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Become the ecommerce marketer everyone wants

Build, promote, sell, retain, measure and grow…become an ecommerce powerhouse that’s in demand.

  • Master acquisition, paid and organic, across a range of channels to drive sales fast
  • Learn about different routes to market and how to succeed with Amazon, marketplaces and Google shopping
  • Prove yourself in the most challenging discipline of marketing, get certified and turbocharge your career
  • Excel at strategy…become the expert at retention, journey, experience and optimising a tech stack
  • Understand the metrics that matter so your reporting is powerful and compelling and you can execute effortlessly
  • Access hundreds of playbooks with quick to implement ideas that match your business needs
  • Ask questions and get answers from ecommerce experts in our exclusive community

Minidegree length: 36h 19min

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Susan Wenograd

Marketing Consultant

Taught by leading ecommerce marketers working with brands like Heineken, Crocs and Appsumo.

Ecommerce is the smartest move you’ll ever make.

Owning revenue is the ultimate test for any marketer. That’s why ecommerce marketers demand top $. 

You can master all the elements of ecommerce marketing with this Minidegree. Become a Certified Ecommerce Marketer with a firm grasp of strategy and tactics that will make you the ecommerce powerhouse that companies fight over. All it takes is your effort.

The most in-demand skill-set can be yours.

Ecommerce has grown by at least 10% every year for over a decade.

There are more than 12 million ecommerce businesses in the world today. But marketers who really understand what it takes to succeed….from acquisition through to measurement? They’re in hot demand.

We don’t just teach tactics.

Your product, fulfillment, and customer support are table stakes. It’s the minimum your customer expects, not a way to build a competitive moat.

The biggest ecommerce brands are growing not just because they ship on time but because they understand the strategy it takes to win.

Level up by learning from those who have seen it, done it and made the $. Learn how to use brand, position for under-served market segments, acquire customers for a lower cost than competitors and retain them longer. We teach you all that and more.

Whatever the challenge…we’ve got you covered.

You need more than a solid acquisition funnel to be an ecommerce marketing hero.

That’s why this training teaches you all 4 key areas required to win in ecom:

  • Customer Acquisition
  • Customer Retention
  • Measurement
  • Strategy

Master all 4 and you’ll be ready to call yourself an ecommerce marketer. Wait for those DMs to hit you on LinkedIn when you post this certificate.

What is a Minidegree program?

Course is a puzzle piece. Minidegree is the whole puzzle. It’s a complete training program that teaches you everything from A to Z and takes you on a path towards becoming the top 1% marketer.

All of our instructors are hand-picked and carefully vetted. Our approach is straightforward – every instructor needs to be the absolute best in the world at what they do.

Everything you need to master ecommerce growth.

We work with industry experts to determine the most relevant topics. What is valuable and in-demand has informed our curriculum more than anything else.

In ecommerce marketing, customer acquisition, retention, and strategy are critical. All fueled by data and your measurement programs. This Minidegree will help you master all relevant acquisition channels, from Facebook and Google ads to email marketing, customer retention, and personalization to selling on marketplaces.

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1 Paid Acquisition

Facebook Ads for ecommerce

Facebook Ads for ecommerce

This course will help you understand the current landscape of the Facebook and Instagram environment and what you can do to continue winning in its new era.

Facebook Ads have changed drastically in the past few years. Apple’s iOS14 update shifted the ad landscape even further.

Many e-commerce practitioners are left wondering: what do I need to know to make Facebook Ads work for me? How do I navigate these changes, and understand their impact on my business? Are there things I should be doing on my site and in my business to compensate?

Facebook Ads Creative

Facebook Ads Creative

Facebook Ads is quite possibly the most effective direct response advertising platform in the history of the world. Countless eCommerce brands have used it to propel growth and profit, from bootstrapped side hustles to VC-backed rocket ships to centuries-old enterprise legacy brands and everything in between.

So how do you maximize that opportunity? Surprisingly, there is nearly universal agreement on the answer to that question: you win on Facebook Ads with compelling creatives.

Google Ads for Ecommerce

Google Ads for Ecommerce

In this course, you will learn what Google options are amazing, which still require a human touch, and how to be a superior marketer in this environment.

Using Google Ads for eCommerce has become increasingly powerful over the years – with increasing options for you to work less hard and reap more benefits.

With all the automation Google offers, what should your role as a manager for Ads be?

In this course, you will learn what Google options are amazing, which still require a human touch, and how to be a superior marketer in this environment.

