Complete Digital Marketing training course

This digital marketing training course teaches you how to plan, manage and execute successful digital marketing campaigns. Over three days you will learn how to work with digital data and take advantage of e-marketing tools such as search engines, banner ads, emails and SMS.

This three-day training course will provide you with a definitive introduction to digital marketing tools, techniques and applications including digital marketing strategy, campaign management and execution, the gathering and managing of digital data and the complete array of e-marketing tools from search engine marketing to email and SMS. You will also learn how to monitor and control your digital marketing campaigns to ensure optimal effectiveness and integration.

Whether you work in B2C or B2B this training course will equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to manage your digital campaigns with confidence.

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Who should attend Complete Digital Marketing?

Anyone NEW to digital marketing needing to understand how digital marketing is planned, executed, integrated and controlled.

How will I benefit from this training course?

Upon completion of the training course, delegates will be able to plan and implement a digital marketing campaign encompassing one or more digital marketing tools such as interactive advertising and email.

Outline programme for Complete Digital Marketing

Day 1: Introduction to Digital Marketing

Definition, purpose and scope of digital marketing

• Understanding the impact of digital marketing on business
• Evaluating the risks and opportunities of digital marketing
• Differences and similarities between digital marketing and traditional marketing communications
• Building customer relationships online and permission marketing
• A brief guide to internet technologies
• Legal considerations

Understanding the digital marketing customer

• Overview of the characteristics of the digital customer
• Online buyer behaviour
• How to build a picture of your own customers using online customer surveys
• Review of third party data sources and when you might consider using

Creating a strategic digital marketing plan

• Understanding the digital marketing planning process
• What goes into a digital marketing plan and why an annual plan is necessary
• Situation analysis, objective setting and strategy formulation
• Plan implementation and budgeting
• Monitoring and control

Gathering and managing your digital data

• Understanding the complexities of customer contact and behavioural data
• How to store and manage your digital data
• Why integration with your offline data is essential
• How your data can be used to drive more customised communications through segmentation and profiling
• Customer data analysis and targeting techniques

Website design and usability

• Principles of effective website design including page layouts and navigation
• Developing a brief for website creation and enhancement
• How to select and manage a web design agency
• How to assess the effectiveness of your website design
• Researching your site visitors
• Copywriting for the web

Producing great creative

• Understanding what makes digital creative different from non digital creative
• Overview of the principles behind effective online creative (all digital media)
• How online creative can support brand building
• Overview of the process by which creative concepts are produced
• Understanding the principles of creative briefing and evaluation

Day 2: Digital Marketing Communication Tools

Interactive online advertising

• Using online ads to drive site traffic and build brands
• Overview of the ad formats available and how best to use them creatively
• Buying online media for interactive advertising and the different buying models
• How to understand and appraise online media schedules

Search engine marketing

• What is search engine marketing and why it’s so crucial to online success?
• Understanding the differences between search engines, directories and pay per click advertising
• Key strategies and tactics to maximise search engine effectiveness

Email and viral marketing

• Why permission is everything
• How to acquire names and email lists
• Testing email for continuous improvement
• E-newsletters and other email formats
• Eight steps to create a successful viral campaign
• Broadcast and delivery considerations

Mobile marketing

• Overview of the different mobile access technologies
• Consumer and corporate applications of mobile marketing
• Buying mobile marketing services and customer data
• Key factors in designing and managing mobile marketing campaigns
• Essential mobile campaign metrics

Day 3: Integrating and Optimising Your Digital Marketing

Integrating your marketing communications

• Why integration is essential and how best to achieve it
• Integrating both on and offline activity
• Award-winning integrated campaign examples

Affiliate marketing

• What is affiliate marketing and how it can be used to optimise your e-marketing effectiveness
• Understanding the mechanics and process involved
• Getting started: using a network vs going it alone

Optimising your digital marketing via tracking and measurement

• Key metrics for measuring online advertising effectiveness
• Using cookies and analytics tools to track site visitors
• Tracking and measuring email, banners, Adword and viral campaign responses
• Measuring how your site helps or hinders campaign response

Creating the ideal online campaign plan

• Best practice approaches to online campaign planning
• How to determine the appropriate level of spend, mix and sequence of your e-marketing tools
• Campaign, offer and messaging strategy
• Campaign timing and integration issues
• Supplier selection for the different digital marketing campaign elements
• Post course action plan

Training course tutor

David Hughes Dip DM, M IDM runs an independent digital marketing consultancy, Non-Line Marketing, and has over 8 years experience of email and internet marketing. His areas of specialisation include on-line data gathering, developing email marketing communication programmes and integrating email marketing with traditional direct marketing channels.

