Columbia Business School

Overview

The rise of digital technologies has transformed the marketing paradigm. Marketers today face a constant proliferation of social media channels, the growing power of the connected customer, and an explosion of new digital tools.

To succeed, marketers must be able to plan, implement, and measure the impact of digital strategies that are suited to today's customers and integrated with their traditional marketing and business goals.

The three-day program Digital Marketing Strategy focuses on how marketers can reach digitally savvy audiences, build deep customer relationships, and create new markets, products, and business models. Case studies will illustrate best practices from across b2b and b2c industries. Participants will leave with the frameworks and planning tools to lead new initiatives in their own companies.

Download the first chapter of David Rogers' The Network Is Your Customer.

Please Contact Us

Please contact our Learning Solutions Specialists at 212-854-3395 for a personal conversation to learn more.

Audience

Digital Marketing Strategy is designed for mid- and upper-level executives responsible for developing and implementing marketing strategy in b2b and b2c companies. It also is well suited for executives who develop or lead digital marketing for client companies.

Alumni and up to four of their colleagues are eligible for a 25 percent tuition benefit for programs lasting up to seven days. More on the Alumni Tuition Benefit.

Benefits

The course will provide executives with the case studies, best practices, and tools for digital marketing that meets the needs of today's organizations. Participants will learn to think strategically and achieve a variety of marketing goals, such as customer acquisition and loyalty, brand building, market entry, customer insight, and new product innovation using digital marketing.

Summary of Benefits:

• Evaluate the key technologies and digital tools available for marketing
• Leverage social media for customer acquisition and retention
• Produce and curate relevant content to build customer relationships
• Understand how to use mobile and customized media to target customers more effectively
• Create strategies to collaborate with customers to drive innovation and insights
• Develop new products, services, and business models for networked customers
• Know how to integrate digital marketing with your offline strategies and traditional media
• Learn how to develop analytics to measure the impact and ROI of digital marketing
• Understand how to manage brand risk and set guidelines and expectations for online conversations
• Be able to determine the skill sets required for your own digital initiatives

Upon completion of this program, you will earn three days towards a Certificate in Business Excellence. Learn more.

Faculty

David Rogers Faculty Member

Additional Program Faculty

	Olivier Toubia Associate Professor of Marketing
	Oded Netzer Philip H. Geier Jr. Associate Professor of Marketing
	John Mayo-Smith Chief Technology Officer R/GA
	Jeremy Kagan Adjunct Associate Professor
	Larry Friedman Chief Research Officer, TNS North America
	Mitch Stoller Co-Founder GROUP SJR
	Sandy Carter Vice President, Social Business and Collaboration Solutions Sales and Evangelism IBM Corporation

Download the first chapter of David Rogers' The Network Is Your Customer

Curriculum

Digital Marketing Strategy combines a mix of dynamic lectures, interactive discussion, and group work in small teams. Sessions will focus on strategic concepts, frameworks, and case studies of digital marketing. Executives will apply the tools of the course to several real-world business challenges, as well as to their own organizations. Numerous case studies of successful companies will be examined from diverse industries — including b2b, healthcare, financial services, consumer goods, automotive, hospitality, media, technology, and business services.

Sample Session Titles

• From Mass Marketing to Customer Networks: Re-Thinking the Marketing Funnel
• Access Strategy: Mobile, Local, in the Cloud, and On-Demand
• Engage Strategy: Creating and Curating Content as a Marketing Tool
• Connect Strategy: Mining Social Media Conversations for Insights and Influence
• Collaborate Strategy: Contents, Contribution, Crowd Funding, and Open Platforms
• Best Practices for Brands on Social Networks: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and More
• Making Digital Matter: Metrics, ROI, and Agile Modeling
• The Digital Advertising Mix: Search, Display, E-mail, Video – Using Each and Measuring Impact
• Lessons from Brand Failures in Digital Marketing
• Emerging Technologies: What's New on the Horizon and the Opportunities for Marketers
• A Five-Step Process for Planning and Executing Digital Marketing Strategies

Download the first chapter of David Rogers' The Network Is Your Customer.

Special Features

Participants may enroll in a combined Digital Marketing Strategy Week, which combines the three-day Digital Marketing Strategy program with a two-day Digital Marketing Strategy II program. The second workshop style program allows participants to create their own strategic plan with the help of peers and faculty members.

Learn more about enrolling in both programs in the same week.