Professional content marketing

Content Strategy, AI Tools, and Genuine Relevance for Your Target Audience

Training
This training is held in German.
Are you looking to implement content marketing in your company? Or are you already doing content marketing but seeing little success? In this interactive training, you’ll get both: a solid foundation in all relevant content marketing disciplines—and a clear, personalized roadmap to help you get started right away. You’ll learn how to use content marketing to reach the right people and achieve valuable business goals where traditional marketing efforts fall short. You’ll gain practical, proven expertise in all elements of a content marketing strategy, apply it directly to your own challenges, and develop concrete improvements for your existing initiatives. AI will guide you every step of the way: from strategic planning and target audience analysis to day-to-day implementation. You’ll explore, in a hands-on way, which AI tools can help you create better content faster, automate processes, and measurably increase your impact.

Contents

including AI methods

Introduction: Current challenges in marketing

Basics of content marketing

  • Definitions and Success Factors in Content Marketing.
  • Relevant and unique content: What really matters.
  • The content marketing manager in the company.

Content and AI: Opportunities, Limitations, and Practical Applications

  • AI-generated content: unique, relevant, and effective?
  • An Overview of AI Tools: Which Tools Support Which Tasks?
  • A Side Note on SEO, GEO, and User Intent—and How AI Can Help.

The 9 Elements of a Content Marketing Strategy – Explained and Applied

  • Goal Matrix and Budget: Making goals measurable and allocating resources effectively.
  • Target Audiences: Understanding and effectively targeting target audiences, audience segments, and personas.
  • Market Potential: Assess the market's economic potential and use that assessment to set realistic goals.
  • Positioning and editorial vision: Sharpen the brand’s core message and communicate it consistently.
  • Customer Journeys: Strategically designing the path from initial contact to conversion.
  • Engagement Strategy: Effectively integrating organic and paid media efforts.
  • Channel and Platform Strategy: Selecting the right channels and platforms for the right target audiences.
  • Editorial and Marketing Plan: Align content types, publication schedules, and product offerings.

For each item: Write down your specific next steps right away—by the end, you’ll have your own personalized roadmap.

marketing marketing tools put to the test

  • Real-time analysis of your own content marketing channels, content, and activities.
  • Developing specific ideas for improvement.
  • AI-powered analysis: Which tools can help with the evaluation?

Booster ideas for content marketing

  • The interplay of influencer marketing, content marketing and paid media.
  • AI in Practice: Workflows, Automation, and Scalable Content Production.
  • Content Marketing – Best Practices and Inspiration for Your Daily Work.

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

This interactive training thrives on your active participation and your own real-world examples. You’ll learn the fundamentals, principles, methods, and tools of professional content marketing—and immediately apply what you’ve learned to your own situation.

  • You know how valuable content marketing is to the success of your business, products, and services.
  • You know all 9 elements of a content marketing strategy and how to implement them step by step.
  • You analyze and optimize your own content marketing strategy—and know which AI tools can help you do that.
  • You’ll leave with a personalized roadmap: concrete next steps for your content marketing, developed right during the training.
  • You'll learn how to professionalize your content marketing and achieve long-term success by following best practices.

Important: Please bring your own topics, questions, or materials from your professional practice.

Methods

In-person events

In addition to expert insights, practical tips, and checklists, there’s plenty of opportunity to analyze and optimize your own content marketing activities. Live demonstrations of the latest AI tools and their practical application across the 9 strategic elements. Individual and group exercises with personalized feedback. Focus on your own topics and questions—you’ll be working on your own specific situation throughout the course.

Live online events

In addition to expert input, practical tips and checklists, there is plenty of scope for analyzing and optimizing the marketing marketing activities of participants' companies. Insights into current tools. Individual and group exercises with individual feedback. Work on your own topics and questions.

Tool

The following third-party tool can be used in the event:

Recommended for

This training is designed for professionals and managers in marketing, content marketing, online marketing, social media, corporate communications, and PR—as well as anyone in companies, agencies, or consulting firms who is responsible for content: editors, journalists, and specialists who want to strategically develop or expand their content marketing efforts.

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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Articles, interviews or whitepapers on the topic

We can do content marketing - a field report

In the fast-paced world of media, further training is a must. The Karriere-München editorial team thought so too and sent Bettina Riedel to a training at the Haufe Akademie - a field report. I had booked a two-day training on "Content marketing". My goal: to know at the end what value content marketing has for my company and to be able to [...]

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Articles, interviews or whitepapers on the topic

We can do content marketing - a field report

In the fast-paced world of media, further training is a must. The Karriere-München editorial team thought so too and sent Bettina Riedel to a training at the Haufe Akademie - a field report. I had booked a two-day training on "Content marketing". My goal: to know at the end what value content marketing has for my company and to be able to [...]

Learn more here

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