
Unpack Sternthal and Rucker’s advertising strategy: target current users, competitors, entrants, and non-users, and use memory, reach, recency, amplification, and loyalty tactics to guide campaigns.
Explore brand archetypes and how benefits, attributes, and a reason to believe shape advertising strategy. Learn laddering, big idea approaches, media choices, reach versus frequency, and guardrails against bots.
Learn to balance concentration and continuity in advertising, apply flighting and pulsing, optimize budget and media, and use storytelling, big ideas, and testing to boost brand recall and demand.
Delegate tasks, hire video creators, and use Sparktoro to target sites for banner ads and Reddit; pursue TikTok boosts, YouTube Shorts, and repurposing, tracking click-through rate as a leading metric.
Embrace big bold bets to outperform incremental gains, illustrated by PewDiePie video and Wistia webinar wizard. Partner for customer acquisition and craft a bold, memorable brand identity.
Explore advanced digital marketing strategies, including custom audiences with Lead & Force, partner and account-based marketing, and undervalued asset opportunities across platforms like TikTok, Pinterest, and WhatsApp, for scalable growth.
Learn how to accelerate branding with the AI tool M1 Project, generating ICPs, buyer personas, and a full marketing plan with positioning, channels, and ads.
Explore the five-stage digital marketing framework—from horizon scanners seeking thought leadership to the active buyer and client stage—emphasizing inputs, outputs, and indicators, farming credibility through PR and influencer partnerships.
Develop advanced digital marketing skills by handpicking placements and channels to avoid robot traffic, and amplify what's already working through brand-building and nurturing strategies.
Shift from short-term roi to memory-building through broad advertising and economies of scale. Target triggers and category entry points to build brand memory across the customer journey.
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence. This course teaches you which advertising strategies work best for a given situation. The underlying philosophy is holistic: Marketing is a profitable SYSTEM not just a collection of ads and other assets. Advertising helps you achieve economies of scale in customer acquisition.
Learn to plan the various levels of advertising strategy including: creative strategy, media selection, budget allocation, positioning, funnel optimization, and brand marketing.
Make context-driven decisions such as:
When is differentiation good vs bad?
When is storytelling vs hard-selling appropriate?
What type of segmentation (if any) do you need?
Should advertising sell the product or just get prospects into your funnel?
Should I pay influencers to make ads?
Should advertising be used at each stage of the marketing funnel?
Do I even need ads?
Is small business advertising different from corporate advertising?
Master profitable advertising strategy:
Budgeting techniques
Creative strategy
ADPLAN framework
Advertising when your market is saturated vs unsaturated
Segmentation methods
The importance of reach, frequency, recency, memory, and amplification
Positioning
Reasons to believe
Targeting influencers, deciders, and purchasers
Perception, cognition & metacognition
Persuasion
Building associations with your brand
Direct advertising and brand building
Investing short-term, medium-term, and long-term results
Techniques that multiply advertisement effectiveness
Maximizing customer lifetime value while minimizing customer-acquisition costs