Strategic Marketing: Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning

4.6 (12 reviews)

1,798 enrolled on this course

Learn about the concepts of segmentation, targeting, and positioning, and discover why they’re crucial to any marketing strategy.

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3 weeks

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3 hours

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Boost your success with strategic marketing strategies

Segmentation, targeting, and positioning are crucial concepts in strategic marketing for every marketer. Find out how these actions can help you reach and connect with more potential customers. Ultimately, with this course, you’ll learn how to secure your business with valuable marketing success and help to fuel business growth.

Learn why marketing segmentation is important
To reach the right customers, you need segmentation in your marketing. This course can tell you the benefits of marketing segmentation, and how to effectively do it in your own marketing campaign.

You’ll discover the process and different methods for segmentation to achieve successful strategic marketing as an end goal.

Discover the purpose of target marketing
Choosing which segment to focus on isn’t easy. Learn how targeting can increase your chances to connect with the most valuable potential customers. This course includes various targeting strategies that could offer you an advantage in your marketing.

Master marketing positioning for an advantage
This course won’t just let you in on how to separate your market. You’ll also master how to manage various segments and engage with different groups within your marketing strategy. Ultimately, you’ll learn how strategic positioning contributes to the success of your marketing outreach.

Study business marketing with the University of Law Business School
This course is brought to you by the acclaimed University of Law Business School to empower you with evidence-based expertise on the latest marketing trends and give you the confidence to practice segmentation, targeting, and positioning in your own campaigns.

What topics will you cover?

  • The concepts of segmentation, targeting and positioning
  • The process and methods for segmentation
  • Different targeting strategies
  • Factors for successful positioning
  • How segmentation, targeting and positioning is used by decision makers

Strategic Marketing: Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning

4.6 (12 reviews)

1,798 enrolled on this course

3 weeks


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Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…

Who is the course for?

This course is useful to students who’d like a solid foundation in the concepts of strategic marketing.

If you’re looking to work with a business owner or marketing executive, knowing how to execute the three pillars of marketing is crucial knowledge.

Who will you learn with?

Dessy Ohanians

This course is useful to students who’d like a solid foundation in the concepts of strategic marketing.

If you’re looking to work with a business owner or marketing executive, knowing how to execute the three pillars of marketing is crucial knowledge.

Who developed the course?

The University of Law

The University of Law is one of the UK’s longest-established specialist providers of legal education. With a rich heritage and a reputation for innovation and contemporary teaching practices, they continuously focus on developing the best legal and business minds. The University origins can be traced back to 1876 with the formation of the leading tutorial firm Gibson & Weldon, and later on, with the establishment of The Law Society School of Law. In 1962 the two were amalgamated to establish The College of Law, and in 2012 they were granted a full university title. In 2016 The University of Law launched their Business School, which has since seen expansion across multiple campuses and partnerships with leading international institutions such as GISMA Business School in Berlin.

The University of Law is at the heart of education as an acknowledged leader in innovative, professional legal and business teaching for prospective lawyers and business professionals, both in the UK and worldwide.

All of the University’s courses – from undergraduate law degrees to a diverse range of business courses and postgraduate programmes – are designed with a unique, varied and innovative learning approach proven to deliver self-reliant professionals who can compete in the fast-changing professional world. With a focus on developing skills in problem-solving, weighing up arguments, critical thinking and commercial awareness, the courses are designed to prepare you for the real-life challenges of the working world.

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