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Strategy, UX, SEO/GEO, Paid Media & Retention for Sustainable Growth of Online Stores

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This training is held in German.
The online store is up and running—now it’s time to attract potential customers the site and turn the online store into a business success. In this two-day training , you training how to strategically set up e-commerce marketing across the entire customer journey: from user-centered strategy through UX, conversion optimization, and web analytics to modern SEO, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), profit-driven paid media (Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn), as well as retention and service as marketing. You’ll work through a comprehensive, real-world scenario and walk away with concrete frameworks for your own store—for both B2C and B2B.

Contents

Strategy & User-Centric Design

  • Understanding Target Audiences: A Comparison of B2C and B2B.
  • Buyer Personas and Customer Journey.
  • Soft conversions throughout the customer journey.

UX, Conversion, and Sales Psychology

  • Fundamentals of sales psychology.
  • Best Practices for Store Structures and Checkout.
  • Conversion Rate Optimization and A/B Testing.
  • European Accessibility Act (EAA).

Web Analytics & Data Strategy

  • Identify meaningful key performance indicators.
  • KPI dashboards for B2C and B2B.

User Intent, Keywords, and SEO

  • User Intent and Keyword Research.
  • The Four Pillars of Search Engine Optimization.
  • Technical SEO and keyword mapping.
  • Monitoring, Controlling, and Reporting.

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)

  • How Modern Answer Engines Work.
  • Optimization approaches and new metrics.

Content marketing

  • Content Strategy and Topic Clusters.
  • Optimization of store and how-to content.
  • AI-powered editorial process.

Search Engine Advertising (SEA)

  • An Overview of Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising.
  • Tracking and First-Party Data Strategy.
  • Merchant Center and Product Feed Optimization.
  • Profit-Driven Marketing.
  • Optimization routines in day-to-day operations.

Social Media Advertising (SMA)

  • Platform Comparison: Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn.
  • Creative Strategy and Testing Methods.
  • Budget Allocation and Synergy with Organic.

Customer Love & Service as Marketing

  • Retention, Loyalty, and Advocacy.
  • Service as a Profit Center.
  • Marketing automation via e-mail, SMS, and WhatsApp.

Media Plan & Resources

  • Budget Planning for B2C and B2B.
  • Make-or-buy decision.
  • Operational Management of Agencies.

Important: Please bring relevant topics from your own professional experience—both B2C and B2B issues are welcome.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.

Your benefit

  • You understand modern customer journeys in B2C and B2B and strategically align your marketing with them.
  • You'll get an overview of all relevant channels—from SEO and GEO to SEA, social media, and retention.
  • You use UX, CRO, and sales psychology to generate more revenue from existing traffic.
  • You optimize content for AI-powered response engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity (GEO).
  • You manage paid media based on profit rather than just revenue.
  • You'll gain concrete frameworks for tracking, loyalty, and agency management.
  • You are working on a comprehensive real-world scenario for an outdoor brand.

  • Through AI-powered exercises, interactive sessions on the shared Miro board, and in-depth discussions with the other participants, you’ll gain additional insights and inspiration for your own business model.

Methods

Trainer-led sessions featuring numerous case studies and best-practice examples, a continuous real-world scenario (an outdoor brand with both B2C and B2B segments), interactive exercises on a shared Miro board, AI-powered practical prompts (e.g., Inner Monologue Generator, Hypothesis Generator, SEO Strategist), and an intensive exchange of experiences. Work aids, checklists, and concrete frameworks support successful implementation in practice.

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Recommended for

Marketing and sales professionals and executives, marketing and sales managers, e-commerce managers, online store operators, decision makers small and medium-sized businesses looking to grow their e-commerce operations, business development managers, and founders with a B2C or B2B focus.

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Hamburg
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