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