Best free courses for Internet Marketing?

Best option to get started would be getting a mentor..
I know it would require initial capital but believe me
it is the best thing to do, if you want to start earning
within no time!

Dawood Khan

Dawood, that's a good idea. I was reading something about always positioning yourself so you're working with one person who is in a mentorship role, and also having a pupil that you can teach at the same time. Teaching is a great way to learn, and I'm sure I will find a mentor once I've got the basics covered for myself. I want to be able to add value to the relationship, but I'm not interested in hiring a 'coach' per se.

As you said yourself all of the info you need to succeed is out there in forums, blogs, articles, and just sitting there starting at you on every website. There's a lot to learn but take things one day at a time and try and learn one new skill at a time and you'll soon learn the ropes.

Some sites that you may find useful besides searching for and asking questions you have on this forum are:

Marketing Land | Digital Marketing & Martech News, Tactics & Strategies
Home | Social Media Today
https://blog.kissmetrics.com/
https://moz.com/blog
Social Media Examiner: Social media marketing how to, research, case studies, news and more! : Social Media Examiner

The only place I know of that has a good bit of free information is Mark Ling's affilorama. You can sign in for free training where there are a lot of videos as well as text on many subjects. I don't know however how deep he goes into things as of course like many others he is selling a course so I don't think he would go too deep in his explanations.

Thank you Shane, I will add those links to my bookmarks.

One thing I'm FOR SURE going to avoid is spending too much time reading and no time taking action. I believe that one can only learn so much from reading, and trial + error is a great way to learn... So I'm just taking this week to minimize the "error" once I get to the "Trial" part

Thanks Marks

There is a ton of quality free information out there as mentioned previously but it will save you time and money in the long run to invest if you have the capital.

Fundamentally the IM game hasn't changed, the WSO's you purchase may be out dated now but it sounds to me like you are looking to build a business and I do not want to sound like I am knocking WSO's because so have some great content but there are also a lot out there which are 'hacks' and over time become less effective, you do not want to build a business around these anyway.

Invest in a solid system and if needed a reputable mentor.

My advice to you is start today.

I disagree with you Chyan. When it comes to IM there isn't some secret magic bullet that you can only unlock by paying for information. That's the kind of mentality that keeps people paying for new products every month but never making any progress. It's that false "perceived value", you feel like you're taking a step forward because you bought something but ultimately it's the hard work that will get you there, no super-secret information. The best information isn't being sold, it's being used and shared among friends and business partners.

You're currently visiting it.

Moz SEO and Marketing guide is enough to clear all concepts, they cover all basic things to advance concept, https://moz.com/learn/seo

Instead of focusing on many courses, focus only in 1, and remember rule#1 without implementation all learning is time waste,

Read up on these forums.. also, here's a site that's relatively new but focused on helping people - AffChris | www.affchris.com

Adding Affilorama's free course in affiliate marketing here: Affiliate Marketing Lessons & Videos | Affilorama

try this link out...it could prove really useful to you...

https://www.udemy.com/online-marketing-crash-course/

Here are some FREE resources that may be helpful to you:

Neil Patel's Quick Sprout Blog - Scroll down and look at the right side of the blog until you see the tab that says "Guides." (It's below "About Neil Patel.")

Quick Sprout University - If you're a non-paying member, you may not be able to access some of the videos.

Duct Tape Marketing Podcasts.

Hubspot Blog - Marketing and sales.

Hubspot Library - This site has a huge collection of excellent online marketing e-books, guides, and templates.

Digital Marketer Podcasts - For traffic building.

Kiss Metrics - Analytics, marketing, testing.

SEO:

Moz.com

SEO Book

Social Media Marketing:

Social Examiner Blog - Getting started link.

Kim Garst - Grab "The Ultimate Facebook Ads Startup Guide."

Mari Smith

PostPlanner Blog - Lots of great tips here.

Content Marketing:

Content Marketing Institute

Copywriting:

My Copyblogger - Sign up for a free account and grab their free e-books.

Copy Hackers - Every copywriting formula ever conceived.

The list might overwhelm you, but you might want to bookmark the links for future reference.

Also, you might want to take a look at the free but excellent courses at Udemy. Just use the search filters to find free internet marketing courses. To see the search filters, click on the "all courses" tab next to "featured" on the left side of the page.

Or you can take advantage of the sale on Udemy. Get courses at only $10 each until January 11.

I hope this helps you a lot. Best wishes!

Welcome back man. Hope you've prepared yourself this time better to do the internet marketing once again. It's a tough business market area and you've to work hard, think smart, and most importantly you've to become very creative in every aspect of internet marketing.

For that I think it's better to get a good mentor and good luck.

