MarTech Strategy: Leveraging Data and Technology in Marketing

Are you ready for the second golden age of marketing technology?

Duration

6 weeks, excluding
orientation

Effort

7–9 hours per week,
entirely online

Learning Format

Weekly modules,
flexible learning

This Course Is for You if You Want To:

 

  • Expand your technical skill set by understanding how to leverage MarTech tools across the customer journey

  • Develop and align a MarTech strategy with existing business goals while driving collaboration between teams

  • Tap into the growing field of MarTech as a technical professional with an interest in marketing

On Completion of This Course, You Will Walk Away With:

1

Useful templates to aid in developing a unique, innovative and forward-thinking MarTech strategy and roadmap for your business.

2

An in-depth understanding of the six components of MarTech and how they contribute to your overall business success.

3

The expertise to apply dynamic marketing principles and MarTech insights to help solve business challenges in your context.

4

The ability to use MarTech tools to optimize your customer journey by sharing and measuring tailored campaigns that meet your strategic goals.

Course Curriculum

Over the duration of this online short course, you will work through the following modules:

Module 1
Dynamic Advertising and Promotion

Explore the various types of digital advertising and promotions, and the metrics used to measure the performance of the six primary marketing channels.

Module 2
Using MarTech for Content Distribution and Customer Experience

Learn how marketing technology can be leveraged to personalize content for specific audiences in order to optimize the customer experience and journey.

Module 3
MarTech Data and Infrastructure

Discover the key technologies for organizing, warehousing and leveraging data, and the related regulatory challenges.

Module 4
E-Commerce and Digital Sales Enablement

Explore the digital commerce ecosystem and the technologies that drive automation for optimized business outcomes.

Module 5
Dynamic Customer Relationship Management Systems and Technologies

Learn about the evolution of customer relationship management (CRM) systems and their role in customer acquisition, retention and expansion.

Module 6
MarTech Management and Governance

Reflect on the talent, capabilities, processes and technologies required to integrate MarTech into an organization.

 

Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during course development.

Your Academic Director

Frank Dudley

Lecturer, Medill at Northwestern University

Dudley is a faculty member at Northwestern University, and has developed and authored numerous research studies in collaboration with the ANA, the PMA, Northwestern and many Fortune 500 firms. In addition to teaching at Northwestern, he is also president of the Financial Marketing Institute, which conducts the most comprehensive research on digital marketing and media for the financial services industry in the U.S. Before managing the Financial Marketing Institute, he held the positions of CMO, EVP of research, strategic planning and analytics for MKTG, Inc. (now part of Dentsu Aegis Network), and was head of marketing of Guideline/Opinion Research Corporation, as well as the first director of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). He also served on the founding C-level management teams of several successful digital startup companies, including Virtusa (EVP, chief marketing officer), Harvard Business School’s ZEFER (EVP and chief innovation officer), and Viant (chief creative officer).

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