
Discover the fundamentals of digital marketing, from social media strategy and advertising to Google Ads, analytics, and SEO for small businesses, plus content, email, video, and affiliate marketing.
Explore the differences between marketing and advertising, and between digital and online marketing. Learn about social media, email, affiliate, content, video, mobile, influencer, and VR marketing.
Explore the difference between marketing and advertising, showing that advertising is a component of marketing that uses data and research to communicate the brand.
Explore the differences between digital marketing, online marketing, and e-marketing, with digital marketing spanning all digital channels, online marketing limited to the internet, and e-marketing focusing on customer relationships.
Explore the differences between social media marketing, email marketing, and affiliate marketing, including how social content and ads engage audiences, convert customers, and earn commissions.
Compare search engine marketing and search engine optimization, noting that SEM promotes sites through paid advertising to increase visibility, while SEO earns free traffic by ranking highly for keywords.
Learn how inbound marketing attracts potential clients with content created before they buy, how it differs from outbound marketing, and how content marketing delivers valuable information to convert customers.
Explore native advertising and geo marketing to see how content aligns with audience interests and uses location intelligence to deliver timely, relevant offers.
Distinguish video marketing from mobile marketing by exploring engaging video campaigns—testimonials, how-to, and explainer videos—and learn how mobile marketing delivers personalized time- and location-sensitive messages on smartphones via mass messaging.
Learn viral marketing by creating shareable short form content that spreads across channels, with video often leading the trend, and explore influencer marketing through brand collaborations with key industry leaders.
Discover augmented reality and virtual reality marketing, with IKEA's AR app and VR car test drives, showing how these tools boost sales and brand value and their key differences.
Apply the ethical explanations and digital marketing knowledge from this course to practice. Explore other courses on digital marketing subsets to extend your learning.
Explore how Facebook's vast user base enables precise targeting, and learn to navigate Ads Manager, set up campaigns, choose formats, optimize budgets, and analyze metrics for effective online advertising.
Explore how Facebook and Instagram ads look and perform, and follow practical, step-by-step guidance to set up campaigns in Ads Manager, from creating a post to maximizing performance.
Navigate the ads manager interface to create and monitor campaigns, assets, and ads, customize columns and date ranges, and track budget, reach, impressions, and delivery for Facebook and Instagram ads.
Understand the three campaign types—awareness, consideration, and conversions—and how to choose objectives like traffic, engagement, app installs, video views, lead generation, or messages.
Learn to set up a Facebook traffic campaign, configure the ad set, and build precise audiences with location, gender, languages, interests, and exclusions.
Learn to set up a Facebook ad campaign, choosing pages and formats (carousel, single image, video, slideshow, dynamic, collection), headlines, URLs, call-to-action, and run split tests across platforms.
Analyze a Facebook online shop campaign that drives traffic on a 3-euro daily budget, delivering 1,319 clicks and a 0.01 cost per result, with reach and impressions insights.
Explore Facebook ads manager's new interface update, featuring a collapsible left sidebar, configurable columns, and a redesigned navigation while preserving campaign setup steps.
Explore practical Instagram tips and tricks to grow your profile with hands-on strategies, covering power likes, engagement groups, automation, and careful use of white hat techniques.
Learn targeted Instagram growth through following and liking strategies, using high-engagement targets (20k-500k followers, 10% engagement) and the one-two punch plus story views to attract quality followers.
Learn how hashtags power the explorer page to reach non-followers, and how engagement from larger accounts (power likes) expands your audience while avoiding irrelevant interactions.
Craft a memorable Instagram username, link related accounts, and use a clear logo for a public profile. Boost engagement with competitor research and original content tactics like watermarks and hashtags.
Explore power likes and engagement groups on Instagram, learn how first-hour engagement predicts overall performance, and weigh the risks and benefits of using groups to boost visibility.
