to people and organisations through your brand: how to build your brand and how to avoid breaking your brand.
Learn how the fusion of digital, classic tools and architecture offers unique capability to do positioning in real-time and at an individual level via dynamic personalisation.
Explore ways to achieve market orientation through a customer-focused approach and ensure engagement from your organisation.
How to make the most of the latest methods and digital data analytics to fully inform your customer insight planning.
Learn about how traditional models of distribution have changed and how digital has broken down the barriers to entry.
Where we are now and what is likely to happen in the world of digital. We discuss the big digital eras and their impact on marketing, as well as the key innovations, challenges and opportunities to prepare for.
Practical reports covering all the core elements of marketing tactics
The latest marketing and ecommerce trends and innovations
A quarterly look at the important developments, trends and innovations in digital