Google Shopping

Google Shopping

Discover how, and when, to create a more granular structure that helps Google’s automation rather than hinder it or create more needless work for you.

Discover how, and when, to create a more granular structure that helps Google’s automation rather than hinder it or create more needless work for you.

TikTok Ads

TikTok Ads

This program will break down how to start, optimize, and scale TikTok Ads right now, along with the best types of performing creative to spend less time spinning your wheels with how to make it work and more time optimizing scaling your ads.

Selling on Amazon: Perfecting Traffic and Conversions

Selling on Amazon: Perfecting Traffic and Conversions

In this course, you will learn a systemized and efficient way in optimizing traffic and conversions on Amazon

In this course, you will learn a systemized and efficient way in optimizing traffic and conversions on Amazon.

We will uncover all of the details involved in building an attractive listing to the Amazon-specific shopper, winning the search over the competition, continuously improving conversion rate, and systematically while taking a data-driven approach.

2 Organic Acquisition

Email & SMS Marketing for Ecommerce

Email & SMS Marketing for Ecommerce

Maximize your store’s owned revenue to grow sustainably — even in the tough market.

Ecommerce Content Marketing

Ecommerce Content Marketing

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.

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

Ecommerce SEO

Ecommerce SEO

Learn everything you need to know to optimize your site for SEO, build a content and link-building strategy, and generate more organic traffic and (more importantly) revenue.

Learn everything you need to know to optimize your site for SEO, build a content and link-building strategy, and generate more organic traffic and (more importantly) revenue.

3 Customer Retention

Retention and Customer Lifetime Value

Retention and Customer Lifetime Value

This course will outline customer lifetime value strengths and shortcomings, as well as how to utilize customer segmenting to create more targeted retention marketing plans.

One of the secrets to brands that maintain healthy, sustainable growth often boils down to customer relationships. It’s easy for brands to get caught in always focusing their primary efforts on new customer acquisition and leaving their current customers as afterthoughts.

This course will outline customer lifetime value strengths and shortcomings, as well as how to utilize customer segmenting to create more targeted retention marketing plans.

Customer experience for ecommerce

Customer experience for ecommerce

In this course, we will outline the exact pieces you need to implement an excellent customer experience and show the best-in-class techniques that top-performing and leading brands in ecommerce are using.

Having an outstanding shopping experience within your online store turns visitors into customers. Having an outstanding customer experience after the order has been placed turns customers not only into returning customers but loyal brand advocates. Yet, this part of the online store is oftentimes underestimated and overseen.

Customer journey for ecommerce

Customer journey for ecommerce

This course is a must if your looking to launch a customer journey team to any organization.

Customer journey & experience is a totality of cognitive, affective, sensory, and behavioral consumer responses during all stages of the consumption process including pre-purchase, consumption, and post-purchase. It allows you to immerse your initiatives, features, functionality, and operations, directly with consumer psychology and responsiveness in mind.

Customer segmentation for ecommerce

Customer segmentation for ecommerce

Complete this course and learn how to build reality-based segments based on what customers do and why they do it.

Everybody in e-commerce knows the importance of customer segmentation. However, only a few brands actively segment and mine their customer database for profit. Find out who to acquire, who to retain, and who to let go. Plus how to profit from all of them.

4 Strategy

Ecommerce merchandising

Ecommerce merchandising

Great online merchandising isn’t only about displaying products enticingly — it’s also about optimizing your path to purchase no matter where users enter your website or where they are on that path.

eCommerce merchandising is displaying products strategically on a website to increase find-ability.

This course connects advanced science mechanisms of algorithms, optimizations, and personalizations deployed in advanced eCommerce today to escalate conversion and revenue.

Selling on marketplaces

Selling on marketplaces

Get ahead of the market and be first in line to understand the future of retail and why being omnichannel leads to both a healthier brand and happier consumers.

Marketplaces are growing. Not just in size but in a number of marketplaces as well. They’re becoming a greater percentage of the ecommerce market, which in turn is taking up a larger percentage of all retail sales with Amazon leading the charge.

Amazon has pioneered what it means to be a marketplace, now surpassing google as the largest product search engine in the US, with 54% of people going directly to Amazon to search for products. On its heels are Walmart.com and several 1P & 3P marketplaces that seek to garner greater market share. But Amazon has the upper hand.

