Digital Marketing Masterclass:Get Your First 1,000 Customers (Udemy.com)
How to acquire your first 1,000 customers using Social media, Content & Video Marketing, PR, SEO, SEM, FB, InstaG &more
Created by: Evan Kimbrell
Last updated December 2025
What you will learn
- Understand the basics of growth marketing and traction channels
- Drill down on customer pain points and build user personas
- Align marketing channels with their personal preferences and skills
- Use Twitter and Facebook to conduct research and sales outreach
- Canvas Reddit, Meetup, and other platforms to canvas for customers
- Set up, manage, and analyze user stats & behaviors through Google Analytics
- Successfully drive sales through posting & commenting on Reddit, ProductHunt, & HackerNews
- Set up, populate, and use an Instagram account
- Market using 3 different techniques on Instagram
- Set up, populate, and use a Snapchat account
- Market using 4 different techniques on SnapChat
- Build and maintain a press list
- Strategize angles for pitching and being covered by press
- Understand the mentality and mindset behind press & journalists
Quality Score
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Overall Score : 94 / 100
Course Description
Can I ask you a question?
How many customers do you have?
If you said "none" or "not enough", this course is for you.
In this course, we're going to focus on how YOU can take any product, service, or business and sell it to 10s, 100s, or even 1,000s of customers.
You see, the hard part isn't making a product anymore. The hard part is finding a market for your product and getting them to buy it.
"How great can a product be if nobody wants it?" - Marc Andreesen, billionaire venture capitalist.
We're no longer living in the "field of dreams". If you build it.... they won't come.
In order to be successful with your startup or small business, you must have the ability to proactively go out and find customers. In order to do that, you need to understand modern marketing channels. That's exactly what we cover in this course.
We'll cover:
• Social media marketing through Twitter, Instagram, & SnapChat
• Community management and promotion through Reddit, ProductHunt, & HackerNews
• Pitching press and getting covered in blogs, news outlets, & other media sites
• Creating, managing, and promoting blog posts through Wordpress, Medium, & guest blogs.
• Creating & promoting video ads and video content through your site & through YouTube
• Building a long term SEO strategy
• Designing and executing CPC ad campaigns through Google, Bing, & Facebook
As always, if you're not 100% satisfied you can get a full refund through Udemy within 30 days.
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
3,039 Reviews
Evan Kimbrell
Hi, I'm Evan Kimbrell. Thanks for checking out my course.
**My courses have been featured in Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur Magazine, BusinessInsider, BuzzFeed, Mashable, TheNextWeb, The Daily Beast, & Techcrunch**
Currently, I'm the Founder and Director of Sprintkick, a full-service, referral-only digital agency based out of San Francisco. Over the past four years I've overseen the development and launch of over 100 web and mobile apps. Clients range from two-man bootstrapping startups to multibillion dollar Fortune 100s like Wal-Mart, Dick's Sporting Goods, and GNC.
Prior to Sprintkick I worked as a VC for a new firm called Juvo Capital, based out of L.A. I spearheaded the firm's expansion into Silicon Valley and into the Consumer Web tech category.
In the long long ago, I was a co-founder for an educational software startup called ScholarPRO that raised a ton of money and then spectacularly blew up (in the bad way). Before it exploded like the Death Star, I went through five tech incubators (yes, five): Tech Stars, Excelerate Labs, MassChallenge, Babson Venture Program, and Sparkseed.
Hope you enjoy my courses!
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Reviews
By Hai Anh Pham on 1/9/2024
I came here seeking comprehensive knowledge about digital marketing and the experience has been good so far. The course delivers foundational understanding of each topic and is also rich in illustrative, real-life examples. It provides resources to deepen knowledge and self learn. I also love to listen to Evan's perspective and his own experiences, which adds another dimension of thinking to my own.
By Giovanna Romano on 1/7/2024
One of the best instructor on Udemy! He explained everything so detailed and easy to understand and I learned a lot. I liked each section of the course but especially the Content Marketing and the Video Marketing sections. To watch more than once to a deeper understanding. Thank you so much. Highly recommended!
