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Organizations large and small are inundated with data about consumer choices. But that wealth of information does not always translate into better decisions. Knowing how to interpret data is the challenge -- and marketers in particular are increasingly expected to use analytics to inform and justify their decisions. 
Marketing analytics enables marketers to measure, manage and analyze marketing performance to maximize its effectiveness and optimize return on investment (ROI). Beyond the obvious sales and lead generation applications, marketing analytics can offer profound insights into customer preferences and trends, which can be further utilized for future marketing and business decisions. 

This course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, gives you the tools to measure brand and customer assets, understand regression analysis, and design experiments as a way to evaluate and optimize marketing campaigns. You'll leave the course with a solid understanding of how to use marketing analytics to predict outcomes and systematically allocate resources.

You can follow my posts in Twitter, @rajkumarvenk, and on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/education-marketing.

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Professor of Business Administration at Darden

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What you will learn

How to build and define a brand architecture and how to measure the impact of marketing efforts on brand value over time
How to measure customer lifetime value and use that information to evaluate strategic marketing alternatives
How to design basic experiments so that you can assess your marketing efforts and invest your marketing dollars most effectively
How to set up regressions, interpret outputs, explore confounding effects and biases, and distinguish between economic and statistical significance

Skills you will gain

Marketing Experiments
Customer Lifetime Value
Regression Analysis
Marketing Analytics
Brand Equity

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Rajkumar Venkatesan

Ronald Trzcinski Professor of Business Administration

Darden School of Business

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University of Virginia

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Leveraging User Generated Content

2 hours to complete

10 videos (Total 35 min), 2 readings, 3 quizzes

10 videos

Data, Data Everywhere!2m

Course Overview2m

Why Marketing Analytics?4m

Introduction to the Marketing Process2m

Airbnb Marketing Process7m

Airbnb's Strategic Challenge1m

Airbnb's Marketing Strategy with Data3m

Using Text Analytics3m

Utilizing Data to Improve Marketing Strategy3m

Takeaways: Improving the Marketing Process with Analytics3m

2 readings

Course Overview & Requirements10m

Use Discussion Forums to Deepen Your Learning10m

3 practice exercises

Practice Quiz on the Marketing Process15m

Practice Quiz on Data Analytics Basics18m

Week 1 Quiz: the Marketing Process33m

Week

Week 2

5 hours to complete

Metrics for Measuring Brand Assets

Firms spend millions on branding for one reason: It allows them to charge more for their products and services. In this module, we'll explore this valuable, if intangible, asset. We'll discuss how to build and define a brand architecture and how to measure the impact of marketing efforts on brand value over time. By the end of this module, you'll be able to measure and track brand value. So let's get started!

5 hours to complete

12 videos (Total 46 min)

12 videos

Intro to Metrics for Measuring Brand Assets1m

Snapple and Brand Value5m

Developing Brand Personality4m

Brand Personality: Red Bull1m

Developing Brand Architecture5m

Brand Architecture: Red Bull3m

Brand Architecture: Etch A Sketch2m

Measuring Brand Value10m

Measuring Brand Value: Key Points1m

Revenue Premium as a Measure of Brand Equity5m

Calculating Brand Value: Snapple5m

Takeaways: Measuring Brand Value1m

3 practice exercises

Practice Quiz on Brand and Brand Architecture12m

Practice Quiz on Calculating Brand Value24m

Week 2 Quiz on Measuring Brand Assets30m

Week

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Customer Lifetime Value

How valuable are your customers? That's a tough question that we'll show you how to answer in this module where we'll explore Customer Lifetime Value, or the future net value of a customer relationship. This forward-looking measure of the customer relationship helps you connect marketing strategies to future financial consequences and invest marketing dollars in the right place to maximize return over a customer's lifetime. By the end of this module, you will know how to measure customer lifetime value and evaluate strategic marketing alternatives based on whether they improve customer retention and lifetime value.

2 hours to complete

11 videos (Total 45 min)

Week

Week 4

5 hours to complete

Marketing Experiments

Ever wonder how much you have to cut prices to drive the most sales? Or which advertisement copy is more effective in customer conversion? Do an experiment! Experiments allow you to understand the effectiveness of different marketing strategies and forecast expected ROI. This week, we'll explore how to design basic experiments so that you can assess your marketing efforts and invest your marketing dollars most effectively. We'll help you avoid a gap between your test results and field implementation, and explore how web experiments can be implemented cheaply and quickly. By the end of this module, you'll be able to design and conduct effective experiments that test your marketing campaigns--and then use the results to make future marketing decisions.

5 hours to complete

13 videos (Total 60 min), 3 readings, 5 quizzes

13 videos

Welcome to Week 41m

Determining Cause and Effect through Experiments3m

Designing Basic Experiments6m

Designing Before - After Experiments5m

Designing Full Factorial Web Experiments4m

Designing an Experiment: Etch A Sketch2m

Analyzing an Experiment: Etch A Sketch8m

Analyzing an Experiment: Betty Spaghetty5m

Projecting Lift2m

Calculating Projected Lift: Betty Spaghetty6m

Pitfalls of Marketing Experiments: Betty Spaghetty3m

Maximizing Effectiveness: Nanoblocks8m

Takeaways: Marketing Experiments1m

3 readings

Spreadsheet with Formulas10m

Transformation of Marketing at the Ohio Art Company (abridged)15m

MBTN Assessments10m

4 practice exercises

Practice Quiz 1 on Designing Experiments9m

Practice Quiz 2 on Calculating Break Even and Lift12m

Practice Quiz 3 on Projecting Lift9m

Week 4: Marketing Experiments Quiz30m

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TOP REVIEWS FROM MARKETING ANALYTICS

by SNMay 30, 2020

This is a very nice course that takes you through some interesting analytics concept - there is a good deal of problem solving or quantitatives involved which as marketers we need to get used to.

by PSAug 21, 2020

Excellent course. The instructor is really good and explains all concepts and calculations really well. The quizzes are challenging and effective. Loved every bit of this course. Highly recommend.

by SCApr 17, 2020

It was very helpful for my marketing career.The interview with the real world marketing experts at the end of the course also helps and encourages a lot. Thanks to Raj Venkatesan sir for his effort.

by AGMay 10, 2020

Great course.Coursera provides wonderful opportunity for analytics learners through the course.Well designed course packed with assignments.Just Loved every lessons of the course.Thank you Coursera.☺

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