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Influencer Marketing Strategy and Execution

Build measurable influencer campaigns that grow awareness, trust, and sales

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Quick Course Facts
17
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
17
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
5.3
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Influencer Marketing Strategy and Execution Course

Influencer Marketing Strategy and Execution is a practical course for marketers who want to plan and run creator-led campaigns with confidence. You will learn how Influencer Marketing fits into modern Marketing and how to Build measurable influencer campaigns that grow awareness, trust, and sales through clear goals, smart creator selection, and strong execution.

Develop A Results-Driven Influencer Marketing Strategy

  • Learn the fundamentals of Influencer Marketing and its role in a broader Marketing mix
  • Build measurable influencer campaigns that grow awareness, trust, and sales with structured planning
  • Identify, vet, and approach creators who match your audience, objectives, and brand fit
  • Manage briefs, contracts, budgeting, measurement, and optimisation for stronger campaign performance

A complete guide to planning, launching, and improving creator collaborations that support real business goals.

This course begins with the core principles of Influencer Marketing, helping you understand how the channel works, why it matters, and where it can deliver the greatest value. You will define campaign objectives before choosing creators, match influencer types and platforms to audience behaviour, and build a strategy that supports awareness or conversion goals with purpose.

You will also learn how to find and evaluate creators using relevance, credibility, content quality, audience health, and performance signals. The course shows you how to conduct professional outreach, write clear briefs that preserve creativity, and structure campaigns across posts, stories, video, live sessions, and long-form content. By understanding rights, disclosures, contracts, compensation models, and budgeting, you will be better prepared to manage campaigns responsibly and efficiently.

Beyond launch, the course focuses on day-to-day execution, including timelines, approvals, deliverables, measurement, attribution, and optimisation. You will see how to track performance beyond vanity metrics, test improvements, and build long-term creator partnerships that create stronger results over time. The final lessons apply these methods to e-commerce, B2B, and service brands, while also highlighting common mistakes through practical case analysis. After taking this course, you will be able to plan and run Influencer Marketing campaigns with greater clarity, stronger control, and measurable impact across your Marketing efforts.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

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

Understanding the channel and its role in modern marketing

1 lesson

Influencer marketing is the use of trusted creators, experts, and communities to shape awareness, consideration, and buying decisions. In this lesson, students learn what influencer marketing is, why …

Defining goals before selecting creators

1 lesson

Lesson 2: Audience, Objectives, and Campaign Fit

18 min
This lesson shows how to define a campaign audience, set clear objectives, and decide whether influencer marketing is actually a good fit for the business goal. Professor Daniel Martin explains how to…

Matching creator formats to audience behaviour

1 lesson

Lesson 3: Influencer Types and Platform Dynamics

18 min
This lesson explains how to match creator types and platform dynamics to the way your audience actually discovers, evaluates, and trusts content. You will learn when to use nano, micro, macro, and cel…

Creating a structured plan for awareness or conversion

1 lesson

Lesson 4: Building an Influencer Strategy

20 min
This lesson shows how to turn influencer marketing from a list of creator ideas into a structured plan. You will learn how to choose an objective, define the audience and funnel stage, set campaign go…

Sourcing influencers with relevance, credibility, and reach

1 lesson

Lesson 5: Finding and Vetting Creators

20 min
This lesson shows how to find creators who are a strong fit for an influencer campaign and how to vet them before outreach. You will learn how to define the audience and content signals that matter, w…

Assessing fit using data, content quality, and audience health

1 lesson

Lesson 6: Selection Criteria and Performance Signals

18 min
This lesson shows how to evaluate influencer partners using three lenses: data , content quality , and audience health . You will learn which metrics matter before a campaign starts, how to spot creat…

Approaching creators professionally and persuasively

1 lesson

Lesson 7: Outreach and Relationship Building

18 min
This lesson shows how to approach creators in a way that feels professional, relevant, and easy to say yes to. You will learn how to prepare before outreach, choose the right contact method, write mes…

Writing briefs that support creativity and brand alignment

1 lesson

Lesson 8: Briefing Influencers Clearly

20 min
This lesson shows how to brief influencers in a way that protects the brand, supports creator creativity, and improves campaign results. A strong brief clarifies the objective, audience, deliverables,…

Choosing between posts, stories, video, live, and long-form assets

1 lesson

Lesson 9: Campaign Structures and Content Formats

18 min
This lesson explains how to choose the right campaign structure and content formats for an influencer program based on your objective, audience, platform, and budget. You will compare posts, stories, …

Managing usage rights, disclosures, and legal expectations

1 lesson

Lesson 10: Contracts, Rights, and Compliance

20 min
This lesson covers the legal and operational guardrails that make influencer campaigns safe to run and easier to scale. You will learn how to structure contracts, define usage rights, set disclosure e…

Pricing creators and planning spend responsibly

1 lesson

Lesson 11: Compensation Models and Budgeting

18 min
This lesson explains how to price creators in a way that fits your campaign goals, budget, and risk tolerance. You will learn the most common compensation models, what drives creator fees, and how to …

Running timelines, approvals, and deliverable workflows

1 lesson

Lesson 12: Launching and Managing Campaigns

20 min
This lesson shows how to launch and manage an influencer campaign without losing control . You will learn how to build a realistic timeline, collect approvals efficiently, coordinate deliverables, and…

Tracking impact beyond likes and impressions

1 lesson

Lesson 13: Measurement and Attribution

20 min
This lesson shows how to measure influencer marketing beyond vanity metrics like likes and views. You will learn which metrics matter at each stage of the funnel, how to set up tracking before a campa…

Improving campaign performance through iteration

1 lesson

Lesson 14: Optimisation and Testing

18 min
This lesson shows how to improve influencer campaign performance through structured testing, careful measurement, and controlled iteration. Students learn what to test, how to isolate variables, how t…

Turning one-off collaborations into strategic relationships

1 lesson

Lesson 15: Building Long-Term Creator Partnerships

18 min
Long-term creator partnerships turn influencer marketing from a series of isolated posts into a repeatable growth channel. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to identify creators worth re-engaging, stru…

Adapting tactics for e-commerce, B2B, and service brands

1 lesson

Lesson 16: Influencer Marketing for Different Business Models

20 min
Influencer marketing works differently depending on what you sell. E-commerce brands usually need campaigns that drive product discovery, traffic, and conversions fast. B2B brands need credibility, ex…

Avoiding weak execution and learning from real-world scenarios

1 lesson

Lesson 17: Common Mistakes and Practical Case Analysis

18 min
This lesson helps you spot the most common influencer marketing mistakes before they hurt budget, trust, or results. You will learn how weak briefs, poor creator selection, unclear deliverables, and s…
About Your Instructor
Professor Daniel Martin

Professor Daniel Martin

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