

Since 2006, Nour has immersed himself in his professional development, starting with his strategic relocation to Shanghai in China. Over the years, he has studied visual communication, design, trading and marketing. Being based in the epicentre of commerce, Nour has had the opportunity to collaborate with brands from all parts of the spectrum, from enormous corporations to small businesses.
Nour combines all of his valuable knowl

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Define the core principles of developing a robust marketing strategy for your small business
- Analyze your customers' wants, needs, desires, challenges, and limitations
- Define products and services that solve your customers' pain points
- Analyze your competition and find market gaps to gain a competitive advantage
- Define your product selling point proposition and craft a marketing pitch that sells your product to a customer
- Define your brand's visual elements, including social media and product images, logo, and packaging attractively
- Explain marketing systems that generate profit

Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
- State the principles of developing a brand that uses excellent product quality and customer experience to compete instead of price
- List the major steps and processes customers go through while they interact with a new brand
- Analyze your customers' wants, needs, pain points, desires, and limitations
- Define a ‘unique selling proposition’ that markets your product to customers
- Recognize a brand’s vision, mission statement and story
- Arrange your brand’s visual elements, including logo, colours and product photography
- Outline the role of human psychology and perception of a brand’s visual presentation
- Explain how branding works as a complete and cohesive system rather than separate parts
- Discuss the core principles of developing a successful and likable small business brand

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Distinguish your brand powerfully in the market price and attract premium customers
- Distinguish your brand from the competition and make it stand out in the marketplace
- Outline your brand's visual elements, including social media lifestyle images, product website images, logo, and packaging design boldly and attractively
- Analyze and optimize your brand website and Amazon store for attractiveness and sales
- Identify social media influencers and media publishers to scale your brand marketing and become recognized as a premium brand
- Analyze your brand product line and become an authority and lifestyle brand, acquire new customers and generate more profit
- Analyze your brand distribution online and offline, sell to more customers locally, nationally or internationally, and become a powerful brand

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explain the core principles of building a profitable small business from the ground up
- Define your target audience and craft a unique selling proposition
- Identify your competition and establish a competitive advantage
- Compare and work with different suppliers
- Analyse the cost structure of your product and business
- Define and develop your marketing and distribution channels
- Outline and define your profitable business model
- Arrange and develop multiple business models to diversify your business profit

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify and develop the right mindset for starting a small business on a limited budget
- Analyse your customers' wants, needs, ‘pain points’, limitations and purchasing power
- Arrange and develop a profitable small brand niche
- Define, create or outsource your product and sell it at an affordable price to your customer
- Estimate the costs associated with making your product and running your business besides how to become profitable
- Outline a marketing plan and promote your product to a customer
- Classify, distribute and sell your product to a customer
- Analyse and build automated and profitable marketing processes and systems
- Evaluate and plan a profitable business model and generate more sales

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Describe your strengths and weaknesses in terms of skills, time and money
- Analyze your customer's wants, needs and ‘pain points’
- Arrange and develop a solution for a specific group of customers with specific limitations and purchasing power
- Define a ‘unique selling proposition’ (USP) for your business
- Analyze your industry's profitability and create a profitable product or service
- Assess your competition and find a market gap to differentiate your business and better serve your customers
- Evaluate suppliers of raw materials and different goods and services both online and offline
- Identify the right employees to build your business and delegate work to
- Outline efficient operating systems to streamline your business processes
- Estimate the costs of making your product and running your business
- Outline your marketing and product promotion plan






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