Marketing Basics

A marketing orientation is no longer the sole responsibility of your marketing department, but requires the support of the entire workforce. The benefits of cross-functional and/or international teams require a common understanding of marketing concepts to work effectively and efficiently in the English language with suppliers, partners, subsidiary managers and technical staff, and customers.

 Target Group

  • Non-marketing managers who work closely with marketing functions
  • Product managers and marketing managers with a technical or scientific background
  • Team assistants and project assistants in marketing and sales
  • Marketing, product development and sales personnel involved in international teams
  • Marketing and sales managers from international subsidiaries

 Contents

  • Introduction to marketing concepts
  • Analysis tools and marketing strategies
  • Marketing information and research
  • Marketing mix instruments
  • Special topics (e.g. introduction to B2B marketing, services marketing, CRM)

 Benefits

  • You develop or refresh an understanding of basic marketing concepts and are able to apply them to your own working environment
  • You are in a better position to communicate with your marketing counterparts improving operational and strategic efficiency
  • You are able to make a stronger contribution to cross-functional or international teams leading to stronger team performance

 Methods

  • Instruction, moderated discussions, exercises, group work

 

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