Bespoke digital marketing training courses

Get confident in digital

If you’re a marketing manager who’s struggling to spin many plates – we get it. That’s why we’ve created our bespoke training courses. Covering many marketing topics, we’ll teach you the skills you need to achieve your business goals and keep your stakeholders happy.

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Bespoke training for your marketing pain points

Maybe you’re struggling to make a profit on Google Ads, or feeling overwhelmed with Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and making sense of the data. Whatever your pain point, let’s turn your frustration into confidence!

Whether you’d like to be taught hands-on by our industry-leading experts, take part in a video course or read our Shoot the Hippo book – however you like to learn, we’ll help you achieve things you never thought possible. Choose a training programme to get started and join hundreds of happy marketing professionals today.

SEO training

Ask us about SEO training for you or your team. Depending on your prior knowledge and business needs we can tailor training to include things like: SEO basics, how search engines work, local SEO, international SEO, keyword research, SEO best practices, schema markup, and technical elements.

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PPC training

Our PPC in-house experts, Mick and Abdul, can provide training in how to set up, run, manage, and optimise a paid media account. They can teach you about bidding, budgeting, and using AI in your ads. They can also provide training on different platforms such as Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, and Microsoft/Bing ads.

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Content training

Content training is delivered by our in house content team, led by Kerry. Whether you want to know how to write landing page copy, blogs, articles, whitepapers, meta descriptions, or optimise your current copy for search engines, they can help. They’ll teach you how to do a copy teardown, how to map your keywords, and much more.

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Analytics training

Need help understanding Google Analytics 4? Our SEO team can train you on how to use all aspects of GA4, increasing your confidence and understanding of your data. We’ll show you where to find the most important data, how to set up tracking and reporting properly, and what you can do with your data.

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'Shoot the HiPPO' marketing textbook

Published in 2020, our digital marketing textbook teaches you how to shoot the highest paid person’s opinion with data. This book is all about how to use data to make the best marketing decisions, and has chapters on everything from technical SEO to project management, conversion rate optimisation to digital sustainability. It’s available in paperback and eBook.

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Footprint Digital Academy

Every year we run our award-winning, week long, free, marketing course for university students and recent graduates. There are 20 places each year, and students are interviewed beforehand. The goal of this Academy is to bridge the gap between academia and the real world of digital marketing, and get their careers off to a flying start.

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Online marketing course

We have combined the knowledge from our digital marketing book and the Footprint Academy to create this online course, available to buy and complete in your own time. It contains quizzes, interactive content, and downloads, as well as bitesize videos covering multiple marketing topics.

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Footprint Digital events

We love running our own events on topics that are important to our employees and the wider industry, as well as speaking at other organisations’ events, on podcasts, and panels. Take a look at our past and future events here.

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Partner knowledge sharing

We are so proud of the network of amazing partnerships we have built with other agencies and businesses, and we offer knowledge sharing sessions to our partners, where we teach their employees about an element of what we do, and they reciprocate.

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University guest lectures

We regularly guest lecture on marketing topics for undergraduate and postgraduate students at several universities. We do this to help close the knowledge gap between academia and the real world, and teach important concepts and skills that students will need in their marketing careers.

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