Unlock the potential of Generative AI to scale your marketing output and improve customer experiences. This course teaches you how to use ChatGPT and AI prompt tools to generate personalized email content, build reusable prompt libraries, and create scalable email production workflows. You will also learn to optimize HubSpot CRM data for marketing automation—cleaning records, building workflows to maintain data accuracy, and setting up AI-augmented lead nurturing sequences. You will explore how to analyze customer lifetime value (CLV) using AI-generated insights and evaluate AI tools for integration into a broader marketing tech stack. By the end of this course, you will be able to: generate personalized email content using Generative AI prompts; build and maintain structured prompt libraries for recurring content needs; clean and optimize CRM data for campaign performance; implement AI-driven lead scoring and nurturing workflows; and evaluate AI tools for marketing stack integration. This course includes a project on setting up an AI-driven lead nurturing workflow.

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This course is part of Email & Lifecycle Marketeer with AI Professional Certificate Specialization

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What you'll learn
Generate personalized email copy and visual assets using Generative AI prompts.
Build structured prompt libraries for scalable, recurring lifecycle content.
Clean and optimize CRM data to support marketing automation in HubSpot.
Implement AI-augmented lead scoring, nurturing workflows, and CLV analysis.
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There are 14 modules in this course
Most marketing messages fail not because they're poorly written, but because they're written for everyone and land with no one. This module establishes why personalization is no longer a nice-to-have in content delivery and what makes dynamic content blocks the practical mechanism for achieving it at scale. Learners examine where dynamic blocks appear in real email marketing campaigns and communication workflows, exploring the structural logic behind how content gets swapped, segmented, and tailored before it reaches an audience. By the end of this module, you will be able to recognize how dynamic content blocks function within email marketing and identify where they can be applied in your own campaigns.
What's included
1 video1 reading1 assignment
1 video•Total 4 minutes
- Welcome & Why Dynamic Content Blocks Matter•4 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Examples of Dynamic Blocks in Marketing and Communication•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 20 minutes
- HOL: Identify and Insert Dynamic Content Blocks in a Sample Email•20 minutes
Writing personalized content manually for every audience segment is neither efficient nor scalable. This module introduces AI prompts as a systematic solution, showing how prompt templates with variables and placeholders can generate customized outputs across multiple audience types from a single structure. Learners move from prompt design through to execution, running scripts that produce AI-generated variations and saving outputs for A/B testing. The module also addresses how to evaluate AI outputs critically before putting them to use in a live campaign. By the end of this module, you will be able to write and run a prompt template that generates personalized content variations and assess those outputs for campaign suitability.
What's included
2 videos2 readings3 assignments
2 videos•Total 10 minutes
- Prompt Templates Explained: Variables & Placeholders•4 minutes
- From Prompt to Output: Running a Script•6 minutes
2 readings•Total 13 minutes
- Best Practices for Writing Effective Prompts•5 minutes
- How to Evaluate AI Outputs for Campaign Testing•8 minutes
3 assignments•Total 65 minutes
- Test Your Knowledge•20 minutes
- HOL: Run Prompt and Save 3 Outputs for A/B Testing•20 minutes
- HOL: AI-Powered Content Personalization Demo•25 minutes
Marketing teams that rely on manual outreach and one-size-fits-all email sequences leave significant conversion potential unrealized. This module examines how AI-enhanced automation reshapes the lead nurturing process — from initial contact to purchase-ready handoff — by enabling personalized, behavior-triggered communication at scale. Drawing on a real-world case study of Spotify's AI-driven email performance and a hands-on HubSpot walkthrough, learners move from concept to configuration. The focus is on building workflows that reflect actual buyer behavior, not just filling a five-step template. By the end of this module, you will be able to design and configure a multi-email automation workflow in HubSpot that applies AI-enhanced logic to improve lead conversion outcomes.
