Students are presented with top-level metrics from YouTube Analytics for a law firm’s channel. As the data shows, there’s a variety of outcomes for these videos. Students need to analyze the results and suggest ways the firm might improve their video’s and channel’s performance.
Analyzing YouTube Channel Performance Review the Teaching Activity
Students are provided with two debate questions, as well as some for and against points to get them started and thinking about the role and impact of shrinkflation. Debate are often a good method of generating a deeper understanding of a topic. Shrinkflation extends beyond just pricing, to brand management, promotion, ethics, customer trust, and profitability.
The Ethics of Shrinkflation: Debate Ideas Review the Teaching Activity
Students are presented with three scenarios where large brands or industries are expected to be more socially responsible. But is that the essence of marketing? Indeed, do we need to rethink the definition of modern-day marketing? This is a discussion task variation of the debate task of the same name.
Do Firms Have a Social Responsibility? (Discussion Task) Review the Teaching Activity
In this debate exercise, students are faced with three debate situations, in regard to social responsibility. In particular, they address the question of whether large brands need to “do more” than just meet customer needs and make profits? Indeed, has the scope of marketing expanded?
Do Firms Have a Social Responsibility? (Debates) Review the Teaching Activity
Students, as marketing managers for a large hotel chain operating in a major tourist city, have been approached by their CEO to “pick a side” and lobby for a looming social issue of allowing e-scooters to operate in the city.
Who Has the Social Right of Way? Review the Teaching Activity
Students assume the role of a Communications Manager for a local government area, and to select the best communications campaign to persuade residents that a change to smaller waste bins is a positive change for the overall good. An activity that covers social marketing, communications, and perceptions.
Communicating the Social Change Review the Teaching Activity
Students explore a scenario involving a management meeting at a bank, where the participants in this meeting are discussing the bank’s potential engagement with a social issue, namely problem gambling. The task is to review the meeting and work out what the bank should do and how much they should be involved in this social issue.
Should the Bank Support the Social Cause? Review the Teaching Activity
Students review an award-winning education outreach project by Colgate known as “Education in a Box” designed for schools in Myanmar. While this sounds like a great initiative for providing education resources – was it really? Or was it a form of stealth marketing or just greenwashing?
Education CSR or Just Promotion? Review the Teaching Activity
Students review a ‘text and drive’ campaign promoted by an apparent funeral home in Canada. It turned out to be a public service announcement, but was it effective and would your students have approved the communications approach?
Ethics of Text and Drive Campaigns Review the Teaching Activity
Students are presented with top-level metrics from Google Search Console for a law firm’s keywords. They have had a mix of success, with some keywords doing well, and others failing to get traction. Perhaps your students can help them improve their SEO performance? A helpful introduction to Google Search Console metrics.
Analyzing SEO Performance Review the Teaching Activity