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Content Marketing 201

4.6 (43)

10 Days

Cohort-based Course

Design a content strategy that powers all your marketing efforts — and generates faster business results.

Content Marketing 201

4.6 (43)

10 Days

Cohort-based Course

Design a content strategy that powers all your marketing efforts — and generates faster business results.

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Amanda Natividad

VP of Marketing at SparkToro

Amanda Natividad

VP of Marketing at SparkToro

Previously at

Course overview

Be the CEO of your content

You're not a Content Marketer. You're the CEO of your brand's content.

This course is for you if...

You're sick of your content team playing second fiddle to the rest of marketing.

You want a sustainable marketing strategy that's not reliant on ads.

You already have a company blog and you want that content to do more for your brand.

You're sick of your content team playing second fiddle to the rest of marketing.

You want a sustainable marketing strategy that's not reliant on ads.

You already have a company blog and you want that content to do more for your brand.

Key outcomes

Build a flywheel

Build your own content engine that ensures ongoing production. And without breaking the bank.

Fuel your marketing strategy

Develop a content plan that serves as the base for your marketing strategy.

Define success

Ultimately, page views and search rank are vanity metrics. Measure the true value of your content investment.

Generate ideas

Think beyond the traditional keyword research strategy and learn to uncover new opportunities on a repeatable basis.

Master managing up

Leverage content across your marketing team, learn to hire SEO and content agencies, and manage leadership's expectations.

Repurpose like a pro

Marketing teams don't need brand new content all the time. Repurpose and distribute so you can spend your budget wisely.

Leverage AI

...without compromising your brand, integrity, or originality. We'll learn how savvy marketers (and writers) are using GPT tools.

This course includes

7 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

25 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

Projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Jun 24—Jun 30

Jun

Optional: CM201: Optional Welcome Mixer

Mon 6/245:00 PM—5:45 PM (UTC)

Optional

Jun

CM201 - Live Workshop #1 (out of 4)

Tue 6/255:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)

Jun

CM201 - Live Workshop #2 (out of 4)

Wed 6/265:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)

Jun

Optional: CM201: Bonus AMA with Amanda

Fri 6/285:00 PM—5:45 PM (UTC)

Optional

Week 2

Jul 1—Jul 3

Jul

Optional: CM201: Guest Speaker (To Be Confirmed!)

Mon 7/15:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Optional

Jul

CM201 - Live Workshop #3 (out of 4)

Tue 7/25:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)

Jul

CM201 - Live Workshop #4 (out of 4)

Wed 7/35:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)

Bonus

Rethinking First Principles

7 items

Never-Ending Ideas and Capstone Content

7 items

The Art of Repurposing and Zero-Click Content

8 items

Communicate Success Like a CEO

3 items

4.6 (43 ratings)

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Take this course if you want promotions, raises, and recruiters reaching out to YOU instead of the other way around. Amanda's the GOAT. 🐐

Mo Akif

Senior Content Marketing Manager, StreamYard

Content Marketing 201 is a must-have course for content marketers who want to level-up. The lessons give you a fresh perspective on how to create useful and impactful content that goes beyond the usual vanity metrics and SEO brownie points. Amanda's also a terrific teacher who brings great energy to the live sessions. Highly recommend!

Kristiana Rule

Content Strategist

Amanda taught months' worth of lessons in 2 succinct weeks. This is by far one of the most valuable experiences that I've had in the years of continuing professional education. I would take this course three times over and pay twice as much, at minimum.

Steven Mack

Founder, Simple Solutions Fitness

Amanda shifted my thinking on how to leverage social media platforms. Companies I've worked for always use it as a broadcasting tool. But social media is a content platform in its own right. I really appreciated the tools, supporting resources, and breakout sessions during the course to refine my content creation process!

Ashleigh Lee

Senior Marketing Manager, JupiterOne

This course helped me think about content creation differently, and more creatively! The biggest thing I will take away is to think of content in terms of its ingredients, or component parts. Using this concept will help to both create better content and repurpose it more effectively.

Chloe Dormand

Content Marketing Manager, Paddle

I found the frameworks for understanding content "recipes" - aka combining different content types (ingredients) together based on how/who you want to engage with your content very helpful for organizing my thoughts. And I loved the exercises to practice creating effective hooks and titles for content!

Derek Flint

Marketing Manager, Ten Speed

I learned there are so many options for creating a great marketing strategy that fits my company and my founder’s personality. Amanda gave me a menu of choices along with a strategic approach.

Emmy Sobieski

COO, satschel

In this course, Amanda introduced us to useful new concepts, like capstone content and zero-click content. Both of these helped me get a whole new perspective on creating and tailoring content pieces, designing a long-term content strategy, and it changed the way I perceive content creation and distribution.

Andrea Rajic

Marketing Specialist, Gable

If you're getting started in content marketing, this is a great course to go on. Amanda has been there and done it and knows her stuff! She's definitely a great person to learn from.

Michael Glover

Marketing Manager, ConvertFlow

There aren't many who understand how to tie content strategy back to growth, and I don't think there's anyone more knowledgeable in that regard than Amanda Natividad. She's one of the preeminent leaders in the field of marketing today.

Chantelle Marcelle

Growth & Marketing Strategist

Amanda is a true marketing G — she understands full stack marketing from the bootstrapped stage to millions in revenue at scale. I've learned boatloads from her and 10,000% recommend diving into her course.

Michael Lim

Philanthropy, Mr. Beast

Watching Amanda execute her content marketing strategy from the sidelines has been mind-boggling. She's crushing it. Her free content is already well worth paying for. And now you're telling me we can learn her secrets and build our own strategy *with her help*? That's a no-brainer.

Katelyn Bourgoin

Founder, Customer Camp

Amanda is a content marketing Swiss Army knife — she’s done it across all industry types for companies like Fitbit, Growth Machine, and D2C brands. What’s even more powerful is how well she breaks down real-world, applicable content strategy and teaches it to others with ease.

Jeremy Moser

Co-founder and CEO, uSERP

I especially appreciate Amanda's heart-forward, generous, and irreverent approach. It's thanks to her mentorship that I got hired at Readwise — so yes, I will be shamelessly plugging her new course.

Erin Moore

Community Lead, Readwise

Meet your instructor

Amanda Natividad

@amandanat

Amanda Natividad is VP of Marketing for audience research startup, SparkToro. In her 10+ years of marketing experience, she has managed B2C and B2B marketing teams across consumer packaged goods, SaaS, and agency side. Earlier in her career, she built Fitbit's B2B content program.

Amanda has spoken at marketing events like AdWorld, MozCon, and SaaStock. She has guest lectured at Stanford University, Columbia Business School, and Cornell University. She's also a contributor for Adweek, a Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef, and a former journalist.

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You will NOT learn...

🚫 SEO

This course focuses on content creation and content management, not SEO fundamentals.

🚫 How to set up a blog

There are other resources that can teach you this for free. This course will teach you what to do next with the blog you already have.

🚫 How to launch a new content channel

You'll learn best practices and frameworks that apply to becoming successful in new content channels. But we won't go into detail on strategizing and launching specific channels like YouTube and podcasts.

Course schedule

3-5 hours per week

4 live workshops
10:00am - 11:30am PT
Each session will involve interactive lecture and breakout groups. Most of the coursework will be done during class.
3 bonus sessions
Mixer + AMA
Students can also join three optional bonus sessions! One pre-course meet & greet, one Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Amanda, and one session with a guest speaker.
Self-paced lessons
4 hours total
You will also get short videos and separate reading to do on your own time — with forever-access to the material. All will be additive, not required, for full understanding of the course concepts.

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