Learn how to promote your business effectively online and develop a targeted online marketing strategy that engages potential customers throughout the digital landscape. In this course, Brad Batesole explains today’s digital marketing techniques in simple terms, demonstrating how to build a successful online marketing campaign for all digital channels: search, video, social, email, and display.

Brad shows how to evaluate your website and identify conversion goals, measure and interpret website analytics, get the most out of SEO, and set up your first text and display ads. See how to connect with communities on the leading social networks, learn best practices for developing and distributing video marketing content, and find out what makes an email marketing campaign successful. This course also covers content marketing, mobile marketing, and influencer marketing, as well as recommendations for expanding your digital marketing skillset. Upon completing this foundational digital marketing course, you’ll be equipped with skills and strategies that can help you navigate today’s online landscape and develop a smart plan of action.

Topics include:

• Examine the importance of the top three digital strategies for business, brand, and marketing.
• Define vital online marketing terms.
• Explore the components of the digital marketing landscape.
• Identify the uses of a marketing funnel.
• Discover the characteristics of an effective website.
• Recognize the importance behind choosing an effective domain name.
• Determine the importance of choosing a responsive design.
• Examine the fundamentals of a conversion funnel.

About the Author

Brad Batesole is an internationally recognized marketing thought leader.

Brad has led teams at top companies including LinkedIn, LegalZoom, Lynda.com, and TMZ. He’s a proven entrepreneur, startup advisor, and growth marketing expert. His wildly popular instructional marketing courses are among the most watched online.

Brad has spent more than 15 years working at the crossroads of growth marketing, business development, and advertising. He was featured in Entrepreneur magazine after launching his first successful business at the age of 15. Brad honed his skills working as a growth consultant alongside brands large and small, including Warby Parker, Staples, BioLite, Dickies, and Urban Outfitters. He has also served as an advisor to multiple startups, providing marketing direction and strategic advice.

In addition to speaking at conferences nationwide, including CES and SXSW, Brad is constantly learning the latest marketing tools and technologies. Brad’s passion for marketing is rivaled only by his passion for flying and whiskey—at separate times, of course.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Beginner
• Video Duration: 4h 43m
• Instructor: Brad Batesole

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Automation is a must-have for organizations looking to get the most out of their marketing budget. This course provides guidance on how to pick the right marketing automation tool for your company, and use it effectively to automate time-consuming marketing tasks. Along the way, get an overview of what each top marketing automation solution has to offer. Instructor Brad Batesole walks you through some of the most popular uses of automation, showcased in tools like HubSpot, ActiveCampaign, and Mailchimp. Plus, Brad shares how to leverage tools that help you measure the success of your marketing automation initiative using key metrics.

About the Author

Brad Batesole is an internationally recognized marketing thought leader.

Brad has led teams at top companies including LinkedIn, LegalZoom, Lynda.com, and TMZ. He’s a proven entrepreneur, startup advisor, and growth marketing expert. His wildly popular instructional marketing courses are among the most watched online.

Brad has spent more than 15 years working at the crossroads of growth marketing, business development, and advertising. He was featured in Entrepreneur magazine after launching his first successful business at the age of 15. Brad honed his skills working as a growth consultant alongside brands large and small, including Warby Parker, Staples, BioLite, Dickies, and Urban Outfitters. He has also served as an advisor to multiple startups, providing marketing direction and strategic advice.

In addition to speaking at conferences nationwide, including CES and SXSW, Brad is constantly learning the latest marketing tools and technologies. Brad’s passion for marketing is rivaled only by his passion for flying and whiskey—at separate times, of course.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Beginner
• Video Duration: 1h 13m
• Instructor: Brad Batesole

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Digital marketing tools and techniques are constantly evolving. In this course, instructor Brad Batesole helps you keep up with this fast-moving field, covering what you need to know to help your business cut through the noise, engage potential customers, and adapt with the times. Brad begins by discussing the building blocks of online marketing, including how it’s used, where it’s been, and where it’s headed. He then steps through how to define your value proposition, identify your target market, and establish your goals and KPIs. Next, he covers how customers evaluate the entirety of a brand’s online presence, as well as how to decide on a marketing channel, optimize your website, and leverage SEO, paid advertising, and social media to help your target audience find you. Plus, learn how to develop an email marketing plan, get started with video marketing, and create easy-to-understand marketing reports that help you assess your progress.

Instructor

Brad Batesole
Partner @ Madecraft | Instructor @ LinkedIn Learning | Growth Marketer

Brad Batesole is an internationally recognized marketing thought leader.

Brad has led teams at top companies including LinkedIn, LegalZoom, Lynda.com, and TMZ. He’s a proven entrepreneur, startup advisor, and growth marketing expert. His wildly popular instructional marketing courses are among the most watched online.

Brad has spent more than 15 years working at the crossroads of growth marketing, business development, and advertising. He was featured in Entrepreneur magazine after launching his first successful business at the age of 15. Brad honed his skills working as a growth consultant alongside brands large and small, including Warby Parker, Staples, BioLite, Dickies, and Urban Outfitters. He has also served as an advisor to multiple startups, providing marketing direction and strategic advice.

In addition to speaking at conferences nationwide, including CES and SXSW, Brad is constantly learning the latest marketing tools and technologies. Brad’s passion for marketing is rivaled only by his passion for flying and whiskey—at separate times, of course.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Instructor: Brad Batesole

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This course introduces today’s top SEO tools used for technical optimization, content optimization, offsite optimization, and competitive research. Brad Batesole covers must-haves for your SEO toolkit, including Google Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, Google AdWords Keyword Planner, SEMrush, Siteliner, the Screaming Frog SEO Spider desktop program, and more. Not just for pros, these tools will help anyone concerned with their SEO performance gauge how their site is doing, see how it stacks up against the competition, and make measurable improvements.

