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Sessional Instructor / PhD Candidate
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General
  • Undergraduate
  • 44 learners; teams of 4
  • 25 hours per learner
  • Dates set by experience
  • Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
  • 1/2 project matches
  • Canada
  • Academic experience
  • Any company type
  • Any industries
Categories
Marketing Advertising Digital marketing Search engine optimization Social media marketing
Project timeline
  • May 8, 2024
    Experience start
  • May 13, 2024
    Meet with students
  • May 24, 2024
    Web audit report due
  • May 29, 2024
    Meet with Students
  • June 17, 2024
    Presentation on the digital advertising campaign
  • June 22, 2024
    Experience end
Overview
Details

The project aims to assist a collaborating company in improving its online presence by refining its website and developing a digital advertising campaign. To accomplish this, students will need access to the company's Google Analytics data.

Using Google Analytics data, students will perform a comprehensive web audit to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the website's navigation structure, page layout, content design, and SEO settings. The audit report will contain concrete suggestions for improving the website.

Students will collaborate with the company to prepare a digital ad campaign. The company will determine the campaign's objectives, duration, and budget, and provide ad content. Students' proposals for the ad campaign will include channel selection, budget allocation, detailed campaign settings, and sample ad designs. The proposals will provide clear instructions so that the company can set up the ad campaign conveniently, even if it has no prior experience.

Learner skills
Creative strategy, Data analytics
Deliverables

As part of the project, students will deliver website audit reports that provide a detailed assessment of the website's functionalities and components, along with specific suggestions for improving the navigation structure, page layout, content, search engine optimization, and other relevant factors.

Additionally, students will propose and present a digital advertising plan based on the company's objectives. If requested, the plan can focus on enhancing the company's current advertising practices by refining the selection of keywords, target audience, and bidding strategy while keeping the same budget. Alternatively, a new advertising campaign can be designed with new objectives and a specified budget.

Project Examples

This course project has been ongoing for three years, during which students have collaborated with companies across various industries, including restaurants, retail stores, and manufacturers, healthcare institutes, consulting businesses. Most companies refined their websites based on students' suggestions and achieved satisfying outcomes from digital ad campaigns.

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

A representative of the company will be available to answer questions from students in a timely manner for the duration of the project.

A representative of the company will be available for a pre-selection discussion with the administrator of the course to review the project scope.

The company should have a Google Analytics account of its website no later than May 1st.