If you’re a brand owner, an agency owner who constantly gets asked by your clients, “when will you start providing services for Amazon?” an Executive Level person at a large CPG company, or own a PE Retail Group that is looking to remain relevant in the coming years you have to be on marketplaces, namely Amazon. It always starts with Amazon.

Personalization for ecommerce

Personalization for ecommerce

Personalization in eCommerce can be the difference between customers choosing your brand vs. the competition; in this course, you will learn how to leverage personalization to grow your profits.

Understand and segment your audience to personalize their experience and watch your AOV, conversion, and retention spike.

Promotional events

Promotional events

Learn everything you need to know to plan and execute meaningful promotions to help drive profitable growth for your business.

Winning in eCommerce means capitalizing on the biggest moments of your year. Whether it’s Black Friday, some other holiday, a special sale, or the release of a new product, knowing how to maximize your promotional events is one of the crucial factors in driving scalable, profitable eCommerce growth.

In this course, you’ll learn everything you need to know to plan and execute the promotions that drive your brand’s promotions, from the big picture foundation of your year-long marketing calendar to the nitty gritty of how to get the most out of your email list every time.

Ecommerce brand strategy

Ecommerce brand strategy

This course will teach you how to turn your idea into a flourishing cult ecommerce brand with growth potential.

5 Measurement

Ecommerce data and metrics

Ecommerce data and metrics

You can no longer rely on third-party algorithms to grow your business. It’s time to start owning your data. This course will help you understand the core metrics driving business growth and how to track them to optimize for maximum profitability.

Ecommerce tech stack

Ecommerce tech stack

This course will provide you with a guide to what makes up a modern ecommerce tech stack, leading solutions, and how to fit tech solutions to your business needs.

Unit economics for ecommerce

Unit economics for ecommerce

Unit economics is a simple yet powerful tool that attempts to simplify all this complexity by measuring profitability on a per-unit basis, allowing you to understand better the health, success, and long-term sustainability of your business.

Businesses are complex systems, and with so many different strategies to consider, coupled with a never-ending list of key metrics to keep track of, being an owner and measuring success can often feel like a complicated, overwhelming, and opaque process.

Luckily, there’s a small subset of core building-block principles that, when understood, can help you develop a better sense of direction, enabling greater comfort around the higher-risk areas of your business, such as material capital investments in inventory or growth. One of those principles is unit economics.

Ecommerce forecasting

Ecommerce forecasting

This course will teach you a simple approach to building revenue forecasts you can hit — purchase inventory and confidently plan cash flow.

Course objectives

Clearly understand the inputs that build an ecommerce business' monthly revenue and know how to build an accurate model yourself. Learn how to track your current progress against a forecast so that you can quickly adapt in real-time to your progress. Create a channel strategy based on how it layers up to an overall revenue outcome keeping all your channels aligned towards accomplishing the overall goal. Understand how to use your forecast to communicate with various stakeholders internally to keep everyone aligned on working towards the overall goal.

6 Final exam – Ecommerce Marketing

Final Exam – Ecommerce Marketing

Complete all the courses and take the final exam to earn your ecommerce marketing certificate.

How long will it take me to complete this Minidegree?

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Ecommerce Marketing Minidegree: FAQ

The Minidegree is the most complete ecommerce certification you can find, with 4 tracks and over 36h 19min of ecommerce courses.
Here’s all the info you need before starting:

What is ecommerce marketing?

Ecommerce marketing is the process covering the communication, promotion, and messaging that drives customers to stores selling products online, converts them into customers, and retains them in their sales cycle.

What will you learn?

After taking this training, you will:

  • Master winning ecommerce strategy, acquisition, retention and measurement to outperform your competitors
  • Prove yourself in the most challenging discipline of marketing and propel your career
  • Learn all about the best ecommerce strategies and tactics
  • Immediately apply learnings with hundreds of playbooks
  • Network and get peer support in our exclusive community
  • Get certified and hired with our help

What is a Minidegree program?

If a course is a puzzle piece, the Minidegree is the whole puzzle. It’s a complete training program that teaches you everything from A to Z and takes you on a path towards becoming the top 1% marketer.

All of our instructors are hand-picked and carefully vetted. Our approach is straightforward – every instructor needs to be the absolute best in the world at what they do.

What does this training include?

Our Ecommerce Marketing training includes 4 tracks, 22 courses, 36h 19min 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 Minidegree, you will receive the Ecommerce 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 no questions asked money back period.

Can I buy just this training?

Yes, you can buy individual, lifetime access to this training.

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 training program is 36h 19min long.