Course

Digital Marketing Foundations

Free, self-paced, and enough to run a small campaign properly.

Start
Any time
Length
4 weeks
Delivery
Online
Level
Beginner

Programme fee

Free

There is no fee.

You enrol yourself. There is no application to wait on.

Modules
2
Lessons
3
Taught material
2h
Pieces of work
2

Is this for you

Written for beginners.

Taught online, at your own pace: you start when you enrol and set your own rhythm.

Four weeks of evenings, at whatever pace suits you. You finish with a customer profile and a campaign plan you could actually take to a business owner.

What you will be able to do

3 outcomes, each one assessed.

Each outcome is judged on the work you hand in, and the result is recorded on your learning record.

  • DMF.O1

    Describe a customer from evidence

    A profile built from what is known, not from what would be convenient.

    • Describe an audience from evidenceCompetent
  • DMF.O2

    Plan a campaign that fits its budget

    Channels and spend chosen on purpose, each with a reason.

    • Plan a campaign against a budgetCompetent
  • DMF.O3

    Decide in advance how you will judge it

    Measures chosen before the money is spent, and read honestly after.

    • Measure what a campaign didCompetent

Levels run introduced, developing, competent and advanced, on Meridian Institute of Technology's own competency framework.

Syllabus

What you will be taught

2 modules · 3 lessons · 2h of taught material

  1. 01

    Who you are talking to

    1 lesson · 40m

    1. Customer profiles that are not invented40 min
  2. 02

    Spending on purpose

    2 lessons · 1h 20m

    1. A budget with reasons attached45 min
    2. Deciding what counts as working35 min

The work

What you hand in

Each piece is reviewed by the academy's assessors, and the result is recorded on your learning record.

  • Practice

    A customer profile

    One profile, built from evidence, for a business you know.

  • Project

    A one-week campaign plan

    Audience, channels, budget and measures for one week of spend.

Completing

What counts as complete, and what you receive

Finish the lessons, hand in the work, and the programme is complete.

100%of the required lessons

100%of the required work handed in and approved

Verified academy

Meridian Institute of Technology

Certificate in Digital Marketing Foundations

Does not expire

Issued by Meridian Institute of Technology when your assessed work is approved for every skill this programme promises. It lists each one and how it was judged, and anyone you give its code to can check it against the record on Alethris.

How you get in

Take your place

There is no application to wait on.

  1. 1Enrol.
  2. 2Your workspace opens straight away.