Intro to Digital Marketing Course
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Alana, Senior Career Advisor
Intro to Digital Marketing details
In this course, you will
Dive into the world of digital marketing while gaining hands-on experience developing and implementing your very own social media campaign.
Explore the ins and outs of digital marketing strategy, competitor research, personas, and branding, before creating and launching content of your own design.
Learn how to analyze your campaign results and effectively communicate your findings and recommendations to colleagues and stakeholders.
Work 1:1 with an expert mentor and tutor, who will give you personalized feedback and insights into life as a digital marketer.
Join an active community of over 5000 graduates and 700 instructors, and get access to exclusive digital marketing events and webinars.
Fully online
Study for 15–20 hours per week for one month
Personalized mentorship
Our course mentors are rated 4.9/5
Outcome oriented
Gain practical digital marketing skills and deliver your first marketing campaign
Why learn digital marketing?
The field of digital marketing is huge—and only getting bigger
As the market grows and businesses face a significant skills shortage, digital marketers are in high demand, enjoying a rich variety of opportunities and competitive compensation.
Help businesses reach a wider audience
Companies know how beneficial the internet and digital platforms are. Digital marketing reaches a wider audience, and allows companies to scale their business further, and generate more revenue.
Boost your career with digital marketing skills
Mastery of digital marketing skills will keep you one step ahead of industry trends, no matter what sector you work in.
Why choose a CareerFoundry intro course?
Work with your very own course tutor and mentor
You'll enjoy a truly collaborative online learning experience, with tailored feedback from real experts in the field. Shared daily both written and over video, professional feedback will help bring you from a beginner to someone knowledgeable in digital marketing.
Get the perfect balance of theory and practice
From day one, you'll put your newfound knowledge of digital marketing into practice as you work towards delivering your marketing campaign.
Curious about digital marketing? Take your first step toward becoming a digital marketer
After the Intro course, there's a good chance you'll fall in love with digital marketing. If you do, stick around for our full career change Digital Marketing Program, backed by a job guarantee. Find out more here.
The objectives are clear, the content is well written and informative, the tasks helped me master the concepts, and the mentors provided invaluable feedback. Enrolling at CareerFoundry was the best career decision I've made in a long time.
Meet your new team
Our dual mentorship model pairs you with not one, but two industry experts—your mentor and your course tutor. They're at the top of their game in digital marketing and work in tandem to inspire you to exceed your expectations. Along the way, they’ll provide individualized feedback and guidance while you work toward delivering your first digital marketing project.
Your mentor
Your mentor will be there to give thorough, actionable feedback on your portfolio project.
Your tutor
Your tutor is there to give you timely feedback on all your submissions.
Our mentors and tutors haven’t just made a name for themselves at top companies in the industry—they've helped shape it.
A project-based curriculum that gets you thinking like a digital marketer.
Learn the essential principles, key skills, and mindset that make digital marketing so valuable.
Created by experienced instructional designers, authored by industry experts, and kept up-to-date by course editors, our curriculum will serve as the foundation of your learning experience.
Digital Marketing Strategy
Learn about the various digital marketing channels and how to break down a digital marketing strategy.
Personas & Competitors
Develop a buyer persona and conduct competitor research to inform the development of a brand.
Defining Your Brand
Explore the concept of branding and design a brand and Unique Value Proposition for your business.
Planning a Digital Marketing Campaign
Learn how to plan a social media marketing campaign.
Creating Digital Content
Discover how to create branded content for Instagram and launch a social media marketing campaign.
Digital Marketing Careers
Reflect on your skills and learnings and how they can apply to a digital marketing career. Then, set goals for your future as a digital marketer.
Marketing Analytics
Analyze the performance of your campaign and compare the results against your key performance indicators (KPIs). Learn how to draw insights from the data to best inform future strategy recommendations.
Presenting Campaign Results
Learn about the importance of communication skills in digital marketing and prepare a presentation about your campaign for stakeholders.
