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Excel for Marketers Course

Organize and present marketing data with Spreadsheets

3h 40min | 19 lessons

In this course, you will learn how to:

  • Use advanced Excel skills specifically tailored for marketers.
  • Quickly analyze marketing data to inform smarter decisions.
  • Create clear, insightful dashboards to track and communicate performance.
  • Automate repetitive tasks, saving hours of manual work each week.
  • Confidently interpret data and clearly present actionable insights.

Black Friday offer: 25% off, already applied. A year of CXL: 80+ current courses and the January cohort.

English subtitles Certificate included
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Master Excel and Google Sheets to supercharge your marketing data and identify growth opportunities

Course Length:
3h 40min. 19 lessons.

In this course, you’ll gain Excel expertise focused solely on tasks marketers actually do, tracking campaigns, measuring ROI, and communicating performance effectively. No fluff or irrelevant theory, just actionable techniques to make you indispensable to your team and company. Learn to blend data from various sources, apply advanced formulas, troubleshoot common issues, and master functions like pivot tables and vlookups, to create accurate data reports.

After completing this online course on Excel and Google Sheets for marketers you will be able to assist your team and company with:

  • Analyzing complex marketing data quickly and clearly.
  • Automating routine tasks to significantly speed up reporting.
  • Creating dashboards that visually communicate marketing performance.
  • Identifying trends and insights from campaign data efficiently.
  • Ensuring marketing decisions are always backed by reliable, clearly presented data.

This course is for you if you are responsible for:

  • Analyzing and reporting marketing data regularly.
  • Optimizing campaign performance through data-driven insights.
  • Streamlining reporting processes for your marketing team.
  • Communicating clear, actionable data insights to leadership.
  • Saving time by automating repetitive marketing data tasks.

Look no further than CXL, this is the best and most recommended course you will find on Excel and Google Sheets for Marketers.

Subscribe now and get access

Join for $1,199

Black Friday offer: 25% off, already applied. A year of CXL, 80+ courses included.

Course Curriculum

Excel and sheets for marketers

GSC – Sort and Filter

Topics covered: Download data from Google search Console (GSC)Initial Analysis – Sort and Filter Resources Resources Sheets: SAS GSC Data Sample data Excel: SAS GSC data Sample data Sheets Lesson 1 resource Excel SAS GSC data Lesson slide deck

SUM – Variations

Topics covered: SUM CommandsVariables in formulasAbsolute versus Relative cell references Resources Resources Excel: SAS GSC data Sample data Sheets: SAS GSC Data Sample data Sheets resources lesson 2 Excel sheet – lesson 2 Lesson slide deck

COUNT – Variations

Topics covered: All the different COUNT commands. Resources Resources Excel: SAS GSC data Sample data Sheets: SAS GSC Data Sample data SAS GSC Data Sample data Sheets resource lesson 3 Excel sheet – lesson 3 Lesson slide deck

Tables and Calculated Columns

Topics covered: Formatting HeadersExcel Tables and Calculated Columns Resources Resources Excel: SAS GSC data Sample data SAS GSC Data Sample data Excel sheet – lesson 4 Lesson slide deck

Pivot Tables – Set Up – Sheets

Topics covered: Set up a basic pivot table in Google Sheets Resources Resources Sheets: SAS GSC Data Sample data Sheets resource – lesson 5 Excel sheet – lesson 5 Lesson slide deck

Pivot Tables – Set Up – Excel

Topics covered: Set up a basic pivot table in Excel Resources Resources Excel: SAS GSC data Sample data Lesson slide deck

Pivot Tables – Calculated Fields

Topics covered: How to create a calculated field in a pivot tableWhy create it? Resources Resources Excel: SAS GSC data Sample data Sheets: SAS GSC Data Sample data Sheets resource – lesson 6 Excel sheet – lesson 6 Lesson slide deck

Pivot Tables – Filters, Slicers, and Timeline – Excel

Topics covered: Segmenting your pivot table:FiltersSlicersTimeline Resources Resources Excel: SAS GSC data Sample data Excel sheet – lesson 7 Lesson slide deck

Pivot Tables – Filters, Slicers, and Timeline – Sheets

Topics covered: Segmenting your pivot tableFiltersSlicers Resources Resources Sheets: SAS GSC Data Sample data Sheets resource – Lesson 7 Lesson slide deck

Power Tips for Pivot Tables – Excel

Topics covered: Power Tips for Pivot TablesTables and Named RangesRefresh the Data SourceDetailed viewPage per Filter Item“Show Values As” in Field SettingsTurn off “Autofit Columns”Pivot Charts Resources Resources Excel: SAS GSC data Sample data Excel …

De-Dup & Text To Columns

Topics covered: Google Analytics DataRemove DuplicatesText to Column Resources Resources Excel: Adjusted Data GA Merch Store Sample data Sheets: Adjusted Data GA Merch Store Sample data Sheets resource – lesson 9 Excel sheet – lesson 9 Lesson slide dec …

