How to Find FREE Digital Marketing Courses To Help Your Career

Heather Larson
7 min readJun 20, 2021

Read this guide to FREE digital marketing courses before enrolling in any college’s expensive content marketing certification program.

I’ve been racking up career certifications this year and most of them were free or low-cost.

With the exception of my 14-hour certification from the University of South Florida Muma College of Business in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace — nearly all of my certifications are in digital marketing.

The only one that isn’t in marketing is still technically useful in the field — I completed a certification on Udemy in Google Workspace. Yes, that’s a super easy skillset to obtain and we all most likely learned the “Google Suite,” or what is now referred to as Google Workspace by using it. But when you’re a job seeker, every certification you can get is helpful.

(Most job ads I saw on LinkedIn listed this as a required skill).

The Career Pivot

I successfully pivoted this year from career broadcaster and journalist, having worked in radio and television, to working from home in digital marketing as a B2B social media content creator. It was a choice I’d worked years to…

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Heather Larson

Hi 👋 I’m Heather Larson! I’m data-driven content writer coming from traditional media. I’m a veteran broadcaster, radio personality, and journalist.