MKTG3600 Marketing in Practice
MKTG3600 Overview
- University of Sydney
- S2 2026
- 11 chapters
- Marketing
MKTG3600 Marketing in Practice is the University of Sydney Business School's third-year capstone unit for the Marketing major — the last marketing unit most students take, designed to bridge theory and practice through eleven industry guest lectures and weekly tutorials delivered via Canvas rather than a prescribed textbook.
- Assessed by Individual Participation (Parts A + B + C) 20% · Group Live Brief Presentation 20% · Group Live Report 30% + 1 more
- Key terms The marketing process (Kotler & Armstrong), Marketingland map (The Proper Marketing Club, 2019), Insight (Treeves, 2017), STP (Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning)
- How to prepare Treat MKTG3600 as a framework-and-application unit, not a reading unit: the exam is drawn entirely from the guest lectures…
- Most asked Where can I find past exam papers / practice for MKTG3600?
How MKTG3600 is assessed
| Component | Weight | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Individual Participation (Parts A + B + C) | 20% | Lecture/tutorial participation (Part A 10%) + a 1,500-word study/research review (Part B 2%) + the Agency Brief task (Part C 8%) |
| Group Live Brief Presentation | 20% | Live in-class pitch responding to the industry brief (max 15 slides) |
| Group Live Report | 30% | 3,500-word marketing report on the live industry brief |
| Final Exam | ~30% (S1-2026; earlier offerings 40% — confirm on your S2-2026 Canvas outline) | 6 compulsory short-answer questions @15 marks (~250-350 words each), drawn from the guest lectures; no referencing |
What MKTG3600 covers
MKTG3600 Marketing in Practice is the University of Sydney's capstone marketing unit, taught by industry guest speakers and assessed by a group live brief (a 20% pitch plus a 30% report), individual participation tasks (20%), and a final exam of six compulsory short-answer questions drawn entirely from the lectures.
This eleven-chapter map follows the teaching schedule through the unit's four modules — Diagnosis, Strategy, Execution and Measurement — mirroring the way the exam maps one-to-one onto the guest lectures. Use it to see which framework powers which exam question and which section of the live brief.
The Marketing Process & Diagnostic Frameworks
Marketing process (Kotler) · PESTLE · SWOT · 4Cs · Brand Funnel · Marketingland map (Week 1)Week 1 sets the lens the whole unit looks through: the Kotler & Armstrong five-step marketing process, the Marketingland map (Diagnose → Strategy → Execution) that every later lecture hangs off, and the practitioner's diagnostic toolkit — PESTLE, SWOT, the 4Cs and the Brand Funnel.
- The marketing process (Kotler & Armstrong): five steps that create value for customers, then capture value in return
- The Marketingland master map (The Proper Marketing Club, 2019): DIAGNOSE → STRATEGY → EXECUTION
- Market orientation — prioritising understanding and fulfilling customer needs as the route to success
- PESTLE — Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental (macro-environment scan)
- SWOT — Strengths/Weaknesses (internal) vs Opportunities/Threats (external); helpful vs harmful
- The 4Cs diagnostic set (this unit's version) — Company, Culture, Category, Customers
Research, Trends & Insights
Market research · trends · category entry points (CEPs) · challenger brands · proof points (Week 2)Week 2 is about turning research into insight — the practitioner's engine for everything that follows.
- Insight (Treeves, 2017) — a new understanding of behaviour, belief or need that informs and inspires decisions; data → insight → strategy
- Primary vs secondary (desk) research — generating new data vs interpreting existing sources
- Reading trends — using cultural/consumer trend reports to spot opportunity and stay relevant
- Category Entry Points (CEPs, Sharp & Romaniuk) — the cues that bring a category to mind: WHY / WHEN / WHERE / WITH WHOM / WITH WHAT
- Challenger-brand attributes — purpose-driven, bold & brave, innovative, agile, customer-centric
- Proof points — concrete, credible claims that make a proposition believable
Strategy: Segmentation, Targeting & Positioning
STP · target-evaluation criteria · POPs/PODs · positioning & value-proposition statements · Brand Key (Week 3)Week 3 is the heart of strategy: STP end-to-end.
