
The internet and the field of Digital Marketing is now one of the most important sales and marketing channels available to businesses today. To help you create effective digital marketing strategies, CIIM Executive Education offers the Digital Marketing Programme. By exploring social networking, mobile marketing, email campaigns, banner advertising, online communities, viral marketing, wikis, and blogs, you will learn how to build brands in a highly networked world.
This hands-on programme, taught by leading digital marketing practitioners, will enable participants to engage with customers online. This programme has been designed to enable participants to effectively use the internet as a marketing channel.
Through dynamic lectures, case studies and group discussions, the programme offers a great opportunity to gain exposure to the latest methods, techniques and tools for improving the organisation's digital marketing and brand-building efforts.
Participants will learn how to plan, implement and manage a comprehensive digital marketing strategy for their organisation, and to integrate digital marketing tactics into the overall marketing strategy of the Company, as well as to maximize the performance of its online marketing investments.
The trainers of the programme run and deliver online marketing campaigns on a daily basis and therefore base their training on their experiences and will use real life examples and case studies throughout the course.
Key benefits to the participant
Attending this course will help you:
- understand the current trends and best practices in digital marketing
- leverage innovative strategies in order to gain competitive advantage for your business
- recognize a greater range of e-marketing options, and create synergies between online and offline marketing
- use social media tools as part of a fuller marketing programme
- plan, evaluate, and measure digital marketing
- set meaningful and measurable objectives for your digital marketing programme
- explore initiatives that lead to stronger customer relationship development, improved conversion rates, higher repeat business and customer pass-along
Key benefits to the company
Executive Education programmes at CIIM are a significant investment for both participants and their organization. Going far beyond the basic transmission of skills and theories, each CIIM development programme provides applicable lessons in the classroom that can be implemented successfully within organizations.
Learning process
The approach to learning is highly interactive with a blend of best practices, principles and skills that can be taken back to the job and immediately applied to your organisation’s digital marketing efforts. The trainers bring real world business experience and keep content fresh and current with methods, techniques and tools that respond to today’s work environment.
Awards and Certification
Upon successful completion of the Digital Marketing Programme you will receive a participation certificate from CIIM. Furthermore you can get a certified diploma from the Digital Marketing Institute that involves submitting an assignment of 3,500 words. The assignment is optional but must be finished if a participant wants the full diploma. Participants are required to document their online marketing plan/strategy (for the company they work for, for their own business, or a new business they are thinking about setting up etc). A panel of approved correctors grade the assignments with feedback provided. An additional payment of €100 per participant will be required from those who wish to submit an assignment and receive the full diploma.
Timing and duration
The DMP modules are taught in one-day, seven-hour sessions and the modules are held at the CIIM facilities in Nicosia.
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MODULE
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PROFESSOR
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DATE
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Search Engine Marketing
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John Ring
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13 March
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On-line Display Advertising
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Adrian Feane
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3 April
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Social Media Marketing: Integrating Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn into your marketing strategy |
Krishna De |
24 April
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Mobile and E-mail Marketing
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Philip Culbert
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15 May
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Web Analytics and Planning Digital Marketing Campaigns
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Adrian Feane
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5 June
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Search Engine MarketingIn the fierce battle for top rankings in the search engines how can you help your company to come out on top? Google has made hundreds of changes to their search algorithm in the last 12 months so how can you ensure your company’s web site gets on the first page of search engines, and then stays there?
This up to the minute module will provide a holistic approach to search engine marketing, including an insight into current search engine optimisation techniques (the ones to use, and the ones to avoid).
Social Media Marketing: Integrating Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn into your marketing strategy
Social media networking is now one of the most important and maturing of the digital marketing channels available to marketers. This module has been designed to help you understand how to create and implement strategic and winning social marketing plans. Whatever your chosen social media platforms, this module will help you to understand how to integrate them into your digital marketing plans and campaigns.
On-line Display Advertising
This module will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the creation deployment and management of digital display advertising including display, search, affiliate, email, mobile & social, to give you the broadest view of digital advertising opportunities.
