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17 Critical Questions to Improve Your Marketing Strategy

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Madecraft

17 Critical Questions to Improve Your Marketing Strategy

Madecraft

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

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4 hours to complete
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

4 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Build a market-aligned strategy using buyer personas, competitive analysis, and a channel plan matched to your audience and budget.

  • Map your customer journey and design retention and loyalty programs that turn buyers into repeat customers.

  • Measure performance with the right KPIs, refine campaigns through A/B testing, and allocate a budget tied to your goals.

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June 2026

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There are 5 modules in this course

Your marketing can only be as strong as the foundation it's built on, and without the right tools, even great campaigns miss the mark. In this module, you'll develop the core market alignment tools every effective strategy requires, from identifying your audience's pain points and building detailed buyer personas to defining your brand identity and constructing a competitive analysis that keeps your strategy ahead of the market.

What's included

6 videos3 readings2 assignments

With limited budgets and a crowded landscape, showing up everywhere guarantees results nowhere. In this module, you'll develop a strategic approach to channel selection and brand presence, building the frameworks to choose where to market, how to amplify your brand, how to deploy influencers and user-generated content, how to create a focused social media plan, and how to personalize messaging so it reaches the right audience at the right moment.

What's included

5 videos3 readings1 assignment

The customer relationship does not end at purchase; that is where the real marketing work begins. In this module, you'll build a complete picture of your customer experience by developing a customer journey map, establishing a testing and refinement process for underperforming campaigns, and designing a loyalty strategy that turns satisfied customers into brand advocates.

What's included

4 videos2 readings2 assignments

You cannot improve what you cannot measure, but measuring the wrong things is just as costly as measuring nothing at all. In this module, you'll identify the right marketing metrics for each stage of your strategy, build a benchmarking plan that shows exactly where to improve or expand, and answer the five questions that unlock a smarter marketing budget allocation.

What's included

3 videos1 reading1 assignment

You have answered all 17 critical questions. Now the work begins. In this module, you'll consolidate what you've built across the course and translate your answers into a living marketing strategy that evolves with your market.

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1 video1 assignment

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