Analyze Markets: Strategy with SWOT

Overview

Analyze Markets: Strategy with SWOT provides a practical, hands-on foundation in the strategic marketing frameworks essential for modern market analysis. You'll move beyond theory to master the application of two core models: the 4Ps marketing mix and SWOT analysis. First, you will learn to deconstruct any company's go-to-market strategy by classifying real-world business tactics into Product, Price, Place, and Promotion. Next, you will learn to conduct a comprehensive SWOT analysis, systematically organizing research on a competitor's internal strengths and weaknesses against external market opportunities and threats. Through interactive exercises and building a complete analysis based on case studies like Netflix and Tesla, this course transforms how you see the market. You will develop the analytical thinking required to translate raw data into a structured strategic overview, identify competitive vulnerabilities, and formulate actionable recommendations—a critical and foundational skill for aspiring market research analysts, marketing professionals, or business strategists.

Syllabus

Marketing Mix Fundamentals

In this module, you will master the 4Ps marketing framework (Product, Price, Place, and Promotion). You'll learn to deconstruct any company's go-to-market strategy by identifying, classifying, and interpreting its core business tactics. Using Coca-Cola's iconic strategy as a case study, you'll see how these four elements work together to create a dominant market position, and you'll get hands-on practice categorizing tactics in an interactive exercise.

Strategic Competitor Position Analysis

This module teaches you how to conduct a SWOT analysis to evaluate a competitor's market position and organize business insights into an actionable analysis. You will learn to identify internal, controllable factors (Strengths and Weaknesses) and separate them from external, uncontrollable market forces (Opportunities and Threats). Using Netflix and Tesla as guiding examples, you will build a complete SWOT analysis and use it to formulate a basic strategic recommendation.