Internet Marketing Diploma - Worth It?

It's worth it if you want to work at an ad agency or marketing firm. To make money on the internet with your own product... now... learn from others on this forum. Soak up all of this knowledge.

I think the best education is in the 'doing'.

I am also a doer. I know I could be a Nurse without going to school, in the old days they learned on the floor and you really don't learn anything till you get in there and do it.

I want to point out I value the degrees I have earned. I may have had to struggle, it might have took me ten years after high school to earn one but you can't substitute a diploma for anything.

I think If I was in a business setting all my staff would have to have degrees. Just for the fact it shows they can start and finish something.

On another note if I have car trouble and I have a mechanic with a degree with one year experience and I have a shade tree mechanic with 30 years experience, the work is going to the tree shade mechanic.

I'm a little confusing to most.

Whether or not you can make money in IM is the "diploma"

If you are going to work for a Company, it might be worth it so that the potential employer will know that you have the necessary for the job. But if you are going to do it for yourself, why not learn it from the forum and use the money that you planning to invest in Diploma into paid advertising. This is what I will do personally.

I think experience and knowledge is the best diploma that you can have in internet marketing

although a diploma is not really a must, unless you would want to work on a regular nine to five job in a cubicle of a company somewhere, it will be work to your advantage if you get one, provided you have the time and the enthusiasm for it!

You don't need a diploma to do internet marketing. Why waste money on it.

Experience is the best teacher. Personally I don't think it's worth it.

The money you get from IM is much more important than a piece of paper that says you can do it.

Well, depends on who's the person teaching you and why is he teaching you. I'd not say it's useless but experience is the best teacher. If it's taking you a couple thousand dollars, I'd say it would be a better option to use the same amount of money learning stuff by practically buying out projects and operating them yourself. Starting your own projects is an option too. Just know you can do it and you'll learn a lot by your mistakes over time! Best of luck.

I wouldn't get a diploma.

Just learn by experience. Its the best way to learn.

Depends on what kind of a person you are really. Things that I'm intersted in I prefer to learn on my own pace, which is probably 18hours a day (much faster than the norm).

Also the diploma is useful for getting a job but if you're intersted in doing your own thing keep in the mind that the diploma is of zero use (maybe some social proof if you choose to teach others Internet marketing)

What you will learn if you look around this industry is that most people are failing not through lack of knowledge. Not by a long shot. In fact I would say the reason so many fail is because of information overload.

So you don't ned a diploma to learn this business. The main thing those who are successful have over the others is they are action takers who persist at things until they make them work.

Look, by the time you graduate, everything you'll learn will probably be outdated.

If you want to learn internet marketing, learn from people like Frank Kern, Eben Pagan, and the good guys over here.

But here is something more important: internet marketing is just marketing. The medium is different, the principles are the same.

Start with a solid (and cheap to buy) book like "Scientific advertising". I think you can even get a free PDF of it (it's probably public domain now).

EVERYTHING you'll learn is just an expansion of what's contained in that book.

As for the technology, that's truly the easiest part. Once you're truly focused, you'll get results.

Then again, it depends on what you want. You can also choose to get a diploma. In which case you might get a high paid job in some corporation. Just be aware of the fact that sooner or later, that company will be taken down by guys who learnt this stuff in the trenches.

i get read more and more about e marketing but i feel great different when i get my diploma

It may be a good thing to get a diploma on IM but most gurus and specialists I know did not have one

Based from experience, you really need to just pick your top IM gurus online, read and follow their blog, start with your own marketing campaign- do not be afraid to commit mistakes and experiment till you get there. Have your own blog on IM and share your experiences and soon enough you'll have your own followers. In my opinion, it really does not matter if you have a diploma or not. But if you want to become known as an IM expert, start now, learn things the hard way -read blogs, do your own IM and share your experiences once you've established yourself in the industry.

Good luck!

Ya id have to say that the best learning comes from doing. I'm sure you could learn all that information on seo and email marketing by doing research on your own. By going out there and taking action you'll learn a lot more than just theory.

I am actually a student of Brighton College taking that internet marketing course and we are the first batch of students.

And as what everyone is saying here you learn by doing & I have been doing IM since I was a teen and have learned lots of things on "how to make money online" and if your reason to take the course is to learn to make money online then the course is not for you I think. The course is to prepare you for a professional career/offline marketing where you are going to learn these topics focused on helping a real business to do online marketing and you will also have to take Adwords certification and get a real PPC budget for a school project.

I am in the course because I want IM as my career but of-course I am not going to stop my sideline gig's that earn me extra income with affiliate marketing. And I am happy that while I was taking the course I already knew most of it and now my thinking got rewired about what IM really is and is not just for people to earn money online but to help businesses too.

We are almost at the end of the course and after this I will have to find a job and will look for work(not so worried about not getting hired because it is a in-demand career). I know most of the people here do IM so that they can escape the 9-5 job but IM is what I am really passionate about and don't mind getting a 9-5 job

Ive been selling online since May of 2012,but didnt have ANY kind of business exp before then.The last few months I ve been taking classes online here Tuition-Free Education and Tuition - Free online education Its a really great group and Im learning a lot through them and all of the different sites I visit.I hope this helps,PEACE!!

