The Online Marketing Crash Course: Traffic, Leads & Clients (Udemy.com)
Launch a great small business website site, reach your audience, produce great content with this awesome course
Created by: Aaron N. Fletcher
Last updated August 2013
What you will learn
- Get more leads and customers using a proven, foolproof strategy
- Over 3 hours of unique and powerful marketing content
- Simple to follow 30-Day Action Plan provided
- Implement a simple online marketing plan that works
- Reach your audience everywhere they hang out online
- Launch a simple but powerful WordPress website
- Create killer content and syndicate it across the web
- Write simple and compelling blog posts
- Create super engaging online videos
How it compares
Against the other 418 rated Udemy courses in Digital Marketing on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 16% of them
- Reviews182#288 of 419 by number of reviews
- Length4 hoursshorter than 50% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2013earlier than 99% of them
Course Description
Be a better marketer and Learn more in the next 30 days than most small business owners will ever know
Dear small business owners and bloggers,
Do you struggle to find the time, money and expertise required for success in online marketing?
If you're like me, your inbox is flooded with marketing messages, spanning every imaginable topic: SEO, social media, blogging, copywriting, web design, etc. You may be also getting bombarded with offers, webinars, courses and videos, all pointing you to the next "bright shiny object", trick and tactic that promises to double your traffic overnight. Yuck!
While there are many great, trusted online marketing resources out there, most of us feel like we're constantly gathering pieces of a ginormous jigsaw puzzle. What you really need is the puzzle itself!
The 30-Day Online Marketing Crash Course is super-simple, "geek-free" blueprint that walks you through proven, actionable steps to establish the right foundation for online success.
30-Day Online Marketing Crash Course Outline
- Lesson 1 sets the stage for your online marketing by using a simple but powerful, 3-step funnel to view and measure your online marketing strategy
- Lesson 2 is all about WordPress, the best, most powerful and easiest- to-use website platform for small businesses
- Lesson 3 reveals 8 secrets of user engagement: how to build instant trust and authority with your audience
- Lesson 4 covers 12 ways to double conversion rates, generating more opt-ins and leads. Just one of the strategies in this video can be used to double your website's conversion rates!
- Lesson 5 "SEO Made Simple" is a straightforward, easy-to-understand overview of how Google works and how to find and use the right keywords to reach your audience
- Lesson 6 lays out the top 10 places to reach your audience online and best practices for listing your business, engaging in groups, industry blogs and forums
- Lesson 7 covers the basic website metrics that every business owner needs to know and includes an awesome "one-click" at-a-glance Google Analytics dashboard!
- Lesson 8 details a unique content strategy unlocking 6 highly effective content marketing secrets that large brands and publishers use to exponentially "multiply" the reach for every piece of content you produce.
- Lesson 9 "Blogging made simple" will walk you through the Anatomy of a Perfect Blog post, providing a simple template for creating great, highly engaging blogs every time.
- Lesson 10 "Intro to Online Video" simplifies the process for creating editing, publishing and marketing great web videos and video blogs, including the "$199 video studio."
- Lesson 11 will teach you how to get more online reviews, referrals and renewals using proven and inexpensive email marketing tools.
- Lesson 12 the 30-Day Quick Action Checklist walks you through a series of simple and specific daily steps that will take you from zero to online marketing ninja in one month flat! This last lesson contains 5 additional tutorial bonus videos
Don't let the low price fool you! I set out to make the best introductory online marketing course available, revealing a simple and proven blueprint for growing your business. There are many courses available for $497, $997 or more. My passion is helping business owners succeed by making this highly valuable material available to everyone with the desire to build a thriving online business. Take action, implement the 30-Day Quick Action Plan provided in Lesson 12 and please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks and Happy Marketing!
Aaron, Liz and Maddy
Geek-Free Marketing, Inc.
Instructor Details
- 4.2 Rating
182 Reviews
Aaron N. Fletcher
I am the author of "Stand Out: A Simple and Effective Online Marketing Plan For Your Small Business." After spending nearly 15 years working with large (high traffic) Silicon Valley brands like Nolo, Caring, helping hundreds of small business owners with their online marketing and advertising, I started my current company: Geek-Free Marketing, Inc.
The mission of Geek-Free is simple: to help small business owners and online entrepreneurs like you rapidly get more customers, qualified less and traffic online using proven and simple to implement strategies.
On a daily basis, we gather the best and most current strategies in online marketing, social media, blogging and education-based content marketing, and distill them into concise, simple actionable chunks, offered through blogs, videos and courses.
