Graduate Certificate in Digital Marketing

Through the use of digital marketing tools and strategies, organizations can assess how digital campaigns are performing and can respond in real time. The response may be content change, keyword search modifications, or even budget allocations across channels. Digital marketing, however, relies on the marketer knowing advanced concepts and best practices for emerging media platforms to reach and influence consumers. Students can learn to assess online analytics and interpret performance results to determine campaign return on investment (ROI). Insights are provided about the best website design practices, as well as about the ways in which web-based tools support digital marketing, search engine optimization (SEO), online advertising, and the integrations of channels such as mobile, display, video, and social media.

Discover how to foster consumer loyalty and increase customer retention through the application of relationship marketing. Throughout this course, students can explore ways to leverage Internet communication channels and technologies to engage, convert, and retain customers in both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) markets. Additionally, students examine how to plan, design, and execute fully integrated customer relationship management (CRM) systems to get insight into customers' preferences, provide personalization, and provide targeted messaging automation. Other relationship marketing topics include database marketing across traditional and digital media, digital/social CRM, and customer experience management (CEM).

While some companies may still be asking, "Why should we care about social media?" most are now asking, "How can we leverage the power of social media?" In this course, students examine how social media has changed the way consumers interact with brands and apply elements of storytelling to develop a social media strategy for an organizational scenario. In addition, students explore issues of ethics, privacy, and media law that are heightened by social media and digital communication distribution. Topics include types of social media, audience appropriateness, reputation management, social media strategy, evaluation methods, and the communications regulatory environment, including media law and privacy.