Meaningful Marketing Insights

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Meaningful Marketing Insights

This course is part of Foundations of Marketing Analytics Specialization

Instructor: David Schweidel

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5 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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5 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

293 reviews

Intermediate level

Some related experience required

Flexible schedule

1 week at 10 hours a week

Learn at your own pace

90%

Most learners liked this course

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Microsoft Excel

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With marketers are poised to be the largest users of data within the organization, there is a need to make sense of the variety of consumer data that the organization collects. Surveys, transaction histories and billing records can all provide insight into consumers’ future behavior, provided that they are interpreted correctly. In Introduction to Marketing Analytics, we introduce the tools that learners will need to convert raw data into marketing insights. The included exercises are conducted using Microsoft Excel, ensuring that learners will have the tools they need to extract information from the data available to them. The course provides learners with exposure to essential tools including exploratory data analysis, as well as regression methods that can be used to investigate the impact of marketing activity on aggregate data (e.g., sales) and on individual-level choice data (e.g., brand choices).

In this module, students will be introduced to the instructor, Dr. David Schweidel and get and overview of the course.

What's included

1 video2 readings1 discussion prompt

Modules 2 and 3 focus on identifying appropriate descriptive statistics (measures of central tendency and dispersion) for different types of data, as well as recoding data using reference commands to prepare it for analysis. Additionally, you will manipulate and summarize data using pivot tables in Excel, produce visualizations that are appropriate based on the type of data being analyzed, and interpret statistics and visualizations to draw conclusions to address relevant marketing questions.

What's included

4 videos3 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

4 videosTotal 43 minutes

Course Objectives & Example 1: Political Advertising Expenditures12 minutes
Course Goals & Example 2: Performing Arts Centers9 minutes
Organizing Data11 minutes
The Motion Picture Industry12 minutes

3 readingsTotal 30 minutes

How Companies Learn Your Secrets10 minutes
Big Data in the Big Apple10 minutes
Motion Picture Industry Example Data Set10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 25 minutes

Module 2 Quiz25 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 15 minutes

Categorical Variables in the Motion Picture Industry15 minutes

What's included

5 videos3 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

5 videosTotal 48 minutes

Excel Analysis of Motion Picture Industry Data13 minutes
Displaying Conditional Distributions5 minutes
Analyzing Qualitative Variables4 minutes
Steps in Constructing Histograms11 minutes
Common Descriptive Statistics for Quantitative Data15 minutes

3 readingsTotal 40 minutes

Giving Viewers What They Want10 minutes
Why Personalization is Key for Content Marketing5 minutes
Assignment: Survey Analysis Assignment25 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Module 3 Quiz30 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 15 minutes

Visualizing Data: Technique Review15 minutes

In this module, you will be asked to determine the appropriate type of regression for different types of marketing data and will perform regression analysis to assess the impact of marketing actions on outcomes of interest, such as sales, traffic, and brand choices. You will also be asked to interpret regression output to understand overall model performance and importance of different predictors, as well as make predictions using the appropriate regression model.

What's included

4 videos2 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt

4 videosTotal 41 minutes

Regression-Based Modeling10 minutes
Introduction to Customer Analytics10 minutes
Customer Choices Drive Business Decisions9 minutes
Illustrating Customer Analytics in Excel11 minutes

2 readingsTotal 45 minutes

How to Find Your Most Valuable Customers20 minutes
Assignment: Customer Acquisition Example25 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 25 minutes

Module 4 Quiz25 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 15 minutes

Logit v. Probit Models15 minutes

This final module will connect the results of regression analysis to marketing decisions. You will learn to build tools that allow users to evaluate outcomes based on different marketing decisions, as well as characterize the extent of uncertainty in outcomes based on the selected marketing decisions.

What's included

2 videos3 readings1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt

2 videosTotal 58 minutes

Customer Valuation Excel Demonstration25 minutes
Inventory Management Excel Demonstration32 minutes

3 readingsTotal 45 minutes

Encouraging TV Binge Watching May Backfire On Advertisers10 minutes
Use Big Data to Create Value for Customers, Not Just Target Them10 minutes
Assignment: Using Regression for Inventory Management25 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 25 minutes

Module 5 Quiz25 minutes

1 peer reviewTotal 120 minutes

Acquisition & Retention Assignment120 minutes

1 discussion promptTotal 15 minutes

Course Reflection15 minutes

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Reviewed on Mar 25, 2020

Very useful. I highly recommend it. Great Excel exercises, many ways to practice it and learn it. Professor Schweidel is remarkable and makes complicated topics clear and easy!

Reviewed on Aug 28, 2017

This course went in depth into some excel functions used for analyzing sales and marketing data, really thought it was useful.

Reviewed on Nov 2, 2022

I thought it was very insightful information to know and learn how to manage

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