Consumer Behavior and Marketing Strategy
This course focuses on acquiring a deep understanding of the consumer and reframes data techniques as tactical tools to use within the context of social science theory.
- Start Date: February 20, 2023
- Online learning with live, interactive sessions
- Tuition: USD $2,500
- English, Spanish, and Portuguese
- 4.2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
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About the Course
Over an eight-week period, you will learn about social science theories that provide ways to understand the consumer, satisfy their needs, and motivate them. You will practice applying these theories to arrive at data-driven consumer understanding, recommend marketing actions, and test potential courses of action. This course reveals how marketing analytics can be a powerful tool for inquiry and the development of marketing action.
You will learn to:
- Define a business goal in terms of what we want the consumer to think, feel, or do.
- Frame a desired consumer response within a conceptual model based on social science theory.
- Use data to provide insight into consumer behavior and determine the proper course of action.
- Establish and present a plan to test the effectiveness of the marketing action you recommend.
You will be able to:
- Persuade business and marketing leaders to solve marketing problems by putting the customer at the center of the strategic decision-making process.
- Make a case for a customer-centered solution based on data and present it using a persuasive conceptual model.
- Recommend a marketing plan based on your in-depth understanding of the consumer.
- Devise a framework to gauge the effectiveness of your marketing plan.
- Be awarded a certificate of completion from the University of Chicago and become part of the UChicago network.
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Career Outlook
$
132
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The average base salary for a Director of Consumer Insights in the US
18.2%
The CAGR of the customer analytics market from 2020 to 2025
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24.2
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The anticipated value of the customer analytics market by 2025
Potential Job Titles for Consumer Behavior and Marketing Strategy
- Chief Marketing Officer
- Consumer Insights Manager
- Consumer Insights Specialist
- Consumer Researcher
- Customer Data Specialist
- Customer Insights Analyst
- Customer Service Specialist
- Director of Consumer Insights
- Insights Analyst
- Marketing Director
- Marketing Research Analyst
- Strategic Planner
Meet Your Instructors
Stephen Hersh, MAConsumer Behavior and Marketing Strategy Read More
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Stephen Hersh was senior vice president and strategy director at Leo Burnett Advertising, where he worked in market research and strategic planning for twenty-three years. He also served as head of account planning at the interactive marketing agency Leapnet (formerly Quantum Leap). Before that, he worked as strategy director for Ammirati Puris Lintas Advertising and as an account planner at Mullen Advertising. Hersh has a consulting practice that provides market research and marketing strategy for large and small companies and startups. His areas of expertise include brand strategy, message communication strategy, qualitative and quantitative survey research, psychoanalytic theory, and the application of social science to marketing and social problems. In addition to his position as an adjunct instructor for the University of Chicago and his consulting work, Hersh teaches Consumer Insight as a lecturer in Northwestern University’s Integrated Marketing Communications Program at the Medill School. Prior to that, he was the adjunct lecturer of Consumer Behavior in the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Hersh is currently engaged in conducting survey research on health and welfare issues in the US indigenous community as an affiliate at the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University. Hersh is the co-author of several peer-reviewed publications in the areas of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment and neuropsychology. He has an MA in psychology from Northwestern University.
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