People don't buy products. They buy brands. Who creates brands? People. How do they do it? Through proper marketing research and planning. The traditional marketing mix emphasizes the four P's: product, price, place, and promotion. However, this fails to address two other important aspects of marketing: planning and people. Planning and people are vital to any marketing effort. Marketing planning guides how marketing is carried out, so it's imperative that it is informed and comprehensive. And because employees impact the marketing mix so strongly, it's equally important to ensure they understand and support the company's marketing actions. In this course, you'll learn about the types of people needed to create and support strong brands. You'll become familiar with internal branding and the importance of engaging employees as brand ambassadors. You'll also learn about how strategic and tactical planning are employed for conducting effective and cohesive marketing research that will inform digital marketing efforts. Finally, you'll learn about the factors that contribute to an integrated marketing communication plan.

The product manager is a "mini-CEO," responsible for overseeing a product through its entire lifecycle-from ideation to development to market introduction to retirement. In this course, you will learn the difference in roles between a product manager and a project manager, the key responsibilities and attributes of a product manager, the four stages of product development, and how to support a product management model in your organization.

Organizations adopt Agile business practices in order to provide their customers with better products more quickly. Building a product roadmap helps support an organization's Agile practices by clearly identifying the "why" behind their product development activities. In this course, you will learn the purposes of an Agile product roadmap, the advantages for building an Agile product roadmap, the steps for building an Agile product roadmap, the best practices for building an Agile product roadmap, and the different types of Agile product roadmaps you can build.

Building a solid product strategy is a crucial first step in creating a product that will enjoy a smooth development, meet your user's most pressing needs, and successfully find its place in the market. In this course, you will learn the key components of a successful product strategy, crucial questions to ask in defining your product strategy, the steps to creating a product strategy, how to build a data-driven product roadmap, and common mistakes in building a product strategy and how to avoid them.

Making sure the right people have the right information at the right time can make or break a company. Since product managers are at the hub of a company's activities, they bear much of the communication burden in the organization. It's their responsibility to make sure everyone has a shared understanding of what's going on. In this course, you will learn how product managers serve as a communication hub within their organization, how to get the most mileage out of your communication channels, how to polish your public speaking skills, how to keep everyone in your company on the same page, how to foster cross-team, communications, and how to map out your communication strategy.

Succeeding in product management requires not only knowing how to design a viable product, but how to position it in the marketplace so that it sells better than your competitors' products. Competitive and market analytics lets product managers benchmark their efforts against those of their rivals to see whose market strategies are winning the battle for customers hearts and minds. In this course, you will learn how to leverage competitive and market analytics to become an industry leader, how to use competitive analytics to gain insight on your competition, how to use market analytics to better understand changes in the marketplace, how to use price-benefit positional maps to position your product in the marketplace, and how to create and sustain an analytics advantage.

Successfully launching a product can be pivotal to a company's continued success. A Go-to-Market plan will guide you to the right customers and the right markets with the most efficient use of time and resources. In this course, you will learn when to use a Go-to-Market plan, the contents of a Go-to-Market plan, how to prepare to build a Go-to-Market plan, the elements top define in a Go-to-Market plan, and the steps to take when building a Go-to-Market plan.

Product managers have many ideas on how to design their product to meet the customers' needs. The challenge is to determine which of those ideas have the best chance of working. Increasingly, product managers are using large-scale randomized experiments to test the effectiveness of their ideas. In this course, you will learn how to use experimentation to make the best product management decisions, best practices for conducting effective experiments, the stages of conducting an experiment, how to optimize your product process with the design of experiments approach, and how to increase customer satisfaction with the user-experience-based design approach.

Whether you're entering a new market, looking for new customers, launching a new product, or trying to identify new opportunities to generate business with existing customers. conducting market research can give you valuable insights. In this course, you will learn the uses for market research, the different things you can learn from primary and secondary research, the different methods of market research, the stages of a market research project, and the different types of market research projects.

Metrics are a vital tool for achieving your product strategy. Using the proper metrics will let you build the right goals into your product strategy and let you know how well you are achieving those goals. In this course, you will learn how to use metrics to achieve your product strategy goals, how to build a metric-driven product strategy, key concepts for getting the most value from your metrics, how to choose metrics to help you shape your product strategy, and how to measure how successfully customer needs are being met.

To create a successful product, you need to build something that the customer would need, want, and buy. Customer development is a process for learning everything you need to about the customer's behaviors, motivations, and pain points in order to create and optimize product development ideas. In this course, you will learn how to create a customer-centric business approach using the customer development process, how to master the customer development process, how to effectively gather customer feedback, how to conduct productive customer development interviews, and the elements of the customer buying process.