By Ky Tee on 2/15/2022
Very structured, extremely complete course, suitable for anyone who just starts their business but even someone who already has its ongoing activity to boost. Evan is an amazing speaker, the way he put this course togehter is smart and fun at the same time. It's so good, almost addictive :)
By Av3 Aerovisual on 1/12/2022
Its Ok, but not great, too long, too redundant, the instructors sense of humor doesn´t add anything to the course, I have to admit there are some good ideas and useful info but it takes forever to actually get a hold of them. In a way I have the feeling the instructor is not applying his own theory since the course loses engagement, is not great course talking about his own brand awareness and the only conversion the course seems to get is very average comments from the students.
By Matt Birch on 2/14/2021
Blown away by the amount of information packed into this course. Evan is a wizard, and goes above and beyond in every course he creates -- with this one being a prime example. Clear delivery, engaging content and excellent examples to drive home the concepts covered.
By Fahad Hassan Noor on 8/23/2020
I have taken Evan multiple courses and found him proven in those skills. He got great hands-on experience about the knowledge he shares. Being an Upwork Top-Rated Freelancer this helped me a lot in bring value in my client's businesses. The shared techniques are amazing. If you are youtube creator and looking to promote your content to other YouTubers Do join this top rated free group on Facebook and promote your channels to various creators. Join here https://web.facebook.com/groups/Youtubepromoters
By Silvina on 8/8/2019
I am giving this course a shiny 5 stars, without having even done it yet. Why? Because I know it will be absolutely amazing either way! This is my 3rd course from Evan, and I somehow feel like I will end up watching all of them, even though half of them have zero relevancy to me, because I know that I will somehow benefit from them anyway. I’m a big fan of Evan! He packs so much interesting and relevant material in his courses! The price-performance ratio is incredible! His courses are not like what you are used to, where half of it is just hot air.... this is jam packed with info from the first, to the last minute and the way he does it is perfect. Evan‘s voice and teaching style are very enjoyable and you always keep coming back for more. Any free time that I have, I use it to learn from him, and while you not only enjoy the learning process, you actually get instant results! Half way into my copywriting course, I looked at my product homepage and was amazed at how bad my copy and overall style was. I instantly knew what to change and exactly how to do it! Enough raving from me - just take this course (or any other one from him), it‘s a no brainer! PS: Sorry Evan, I know, this text is way to long and not how you taught us. :)
By Nicole Meredith Yeager on 7/31/2019
Evan is an AWESOME instructor! This was the 5th course of his I have purchased and I definitely plan on getting more in the future. There is no doubt in my mind why he is a best-selling instructor on Udemy, as each one of his courses have been carefully thought out, leaving no details unturned. He is extremely enjoyable to learn from as he often incorporates his dry humor into his lectures, making him extremely easy to relate to and the learning process "fun." Thanks again Evan for all that you do -- you ROCK!
By Scott G on 1/5/2018
This is probably the most comprehensive course I have taken on Udemy. Evan is extremely in-depth and complete in his explanations, which is awesome. There's an exceptional breadth of knowledge on strategy to getting your first 1000 customers using the Internet as the medium along with an impressive depth of each main area in which Evan focuses. I've known about and/or implemented many of the strategies he's talked about, but wanted a refresher because I'm starting a new venture. This course did not disappoint!
By Rudyard von on 10/21/2017
This is a very long course but its worth finishing it. I have now the framework on getting a 1,000 customers on my pipeline and producing sales. I am now totally excited and focused on how I will do the marketing the models for strategic actions are clear. On the sem - ppc advertising its jut been roughly address but good enough so you can get started. I have learned a lot about the content marketing and video marketing on how to utilize it and combine it. Those sections are full of tactics that you can instantly use to get yourself 500-1000 customers or clients. Each lesson is filled with detailed example on the topic and you will have an clear idea or plan after watching each lesson on what will be your approach. Now I am ready to make my profits millions to billions with this knowledge of what is traction and how to convert that traction into sales. Take this course now and become the person who gets your company or your own business your first 1,000 clients. Thank you so much for this course :D












