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Level 1 - Essentials of Online Marketing

Overview- Online Marketing Courses

Whether you want to acquire new skills, round out your knowledge or increase your organization's marketing effectiveness, the Essentials of Online Marketing Certificate Program can help you achieve these goals.

In this program, you will learn best practices and online marketing strategies from demand generation to search and email marketing to web analytics and social media. Level 1 professors are some of the leading professionals and practitioners with the marketing acumen and teaching experience to provide both a theoretical foundation and practical training. Go to Education Partners for a complete list of partners and online marketing professors. 

Course modules offer increased flexibility, allowing students to combine live and online study or complete certification entirely online.

Enrollment Fee:  $1295

Skills acquired with this program

  • Plan an entire online marketing strategy
  • Get a fundamental, well-balanced grasp on best practices in Search Engine Marketing, Social Media, Web Analytics, Email Marketing, Website Usability and Testing, and overall Online Marketing Strategy
  • Execute fundamental programs in search, email and social media
  • Understand the differences among various solutions and vendors
  • Create execution plans within the major domains of online marketing
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of your current website/landing pages
  • Analyze web analytics and other reporting data to determine what is most/least effective
  • Stay current with continual education. All graduates will be automatically enrolled in the continual education program, where you will receive the latest news, updates and additions to the program at no additional cost

Program requirements

The program consists of ten in-person or online courses for 10 credits:

  • Seven required courses: 7 credits
  • Three elective courses: 3 credits

Students choose three elective courses from a variety of topics that best suits their individual needs and interests. Electives are available through a variety of different media including recorded presentations, 90-minute webinars (live or recorded), or attending live workshops at Online Marketing Summit events. New elective modules are constantly available to students.

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Program courses

Required Courses

Course Time
Analytics and Measurement 60 minutes
Demand Generation 75 minutes
Email Marketing 60 mins
Online Marketing Strategy and Planning 45 minutes
Search Marketing 60 minutes
Social Media 60 minutes
Website Usability and Design 60 minutes

Elective Courses

To customize the learning experience, students can choose from several elective courses to complete their coursework. New elective modules are constantly being offered to students.

Course Time
Social Media: The Three Keys to Social Media -- Content Marketing, Listening, and Distributing 60 minutes
Online Marketing Strategy and Planning: Making the Business Case for online marketing 60 minutes
Online Marketing Strategy and Planning: Online Marketing in a Recession 60 minutes
Online Marketing Strategy and Planning: Hitting the Local Target - a Small Business Case Study 60 minutes
Website Usability and Design: Website Fundamentals 45 minutes
Website Usability and Design: The Basics of Usability 30 minutes
Search Marketing: The Big Picture 30 minutes
Search Marketing: Paid Search Basics 35 minutes
Search Marketing: Improving Search Marketing ROI in a recession 70 minutes
Email Marketing: Optimizing Email Deliverability and Response 20 minutes
Email Marketing: Operation Retention: How to Keep your Email HouseFiles Healthy 60 minutes
Email Marketing: Four Secrets to Email Marketing Awesomeness 60 minutes
Social Media: A Corporate View 45 minutes
Social Media: Drive Tangible Returns with Customer Communities 60 minutes
Analytics and Measurement: Scoring with Analytics 75 minutes
Analytics and Measurement: Inside the Mind of an Analyst 60 minutes
Demand Generation: Demand Generation Fundamentals 35 minutes
Demand Generation: B2B Marketing Roadblocks and How Six Companies Overcame Them 60 minutes
Demand Generation: Optimizing the Marketing Repsonse 60 minutes

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