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MKTO8004 – Digital Marketing Strategy

2024 – Term 1, Online-scheduled-weekday

General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff
Rino Do
rino.do@mq.edu.au
Credit points Credit points
10
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Unit description Unit description

Digital marketing is increasingly a key activity that supports and supplements traditional marketing activities across all sectors. A successful digital marketing strategy offers value to both firms and consumers. Through effective digital marketing, firms will be able to expand their area of activities and more effectively achieve their business goals; consumers will achieve greater value through increasing convenience, easier access to information, customer support, as well as having access to more diverse product choices. The focus of this unit is on developing students’ knowledge of digital marketing strategies, concepts, and insights to build and optimise firms' digital marketing presence. In this unit, students will develop the ability to deploy various methods of digital marketing and design a digital marketing strategic plan. Moreover, the unit will help develop students’ ability to critically analyse and evaluate firms' digital marketing strategies and provide managerial solutions.

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Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • ULO1: Define and apply digital marketing strategies, concepts, and insights to build and optimise firms digital marketing presence.
  • ULO2: Deploy various methods of digital marketing to design a digital marketing strategic plan.
  • ULO3: Critically analyse and evaluate firms digital marketing strategies and provide managerial recommendations.

General Assessment Information

General Assessment Information 

Late submissions of assessments 

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a grade of ‘0’ will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical concern. 

For any late submissions of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, students need to submit an application for Special Consideration.

Special Consideration

To request an extension on the due date/time for a timed or non-timed assessment task, you must submit a Special Consideration application. An application for Special Consideration does not guarantee approval.

The approved extension date for a student becomes the new due date for that student. The late submission penalties above then apply as of the new due date.

Word limits

Anything beyond a stated assessment word limit (other than your reference list) may not be marked. Seek any further clarification from the unit convenor.

Assessment Tasks

Name Weighting Hurdle Due
Digital Marketing Strategy Plan 30% No Week 10
Digital Marketing Report 40% No Week 8
Practice-based activities 30% No Weeks 3, 6, 10

Digital Marketing Strategy Plan

Assessment Type 1: Plan
Indicative Time on Task 2: 36 hours
Due: Week 10
Weighting: 30%

 

Designing a digital marketing strategic plan for an imaginary firm (in a given industry i.e. Food industry, Fashion industry, Entertainment industry, Hospitality industry, Financial Service industry, Healthcare industry). Students will work as a group to propose their creative ideas and strategies on developing a digital marketing strategic plan, and present them to the class (max number of slides 20, video presentation: 15 minutes).

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Deploy various methods of digital marketing to design a digital marketing strategic plan.
  • Critically analyse and evaluate firms digital marketing strategies and provide managerial recommendations.

Digital Marketing Report

Assessment Type 1: Report
Indicative Time on Task 2: 30 hours
Due: Week 8
Weighting: 40%

 

The digital marketing report is an individual assessment (40%, 2000 words). It focuses on conducting a critical analysis of a real-world brand’s digital marketing presence, and its strategies (e.g. channel selection, audience engagement strategies, content development, implementation and monitoring strategies, …), providing managerial recommendations for improving the brand’s digital marketing footprint.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Define and apply digital marketing strategies, concepts, and insights to build and optimise firms digital marketing presence.
  • Deploy various methods of digital marketing to design a digital marketing strategic plan.
  • Critically analyse and evaluate firms digital marketing strategies and provide managerial recommendations.

Practice-based activities

Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 24 hours
Due: Weeks 3, 6, 10
Weighting: 30%

 

Practice based activities include weekly online discussions/ submissions/ tasks that need to be submitted on iLearn.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Define and apply digital marketing strategies, concepts, and insights to build and optimise firms digital marketing presence.
  • Critically analyse and evaluate firms digital marketing strategies and provide managerial recommendations.

1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

  • the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
  • the Writing Centre for academic skills support.

2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation

Delivery and Resources

Please see iLearn for more information.

Unit Schedule

DATE

MODULE

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

ASSESSMENT

Week 0  

Module 0: Getting started

  

Assessment preparation

Week 1  8 Jan 2024

Module 1: Introducing digital marketing

Discussion 1: Introduce yourself and form your groups Discussion 2: Module 1 weekly discussion (Assessment 1 activity)

  

Week 2 15 Jan 2024  

Module 2: Online marketplace analysis – Micro- and macro-environments

Discussion 1: Macro-environment elements (Group activity) Discussion 2: Module 2 weekly discussion (Assessment 1 activity)

  

Week 3 22 Jan 2024  

Module 3: Digital marketing strategy

Activity: Benefits of digital marketing planning Discussion 1: Module 3 weekly discussion (Assessment 1 activity) Discussion 2: Covid-19's effect on digital marketing (Group activity) 

Assessment 1: Participatory tasks (30%) Modules 1–3 due 11.55pm AEST Thursday 25 Jan

Week 4 29 Jan 2024  

Module 4: Digital media and the marketing mix

Discussion 1: Module 4 weekly discussion (Assessment 1 activity) Discussion 2: Choose your marketing mix (Group activity)

  

Week 5 5 Feb 2024  

Module 5: Relationship marketing using digital platforms

Discussion 1: Module 5 weekly discussion (Assessment 1 activity) Discussion 2: Gamification group discussion (Group activity)

  

Week 6 12 Feb 2024  

Module 6: Delivering the online customer experience

Discussion 1: Trends that drive digital customer experience (Group activity) Discussion 2: Module 6 weekly discussion (Assessment 1 activity)

Assessment 1: Participatory tasks (30%) Modules 4–6 due 11.55pm AEST Friday 16 Feb

Week 7 19 Feb 2024  

Module 7: Campaign planning

Discussion 1: Content marketing matrix (Group activity) Discussion 2: Module 7 weekly discussion (Assessment 1 activity)

  

Week 8 26 Feb 2024  

Module 8: Marketing communications using digital media channels

Discussion 1: Module 8 weekly discussion (Assessment 1 activity) Discussion 2: Digital communication (Group activity)

Assessment 2: Digital marketing report (30%) due 11.55pm AEST Friday 1 March

Week 9 4 March 2024  

Module 9: Campaign evaluation

Discussion 1: Measuring your digital marketing activities performance (Group activity) Activity: Reviewing the range of Martech and digital insight tools Discussion 2: Module 9 weekly discussion (Assessment 1 activity)

  

Week 10 11 March 2024  

Module 10: B2B digital marketing

Activity: Calculating customer retention Discussion: Module 10 weekly discussion (Assessment 1 activity)

Assessment 3: Digital marketing strategy plan (40%) due 11.55pm AEST Friday 15 March Assessment 1: Participatory tasks (30%) Modules 7–10 due 11.55pm AEST Friday 15 March

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Unit information based on version 2024.03 of the Handbook