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Become great at Ecommerce Content Marketing

Content marketing, when done correctly, is one of the most economically viable long term channels you can build.

Ecommerce companies tired of burning ad dollars in a race to the bottom with competitors need something else: a moat. A scalable channel that drives both brand and revenue.

By Alex Birkett,

Co-founder @ Omniscient Digital

Course length: 2h 52min

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Introduction video (2 minutes)

This course is essential for you if…

  • Understand the value of content marketing and are willing to invest in the channel, even if you haven’t figured out the specifics yet.
  • You are a marketing leader in your organization looking to build for the long term.
  • Operate in a highly competitive niche.

After taking this course you will…

  • Understand your strengths, weaknesses, and trends, and identify the edge on which you can compete in content marketing.
  • Build a balanced portfolio of buzz-worthy content to drive interest and product-led content to drive revenue and growth.
  • Plan and build a growth model for your content marketing and SEO program.
  • Understand the customer journey and the top touch points in the journey that content can help you reach.
  • Promote and distribute your content in a way to generate leverage and more coverage.

Skills you will master

Content researchContent StrategyEcommerce content marketingSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)SEO content writing

Your course curriculum

Ecommerce Content Marketing

1 The 3 Principles of Effective Content Strategy

In this lesson, we will walk through the primary heuristics and mental models that guide the creation of any strategy.

2 Buyer personas and audience development

In this lesson, we will cover audience research and development.

3 The buyer’s journey

In this lesson, we will cover popular buyer’s journey models to help you structure your content strategy, production, and promotion in a way to meet the reader where they are.

4 SWOT and other tools

This lesson will cover three useful tools for uncovering your strengths and opportunities, which will form the foundation of your ongoing content marketing strategy.

5 The Economics of Content Marketing

In this lesson, we will cover how economics is a valuable model for content marketing, both as a mental model and a planning tool. This approach will help you estimate your costs and ROI, and it will also help you determine which type of content you’ll need to create to stand out.

6 The Barbell Strategy

In this lesson, we will cover one of the most useful models in building your actual content marketing roadmap is the “barbell strategy.” In this approach, we use a portfolio allocation model to plan out our content and divide it into two clear content types: product-led content and buzzworthy content.

7 Keyword research: content gap analysis

In part 1 of 3 in our keyword research module, we’ll do a hands-on workshop walking through the “content gap” method to generating keyword ideas from direct and organic competitors.

8 Keyword research: pain point SEO

In part 2 of 3 of our keyword research section, we cover a fun topic: pain point SEO.

9 Keyword research: head keyword permutations

In the final installation of our keyword research section, we’ll cover head keyword permutations.

10 Pillar and cluster model: clustering

In this lesson, we’ll prune our topic list to keep only relevant ideas on our list.

11 Mapping topics to the buyer’s journey

In this lesson, we return to our buyer’s journey model, and this time, we actually use it to tag our topic list with buyer’s journey stages.

12 Building a content roadmap report

The content marketing roadmap is the centerpiece of our content marketing plan. This is the lesson where we put it all together.

13 Writing for SEO: content briefs

In this lesson, we will talk about the centerpiece of content production: the “content brief.”

14 Writing for SEO: content optimization tools

In this lesson, we will we’ll turn the focus on these same tools to help us write and optimize the piece of content for SEO.

15 Link and Share hooks

Creating content is only half the battle; getting people to read it is just as difficult.

16 Content promotion tactics

This lesson will be a short walkthrough on effective content promotion strategy. We’ll focus on short-term channels like social and communities and long-term channels like search and email.

17 Google Analytics Goals

This lesson will cover the basic essentials of setting up and tracking goals in Google Analytics so you can measure the ROI of your content marketing.

18 Setting up a dashboard

In this lesson, we’ll set up a Data Studio dashboard to track conversions generated from your content marketing.

Alex Birkett

Co-founder @ Omniscient Digital

Alex Birkett is the co-founder at Omniscient Digital, a premium content agency. Back in the day, he worked on the CXL blog. Later, he worked on freemium acquisition growth at HubSpot and ran the experimentation team at Workato.

This online course comes with a certificate to prove completion

Completing this training earns you a CXL certificate of completion you can add to your Linkedin profile.

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Learn Ecommerce Content Marketing: FAQ

Who is this course for?

This course is essential for you if…

  • Understand the value of content marketing and are willing to invest in the channel, even if you haven’t figured out the specifics yet.
  • You are a marketing leader in your organization looking to build for the long term.
  • Operate in a highly competitive niche.

Some careers that will especially benefit from this course are content marketer, copywriter, product marketer, ecommerce marketer, or growth manager.

What will you learn?

After taking this course, you will:

  • Understand your strengths, weaknesses, and trends, and identify the edge on which you can compete in content marketing.
  • Build a balanced portfolio of buzz-worthy content to drive interest and product-led content to drive revenue and growth.
  • Plan and build a growth model for your content marketing and SEO program.
  • Understand the customer journey and the top touch points in the journey that content can help you reach.
  • Promote and distribute your content in a way to generate leverage and more coverage.

What does the course include?

Our Ecommerce Content Marketing training includes 19 lessons, 36 downloadable resources, 2h 52min of video material, several assignments, and a final exam.

Are subtitles available for the lessons?

Lessons have English subtitles and transcriptions available.

Will I receive a certificate of completion?

After taking this course, you will receive the Ecommerce Content Marketing Certification from CXL, with credentials that you can add to your LinkedIn profile.

What is the refund policy?

All plans come with a 7-day refund period .

How long will it take for me to finish it?

This is entirely up to you – it’s how many study hours per week you can put in. This course is 2h 52min long.