37 Free Online Marketing and Social Media Classes to Elevate Your Skills

Buffer
Startup Grind
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4 min readNov 30, 2016

When I first started out with digital marketing, I was blown away by the sheer amount of online marketing resources and social media classes.

I read hundreds of articles and enrolled in as many marketing courses that I could possibly get my hands on. Even today, millions of resources continue to be published online every month.

It’s enough to wonder …

Where can you go for the best, most useful marketing information?

I’ve had the chance to test out and research a huge amount of resources, and I’m excited to share with you 37 free marketing and social media classes that you can enroll in to upgrade your skills across the board.

Let’s dive in!

If you’d like to dig into one area in particular, here’s a quick table of contents so you can jump to the section that’s most important to you:

Free Online Courses to Learn and Improve Your Social Media Marketing Skills

1. What Is Social? (Beginner)

2. Diploma in Social Media Marketing (Beginner)

3. Social Media Monitoring (All Levels)

4. The Business of Social (Beginner — Intermediate)

5. Social Media Ethics (Beginner)

6. Advanced Social Media Marketing for Picking up Clients (Intermediate)

7. Facebook Blueprint (Beginner — Advanced)

8. Social Media Quickstarter (Beginner)

Free Online Courses to Boost Your Digital Marketing Know-How

9. Email Marketing for E-Commerce (Intermediate to Advanced)

10. Marketing in a Digital World (Beginner)

11. QuickSprout University (Beginner — Advanced)

12. Inbound Marketing Certification (Beginner — Advanced)

13. Viral Marketing and How to Create Contagious Content (Beginner — Intermediate)

14. Pay Per Click (PPC) University (Beginner — Advanced)

15. Diploma in E-Business (Intermediate)

16. Google Digital Marketing Course (Beginner — Advanced)

17. Buffer’s Week of Webinars on Digital Marketing (Beginner — Intermediate)

Free Online Courses to Level Up With Marketing Analytics & Data

18. Introduction to Analytics and the Language of SAS (Beginner)

19. Google Analytics Academy (Intermediate — Advanced)

20. An Introduction to Consumer Neuroscience and Neuromarketing (Beginner — Intermediate)

21. Data Analytics with Excel PivotTables (Advanced)

22. Digital Analytics for Marketing Professionals (Advanced)

23. Marketing Measurement Strategy (Intermediate)

24. Social Media Analytics (Beginner)

Free Online Courses to Get Up to Speed on Content, Blogging & SEO

25. SEO Training (Beginner — Intermediate)

26. Writing for the Web (Beginner)

27. Writing for Brands: Freelancing in the Age of Content Marketing (Beginner)

28. SEO Training Course (Beginner)

29. Content Marketing for B2B Enterprises (Intermediate — Advanced)

30. High-Impact Business Writing (Beginner)

31. Internet Marketing for Smart People (Beginner)

Free Online Courses to Learn Marketing Design and Imagery

32. Graphic Design Basics: Core Principles for Graphic Design (Beginner)

33. How to Create Better Graphic Design (Beginner)

34. The Landing Page Conversion Course (Beginner — Intermediate)

35. Visual and Graphic Design (Beginner)

36. Graphic Design 101 (Intermediate)

37. DIY Viral Video: A Class on Making iPhone How-To Videos (Beginner — Intermediate)

Over to you!

As Malcolm Gladwell said in his book Outliers

“It takes roughly ten thousand hours of practice to achieve mastery in a field.”

Malcolm’s quote just goes to show that with enough effort, patience, and practice, you can learn anything you put your mind to. We hope that this lists helps you to find some great online social media classes and marketing resources.

Have you taken any online social media classes or marketing classes recently that you truly loved? We’d love to hear them!

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Startup Grind

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