- STP defined — Segment (possible groups) → Target (who we pick) → Position (what the brand is for them)
- Segmentation bases — geographic, demographic, psychographic, behavioural
- Target-evaluation criteria (5) — size, growth potential, profitability, accessibility, strategic fit
- Targeting strategies — undifferentiated (mass), differentiated (segmented), concentrated (niche), micromarketing
- Points of Parity (POPs) and Points of Difference (PODs) — "differentiate or disappear"
- The 4-part positioning statement — To (target) · is the (category) · that (benefit) · because (support/RTBs)
Strategy: Brand Momentum & Architecture
Brand architecture · distinctive brand assets (DBAs) · Byron Sharp's 7 rules · archetypes · BAV · valuation (Week 4)Week 4 builds brand momentum: how brands create and sustain value.
- Brand architecture (4 types) — branded house · sub-brands · endorsed brands · house of brands
- Distinctive brand assets — brand elements (Keller) · brand codes (Ritson) · DBAs (Romaniuk)
- Keller's six selection criteria — memorable · meaningful · likable · transferable · adaptable · protectable
- Romaniuk's DBAs — elements in consistent, recognisable sensory forms that help a brand stand out
- The 12 archetypes (Mark & Pearson) on two axes — extraverted/introverted and assertive/affiliative
- Byron Sharp's 7 rules for brand growth — salience, continuous reach, easy to buy, memory structures, distinctive assets, stay competitive, be consistent
Strategy: Brand Responsibilities
CSR · Carroll's pyramid · triple bottom line (Elkington) · sustainability & ethics (Week 5)Week 5 covers the marketer's responsibilities: corporate social responsibility, sustainability and ethics.
- Responsible-marketing considerations (5) — CSR · environmental · AI ethics · social (DEI) · data privacy
- Carroll's pyramid of CSR (Archie Carroll, 1991) — Economic → Legal → Ethical → Philanthropic (bottom to top)
- The triple bottom line (John Elkington, 1994) — People (social) · Planet (environmental) · Profit (financial)
- Purpose-led marketing — connecting a brand to a societal purpose beyond selling
- The Purpose Disruptors thesis — marketers as the "architects of demand"; "#change the brief"; "LESS Buying, MORE Being"
- Greenwashing and the ethics/authenticity tension — the gap between claim and action
Execution: Briefing Agency Partners
Writing a brief · BetterBriefs · GET/WHO/TO/BY · linked objectives (Week 6)Week 6 opens the Execution module with the skill that separates good marketers from bad: writing a brief.
- The BetterBriefs problem — 80% of marketers think they brief well; only 10% of agencies agree; ~1/3 of budgets wasted on poor briefs
- "A brief is about thinking, not writing" (Dave Trott) — a roadmap for creative thinking
- Ritson's rules — strategy before tactics; strategy is sacrifice (Porter: what you're NOT going to do); complexity breeds simplicity
- The brief backbone (BetterBriefs) — objectives + target audience + budget, intrinsically linked; "one brief = one strategy"
- Three linked objective types — commercial (sales/profit), behavioural (behaviour change), attitudinal (shift in thinking/feeling)
- Single-minded message + relevant proof points (message is not a tagline, not a shopping list)
Execution: The Marketing Mix & Pricing
4Ps (McCarthy) · jobs-to-be-done (Christensen) · pricing strategies · pricing psychology (Week 7)Week 7 covers the marketing mix in practice: the 4Ps (McCarthy, 1960) as a system, jobs-to-be-done (Christensen), the six pricing strategies and the eight pricing-psychology effects, plus place as physical vs mental availability.
- The 4Ps (E. Jerome McCarthy, 1960) — Product, Price, Place, Promotion, treated as a connected system
- Product = the total offering (tangible + intangible: features, quality, packaging, service, experience, warranty, ecosystem)
- Jobs To Be Done (Christensen) — people hire products to do a job; functional, emotional and social dimensions
- System 1 / System 2 (Kahneman) — fast/intuitive (~95%) vs slow/rational (~5%); packaging as a recognition shortcut
- Six pricing strategies — cost-plus, competitive, value-based, dynamic, penetration, skimming
- Eight pricing-psychology effects — anchoring, decoy, charm, price-quality inference, pain of paying, framing/partitioning, Weber-Fechner, scarcity
Execution: Creative
Brand vs performance advertising · the cost of dull · creative effectiveness (Week 8)Week 8 covers creative — the Promotion P — as practised by a senior brand marketer.
