The University of Illinois offers a Certificate of Digital Marketing that can be completed entirely through online coursework. The certificate program consists of three sequential courses that end in a Capstone Project. Each course lasts 4 weeks and requires about 6-8 hours of work a week. The program, while self-paced, is designed to sequentially deliver the concepts, tools, and techniques you need to both communicate with customers in a systematic and integrated way using multi-media channels and to create effective targeted promotional campaigns. While this certificate only covers 1 area of core content that we measured in our metric, the program empowers the student to explore and follow their own interests, which is delivered through highly interactive and hands-on formats–a great learning-type option for students looking for more engaging learning formats than are traditionally offered in standard online education.

Since 2006, Copyblogger has written extensively about effective digital marketing. Later, they put these resources together into a comprehensive reference guide. They base the “Copyblogger method” of creating a profitable business online on four pillars: relationships, direct response copywriting, content marketing, and having something worth selling. In their free online course, they elaborate on each one of these four pillars, providing actionable advice on how to market business online.