L3 CIM Foundation Certificate in Marketing

Gives you the basic skills and knowledge required to understand marketing’s role in the organisation and to perform professionally.

Who is it for?

For people of all ages and stages of their career. Ideal for managers in non-marketing functions, entrepreneurs, apprentices and those starting out in a marketing career.

This recognised CIM qualification is ideal if you are working in a marketing support role, or are looking to move into marketing.

What you will learn

• Marketing Principles (Mandatory): The function of marketing and its role in an organisation, as well as how the marketing mix is used to satisfy customer needs.
• Customer Communications (Elective): The different customers that organisations have, and ways of communicating with those customers, by building a marketing communications plan.
• Digital Essentials (Elective): The key concepts associated with digital marketing, and the impact of the changing digital environment in relation to the customer and the digital tools used for communications. You will also consider the importance of digital content in the context of digital campaigns, as well as how campaigns can be monitored.

Successful completion of two modules will lead to the CIM Foundation Certificate in Marketing. If you wish, you can study for one module at a time, and build up to a qualification later.

Course content

Marketing Principles

Assessment: This module is assessed by a multiple choice examination.

Learning outcomes

Discovering marketing

• Describe the role and function of marketing within organisations.
• Explain the factors that influence consumer behaviour.

The marketing environment

• Identify the key components of the marketing environment.
• Know how to collect relevant information about the marketing environment.

The marketing mix

• Describe the concept and elements of the marketing mix.
• Know how the marketing mix is applied in different contextual settings.

Customer Communications (Elective)

Assessment: This module is assessed by a work-based project.

Learning outcomes

Who are customers?

• Have an understanding of different types of customer.
• Understand the nature and importance of customer relationships.

Communicating with customers

• Know the purpose and process of marketing communications.
• Understand the range of different marketing communications tools available.

Creating a marketing communications campaign

• Be able to create and outline a marketing communications campaign.
• Be able to implement the marketing communications campaign.

Digital Essentials (Elective)

Assessment: This module is assessed by an assignment based on a given scenario and an organisation of choice.

Learning outcomes

The module comprises six learning outcomes and each learning outcome will be covered by the related assessment criteria. By the end of this module you should be able to:

• Understand what is meant by digital marketing.
• Understand the key factors that influence the digital consumer.
• Understand the key digital marketing communications tools.
• Understand how to develop digital marketing content.
• Be able to develop digital marketing campaigns.
• Understand methods of measuring digital marketing campaigns.

Entry requirements

It is not necessary to have any previous experience or knowledge of marketing and you can choose to study in a way that suits your requirements and availability.

Our programmes are taught in English, and if English is not your first language, you will also need to provide evidence of at least IELTS Academic Module (6.5)/ Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English (Grade B).

Booking

Bookings should be made via the CIM Academy team at CIM – please call us on +44 (0)1628 427240.

Virtual (online) - £500 + VAT

• Exam/Assessment fees - £210
• CIM studying membership - £60

Total including VAT= £870

What’s included -

• Tuition costs
• 24/7 access to CIM Academy Online
• Student support
• CIM studying membership for the year
• Exam and assessment fees

Blended (face-to-face and online )- £860 + VAT

• Exam/Assessment fees - £210
• CIM studying membership - £60

Total including VAT= £1,302

What’s included -

• Tuition costs
• 24/7 access to CIM Academy Online
• Student support
• CIM studying membership for the year
• Exam and assessment fees
• One day face-to-face workshop per module

Additional exam fees may apply to students in non-UK locations.

About us

CIM (The Chartered Institute of Marketing) is the world's leading professional marketing body and CIM Academy is the only study centre owned by CIM. We provide a range of marketing, digital marketing qualifications worldwide via flexible study options to suit your busy lifestyle. As a business professional, intent on increasing your skills, we are your natural choice of a partner if you're serious about gaining a practical, respected and internationally recognised qualifications.

Supporting you all the way

The support team at CIM Academy ensure you receive the best quality learning experience. They will advise and support you, helping you to plan and manage your learning throughout the course and will monitor your progress to ensure you don’t miss any important deadlines along the way. They will also help you with all the administrative aspects of your course, allowing you to concentrate on your studies.

When you choose to study with us you also have access to:

• Excellent quality resources and expertise.
• Outstanding academic and business related tuition - from our Expert Delivery Team who are leaders in their field.
• Highly supportive network - from a dedicated support team, the Expert Delivery Team and fellow delegates.
• 24/7 access to the CIM Academy learning portal - the online learning community supporting you throughout your studies. As well as being able to collaborate with other delegates and our Expert Delivery Team, it hosts an extensive range of online tools, templates, podcasts and links to relevant reading that you can use in your workplace as well as in your assignments.
• Excellent pass rates and awards for outstanding achievement.
• An unrivalled reputation - over 90% of our delegates would recommend us.
• A choice of workshop locations - study in central London or at Moor Hall, the home of CIM. Or, if you have a group or team to train we can deliver the qualifications at your choice of location – options for tailoring are also available.
• CPD – proving your commitment to improving and developing your skills more.