The top five free websites to learn New marketing skills

Introduction

The top five free websites to learn a  new marketing skill before the pandemic a lot of businesses were still in the position of completely ignoring online or digital marketing and they just relied on the foot traffic of people walking by the store.

But once a pandemic started in lots of countries they decided to go down into lockdown and basically put a  full stop to a lot of these businesses.

Which sucks and a lot of them either went out of business or they had to learn marketing and the ones that learned marketing got good at it. It translated into success and more money. So if marketing in general and digital marketing, in particular, was already booming in early 2020.

They’re now at peaks and they’re going to keep getting bigger and bigger, and if you want to ramp up your marketing skills to leverage. that trend how do you know which websites are the most reliable places to learn that new skill.

Because if you go to the wrong place to learn marketing. it can hurt you and that’s the big problem with learning marketing today many websites try to convince you that they know what’s the best for you and they don’t offer much.

I mean universities from colleges charging 997  dollars to even people selling that ebook for 9.97 when you can just get that stuff for free after all there are two main things that you need to avoid when it comes to learning marketing the first is the very academic way.

Academic way

This is disconnected from what the market will ask you secondly you don’t want to be learning marketing through generic advice.

Generic advice

Generic advice is somewhat helpful maybe can help you understand some concepts but it’s not going to teach you how to execute I’ve seen people go through both and they’re just a waste of time so let’s dive into the five sites there’s google’s fundamentals of digital marketing it’s free with a certification.

five sites there’s google’s fundamentals of digital marketing it’s free with a certification.

If you’re getting started in digital  marketing and you want to learn from one  of the most reliable sources out there  this is a course for you comes with 26  modules that’s so many i can’t even hold  up my hands with the amount of fingers i  need that’s a lot of modules spanning  from marketing planning to paid ads to  social media marketing to local seo even  video marketing it’ll offer a broad  overview of everything that you need to  know to get started it offers iab  accredited certification and only takes  40 hours  second one for you often monster digital  marketing training and it’s free  this course is focused on one areas  where i created the most  business results for myself and my  clients and that is email marketing  email marketing is incredibly helpful  tool for your marketing arsenal as my  old buddy john reset i haven’t seen him  in years more of acquaintance he would  call the email list to atm because every  time he sent out an email blast  cha-ching the money would just roll it  even if you only know the basics you  can’t really skip email marketing  something is better than nothing when it  comes to email marketing learning the  advanced stuff is even better it doesn’t  have any type of certification but the  value you get with the lessons is well  worth it  the next one of course neilpatel.com.  

Courses if you go to the training section on Neil Patel there’s training on everything seo social media heck there are even courses just on like  Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or  LinkedIn there’s literally courses on everything and it’s free with homework assignments cheat sheets and assignments for you to complete with the correct answers so that way you know if you’re doing a good job and it’ll break down everything that you need for any marketing topic and that’s all we keep it up to date I’m also playing with accreditation on the Neil  Patel training.

I haven’t decided if I’m going to do it yet but if you’re interested in me releasing accreditation or free training certificate let me know in the comments and if enough of you say yes I’ll consider doing it the next one and this is the number four copy bloggers.

Internet marketing for smart people is a great course because it integrates a few skills into a framework for you to build an online business from content marketing to direct response copywriting.

It’ll help you get the best fundamentals that you need to capture people’s attention because did you know that a human’s attention span is less than a goldfish.

You need that copywriting course beyond that it’ll help you reach new audiences and targeting in many of new effective ways because it teaches you how to persuade people with words and this course has been around since 2006 where more so copy blogger has but they keep updating it and releasing new stuff last but not least PPC university by word stream this list wouldn’t be complete if I didn’t have anything related to paid ads it’s one of the most efficient and effective ways for you to get traffic, yes seo is great and I love it and I tell everyone to do it but you need results now and paid advertising can help you get there right away may not be profitable at first but through some fine-tuning and learning the strategies that you learned from workstream and applying it you can start generating some sales and conversions.