AI Marketing Strategy and Analytics
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AI Marketing Strategy and Analytics
This course is part of AI SEO & GEO: Boost Your Brand's AI Visibility Professional Certificate
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What you'll learn
Analyze buyer journeys to identify high-impact discovery and conversion points
Build AI-informed marketing plans with timelines, budgets, and KPIs
Evaluate competitive positioning using keyword and social data
Visualize and optimize marketing spend using integrated analytics
Skills you'll gain
- Marketing Strategies
- Budget Management
- Search Engine Marketing
- Data Integration
- Project Schedules
- Cost Benefit Analysis
- Content Performance Analysis
- Dashboard Creation
- Marketing Budgets
- Project Controls
- Campaign Planning
- Scheduling
- Timelines
- Performance Analysis
- Project Estimation
- Market Research
- Data-Driven Marketing
- Marketing Planning
- Competitive Analysis
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February 2026
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There are 9 modules in this course
By completing this course, you will be able to design AI-informed marketing strategies, analyze competitive and customer data, and translate insights into actionable marketing plans.
AI Marketing Strategy and Analytics focuses on planning, evaluating, and optimizing marketing initiatives using data and AI-supported insights. You’ll learn how to analyze buyer journeys, identify search-driven discovery moments, and align marketing objectives with measurable performance indicators. This course emphasizes practical strategy development. You’ll create structured marketing plans that integrate timelines, budgets, geographic targeting, and KPIs. You’ll also analyze competitive positioning using keyword and social listening data, evaluate campaign and advertising performance, and visualize marketing spend through integrated dashboards. What makes this course unique is its combination of strategy and execution. Rather than treating analytics as reporting alone, you’ll learn how to use data to guide planning decisions, prioritize initiatives, and justify resource allocation. This course builds on earlier SEO and AI-enabled content skills and prepares you for advanced campaign optimization, performance analysis, and decision-making in later courses.
You will explore how AI transforms customer discovery and decision-making across the buyer journey. Using guided worksheets, you’ll map key search-driven discovery moments and identify where AI influences awareness, consideration, and conversion.
What's included
3 videos1 reading1 assignment
3 videos•Total 11 minutes
- Meet Your Course Guide•2 minutes
- Why AI Is Changing How People Discover Brands•6 minutes
- Everyday Examples: AI in Search and Recommendations•3 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Simple Guide to the AI-Enhanced Buyer Journey•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 15 minutes
- Hands on Activity: Map a Simple Buyer Journey and Highlight AI Touchpoints•15 minutes
You will create a focused, time-bound marketing plan that connects business goals, geo-targeted tactics, budgets, and performance metrics. Using structured templates and examples, you’ll translate AI insights into measurable marketing actions.
What's included
3 videos1 reading2 assignments
3 videos•Total 8 minutes
- What’s in a Beginner-Friendly AI Marketing Plan•3 minutes
- Setting Goals and Geo-Targets in Practice•3 minutes
- If Your Budget Shrinks, What Would You Adjust First?•2 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Step-by-Step: Budgets, Targets, and KPIs•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 35 minutes
- Hands on Activity: Guided Planning Template: Draft Channels, Budget, and Risks•15 minutes
- Graded Quiz: Analyze and Create Your AI Marketing Plan•20 minutes
You will apply project scheduling principles to build structured timelines with realistic buffers. You’ll design task-based plans that reduce risk, improve coordination, and support confident delivery.
What's included
4 videos1 reading1 assignment
4 videos•Total 28 minutes
- Project Planning: Schedule, Budget, Deliver•3 minutes
- Designing Realistic Project Schedules and Budgets•6 minutes
- Why Projects Fail Without Planning•6 minutes
- Video: Building Blocks of a Timeline: Tasks, Dependencies, and Estimating Time•14 minutes
1 reading•Total 6 minutes
- Effective Buffer Management for Project Success•6 minutes
1 assignment•Total 20 minutes
- Hands on Activity: Plan a Project Schedule and Budget•20 minutes
You will evaluate project outcomes by reviewing schedule performance, budget utilization, and communication effectiveness. You’ll identify performance gaps and recommend improvements that strengthen delivery and accountability.
