DMKT5008
Digital Marketing Coursework Brief

Handout:
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Word Limit: up to 4500 words (Plus or minus 10%)
Learning outcomes assessed:

Explain the foundation principles of digital marketing, and be able to distinguish between traditional and digital marketing.
Identify the relevant laws and guidelines that pertain to the different aspects of digital marketing.
Apply digital marketing tactics to develop an integrated and effective digital marketing approach across different digital domains.
Analyse the role of content within digital channels.
Examine the value of on-going analysis and measurement as a way of managing and evaluating their digital marketing efforts and budgetary spend.

This coursework is worth 100% of the total marks for this module.

Coursework Instructions
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• Carefully read the module handbook, the marking criteria and the grade descriptors.
Academic Misconduct
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• Complete this work alone except where required or allowed by this assignment briefing paper and ensure it has not been written or composed by or with the assistance of any other person.

• Make sure all sentences or passages quoted from other people’s work in this assignment (with or without trivial changes) are in quotation marks, and are specifically acknowledged by reference to the author, work and page.

Assignment Brief
You have recently been promoted to a new role as Digital Marketing Manager. As part of your first project in your new role, the Head of the Marketing department has asked you to investigate some new strategies to strengthen and reinforce the organisation`s digital marketing capabilities and expertise.
In this assignment you will be asked to imagine that you are working for one of the companies listed below, each of which is interested in further enhancing its use of digital marketing: -

Very.co.uk
Apple (United Kingdom)
Amazon
Ryanair

As part of your report it is imperative that you cover all the core sections (1- 9) listed below: -

Discuss why it is important for your chosen company to invest in its digital marketing capabilities in addition to its existing traditional marketing know-how, with reference to specific digital tools, technologies, and approaches and any associated constraints. (5 marks)
Discuss the steps and activities you would undertake to assess the company’s organic search ranking performance with reference to the underlying rationale for your suggested approach. Support your argument with reference to any tools, technologies, and procedures you would use to help the organisation to maximise its ranking and identify how you would measure the success of your approach. (11 marks)
Document the steps you would follow and any processes and digital tools you would use to analyse the existing Paid Search activity for your chosen company. Next, critically discuss and recommend how to design an effective PPC strategy to increase the visibility of the website on a range of search engines, bring more relevant traffic to the website, and win more customers for the business. (11 marks)
Recommend an effective online display advertising campaign to build reach, awareness, branding and influence for your chosen company’s target audience. Support your discussion by defining the target audience, the campaign’s key objectives, the formats and publishers that best fit with the stated objectives, any potential legal constraints, and how best to measure the campaign’s performance. (11 marks)
Critically discuss the email marketing process and briefly outline key activities associated with each stage. Discuss how email can be used as an effective segmentation tool with reference both to the opportunities and any potential pitfalls for your chosen company. (11 marks)
Define social media marketing and distinguish between earned, owned, and paid media. Critically discuss the stages in the social media marketing process and how to use key social channels to engage customers and maximise online presence. Differentiate between the advantages offered by the key social channels in terms of targeting specific audiences and measuring their engagement, for your chosen company. (24 marks)
Explain how mobile marketing can be integrated as part of your chosen company’s overall digital marketing strategy. Support the discussion with reference to key mobile considerations including optimisation, search, proximity marketing, apps and advertising, and measurement. (11 marks)
Explain how you would go about measuring the success of your chosen company’s digital strategy using analytics. Support your explanation by referring to the specific insights and metrics you are targeting, why you have chosen them, and what benefit you expect your organisation to gain from the initiative. Identify any tools or platforms you recommend using to measure campaign performance with specific reference to any important features, capabilities, or methodologies associated with the monitoring process. (13 marks)
Identity the key tasks and activities that must be incorporated into an effective digital marketing strategy for your chosen company and support your answer with reference to key milestones, deliverables, procedures and resources required to implement a digital marketing campaign (3 marks)

Assignment Guidelines

	Maximum 100 Marks
1. Introduction to Digital Marketing	5
Learning Outcomes Assessed: - harness the power of digital marketing within the marketing strategy for an organization build digital marketing campaigns develop an integrated digital marketing approach across the variety of specialisms: search, display, email, social media, mobile and analytics manage and evaluate digital marketing efforts and budgets
Knowledge and Skills Assessed: - Define Digital Marketing Traditional Marketing approach Opportunity for Digital Marketing Market Research Search Marketing channel Define analytics	5
2. Search Marketing (SEO)	11
Learning Outcomes Assessed: - boost a website’s organic search ranking using on-page and off-page elements execute keyword research and select suitable keywords for website content create content and meta-elements throughout a website use a range of tools to help search engines find, index and rank a website measure SEO efforts by evaluating key metrics
Knowledge and Skills Assessed: - Concepts SEO Definition Positioning SEO Process SEO elements	3
Knowledge and Skills Assessed: - Technical Optimization Definition SEO tags Site speed Sitemap Webmaster tools	3

Knowledge and Skills Assessed: - On-Page Optimization Content: Keywords Content: Updates	2
Knowledge and Skills Assessed: - Off-Page Optimization Definition Link building methods Google+ optimization	2
Knowledge and Skills Assessed: - Analysis KPI measures	1
3. Search Marketing (PPC)	11
Learning Outcomes Assessed: - leverage pay-per-click advertising to drive quality traffic to a website set up a Google AdWords account and develop an AdWords campaign use tools to run and manage successful PPC campaigns and to increase return-on-investment analyze existing search marketing activity and tailor paid campaigns to enhance engagement set a PPC budget and report on the effectiveness of a PPC campaign
Knowledge and Skills Assessed: - Concepts: Key aspects Tools Strengths of PPC	1
Knowledge and Skills Assessed: - Pay-Per-Click: Keyword research Google PPC	2
Knowledge and Skills Assessed: - Research: Research tools	1
Knowledge and Skills Assessed: - Campaign process: Scheduling Display Network Remarketing Settings Attributes Keyword selection Ad Copy Budgets	4