Internet marketing classes in Universities?

I'd look for "Digital Media" or "New Media". Even if it's not a degree programme, at least take all of the classes that you can, and get a regular Marketing degree. Having that will get you any job with a major company that desperately needs online marketers.

You say this as if a university is some sort of gold standard for high understanding of every subject.

Wordpress, IM, the ever evolving internet - it's all in the realm of uncharted territory. When you jump into a new website design, or a new marketing campaign, etc, then you're exploring uncharted waters and having to navigate in ways that are more real life (win/fail) rather than theoretical or conceptional.

A traditional university class is going to follow some textbook that took 2+ years to write up, edit, and market. Think of how many things change in that short of a time frame.

Of course you can join classes in internet maketing but according to me, you should find some internet marketing courses( include ebooks, videos...) to learn, they will teach you more ways with internet marketing campaign, make money online...etc.

We're slowly starting to see IM being taught in colleges, but not as fast as I'd like. That's why I started my own ElderAcademy.com but we only have a handful of courses yet...

Don't waste your time trying to find University courses on IM - It's already been said, Universities will never be up-to-date on IM because they need to have structure and consistency.

Even marketing bodies like the Chartered Institute of Marketing have trouble keeping up with IM and they're only focused on marketing.

By the time someone wrote a course which could be delivered by Universities the content would be out of date and most people successfully doing IM would not be in a UNI teaching it.

I know it's tempting to want other people to tell you everything about IM but the best way to learn really is to do it. If you keep learning, measuring/monitoring results, tweaking and improving you can't help but do well eventually.

All that's really required is focused effort and persistence.

The Warrior Forum is the only "online university" you need. Stay focused and take action on what you learn here and you will be successful.

waste of time, the warrrior forum search button houses more than any crappy IM course they will create offline, this place is a treasure trove of info....

Don't believe me, well then go hit the search button, it will blow your effin mind....so beware. OH! and good luck with that IM course hunting....you are gunna need lots of luck to find one that compares to this forum....or war room.

Here in my country you have accredited social media college programms.

I've taken Internet Marketing and Social Media classes at my college because it was required for my marketing degree program. A couple focused hours here on the Warrior Forum is way more educational than anything they put in the classes.

If you prefer something more conventionally structured, you could look at Udemy

Yes the new programs are called social media and e-commerce solutions I think. They are slowly gonna offer that in most colleges because it's the future!

How about a IM online tutor? Without the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ cost of a uni course?

But why go with a university program, you can learn it by online coaching more easily and fast, I guess it will be cheaper than the university course.

I am going to go against the crowd also

As you already see alot of responses were about how quickly things change but you know what?

Sure things change, but the basics stay the same.

And I am sure that is what a University or college will teach you.

So I do think they can be good because of the fundamentals that you can learn. They can provide that strong foundation that most WSO's and other IM products lack.

And yes you can use the WF search button to learn the same basics by going through and searching many threads, but if you don't know how to organize that information into its appropriate parts and see how everything fits together, then all that information can be useless because it will just seem like one big blob of stuff.

I think that a reason that alot of warriors on this forum struggle is because either they don't know the basics and don't have that solid foundation to stand on, or because they don't know how the pieces of information that they do get fit together.

I think one final benefit of a university is you will probably get a lot less conflicting information, but if you do, they will help you wade through that, whereas here on the warrior forum, there is a ton of conflicting information, and it's up to you yourself to wade through that stuff

Congrats to him, really. But not everyone is going to have this story. There are only 500 companies in the Fortune 500 (obviously).

U of M Tuition + fees + housing + books + etc = $26,240 for just THIS coming semester.
$26,240 * 8 semesters (which is rare now) = $209,920

Which includes having to take classes like geology, history, intro to psych, sociology, anthropology (the most fake subject ever invented), kinesiology (skiing, bowling, running), etc. Which means more time spent on peripheral subjects (noticed I didn't say unimportant) (except for anthro) and less time on Internet marketing.

That $210k could be used more efficiently. Your son-in-law obviously did well by getting his degree (in what exactly?). But most are not going to land those jobs. Let's say 500 Uni's graduate 100 Internet Marketers a year. That's 50,000 people in the field - who probably don't have a full education. And degree =/= job.

Some fields are more about skill than degree. When a dancer shows up to an audition the directors don't give a damn if she's got a BFA. She needs to dance.

Don't get me wrong, however, I'm all for college... I want the guy who builds the bridge I drive across to know how to build it because he was taught how in school, not from "learning by doing."

Such as what?
You're sure because of what? Based on what?

A Uni or college will teach a person that the basics stay the same? But what if they don't? Wouldn't that mean that the institution is failing?

Unless those "fundamentals" change. It's not basketball. "We no can dunk, but good fundamentals."

I agree. But you're comparing apples to cotton candy, and honestly, I'd rather have pizza.

And the same is true for colleges and universities. They don't typically teach how to learn. Students are expected to be able to, and those who can't are weeded out. Or change their major to anthropology.

Although the WF has a lot of info, it isn't the best/cleanest/purest form of info. You determinately have to wade through the BS. But this doesn't suddenly mean that a 4 year university course is better than many of the other options out there.

In my experience I found studying online much more rewarding than classes in colleges/universities. Internet Marketing is such a wide field that studying the stuff you want to know in your own pace tends to make you more knowledgeable in a field than the 'professors' at lots of colleges.

If marketing college professors are actually expert entrepreneurs they wouldn't have to give college classes!

I think the University of San Fransisco is an online certificate/degree program that offer internet marketing lessons and certificates and degrees.

I quoted the price simply to throw out a number that the average person would have to pay, using the university you mentioned as the example. How exactly your son-in-law navigated through school really has nothing to do with the example.
1. Most are going to live on/near campus.
2. Not everyone gets a scholarship.
3.a. The calculation for books wasn't for new books.
3.b. It includes the fact that you sell back books - it's how it works.
3.b.ii. The avg. college student spends the money from sell backs on something else (beer).

Cute. But that doesn't change the fact that there would be very few opportunities that resulted in the same results that your son-in-law had. Still, I think it's cool that he landed his job.

Well we're discussing a degree in Internet Marketing *specifically*.

Is this a serious question or a "hey everyone, look at me!"?
What university or college in Canada doesn't offer an internet marketing course?
When I got my business degree with a major in marketing from university I took an internet marketing course and that was years ago...

It's tough to learn how to be a successful entrepreneur in an University. However, yes, I think people with a degree would be more successful, not because of the degree itself, but more because they would have a more elaborated plan/guidance to follow and wouldn't be jumping from one thing to another like crazy.

But there is another problem... where would we find good teachers? I don't think guys such as Frank Kern would be interested in that job... I wouldn't.


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