Applying Competitive Advantage to Marketing Strategies


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Expected Duration
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Expertise Level



Overview/Description
In the digital marketplace, businesses are always looking for ways to set themselves apart and to find an edge over their competitors. By recognizing and applying the tenets of competitive advantage, companies emphasize and align to their customer needs and communicate their advantages clearly and persuasively. In this course you’ll learn about elements of competitive advantage, such as communicating company values through corporate social responsibility actions. You’ll also learn about external branding, focusing marketing efforts through a customer lens, and communicating an effective and appealing value proposition. Finally, you’ll examine AI and other innovative analytics tools that are used to enhance competitive advantage.

Expected Duration (hours)
0.4

Lesson Objectives

Applying Competitive Advantage to Marketing Strategies

  • discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • recognize areas of potential competitive advantage that marketing strategies can leverage
  • identify actions that demonstrate a company's values across the four corporate social responsibility categories
  • Knowledge Check: Assessing Your Competitive Advantage
  • identify attributes of external branding that make it appealing to customers
  • identify key elements of a customer-centric value proposition
  • identify innovative tools for evaluating and leveraging competitive advantage
  • Knowledge Check: Applying Competitive Advantage Skills
  • reflect on what you've learned
  • Course Number:
    bs_amk07_a05_enus

    Expertise Level
    Everyone