Discover the don’ts of Instagram automation: avoid fake engagement, one-size-fits-all tactics, and 24/7 automation; warm up over 10–15 days and mimic human activity.
Explore Instagram automation and the mother-child method to protect large accounts while keeping actions human-like and compliant with daily follow, like, and comment limits.
Master Instagram marketing basics by optimizing your profile, understanding essential statistics, and learning how to set up an Instagram campaign with practical tips and key components.
Explore Instagram's global reach with 1 billion monthly users, 500 million daily active stories, and 95 billion daily photo uploads, highlighting its value for Facebook Ads Manager campaigns.
Set up an open Instagram business profile with a clear logo and engaging description. Include a single link in the bio, connect Facebook, and add contact details and story highlights.
Set up your Instagram campaigns in the Facebook ads manager. A Facebook page is required to access ads manager, and ads appear under your business name without an Instagram account.
Set up an Instagram campaign by selecting a traffic objective, defining audience targeting, budgets, placements, and creative formats for Instagram feed and stories.
Explore Instagram ad sizes and formats, with square images as the most effective option. Compare landscape and vertical performance, explain carousel and video constraints, and note automatic fitting by Instagram.
Explore Google Ads basics with example ads and the Ads Manager. Learn to set up diverse campaigns, including YouTube campaigns, using Keyword Planner and negative keywords, plus trends and alerts.
learn how Google Ads reaches users when they search for your products and services; note the rebranding from Google AdWords to Google Ads and its wide display and search reach.
Explore how Google ads appear in search results, and across partner sites, including search, shopping, and display ads, with examples of how paid placements contrast with organic results.
Google Ads interface explained with an overview graph, customizable metrics like clicks, impressions, and cost, and how to set up and manage campaigns, reports, and billing.
Learn how six goal options and a no-goal choice guide Google ads campaigns, matching goals to campaign types—search, display, shopping, and video—for sales, leads, traffic, and awareness.
Learn to set up a Google search ad campaign, including selecting the search network, targeting options, budgets, keywords with broad/phrase/exact matches, ad extensions, and publishing for approval.
Set up a Google display ad campaign by choosing standard display, configuring location, language, budget, delivery, and targeting multiple devices to drive web traffic.
Set up a YouTube video ad campaign in Google Ads by selecting brand awareness or reach, linking your YouTube channel, and configuring budget, dates, bid per view, and targeting.
Explore the Google ads interface through a live display campaign, analyze banners, impressions, clicks, and cost per click, and evaluate demographics, devices, and placements to optimize future online advertising.
Master the Google Trends tool to explore what the world is surging, compare terms, and uncover regional and topic insights to guide digital marketing decisions.
Use Google Alerts to monitor the web for keywords like electric cars, with region, language, sources, and delivery frequency to receive updates on articles, videos, and news.
Use Google Ads' preview and diagnosis tool to see how your ads would appear for a search term in California on mobile in English, with location, language, and device settings—free.
Explore keyword types for advertising, including broad match, modified broad, phrase match, and exact match, and learn how the keyword planner in Google Ads supports them.
Explore Google keyword planner, a free tool inside Google ads, to generate keyword ideas, view search volume forecasts, and build a campaign plan with budgets and cost per click.
Explain negative keywords and their purpose to block irrelevant searches, using Google keywords planner, with examples like calendars and eyeglasses, and detailing negative broad, phrase, and exact matches.
Create and manage negative keyword lists in Google Ads using tools and settings, Keyword Planner, and saved lists to prevent irrelevant clicks and improve campaign targeting.
Learn to create or use a negative keywords list in campaigns. Note that close variations and phrases beyond ten words may trigger ads, and the 11th word rule matters.
Explore snapchat marketing in digital marketing, from what snapchat is and statistics to navigating the ad manager interface, launching campaigns with diverse creatives, and using chat tools for ad creation.
Explore Snapchat's overview and statistics, including around 300 million monthly active users and 180 million daily active users, plus billions of daily video views and its pioneering stories.