Topics include:

• Setting SEO goals
• Configuring Google Search Console
• Evaluating the Google index
• Using PageSpeed Insights
• Interpreting results and leveraging reports
• Using the Screaming Frog SEO Spider
• Generating a site map
• Getting started with Keyword Planner
• Multiplying keyword lists
• Structuring data
• Using SEMrush
• Conducting keyword research

About the Author

Brad Batesole is an internationally recognized marketing thought leader.

Brad has led teams at top companies including LinkedIn, LegalZoom, Lynda.com, and TMZ. He’s a proven entrepreneur, startup advisor, and growth marketing expert. His wildly popular instructional marketing courses are among the most watched online.

Brad has spent more than 15 years working at the crossroads of growth marketing, business development, and advertising. He was featured in Entrepreneur magazine after launching his first successful business at the age of 15. Brad honed his skills working as a growth consultant alongside brands large and small, including Warby Parker, Staples, BioLite, Dickies, and Urban Outfitters. He has also served as an advisor to multiple startups, providing marketing direction and strategic advice.

In addition to speaking at conferences nationwide, including CES and SXSW, Brad is constantly learning the latest marketing tools and technologies. Brad’s passion for marketing is rivaled only by his passion for flying and whiskey—at separate times, of course.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Video Duration: 1h 47m
• Instructor: Brad Batesole

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Search engine optimization (SEO) is crucial to the success of every business. But local SEO is particularly important to “brick and mortar” stores and services. Customers don’t rely on the yellow pages anymore. They turn to Google instead. This course will help businesses of all sizes achieve maximum visibility on search engines, and drive more traffic (web traffic and foot traffic!) to their sites and stores.

First, get an overview of the local SEO landscape, tips for evaluating and optimizing your site, and advice on conducting keyword research. Author Brad Batesole also shows how to optimize your site structure and on-page content, acquire local citations, and make sure your name, address, and phone (NAP) information is consistent across the web.

Want to appear in Google Maps and local search results? Find out how to make sure your listing shows up by setting up your Google My Business page, and learn how to incorporate links and reviews. Finally, discover how to secure backlinks from reputable sources and handle SEO for a business that has multiple locations. If you want to boost your ranking, understand the competition, or just understand how search engines like Google operate at a local level, this is the course for you.

Topics include:

• Explain how to verify your company’s listing with Google.
• Summarize the steps to effective keyword researching.
• Describe strategies that will increase a site’s Google ranking.
• Identify the purpose of rich cards.
• Compare and contrast paid directory listings and free-posting options.
• Detail the steps to disavow a link.
• Recognize the features of the search results Google shows first.

About the Author

Brad Batesole is an internationally recognized marketing thought leader.

Brad has led teams at top companies including LinkedIn, LegalZoom, Lynda.com, and TMZ. He’s a proven entrepreneur, startup advisor, and growth marketing expert. His wildly popular instructional marketing courses are among the most watched online.

Brad has spent more than 15 years working at the crossroads of growth marketing, business development, and advertising. He was featured in Entrepreneur magazine after launching his first successful business at the age of 15. Brad honed his skills working as a growth consultant alongside brands large and small, including Warby Parker, Staples, BioLite, Dickies, and Urban Outfitters. He has also served as an advisor to multiple startups, providing marketing direction and strategic advice.

In addition to speaking at conferences nationwide, including CES and SXSW, Brad is constantly learning the latest marketing tools and technologies. Brad’s passion for marketing is rivaled only by his passion for flying and whiskey—at separate times, of course.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Video Duration: 2h 31m
• Instructor: Brad Batesole

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Advanced SEO goes beyond keyword research and tagging. It goes to the very heart of your website: its architecture, code, and data. Learn advanced SEO techniques to build an SEO-friendly website from the ground up. Marketing expert Brad Batesole explains how to optimize your architecture to improve site indexing and crawling, understand the impact of canonical URLs and smart URL management strategies, build keywords into images and alt text, and use structured data to help search engines like Google understand your pages better. He introduces tools and resources to help you audit and improve the technical aspects of your site, such as the Screaming Frog SEO Spider, PageSpeed Insights, the Ryte TF*IDF analyzer, and Chrome Developer Tools extensions like Lighthouse. Plus, discover how to optimize site speed and rendering, and explore how the future of the web—technologies like HTTP/2 and progressive web apps—will impact SEO.

Topics include:

• Improving site indexability and crawlability
• Creating your site architecture
• Picking a domain name
• Managing URLs
• Avoiding duplicate content with canonical URLs
• Using site tags
• Using descriptive image names and alt text
• Investing in structured data and schema markup
• Optimizing your code

About the Author

Brad Batesole is an internationally recognized marketing thought leader.

Brad has led teams at top companies including LinkedIn, LegalZoom, Lynda.com, and TMZ. He’s a proven entrepreneur, startup advisor, and growth marketing expert. His wildly popular instructional marketing courses are among the most watched online.

Brad has spent more than 15 years working at the crossroads of growth marketing, business development, and advertising. He was featured in Entrepreneur magazine after launching his first successful business at the age of 15. Brad honed his skills working as a growth consultant alongside brands large and small, including Warby Parker, Staples, BioLite, Dickies, and Urban Outfitters. He has also served as an advisor to multiple startups, providing marketing direction and strategic advice.

In addition to speaking at conferences nationwide, including CES and SXSW, Brad is constantly learning the latest marketing tools and technologies. Brad’s passion for marketing is rivaled only by his passion for flying and whiskey—at separate times, of course.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Advanced
• Video Duration: 2h 38m
• Instructor: Brad Batesole

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