What's included
3 videos2 readings2 assignments
3 videos•Total 20 minutes
- How AI Makes Marketing Smarter•3 minutes
- Case Study: How Spotify Boosted Nurture Email Performance with AI-Driven Sequences •6 minutes
- HubSpot Walkthrough: Building a Five-Email Workflow•11 minutes
2 readings•Total 11 minutes
- 7 Unbeatable Lead Nurturing Strategies (+5 Examples to Follow)•6 minutes
- The Original Year-in-Review: How Spotify Drives Massive Annual Success•5 minutes
2 assignments•Total 30 minutes
- HOL: Configure a Five-Email HubSpot Flow•20 minutes
- Apply and Optimize Automation for Lead Conversion•10 minutes
Acquisition metrics tell you how many customers you're winning; CLV tells you whether those wins are worth the investment. This module focuses on understanding, calculating, and applying Customer Lifetime Value as a strategic decision-making tool — not as an abstract formula, but as a lens for evaluating acquisition channels, prioritizing retention efforts, and allocating marketing resources more precisely. Using Netflix's CLV-driven retention approach as a case study, learners work through the core formula, segment-level analysis across paid and organic cohorts, and the communication skills needed to present CLV findings to stakeholders. By the end of this module, you will be able to calculate CLV for distinct customer segments, interpret what the results mean for retention strategy, and present data-driven recommendations with clarity and confidence.
What's included
3 videos1 reading3 assignments
3 videos•Total 13 minutes
- CLV Made Simple: Understanding the Formula•4 minutes
- Case Study: Netflix’s CLV Strategy — From Data to Retention Decisions•4 minutes
- Presenting CLV Findings•5 minutes
1 reading•Total 6 minutes
- Calculating Customer Lifetime Value: Key Components•6 minutes
3 assignments•Total 50 minutes
- Marketing Automation and CLV Mastery•20 minutes
- HOL: Calculate CLV for Paid vs. Organic Acquisition Cohorts•20 minutes
- Applying CLV Analysis for Smarter Marketing Decisions•10 minutes
Effective marketing campaigns depend on reliable CRM data. This module introduces the three core dimensions of CRM data health: completeness, accuracy, and recency and shows how weak data quality creates workflow failures, broken personalization, unreliable reporting, and poor campaign targeting. By the end of this module, learners will be able to diagnose common CRM data problems, assess their impact on campaign performance, and conduct a structured data health audit in HubSpot.
What's included
3 videos2 readings2 assignments
3 videos•Total 12 minutes
- Garbage In, Garbage Out: The Cost of Bad Data •2 minutes
- CRM Data Pillars: Completeness, Accuracy, and Recency •4 minutes
- Performing a Data Audit in HubSpot CRM •6 minutes
2 readings•Total 13 minutes
- Common CRM Data Gaps and How to Find Them •8 minutes
- Exemplar for Hands-On Activity: Diagnose CRM Data Health•5 minutes
2 assignments•Total 20 minutes
- Hands-On Activity: Diagnose CRM Data Health•15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: CRM Data Health •5 minutes
Identifying CRM data problems is only valuable if teams can fix them systematically. This module focuses on the core CRM cleaning techniques used in marketing operations: deduplication, standardization, and enrichment. Learners explore how to sequence cleanup activities efficiently, apply bulk updates in HubSpot, and document cleanup decisions to support repeatable processes. By the end of this module, learners will be able to execute a structured CRM cleanup that improves campaign readiness and data reliability.
What's included
1 video2 readings2 assignments
1 video•Total 6 minutes
- Running a Data Cleanup in HubSpot CRM •6 minutes
2 readings•Total 13 minutes
- CRM Data Cleaning Techniques: Deduplication, Standardization, and Enrichment •8 minutes
- Exemplar for Hands-On Activity: Data Audit and Cleanup•5 minutes
2 assignments•Total 20 minutes
- Hands-On Activity: Data Audit and Cleanup•15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Data Cleaning Techniques •5 minutes
A one-time cleanup does not prevent future data decay. This module introduces the workflow logic patterns that keep CRM data accurate over time, including property update triggers, lifecycle stage progression rules, duplicate monitoring, and re-enrollment conditions. Learners examine how automated maintenance workflows reduce recurring manual cleanup and sustain long-term campaign readiness. By the end of this module, learners will be able to design CRM maintenance workflows in HubSpot that continuously support data quality and operational efficiency.
