Who Should Take This
Marketing coordinators, content specialists, and small‑business owners who have basic digital marketing exposure and want to master HubSpot’s inbound workflow will benefit. They aim to design data‑driven campaigns, improve lead generation, and demonstrate measurable ROI to stakeholders and to align marketing efforts with overall business objectives.
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20 Activity Formats
Course Outline
60 learning goals
1
Inbound Methodology & Buyer Personas
1 topic
Inbound Fundamentals
- Describe the inbound methodology stages (attract, engage, delight) and explain how they create a flywheel that drives sustainable business growth
- Explain the differences between inbound marketing, outbound marketing, and content marketing and evaluate the strengths of each approach for different business contexts
- Describe the concept of the buyer's journey including awareness, consideration, and decision stages and explain how content should align with each stage
- Create buyer personas using research methods including interviews, surveys, and data analysis to define target audience characteristics, goals, and pain points
- Apply the Jobs-to-be-Done framework to understand buyer motivations and develop marketing content that addresses specific functional, emotional, and social needs
- Describe the flywheel model and explain how reducing friction and adding force at attract, engage, and delight stages accelerates business growth
- Analyze a business scenario and recommend specific inbound strategies for each stage of the flywheel based on target audience characteristics and business goals
- Apply buyer persona research findings to develop targeted messaging frameworks that address specific pain points, goals, and objections at each journey stage
2
Content Strategy & SEO
1 topic
Content Planning and Search Optimization
- Develop a content strategy using topic clusters and pillar pages to organize content around core topics for improved search visibility and user experience
- Apply keyword research techniques to identify high-value search terms and long-tail keywords that align with buyer intent at each journey stage
- Describe on-page SEO best practices including title tags, meta descriptions, header structure, internal linking, and image optimization for content discoverability
- Create a content audit framework to evaluate existing content performance and identify gaps, redundancies, and optimization opportunities
- Analyze content performance metrics including organic traffic, engagement rate, conversion rate, and time on page to optimize content strategy decisions
- Describe the pillar-cluster content model and create a pillar page strategy with supporting cluster content linked through internal hyperlinks
- Apply content repurposing techniques to transform long-form content into multiple formats including social posts, infographics, videos, and email content
- Analyze competitor content strategies and identify content gaps and opportunities for differentiation using SEO tools and content analysis frameworks
- Describe video marketing strategies including video SEO, video hosting platforms, and embedding video content in blog posts and landing pages for engagement
3
Blogging
1 topic
Blog Content Creation and Optimization
- Describe blogging best practices including post structure, headline formulas, formatting for readability, and optimal publishing frequency for audience engagement
- Create blog content that addresses buyer persona pain points at specific stages of the buyer's journey with appropriate calls-to-action
- Apply blog optimization techniques including CTA placement, internal linking, content offers, and subscription prompts to convert readers into leads
- Analyze blog performance data to identify top-performing content patterns and recommend a data-driven editorial calendar
- Apply historical blog optimization techniques to update, consolidate, and republish underperforming blog posts for improved search rankings and traffic
- Describe guest blogging and content partnership strategies for expanding audience reach and building domain authority through external publication
4
Social Media Marketing
1 topic
Social Strategy and Engagement
- Describe social media marketing principles including platform selection, audience targeting, content types, and posting frequency for organic reach optimization
- Create a social media strategy that aligns content distribution with buyer persona preferences and buyer journey stages across multiple platforms
- Apply social listening techniques to monitor brand mentions, industry conversations, and competitor activity for insight-driven marketing decisions
- Analyze social media metrics including reach, engagement rate, click-through rate, and conversion attribution to evaluate campaign effectiveness
- Create platform-specific content strategies recognizing the unique audience expectations, content formats, and algorithm behaviors of LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and X
- Apply social media scheduling and automation best practices to maintain consistent posting frequency while preserving authentic engagement
5
Conversational Strategy
1 topic
Chatbots and Conversational Marketing
- Describe conversational marketing concepts including chatbots, live chat, and messaging apps as channels for engaging prospects and customers in real time
- Design chatbot conversation flows that qualify leads, answer common questions, and route visitors to appropriate resources based on intent signals
