Growth Modeling for Marketing Leaders
4.8 (8)
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Annual planning is here 😅. Learn how to build and use a growth model to set strategy, navigate trade-offs, and secure your 2025 budget.
Growth Modeling for Marketing Leaders
4.8 (8)
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Annual planning is here 😅. Learn how to build and use a growth model to set strategy, navigate trade-offs, and secure your 2025 budget.
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Course overview
Become a more effective and confident marketing leader
As a marketer, you likely started by focusing on a single channel or discipline, managing resources (budget, creative, time) to maximize results. Now, as you’ve grown in your career, your role demands making strategic tradeoffs across multiple initiatives and communicating the “why” behind those decisions to the wider organization.
With year-end goals and 2025 planning top of mind, this course will help you build a bottoms-up growth model that allows you to confidently navigate tradeoffs, set your strategy, and gain buy-in from stakeholders—whether it’s your CFO, CEO, or other key decision-makers.
In this course, you’ll:
• Build a growth model that directly ties to your marketing objectives.
• Learn how to justify resource allocation and influence key business decisions using your model.
• Communicate your strategy persuasively, aligning marketing goals with broader business metrics like revenue and profitability.
Plus, if you’re newer to spreadsheets, I offer bonus sessions to help you master the basics and ensure you’re fully equipped to use these powerful tools.
Who is this for
01
VPs/Heads of Marketing who need support prioritizing marketing tactics, making tradeoffs, and getting buy-in from founders and CFOs
02
Senior Managers or Directors of Growth Marketing who own one channel and want to move up to manage a bigger team
03
Brand, Content, or Product Marketing Leaders who are looking for a crash course in quantitative skills and the language of "growth"
What you'll get out of this course
Gain quantitative skills to help you set goals & strategy with confidence
- Build a bottoms-up growth model covering acquisition, retention & monetization
- Understand how different marketing levers impact financial goals
- Learn everything you need to know about managing a model in Google Sheets
Learn how to get buy-in on your marketing strategy
- Develop expertise in scenario modeling
- Learn how to use scenarios for more effective stakeholder engagement and consensus-building
Create an actionable marketing strategy, plan & goals
- Craft a focused and impactful marketing strategy that effectively guides your team's efforts and resources
- Walk away with tactical changes you can apply to your own work right away
Improve your ability to hold others accountable
- Establish a rigorous operating cadence to drive accountability and consistently achieve planned objectives
- Learn about best practices applicable across companies of all sizes
This course includes
7 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
15 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
3 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.
Growth Modeling for Marketing Leaders
Course syllabus
Week 1
Understanding the Quantitative Components of a Marketing Strategy
Oct
18
Module 1: Understanding the Quantitative Components of a Marketing Strategy
Week 2
Oct
24
Optional: Office Hours
Building A Bottoms-Up Growth Model
Oct
25
Module 2: Building A Bottoms-Up Growth Model (Part A)
Week 3
Nov
1
Module 2: Building A Bottoms-Up Growth Model (Part B)
Week 4
Nov
7
Optional: Office Hours
Using Scenarios to Tee Up Tradeoffs, Engage Stakeholders, & Get Buy-In
Nov
8
Module 3: Using Scenarios
Post-course
Nov
15
Optional: Office Hours
Bonus Module: Leveraging Your Model to Hit Goals
Bonus Module: Google Sheets Crash Course
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Meet your instructor
Libby Weissman
Hi, I'm Libby. I'm a former marketing leader turned advisor & consultant. I am a deeply curious & analytical systems-thinker who excels at balancing art with science.
Over the past decade, I have fueled my insatiable appetite to try & learn new things by working across several categories, business models, and audiences. Some highlights include leading the Caviar marketing team through the DoorDash acquisition & COVID-19 pandemic and building marketing from scratch at Realm, scaling from 0 to 50k customers.
Why I built this course
I've taught this skillset to numerous marketers and have seen firsthand how it has made them more effective leaders & unlocked new career opportunities. Before pivoting into marketing, I build a foundational quantitative & analytical skillset working as a management consultant at BCG and a General Manager at Caviar. As I worked with & managed various marketers, I noticed they lacked exposure to this skillset, making it difficult for them to get buy-in from stakeholders in finance, sales, and operations and to prioritize where they spent their time.
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Growth Modeling for Marketing Leaders
Course schedule
1.5-3 hours a week
5 Live Classes
Friday 12-1pm ET
- Presentation with Libby
- Q&A and group discussion
Video Lessons on Google Sheets
Optional additional content for students who are less familiar with Google Sheets
Weekly Projects
1-2 hours per week
Students are encouraged to work through practical applications of what is covered in the weekly session
Optional Office Hours
Thursday 5-6pm
- AMAs with Libby
- Peer networking opportunities
- 1:1 input on projects
Sample Bottoms-Up Acquisition Growth Model
This is a real example of an acquisition model I used as a VP Marketing.
Finance often models acquisition in very simple terms (for example: budget divided by CAC or traffic x CVR). As a marketing leader, building your own bottoms-up model helps you to figure out what inputs to focus on, where to direct your team's time, and navigate making tradeoffs.
In the Growth Modeling & Other Quant Skills course we'll build a version of this for your company, and tie it together with retention & monetization models to give you a full picture of your P&L.
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