Advanced Marketing
Code: 42226 ECTS Credits: 10| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 4313148 Marketing | OB | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Joan Llonch Andreu
- Email:
- joan.llonch@uab.cat
Teachers
- Maria Pilar Lopez Belbeze
- Rosalia Gallo Martinez
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
It is recommended that the student have knowledge in commercial management or marketing direction.
Objectives and Contextualisation
Study the most relevant aspects and tools of strategic marketing, both from the traditional approach, as well as from digital marketing. It is intended that the student knows the main techniques to strategically analyze the markets, the decisions to be adopted and how to plan marketing actions.
Competences
- Address business situations and/or problems that imply an ethical dilemma on the basis of critical reflection.
- Analyse the structure and workings of business organisations and their markets for the purpose of decision-making in marketing.
- Design and implement marketing plans, applying criteria of effectiveness and efficiency.
- Design, plan and direct marketing actions in the new scenarios posed by the information society.
- Generate innovative, competitive ideas and solutions.
- Implement emerging techniques in the field of marketing.
- Know and understand the issues related to the management of commercial distribution and of an organisation's sales network.
- Provide innovative solutions to commercial problems.
- Transfer planning and strategy design in marketing to the socio-political sphere.
- Work in interdisciplinary teams.
Learning Outcomes
- Address business situations and/or problems that imply an ethical dilemma on the basis of critical reflection.
- Define key strategic positions for different product-market situations.
- Describe the evolution and current situation of commercial distribution.
- Develop and implement procedures to safeguard the integrity of commercial distribution.
- Distinguish the elements of strategic management in marketing.
- Establish processes of analysis and evaluation of actions by competing businesses.
- Establish the structure and the model of a marketing plan.
- Evaluate market dynamics.
- Formulate realistic and innovative strategies.
- Generate innovative, competitive ideas and solutions.
- Identify and analyse the resources and internal capacities of the organisation.
- Identify and distinguish the new trends in marketing.
- Identify strategic marketing typologies.
- Identify the key elements of a commercial problem in a non-business context.
- Identify the key elements of the principal marketing strategies.
- Identify the key factors in integral management of distribution.
- Make a benchmarking analysis.
- Make detailed proposals for planning or organisation in marketing.
- Recognise and identify the values and moderating factors of an organisation's market orientation.
- Recognise the factors of strategic positioning.
- Recognise the reach and application of marketing.
- Use models of strategic diagnosis.
- Work in interdisciplinary teams.
Content
1) Market orientation and relationship marketing
- The development of market orientation
- Market orientation and results
- Relationship marketing
- Loyalty in the Internet Age
2) Customer value management
- Customer value
- Customer acquisition
- Customer retention and growth
3) Brand Equity and Valuation Systems
- The tangible and/or intangible differentiation of the offer
- Economic valuation of the brand
- Different methods of brand valuation
4) Pricing decisions
- Considerations in pricing decisions
- Objectives of a pricing policy
- The pricing process
5) The management of the sales force
- Changes in the market environment
- New approach to selling, sell or retain
- Sales manager responsibilities in the 21st Century
- The figure of the Key Account Manager (KAM)
6) Marketplace Marketing
- Definition and characteristics of markets.
- Role of markets
- Product listing optimization (SEO)
- Marketplace Advertising (SEM)
- Campaign management and key metrics.
7) Social Media Marketing
- The role of social networks in distribution processes.
- Communication strategy in social contexts.
- Social selling
8) The marketing plan: strategic phase
- Features and function of a marketing plan
- Strategic analysis and diagnosis of the situation
- Determination of objectives
9) The marketing plan: tactical phase
- Establishment of action plans
- Determination of the Budget and operating account
- Success Factors
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Lectures | 75 | 3 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Business cases | 50 | 2 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Individual task | 100 | 4 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 |
To achieve the objectives of this module, during the course a set of different teaching methodologies are used: lectures, case discussions, oral presentations in class previously prepared by the students and realization of exercises or activities in class.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participate in class | 20 | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 |
| Practical exercises | 40 | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 |
| Test | 40 | 3 | 0.12 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 |
General rules for evaluating modules
This module is structured in different parts. Each part is in charge of different teachers. The final grade of the module consists of the average of the points of each subject or part. It is considered that the module has been approved if:
1. the grade of each part of the module is greater than or equal to 5 (on a scale of 0 to 10) and
2. the final grade of the module is greater than or equal to 5 (on a scale of 0 to 10)
If the module is not approved, master coordination will offer the student the possibility of re-evaluating only one part or several parts in order to pass the module according to the assessment of the teachers of the modules and master comission. If the student approves the re-evaluation, the maximum grade that will be obtained in the reevaluated part will be 5. The calendar of the re-evaluations will be made public along with the list of notes of the module.
If the student does not attend at least 80% of the face-to-face classes (a control will be kept with a signature sheet) or if the student does not perform at least 50% of the continuous assessment activities, the student will have a grade "Not Evaluated". Each teacher will specify in this guide how they will evaluate the students. If not specified in the guide, those evaluation standards will be delivered on the first day of class in writing.
In order to successfully pass the MARKETING ADVANCED module, it is necessary to carry out two tests, as well as to demonstrate sufficiency in the resolution of the cases and the exercises proposed in class.
Specifically, the final evaluation of the module will be based on the following criteria:
- Active participation in the student's class (20%)
- Resolution of cases and practical exercises (40%)
- Tests (40%)
EXAMINATION-BASED ASSESSMENT:
• It will consist of an exam of all the subject, with a weight of 100% on the final grade.
• The presence of the student is mandatory on the day that the single assessment is carried out.
• The date will be the same as the date of the final semester exam that appears in the evaluation calendar published by the Faculty of Economics and Business.
• The activity giving rise to the evidence is carried out face-to-face on the day of the single assessment.
• The same recovery system will be applied as for continuous assessment.
• The review of the final grade follows the same procedure as for continuous assessment.
Bibliography
- Main References:
- Villanueva, J. i Juan Manuel de Toro (coord.), Marketing Estratégico, Ed. EUNSA - IESE Business School, Barcelona, 2019.
- Sainz de Vicuña, J.M, El Plan de Marketing en la Práctica, Ed. ESIC, Madrid.
- Other references:
- Alcaide, J.C., Fidelización de clientes, Ed. ESIC. 2010.
- Cravens, D.W. i Piercy, N.F., Marketing Estratégico, Ed. McGraw-Hill, Madrid, 2007.
- Hollensen, S. i Ortiz, J.A., Estrategias de Marketing Internacional, Pearson, Madrid, 2010.
- Specific references suggested by professors.
Software
The student must have a good knowledge of Microsoft Office and a basic knowledge of a program to perform multivariate analysis.
Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (TEm) Theory (master) | 30 | Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |