Digital Marketing & Branding with Summer Internship combines a high-level strategic view of digital marketing and its challenges and opportunities, with a tactical approach using exercises and projects to learn and use the tools and techniques of digital marketers to empower high school students to take on a digital marketing and branding virtual intern role over summer. From the web to mobile, email to apps, social media, and user-generated content, the course will develop a strategic framework for planning and analyzing digital marketing strategies. Students will leave the course with a working knowledge of the tools and processes for creating, managing, and executing digital marketing plans.
The course will cover the range of digital advertising and marketing channels as well as touch upon new and emerging channels and developments. The discussion will focus on strategies and metrics for success, measurement and optimization techniques, and planning and goal setting. Using a variety of practical tools and techniques in practical exercises and projects, students will gain an understanding of using digital channels to achieve their marketing goals.
Student teams will gain practical experience in the usage of channels such as
- Search – SEO and PPC – Optimization and Marketing
- Display – Banners, Video and Beyond – Advanced topics
- Email – Design and Deployment
- Social – Networks, Media, and Content – Inbound Marketing
- Mobile – Mobile Web, Apps and Ecosystems, Location-Based Services
- E-commerce – Site Analytics & Conversion Tracking, Branding & Packaging
- Online Business Models – Direct Sales, Disintermediation and Digital Distribution
- Emerging – Gaming, AR, VR, and beyond
Any traditional business now sees the Internet as a vital part of a multi-channel approach to marketing to new customers and servicing the old. This course will explore the Internet as a source of product information, public relations, marketing and advertising medium, a customer relationship management tool, and a customer service channel. Internet marketing and issues such as:
- Social Media, Behavioral Targeting, and Privacy
- Tracking and accountability, (incl. click fraud, etc.)
- Channels of online marketing, from search to email, to banner ads, to blogs, etc.
Speakers and real-life group project companies will provide hands-on experience and real-life feedback from practitioners.
COURSE MEETING SCHEDULE
Classes and Meetings will be via Zoom. The link will be sent at the start of the program
Scheduled meetings: ** 2022 Summer dates will be announced soon**
Session | Date | Day | Duration | US EST/PST | |
1 – Live | June 13 | Sat | 1.5 hr |
7:30-9pm EST 4:30-6pm PST |
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2 – Live (Recorded) | June 17 | Wed | 1.5 hr |
7:30-9pm EST 4:30-6pm PST |
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3 – Live | June 20 | Sat | 1.5 hr |
7:30-9pm EST 4:30-6pm PST |
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4 – Live (Recorded) | June 24 | Wed | 1.5 hr |
7:30-9pm EST 4:30-6pm PST |
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5 – Live | June 27 | Sat | 1.5 hr |
7:30-9pm EST 4:30-6pm PST |
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6 – Live (Recorded) | July 1 | Wed | 1.5 hr |
7:30-9pm EST 4:30-6pm PST |
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7 – Recorded (US holiday) | July 4 | Sat | 1.5 hr |
7:30-9pm EST 4:30-6pm PST |
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8 – Live (Recorded) | July 8 | Wed | 1.5 hr |
7:30-9pm EST 4:30-6pm PST |
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9 – Live | July 11 | Sat | 1.5 hr |
7:30-9pm EST 4:30-6pm PST |
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10 – Live | July 18 | Sat | 1.5 hr |
7:30-9pm EST 4:30-6pm PST |
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11 – Live | July 25 | Sat | 1.5 hr |
7:30-9pm EST 4:30-6pm PST |
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13 – FINAL Live |
Aug 8 | Sat | 2 hr |
7-9pm EST 4-6pm PST |
Total time: 3 hrs/wk (20 hours total) of LIVE sessions (also recorded) + 12-15 hrs/wk ASYNCHRONOUS sessions expected (48-60 hours total) for the first month and then internship work begins as 2/week sessions turn into once a week session during the internship period.
REGISTRATION INFO
- Target: High School and College Students around the world
- Dates: 2022 dates will be announced soon
- All live sessions will be recorded; no makeups for missed classes
- Asynchronous learning will occur through Canvas
- Instruction: English
- Cost: US$1,550
To Register, please use the link below:
Application
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