International Marketing and Social Media
The subject is lectured in these programmes:
International Marketing and Social Media |
| Dr Kester Osahenye |
| WHAT DO STUDENTS GAIN FROM THE STUDY AND FROM COMPLETING THIS SUBJECT |
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This course provides students an in-depth look social media and marketing, how they intertwined with online digital marketing and traditional advertising to offer global brands competitive advantage in the market place. The course will offer students an advantage in many positions involving marketing, consulting and brand management both on the buyer and seller side of social media. It will give them uncommon insights into how social media and marketing leap-frog obscure brands to global brands. After completing this subject, you will be able to: (The Student should develop an effective social media campaigns and digital strategy
Studying this subject will mainly give you an opportunity to continuously consult your lecturer, an expert on the topic, about real problems, practical cases and situations, and to design a solution to these problems in the form of practically oriented case study (essay) elaborated under the lecturer’s guidance. As the consultations are not held in groups but only between you and the lecturer, you can consult also sensitive company issues, including specific data etc., without any worries about sharing this information with other students. The output from this subject is thus a valuable document that can be immediately used in your own company or job, providing high value-added thanks to one-to-one consultations with an expert. |
| EXAMPLES OF FIELDS AND TOPICS TO BE CONSULTED WITH THE LECTURER |
| Field 1 - Social Media and Traditional Marketing |
| Field 2 - Exploration of Social Media Theories, Online Marketing, Social Media Technologies, such platforms e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok, LinkedIn, Blogs, Snapchats etc |
| Field 3 - How to build Social Media Marketing and track its effectiveness |
| Field 4 - Global trends that will help the students understand the impacts of social media in marketing value chains |
| Leveraging Digital Marketing tools, tactics and techniques to grow market shares Etc. |
| More topics within the lecturer’s area of competence can be agreed upon |
| COMPLETION OF THE SUBJECT |
| In order to complete the subject, students elaborates an essay in which they address a specific topic from their practice related to the given subject, or one of the model topics prepared by the lecturer (see below). The essay should contain 7-10 pages in the A4 format, comprising at least 8 standard pages of text. The evaluation of the essay is done by the lecturer and expressed in percentage 50% and more means that the student has completed the subject successfully. |
| MODEL TOPICS FOR THE ESSAY |
| 1. Transformative brand building with Social Media |
| 2. How Social Media can transform the Ecosystem of Paid, Owned and Earned media in marketing |
| 3. Developing Effective Social Media Marketing for Products and services |
| 4. Adopting a good social media plans in growing market shares for a new product |
| 5. How to win in a competitive marketing using social media marketing |
| STUDY LITERATURE AND OTHER RESOURCES : |
| Supporting study materials elaborated by the lecturer (available online in the study system) |
| E-books available online: |
| “The YouTube Formula: How Anyone Can Unlock the Algorithm to Drive Views, by Derral Eves amazonm |
| “Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers” by Seth Godin |
| Social Media Marketing Workbook 2020: by Jason McDonald Ph.D |
| Other study literature (Authors: Name, Publisher, Year of publishing, ISBN): |
| “Likeable Social Media,: How To Delight Your Customers, Irresistible Brand “ Dave Kerpen 2019 |
| “The future of social media in marketing” by Gill Appel Et-al (2020) SpriSpringerhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11747-019-00695-1https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11747-019-00695-1 |
| Gil Appel, Lauren Grewal, Rhonda Hadi & Andrew T. Stephen |
| Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science volume 48, pages79–95 (2020) |
| Other useful resources (videos, online professional groups, blogs, discussions etc.): |
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Social Media Showreel on Youtube Channels, Adweek, HBS reviews on Social Media Marketing |