Learn to access Snap Ads Manager, log in or create a business account, and understand its interface, campaigns, ads, impressions, and metrics like cost per link click and swipe ups.
Explore the advanced mode in Ads Manager for Snapchat, compare it with the quick option, and learn objective choices like awareness, app installs, traffic, engagement, video views, and leads.
Learn how to set up a Snapchat campaign with multiple ad creatives, choose media, edit templates, and configure targeting, budget, and goals to drive website, app, or video views.
Create Snapchat story ads by building campaigns with story ad formats. Set budget and duration, define objectives, add brand details and headlines, include a call-to-action, review, and publish.
Create a snapchat collection ad with one big image and four square thumbnails, each with a unique link and call-to-action, while exploring geolocation targeting and filter customization.
Compare Facebook ads and Google ads to reveal key differences and help you decide which platform suits your business and advertising goals. Learn with examples and practical conclusions.
Explore examples of Facebook ads, including feed, sidebar, carousel, messenger, and collection formats, and understand cross-platform placements on Instagram and stories for targeted shopping and engagement.
Explore how Google ads leverage search campaigns, shopping, display, and video ads on YouTube to reach users across the Google ecosystem, using keywords you enter and diverse placements.
Learn how Facebook ads and Google ads work together to drive synergies, with Facebook emphasizing brand awareness and creative formats, and Google delivering search, shopping, YouTube, and maps advantages.
Compare Facebook ads and Google ads to reveal strengths, with Google delivering instant customers and higher buying intent, while Facebook fosters exploration and long-term engagement.
Research your audience, budget, placements, and goals to determine which platform best fits your business, noting that both options have pros and cons and no clear winner.
Use Facebook ads to build awareness and grow your audience, and use Google ads for immediate sales, leads, and high buy products. There is no single correct answer; it depends.
Explore Canva, a free web-based design editor, and learn how to create effective ads using templates, images, and filters, with a free option that yields no watermarks.
Navigate Canva's home interface and brand kit to sign up, manage teams, and edit designs collaboratively. Access templates, custom dimensions, and social media sizes for efficient advertising design.
Design social media posters in canvas by selecting free templates, adding photos, shapes, and text, and arranging layouts with layers, colors, and alignment for Instagram.
Explore canvas design tools to edit text, choose backgrounds, apply filters, upload external images, copy designs, add elements, and export your final layout.
Master exporting and download options, including PowerPoint files and printing formats, and share or present designs via email, social media such as Facebook and Pinterest, with website preview.
Explore the difference between typefaces and fonts, learn how a typeface is a family and fonts are its styles, with examples like regular, bold, and italic.
Explore the four font groups - serif, sans serif, script, and display - and compare serif's traditional, authoritative feel with sans serif's use for reading online and print media.
Explore how sans serif fonts shape modern brand identities, emphasizing clean, readable design; learn why digital interfaces favor sans serif like Helvetica, with examples from Google, Netflix, Samsung, and Sony.
Explain script fonts and their moods from formal to casual, including handwriting and calligraphy styles. Emphasize careful use to preserve readability and brand distinction, with Coca-Cola and Instagram as examples.
Explore display fonts, decorative typefaces that grab attention, are not suited for body text, and are used for headlines to create impact.
Use the I, l, and the 1 test to ensure capital I, lowercase l, and the number one are clearly distinct in headlines, avoiding reader confusion across fonts like Helvetica.
Apply practical typography tips for digital marketing: select readable typefaces, avoid caps with script fonts, ensure strong contrast and brand-compatible licensing.
Discover top websites to download free fonts, learn licensing for commercial, educational, and personal use, and preview font styles by typing words to see how your brand looks.
