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Digital Skills: Digital Marketing

Learn about some of the different digital marketing strategies and techniques that are available for businesses to use.

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  • Duration

    2 weeks
  • Weekly study

    2 hours
  • Digital upgrade

    Free

Learn to use digital marketing to grow your career or business

Digital marketing can be a crucial tool to grow a business. On this course you will explore what digital marketing is, why it is important and look at some digital marketing strategies including display advertising, pay per click advertising, search engine optimisation and email marketing. Finally, we will discuss the importance of balancing and integrating different digital marketing strategies and how companies target customers.

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Skip to 0 minutes and 10 seconds Hi, my name is Khush, and I work in Innovation. Welcome to the Digital marketing module. This module consists of six lessons.

Skip to 0 minutes and 18 seconds These are: an Introduction to digital marketing, Banner advertising, Pay-per-click, Search engine optimisation, Email marketing, and Integrated digital marketing. By the end of this module, you’ll have hopefully learnt three things.

Skip to 0 minutes and 32 seconds First one is: what is digital marketing and why it’s important for businesses. Number two, the different marketing strategies that are available. And lastly, the importance of balancing and integrating the different marketing strategies. The module is assessed by two means. Firstly, at the end of each lesson, there’s a multiple choice quiz containing five questions on the videos. This is for you to check what you’ve learned. Secondly, at the end of the module, there’s a task for you to complete and upload to the site. The task gives you the opportunity to go beyond what you’ve learned from videos and learn even more about digital marketing. We really hope you enjoy the course.

What topics will you cover?

Week 1 - How to use digital marketing

  • Introduction to digital marketing
  • Display and pay-per-click advertising

Week 2 - Digital marketing techniques

  • Search engine optimisation
  • Email marketing
  • How to integrate these techniques

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Describe what digital marketing is
  • Explain why digital marketing is important for businesses
  • Describe the different types of digital marketing including; display advertisements, pay per click, search engine optimisation, and email marketing
  • Explain how the different digital marketing methods can deliver value to businesses
  • Identify the key features that should be included in a digital marketing strategy
  • Describe how businesses can use data to target customers in their digital marketing campaign
  • Explain the benefit and importance of integrating different digital marketing techniques

Who is the course for?

This course is for anyone with an interest in digital marketing who is seeking to develop their entrepreneurial skills, preparing to enter the workplace or looking to change careers. No prior experience or qualifications required.

Interested in growing your digital skills more widely? Discover more Digital Skills courses from Accenture.

Who will you learn with?

Conor joined Accenture over 10 years ago & leads Accenture’s Analytics practice across Europe for the Products group, which spans a wide range of industries including retail and consumer goods.

Who developed the course?

Accenture Skills to Succeed and Virgin StartUp

Accenture’s Skills to Succeed: Digital Skills programme is a free, interactive series of courses which help young people aged 16+ build their entrepreneurial skills or prepare to enter the workplace.

What's included?

Accenture Skills to Succeed and Virgin StartUp are offering everyone who joins this course a free digital upgrade, so that you can experience the full benefits of studying online for free. This means that you get:

  • Unlimited access to this course
  • Includes any articles, videos, peer reviews and quizzes
  • Tests to validate your learning
  • A PDF Certificate of Achievement to prove your success when you’re eligible
  • Learning on FutureLearn

    Your learning, your rules

    • Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
    • Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
    • Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores

    Join a global classroom

    • Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
    • Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
    • Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others

    Map your progress

    • As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
    • Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
    • Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate

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