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Content Marketing Strategy and Execution

Build a practical content system that attracts the right audience, supports business goals, and turns attention into measurable growth.

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Quick Course Facts
16
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
16
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
5.1
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Content Marketing Strategy and Execution Course

This Content Marketing Strategy and Execution course shows you how to plan, create, and distribute content with purpose. You will learn how to use Marketing principles to build a practical content system that attracts the right audience, supports business goals, and turns attention into measurable growth.

Build a Content Marketing Strategy That Drives Results

  • Learn how Content Marketing works and why it remains one of the most effective ways to grow an audience
  • Define clear audience segments, goals, and buyer journey touchpoints for smarter Marketing decisions
  • Create a repeatable editorial system that improves consistency, efficiency, and content quality
  • Measure performance with analytics so you can refine your strategy and support long-term growth

Build a practical content system that attracts the right audience, supports business goals, and turns attention into measurable growth.

In this course, you will move from theory to execution with a step-by-step approach to Content Marketing. You will start by understanding the foundations of strategy, then learn how to set objectives, define audiences, and map content to the buyer journey so each piece has a clear purpose.

As the course progresses, you will build a complete framework for planning and producing content. You will learn how to choose content pillars and topic clusters, create a practical editorial calendar, and write briefs that guide production. These skills help you keep your Marketing efforts focused, organized, and aligned with what your audience actually wants.

You will also gain hands-on techniques for writing search-focused blog posts, creating evergreen assets, improving discoverability with SEO basics, and repurposing content across channels. The course covers distribution through social media and email Marketing, along with lead magnets and conversion assets that help content support revenue and growth.

Finally, you will learn how to track content performance, interpret ROI, and improve your system over time. By the end of the course, you will be able to create a scalable Content Marketing strategy with confidence, turning scattered ideas into a clear process that helps you plan better, publish smarter, and grow stronger results.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations of Content Marketing

1 lesson

Content marketing is a business approach focused on creating and sharing useful, relevant content that attracts a defined audience and helps them move toward a decision. In this lesson, we define cont…

Audience and Objective Setting

1 lesson

Lesson 2: Defining Your Audience and Content Goals

19 min
This lesson establishes the foundation for effective content marketing by identifying who the content is for and why it is being created. You will learn how to define a practical target audience, sepa…

Journey-Based Planning

1 lesson

Lesson 3: Mapping Content to the Buyer Journey

18 min
In this lesson, you will learn how to map content to each stage of the buyer journey so your content supports real decisions, not just traffic. You will see how awareness, consideration, and decision-…

Strategy Development

1 lesson

Lesson 4: Building a Content Strategy Framework

20 min
This lesson shows how to turn content marketing from a list of ideas into a working strategy. You will define the business outcome content should support, identify the audience worth serving, map thei…

Topical Structure

1 lesson

Lesson 5: Choosing Content Pillars and Topic Clusters

18 min
This lesson shows how to organize content into content pillars and topic clusters so your marketing stays focused, scalable, and easier to plan. You will learn how to choose pillars based on audience …

Planning and Scheduling

1 lesson

Lesson 6: Creating a Practical Editorial Calendar

17 min
A practical editorial calendar turns content strategy into a working system. In this lesson, you will learn how to decide what belongs in the calendar, how far ahead to plan, and how to structure a sc…

Content Operations

1 lesson

Lesson 7: Writing Content Briefs That Guide Production

18 min
Content briefs are the handoff between strategy and production. In this lesson, you will learn how to turn a content idea into a clear brief that helps writers, designers, editors, and stakeholders wo…

Search-Focused Writing

1 lesson

Lesson 8: Crafting Blog Posts That Serve Search Intent

22 min
This lesson shows how to write blog posts that match search intent —the real reason someone typed a query into Google. You will learn how to identify whether a keyword is informational, comparative, t…

Long-Term Assets

1 lesson

Lesson 9: Producing High-Value Evergreen Content

19 min
Evergreen content is the part of your content system designed to keep working long after publication. In this lesson, you will learn how to identify topics with lasting demand, choose the right format…

Organic Visibility

1 lesson

Lesson 10: Using SEO Basics to Improve Discoverability

21 min
This lesson shows how to use SEO basics to make content easier to find in search without turning your strategy into a keyword-chasing exercise. You will learn how search intent, topic relevance, page …

Content Efficiency

1 lesson

Lesson 11: Repurposing Content Across Channels

18 min
Repurposing content is the practice of turning one strong asset into multiple formats so it can work harder across different channels. In this lesson, learners will see how to identify content worth r…

Social Distribution

1 lesson

Lesson 12: Distributing Content Through Social Media

19 min
This lesson shows how to distribute content through social media in a way that supports business goals instead of simply chasing reach. You will learn how to choose the right platforms, adapt content …

Owned Channel Promotion

1 lesson

Lesson 13: Supporting Content with Email Marketing

18 min
Email marketing is one of the most effective ways to support content marketing because it gives your best content a direct path to an audience you already own. In this lesson, learners see how to conn…

Conversion Support

1 lesson

Lesson 14: Using Lead Magnets and Conversion Assets

20 min
This lesson shows how to use lead magnets and conversion assets to turn content attention into measurable action. You will learn how to match a lead magnet to audience intent, choose the right offer f…

Analytics and Reporting

1 lesson

Lesson 15: Measuring Content Performance and ROI

22 min
This lesson shows how to measure content performance in a way that supports business decisions, not vanity metrics. You will learn how to connect content goals to KPIs, choose the right metrics for aw…

Optimization and Scale

1 lesson

Lesson 16: Improving Your Content System Over Time

18 min
This lesson focuses on how to improve a content system over time without constantly reinventing it. You will learn how to review content performance, spot patterns in what is working, and make practic…
About Your Instructor
Professor Anthony Owens

Professor Anthony Owens

Professor Anthony Owens guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.