Digital marketing and project management

This course covers modern and digital forms of marketing and communication, as well as the implementation of marketing projects. You’ll also become familiar with the terminology of modern project management so that you can successfully apply the practical procedures and methods.

  • Certificates: Digital Marketing" certificate
    Basic certificate in project management (GPM)® from PM-Zert
  • Examination: Praxisbezogene Projektarbeiten mit Abschlusspräsentationen
    Zertifizierung durch die PM-ZERT, Zertifizierungsstelle der GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e. V.
  • 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

Fundamentals of Marketing (approx. 2 days)

Market Research and Analysis

Target Audience Analysis, Customer Insights

AI-powered Market and Competitive Analysis

Limbic Map and Other Target Audience Analysis Models

Customer Experience (CX) and Customer Journey

4Ps (Product, Price, Place, Promotion)

Pricing and Sales Strategy

B2B and B2C

Communication Strategy and Channels


Digital Marketing and Content (approx. 5 days)

Marketing Formats and Media Advertising

Content Marketing, Storytelling

Content Production with Canva and AI Tools

Image, Text, and Presentation Creation

Content Management Systems (CMS)

SEO/SEA and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)

Google Ads and Pay-Per-Click (PPC)

Mobile Marketing

Display, affiliate, and viral marketing

Retargeting and Remarketing

Social Media Marketing

Community Management and Editorial Planning

Email and Newsletter Marketing

Cross-Channel and Cross-Media: The Optimal Marketing Mix

AI-Powered Campaign Planning and Content Creation


Web Analytics, Data-Driven Marketing, and Social Media Monitoring (approx. 3 days)

Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

Monitoring Processes

Social Media Monitoring

Web Analytics

Google Analytics

Big Data, Smart Data, and Data-Driven Marketing

First-Party Data and Second-Party Data

Segmentation and Personalization

AI-powered Analysis of Marketing Data

 


Chatbots and Dialogue Design (approx. 1 day)

Rule-Based Chatbots and AI-Powered Chatbots

Dialogue Design, Tone, and User Guidance

Lead Generation and FAQ Scenarios

Chatbots in Customer Service and Marketing

Opportunities and Risks of AI Chatbots


Performance Measurement, Conversion Optimization, and Budgeting (approx. 4 days)

Metrics, Billing Models, and Key Performance Indicators

Buyer’s Journey, Customer Decision Funnel, AIDA Model, After-Sales

Landing Pages and Conversion Funnels

Fundamentals of Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)

Methods and Tools for Usability Measurement and Optimization

4Rs (Recognition, Relevance, Reward, Relationship)

Budgeting for Digital Marketing Initiatives

An Overview of CAC, ROAS, and Customer Lifetime Value


Legal Framework (approx. 2 days)

Copyright, Personality Rights, and Rights of Use

Disclosure Requirements on the Internet

Trademark, Competition, and Freedom of Expression Law

Legal Limits on Unlawful Advertising

Data Protection in Digital Marketing

Legal Aspects of Using AI Tools

Attribution and Rights of Use for AI-Generated Content


Project work (approx. 3 days)

To consolidate the content learned

Presentation of the project results

Project management

Artificial intelligence (AI) in project management (approx. 1 day)

Presentation of specific AI technologies

Recommendations for dealing with AI

Prompting in a professional context


Context skills (approx. 3 days)

Governance, structures and processes

Strategy

Power and interests


Personal and social skills (approx. 1 day)

Personal communication


Technical skills (approx. 10 days)

Project design

Agile project management

Organization, information and documentation

Opportunities and risks

Requirements and goals

Scope of services and deliverables

Process and deadlines

Stakeholders

Resources

Costs and financing

Planning and control


Project work, certification preparation and certification examination in project management (approx. 5 days)

By PM-ZERT, certification body of the GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e. V.



Changes are possible, the course content is updated regularly.

After completing the course, you’ll be familiar with key digital marketing strategies, channels, and tools. You’ll be able to analyze target audiences, plan digital marketing initiatives, create content, and evaluate campaigns using appropriate metrics. Furthermore, you’ll be able to effectively use AI tools for research, analysis, content creation, campaign planning, and data evaluation, and critically assess their results. You’ll be familiar with concepts and methods such as social media marketing, SEO/SEA, Google Ads, content marketing, email marketing, web analytics, AI in marketing, the 4Ps, and the 4Rs.

You will also master basic project management techniques and be able to apply them. The theoretical knowledge imparted in combination with many practical exercises will enable you to carry out future projects professionally.

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.

The additional qualification in project management is suitable for people from the technical, creative and/or commercial or office sector who are familiar with the planning, implementation and evaluation of projects or who aspire to such an activity.

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.

You will also take the exam for the internationally recognized Basic Certificate in Project Management (GPM) ®. The certification exam is conducted by PM-ZERT (certification body of the GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e. V.). V.).

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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