I don't think so! I think you can learn it all for free, honestly.

Depends on whether you are going to work for yourself or someone else. If you're working for yourself you don't need a cert to impress anybody.

Just my two cents worth

I doubt any of us have an official Internet Marketing diploma... all you need to do is work and earn that cash! Don't waste your money on some online "college" when you can get everything you need here for (certainly) cheaper.

I think getting an IM diploma defeats the purpose because it's just an expensive piece of paper that "qualifies" you to work as someone else's employee. After all, we are in IM because it allows us to escape the 9 to 5 grind and become financially independent. Who needs a diploma when you can learn all you want about IM just by being online?

With the amount of money necessary to take those courses, you could crank up your own online business really well. Unless you feel like being out in the "real world" working for a company instead of running a biz in pajamas from your bedroom , I don't see the point of going to class. I know I wouldn't. All the knowledge needed is here in the forums.

IM diplomas can teach you theory, but personally I've learnt all I needed from warrior forums, some excellent people here

I think the best diploma is to take action yourself, learn from your mistakes, gain experience.

I'd pass on it. Get out and give yourself a diploma...


And by diploma I mean money.


And by give yourself I mean work your ass off.


So, work your ass off for money and the rest will fall into place.

Most of this info can be found online for free but sometimes you need a course to follow. You could go to a site like YouTube and do a search on each subject. There are some courses out there that are almost no cost like the Plug In Profit Site.

I (company) get a lot of applications from recent graduates in Marketing, Communication, Design, etc etc and I can honestly say we NEVER - EVER kept one for more then a couple weeks. This is just my view of it, most probably there are some uni's who teach good stuff... but man, these folks don't even know whats jquery, a backlink, a marketing plan for a offline business, or how to do simple stuff as buy a domain name and configure Wordpress in Cpanel - it's insane.

And yet, they proudly say "I am a graduate in Uni yadda yadda in Marketing and Design!!"

If you're working for yourself, you'd learn more by experience and doing rather than textbooks.

Though it could help you if you're going corporate, your real-life experience in IM is more valuable than a diploma.

I too believe that doing is the best way of learning. That's true in digital marketing as well.
There are an number of free resource available online but they are helpful if you have a prefect idea of what you are looking for. It requires a lot of time as well; much more then it will take if there is someone to guide you through.
Around a year back I too was on the same ship as you are now.
Thankfully I was able to pinpoint an online course that is a blend of self learning structured instructive learning.
After this long too I am glad I did that course. It helped me a lot. Look at the GOMP Details for the structure of the course or subscribe to
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Hope this helps to make you the choice that is right for you.

Why would you even want a Diploma in Internet marketing? I mean once you have started doing Internet Marketing, you are already an Internet marketer and all you gotta do from there on is learn as much as you can about IM. Notice that I'm talking about "doing", action as opposed to just "reading about IM". And if and when you have become good enough at IM, you definitely wouldn't want to work or be employed by someone else irrespective of the salary and benefits! That's just how liberating IM is...so get started today and put away your diploma thoughts (trust me nobody will care what level of education you have once you have become a successful Internet Marketer - and the only way to become one is by actually doing Internet marketing :-)

We are in IM because we want to work for ourselves. Why would you want a job in the field?

I agree with almost everyone that said the education is in the doing. With something like IM, you can take classes and read as much as you want, but the best way to have success is to just get out there and do it. Its not like there is that much at stake if you dont succeed right away.

If you fail, figure out why you failed.

If you do better that you thought, figure out why and do it again.

I do not believe that it is worth it. The online world changes too fast to be able to teach you anything in school.

Pretty much worthless. Well, it's worth a lot for those offering it but has no value if you want to make money online.

Internet Marketing is for making money. Diploma is not going to make money for you. It is nothing but a recognition. If you does not implement anything of you knowledge, they are worthless and your diploma becomes a garbage.

I don't know anyone who has took one of these courses, but I'd imagine it would only really be helpful if you were getting employed by a marketing agency. I'm sure you would learn a lot too, but nothing that experience and trial and error can't teach you. If I were you, I would put my money towards building some websites or even some books instead.

Wow ! That is SOOOO worth it. I want to start a website like that now and just print money

YES just keep in mind making money online is not internet marketing. Making money online is affiliate marketing however learning internet marketing will give you everything you need to succeed in affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is nothing but business models of making money online. Those models are

- AD Sense sites
- Product Review/Amazon Zites
- Blogs on either on topic, all topics, a specific set of topics
there are 3 models to blogs (curated, aggregated or full text)
- List Building and email marketing


Full Business Models
- forums
- membership sites to premium content




thats all i can think of right now.


Your goal is to choose one and only one, learn how to use it, apply what you learn and dont learn anything else until you start making money with it.

Absolutely not. Create your own diplomoa/resume with *results* and proof. It will be much more powerful.

Practical knowledge is more better than any theoretical knowledge. if you have time and money justgo through it otherwise there are lot's of stuffs on the internet to learn.