Digital Marketing

Course aim

This course aims to develop students' understanding of marketing in the electronic environment. Extending key concepts covered in earlier courses, this course equips students with theoretical and practical knowledge by examining how marketing activities are executed over the Internet and contrasting these activities with traditional marketing approaches.

Course content

The following topics will be covered in the course: digital marketing strategies and the analysis of consumer behaviour in digital contexts; web-based digital technologies (including Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing); online advertising and virtual reality; social media marketing (including influencers marketing); mobile marketing (including mobile apps and mobile payments); the marketing ‘tech-stack’ (including marketing analytics, marketing automation, artificial intelligence and cloud technology); measures of the effectiveness of digital marketing (including attribution marketing and bid data); legal frameworks (including cybersecurity).

Textbook(s)

Hanlon, A 2022, Digital Marketing: Strategic Planning & Integration, 2nd edn, SAGE Publications Limited, UK

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
MARK 1010	Marketing Principles: Trading and Exchange

Students must have successfully completed the above course plus eleven 4.5 unit courses.

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Preparatory	1 x 1 week
Lecture	2 hours x 10 weeks
Lecture (Virtual)	2 hours x 10 weeks
Tutorial	1 hour x 10 weeks
INTERNAL, CITY WEST (INTENSIVE)
Workshop	30 hours x N/A
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, ONLINE
External	30 hours x N/A
INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, TAYLOR'S BUSINESS SCHOOL
Workshop	35 hours x N/A

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Essay, Examination, Professional plan

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 4C)
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