Digital marketing and product management

This course takes you through modern and digital forms of marketing and communication, the handling of marketing projects and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in these areas. You will also gain a solid grounding in product management. You will learn how to accompany innovative products from the idea to the market launch, carry out market and competition analyses and apply agile methods.
  • Certificates: Digital Marketing" certificate
    Product Management" certificate
  • Examination: Practical project work with final presentations
  • Teaching Times: Full-time
    Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. (in weeks with public holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:10 p.m.)
  • Language of Instruction: German
  • Duration: 8 Weeks

Digital Marketing

Basics (approx. 2 days)

Market research and analysis

Target group analysis, customer insights

Limbic map

Customer Experience (CX)

4Ps (Product, Price, Place, Promotion)

Price and sales strategy

B2B and B2C

Communication strategy and channels


Digital marketing (approx. 5 days)

Marketing forms and media advertising

Design options with Canva

Content marketing, storytelling

Content management systems (CMS)

SEO/SEA

Google Ads

Mobile marketing

Push and pull marketing / pay-per-click (PPC)

Special forms of advertising at a glance: Display, affiliate and viral marketing

Retargeting and remarketing

Social media marketing in online publishing

Collaborative consumption

Email and newsletter marketing

Cross-channel and cross-media: the optimal marketing mix


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies

and possible applications in the professional environment


Web analytics and social media monitoring (approx. 1.5 days)

Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

Monitoring processes

Social media monitoring

Web analytics

Google Analytics


Chatbots and dialog design (approx. 0.5 days)

Chatbots in marketing

Related systems


Performance measurement and budgeting (approx. 4 days)

Measurement parameters, billing models and key figures

Methods and tools for usability measurement and optimization

Buyer's journey, customer decision funnel, AIDA model, after sales

4Rs (Recognition, Relevance, Reward, Relationship)

Budgeting


Data Driven Marketing (approx. 1 day)

Big Data, Smart Data, Data Driven Marketing, First Party Data, Second Party Data


Legal framework (approx. 1 day)

Copyright, personal rights & rights of use

Information obligations on the Internet

Trademark, competition and expression law

Legal limits of unauthorized advertising

Trademark registration and trademark monitoring


Project work (approx. 5 days)

To consolidate the content learned

Presentation of the project results

Product management

Basics of product management (approx. 3 days)

Tasks and roles and stakeholder management in product management

Target group definition and market segmentation

Market and competition analysis

Data-driven customer analysis and purchasing behavior patterns (B2B/B2C)

Product strategy and portfolio management

Idea generation and validation

Market launch and product life cycle


Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process

Presentation of specific AI technologies

and possible applications in the professional environment


Agile requirements engineering (approx. 2 days)

Basics and best practices

Agile methods in requirements elicitation (e.g. user stories)

Techniques of requirements documentation and visualization

Prioritization and management of requirements

Stakeholder communication and requirements coordination


Product development 4.0 (approx. 3 days)

Agile and hybrid development methods (Scrum, Kanban)

Design thinking and user-centered

Digital product design and prototyping

Customized mass production

AI and machine learning in product development

Outlook: Digital engineering and IoT integration


Product and market tests (approx. 2 days)

Modern methods of market research and consumer behavior studies

A/B testing and multivariate tests for digital products

Rapid prototyping and MVP (minimum viable product) tests

Data analysis and interpretation of test results

Continuous testing and feedback loops


Pricing (approx. 2 days)

Pricing strategies in digital competition

Pricing and price differentiation

Subscription and freemium models

Data-driven pricing and dynamic pricing

Financial modeling and product controlling


Digital marketing (approx. 2 days)

Digital marketing strategies

Sales psychology (e.g. storytelling)

market research

Marketing conception

Communication policy and advertising

Sales channels (direct and online marketing, sales promotion, public relations)

Analysis tools in product management

Marketing concepts - 4P's and 7P's


Product launch and scaling (approx. 3 days)

Go-to-market strategies for different product types

Omnichannel sales and e-commerce

Internationalization and local adaptation

Product and brand positioning

Agile project management for product launches

Legal aspects (data protection, product liability)


Project work (approx. 3 days)

To consolidate the content learned

Presentation of the project results



Changes are possible. The course content is updated regularly.

After the course, you will be familiar with the most important modern marketing strategies and communication channels, be able to plan, implement and evaluate marketing strategies and work creatively with Canva. You will be familiar with the most important terms and activities in the field of digital marketing, such as social media marketing, the 4Ps and 4Rs or cross-channel and cross-media marketing, and you will be able to use influencer marketing as a digital marketing tool in a targeted manner.

The course also offers you a sound introduction to product management, guides you through the key phases of product development and shows you how to develop product strategies.

This course is suitable for anyone who wants to gain a professional foothold in marketing or successfully market their company. The course is also suitable for lateral entrants, e.g. from technical professions.

This course will qualify you for a career in marketing. The newly acquired skills are in demand at all companies with a marketing department, but also at advertising agencies or companies in wholesale and retail.

As companies want to develop and market their products and services competitively, additional product management skills are in demand across all industries.

Your meaningful certificate provides a detailed insight into the qualifications you have acquired and improves your career prospects.

Didactic concept

Your lecturers are highly qualified both professionally and didactically and will teach you from the first to the last day (no self-study system).

You will learn in effective small groups. The courses usually consist of 6 to 25 participants. The general lessons are supplemented by numerous practical exercises in all course modules. The practice phase is an important part of the course, as it is during this time that you process what you have just learned and gain confidence and routine in its application. The final section of the course involves a project, a case study or a final exam.

 

Virtual classroom alfaview®

Lessons take place using modern alfaview® video technology - either from the comfort of your own home or at our premises at Bildungszentrum. The entire course can see each other face-to-face via alfaview®, communicate with each other in lip-sync voice quality and work on joint projects. Of course, you can also see and talk to your connected trainers live at any time and you will be taught by your lecturers in real time for the entire duration of the course. The lessons are not e-learning, but real live face-to-face lessons via video technology.

 

The courses at alfatraining are funded by Agentur für Arbeit and are certified in accordance with the AZAV approval regulation. When submitting a Bildungsgutscheinor Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein, the entire course costs are usually covered by your funding body.
Funding is also possible via Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF), Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) or regional funding programs. As a regular soldier, you have the option of attending further training courses via Berufsförderungsdienst (BFD). Companies can also have their employees qualified via funding from Agentur für Arbeit (Qualifizierungschancengesetz).

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