MARK 430

Advanced online marketing

 

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This course starts from the premise that the technologies that comprise the Internet are impacting traditional marketing and business relationships in fundamental ways. We will critically examine the ways in which marketers can leverage new technology to achieve functional efficiencies and to devise powerful marketing strategies.

Topics covered will include: Internet marketing strategy; ethical and legal issues including customer information privacy issues and SPAM; search engine optimization; managing marketing knowledge and data mining; the creation of the online "customer experience"; managing customer relationships; the impact of the attributes of the Internet on the 4Ps of the marketing mix; using the web and email as platforms for communicating with customers; and devising an Internet marketing plan.

You can use this page to download lecture and lab notes, and other material related to the course. If you need to get in touch with me, please email me at weaverd@mala.bc.ca, call me at 740-6390 (leave message with Celia), or see me during my office hours.


Week

Lab Topic (Monday)

Lecture topic (Wednesday)

Required readings / Assignments

1

Sep 5 - Sep 9

No Lab - MUC Sep 5 (labour day)

Introduction to the course

Internet properties and marketing implications

 

Urban Chapter 1 and Mothernature.com case study (Urban Chapter 2)

**URBAN Cases  available on reserve in the library**

2

Sep 12 - Sep 16

How to post to the course Blog.

Use of blogs in marketing

Return on Marketing Investment (ROMI)

Understanding customer needs and online behaviour

 

PBS Frontline: The Persuaders. Segment 6. "The Narrowcasting Future"

The Cluetrain Manifesto

Urban Chapter 3 and Dell case study (Urban Chapter 4) **URBAN Cases  available on reserve in the library**

NOTE: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD PDF OF DELL CASE

Assignment 1 instructions. (updated to correct error in Question 2C)

Screenshot of spreadsheet for Assignment 1.

Due Monday 26 September. 5:00 pm

 

3

Sep 19 - Sep 23

Analyzing online behaviour: Dell case study discussion questions / lab activity

Online survey tool: Zoomerang

Customer information: Server log file, and click stream analysis; data mining The Marketers Commonsense Guide to E-Metrics. Bryan Eisenberg. WebTrends.

If you cannot access the above page, read this article: "Take 10 on Conversion"

4

Sep 26 - Sep 30

Using WebTrends server log file analysis software (lab instructions)

Sample WebTrends Report

List of Log Analysis Tool vendors in Yahoo

Don't obsess over absolute numbers, focus on trends. Bill Heron.

Formulating marketing strategy to fulfill needs

Segmentation and positioning

VALS survey (please complete this prior to the lecture)

Urban Chapters 5 and 7

**URBAN Cases  available on reserve in the library**

5

Oct 3 - Oct 7

Segmentation / positioning exercise

Creating the customer experience: web interfaces and usability

 

 

Steve Krug. Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. Chapter 2. New Riders. 2000.

Customer experience Case Study (from Creative Good) A & E Television Networks

Assignment 2 instructions. Due Monday 24 October, 5:00 pm
(NOTE: syllabus says Oct 5 (recommended timeframe), but you have until 24, October.)

Assignment 2 materials:

Broadvision: Solutions for Retail: Turning Browsers into Buyers

Broadvision: Customer at Work: RandMcNally

RandMcNally website

6

Oct 10 - Oct 15

NO LAB Thanksgiving Day

(MUC closed)

MIDTERM TEST

Midterm Answers available after TEST

 

7

Oct 17 - Oct 21

Web site critique

Web sites for analysis in the lab

Introduction to the Team Project

 

 

 

Marketing Communications: Advertising and selling on the web

Team Project instructions. Due Monday 5 December. 5:00 pm

GRADING MATRIX

Urban Chapter 11 and OSRAM Sylvania case study (Urban Chapter 12. Please read prior to lab activity.**URBAN Cases  available on reserve in the library**

Commercial Success. Fast Company. January 2005.

8

Oct 24 - Oct 28

Using CRM to sell on the web: OSRAM Sylvania case study discussion questions/lab activity (Urban Chapter 12)

Search engine marketing: advertising and optimization

 

Frontline: The Persuaders. No. 3. The Times They are A-Changin.(PBS). (Video)

Top 10 Ways to Make Search Marketing Work for You (eMarketer Publication)

The Guide to Search Engine Marketing (2004. OneUpWeb)

Assignment 3 instructions. Due Monday 7 November. 5:00 pm

 

9

Oct 31 - Nov 4

Advertising on the web using rich media: Storyboarding

Top 7 Trends in Online Ad design (Heather Conary)

BrandSuicide: How not to do good web advertising (warning, strong language)

IAB Guidelines for Rich Media Advertisement

  Email and viral marketing

How Non-geeks Can Increase eMail Delivery (K. Popov and L. MacDonald)

I am Viral: how Molson successfully spreads its online marketing message... (Chris Daniels. Digital Marketing. July 2002.) Available full text from ABI Inform database, via MUC library website.

 

10

Nov 7 - Nov 11

Setting up a Google Adwords campaign Pricing and distribution

Urban Chapters 13 and Logistics.com case study (Urban Chapter 14. Please read prior to lab activity) **URBAN Cases  available on reserve in the library**

11

Nov 14 - Nov 18

Distribution: Logistics.com case study discussion questions/lab activity (Urban Chapter 14)

 **URBAN Cases  available on reserve in the library**

How the Internet affects product offerings and branding / Building long-term relationships with customers Urban Chapters 9 and Marketsoft case study (Urban Chapter 10) **URBAN Cases  available on reserve in the library**

12

Nov 21 - Nov 25

Nike ID exercise: mass customization

The NikeID "sweatshop" controversy

FINAL TEST

Travelocity.com case study (Urban Chapter 16. Please read prior to next week's lab activity)

**URBAN Cases  available on reserve in the library** 

13

Nov 28 - Dec 2

Building long-term customer relationships based on trust: Travelocity case study

Team Project Presentations

 

Team Project due: Monday 5 December. 5:00 PM

14

Dec 5 -Dec 9

Team Project Presentations (LAST CLASS)

 

NO CLASS

(MUC closed for Final Exams)

 

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