Among other topics, during the module we will examine the current growth trends for display advertising, how display works with search and offline campaigns, the pros and cons of different display creative options, and how audience respond to display ads.
Mobile and E-mail Marketing
In today’s complex and fast changing business environment the need for businesses to develop more digital marketing tactics is important as more people are using the internet and other mobile devices. Marketing in its traditional form is changing and clients can be approached by companies through new channels via the use of the digital technology. Companies need to understand a) the impact digital technology has had on marketing and b) the unique power of mobile and email marketing to generate significant return on marketing investment.
Web Analytics and Planning Digital Marketing Campaigns
Digital Marketing is driving the agenda in marketing departments and this module will teach you the complexities of planning, buying and executing a marketing campaign that integrates traditional marketing with all digital activities including display, search, affiliate, email, mobile & social.
This module will also help you have a clear understanding of how to measure and monitor your online traffic. Using this information, you should be able to update your marketing campaigns to drive increased traffic to their business
Social Media Marketing: Integrating Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn into your marketing strategy
Social media networking is now one of the most important and maturing of the digital marketing channels available to marketers. This module has been designed to help you understand how to create and implement strategic and winning social marketing plans. Whatever your chosen social media platforms, this module will help you to understand how to integrate them into your digital marketing plans and campaigns.
Who Should Attend
The course is designed for those with responsibility for developing or implementing an organisation’s online marketing strategy, as well as other managers with direct responsibility for the company’s marketing functions, including, marketing managers, marketing executives, small business owners, and IT managers and executives.
Recently participating companies
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CYTA
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C.M. Londou Trading Ltd
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X.A. Papaelllinas Ltd
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Media Trends Ltd
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Louis Hotels
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Infocredit Group Ltd
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Bank of Cyprus
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Fiducenter (Cyprus) Ltd
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Cyprus Airways
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Nemea Trading Co Ltd
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Fiducenter (Cyprus) Ltd
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Eurolife Ltd
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Sodexo Cyprus Ltd
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Democratic Rally
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Top Kinisis Travel
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ELIMAK Collections Ltd
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Cyprus Villages
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Petrolina
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Gnora Communication Consultants
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The Cyprus Institute
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Deep Purpose Accounting & Consulting Services Ltd
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RICS INTERNATIONAL LTD
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Testimonials:
“A very interesting program which provided a detailed and very useful insight on most areas of Digital Marketing with practical examples and real life scenarios.”
George Savvides
Fiducenter
Partner
“The Digital Marketing Seminars I attended were indeed very educational and interesting. I had an opportunity to be exposed to many international examples from several business sectors. The lecturers were knowledgeable and experienced in their topics and the material was well prepared and really helpful. “
Andri Koukou
Business Unit Manager
Papaellinas Group
“Generally speaking the Digital Marketing Programme was impressive. I learned new ways to engage my customers online and other new ways of marketing our products. I found each seminar interesting and exciting in its own way. I was impressed with the DMP trainers, they were well prepared with presentations and well-chosen examples. Thank you CIIM for arranging these seminars.”
Oscar Rose
Marketing and Creative Director
Top Retail Co Ltd
“The programme was really interesting and helpful covering everything on digital marketing. The selection of lecturers was really good and everyone had something different to say or share. Their background, working experience, passion and expertise were really obvious and this resulted on listening them very carefully. As regards the material and presentations, they were very well organized and prepared, giving all the tools necessary, i.e. websites that are really helpful as examples.”
