This task is designed for students new to return on marketing investment calculations, and is designed to step them through the process from relatively simple calculations to more complex ones. An ideal exercise for building confidence for dealing with this key marketing metric.
Introduction to ROMI Calculations Review the Teaching Activity
In this video-based task, students review the Art & Copy documentary, which highlights many of the classic and iconic TV commercials of all time and why and how they contributed to breakthroughs and improved understanding of advertising and communication. Please note that the documentary runs about an hour, plus the activity which primarily consists of review questions. A great task for marketing communications and similar topics.
Classic and Iconic Advertising Campaigns Review the Teaching Activity
This activity examines the Crocker Bank “We’ve Only Just Begun” campaign from the 1970s. It is considered a TV advertising CLASSIC and was a breakthrough in understanding of powerfully tapping into customer emotions. BUT… the campaign did not align with the bank’s strategy, highlighting one of the challenges of being a marketer is the sales and promotion era. Also a great activity to discuss emotions and storytelling.
Creative Communication and Sales and Promotion Orientation Review the Teaching Activity
This classic case study – the “Run Like a Girl” campaign – provides students with insights into how authentic storytelling and social advocacy can transform brand communication. They will explore how brands can successfully shift from product-focused messaging to engaging with social issues by using authentic storytelling.
Classic Case Study: Run Like a Girl Review the Teaching Activity
This activity uses KFC’s fried‑chicken–flavored toothpaste (launched in 2025) to explore how novelty products can generate viral buzz, earned media, and support brand positioning. This task helps students with identifying the marketing objectives, consumer behavior triggers, and success behind the use of novelty product brand extensions.
KFC Toothpaste Case Study Review the Teaching Activity
This activity provides three variations of Find-a-Word Crosswords. As you can guess by the name, these games are a mix of find-a-word puzzles and traditional crosswords. They are ideal for reinforcing key marketing definitions, while building teams, and having a bit of fun while learning.
Find-a-Word Crosswords Review the Teaching Activity
This case study examines the challenges of brand repositioning using Jaguar’s 2024 strategy. Students will analyze key marketing decisions, including the promotional video and their concept car launch. The case encourages critical thinking about creative messaging, brand management, strategy, DEI issues, and the risks of targeting new consumers while potentially alienating loyal customers.
Jaguar Rebranding and Repositioning Case Study Review the Teaching Activity
Generating consumer reviews can be a powerful approach to making services tangible, building trust in the brand, and reducing purchase risk for first-time customers. In this activity, students assess different approaches to generating more consumer reviews and evaluate which ones are likely to be more effective.
Techniques to Generate Consumer Reviews Review the Teaching Activity
This is a teaching activities designed to introduces students to the concepts and challenges of new products and the decision of whether to introduce them. It is a good foundational task to lead into this teaching activity: New Product Evaluation Challenges.
Key Challenges of New Products Review the Teaching Activity
This teaching activity is designed for small groups of students to discuss the most appropriate market research design for different situations and management problems. Four marketing scenarios are provided to review.
What Research Design Should We Use? Review the Teaching Activity