- Brand advertising vs performance advertising — building future demand vs capturing demand now
- The "cost of dull" — dull creative is not neutral; it wastes media money by failing to get noticed
- What makes creative effective — distinctiveness, emotion, attention and consistency with brand assets
- Creative works with media, not apart from it — the same idea needs the right channels and reach
- Market Mix Modelling (MMM) as evidence of creative's contribution over time
- The link to Binet & Field's "The Long and Short of It" — balancing long-term brand building and short-term activation
Execution: Media
Media-agency remit · metrics & their limits · funnel × channels · media trading (Week 9)Week 9 covers media in practice, delivered by a media agency.
- The modern media-agency remit (6 roles) — strategic navigator, culture decoder, data interpreter, execution engine, partnership broker, measurement architect
- Agency landscape — holding companies vs the rise of independents; the "agency village"
- Media metrics and their limits — reach & frequency, ROAS/CPA, view-through rate, CPM/CPC/CPL, brand-health tracking, MMM
- Marketing funnel × channels — awareness, consideration, conversion, loyalty/advocacy each favour different channels
- Awareness/consideration = long-term; conversion/loyalty = short-term
- The media-planning process — communication strategy → channel planning → execute → implement → measure → optimise
Execution: Data & Technology
Data & tech across the 4Ps · programmatic · experimentation & incrementality (Week 10)Week 10 covers data and technology across the marketing mix, delivered by a digital-first brand.
- Data = capturable information used to understand and improve marketing effects; Tech = the tools and platforms that enable marketing at scale
- John Wanamaker (~1919) — "half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; I don't know which half" — data now shows which half
- Data & tech across the 4Ps — dynamic pricing (Price), data-led distribution (Place), personalisation (Product), automated right-message-right-moment (Promotion)
- Programmatic media (4 steps) — User → Signal → Match → Ad Served
- Incrementality / experimentation — Control (no ads) vs Exposed (shown ads); uplift over control = true ROI
- "Were you going to buy anyway?" — the core incrementality question; lookalike audiences and bidding more for high-value users
Measurement: Measuring Marketing Success
Efficiency vs effectiveness · Binet & Field short/long · measurement methods · the control cycle (Week 11)Week 11 is the Measurement module and the unit's capstone lens: how to know whether marketing worked.
- Why measurement is hard — many channels interact, competitors and conditions intervene, effects are delayed, and we rarely observe the control
- Efficiency vs effectiveness — the trap of confusing easy measurement with meaningful measurement
- Short-term vs long-term (Binet & Field) — sales activation (captures demand now, ~6 months) vs brand building (creates demand later); usually need both
- A system of evidence, not one number — link objectives, activity, brand effects, business outcomes and future decisions
- The four measurement methods — in-flight metrics, brand/campaign tracking, market mix modelling (MMM), experimental testing
- Experimental testing as the clearest route to causality and incrementality
The University of Sydney frames MKTG3600 around four modules that mirror the working marketer's sequence — Diagnosis (the marketing process and diagnostic frameworks, research and insights), Strategy (segmentation-targeting-positioning, brand momentum and architecture, brand responsibilities), Execution (briefing agency partners, the marketing mix and pricing, creative, media, data and technology) and Measurement (measuring marketing success) — and assesses it through a group live brief for a real challenger-brand client plus a final exam.
The final exam is worth around 30% of the unit in the S1-2026 offering — earlier offerings weighted it 40%, so confirm the exact weight on your S2-2026 Canvas unit outline — and consists of six compulsory short-answer questions of 15 marks each (around 250-350 words per answer), drawn entirely from the guest lectures and marked on a four-layer rubric: define the concept, apply the right frameworks and theory, give application and examples, then critique.
No referencing is required. Alongside the exam, individual participation (Parts A + B + C) is 20%, the group live brief presentation is 20% and the group live report is 30%. The exam rewards understanding and application over recall — "think big picture, not facts and figures" — and the MKTG3600 result feeds the Weighted Average Mark (WAM) that rounds out the Marketing major.
