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About the Course

This four-week Capstone of the Digital Marketing Specialization is designed to help you apply the principles you have learned in the previous courses. This capstone course is designed to give you hands-on experience in executing a digital marketing campaign for a fictitious firm selling electronics. In the previous courses on analytics and channels, you came up with strategies to identify a firm’s objectives, specify a few key ones, research alternatives to reaching the customer in their decision journey and finally propose a multi-channel digital marketing plan. In this capstone, you will execute a campaign, rather than creating another "plan". You will use an online simulation to do this. You will be a marketing manager for a firm selling digital cameras online through their webstore. You will be reviewing the products, pricing, margins, and historical sales. You will create a targeted ad campaign after researching appropriate keywords for the products you are selling. You will also review the basics of landing page design and search engine optimization. You will then create and execute an email campaign. Once these campaigns are executed, you get feedback on the KPI's such as revenue, profits, traffic, conversions. You will get an opportunity to redo this campaign, with new strategies, to improve your KPI's in the second round. This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu....

Top reviews

DG

Aug 14, 2020

The capstone is interesting, challenging, and give space for finding practical solutions to a real-life scenario. Great way to try implementing all the theoretical knowledge learned in other courses.

AA

Oct 18, 2016

My very first specialization. It wasn't that easy. But I'm sure worth it. Thank you, Coursera. Thank you, teachers! Hope that knowledge (and certificate, as well) will help me to enhance my career.

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By Rachael L P W

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Nov 5, 2020

Had a great experience with the capstone project. It definately helped me better understand the complete process to develop a well rounded digital marketing plan. I would recommend this course to anyone who would like to have an understanding of the scope of what digital marketing will encompass.

By Carlos E L D

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May 23, 2018

Can't give it 5 stars as I thought the scope of the project lacked a bit of a more clearer direction, but the fact that you're asked to work on a real world case scenario is amazing. The Capstone really does ask you to use each and everything you've learned throughout the course - great job!

By Hareesh E

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Apr 3, 2017

Overall the course content and quality is good and the lectures are pretty good and highly informative, but the course content need to be highly practical oriented and geared towards meeting the real-time needs of digital marketing professionals.

By Aracely R P

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Jan 18, 2021

Excellent, allows you to practice the concepts learned. It would be important that some exercises or tasks within each course or topic serve as preparation for this capstone. Many thanks! Especially thank goodness!

By Brett C M

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Dec 21, 2019

This capstone is significantly intense. Hard questions and lots of incremental research. Very valuable to do the peer reviews and see how other learners interpret the questions and apply their knowledge.

By Nelson D C G

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Feb 8, 2016

There were parts where the lack of context felt worse than others. In general, it was OK but I think with the years it will improve.

By Maria E M

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Jul 4, 2022

The course provides a well structured material going from theory to application of the topics to a real world situation.

By ASTHA P

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Oct 7, 2020

Good application based module, it made me apply all the techniques previously learned.

By Zeynep A K

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Jan 8, 2017

Excellent course, the only advice is it takes 10-12 hrs per week, plan accordingly.

By Nicole W

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May 26, 2020

It was a good course to apply all of the lessons in the first six courses.

By Enoch D A

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Jun 17, 2020

i enjoyed applying what i learned to a real life project

By KONSTANTINOS D

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Feb 28, 2022

nice leson but needs more available sources

By Amna M m A

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Jan 23, 2023

GOOD

By Deepak V

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Feb 12, 2016

It wasn't structured that well, Plus most of had to make a digital marketing report for the first time without even a sample of how industry experts expect to see when they look ata repot

By Hardik M

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Sep 18, 2020

The course outline is well-defined, and the project is also a good one. The only drawback is that the course materials have become a little outdated.

By Erin P

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Feb 17, 2016

Lack of information and clear direction. I could have produced a more cohesive document if all of the deliverables were described from the beginning.

By Andrejs V

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Feb 24, 2016

Just three stars for the topic chosen Grainger, a bit to complicated and sometimes not strait-forwarded tasks.

By YunLi

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Jan 9, 2017

It is ok, and not as good as the marketing class from warton

By Roya G

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Aug 23, 2020

Course topics and material were outdated.

By Siddharth C

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Sep 23, 2020

1. Very good way of applying what was learnt in the courses done earlier.

2. Purge old submissions from 2015/2016

3. Content/Problem statement should be reviewed E.g Visitors to Boschtools website can now visit Grainger directly, without leaving the website.Similarly We are working on Bosch & Grainger using Display & Email in their strategy, whereas these seem to be least drivers of traffic to their websites.

4. Share what the client actually did – to see how far what was proposed , was used.

5. Mandate a document upload for assignments. I have flagged assignments that do not have the mandated attachments. Peer grading in this course boarders a sham here, with people openly asking for a full rating because they have done the same for your assessment.

6. Please Control plagiarizing- Initial Submission can be made using any file and then someone else’s work can be copied and the original submission , be edited back. I have seen many such cases

7. Need a Reference Response in Key areas, as peer grading does not highlight all the aspects that should be considered. Yes, protecting this content from plagiarizing, will be an issue. - Donot know if the answers we gave were generally in the correct direction or way off the mark

8. Module -5 could be scheduled earlier, as Research guides Actions

9.The Background/momentum built in week1 , is lost in rest of the weeks

By Andrew M

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Nov 9, 2022

I found the instructions cluttered and the client disappointing--for one, UofI advertises the capstone as an opportunity to work with Grainger/Bosch...if you took the capstone in 2016. Instead of laboring for an obsolete task, I think UofI would've done a better service for students by giving them the choice of client.

By Daniel M

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Nov 11, 2023

THIS COURSE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE IT WAS FIRST SET UP