Vlookup

Topics covered: Vlookup Resources Resources Excel: Adjusted Data GA Merch Store Sample data Sheets: Adjusted Data GA Merch Store Sample data Sheets resource – lesson 10 Lesson slide deck

Index and Match

Topics covered: Index and Match Resources Resources Excel: Adjusted Data GA Merch Store Sample data Sheets: Adjusted Data GA Merch Store Sample data Sheets resource – lesson 11 Lesson slide deck

XLookup – Excel

Topics covered: XLOOKUPDo you have it?Shortcomings of VLOOKUP Resources Resources Excel: Adjusted Data GA Merch Store Sample data Excel sheet – lesson 12 Lesson slide deck

Sparklines

Topics covered: Sparklines Resources Resources Excel: Adjusted Data GA Merch Store Sample data Sheets: Adjusted Data GA Merch Store Sample data Sheets resource – lesson 13 Excel sheet – lesson 13 Lesson slide deck

Conditional Formatting

Topics covered: Conditional formatting Resources Resources Excel: Adjusted Data GA Merch Store Sample data Sheets: Adjusted Data GA Merch Store Sample data Sheets resource – lesson 14 Excel sheet – lesson 14 Lesson slide deck

String Functions

Topics covered: More FunctionsLenSubstituteFindSearchMidLeftRight Resources Resources Excel String (text) Functions Template Excel sheet – lesson 15 Lesson slide deck

Error Trapping

Topics covered: Data Validation- Numbers- ListsIF Function (cross-footing)Locking a Spreadsheet Resources Google Sheets resource – lesson 16E4M-Lesson-16-Error-TrappingExcel Error TrappingGoogle Sheets Error Trapping Lesson slide deck

Additional Resources

Topics covered: Some of Fred’s favorite resources Resources Resources Google Sheets Developer Blog Blog post/article Google Sheets Blog post/article Excel Help & Learning Blog post/article Analytics Edge Tool Supermetrics Tool G Suite Marketplace …

Fred Pike

Managing Director / COO @ Northwoods Software

Fred Pike is a Managing Director at Northwoods Software and leads their GA/GTM Practice Area.

A sought-after educator, he has spoken multiple times at such events as MeasureSummit, SuperWeek, GA4Ward, MN Search, etc. “GA4 Intermediate” was his fifth CXL course, making “Strategic Analytics Framework for GA4” his sixth.

At any time, you can find Fred digging into the intricacies of GA4, walking his beloved Pekingese Xuxa, or playing mandolin with the Milwaukee Mandolin Orchestra.

This online course
comes with a
Certificate

Completing this course earns you an official CXL Excel and Google Sheets for Marketers Course Certificate to prove your achievement. CXL is recognized as an industry-leading qualification by employers worldwide, and it is an official qualification on Linkedin that can be added to your profile.

This is what marketers said after our live workshops and courses

Derek Miller
Built on a live GTM campaign at work

“I completed my campaign engine setup for a small c real-world GTM campaign that I was working on for my job this week and presented it to my boss today… and he loved it!”

Campaign engine

Victor’s campaign engine demo
Victor
B2B eCommerce platform

Sales signed off the target in writing before the brief passed Gate 1. Five review rounds took the drafts to 87% and 96%.

Campaign engine

Alejandro Serrano
Alejandro Serrano
Co-Founder, Feral MKT

“That alone used to take me a whole day working in AI-assisted mode (more days without AI), since I had to write all the copy from scratch because I didn’t like what Claude used to give me. This time it took me about an hour.”

Campaign engine

Ken Fleischer
Ken Fleischer
Fractional CMO & GTM Strategist

“I fixed the site and Crunchbase last week and reran Build 1 this morning with the same questions, tools and judge. Accuracy went from 53% to 71%, and wrong answers went from three to none.”

AI visibility tracker

Manuela’s Campaign Engine demo
Manuela
Social club for people 60+, pre-launch

A paid first dinner, to test whether older adults will pay for it themselves. All four channels reached ship after 9 fixes.

Campaign engine

Shannon Annarella
Shannon Annarella
Senior copywriter, elective healthcare agency

“I was really impressed with how it handled the copy, including adding a medical compliance check due to the industry I work in … I loved all of the quality checks and scoring, since I usually do that type of QA work manually.”

Campaign engine

Tegan Heneke
Freelance Marketing Executive

“Currently I’m pulling reports from GA4, SourceWhale and Linkedin manually and giving it to Claude to create a dashboard for me so this (if I can get LinkedIn connected) will change that (Yay!)”

Reporting agent

Ilaria’s Campaign Engine demo
Ilaria
Clinic management software

A campaign to win 50 demo or trial requests in 7 weeks: five channels, all drafted and through Gate 2.

Campaign engine

Natalia
Natalia
E-commerce & Brand Strategist

“I built a visual plugin on top of your Marketing Brain, two actually: Visual Brain for the brand’s visual direction and Product Visual for product image storyboards … I put my own brand through it and it already gives me something I can work with.”