Everything you need to know about Marketing in the Digital era (23 in 1 course)
Just take a look at the titles of each section! Here you are going to learn a lot of new things about Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Reddit, Snapchat Marketing. Moreover, we will talk about SEO, ASO, split testing, email marketing, video marketing, content marketing, affiliate marketing, referral programs, social media strategy, GDPR for marketers, copywriting, podcasting... We will also take a look at Google Analytics and connecting your Shopify store to the Facebook page. After this course, you will be able to design, set up and test your own different types of ad campaigns and perform online marketing throughout different platforms.
Digital Marketing 101 (lectures):
Introduction
Difference between Marketing and Advertising
Digital Marketing & Online Marketing & E-marketing
Social Media Marketing & Email Marketing & Affiliate Marketing
SEM & SEO
Inbound Marketing & Outbound Marketing & Content Marketing
Native Advertising & Geo marketing
Video Marketing & Mobile Marketing
Viral Marketing & Influencer Marketing
AR Marketing & VR Marketing
Thank you
Facebook Ads (lectures):
Introduction and course description
How does an ad look like and what is it
Ads Manager interface explained
Types of campaigns
Setting up the campaign (Ad Set)
Setting up the campaign (Ad)
Reports and metrics
Instagram growth (lectures):
How to grow your Instagram account
The significance of the Explore page
Profile and content tips
Power likes and Engagement groups
Things to avoid (most important DON’Ts)
Automation in short & the Mother-child method
Instagram Ads (lectures):
Introduction and course description
Instagram's overview and some statistics
Tips for building your Instagram page
Where to start and one important condition
How to set up an Instagram campaign
Different ad sizes and recommendations
Google Ads (lectures):
Introduction and course description
What is Google Ads
Ad examples on Google
Google Ads' interface explained
Types of goals and campaigns
How to set up a Google Search Ad
How to set up a Google Display Ad
How to set up a YouTube Ad
Overview of Google campaigns (metrics and reports)
How to use Google Trends tool
How to use Google Alerts tool
How to preview your ads
Different types of keywords (important to know)
How to use Google Keyword Planner
Negative keywords explained
How to create a negative keyword list
Important to know about negative keywords
Snapchat Ads (lectures):
Introduction and course description
Snapchat's overview and some statistics
How to find Snap Ads Manager and its interface explained
Overview of the advanced mode in Ads Manager
Creating the campaign (with Snap Ad)
Creating the campaign (with Story Ad)
Creating the campaign (with Collection Ad) and Filter explained
Facebook Ads vs Google Ads - which platform to choose? (lectures):
Introduction
Examples of Facebook Ads
Examples of Google Ads
Facebook Ads vs Google Ads part 1
Facebook Ads vs Google Ads part 2
Final words
Summary conclusion
Canva graphic tool explained (lectures):
What is Canva
Canva's home interface
How to design part 1
How to design part 2
How to export and different options
How to choose the proper fonts (lectures):
Typeface and Font difference
Serif fonts explained
Sans Serif fonts explained
Script fonts explained
Display fonts explained
IL1 test
How to choose the best font (advice)
Where to download the fonts
Online advertising metrics explained (lectures):
Introduction
Cost Per Metrics (CPC, CPA, CPM. CPL, CPE...)
CPL, CPA, CPI, and Effectiveness explained
CTR, CR, ROI, and IR
Video Metrics (CPV, CPM, CTR, View Rate, Watch time...)
