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Course
overview
Good product marketers are natural storytellers. But great product marketers use a storytelling formula that can be learned, replicated, and iterated.
In this course, you'll acquire exactly that.
Narrative design has become a crucial element of product marketing, enabling brands to capture market-wide attention in even the most crowded industries.
With Narrative Design Certified, you'll be equipped with the practical skills and knowledge to construct narratives that'll accelerate your product's growth.
Chapters
- What to expect from this course
- Your course pack
- Why narrative design
- Examples of narrative design in action
- The flywheel
- Drift's narrative design
- Building a foundation for narrative design
- The narrative design team
- Resource library
- Exam #1
- Pitching the process
- Video pitch [example]
- Exam #2
- Bonus footage: Interview with Dave Gerhardt
Chapters
- Instructions for how-to design a narrative
- The change
- The impact of that change on a specific audience
- How companies should adapt
- The challenge
- What you've built up
- Exam #3
- Activity #2
- How to use the narrative design deck
- Bonus footage: Narrative design case study
Chapters
- Creation process and rollout
- Rolling out the narrative internally
- Launching your narrative externally
- Tying your narrative to a product launch
- Best practices
- Conclusion
- Exam #4
Chapters
- Resource library
- Get product marketing certified
- Continue your professional development
- Get your certificate
Chapters
Chapters
Chapters
Modules
Modules
Modules
Chapters
- What to expect from this course
- Your course pack
- Why narrative design
- Examples of narrative design in action
- The flywheel
- Drift's narrative design
- Building a foundation for narrative design
- The narrative design team
- Resource library
- Exam #1
- Pitching the process
- Video pitch [example]
- Exam #2
- Bonus footage: Interview with Dave Gerhardt
Chapters
- Instructions for how-to design a narrative
- The change
- The impact of that change on a specific audience
- How companies should adapt
- The challenge
- What you've built up
- Exam #3
- Activity #2
- How to use the narrative design deck
- Bonus footage: Narrative design case study
Chapters
- Creation process and rollout
- Rolling out the narrative internally
- Launching your narrative externally
- Tying your narrative to a product launch
- Best practices
- Conclusion
- Exam #4
Chapters
- Resource library
- Get product marketing certified
- Continue your professional development
- Get your certificate
Chapters
Chapters
Chapters
Modules
Modules
Modules
Our stats
“The course was very simple and easy to navigate. The exams were related to the subject at hand (no tricks). There were useful guides and templates which you could append to and make it your own. Lecturer was very knowledgeable.”
Tricia Balthazar
Product Marketing Manager
“I completed the core certification and the narrative design master certification and I have to say that both were really great but especially the narrative design one. Marcus really has a way to teach it and he automatically take you in, you will want to start working on it right away. The two certifications are really a must have for Product Marketers”
Louis-Marie de Chateauvieux
Senior Product Marketing Manager
“The Narrative Design certification course by Marcus Andrews provides an amazing framework for implementing narrative design at your company. I loved the way he broke the methodology into simple steps and the examples he provided. The bonus interview and video case study conversation balanced theory with action.”
Ashley Nichols Guttuso
Senior Product Marketer
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Learn from the collective success and experience of the world’s biggest product marketing community. Not only that, but our certifications are built with the support of PMMs from the largest orgs around such as Adobe, Google, Linkedin, Atlassian, Grammarly, and many more.
If you need help convincing your company to pay for your training, we’ve done the leg work for you.
By the end of the course
you'll be able to...
Master product storytelling
Become an unrivaled expert in impactful storytelling and rally your org around a common narrative.
Stand out
Develop the skills needed to elevate your company’s profile and cut through the noise, even in the most competitive markets.
Drive change
Adopt unique skills to impress senior leadership and pioneer innovation and change within your organization.
What's
included
An extensive on-demand curriculum with all the tools you need to master narrative design storytelling process. This innovative process has been adopted by some of the fastest-growing companies across B2B and B2C to differentiate themselves from the competition.
Actionable, industry-standard templates that you'll use to implement your learning and drive results with no time wasted.
Get your burning questions answered - gain access to a 40-minute Q&A with Dave Gerhardt, CMO at Privy. This is your chance to delve into the insights of a marketing mastermind!
Hone your skills with help from a line-up of engaging activities designed to help transform your theoretical knowledge into impactful storytelling strategies.
Follow a mock pitch process that’ll empower you to make a persuasive business case and turn your narrative design skills into real-world results.
Unlock exclusive access to our Slack channel, which is reserved solely for PMA alumni. Join a vibrant community of like-minded professionals who share experiences, exchange ideas, and offer peer-to-peer support.
Elevate your career with a narrative design certification upon successful completion of all exams. Solidify your newfound mastery of storytelling and positioning, and set yourself apart in the industry.
Get personalized and actionable advice to your toughest product marketing questions, backed by Product Marketing Alliance’s entire knowledge base, using PMM-GPT.
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With every single one of our courses and certifications, you can get your hands on templates, frameworks, and toolkits. All are designed with the cumulative knowledge of our community to help you implement your newfound knowledge the very next day.
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Live workshops every month
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100+ templates and frameworks
500+ hours of OnDemand video content
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Members-only events and community
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Ungated access to industry reports
Lifetime access to all course content
Access to all future course updates
Official certification if you pass the exams
Course
benefits
Learn how to craft stories that convey the value of your product and captivate your audience.
Create a distinctive identity for your product to ensure it outshines the competition.
Influence strategic decisions and align teams with a cohesive and impactful product narrative.
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The Narrative Design Certified course is a certification program focused on storytelling and positioning in product marketing. The course is self-paced and contains 3 modules, 23 chapters, 57 exam questions, and 2 activities. The course is centered around a step-by-step framework to help you define your product's narrative using real-life case studies, design examples, pitching processes, and best practices.
This course is specifically designed for product marketers with 1+ years’ experience, including those with the title of:
- Senior Product Marketing Manager
- Head of Product Marketing
- Director of Product Marketing
- VP of Product Marketing
- Head/Director of Marketing
- CMO
- Start-up Founder/CEO
Whatever your position, this course will help you weave an engaging narrative your audience can’t ignore.
The course is completely on-demand, so you can take it at your own pace. You’ll work through the modules chronologically, participate in activities, and complete mandatory exam questions at the end of each module to consolidate your knowledge. If you successfully pass all of the exams, you’ll officially be Narrative Design Certified!
You can take however long you need to work through the materials, it’s completely flexible. The course consists of 3+ hours of on-demand content, including activities and exams.
Good news - you’ll get lifetime access! Dive into the depths of narrative design anytime, anywhere, at your own pace.
Yep! All our team packages are bespoke to make sure they’re tailored towards what you’re after, but if you drop Matt a line on m.booth@pmmalliance.com and let him know what you want, he’ll put a personalized package together for you.
The cost of the Narrative Design Certified course is $500. This fee includes access to over 3 hours of OnDemand course content, real-life case studies, activities to put theory into action, a mock pitch process, a Q&A with Dave Gerhardt, CMO at Privy, and exclusive access to a narrative design alumni channel in Slack. Members receive 10% off, and alumni from any of our other courses will also receive 10% off.
If you fail the first time around you'll be given the option to retake the exam. If you fail the second attempt, unfortunately, it means you won’t get the certificate. However, all’s not lost – you’ll have still learned lots and you’ll be given access to the course materials for life, so you can brush up on the bits you slipped up on forevermore.
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