Taught by three of Wharton's top faculty in the marketing department, consistently ranked as the #1 marketing department in the world, this course covers three core topics in customer loyalty: branding, customer centricity, and practical, go-to-market strategies.
You’ll learn key principles in
- Branding: brand equity is one of the key elements of keeping customers in a dynamic world in which new startups are emerging constantly.
- Customer centricity: not synonymous with customer service, customer centricity starts with customer focus and need-gathering.
- Go-to-market strategies: understand the drivers that influence customers and see how these are implemented prior to making an investment.
Complete this course as part of Wharton's Business Foundations Specialization, and you'll have the opportunity to take the Capstone Project and prepare a strategic analysis and proposed solution to a real business challenge from Wharton-governed companies like Shazam and SnapDeal or to a challenge faced by your own company or organization. Wharton-trained staff will evaluate the top submissions, and leadership teams at Shazam and SnapDeal will review the highest scoring projects prepared for their companies.
This course is part of the Business Foundations Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week
12 hours to complete
BRANDING: Marketing Strategy and Brand Positioning
Professor Kahn starts us off with the first of two Branding modules: Marketing Strategy and Brand Positioning. For an overview of all concepts covered in the course, please read the syllabus below. Additional info may be found in the Course Pages. Please participate in the discussion forums as your input will enhance the overall experience of this course!
7 videos (Total 80 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz
7 videos
Marketing 101: Building Strong Brands Part II4m
Strategic Marketing11m
Segmentation and Targeting12m
Brand Positioning12m
Brand Mantra: The Elevator Speech9m
Experiential Branding13m
3 readings
Syllabus10m
FAQ10m
Additional Readings10m
1 practice exercise
Quiz #120m
Week
22 hours to complete
CUSTOMER CENTRICITY: The Limits of Product-Centric Thinking & The Opportunities and Challenges of Customer Centricity
Module 2 of our class features Professor Peter Fader, who will focus on concepts related to Customer Centricity. In an economy that is increasingly responsive to customer behaviors, it is imperative to focus on the right customers for strategic advantages. The coming weeks will provide the foundation needed to build a customer centric outlook. If you want to read more about Professor Fader’s views on customer centricity, feel free to follow him on Twitter (@faderp). He regularly shares relevant perspectives and readings there.
9 videos (Total 81 min), 1 quiz
9 videos
Cracks in the Product-Centric Approach9m
Data-Driven Business Models4m
Three Cheers for Direct Marketing3m
Which Firms Are Customer Centric?12m
What is Customer Centricity?11m
Living in a Customer-Centric World14m
More Reflections on Customer Centricity3m
Questions on Customer Centricity6m
1 practice exercise
Quiz #220m
Week
32 hours to complete
GO TO MARKET STRATEGIES: Online-Offline Interaction & How to Find Lead Users and Facilitate Influence and Contagion
Professor David Bell takes over this week as we begin our third module! We are shifting focus to the critical topic of "Go to Market Strategies." The "go to market" strategy offers more possibilities than ever before as companies have the potential to address consumers both offline and online through a variety of platforms. Professor Bell has been able to work on these very issues with several exciting startups and will use those experiences to help illustrate this week's material.
12 videos (Total 113 min), 1 quiz
12 videos
Online/Offline Competition4m
Friction4m
The Long Tail Part 110m
The Long Tail Part 29m
Preference Isolation14m
How Internet Retailing Startups Grow12m
Customers and Digital Marketing9m
Influence and How Information Spreads11m
Pricing Strategies 1: Introduction11m
Pricing Strategies 2: Customer Factors12m
The 7ms9m
1 practice exercise
Quiz #320m
Week
43 hours to complete
BRANDING: Effective Brand Communications Strategies and Repositioning Strategies
Professor Kahn is back in this fourth module, the second of her Branding Modules, covering effective brand communications strategies and repositioning strategies. Understanding how customers perceive your brand messaging and marketing is one of the most important aspects to understanding consumer behavior: what consumers perceive is what affects their actions, and what they perceive is not necessarily true! Professor Kahn unpacks customer behavior and perception and explores successful strategies for influencing both in this final required module of the course.
6 videos (Total 87 min), 1 quiz
6 videos
Brand Elements: Choosing a Brand Name19m
Brand Elements: Color & Taglines11m
Brand Elements: Packaging10m
Brand Elements: Persuasion13m
Repositioning a Brand18m
1 practice exercise
Final Exam20m
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Top Reviews
Learned a lot of things in this course. Have already started changing the way I think about pricing in my current position. I hope we get the opportunity to apply these concepts in Capstone project.
This course enhanced my perspective, I took it parallel to my ongoing courese, the cases discussed in this module helped me to analyse the application of various marketing concepts. Thanks a lot...!
Instructors
Barbara E. Kahn
Professor of Marketing and Director, Jay H. Baker Retailing CenterThe Wharton School
Peter Fader
Professor of Marketing and Co-Director of the Wharton Customer Analytics InitiativeThe Wharton School
David Bell
Xinmei Zhang and Yongge Dai Professor, Professor of MarketingMarketing
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About the Business Foundations Specialization
In this Specialization, you’ll develop basic literacy in the language of business, which you can use to transition to a new career, start or improve your own small business, or apply to business school to continue your education. In five courses, you’ll learn the fundamentals of marketing, accounting, operations, and finance. In the final Capstone Project, you’ll apply the skills learned by developing a go-to-market strategy to address a real business challenge.
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