Important Marketing Terms & Conversion vs Conversion Value explained
Conclusion
YouTube Ads (lectures):
Introduction
Skippable in-stream ads explained
Non-skippable in-stream ads explained
Discovery (TrueView) ads explained
Bumper ads explained
Outstream ads explained
Sequence ads explained
Non-video ad formats explained
How to link your YouTube account with Google Ads
How to set up a YouTube campaign (step by step) part 1
How to set up a YouTube campaign (other video formats) part 2
A/B split testing for Facebook Ads & Google Ads explained (lectures):
What is split testing
Examples of split testing ads
Why is A/B testing so powerful
Important split testing rules
Ideas for Facebook and Google A/B testing
A most important rule for ad testing (rule #2 from the previous video explained)
Case study #1 (placement testing)
Case study #2 (delivery optimization testing)
Case study #3 (audience and ad creative testing - 2 variables)
Case study #4 Google Ads (demographics and ad variation tool)
Case study #5 Google Ads (test different parameters)
Facebook Lead Ads for Local Business (lectures):
What are the lead ads and how do they work
How to set up the lead ads for a local business (ad set level) part 1
How to set up the lead ads for a local business (ad level) part 2
How to set up the lead ads for a local business (form creation) part 3
Where can you find the collected data
Facebook Lead Ads vs Facebook Conversion Ads
Video Marketing (lectures):
Definition and benefits
10 different video types
Video type examples
How to get started with video marketing (10 steps)
Where to distribute the video
How to improve the SEO with videos
Powerful video tips
Which software to use for video editing (short overview)
Tips on how to create a great thumbnail
Video keyword research
Important video metrics
SEO for Small Businesses (lectures):
What is SEO and what is a small business
Most important SEO tips for small business
Logical website structure
Google Search Console & Bing Webmaster Tools
Google My Business page - why and how
Keyword research and long-tail keywords
Page title and Meta description
Common technical SEO problems
Links from business partners
SEO - Search Engine Optimization (lectures):
What is SEO
How does PageRank work
On-page factors explained (powerful SEO tips)
Off-page factors explained
E-A-T concept explained
What is the Answer Box and how to appear there
SEO tips (things to avoid)
Local SEO tips
How to Optimize for Voice Search
SEO tools (short overview)
Reddit Ads (lectures):
What is Reddit
How big is Reddit
Types of Reddit Ads
Video Ads explained
Reddit Ads Manager explained
Billing settings and managing accounts
Different objective types explained
How to set up the Reddit campaigns
Things to have in mind
Twitter Ads (lectures):
Introduction to Twitter
How to make your Twitter Page stand out
Which content to use on Twitter
How to access and create an account
Twitter Ads Interface Explained
How to set up a Twitter campaign step-by-step guide
Most Important Tips
What is the ideal Tweet length
How to use the Advanced search
Social Media Strategy (lectures):
What is a social media strategy and why is it important
Define social media marketing goals (step 1)
Learn everything you can about your audience – create a buyer persona (step 2)
Research your competition (step 3)
Determine which networks to use and how (step 4)
Set up and optimize your accounts (step 5)
Choose your core piece of content format (step 6)
Determine the best time to post (step 7)
Best timings to post on different social media (overview of the research)
Create a posting schedule (step 8)
Try to connect with the key influencers (step 9)
Build the cross-functional team (step 10)
Key points on how to improve your existing strategy
A list of all 10 steps summarized
Shopify store and Facebook ads (lectures):
Introduction video
How to add a Facebook pixel to the Shopify store
What is Business Manager and why should you use it
How to create a Facebook catalog and add products from Shopify
How to create a catalog sales campaign (ad set level)
How to create a catalog sales campaign (ad level)
How to set dynamic creative ads within the traffic objective campaign
GDPR for Digital Marketers (lectures):
What is GDPR and why is it important
What is considered to be personal data
What does GDPR cover
Examples of the things you are not able to do anymore
3 key areas of GDPR
Data permission (key area #1 of GDPR)
Data access (key area #2 of GDPR)
Data focus (key area #3 of GDPR)
Difference between Data Controller and Data Processor
What does GDPR mean for pixels, cookies, and tracking codes
What if you acquire a personal data list
Business cards and phone calls