Duration, open- or closed-book status and any exam hurdle are not published in the available materials — confirm them on Canvas before you rely on them.
Worked example · free
Short-answer exam question: two uses of market research (15 marks)
- +3LAYER 1 — Define (frame the concept). Open by defining insight as "a new understanding of human behaviour, belief or need that informs and inspires decisions and actions" (Treeves), and note that research's purpose is not data-gathering but generating insight: data → insight → strategy. State that you will map each use onto the Marketingland stages Diagnose → Strategy → Execution → Measurement.
- +3LAYER 2 — Apply the right frameworks (Use 1). Take conjoint analysis at the strategy / new-product-development stage. (a) Challenge: designing a new menu customers on a tight budget would actually choose. (b) Stage: Strategy / NPD. (c) Approach: conjoint trade-offs across attributes (brand, packaging, health claim, price) — a quantitative technique. (d) It quantified which attribute combinations customers valued so the offer could be de-risked before launch.
- +3LAYER 2 (cont.) — Apply a second, contrasting framework (Use 2). Take experimental control-vs-exposed testing at the measurement stage. (a) Challenge: proving the campaign, not other factors, drove the outcome. (b) Stage: Measurement / evaluation. (c) Approach: a controlled experiment comparing an exposed group against a control group. (d) The uplift of exposed over control isolated true incrementality — "were they going to buy anyway?" — the clearest evidence of causality.
- +3LAYER 3 — Application & examples. Anchor each use in a concrete, self-worked example (a challenger insurance brand testing which coverage attributes young drivers trade off; a launch campaign run as a geo split with a holdout region). Show you can move from the framework to a decision a marketer would actually make.
- +3LAYER 4 — Critique & critical thinking. Weigh the two: conjoint reveals stated preference but can miss real-world behaviour; experiments prove causality but need scale, clean controls and time. Note that each sits at a different point in the process — primary/quantitative up front vs experimental at the end — and that a mature marketer triangulates rather than trusting one method. Keep it tight, use bullets, don't waffle or write an essay.
Key terms
- The marketing process (Kotler & Armstrong)
- A simple five-step value model — understand the market and customer needs; design a customer-driven strategy; build an integrated marketing program; build profitable relationships and customer delight; capture value to create profits and customer equity. Create value, then capture it.
- Marketingland map (The Proper Marketing Club, 2019)
- The unit's spine metaphor, repeated across every lecture: DIAGNOSE (market orientation, research) → STRATEGY (segmentation, targeting, positioning; the 3Cs) → EXECUTION (the 4Ps, brand). The map every framework in the unit hangs off.
- Insight (Treeves, 2017)
- "A new understanding of human behaviour, belief or need that informs and inspires campaign ideas, decisions and actions." Research exists to generate insight, not to gather data: data → insight → strategy.
- STP (Segmentation, Targeting, Positioning)
- The core strategy sequence: segment the market into groups, target the ones worth pursuing (size, growth, profitability, accessibility, strategic fit), and position the brand for what it should stand for in the target's mind.
- The 4Ps (E. Jerome McCarthy, 1960)
- The marketing mix — Product, Price, Place, Promotion — treated as a system in which everything must work together. Price is the only P that generates revenue; the rest create and deliver value.
- Efficiency vs effectiveness
- The measurement trap Binet & Field warn against: confusing easy-to-measure activity (efficiency — clicks, cost-per-click) with meaningful outcomes (effectiveness — did marketing actually build the business?). Effective marketing usually needs both short-term activation and long-term brand building.
MKTG3600 FAQ
Is MKTG3600 hard?
It is less about difficulty than about synthesis. There is no textbook and no formulas — MKTG3600 is a capstone that asks you to integrate the whole Marketing major and apply named frameworks to real cases, which suits students who think in structure rather than memorise.
The load is front-and-back: a group live brief (a 20% pitch and a 30% report) runs through the middle of the semester, and the final exam rewards understanding and application over recall. Keeping notes on each guest lecture as you go — the lectures are not recorded — and practising the four-layer rubric makes it very manageable.
Can AI help me with MKTG3600?
