MARE7
Module 7: Digital and Traditional Promotion (Core)
Outcome
Analyze the use of digital and traditional marketing strategies.
Indicators
(a) Differentiate between traditional (e.g., print, television, direct mail and outdoor advertising such as signage) and digital marketing (i.e., online).
(b) Identify visible applications of traditional and digital marketing within the community.
(c) Relate traditional and digital marketing to the promotion “P” in the marketing mix.
(d) Assess advantages and disadvantages associated with traditional and digital marketing.
(e) Examine the relationship between user behaviour (i.e., of the target audience) to the selection and application of traditional and/or digital marketing strategies.
(f)

Research how a variety of digital marketing models work, such as:

  • content marketing;
  • geofencing;
  • search engine optimization;
  • pay-per-click;
  • social media marketing; and,
  • email or SMS (i.e., short message service) marketing.
(g) Assess the impact on marketing strategies of limitations (e.g., blocking of cookies) imposed by digital platforms.
(h) Examine the use and impact of animation and video in modern marketing.
(i) Defend the use of traditional, digital, or a hybrid of both types of marketing for a variety of given marketing scenarios.
(j) Identify ways that consumer behaviour (e.g., online or through SMS) can be tracked and leveraged for marketing purposes.
(k) Examine the types of consumer information that can be tracked through digital marketing.
(l) Debate the ethics of tracking and leveraging consumer behaviour for marketing purposes.
(m) Describe the concept of advertising avoidance.
(n) Discuss actions (e.g., not sharing information, blocking pop-up advertisements on the computer and unsubscribing from newsletters) that consumers can take to avoid viewing or receiving advertising.
(o) Propose ways in which marketers can effectively deal with consumer advertising avoidance.
(p) Investigate the origins, evolution and impact of influencer marketing to the present day.
(q) Conduct an inquiry into the process for becoming, and succeeding as, an influencer marketer.
(r) Propose marketing strategies that may be effective to reach consumers of the future.
(s) Develop a plan for promoting a business, brand or product of personal choice as an influencer marketer.
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