
Diploma in Digital Marketing
The deadline to apply for the 1st 2025 academic session is October 4th, 2025.
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Duration
12 months
Deadline:
October 4th, 2025
Location
100% Online
Study Type
Self-Paced
The Univad Diploma in Digital Marketing program is your ticket to becoming a digital marketing professional. In today's digital-driven world, businesses rely on digital strategies for growth. This program equips you with the knowledge and practical skills to navigate the dynamic landscape of digital marketing. From social media marketing to SEO and data analytics, you'll gain expertise in creating and executing successful digital campaigns. Step into the exciting world of online marketing with us and open doors to a wide range of career possibilities.
10 Things You Will Learn:
Social Media Marketing
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Pay-Per-Click Advertising
Email Marketing
Content Strategy
Data Analytics and Reporting
Digital Marketing Tools
Conversion Optimization
Online Branding
Marketing Strategy Development
Five Skills You Will Have:
Social Media Marketing
SEO and SEM
Email Marketing
Data Analytics
Content Marketing
Five Jobs for Each Skill:
Digital Marketing Manager
Social Media Manager
SEO Specialist
Email Marketing Specialist
Content Strategist
Salary Expectations and Demand: Digital marketing professionals are in high demand globally. Salaries can vary widely depending on experience and location, but average salaries range from $50,000 to $100,000 per year. Companies continue to invest in digital marketing to reach their target audience effectively.
Sample Certificate
Semester 1: Fundamentals of E-commerce and Digital Marketing
Intro Fundamentals of E-commerce and Digital Marketing
Welcome to Google's Digital Marketing Certificate
Reading: Program and Course 1 overview
Introduction to Course 1
Reading: Helpful resources to get started
Digital Marketing & E-commerce Cert glossary
Overview of program survey
Section test
Breakout Exercise: Meet and engage other students
What are digital marketing and e-commerce?
What's the role of digital marketing specialists?
Joi - Career Path To Digital Marketing
Transferable skills for digital marketing and e-co
Prisha - My path to working in digital marketing
Key skills for e-comm & digital marketers
Melba - My path to working in e-commerce
Andrew - My path to working in digital marketing
Launching your digital marketing or e-com career
Agency roles vs. in-house roles
Roles in e-comm & digital marketing
Zuri - A day as an entry-level digital marketer
Jebb - A day as an entry-level e-comm account mana
E-commerce, ecommerce, or eCommerce?
Career quiz: E-commerce & digital marketing
Discussion: Reflect on jobs that interest you
Wrap-up
Reading: Glossary terms from week 1
Quiz: Weekly challenge 1
Costumer journey and the marketing funnel
Welcome to week 2
How digital marketing and e-commerce create value
Advantages and challenges of digital marketing
Jen - Diversity in digital marketing
Reading: Inclusive marketing
Janice - Inclusive marketing
Xiomara - Inclusive marketing
Quiz: Benefits of e-commerce & digital marketing
The customer journey and journey maps
Reading: What is a touchpoint?
The marketing funnel
From trad. to digital marketing funnel
Test your knowledge: The marketing funnel
The top of the funnel: Awareness and consideration
Case study: How MERSEA structures its marketing
Measuring success at the top of the funnel
Test your knowledge: The marketing funnel
Discussion: Reflect on memorable campaigns
The bottom of the funnel: Conversion and loyalty
Measuring success at the bottom of the funnel
Test your knowledge: Drive sales and loyalty
The future of e-commerce
Discussion: Reflect on positive e-comm experiences
Wrap-up
Glossary terms from week 2
Weekly challenge 2
Digital Marketing and E-Commerce Strategy
Welcome to week 3
The value of brands for digital marketing
Reading: Brand safety
Discussion: Analyze a successful brand
Quiz: Brand value in digital marketing
The elements of a digital marketing strategy
Find your audience and understand your customers
Define your marketing goals
The difference between business and marketing goal
Reading: How to set SMART goals
Paid, owned, and earned media
Attract customers with search engine optimization
Reach customers with search engine marketing
Reading: Display advertising
Test your knowledge: Reach customers online
Introduction to social media and email marketing
Social media marketing basics
Choose the right platforms for target audience
Build relationships with email marketing
Reading: Types of email campaigns
Test your knowledge: Engage customers with social
Wrap-up
Glossary terms from week 3