What's included
1 video2 readings3 assignments
1 video•Total 5 minutes
- Setting Up Property Update Workflows in HubSpot •5 minutes
2 readings•Total 13 minutes
- Logic for Automated CRM Maintenance •8 minutes
- Exemplar for Hands-On Activity: Create CRM Maintenance Workflows•5 minutes
3 assignments•Total 30 minutes
- Quiz: CRM Optimization •10 minutes
- Hands-On Activity: Create CRM Maintenance Workflows•15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Maintenance Workflows•5 minutes
AI tools can surface market research at a speed and scale no human team could match. But volume of output is not the same as quality of insight. This module focuses on developing the judgment to tell the difference. You will explore how AI tools generate trend data, competitor positioning, and audience sentiment, and learn a practical framework for evaluating whether any given output is reliable and relevant enough to shape a campaign. By the end of this module, you will be able to confidently assess AI-generated market research before it influences your strategy.
What's included
2 videos2 readings2 assignments
2 videos•Total 9 minutes
- AI for Market Research: Trends and Sentiment Analysis•4 minutes
- Identifying Trends and Competitor Moves With AI•4 minutes
2 readings•Total 10 minutes
- Turning Raw AI Insights into Strategy•5 minutes
- Exemplar for Hands-On Activity: Analyze AI-Generated Insights•5 minutes
2 assignments•Total 20 minutes
- Hands-On Activity: Analyze AI-Generated Insights•15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: AI Insight Analysis•5 minutes
Having reliable AI-generated insights is only useful if you have a process for turning them into campaign strategy. Many marketing teams use AI research tools reactively, opening a platform and seeing what comes up rather than building research around the questions a campaign actually needs answered. This module introduces a structured approach to AI-assisted research that starts with clear research questions, matches tools to question types, and synthesizes findings into a campaign-ready summary. By the end of this module, you will be able to run a structured AI research session from brief to output and produce findings that translate directly into campaign strategy.
What's included
1 video2 readings2 assignments
1 video•Total 3 minutes
- Running a Full AI Research Session for a Campaign•3 minutes
2 readings•Total 10 minutes
- Structuring AI-Assisted Research for Campaign Strategy•5 minutes
- Exemplar for Hands-On Activity: Use AI for Market Research•5 minutes
2 assignments•Total 20 minutes
- Hands-On Activity: Use AI for Market Research•15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: AI Research Application•5 minutes
Not every AI tool that promises to transform your marketing workflow actually will. Choosing the right tool for your tech stack requires more than a compelling vendor demo. It requires a structured evaluation process that tests each tool against the criteria that matter most in your specific environment: capability, compliance, integration, reliability, and cost. This module gives you a practical framework for making AI tool adoption decisions that are defensible, sustainable, and aligned with your actual workflow needs. By the end of this module, you will be able to evaluate AI tools systematically and produce a clear, criteria-based recommendation for any marketing use case.
What's included
1 video3 readings3 assignments
1 video•Total 3 minutes
- Comparing AI Tools for Specific Marketing Needs•3 minutes
3 readings•Total 15 minutes
- Sorting Hype From Help•5 minutes
- A Framework for Evaluating Marketing AI Tools•5 minutes
- Exemplar for Hands-On Activity: Compare and Evaluate AI Tools•5 minutes
3 assignments•Total 30 minutes
- Quiz: AI Strategy•10 minutes
- Hands-On Activity: Compare and Evaluate AI Tools•15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: AI Tool Evaluation•5 minutes
Generating an email draft with ChatGPT takes seconds. Determining whether that draft is worth sending requires a different skill entirely. This module focuses on building the critical judgment needed to evaluate AI-generated email content before it reaches an audience. Learners explore structured prompting techniques that shape better output from the start, and apply a four-point red-teaming framework to assess subject line specificity, body copy relevance, CTA clarity, and AI language hallmarks. By the end of this module, you will be able to apply a systematic evaluation process to any ChatGPT email draft, identify specific weaknesses, and produce targeted revision recommendations that close the gap between AI output and audience-ready copy.