For a complete beginner just read as MUCH content as you can on this forum. Use the search box above and enter in any topics you're curious about or want to learn more about. Don't forget to look up stuff on Google and YouTube aswell.

The information you need (and may already have) is readily available in countless places to say the least. You don't need to buy an online course.

If you're going to spend money, get a mentor/coach. It may not be the lack of information that's holding you back, it's likely the discipline and direction required for taking action.

I don't mean to be harsh, but a GOOD mentor can change that for you.

If a mentor is out of the question, then you need to research who are the right people to follow in this industry, and replicate what they're doing. Action action action. Actually getting stuck in is the most important factor.

Hope this helps.

The best free course out there right now is Affilorama by Mark Ling. You can sign up for free anytime.

One of the best resources is on the forum! US the members as their is not one of us that has not screwed up , buggered it or made an arse trying so my advice is just do it what ever you want as a test and see what happens.

I did and made $27,000 in 3 weeks , there are numerous sub forums on the site do what we did in the old days and just spend time in a few and you will pick up some good tips and then try them on the test project and who knows you may make some pocket money in the process.

You will have Warriors writing that free is not good and you need to spend money well they are the ones who never take risks , so go with the gut. I went with a free domain and and free auto res-ponder and sold crap for Rap bank and made money so you can do that.

Bet you did not know that there is another social site out there just like Facebook and ranks just as high and no competition, as you wrote you have been away for awhile remember no more push button programs or silver bullets so you have to work now lol.

Just have fun take notes and when you make bank sell the process as a course on Udemy.
Jason

Before reading, let me be clear that I know and understand that everyone learns and absorbs information differently. What I will relay is my own personal experience.

Onward...

There are many different forms of currency. We mostly think of cash money as currency, but another big one is time. We tend to spend more of what we have more of.

When I started, I had more time than money so I spent time. LOTS of time. Here is what I learned...

Free information - there is a LOT of it out there and much of it is good. And much of it is not. One thing about that is we end up wasting a LOT of time because we don't know when something is a waste until we learn it.

Of course, the same can be said about paid products and mentors. Some out there ARE a waste. But another thing I learned is this.

Cash is replaceable. You can always make more. Time is not. Once it's gone it's gone. So if I am trying to learn something, I discovered that spending the cash speeds up the process. If I am wasting my time, I find out quicker and move on.

I think the key here is to understand that for many (certainly for me) that free information you read is pretty much only half the battle. After all, what good is having information if you either don't know how to apply it or don't understand certain nuances, etc.

For example, I can find some great information on Adwords and PPC. In fact, I went through this years ago. I learned a lot from free and cheap courses. And then I went on to waste more time and money applying what I learned - very poorly.

When I was in a position to get coaching on the subject I learned a LOT more regarding subtleties of PPC, keywords, etc. and my cost per clicks went WAY down. And I learned more in a month from one person than a year of free/cheap do it yourself products.

Same with much of the rest of the I.M. niche as well. I learned a lot about affiliate marketing from courses but didn't really understand certain applications until I got a mentor/coach. Sometimes it's not a coach that is needed but perhaps just a higher end course that dives deeper into those subtleties.

In my opinion, if you are going to spend time learning something, spend it on finding out who is a good mentor that will fit your style and for a good price. Then make the leap.

Don't have cash? One thing I did (and after a while, I had people doing for me) is to offer your time/services to a successful marketer for free in exchange for mentoring. I had a lot of luck with that from Willie Crawford years ago (not so much worked for him as getting to know him and making a product together). I also worked for Mike Filsaime for 5 years officially and two years before that as a volunteer. I could fill a pool with everything I learned from that guy.

If you have to spend time, then find a way to make that time the greatest value to you - and if you intern, make it a value to them as well.

Good luck and welcome back!

The Warrior Forum is a free marketing course in and of itself. Everyday a new book can be made. But if you use the search function above, it will give you more answers to questions that you haven't even thought about yet.

Wealthy Affiliate is a great free course on affiliate marketing. The beggining lessons are free, later you must update to continue. Optionally you can read lots of blog posts, readong forums related to affiliate marketing. There is also: Coursera that offer of excellent quality content for no money.

Hi,
welcome back! Cool that you are joining back!

Anyways to answer your question: I would recommend you to go to Warriorplus and from there click Marketplace. Now, just search for FREE products. They usually have FREE written in their titles! They have loads of content and it's excellent quality in my opinion!

Hope I could you out! You can do it!

Hi Moonzombie

Great question! Many established internet marketers offer information for free (in the hope that you will eventually buy a product from them - i.e get to know, like and trust them.

Through my link below (and opting in)you can access a 4 part video series which has excellent free content. No need to take it any further!