Weekly challenge 3
Measure Performance Success
Welcome to week 4
Measure progress with performance marketing
Common metrics for success
Working with data
Data ethics
Test your knowledge: Measure marketing performance
Attribution models for digital marketing
Data storytelling basics
Story structure
Prepare for your job search
How to find job opportunities
Elle - Build confidence
Discussion: Explore your possibilities
Wrap-up
Glossary terms from week 4
Weekly challenge 4
Congrats! What’s coming in Course 2
Course 1 glossary
Discussion: Your learning journey
Reading: Get started on Course 2
Semester 2: Digital Marketing: Attracting, Engaging Customers
Introduction to Attracting and Engaging Customers
Introduction to Course 2
Course 2 overview
Reading: Helpful resources to get started
Discussion: Meet and greet
Welcome to week 1
Customer personas for your target audience
How to create a customer persona
Reading: Learn to create customer personas
Activity: Create two customer personas
Reading: Activity Exemplar: Create two customer pe
Test your knowledge: Create customer personas
Intro to the marketing funnel and its benefits
Strategies to introduce customers to a brand
Reading: How a business creates awareness
Case study: How Okabashi uses marketing strategies
Consideration: Strategies to build interest in you
Increasing business consideration as a marketer
Test your knowledge: Awareness and consideration
Boosting website conversion rate strategies
Boosting e-comm website conversion rate for market
Loyalty: Strategies to increase costumer loyalty
Increasing post-purchase customer loyalty
Experiences with brand loyalty
Test your knowledge: Conversion and loyalty
Wrap-up
Glossary terms from week 1
Weekly challenge 1
Understand search engine optimization
Welcome to week 2
How does the Google search engine work?
How Google determines website rankings
Breakdown of the Google search engine results page
Other popular search engines
Jake - The purpose and process of search algorithm
Test your knowledge: How search works
What is SEO and why is it important?
First steps before implementing SEO
Beginner SEO terms
Test your knowledge: The purpose of search engine
Keyword research and recommendations
Daniel - Steps and tips beginner digital marketer
Organize your website’s pages: Website structure
Site hierarchy best practices
Test your knowledge: Keyword research and website
Glossary terms from week 2
Weekly challenge 2
Apply search engine optimization (SEO)
Welcome to week 3
Optimize a website's content
Best practices for links and promoting a website
Optimize images for a website
Make your website mobile-friendly
Test your knowledge: Optimize a website's content
Craft effective titles and meta descriptions
Control title links and snippets
Activity: Improve webpage titles and meta descript
Activity Exemplar: Improve webpage titles and meta
Create structured data markup
Establish your business details on Google
Help Google (and users) understand your content
Introduction to Google Search Console
Google Search Console reports and metrics
Reading: Learn more about Google Search Console
More tools and reports in Google Search Console
Reading: Bing Webmaster Tools
Dave: My career path into SEO and SEM
Wrap-up
Reading: Glossary terms from week 3
Weekly challenge 3
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Display Advert
Welcome to week 4
Common SEM terms
Reading: Common SEM terms
Common SEM ad formats in Google Ads
Google Ads bid strategies
Ginny - SEM and how to attract customers
Test your knowledge: Understand SEM
How Google Ads works
Case study: How Studley's Flower Gardens uses Goog
Identify keywords and understand the ad auction
Best practices when creating a Google Ad in Search
Google Ads account structure and organization
Creating a Google Ad
Activity: Create an effective responsive search ad
Activity Exemplar: Create an effective responsive
Test your knowledge: Apply search engine marketing
Introduction to display advertising
How to optimize a responsive display ad
Advertise on YouTube
How to create a responsive display ad
Activity: Optimize responsive display ads
Activity Exemplar: Optimize responsive display ads
Wrap-up
Glossary terms from week 4
Course wrap-up
Course 2 glossary
Your learning journey
Get started on Course 3
Semester 3: Social Media Strategies: Engagements To Leads
About this Course
Identify the best platform for your business needs, create engaging content using graphic design principles, set goals and metrics for social media ads, and analyze social media data for decision-making. Get hands-on guidance from Google employees and gain skills to apply for entry-level jobs in digital marketing and e-commerce.
No experience is required.
