Gain a better understanding of the role of competitive analysis utilizing PESTEL and SWOT frameworks in marketing. Competitive analysis helps an organization identify its competitors and evaluate their strategies. This allows organizations to to determine competitors' strengths and weaknesses relative to their own products or services. This course will teach you the role of competitive analysis in marketing, key business strategies behind marketing, and the importance of analyzing and comparing your company to your competitors.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 195427 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Discuss important features of competitor analysis • Define the objectives of marketing • Describe ways to analyse a company’s marketing strategy • Outline different strategies for marketing • Discuss SWOT Analysis • Outline what is involved in competitive analysis • Recall the different factors of the PESTEL framework |
| Course Code | 1605 |

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