Revision of Syllabus for Entrepreneurial Marketing from Fri, 2010-12-31 22:36

Week 1: Introduction and Knowing What You're Marketing

Objectives:

• To introduce the course and ourselves
• To understand how important mission and vision are to marketing
• To think about crafting a message and staying true to it

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Assignments:

• Post an introductory message in the forum
• Make-your-own-case-study
  • Option 1: Craft your own enterprise mission or vision statement
  • Option 2: Analyze the mission or vision of an enterprise of your choosing

Week 2: A Marketing Plan: The 4 P's and other “old school” marketing ideas

Objectives:

• To understand marketing mix (the 4P's") and think about how they relate to your enterprise
• To know the elements of a marketing plan

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• Make-your-own-case-study

Week 3: Web presence

Objectives:

• To understand the importance of a web presence
• To identify the key goals of having a web presence for your project
• To learn some inexpensive ways to create a web presence

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Week 4: Direct mail, email, public relations, and more

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Week 5: Social Media and user-generated content

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Week 6-9: Final project

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