Internet Marketing and Social Media

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2013:

In addition to face-to-face teaching time of 16 hours, students should expect to undertake a minimum of 60 hours research, reading, writing and general study to complete this subject successfully.

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This subject inspires senior marketers and executives to design and implement successful internet marketing strategies for their organizations. This program uses a collaborative learning environment to teach participants how to:

• develop Search Engine Optomisation (SEO) strategies in order to obtain superior search engine results
• develop an effective online communications plan;
• analyze and make sense of web statistics;
• maximize the effectiveness of ‘adwords’, and;
• build and manage a successful social media campaign.

On successful completion of this program, students should be able to:

• analyse problems associated with corporate internet integration and be capable of generating appropriate solutions;
• conceptualise and implement internet marketing campaigns;
• understand the concept of web analytics and be able to interpret key statistics;
• understand how web analytics may be used to guide internet strategy;
• understand the potential of social media to marketers.

• 1500 word case study of an on-line marketing proposal (60%) due four weeks after the subject is completed
• 1000 word critique of an existing on-line case study (40%) due two weeks after the subject is completed

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Know how to develop an IT strategies to solve problems
• Know how to develop an effective on-line communication plan.
• Know what questions to ask IT specialists
• Critical analytical and thinking and problem solving skills