Marketing Management

By Ashis Mishra | Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)

Learners enrolled: 15146

Marketing is everything a company does to acquire customers and maintain a relationship with them. Marketing starts with understanding consumer's preferences for products and services and attempts to satisfy their different wants and needs in a profitable manner. Your business may offer the best products or services in your industry, but without marketing, your potential customers would not know about it.

This course on marketing is designed to help you understand the why’s and how’s of marketing. This course provides you with an understanding of the principles of marketing. You will learn:

Basics of marketing

The concept of segmentation, targeting, differentiation and positioning

The 4Ps of marketing

Consumer behaviour

Business marketing

We will explain what marketing is all about in the simplest of terms through videos, examples, experience sharing by experts in the field, discussions, self assessment and graded assignments.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	8 weeks
Category :	Management Studies
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Postgraduate
Start Date :	31 Jul 2023
End Date :	31 Oct 2023
Enrollment Ends :	09 Sep 2023
Exam Date :	02 Dec 2023 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to Marketing

Week 2: Segmentation and Targeting

Week 3: Differentiation and Positioning

Week 4: Consumer Behavior

Week 5: B2B Marketing and Marketing Strategy (Product Decisions)

Week 6: Marketing Strategy (Product, Service and Pricing Decisions)

Week 7: Marketing Strategy (Place Decisions)

Week 8: Marketing Strategy (Promotion) and Product Life Cycle"

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Books and references

None

Instructor bio

Ashis Mishra

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB)

Dr. Ashis Mishra is a faculty member in the Marketing Area at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). Dr. Mishra teaches marketing management and retail management. His area of research involves Retail Productivity Analysis, Retail Atmospherics and Retail Consumer Behaviour. He has successfully developed and applied many quantitative models and business model frameworks in solving marketing/retailing-related problems. He has published over 10 papers in various national and international journals of repute. His current projects include ‘A Dynamic Model for Forecasting in Indian Retail Sector’, ‘Store Atmospherics as a Tool for Retail Productivity’ and ‘Technographic Segmentation of Indian Retail Consumers.’

Course certificate

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Grading Policy:

Assessment Type	Weightage
Mid-Term & End-Term	25%
Final Exam	75%

Certificate Eligibility:

40% marks and above in Mid Term & End Term
40% marks and above in the final proctored exam

Score	Type of Certificate
>=90	Gold
75 - 89	Silver
70 - 74	Bronze
40 - 70	Successfully Completed
<40	No Certificate

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