Marketing Strategy for Entrepreneurs
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Marketing Strategy for Entrepreneurs
This course is part of Value Creation Through Innovation Specialization
Instructor: Henrik Blomgren
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Skills you'll gain
- Growth Strategies
- Outbound Calls
- Marketing Strategy and Techniques
- Sales
- Market Analysis
- Market Opportunities
- Marketing
- Strategic Marketing
- Target Market
- Competitive Analysis
- Closing (Sales)
- Digital Marketing
- Marketing Strategies
- Sales Process
- Customer Analysis
- Marketing Planning
- General Sales Practices
- Cold Calling
- Entrepreneurship
- Selling Techniques
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There are 9 modules in this course
You live a hands-on life, and you intend to continue doing so! That is why I guess you already have checked where the QR-code (the logo) for this course leads to, right?
And it is in this kind of setting that you prefer hands-on learning. Things you can do, already today are something you value. You actually did not start this course when enrolling in it. You started it long ago, either as a customer somewhere, or just maybe thinking about marketing for some time. Or maybe you are already working in marketing for yourself or maybe your own company. In all these situations what matters is action. Action that contributes to your marketing journey. This is the reason why we will start of with a situation “as if” you were starting up the sales process in a company where no previous customers existed. Gradually your sales efforts give results, you get customers, and handling the market expansion becomes important. If somewhat lucky, in practice that is the way it goes. The course begins with the art of cold calling (attacking the ones that did not know you exist - the most tricky ones) and analyzing the potential customers, then gradually moves over to segmentation, positioning, closing the deal, competition, marketing strategy, and market expansion. It is normally in that order it develops in practice. The curriculum includes general basic marketing theories as well modern digital marketing issues like onboarding, conversion, and retention, experimental marketing, and pivoting. The course includes a number of assignments to facilitate your learning – some of them compulsory. All of them are hopefully practically useful for you already today. On one hand, this is a basic course. There is far more in this than we are able to cover here. But the Marketing Strategy for Entrepreneurs course will prepare you for some of the most common marketing and sales efforts needed for technology-based companies. Later on, you will learn more. Maybe here or somewhere else. Hope you enjoy it. Good learning has to be fun! So if the course is not fun enough for you: Please let us know!
What's included
2 readings2 assignments
2 readings•Total 20 minutes
- And don't click here either•10 minutes
- Not even here•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Maybe you already knew•30 minutes
- Let's start with your Opinion•30 minutes
What's included
7 videos1 assignment1 peer review
7 videos•Total 45 minutes
- In search of...•5 minutes
- My best friend is a contact•6 minutes
- Freezing Cold Calling•14 minutes
- E-mailing is never e-mailing•4 minutes
- But Social is Media•5 minutes
- B2B vs B2C: Relations•7 minutes
- Closing the deal•4 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Framing this module•30 minutes
1 peer review•Total 120 minutes
- Sales letters•120 minutes
What's included
4 videos1 assignment1 peer review
4 videos•Total 24 minutes
- Who are all these customers?•3 minutes
- 1000 miles in their shoes•5 minutes
- Context matters•6 minutes
- When fun becomes pain...•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Useful acronyms and so forth•30 minutes
1 peer review•Total 120 minutes
- PEST-ing and SWOT-ing Google.•120 minutes
What's included
5 videos3 readings1 assignment1 peer review
5 videos•Total 25 minutes
- Reasons to skate•4 minutes
- Who's old and who's new here actually?•4 minutes
- Finding your own way of segmentation•6 minutes
- But if segmentation does not work?•5 minutes
- Don´t tell me a story about storys and branding•7 minutes
3 readings•Total 30 minutes
- Digging deeper into Segmentation principles with the help of Facebook•10 minutes
- Segmentation in future: As if Facebook and Google joined forces•10 minutes
- Really good storytelling•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Did I get The Segmentation and Positioning-Module?•30 minutes
1 peer review•Total 120 minutes
- Customer segmentation in the Retailing-industry•120 minutes
What's included
5 videos1 assignment1 peer review
5 videos•Total 25 minutes
- The reason•5 minutes
- And in Practice?•4 minutes
- When we stumble•5 minutes
- The Digital Feedback-loop•5 minutes
- The core of it•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Self-testing the test-module•30 minutes
1 peer review•Total 60 minutes
- Pivoting •60 minutes
What's included
4 videos1 reading1 assignment
4 videos•Total 17 minutes
- Closing the deal•3 minutes
- Desire leads to Action•7 minutes
- Interest leads to Desire•4 minutes
- Attention leads to Interest•3 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- The opera and the movie•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Of course you can sing•30 minutes
What's included
4 videos1 assignment
4 videos•Total 17 minutes
- Massmarketing vs Customization•2 minutes
- Different Competitive Strategies•5 minutes
- Channel Strategies•8 minutes
- The BCG-Matrix•2 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Also this module can be tested if you like•30 minutes
What's included
3 videos1 assignment
3 videos•Total 18 minutes
- The Hockey-stick Phenomenon•4 minutes
- Failing when we had it•3 minutes
- Leveraging: The next step•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 6 minutes
- Hockey-sticking-stick•6 minutes
What's included
1 assignment
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Finale•30 minutes
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Reviewed on Sep 6, 2020
very interesting and enjoyable course thank you for production team and especially Henrik Blomgren .
Reviewed on Sep 9, 2020
This is great course and helped me a lot to understand marketing
Reviewed on May 26, 2020
It was very good learning. Mr. Henrick made things simple to understand.
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