Own plugins on Marketing Brain

Kerry McDonough
Kerry McDonough
AI-Forward Marketing Executive

“I was in your workshop 12 hours ago. I already have a workflow live… I feel like a freaking WIZARD!”

Last cohort

Carolin’s marketing brain demo
Carolin
Fractional CMO practice, launching

Tested a new fractional CMO offer on her own website, using public data only.

Marketing Brain

Attallah Wilson
Attallah Wilson
Marketing Communications Manager, TXI

“Connecting my systems made the biggest difference. Pulling deals straight from our HubSpot CRM, plus Semrush data on our content, gave the ICP and the messaging real evidence instead of guesses.”

Marketing Brain

Ben Shenk
Ben Shenk
Director of Messaging

“Being able to identify valuable work to be done, build a workflow/agent to do it effectively and consistently, and deploy it across my team will be a skill that sets my team and I apart within the org.”

Workflows

Murillo’s marketing brain demo
Murillo
Marketing agency for health clinics

Ran the brand book through it: every claim about the buyer came back tagged hypothesis or blank.

Marketing Brain

Ekaterina Speckbacher
Growth Marketing Manager

“I built it on my own data, so I had to hide them. It worked pretty smoothly. I’m lucky that we use HubSpot for everything, so the integration was straightforward.”

Reporting agent

Shekhar Vaidya
Head of Digital Marketing

“Fix the brand’s own pages first (one sentence on one page is wrong on every tool), then earn the unbranded recommendations.”

AI visibility tracker

Ignacio Basello
Ignacio Basello
Content Strategist

“This course got me to take writing instructions seriously and tailor them to how I work. Before, I was mostly just chatting with AI. Now I’m trying to build actual workflows.”

Workflows

Enmanuel Saavedra
Took the personal OS workshop

“Months ago, I took the workshop of the second brain (personal OS) at CXL in the past and helped to all my team to adopt it as well. It was a game changer.”

Earlier workshop

Maddy L
B2B ABM marketer, SaaS

“A challenge that we have internally: if somebody asked me for a campaign I ran three years ago … we do not have a single source of truth/location to satisfy that question … I like that this brief could help with our internal challenge”

Campaign engine

Alfonso von Ziegler
Alfonso von Ziegler
Founder, Mesh Creative Studios

“Biggest learning: the review forced me to stop claiming things I hadn’t proven yet.”

Campaign engine

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Frequently asked questions

About CXL

What is CXL?

CXL is a B2B marketing training company focused on AI and conversion optimization. Marketers learn by building real work with live guidance from practitioners.

Does CXL offer AI training for B2B marketers?

Yes. AI for B2B marketing is CXL’s main focus: building AI workflows and agents for research, content, campaigns and reporting, plus visibility in AI search.

Where can I learn conversion optimization?

CXL has trained marketers in conversion optimization and experimentation for over a decade, covering customer research, A/B testing, landing pages and testing statistics.

Plans

What is the difference between the monthly, quarterly and annual plans?

The main differences are the billing period and access to live courses:

Annual: On-demand courses plus live courses, including new live courses throughout the year. Billed annually and offers the best value. Includes a 7-day refund window.

Monthly: On-demand courses only. Billed monthly.

Quarterly: On-demand courses only. Billed every 3 months at a lower monthly rate.

Quarterly and monthly plans are not covered by the refund policy. However, you can reach out to Support if you’d like to remove the automatic renewal.

What is the difference between the individual and teams plans?

Individual plans are designed for one learner.

Team plans are available for 2 or more people and include additional tools to help manage learning across your team, including:

  • Track learning progress and engagement.
  • Invite and manage team members.
  • Create learning roadmaps for individual users.
What is included in the subscription plan?

All subscription plans include:

  • 80+ certifiable B2B marketing courses and Minidegree programs.
  • Certificates that can be added to LinkedIn.
  • Progress tracking.
Are live courses and workshops included?

Live courses and workshops are included on annual plans. Monthly and quarterly plans cover the on-demand catalog and every Minidegree.

Can I switch plans later if I want to?

Yes. You can change between Monthly, Quarterly, and Annual billing plans.

If you would like to move from an individual subscription to a team plan, please contact our Customer Success team via live chat and we’ll be happy to help.

What is the difference between the Marketing Engineer cohort and the subscription?

The Marketing Engineer cohort is 8 live weeks, starting 11 January with setup. You build a working marketing system and get certified on it, not on attendance. It comes with the annual subscription.

The subscription gives you access to our library of 80+ B2B marketing and AI courses. The annual subscription also includes every live cohort and new live workshops every month.

Does the Marketing Engineer cohort include access to the full CXL course library?

Yes. The cohort comes with the annual subscription, which includes the 80+ on-demand courses and every minidegree.

It also includes every live cohort in your year, the community and every update to the systems you build.

Billing

What are the payment options available?

Most major credit cards and Paypal are accepted. If you need an invoice to pay by wire, please message our customer success team via chat for options.

Can I pay in my own currency?

All of our products are priced in USD currency. We have established a system where you can pay in your local currency.