Certified Marketing Professional - Virtual Learning
Why Attend
With competition increasing every day and the mounting pressures that characterize tough economic times, you need proven marketing techniques to generate demand for your products and services. The Certified Marketing Professional training course offers a variety of important marketing concepts that will give you solid knowledge about conventional marketing topics such as marketing planning, marketing audit, marketing communications, and marketing research. It is a must for professionals who would like to explore marketing arenas for the first time or wish to refresh their marketing know-how.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Define the marketing framework and the marketing mix of a business organization
- Conduct marketing analysis to better examine the micro and macro environments
- Combine best practices, tools and models to implement an effective marketing plan
- Conduct effective marketing research surveys to enhance organizational results and growth
Target Audience
The training course will be of interest to a wide range of marketing, PR, communications, sales and operations professionals. It is of special value to marketing managers in firms, businesses, organizations and institutions of all sizes and in all sectors.
Target Competencies
- Marketing planning
- Macro and micro environments analysis
- Marketing communications
- Marketing research
- Marketing concepts
- Marketing management defined
- Evolution of the marketing concept
- Differences between marketing and selling
- Setting the scene: the marketing mix
- Marketing planning
- Understanding the marketing environment
- Various marketing analysis techniques
- 'PEDSTLE' analysis
- 'SWOT' analysis
- The five forces model (M. Porter)
- Customer analysis
- Competitive analysis
- Marketing planning
- Marketing communication and campaigns
- Elements of the communication process
- Steps in creating a promotional campaign
- The goals and tasks of promotion
- The 'AIDA' concept
- Setting the advertising budget
- The various media types
- Media scheduling
- Evaluating promotional campaigns
- The promotion mix and marketing objectives
- Characteristics of the promotion mix elements
- Promotion mix strategies across the PLC
- Push and pull strategies
- Marketing research
- Marketing research defined
- The marketing research process
- Secondary and primary data
- Questionnaire design
- Forms of survey research
Meirc Professional Certificate (MPC)
MPC certified courses by Meirc Training and Consulting are designed for those willing to challenge themselves and go the extra distance. Participants who fully attend an MPC course and successfully complete the test on the last day, will receive a Meirc Professional Certificate (MPC), in addition to the one they receive for attendance. MPC certificates are regionally recognized and can be quite valuable when applying for more senior roles within the organization or outside.
Institute of Sales Management (ISM)
Meirc is a recognized center and an endorsed training partner for the Institute of Sales Management (ISM*). This endorsement is a badge of recognition for the high quality sales and marketing training courses offered by Meirc Training & Consulting. Upon successfully completing any of these courses, participants will be awarded an ISM Certificate in addition to the certificate they receive from Meirc Training & Consulting.
* ISM is the UK’s largest professional body for salespeople and is the authoritative voice of selling and the custodian of sales standards, ethics and best practice.
The core mission of the ISM is to promote standards of excellence in sales and sales management and enhance the prestige, integrity and profile of the sales profession as a whole and to inspire sales and marketing personnel to greater heights of achievement.
ISM qualifications are vocationally-related, globally-recognized and are overseen by the UK government’s regulator Ofqual so you can be sure they meet the highest standards.
Per participant
USD 2,350
Fees + VAT as applicable
Tax Registration Number : 100239834300003
