Digital Marketing Online

This course will help you find a job in Digital Marketing that excites you and meets your financial needs. Not just any job; one that excites you and meets your financial needs. You will explore career paths, potential salaries, and the skills required to achieve those salaries. This exploration will help you identify target jobs and opportunities. You will then plan the steps needed to achieve your goals and begin executing that plan. [This course is offered through the RIZE Education Consortium.]

The average consumer spends 2.5 hours per day on social media sites. This course explores how to effectively use social media to move those consumers to action. In order to be a successful marketer, you must be able to plan a campaign that aligns with strategic goals, execute using the appropriate channels and tactics, and measure the success or failure of your efforts. By the end of this course, you will learn how to do just that. [This course is offered through the RIZE Education Consortium.]

“Going viral” is crucial for businesses. Companies that create content that spreads quickly online can significantly grow their brand. “Growth hacking” maximizes every opportunity and extracts value from every move. This course teaches what drives people to share content and how to create shareable, meme-worthy material that boosts growth. You'll also discuss the ethics of going viral and handling negative publicity. [This course is offered through the RIZE Education Consortium.]

Lifecycle marketing is essential for businesses to maintain continuous engagement with customers by tailoring content to their specific stages. Emails are crucial for creating direct, personalized communication that varies by lifecycle stage. In this course, you’ll learn to craft successful email campaigns within lifecycle marketing plans. By the end, you’ll build a marketing campaign that drives customers to take desired actions based on their lifecycle stage. [This course is offered through the RIZE Education Consortium.]

Marketing professionals today have access to incredible amounts of data. The ability to use this data is what differentiates successful marketing efforts from failed ones. In this course, you'll learn to design experiments that rigorously test various marketing decisions, analyze digital customer behavior data using a variety of tools, and leverage data to refine marketing strategies and improve customer acquisition. [This course is offered through the RIZE Education Consortium.]

In the real world, companies use multiple channels for marketing efforts. Campaigns are spread across social media, email, search, and more for maximum reach and engagement, leading to multi-channel strategies. In this course, you'll learn to create effective multi-channel marketing plans, considering the advantages and disadvantages of each platform. By the end, you'll produce a portfolio-worthy digital marketing campaign plan that utilizes multiple channels. [This course is offered through the RIZE Education Consortium.]

Students may choose to take either MAT 200 or SSC 230 to fulfill the statistics requirement for this major.