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Consumer Marketing Strategy

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Upcoming Sessions
  September 21-26, 2008
$ 8,850
   
Key Benefits
During this course, you will:
Assess opportunities in the marketplace
Analyze competitive strategies
Develop a product/service positioning and marketing strategy that capitalizes on the most attractive opportunities
Learn to build and leverage brand equity to your advantage
Translate marketing strategy into sound marketing tactics

Receive a comprehensive reference manual of program materials which will serve as a valuable resource for you in the future

   
"Whether you are a marketing pro, new to the field or work closely with marketing experts, you'll walk away with solid concepts and processes and real life practical lessons to implement back at your company."

Director, Brand Marketing, Chicago Tribune
Academic Director Alice Tybout
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Academic Director Alice M. Tybout
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Gain insight into consumers' consumption habits and goals to create a well-defined marketing strategy for competitive advantage. Senior members of the Kellogg School of Management's world-renowned marketing faculty, in conjunction with leading marketing experts, lead this intensive and interactive seminar which blends cutting-edge theory with sound marketing practice to provide winning strategies and tactics. Through discussions, case studies, and exercises you will develop a well-defined marketing strategy for identifying attractive targets and effectively positioning products and services to these targets-and translate your strategy into appropriate tactics for branding, service delivery, communications, pricing, and channels.
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Program Content
Analyzing competitive strategies
Gaining consumer insight
Designing a marketing strategy through effective segmentation, targeting, and positioning
Developing and sustaining brand equity
Adapting marketing strategy to the local culture
Developing an effective approach to pricing
Developing and evaluating advertising and promotion strategies
Responding to retailing/distribution trends
Orchestrating elements of the marketing program

Format
Discussions, case studies, and exercises facilitate involvement. In the evenings, you will meet in faculty-assisted study groups to prepare exercises and projects for class discussion. A comprehensive reference manual of course materials will serve as a valuable resource for you in the future as well.

Who should attend
Find out who should attend Consumer Marketing Strategy, which companies are frequently represented in the class and what past participants have said about the course.

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