Facebook and LinkedIn lead ads (& lead ads in general)
Tips to implement GDPR
Advantages of GDPR
Important disclaimer
Copywriting (lectures):
What is copywriting
General guide on how to write a great ad copy
Mirror the visitor’s end goal (tip 1)
Make things personal (tip 2)
Integrate text and visual, Use simple English & Test (tip 3, 4, 5)
Implement FOMO (tip 6)
Invest in the headlines (tip 7)
Create a curiosity gap (tip 8)
Surprise your audience & Use numbers (tip 9, 10)
What are the Power Words
Top 5 words in English
Types of Power Words and their lists
Additional Power Words and explanations
This, What, When, Which, Why & How explained
Power Words for CTA
Google Analytics (lectures):
Introduction
How to set up a Google Analytics account
How to set up Conversion Goals
Google Analytics basic terms explained
Home section explained
Customization section explained
Real-time reports explained
Audience reports explained
Acquisition reports explained
Behavior reports explained
Conversions reports explained
Two often misconceptions
Google Analytics Settings explained
LinkedIn Ads (lectures):
Introduction (LinkedIn in numbers)
How to access LinkedIn Campaign Manager
How to create an account
LinkedIn Campaign Manager settings explained
How to create a campaign group
How to set up a campaign
How to set up an ad
Different objectives and ad formats explained
How to set up the Insight Tag and check the performance
Email Marketing (lectures):
What is Email Marketing and why you should use it
Basic steps of Email Marketing
How to set up Gmail Ads in Google Ads
Important subject line elements to catch attention
Guideline on how to write the best headlines
Important rules to have in mind
How to build an email list
Important advice when building an email list
How often to get in touch with your audience
Email Marketing metrics
Email Marketing automation
Content Marketing for Beginners (lectures):
Introduction
Where to start and how to stay up to date with the content
How to use Google Alerts
The Advantages of Content Marketing
4 Important Content Marketing Tactics
Where to distribute your content
Tools for Content Marketing
Affiliate Marketing (lectures):
What is affiliate marketing
Who are the key players (3+1 segments)
How the affiliate program works
How to start with the affiliate marketing (merchant’s perspective)
How to start with the affiliate marketing (affiliate’s perspective)
How do affiliates get paid
Commission rates – Things to know
Pros vs cons of being an affiliate
Pros vs cons of using the affiliate programs as a merchant
Affiliate marketing vs Dropshipping
Affiliate programs vs Referral programs
How to become a successful affiliate marketer
Common types of affiliate marketing channels
Referral Programs (lectures):
What is a referral program
Referral program vs affiliate program
What makes a good referral program
How to build a successful referral program
Famous examples of the viral referral programs
Benefits of the referral programs
Surveys (lectures):
Introduction
Difference between surveys, questionnaires and polls
7 steps on how to conduct an online survey
Types of survey questions
Different levels of rating scale explained
13 quick tips for conducting successful surveys
Survey tools (overview)
How to distribute the online survey
Paid online surveys explained
ASO - App Store Optimization (lectures):
What is App Store Optimization and why it matters
The difference between ASO and SEO
The difference between App Store and Google Play Store
On metadata vs Off metadata factors
Importance of the Keywords
Google Play Store ASO elements
Google Play Store Ads (short overview)
App Store ASO elements
Apple Store Search Ads (short overview)
Importance of the A/B testing
Podcasting (lectures):
What is podcasting
Why is podcast so popular
How to start your own podcast
About the name, length and audience for the podcast
Podcast formats/types
Distribution – podcast hosting services
Distribution – podcast directories
How to monetize the podcast
8 most important tips to grow your podcast
7 recording tips and tricks
Google Search Operators (lectures):
Introduction
How does Google Search with operators work?
6 basic operators to understand
Key things to know (coolest hacks and tricks)
Google Advanced Search
Google Search Operators in Online Marketing
Online Marketing Tools (lectures):
Introduction
Graphic design #1 – Canva
Graphic design #2 – Adobe Spark
Infographics and charts – Visme
Planning and collaboration – Trello
Automation and email service – Mailchimp
Social media management – Hootsuite
Online surveys – Surveyplanet
Website and landing pages – Wix
Analyze search and insights – Google Trends
Monitor searches online – Google Alerts
Best free image and video sources