Introduction to Digital Marketing
Build core digital marketing skills and knowledge to plan and implement first-class digital campaigns
Duration
Approx 8 weeks3 hrs per week
Gain in-demand digital marketing skills to get ahead in a digital world
In the rapidly changing world of digital marketing, you can’t stand still. Advances in digital media and technology have dramatically changed how marketers communicate with audiences, build relationships, and drive sales. An understanding of digital marketing is the key to success in the ever-evolving digital world.
This ExpertTrack, developed by The Open University with digital marketing experts, Target Internet, will introduce you to the core principles and latest trends that will help you plan successful campaigns and guide you through the dynamic digital marketing landscape.
Explore the digital marketing tools that will put your audience first
Through a series of engaging and insightful videos and activities, you’ll build the critical knowledge needed to understand your audience and how to put their online journey at the heart of your plans. You’ll be able to identify what channels best suit them and how to measure success to improve the user experience and maximise your digital opportunities.
From email marketing to search engine optimisation (SEO) and social media, you’ll discover how to use digital tools effectively to ensure your campaigns and activity align with what your target audience is looking for.
Create content that your consumers want
Content is key to all digital channels. This ExpertTrack will show you how to make yours stand out.
You’ll understand how content marketing can drive engagement and nurture your consumers and discover best practice ways to create content that engages new customers and builds loyalty with your existing ones.
Discover how to set clear objectives for digital campaigns
Setting the right objectives can be the difference between wasted budget and highly effective campaigns. From vanity metrics such as ‘likes’, to techniques like attribution modelling, this ExpertTrack will introduce you to the vast range of measurement techniques available, so you can judge what will work best for your business.
You’ll understand what you are trying to achieve and what impact your digital activities will have on your overall objectives.
Designed by digital marketing experts who keep up to date with the latest trends
You’ll learn with industry experts Target Internet, who have more than two decades of experience in planning and implementing digital campaigns for high profile brands including the BBC, Sony, Tesco, Vodafone, Mercedes, L’Oreal and Warner Bros. Lead Educator, Daniel Rowles, is the voice behind the Digital Marketing Podcast and is an award-winning author in the field.
Gain practical skills to progress in digital marketing quickly
You’ll benefit from practical and hands-on training content and best practice tips to give you the skills you need to support your organisation and progress your career in digital marketing.
The courses within this ExpertTrack complement each other, so to get the best out of your learning, it is recommended they are taken in order.
Industry statistics
Median base salary
£42,500UK job openings/month
1,966
Key skills you will learn
- User journey mapping
- Create a content marketing strategy
- Set and measure digital campaign objectives
- Interpret and apply digital tech and marketing trends
Learning outcomes
By the end of the ExpertTrack, you’ll be able to...
- Identify and understand the latest trends in digital marketing
- Develop user journeys and user journey maps
- Assess user journey maps and plan improvements
- Design content marketing
- Identify, set and measure digital marketing objectives
Experience required
This ExpertTrack is ideal for anyone who would like to build confidence in digital marketing. You don’t need any prior digital marketing knowledge to join, although any work experience will help contextualise and enhance your learning.
Whether you are a beginner or have some understanding of digital marketing in practice, each course is clearly explained in a way that’s suitable for all levels.
Getting started
This ExpertTrack will help anyone who would like to start or progress their career in digital marketing.
The courses are suitable for those who are new to digital marketing and want to build their knowledge, traditional marketers and communicators who would like to upskill in digital, and more experienced marketers who want to cement their knowledge of the latest trends.
The content has a global focus and the skills you will learn can be applied to a wide range of marketing roles in organisations around the world.
ExpertTrack course overview
Course 1
Digital Marketing in Perspective
Understand the role of digital marketing, latest trends, and how digital marketing can help you to achieve your objectives.
2 tests
2 weeks
3 hours per week
Course 2
Digital Marketing: Personas and User Journeys
Understand and develop user personas and user journey maps to create highly effective digital marketing.
2 tests
2 weeks
3 hours per week
Course 3
Digital Marketing: Content Marketing
Plan, create, and optimise content to drive your digital marketing objectives and successfully reach your target audience.
2 tests
2 weeks
3 hours per week
Course 4
Digital Marketing: Marketing Channel Objectives
Learn how to set digital marketing channel objectives for effective campaigns that drive your digital marketing strategy.
2 tests
2 weeks
3 hours per week
Prove you're job ready
Highlight the new, job-relevant skills you’ve gained and supplement existing qualifications with a hard-earned, industry-specific digital certificate – plus one for every course within your ExpertTrack.
- Learn the latest in your chosen industry or subject.
- Complete each course and pass assessments.
- Receive certificates validated by the educating organisation.
- Impress employers with learning outcomes you can add to your CV.
- Make your career dreams a reality.
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Join an ExpertTrack to master new skills in your chosen specialist area. Work through a series of topic-focused courses at your own pace, and pass the final assessment to earn a digital certificate award which proves your expertise.
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Pay a monthly subscription fee of $39 for as long as it takes you to complete the ExpertTrack. You can learn at your own pace and cancel at any time.
Receive a certificate for every completed course and pass the final assessment to earn a digital certificate.
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World-class learning with The Open University
As the UK’s largest university, The Open University (OU) supports thousands of students to achieve their goals and ambitions via supported distance learning, helping to fit learning around professional and personal life commitments.
Established
1969Location
Milton Keynes, UKWorld ranking
Top 510Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020
This ExpertTrack is in collaboration with Target Internet
Target Internet delivers digital marketing training to some of the world’s leading organisations, as well as building online learning that is used in over 100 countries worldwide.
Meet your instructor
MD TargetInternet.com - helping upskill the world's leading organisations in Digital Marketing & Digital Transformation.
Host of the Digital Marketing Podcast, a global top 20 business podcast.
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