A Coursera professional certificate from Google covering digital marketing and e-commerce fundamentals, including topics like SEO, social media, content, analytics, and online sales. Commenters present it as a beginner-friendly foundation for the field.

Commenters call it a great foundation for digital marketing and suggest it as a starting point before hands-on practice.

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1. Recommendsgrowjowebsiter/marketing2023in “Book Suggestions on Marketing and PR for small Organisations and Companies?”

   For marketing, try the Google Digital Marketing course (Google’s own course) and Alex Hormozi on YouTube, he’s definitely the top of the sales game and does relate a lot to marketing so he’ll be helpful. Which platforms do you plan to market on?

2. Recommendsdzidzmundr/marketing2022in “Total beginner here looking for insight on marketing costs.”▲ 5

   You should visit Google Digital Garage and finish the free course called The Fundamentals of Digital Marketing. There is also a great course called Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce Professional Certificate on Coursera. This will give you a great foundation on everything you need to know on…

3. Recommendslegume000r/marketing2022in “Can a 23 year old guy get into marketing with no college degree?”

   Programming and web developing is absolutely useful in digital marketing. UX too. Go for it! If you feel the need to boost your CV further, you could try completing some marketing courses eg the ones on Coursera by Meta and Google.

4. Recommendsnick1it1r/SEO2022in “Looking for help deciding on what course to go for as a beginner.”▲ 3

   Id start with a basic course by google from coursera then make a decision , William jones seems to focus on GMB seo while chase seems to have different courses for different aspects, gmb has a limited scope for local businesss

5. Mentionsseeyouatthemovies4r/marketing2020in “I'm highly interested in marketing but my college doesn't offer it as a major.”▲ 1

   Google offers free ones. The hootsuite one I think was $50? It was half off? I would find some free ones or ones for a low cost. Oftentimes employers don't exactly care where you get them from but just like seeing you have that experience. The only caveat to that is if you get one from like…

6. MentionsEyalWorthr/marketing2017in “Marketing Degree + Minor?”

   As with any career related question, the answer is: It depends. The English minor will give you some structure, process and a very good framework for writing, proofreading and overall better at copy. Which is an awesome and highly sought after skill. You can also do a Udemy class like…

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