For the past 5 years he has been a Strategic Consultant with Emailvision, a pan European email technology provider, helping client and agency partners with the strategic, technical and operational issues affecting email campaign success. He works with companies such as Telegraph, Kangol, Institute of Directors and 3M and has experience of email in both the B2B and B2C sectors. David is also the Director of the Tank! On-Line Marketing Action Group, delivering thought leadership programmes for the client marketing community and is author of the DMA UK Email Marketing Benchmarking Report.

David spent 7 years at Claritas (now Acxiom) as the European Data Acquisition Manager generating over 8 million survey responses per year across 7 countries. This off-line, high volume direct mail experience allows him to apply direct marketing techniques to email marketing programmes. He gained an IDM Diploma, with Distinction, in 1992, is a regular speaker for the Direct Marketing Association on email issues and is a member of the IDM Digital Marketing Examination Board and a Course Tutor for the IDM Digital Marketing Diploma.

David is also a training course tutor for the following IDM training courses and marketing qualification:

Effective Email Marketing: Beyond The Basics
Effective Business-to-Business Email Marketing
IDM Diploma in Digital Marketing

Guest speakers

Marty Carroll Dip DigM is Director of Consultancy at Foviance (formerly The Usability Company), with ultimate responsibility for all client engagements. Drawing on expertise in usability, web analytics and survey methods he advises clients, including RBS, Sky, Nokia & Royal Mail, on the tools and techniques to create compelling user experiences online.

He frequently speaks at industry events and participates in roundtable discussions to promote usability and user experience. Marty has provided comment on usability issues for both trade publications and the national press. He most recently authored a paper entitled Usability and Web analytics: ROI justification for an Internet strategy, published in the Journal of Interactive Marketing, Henry Stewart Publications. Prior to joining TUC Marty worked for a full service e-business development organisation. In 2000 Marty founded the UK Chapter of the Usability Professionals Association and is currently past-president. Marty has a BA in psychology and an MSc in Human Computer Interaction. Marty is also one of the speakers for the IDM Diploma in Digital Marketing.

Jonathan Bass M IDM began his career at LEK Consulting where he worked on projects including the launch of the Prudential Bank in the UK. In 1998 he joined Clear Channel International as Group Development Director. In 2001 he decided the time was right to use advances in mobile data services to enable brands to connect with customers via the mobile telephone and he founded Incentivated. Jonathan is also one of the speakers for the IDM Diploma in Digital Marketing.

Matthew Tod is co-founder of Logan Tod, a company that helps clients get more business results from their existing websites. Currently, the organisation is helping ASDA, Littlewoods, Renault, Nortel and Citigroup generate more sales leads and make more sales online. Matthew previously created and built up the online advertising agency for the Publicis Group. Matthew is also one of the speakers for the IDM Diploma in Digital Marketing.

David Hall is Client Services Manager for Affiliate Window. David came to Affiliate Window with a proven track record from a varied media background. Bridging the gap between new business and our established brands, David brings a flair and dynamism that makes training and understanding affiliates more fun than it should be. Affiliate Window is widely regarded as the most customer-centric and technology-driven of all affiliate marketing networks. David can be either found presenting at conferences, events, to associations like the IDM, IAB and the IMRG or networking like a seasoned celebrity signature hunter. He is the consummate professional host. David is also one of the speakers for the IDM Certificate in Digital Marketing.

Mike Rogers M IDM founded Optimize as a specialist search engine marketing (SEM) agency in 1999 which provides independent Internet marketing services, consultancy and training to clients in the UK and overseas. Services include search engine optimisation (SEO), Pay per Click (PPC) advertising, web analytics and a range of other paid SEM services such as Trusted Feeds. Clients include companies as diverse as the BBC, Kodak, Monster.co.uk, Nationwide, Parcelforce, the Royal Mail, Toshiba, Yell.com and many other small and medium sized businesses. Prior to Optimize he worked for over 15 years in technical and marketing roles. Mike is also a training course tutor for the IDM training courses and IDM qualifications listed below:

Best Practice Search Engine Marketing
Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
IDM Certificate and Diploma In Digital Marketing

Mike O'Brien is an award-winning creative director with over 25 years' brand advertising, direct marketing and integrated marketing experience. Besides working on groundbreaking consultancy projects for clients and agencies across the UK, he lectures on New Media at University level, devises and conducts training workshops for new business development directors, account executives and creative teams. Mike is also one of the training course tutors for the IDM's Writing for Digital Media training course and the IDM Diploma and Certificate in Digital Marketing.