Yes, as a study aid. Sia is an AI tutor built to mirror how MKTG3600 is actually taught and assessed: it can explain a framework step by step (STP, the 4Ps, Carroll's CSR pyramid, GET/WHO/TO/BY, efficiency vs effectiveness), walk you through the four-layer short-answer rubric on a practice question, and check your reasoning on a mock positioning statement or marketing-mix answer.
It does not do your graded assessment for you — not your live report, your agency brief or your exam — and University of Sydney academic-integrity rules apply. Use it to understand the method and rehearse, and confirm all assessment details on Canvas.
Where can I find past exam papers / practice for MKTG3600?
Start on Canvas and in the University of Sydney Library's past-exam-paper collection, where the unit posts any official practice material and released papers; because the exam is drawn entirely from the guest lectures and tutorials, your weekly tutorial-prep tasks are the closest match to its style.
This guide also includes a re-authored practice exam built to mirror the final's shape — six compulsory short-answer questions across the modules, marked on the four-layer rubric — plus original worked answers, and you can ask Sia to generate extra practice questions in the same style and explain each step. Treat third-party "model answers" with caution and confirm what is officially provided on Canvas.
Does MKTG3600 have a hurdle, and how is it marked?
The available S1-2026 materials do not state a hurdle, but earlier offerings listed the final exam as a hurdle task requiring a minimum of around 5% — so do not assume either way; confirm the hurdle rule, and the split of participation (20%), group presentation (20%), group report (30%) and exam, on your S2-2026 Canvas unit outline.
The exam itself is marked on a four-layer rubric per question: (1) define the concept, (2) apply the appropriate frameworks and theory and link to other course concepts, (3) application and examples, (4) critique and critical thinking. Answers are short — around 250-350 words, bullets and drawings welcome — and no referencing is required. Grade bands follow the University of Sydney scale (HD 85+, D, CR, P).
What is examined in the MKTG3600 final exam?
The exam is drawn entirely from the eleven core guest lectures and the tutorial activities, with speaker-specific questions pre-agreed with each guest — so nothing comes from outside the unit, but you are expected to "go wider" and apply the ideas, not just recall them.
Expect six compulsory short-answer questions of 15 marks each (around 90 marks), spanning the four modules: diagnosis and the marketing process, strategy (STP, brand momentum, brand responsibilities), execution (briefing, the marketing mix and pricing, creative, media, data and technology) and measurement. Questions use "Explain how / Explain what and why / Provide an example of / Explain and recommend" phrasing.
Duration and open- or closed-book status are not published in the available materials — confirm the date, time, room, format and permitted materials on Canvas and the University of Sydney exam timetable.
Questions students ask in each MKTG3600 chapter
- What is the difference between the 4Cs in this unit and the McCarthy 4Cs?
- MKTG3600's Week-1 diagnostic 4Cs are Company, Culture, Category and Customers — a structure for auditing a brand's situation. That is different from the marketing-mix restatement (Product→Customer value, Price→Cost, Place→Convenience, Promotion→Communication) you may have met elsewhere. In the exam, use the deck's set — Company/Culture/Category/Customers — when asked to diagnose a situation. Chapter 01 · The Marketing Process & Diagnostic Frameworks
- What is the difference between data and an insight?
- Data is what you observe; an insight is a new understanding of behaviour that the data reveals and that changes a decision. "40% of young drivers switch insurer within two years" is data; "young drivers distrust insurers and see switching as the only lever they control" is an insight, because it points to what marketing should do. In MKTG3600, marks go to the insight, not the number. Chapter 02 · Research, Trends & Insights
- What is the difference between a positioning statement and a value-proposition statement?
- They are complementary tools for the same brand. The four-part positioning statement (To / is the / that / because) is the external claim for the brand's frame of reference and point of difference. The value-proposition statement (For [target] who want to [insight], Brand X is the [product] that [promise], because [RTBs]) is more customer-insight-led and internal. In the exam, be able to write both and say when you'd use each. Chapter 03 · Strategy: Segmentation, Targeting & Positioning
- Who came up with distinctive brand assets, and how is it different from brand elements?
- Distinctive brand assets are Jenni Romaniuk's — elements in consistent, recognisable sensory forms that make a brand stand out. In the unit they sit alongside two other attributions: brand elements (Keller, with the six selection criteria) and brand codes (Ritson). They overlap in practice but the exam expects the correct author for each, so learn the three pairs together. Chapter 04 · Strategy: Brand Momentum & Architecture
- What is the order of Carroll's pyramid, and why does it matter?