Working with small business owners brings me great joy and has become my life's passion. Second only to hanging out with my family: Liz, Owen, Maddy and Parker.
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Reviews
By Jack Brandt on 11/9/2017
While the content was great, and I even just subscribed to his other service "The Fletcher Method" to get deeper, it still would have been nice to have the worksheets, etc. handy so I could parallel implementation as I went along. Looking forward to diving into the deeper training.
By Rory Balkin on 6/28/2016
Overall, this was a very informative course. I especially appreciated the 30-day checklist to sum up the content. While I liked learning a step-by-step framework to online marketing, the course felt very sales pitchy...at the end of every video chapter I was reminded of Aaron's website, other training courses and e-books...unnecessary and repetitive. Also, a handful of the recommended tools and resources are outdated, so it might be nice to update the resource slides every few months. If you're looking for a start in online marketing, I would recommend checking out this course.
By Pam Blizzard on 6/10/2016
Slightly dated, many online resources don't exist any longer, and the templates and checklists Fletcher promises don't exist. The high-level​ information is still mostly valid. I got this course for free, but if it were updated, I'd pay a good price if everything were valid and promised resources were provided.
By Josh Vaughn on 3/13/2016
As a high level overview of a critical part of modern business - online marketing - this course delivered exactly that. This is exactly the kind of course I look for: No Fluff. He scripted this out so that just about every sentence he says is critical information that you should not miss. In fact - taking notes on a course like this ends up transcribing job, because in order to get it all, retain it, and be able to thoroughly apply it, that's essentially what I have to do. He makes sure you have the full scope of what is required to market a project the right way, and gives practical tips that can and should be applied to get tangible results. I only took off one half a star on this course, because apparently he no longer maintains the geek-freemarketing.com domain that he refers to in this course and he is operating from a new domain. That means he references some downloads and supplementary material that are not available anymore, and it does not seem like he comes back around to update this course and address that. However the course is so on point for what I was looking for, that where I might normally take off a full star or two for not getting every single thing we paid for - I only took off half a star because he more than delivers what he promised at signup.
By Heath Ochroch on 10/24/2015
Great intro to online marketing. Took my company's website from Zero to Hero, in less than a month. Principles taught in this course opened my eyes to just how much I was doing wrong with my campaign. These ideas are also applicable to other online marketing areas like google adwords, which my company had been just wasting tons of money on for the last 3 years, with no idea of our results.
By John DeWitt on 6/3/2014
This is the best A-Z course on how to make sure your online marketing is on schedule and optimized. I have seen LOTS of programs and Aaron makes it fun and SO EASY to understand. The checklist he provides makes sure you stay on schedule and get everything done that needs doing. It's easy to get distracted by the latest "thing" but this course is critical for getting a good, viable site up and optimized BEFORE allowing any of those distractions.
By Bruce Callaway on 10/11/2013
Aaron does not waste a lot of time. He goes straight to the heart of the matter. There is not a lot of fluff in this course. There is a lot of substance in this course. He shows you how to increase your conversion rate from 1 to 15 percent. He explains how to be effective with SEO. He explains how to increase your site traffic significantly by using syndication. The course helped me to understand the big picture of marketing my website. There is much more to the course than I mentioned here. The course is great! If you want online marketing to make sense to you, then take the course! Bruce Callaway
By Sandra G. on 4/29/2013
This course is ok if you are a novice in SEO and online marketing. However, if you have a good background, then I would just see it as a way of refreshing your knowledge. There are some resources that can help even people with a good background, as a spreadsheet from Google Docs for your web analytics and some links that are provided. If you are starting from zero, then go for it, sure there are many things that will help you.
By Randy Wyatt on 3/25/2013
I have really enjoyed Aaron's course and have recommended it to all my friends. I am a computer science guy and have worked in the field since 1998. I would say I have a very good grasp of technology. I will say this course taught me many new things I just hadn't thought about. I really took it as a refresher and was completely surprised. Awesome work. I am now a loyal student and will take any class you publish. Thanks Aaron for sharing such knowledge. I would venture to say some won't even realize the value of your course until they have made some of the mistakes I have made over the years.
By Thomas Roman on 3/21/2013
I just completed lecture 4. The style presented fits me well as to how I learn. It is clear and concise and orderly. I've been bounced around like a pinball the lasy couple of years trying to get a grasp on the internet marketing world and constantly getting distracted by the next thing out there not to mention trying to determine who is genuine and who is just out there grabbing dollars. At this point I htink I have a better overall understanding in a few dats than I had over the last 2 years. I highly recomend the program for those looking for a real source of seo for business information.
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