What's included
1 video2 readings2 assignments
1 video•Total 3 minutes
- Drafting an Email Sequence with ChatGPT and Evaluating the Output•3 minutes
2 readings•Total 13 minutes
- Prompting Techniques and Red-Teaming AI Outputs•8 minutes
- Exemplar for Hands-On Activity: Analyze a ChatGPT Email Draft•5 minutes
2 assignments•Total 20 minutes
- Hands-On Activity: Analyze a ChatGPT Email Draft•10 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Analyzing AI Output•10 minutes
Most marketers who use ChatGPT for email copy spend more time editing the output than a well-structured prompt would have required. The difference between drafts that need heavy revision and drafts that are nearly ready to send is not the tool—it is the brief. This module introduces a five-element prompt architecture for email sequences and a chained refinement approach that allows marketers to improve specific elements without starting over. Learners practice building structured sequence prompts, generating multi-email drafts, and applying targeted follow-up prompts to address tone, specificity, and CTA quality. By the end of this module, you will be able to draft a complete email sequence using structured prompt architecture and refine the output efficiently using targeted iteration.
What's included
2 videos2 readings2 assignments
2 videos•Total 5 minutes
- Prompting with Purpose: Making ChatGPT Work for Your Program•3 minutes
- Drafting an Entire Email Sequence with ChatGPT•3 minutes
2 readings•Total 14 minutes
- Prompt Architecture for Email Sequences•9 minutes
- Exemplar for Hands-On Activity: Draft and Refine an Email Sequence•5 minutes
2 assignments•Total 20 minutes
- Hands-On Activity: Draft and Refine an Email Sequence•15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: ChatGPT Drafting•5 minutes
Individual prompting skill produces good drafts. A documented workflow produces consistent quality across an entire team. This module addresses the gap that emerges when multiple team members use ChatGPT without a shared system—brand voice shifts, output quality varies, and early efficiency gains erode. Learners design a reusable ChatGPT content workflow built around five components: prompt templates with clearly marked variable fields, an output evaluation rubric with specific pass conditions, brand voice guardrails, review checkpoints, and version control practices. By the end of this module, you will be able to build and document a ChatGPT email workflow that any team member can follow to produce consistent, on-brand content without relying on individual prompting instinct.
What's included
2 videos2 readings3 assignments
2 videos•Total 5 minutes
- Building a Content Machine•2 minutes
- Developing a Standardized ChatGPT Content Workflow•3 minutes
2 readings•Total 14 minutes
- Standardization: The Secret to Scalable AI Content•9 minutes
- Exemplar for Hands-On Activity: Develop a ChatGPT Content Workflow•5 minutes
3 assignments•Total 35 minutes
- Quiz: ChatGPT for Email Programs•15 minutes
- Hands-On Activity: Develop a ChatGPT Content Workflow•15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Scalable Workflows•5 minutes
Deploying AI for personalized marketing outreach is only as effective as the operational foundation beneath it. Incomplete CRM records, poorly calibrated lead scoring, and vague prompts don't just limit AI performance — they automate the wrong decisions at scale. This project module places learners in the role of a Marketing Operations Lead preparing a SaaS startup to launch a feature campaign, with the task of building the three-part infrastructure that makes personalized nurturing possible: a targeted CRM cleanup plan, a lead scoring model that integrates AI-driven behavioral signals, and a reusable master prompt engineered to generate relevant outreach for high-value prospects. Each deliverable builds directly on the last, requiring learners to think in systems rather than isolated tasks. By the end of this module, you will be able to identify and prioritize CRM data gaps, design a balanced lead scoring framework that incorporates AI-generated intent signals, and construct a structured prompt that enables consistent, personalized outreach at scale.
What's included
3 readings1 assignment
3 readings•Total 30 minutes
- AI and Data: The Foundation of Scale•10 minutes
- Project Requirements & Specifications•10 minutes
- Workflow Setup Guide•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 45 minutes
- Project: AI & CRM Setup•45 minutes
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