- Apply conversational strategy principles to reduce friction in the buyer's journey by providing personalized, context-aware interactions at key touchpoints
- Analyze chatbot performance metrics including conversation completion rate, lead qualification rate, and customer satisfaction to optimize conversation design
- Apply live chat best practices including proactive triggers, routing rules, and response time targets for real-time customer engagement
- Describe omnichannel conversational strategies that integrate chatbots, live chat, messaging apps, and email for seamless customer communication
6
Lead Nurturing
1 topic
Email Nurturing and Lead Management
- Describe lead nurturing concepts including lead scoring, lifecycle stages, and the role of marketing automation in moving leads through the funnel
- Create email nurturing sequences that deliver targeted content based on lead behavior, lifecycle stage, and buyer persona segmentation
- Configure lead scoring models using demographic attributes and behavioral signals to prioritize leads for sales engagement
- Apply segmentation strategies to divide contacts into meaningful groups based on properties, list membership, and engagement history for targeted communication
- Analyze lead nurturing campaign performance including open rates, click rates, conversion rates, and time-to-conversion to identify optimization opportunities
- Apply lifecycle stage management to define clear handoff criteria between marketing qualified leads (MQLs) and sales qualified leads (SQLs)
- Describe re-engagement campaign strategies for dormant contacts including trigger criteria, content approaches, and suppression policies
- Analyze the impact of email deliverability factors including sender reputation, list hygiene, and engagement metrics on nurturing campaign effectiveness
- Configure lead routing workflows to automatically assign qualified leads to sales representatives based on territory, industry, or round-robin distribution
7
Marketing Automation
1 topic
Workflows and Conversion Optimization
- Describe marketing automation concepts including workflows, triggers, enrollment criteria, and branching logic for scalable marketing operations
- Create automated workflows using HubSpot for lead nurturing, internal notifications, property updates, and list management based on contact behavior
- Configure landing pages and forms with progressive profiling to capture lead information incrementally without creating friction
- Apply A/B testing to email subject lines, landing pages, and CTAs to systematically improve conversion rates across marketing assets
- Analyze workflow performance and recommend optimization strategies for enrollment criteria, branching logic, and timing to improve conversion outcomes
- Configure smart content and personalization tokens to deliver dynamic website and email content based on visitor attributes and behavior history
- Describe marketing campaign management including campaign naming conventions, asset organization, and cross-channel campaign coordination
- Apply GDPR and privacy compliance requirements to marketing automation including consent management, subscription preferences, and data processing lawful basis
8
Reporting & Analytics
1 topic
Marketing Metrics and Attribution
- Describe inbound marketing metrics and KPIs including traffic sources, conversion rates, customer acquisition cost, and customer lifetime value
- Create marketing reports and dashboards to track campaign performance, funnel metrics, and attribution across marketing channels
- Apply attribution models (first touch, last touch, linear, multi-touch) to evaluate the contribution of different marketing channels to conversions
- Analyze marketing funnel data to identify bottlenecks, drop-off points, and optimization opportunities at each stage of the customer acquisition process
- Evaluate marketing ROI by connecting marketing activities to revenue outcomes and recommending budget allocation adjustments based on channel performance
- Describe closed-loop reporting and explain how integrating marketing and sales data provides visibility into which marketing activities generate revenue
- Apply goal setting frameworks including SMART goals and OKRs to establish measurable marketing objectives aligned with business outcomes
- Analyze multi-channel campaign performance and recommend budget reallocation based on cost-per-lead, cost-per-acquisition, and channel-specific conversion data
Scope
Included Topics
- All topics in the HubSpot Inbound Marketing Certification: inbound methodology and flywheel, buyer personas and buyer's journey, content strategy and topic clusters, SEO and keyword research, blogging best practices, social media marketing, conversational strategy and chatbots, lead nurturing and email marketing, marketing automation and workflows, landing pages and forms, A/B testing, and marketing reporting and attribution.
- HubSpot-specific tools including blog editor, social media tools, chatbot builder, workflow automation, form builder, landing page editor, and reporting dashboards.
Not Covered
- HubSpot CMS Hub development and theme customization
- HubSpot Sales Hub and Service Hub functionality beyond marketing alignment
- Paid advertising campaign management (Google Ads, Facebook Ads) beyond basic concepts
- Technical SEO implementation (server configuration, schema markup, site architecture)
- Enterprise marketing operations and multi-brand management
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