Digital Marketing

By Dr. Tejinderpal Singh | Panjab University, Chandigarh

Learners enrolled: 11134

India has witnessed an exponential growth in the internet and mobile phones users during the recent decade. It has opened a wide range of communication tools for the individuals and organizations. Today, the communication through online platforms has become a key element of Integrated Marketing Communication strategy and changed the way how organizations communicate with their stakeholders. Organizations have started using internet and digital devices in their main marketing strategy in the form of digital marketing. Digital marketing is rapidly growing force in the present marketing domain and is set be the future of marketing. It has resulted in numerous opportunities and avenues for advertising and marketing both in domestic and international business environment.

Therefore, there is a need to understand the fundamentals of Digital Marketing and to inculcate the skills of digital marketing among students. In this background, a course on Digital Marketing has been designed which aims to build conceptual foundation of digital marketing and to develop the students’ skills to plan, implement and monitor digital marketing campaigns in globalized environment. The target audience of this course is primarily students pursing MBA and other management related courses. However, anyone who wants to leverage the power of digital marketing in his business or profession may join this course.

Prerequisites of the course are ; Basic Knowledge of internet and internet browsing Experimental and Analytical mindset , No Hardcore technical knowledge required to pursue this course.

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Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Duration :	15 weeks
Category :	Management Studies
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Postgraduate
Start Date :	04 Jan 2021
End Date :	30 Apr 2021
Enrollment Ends :	28 Feb 2021
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Course layout

Week 1

1:Introduction to Digital Marketing and its Significance 2: Traditional Marketing Vs Digital Marketing 3:Digital Marketing Process

Week 2

4:Website Planning and Development : Types of websites 5:Website Planning and Development : Keywords

Week 3

6:Understanding Domain and Webhosting 7:Building Website/Blog using CMS WordPress 8:Using WordPress Plug-ins

Week 4

9:Introduction to Search Engine Optimization 10:Keyword P lanner Tools 11:On Page SEO Techniques-Indexing and Key Word Placement

Week 5

12:On Page SEO Techniques- Content Optimization 13:On Page SEO : Yoast SEO Plug-in 14:Off –Page SEO Techniques

Week 6

15:Email Marketing- Introduction and Significance 16:Designing e-mail marketing campaigns using Mail Chimp

Week 7

17:Building E-mail List and Signup Forms 18:Email Marketing Strategy and Monitoring 19:Email –Automization

Week 8

20:Pay Per Click Advertising: Introduction21:Pay Per Click Advertising: Google Adword 22:Type s of Bidding strategies

Week 9

23:Designing and Monitoring search campaigns 24:Designin g and Monitoring Display campaigns

Week 10

25:Designing and Monitoring Video campaigns 26:Designin g and Monitoring Universal App Campaigns

Week 11

27:Google Analytics : Introduction and Significance 28:Google Analytics Interface and Setup 29:Understanding Goals and Conversions

Week 12

30:Monitoring Traffic Behavior and preparing Reports 31:Social Media Marketing : Introduction and Significance 32:Facebook Marketing : Introduction Types of Various Ad Formats

Week 13

33:Setting up Facebook Advertising Account 34:Under standing Facebook Audience and its Types 35:Designing Facebook Advertising Campaigns

Week 14

36:Working with Facebook Pixel 37:Twitter Marketing: Basics 38:Designing Twitter Advertising Campaigns

Week 15

39:Introduction to LinkedIn Marketing 40:Developing digital marketing strategy in Integration form

Books and references

The Art of Digital Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Creating Strategic, Targeted, and Measurable Online Campaigns by Ian Dodson, Wiley; 1st edition (2016)
Digital Marketing For Dummies by Ryan Deiss and Russ Henneberry, For Dummies.

Instructor bio

Dr. Tejinderpal Singh

Panjab University, Chandigarh

Dr. Tejinderpal Singh is an accomplished educationist, a researcher and an affiliate marketer having more than 13 years of teaching and research experience and 4 years of industry experience with specialization in Digital Marketing and Data Analytics. Dr Singh has a rich experience in designing Websites/Blogs using WordPress and a practical knowledge of various Digital Marketing domains like Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Display Advertising, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Social Media Marketing etc.

He is presently associated with University Business School, Panjab University Chandigarh as an Associate Professor. He is also a professional trainer in digital marketing and has conducted number of workshops on digital marketing and social media marketing for students, academicians and business executives with focus on latest digital marketing tools.

He is a post graduate from University Business School, Panjab University Chandigarh and Doctorate from Punjabi University Patiala. Dr. Singh is presently working on two research projects sponsored by UGC New Delhi and ICSSR New Delhi. He has many publications in national and international journals of repute. Dr Singh was recently invited by the Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom to deliver a series of lectures on the ‘Role of Social Media in Promoting Responsible Consumption’ during Global Responsibility Week, March 2019.