Andrea Charalambous
Brand Development Manager
Papaellinas Group
“A dynamic programme that provided both knowledge of the underpinning principles of digital marketing and skills to undertake digital marketing planning, a must for those that wish to take their business to the next level”
Terri Neofitou
Marketing& Public Relations Manager
Sodexo (Cyprus) Ltd
John RingJohn Ring (B.Sc. EEng) qualified as an Electronic Engineer from Trinity College Dublin in 1997 before working in London with Enterprise Ireland for two years helping Irish companies export abroad. After three years working as Internet manager of a UK financial services firm, John founded RingJohn as an Internet Marketing and Advertising agency in 2002. RingJohn is an accredited Google and Yahoo partner and currently manages over €2.5M annually in online advertising budgets for UK, Irish and international clients. RingJohn was the 1st Google Adwords-Qualified Internet Marketing Agency in Ireland in 2005. RingJohn now works with International clients in numerous competitive industries including finance, insurance, travel, dating, office space, automotive, retail, recruitment, property and legal services among others. Clients include: Ebay, Intel, LexisNexis, MSC Cruises and many others.
An accomplished presenter, John has extensive experience in helping a huge variety of small companies from both a technical and marketing perspective to maximise their online activities. John has trained and mentored almost 3,000 UK and Irish SME owner‐managers, business and marketing staff on search engine and general online marketing.
Krishna De
Krishna De is an award winning digital marketing, brand engagement and social media speaker, commentator and mentor.
Krishna consults and guides business leaders of FTSE 100 companies, professional services firms and the media on how to integrate and leverage social media marketing into their marketing, communications and PR plans building their visibility, reputation and profits.
Her expertise in leveraging digital marketing and social media is featured in several marketing and social media books, and her online education programmes covering personal branding and online networking for professional success, digital marketing and social media marketing are widely acclaimed.
Adrian Feane
Leading digital marketing strategist and lecturer. Extensive experience in the fields of display advertising and media planning / buying online. He has over 7 years’ experience in a variety of senior industry roles and has planned and executed over 1,000 digital marketing campaigns. Adrian has planned, purchased and placed more than €12 million worth of online media campaigns.
He has worked on the agency, media house, media owner and client sides of the digital divide. Furthermore he has delivered dozens of digital marketing lectures and training programmes for a diverse range of audiences (public & private sector, tourism industry, small – medium businesses, niche international exporters, heritage brands and the general marketing community).
He has a deep and thorough strategic understanding of online display advertising as a discipline. Adrian has assisted numerous clients with the execution of their media plans and worked with websites on the package / selling of their media space.
Phillip Culbert
Philip Culbert is the co-founder of uMobilize Promotions, a leading provider of mobile and web-based marketing and promotional solutions, headquartered in The National Technology Park, Ireland. Prior to founding uMobilize, Philip spent over 15 years in a range of consulting roles before becoming European IT Manager for Continental Promotions International where his team designed and developed a range of European promotional and marketing solutions for such blue chip companies as Canon, Nikon, Sony, British Telecom, Lexmark, and APC.
uMobilize are the providers of uConnect, the leading small business mobile marketing service, which is used by hundreds of customers in Ireland and The UK in sectors ranging from Tourism & Hospitality, Retail, Entertainment, Marketing and Online Services.
Fees
The DMP fees are €1,732 before any HRDA subsidy for all five modules. A subsidy of €532 will be provided by the Human Resource Development Authority (HRDA) to eligible participants thus lowering the net cost to the participant to €1,200.
For individual modules, each module will be charged at €400 per module before any HRDA subsidy (net cost per module after subsidy for eligible participants €267).
No VAT is charged due to CIIM’s VAT exemption status. Fees include tuition materials, refreshments and executive lunches. The balance of the fees is payable upon enrollment. For cancellations less than 2 weeks prior to the commencement of the course the cancellation fee is €600 for the whole programme or €100 per module.
Registration
Should you wish to talk to us personally or set up a meeting please contact us by phone or email.
Marios Siathas
Tel: 22462205
email: marios@ciim.ac.cy
Sophie Kyriacou
Tel: 22462209
email: sophie@ciim.ac.cy
Places are limited to a maximum of 25, therefore early registration is recommended.
For general info please contact the executive education team:
CIIM Business School
Executive Education
21 Akademias Avenue, Aglandjia, 2151 Nicosia
Tel: +357 22462246
Fax: +357 22340383
Email: execedu@ciim.ac.cy