Visualizing Data Insights
Build helpful visualizations of your data to present your findings to stakeholders. Based on the type of data you are working with, choose the most effective visualization for the problem you’re trying to solve.
Storytelling with Data
Present the results of your analysis to others, providing a compelling narrative around old and new assumptions, and insights into a business problem.
Your first step to becoming a digital marketer
If you fall (even more deeply) in love with digital marketing during the course, you can easily move onto our career-changing Digital Marketing Program.
Portfolio Projects
Get inspired and explore some of the work students have completed.
Price
Intro to Digital Marketing
- Learn through our comprehensive, project-based curriculum
- Receive regular, personalized feedback from your course tutor
- Deliver your first digital marketing campaign, which will form the basis of your professional portfolio
- Get an in-depth review of your final project from your mentor on a video call
- Gain exclusive access to our global community—plus events and webinars
- Take your first step towards a career in digital marketing
FAQ
This course is designed with the absolute beginner in mind—so whether you’re brand new to digital marketing or you’ve dabbled in it and want to formalize your knowledge and skills, this course is a great place to start.
There are no prerequisites or prior experience in digital marketing or tech required. Regardless of age or background, we’ve built a learning experience to ensure your success. From the catered curriculum and hands-on exercises to one-on-one mentorship and support throughout.
What’s required*:
- Motivation to transform your career
- Interest in digital marketing
- Written and spoken English proficiency at a B2 level or higher
- A computer (macOS, Windows, or Linux) with a webcam, microphone, and an internet connection
- A smartphone
You’ll be using the tools Canva, Instagram, and several Google Apps such as Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides—all of which are free tools.
As this varies widely, we recommend checking individual system requirements on the respective websites:
Yes, the course is entirely online. You’ll get access to our active student community on Slack and, after the course, you’ll have access to a global network of other ambitious alumni and mentors to support you.
We take a rigorously practical approach to learning. You’ll have the opportunity to apply everything you learn in practical ways. The course builds up to a completed portfolio project that your mentor will review and that will show employers the in-demand skills you learn in the course.
You only need to set aside 15-20 hours per week to complete the course in one month. If you’d like to complete the course more quickly, you can devote up to 30-40 hours per week to complete it in about two weeks.
By the end of this course, you will have a solid understanding of digital marketing, and key skills for the job—including practical knowledge of common tools used in digital marketing, and a project you can add to your professional portfolio.
This course offers an immersive introduction to the field of digital marketing—including expert-authored curriculum, hands-on projects, and personalized mentorship and support from experts in the field.
Find out more here:
- How it works: From the curriculum to your support team, and beyond—here are the details.
- Meet our mentors: Get to know who the CareerFoundry mentors are and how the dual-mentorship model works.
- Graduate outcomes: Here’s some of the work our graduates did in the full program—and where they’re at today.
Because the intro course only lasts one month, we require the tuition in a one-time, upfront payment. But we do offer a partial tuition credit if you choose to upgrade to the full career change program!
You will receive a certificate when you complete the course to make your new qualifications easily identifiable for future employers.
The ZFU, or Staatliche Zentralstelle für Fernunterricht, is the state body for distance learning in Germany. In order to offer our Intro to Digital Marketing Course publicly, it must undergo a rigorous quality assurance and certification process. On successful completion of this process, the program is assigned a unique approval number (7404521) which can be checked against a public register.
There is no automatic or required enrollment in the Digital Marketing Program at the end of this course.
That said, if you fall in love with digital marketing during the intro course and you want to pursue a career in the field, the full Digital Marketing Program is the natural next step. It includes expert mentorship, full and hands-on immersion in the field, portfolio reviews, individualized career coaching, and a job guarantee. Everything you need to land the digital marketing job of your dreams!
If you decide to enroll in the career change program, you’ll receive a partial tuition credit towards the cost of the full program.
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