- Bottom to top: Economic, Legal, Ethical, Philanthropic (Carroll, 1991). The order matters because it says responsibility is layered — a firm must be profitable and law-abiding and ethical before philanthropy is credible; a brand that skips to philanthropy while behaving unethically invites a greenwashing charge. Reproduce the order and the year, since a scrambled pyramid loses the definition mark. Chapter 05 · Strategy: Brand Responsibilities
- Why do so many briefs fail?
- The BetterBriefs research found a perception gap — around 80% of marketers rate their briefs highly but only about 10% of agencies agree — and roughly a third of budgets are wasted on poor briefs. The usual causes are trying to do everything in one brief (no sacrifice), a fuzzy target and insight, and no single-minded message. The fix is clarity, one strategy per brief, and a good verbal briefing, not just a good document. Chapter 06 · Execution: Briefing Agency Partners
- Why is Product described as more than the physical thing?
- Because in practice the product is the total offering — features and quality PLUS packaging, design, service, experience, warranty and ecosystem. "Get your product right and everything else gets easier." Jobs To Be Done sharpens this: customers hire the whole offering to make progress on a functional, emotional and social job, so a good answer talks about the job, not just the object. Chapter 07 · Execution: The Marketing Mix & Pricing
- What is the difference between brand and performance advertising?
- Brand advertising builds long-term demand and memory structures — it creates future customers; performance advertising captures demand that already exists, measured in clicks and conversions. Binet & Field's evidence is that effective marketing needs both in balance: performance shows quick ROI but can't sustain growth alone, and brand building grows the base but is slower to show up in the numbers. Chapter 08 · Execution: Creative
- Why is every media metric taught with a limitation?
- Because the exam-able point is judgment, not recall: each metric answers one question and misses others. Reach & frequency show delivery but not impact; ROAS/CPA show conversion efficiency but carry last-click bias; view-through is gameable; brand tracking is survey-based; MMM sees true contribution but lags and needs scale. Naming the limit alongside the use is what earns the critique marks. Chapter 09 · Execution: Media
- What is the difference between incrementality and attribution?
- Attribution assigns credit for a conversion to the touchpoints that preceded it, but it can reward marketing for sales that would have happened anyway. Incrementality asks the harder, causal question — "were they going to buy anyway?" — and answers it with a control-vs-exposed experiment. In the exam, showing you understand that attributed sales overstate true impact is the key application point. Chapter 10 · Execution: Data & Technology
- What is the difference between efficiency and effectiveness?
- Efficiency measures how cheaply and easily you produced activity — clicks, cost-per-click, impressions; effectiveness measures whether that activity actually moved the business, in brand and sales terms. Binet & Field's warning is that the efficient metrics are the easy ones to grab, but they are often not the meaningful ones, so optimising for efficiency can quietly starve long-term effectiveness. Naming and explaining this trap is a high-frequency exam point. Chapter 11 · Measurement: Measuring Marketing Success
How to study for the exam
Treat MKTG3600 as a framework-and-application unit, not a reading unit: the exam is drawn entirely from the guest lectures, so your notes ARE the syllabus. Because the lectures are not recorded, capture each speaker's core framework, their attribution (a wrong author or model name is the costliest slip) and the case they used, the week you hear it.
Rehearse the four-layer rubric relentlessly — for any concept, practise writing 250-350 words that (1) define it, (2) name the right framework and link it to other course concepts, (3) apply it to a concrete example, and (4) critique it.
The group live brief for the challenger-brand client is the single best integration exercise: every section (situation analysis, target and insight, positioning statement, marketing-mix recommendations, measurement KPIs, controls) maps onto an exam-able framework, so treat building it as exam revision.
In the run-up to the exam, don't cram facts and figures through STUVAC — "think big picture," go one framework wider than the lecture, and make sure you can start a short answer in every module.
When a framework won't click, ask Sia to explain that single step a different way and to set you a fresh rubric-style practice question — it teaches the method and checks your reasoning, and it never substitutes for your own graded work. Confirm the exam date, time, room and open/closed-book status on Canvas and the University of Sydney exam timetable.
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