Crash course in performance marketing

The turbo for your digital marketing activities!

This training is held in German.
Use performance marketing to increase the impact of your marketing measures in a targeted manner! The training provides marketeers with the necessary knowledge to set up and implement performance marketing measures and to measure and interpret their success. You will learn how to use important terms with confidence, manage performance-based digital platforms and advertising channels and dovetail them with other sales and marketing activities. In addition, the training directly applies what you have learned using specific examples. Best practices and practical tips will give you inspiration for your day-to-day work - from creative ideas and new technology to optimal agency management.

Contents

Performance marketing - what is it?

  • Clarification and delimitation of the term.
  • Target groups and target group segments as the basis for success in performance marketing. 
  • Building blocks of a performance marketing strategy.

Objectives in performance marketing

  • Derivation of targets for performance marketing.
  • Setting measurable and valuable goals for digital platforms and advertising channels.
  • Budgeting principles.
  • Derivation of specifications for tracking.

Focus: digital platforms

  • Types of digital platforms.
  • The tasks and necessary elements of websites.
  • Optimal landing pages: basic knowledge of UI, UX.
  • Conversion optimization.

Focus: Channels

  • The tasks of digital performance marketing channels.
  • Performance marketing channels explained using the example: SEA, Facebook, Instagram, Newslettering.
  • Excursus: Measurability of off-line media and POS tracking.
  • Excursus: Influencer marketing.

Focus: Measuring, controlling, optimizing

  • Tracking concepts for digital channels and platforms.
  • Basic functions of cookies - tracking pixels.
  • Basic functions of a web analysis tool using the example of Google Analytics 4, matomo.
  • Media Value Model.
  • Basic knowledge of attribution models.
  • Basic principles for controlling and optimizing the sales funnel.
  • Basic knowledge of data privacy and GDPR.

Basic knowledge: Technology and data

  • The most important elements of a Mar-Tech and Ad-Tech stack.
  • Possibilities of marketing automation. 
  • Use of AI - AI in performance marketing.

Presentation of best practices in performance marketing.

During the seminar there is an ongoing application of what has been learned:
Development of elements of a performance marketing strategy

 

Important: Please bring examples from your company where the "performance idea" is to be improved as well as your WLAN-capable laptop to the training .

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

You learn:

  • Know the advantages and disadvantages of performance marketing.
  • The necessary basic and expert knowledge to optimize your own marketing measures towards measurable goals.
  • apply basic concepts safely.
  • How to categorize relevant topics.
  • How to create a performance marketing strategy.
  • How to optimize digital platforms and advertising channels based on performance.
  • better control channels and websites.
  • Basics on tracking, data privacy and technology.
  • develop ideas for your company.
  • marketing measures.
  • Shaping technological and legal framework parameters in your interests.
  • Develop the initial outline of your performance marketing strategy.

Methods

Trainer input, case/best-practice examples, practical exercises, individual/group work, discussion, exchange of experience, practical advice. Checklists and work aids support successful implementation in practice.

Recommended for

Specialists/executives from the fields of online marketing, marketing, social media, content marketing, advertising, e-commerce, sales, IT. Anyone who would like to familiarize themselves with the topic of performance marketing.

Open Badges - Show what you can do digitally too.

Open Badges are recognized, digital certificates of participation. These verifiable credentials are the current standard for integration in career networks such as LinkedIn.

With them, you digitally demonstrate the competences you possess. After successful completion, you will receive an Open Badge from us.

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Attendees comments

"I can recommend the training , as the content is very valuable and of high quality."

Mareike Juds
CleverReach GmbH & Co. KG

"The trainer conducted the training in a very lively, entertaining and informative way. It was entertaining, there was never a dull moment and the content was presented in a very exciting way. He impressed us with his very high level of specialist knowledge and always gave practical comparisons. It was great fun!"

Nicole Stark
HAEBERLE

Seminar evaluation for "Crash course performance marketing"

4.3 from 5
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training content:
4.1
Content comprehensibility:
4.3
Practical relevance:
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Trainer expertise:
4.7
Participant orientation:
4.6
Method variety:
4.2
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03.09.2025
Hamburg
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Munich
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08.07.2026
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