Influencer Marketing Strategy and Execution
Build measurable influencer campaigns that grow awareness, trust, and sales
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.
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
Defining goals before selecting creators
1 lesson
Matching creator formats to audience behaviour
1 lesson
Creating a structured plan for awareness or conversion
1 lesson
Sourcing influencers with relevance, credibility, and reach
1 lesson
Assessing fit using data, content quality, and audience health
1 lesson
Approaching creators professionally and persuasively
1 lesson
Writing briefs that support creativity and brand alignment
1 lesson
Choosing between posts, stories, video, live, and long-form assets
1 lesson
Managing usage rights, disclosures, and legal expectations
1 lesson
Pricing creators and planning spend responsibly
1 lesson
Running timelines, approvals, and deliverable workflows
1 lesson
Tracking impact beyond likes and impressions
1 lesson
Improving campaign performance through iteration
1 lesson
Turning one-off collaborations into strategic relationships
1 lesson
Adapting tactics for e-commerce, B2B, and service brands
1 lesson
Avoiding weak execution and learning from real-world scenarios
1 lesson
Professor Daniel Martin
Professor Daniel Martin guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.