By the end of this course, you will be able to do the following:
— Identify the five core pillars of social media marketing: strategy, planning and publishing, listening and engagement, analytics and reporting, and advertising
— Determine how to choose social media platforms for a campaign
— Understand how to boost engagement on social media
— Learn how to write, design, and repurpose engaging content for social media
— Recognize how to use the data gathered from social media analytics as a decision-making tool
— Learn best practices for presenting a social media report
— Achieve specific marketing goals through the use of paid social media
SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN
— Social Listening
—Social Media Bidding
—Customer Engagement
—Social Media Analytics
—Social Media Branding
Course Syllabus
Introduction
Introduction to Course 3
Reading: Course 3 overview
Reading: Helpful resources to get started
Discussion: Meet other students
Welcome to week 1
The benefits of social media marketing
Cindy - A day in the life of a product marketer
How do you respond to marketing on social media?
The five core pillars of social media marketing
Earned, owned, and paid social media
Test your knowledge: Understand social media
Survey: Test your knowledge: Understand social media
The social media marketing funnel
Wrap-up
Reading: Glossary terms from week 1
Weekly challenge 1
Social media strategy, planning, and publishing
Welcome to week 2
Define the goals of your social media strategy
Identify your social media target audience
Reading: Popular social media platforms
Reading: Set up professional social media profile
Choose social media platforms for your campaign
Build your brand identity on social media
Quiz: Create brand positioning statements
Survey: Quiz: Create brand positioning statements
Types of content on social media
How do different content reinforce a brand
Anna - Utilize media for social media marketing
Reading: How to acquire earned media
Case study: How Name Glo acquires earned media
Quiz: Social media marketing strategies
Survey: Quiz: Social media marketing strategies
Determine the frequency and timing of posts
Real-time marketing
Use a social media calendar
Create a social media calendar
Activity: Create a social media calendar
Survey: Activity: Create a social media calendar
Activity Exemplar: Create a social media calendar
Reading: Social media management tools
Reading: Compose and publish posts using Hootsuite
Activity: Use Hootsuite to create Tweet
Survey: Activity: Use Hootsuite to create Tweet
Activity Exemplar: Using Hootsuite for twitter
Quiz: : Plan and publish content
Survey: Quiz: : Plan and publish content
Wrap-up
Glossary terms from week 2
Weekly challenge 2
Survey: Weekly challenge 2
Listening and engagement on social media
Welcome to week 3
The importance of social listening
Social listening strategies
Case study: How EatMoveRest improves content
Reading: Popular social listening tools
Activity: Use social listening to gain insights
Survey: Activity: Use social listening to gain insights
Exemplar: Use social listening for insights
Test your knowledge: Social listening
Survey: Test your knowledge: Social listening
Social media engagement
How to use Youtube to grow your audience
Reading: Respond to social media users
Camille - Respond to social media comments
Activity: Respond to customer comments
Survey: Activity: Respond to customer comments
Activity Exemplar: Respond to customer comments
Increase your followers on Twitter
Discussion: Social media engagement
Reading: Influencer marketing
Social marketing on mobile
Quiz: Engage customers
Survey: Quiz: Engage customers
Write for social media
Develop your brand voice on social media
Case study: How BLK & Bold found its brand voice
Reading: Design engaging content for social media
Reading: Make social media posts accessible
What is Canva?
