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Starting out in #online marketing?

28 June 2016
James Swann Digital Marketing

James Swann Digital Marketing

Do you need to join an online marketing course to get the right tools for your business? For anyone who grew up in the last twenty years or so, digital or online marketing is just another thing that happens. Yet for the rest of us (those with a few more wrinkles) it’s still a major phenomenon that has changed the way businesses of all shapes and sizes go about publicising their goods and services to potential customers locally or in the wider world.

Despite online marketing having been around since the nineteen nineties (arguably earlier) there are still many small and medium sized companies that are out of touch with the digital world and who require guidance in order to make full use of advertising and selling online. Unsurprisingly this has seen the emergence of many new digital agencies specialising in online and wider forms of digital marketing, such as marketing through mobile phone apps and interactive media.

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Digital marketing: definition and relevance for today’s business

16 April 2014
digital marketing

Digital Marketing

Digital marketing is becoming a priority for businesses around the world because more people are using the internet. This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) aims to explain the concept of digital marketing  and its relevance to business. We will look at the following issues:

  • Digital marketing
  • Differences between digital and physical marketing
  • Content and customer experience
  • Digital marketing and consumer platforms
  • Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) technique

This course was developed by students on the Business Information Technology programme.

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