1st Semester 2023 E-Marketing The College of Administrative and Finance Scienc

1st Semester 2023 E-Marketing
The College of Administrative and Finance Sciences E-commerce Department
E-Marketing (ECOM301) Digital Marketing Plan Project
You work for a company as a digital marketing manager and you’ve been asked to prepare a comprehensive digital marketing campaign. The campaign will run for the duration of one year, starting January until December 2023.
Important note:
You can choose any company to work with as long as:
It is a local company.
It is a startup that was established in the last (3 – 6) years, 2014 onwards.
It can belong to any industry sector.
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Requirements
Part 1, around (1500) words: Due week 6, on 5/10/2023. (Refer to the Textbook Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5,&6 and apply the following in the context of your company)
1. Investigate the micro-environment as part of the situation analysis for your company.
a. Competitors analysis
b. Suppliers and/or Digital Marketing intermediaries.
c. Customers’ persona.
2. Summaries the macro-environment variable your company needs to monitor when operating the digital marketing campaign. (two or three variables for each force are sufficient)
a. Technological forces.
b. Legal forces.
c. Economic forces.
d. Political forces.
e. Social forces.
3.
a.
b. Where do you want to be? (business objectives)
c. How are you going to get there? (strategy)
d. How exactly do you get there? (tactics)
e. Who does what and when? (actions)
f. How do you monitor performance? (control)
4. Summaries the marketing mix best suitable for your campaign. (refer to ch5)
a. Product variables
b. Price variables
c. Place variables
d. Promotion variables
e. Process variables
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Devise a digital marketing strategy for your campaign. (refer to figure 4.5, page 147 or
ch4, slide 9)
Where are you now? (situation analysis)
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5. How can you implement relationship marketing for your campaign? (refer to ch6)
a. Could you create a virtual community? And how does it help the relationship
marketing.
b. Could you use digital media to support customers’ advocacy? And how?
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End of Part 1!
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Part 2, around (1000) words: Due week 11 on 9/11/2023. (Refer to the Textbook Chapters 7, 8, 9 &10) – For legal reasons, you will not actually create business profiles and launch a campaign on different platforms. You will merely write the proposed plan and the expected results and accumulated costs, using real facts from the chosen used platforms. So, do the proper research and choose wisely..
Create a campaign for your company to launch, starting January 2021 till December, that will be active for 12 months. Marketing budget: SR 450,000 to spend on digital advertising media over the next 12 months. The budget also includes up to SR 340,500 for advertising creative and content development, and for the company to manage the program.
a. What is your campaign message? (about your digital campaign message)
b. What is your digital marketing campaign Schedule: recommend digital marketing
content and the schedule for the content? (Must include timeline for the content
distribution, frequency of posts and ads).
c. What platforms and digital media you will use to deploy your campaign, and for
which purpose? Social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat) and any other platform that might help achieve your goals, like google, YouTube, etc. (Must include screenshots of the platforms’ process of creating the campaign). Also, include a table of the budget allocations for each platform on a monthly basis. Try to justify your selection.
d. Monitoring and Optimization: describe how you will measure and improve digital marketing performance during the campaign. What tools you will use to monitor the campaign’s activity. (Must include screenshots of the monitoring tools that will keep track of your costs and activity).
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End of Part 2!
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Part 3 Presentation due week 12- 16/11/2023.
Make a power-point presentation of your project work of part 1&2 and present in a group (All team members must participate) . There must be a minimum of 10 slides in the presentation with a good background design, readable font size, and style with an appropriate color.
Presentation must have the following format:
Slide1: Cover Page includes (Group members name and ID, course title, course code, academic year and semester, CRN number, instructor name and Title of the Project).
Slide 2: Micro-Environment analysis.
Slide 3: Macro-Environment analysis.
Slide 4: Digital marketing strategy.
Slide 5: Marketing mix.
Slide 6: Relationship marketing.
Slide 7&8&9: Marketing campaign.
Slide 10: Conclusion.
Slide 11: References.
Guidelines for the Presentation:
There must be 11 slides in the presentation.
Each group will have 10 minitues to present and 2 minitues for Q&A.
All group members should participate in presenting infront of the class.
The slides should have a clear background design, readable font size and style with
appropriate color.
The power-point presentation must answer all the above parts.
Make sure to include the cover page in the first slide.
Work with the same group members
Ensure that you follow the APA style in your references.
The minimum number of required references is 5 references using APA style.
Up to 20% of the total grade will be deducted for providing a poor structure of
presentation. Structure includes these elements presentation style, free of spelling and
grammar mistakes and referencing.
Your file should be saved as a PowerPoint file and submit it to the Blackboard no later
than June 8th 2023.
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Part 1
Part 2 Part 3
Important instructions and Notes
Due week 6 5/10/2023
Due week 11 9/11/2023 Due week 12 16/11/2023
15 Marks 15 Marks
1. This is a group work.
2. You will submit online through blackboard.
3. A cover page is required for each submission, one mark will be deducted if there is no
cover page.
4. The submitted document needs to be structured as follow: a cover page, assignments’ requirements’, then your answers. without these instructions.
5. The assignments parts will be each submitted on a different date. However, part 2 needs to contain part one.
6. The reference list, a minimum number of 10 references and citations is required, and you must use APA referencing style.
Quotations must be cited to its resources. 7. The paper styles:
The format of the paper needs to be introduction, main body and conclusion.
Your work needs to be consistent in terms of style, tone and appearance.
Font size: 12.
Font type: Times New Roman,
Page are numbered.
1.5 spacing between lines and paragraphs.
Left alignment.
8. Entire
project word count, around 2500 words.
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9. You must check the spelling and grammar mistakes before submitting the assignment. You can ask someone to proofread your work or use online tools.
10. Up to 20% of the total grade will be deducted for providing a poor structure of assignment. Structure includes these elements: paper style, free of spelling and grammar errors.
11. In case of any questions, please refer to your instructor.
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Best of Luck!!