Assignment: Activity: Design a social media post
Repurpose content on social media
Catherine - Engage a social media audience through
Quiz: Compose engaging content
Survey: Quiz: Compose engaging content
Wrap-up
Glossary terms from week 3
Weekly challenge 3
Survey: Weekly challenge 3
Social media analytics and reporting
Welcome to week 4
Understand social media analytics
Metrics to track with social media analytics
Reading: Popular social media analytics tools
Social testing
Use social media data to drive marketing strategy
Jon - How data and social media analytics informs
Activity: Analyze social media performance
Activity: Analyze social media performance
Activity Exemplar: Analyze social media performanc
Quiz: Social media analytics
Quiz: Social media analytics
Understand social media reports
Social media reports
Activity: Report on social media performance
Activity: Report on social media performance
Activity Exemplar: Report on social media performa
Present a social media report
Quiz: Social media marketing report
Quiz: Social media marketing report
Wrap-up
Glossary terms from week 4
Weekly challenge 4
Paid social media
Welcome to week 5
Benefits of paid social media
Integrate paid social media into your strategy
Quiz: Paid ads on social media
Quiz: Paid ads on social media
Develop a paid social media strategy
Reading: Ad formats on social media
Choose social media platforms for your ads
Remarketing on social media
Reading: Create an effective call to action
Activity: Develop a social media ad campaign
Activity: Develop a social media ad campaign100
Activity Exemplar: Develop a social media ad
Quiz: Target your social advertising
Quiz: Target your social advertising
Components of a paid social media budget
The cost of advertising on social media
Reading: Social media ad bidding
Sabrina - Conflict resolution and critic response
Quiz: Manage a social advertising budget
Quiz: Manage a social advertising budget
Wrap-up
Glossary terms from week 5
Weekly challenge 5
Course wrap-up
Course 3 glossary
Discussion: Your learning journey
Semester 4: Email Marketing
About this Course
This course will explore how to execute a successful email marketing campaign. Email marketing is one of the oldest and most proven digital marketing channels, and it is an essential component of an overall digital marketing strategy. Email is a primary channel for many businesses in reaching existing customers, encouraging interaction with the business, driving purchases, and building loyalty.
In this course, you’ll explore email marketing and cover topics like: creating an email marketing strategy, executing email campaigns, and measuring the results of those campaigns. You’ll also learn how to use mailing lists and utilize automation and workflows. Google employees who currently work in the field will guide you, providing hands-on activities and examples that simulate common digital marketing and e-commerce tasks while showing you some of the best tools and resources used on the job. Learners who complete the seven courses in this program will be equipped to apply for entry-level jobs in digital marketing and e-commerce.
No previous experience is necessary.
What you'll learn
— Understand how email marketing fits into a digital marketing strategy
— Write effective email copy, subject lines, and preview text
— Test, execute, and optimize an email marketing campaign
— Measure and analyze email campaign results
Skills you'll gain
— Email marketing analytics
— Email Writing
— Contact management
— Email marketing strategy
— Email list segmentation
Course Syllabus
Introduction to TOTI: Email marketing
Introduction to Course 4
Reading: Course 4 overview
Reading: Helpful resources to get started
Discussion Prompt: Meet and greet
Welcome to module 1
What is email marketing?
Taylor - Entry-level email marketing jobs and tasks
Miriam - Imposter syndrome
Practice Quiz: Think about your subscribed email lists.
Conduct PESTLE and SWOT audits
Reading: Learn more about conducting PESTLE and SWOT audits
Set SMART goals
Reading: Create an email marketing strategy
Practice Quiz: PESTLE, SWOT, and setting SMART goals
The do's and don'ts of email marketing
Aaron - Do's and don’ts for email marketing
Reading: Ethical email language
Discussion Prompt: What is your event with email marketing
Wrap-up
Reading: Glossary terms from module 1
Types of email marketing
Welcome to module 2
Types of email marketing: Acquisition emails
Types of email marketing: Welcome emails
Practice Quiz: Test your knowledge: Types of emails
Types of email marketing: Newsletters
Reading: Craft catchy newsletter copy
Types of email marketing: Promotional emails
Practice Quiz: Newsletters and promotional emails
Types of email marketing: Retention emails
Reading: Create accessible emails
Reading: Spamming: When not to send emails
Practice Quiz:: Test your knowledge: Retention emails
Wrap-up
Reading: Glossary terms from module 2
Useful tools for email marketing
Welcome to module 3
Build your mailing list
Segment your mailing list
Reading: Segment lists using Constant Contact
Write effective emails
Reading: More tips on writing effective emails
Helpful tools for effective email marketing
How to choose an email marketing tool
Reading: Send emails in HubSpot
Reading: Activity Exemplar: Create an email in HubSpot
Reading: Send emails in Mailchimp
Reading: Exemplar: Optional - Set up a Mailchimp campaign
Discussion Prompt: Which tools do you know or want to learn?
Mistakes in email marketing
Reading: How to fix email marketing mistakes
Practice Quiz: Email marketing tools and mistakes
Wrap-up
Reading: Glossary terms from module 3
Collect and analyze email campaign data
Run your own email marketing campaign
The next application deadlines are:
Priority Deadline: August 30, 2024
Final Deadline: September 10, 2024
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