Live data from Hacker News

Digital marketing: a free curriculum

springboard.com

21–24 of 24 posts

Re: Digital marketing: a free curriculum

#21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gotcha. I don't even know where to start though. There's so much info to sift through. lol.

What are you trying to market? Who is your target audience? Where can they be found? What other things do they have in common besides a potential interest in the thing you want to promote? What is your price point? Does it all need to be free, or can you throw some money at this? Answer those questions and it should start narrowing down a place to begin.

Yeah but I'm sure there's technical tools for digital marketing that cross all of these boundaries.

Re: Digital marketing: a free curriculum

#22

There are certainly a lot of resources out there to learn digital marketing, SEO, PPC, and paid social. While there's a lot of great information out there, there's a lot of misinformation out there, as well. In my 20+ years of digital marketing (I was trying to get rankings on Altavista back in 1996), I've learned that the best way to learn digital marketing is by actually practicing it and doing it. You can certainl…

Any good community sites you'd recommend?

Re: Digital marketing: a free curriculum

#23
post #22

There are certainly a lot of resources out there to learn digital marketing, SEO, PPC, and paid social. While there's a lot of great information out there, there's a lot of misinformation out there, as well. In my 20+ years of digital marketing (I was trying to get rankings on Altavista back in 1996), I've learned that the best way to learn digital marketing is by actually practicing it and doing it. You can certainl…

Any good community sites you'd recommend?

WebmasterWorld dot com has always been a great place to learn and ask questions.

Re: Digital marketing: a free curriculum

#24

I also have never seen springboard like someone else has commented however here is my two cents: Reading a bunch of articles on the topic will not teach you how to actually become an expert in the topic, it will however give you a better understanding of what people in those fields of work are doing and how they are doing it. I don't think you can learn digital marketing in like an hour or even 10 hours... there's so…

Based on what I see for this tutorial, it looks like it's merely a links list of resources. Go read Moz. Go watch this video on YouTube.
Post reply on HN