The Complete Guide to Digital Marketing
Learn everything you need to know to successfully promote your small business online including how to build your website, get found in search engines, do email marketing, write a blog, create online advertising and develop a following on social media.
8 lessons, 8 videos (2h 22m), 4 tools
What you’ll learn
What you’ll learn in The Complete Guide to Digital Marketing
You will learn how to build an effective online presence for your business.
Learn how to build a very simple online presence or go on to become an online wizard – this course is suitable both for beginners and more advanced users
Where to begin and what to do to succeed. This course will teach you how to build an effective online presence, starting with a great website. You will learn which simple online marketing methods are most likely to work when you are first starting out. Plus you will get more advanced strategies to try later as you become more experienced.
Be able to use all major online marketing channels. The course will show you how to use email marketing, search engine optimization, online ads, social media and blogs to boost your online presence. You’ll also get downloadable worksheets to help design your website, boost your rankings in search engines, and plan your digital marketing.
Watch a sample video from the course
The Complete Guide to Digital Marketing Content
If you are starting a business nowadays, you need an online presence. But you don’t have to do everything at once! Here’s how to get started without feeling overwhelmed. In this lesson, serial entrepreneur Bob Adams will guide you through the 7 first steps to building your online presence. From creating your website, to building an email strategy, and trying out online ads and social media, you will learn what really matters when getting started online.
(9:39, 1 video)
Every business needs a website. It is your face to the world. It’s ok if your website is simple. but it needs to be effective. In this lesson. you will learn 3 essential things your website must do very well. You will also discover what really matters when planning, designing and building your website. Bob Adams will share his insight and show you specific things you should focus on.
You will get the worksheet: Plan, Design, and Create Your Website that lists all of the things your website must do in one convenient place.
(17:00, 1 video, 1 worksheet)
What if you could get free leads coming directly to your website? That is what happens when you rank well on search engines like Google. So how do you achieve that? Does your small business have a chance? Yes it does. In this lesson, you will learn how search engines work and you will discover a few basic steps you can take to dramatically improve your placement in search engines.
You will get a SEO worksheet that lists all the most important things you can do to increase your rankings.
(19:38, 1 video, 1 worksheet)
Emails are one of the most cost-effective ways to make sales and engage your audience. In this lesson, you will learn everything you need to know to start sending your own successful email campaigns. You will discover who to target, what tools to use, how to get people to sign up to your lists, how to write great emails, how to move people to action, and much more…
(14:52, 1 video)
A blog can be an incredible tool to increase your website traffic, to engage your audience, and to build up your brand. The good news is that you don’t have to be a good writer to run a successful blog. You just have to be willing to dedicate some effort to it on an ongoing basis. In this lesson Bob Adams shows you what you need to do to build your own effective blog. From how often to post, to what to write and how to engage people, you will learn what you need to know to get started with blogging.
You will also get a worksheet 50 Blog Post Ideas to Create a Stream of Content for Your Blog to help you come up with content ideas for your industry.
(13:01, 1 video, 1 worksheet)
Online advertising is a core part of marketing for many businesses of all sizes, and it could work for your business too! In this lesson, you will learn why online advertising has so much potential and how to unleash its power. Bob Adams will walk you through the different types of online ads and give you his best tips to achieve great results on a small budget.
(24:54, 1 video)
You can make social media work for you. But it’s no fairytale… To engage your followers and generate some results, you need to have a strategy and dedicate some long term effort to your social media. In this lesson, you will learn how you can boost your social media efforts and set yourself apart from the competition. Bob Adams will share with you his best tips and tricks about social media including 10 proven steps to get started.
(29:53, 1 video)
The online world is a great place to try some out of the box ideas. In this lesson, serial entrepreneur Bob Adams lists 50 of his favorite creative online marketing ideas and shows you how to figure out the ones that are most likely to work for you.
You will also get the worksheet Creative Online Marketing Ideas that gathers all these alternatives in one convenient place.
(12:45, 1 video, 1 worksheet)
Instructor
Serial entrepreneur, Harvard MBA and founder of BusinessTown
In this course, Bob Adams shares the same digital marketing strategies that he has used to promote both his traditional and his online businesses. He will show you exactly what to do as well as the biggest mistakes to avoid.
Bob has mastered the art of starting businesses with very little money, and making them highly profitable.For example, Bob started his book publishing company in his basement apartment with just $1500 and no related experience. He built it into one of the largest independent publishers in the US, achieving industry-leading profit margins. He later sold this business for $40 million.
Bob has written 17 books and created 52 courses that have helped over one million entrepreneurs worldwide.
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