What's included
2 videos1 reading3 assignments
2 videos•Total 9 minutes
- Evaluating Project Performance Through Stand-Ups and Retrospectives•6 minutes
- Evaluating Outcomes and Recording Improvements•3 minutes
1 reading•Total 7 minutes
- Project Management Metrics: 5 KPIs and How to Track Them•7 minutes
3 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Hands on Activity: Build a Project Performance Dashboard•20 minutes
- Hands on Activity: Hold a Retro and Record Three Improvements•20 minutes
- Graded Assessment: Project Planning – Schedule, Budget, Deliver•20 minutes
You will use social listening data to uncover audience signals, emerging needs, and content gaps. You’ll interpret patterns in conversations and translate insights into strategic opportunities for SEO growth.
What's included
2 videos1 reading1 assignment
2 videos•Total 3 minutes
- Analyze AI SEO & Conquer Competitors•1 minute
- From Buzz to Gaps: Why Social Listening Matters in SEO•2 minutes
1 reading•Total 8 minutes
- Finding Hidden SEO Opportunities Through Social Listening•8 minutes
1 assignment•Total 15 minutes
- Hands on Activity: From Data to Insight: Finding SEO Opportunities with Social Listening•15 minutes
You will develop competitive keyword analyses and design counter-strategies based on competitor strengths and weaknesses. You’ll convert insights into measurable SEO actions that improve positioning and visibility.
What's included
2 videos1 reading3 assignments
2 videos•Total 6 minutes
- Building a Competitor Matrix: Step-by-Step•4 minutes
- Closing the Gap: Turning Analysis into Action•2 minutes
1 reading•Total 7 minutes
- Turning Competitor Keywords into Opportunity: How to Run a Keyword Gap Analysis•7 minutes
3 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Hands on Activity: Build a Competitor Keyword Matrix Using Provided Data•20 minutes
- Hands on Activity: Case Challenge: Recommend Counter strategies for Two Competitor Gaps•20 minutes
- SEO Gaps and Competitor Strategies•20 minutes
You will create a business intelligence dashboard that integrates multiple data sources into a clear, executive-ready view. You’ll organize campaign metrics into structured visualizations that support performance analysis.
What's included
3 videos2 readings1 assignment
3 videos•Total 9 minutes
- Visualize & Optimize Your Marketing Spend •2 minutes
- Why Unified Visual Dashboards Beat One-Off Static Reports•2 minutes
- Connecting Data Sources to One BI Dashboard•4 minutes
2 readings•Total 20 minutes
- Driving Measurable Results: The Power of 5 Key Metrics •10 minutes
- 10 Key Dashboard Design Principles •10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 25 minutes
- Hands on Activity: Build a Simple Marketing Dashboard •25 minutes
You will evaluate advertising performance using data trends and ROI indicators. You’ll recommend budget reallocations that improve efficiency and maximize marketing impact.
What's included
2 videos1 reading3 assignments
2 videos•Total 7 minutes
- Interpreting ROAS and Campaign Performance•3 minutes
- How Brand X Reallocated Budget for a 25% ROI Lift•4 minutes
1 reading•Total 6 minutes
- How to Confidently Reallocate Your Marketing Budget With MMM•6 minutes
3 assignments•Total 51 minutes
- Hands on Activity: Create a Tableau Storyboard Comparing Campaigns•25 minutes
- Practice Quiz: Smart Spend: The Budget Reallocation Challenge•6 minutes
- Graded Quiz: Marketing Spend Optimization•20 minutes
In this project, you will design an AI-informed marketing strategy and execution plan that integrates customer journey analysis, competitive positioning, project planning, and budget optimization. You will analyze market signals, define strategic priorities, plan execution timelines and budgets, and justify decisions using AI-assisted insights and professional judgment. This project simulates a real-world strategic planning assignment commonly owned by marketing managers, growth leads, or consultants. The final deliverable is a leadership-ready strategy artifact that demonstrates your ability to move from insight to execution while balancing ambition, constraints, and accountability. This project focuses on strategic planning and decision-making, not content creation or campaign execution. You are not expected to produce ads, SEO content, prompts, or keywords. Instead, you will demonstrate how execution knowledge informs strategy, prioritization, and trade-offs.
What's included
2 readings1 assignment
2 readings•Total 7 minutes
- Why This Project Matters •3 minutes
- Project Requirements •4 minutes
1 assignment•Total 60 minutes
- AI Marketing Strategy: Plan, Compete & Execute •60 minutes
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This course is best suited for learners who have completed earlier SEO and AI content courses or have basic marketing experience.
It covers both. You’ll learn how to use analytics to inform strategy and translate insights into actionable marketing plans.
This course marks the transition from execution to strategy, preparing you for advanced work in campaign optimization, revenue analysis, and performance measurement.
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