learning & certifications:
HubSpot Academy (digital marketing, social, seo, more!)
Grow your career and your business. Take your professional skills to the next level with free, online training from HubSpot Academy. From quick, practical courses to comprehensive certifications, learn everything you need to know about the most sought-after business skills.
SEMRUSH Academy (SEO, PPC, Social Media)
Learn SEO, PPC, social media, and content marketing from top-notch field experts, free! Get officially certified by a world-renowned company.
Neil Patel (SEO, ECOMMECE, SOCIAL, EMAIl, MORE!)
The Neil Patel “Unlocked” training series included videos, ebooks, guides, templates, and more to help you grow your online traffic. Learn how to unlock the potential of SEO, Ecommerce, Instagram, Youtube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and more for free.
Google Skillshop (google analytics, ads, waze, more!)
Master the Google tools you use at work with free online training. Develop skills you can apply right away, with e-learning courses designed by Google product experts. Learn at your own pace and get Google product certified.
Grow with google (all google products)
Grow stronger with Google. Free training, tools, and events to help you grow your skills, career, or business.
Google digital garage (digital marketing fundamentals, more!)
Learn the skills of the future. Accelerate your career or business with an online digital skills course in everything from marketing to coding and beyond.
Digital Main Street (digital transformation)
Digital Main Street is proud to offer a suite of industry-leading courses, created specifically for small business owners. These courses will allow you to explore Digital Transformation, strategies for Relaunching Your Business, and more. Each course is completely free and accessible, and built-in-bite-size clips so you can complete them at your own pace!
My Main Street (how to start or grow a main street business)
Learn how to support and grow your business with My Main Street. My Main Street has produced a variety of free online training resources to support your main street business. On-demand online courses include: How to Start a Main Street Business, and How to Grow a Main Street Business. Live and recorded mastermind and webinar session are also available.
Meta (Facebook) Blueprint (facebook, instagram, ads)
Discover online learning courses, training programs, and certifications that can help you get the most out of Meta (Facebook) marketing platforms.
WordStream PPC University (PPC, SOCIAL PPC)
PPC University is a free PPC (pay-per-click) marketing course brought to you from the PPC experts at WordStream, to help you learn PPC. From PPC 101 to Facebook PPC, Social PPC, and more, PPC University will help get your PPC performance on the honor roll!
SMall Business Centres (SBC) ontario (small business)
Free online small business courses for Ontario entrepreneurs! Our e-Learning sessions are mini-courses developed by SBC Ontario Expert Business Advisors - available to you anytime, anywhere. Learn business basics, start-up, and growth.
Shopify Compass (E-COMMERCE, SEO, EMAIl, social, More!)
Free online business training and development courses by the industry’s leading instructors worldwide. Gain fundamental training, new skills, or a crash course to run your e-commerce business effectively.
alison (marketing, it, business, sales & management, more!)
Free online courses with certificates & diplomas. Advance your career. Learn in-demand skills. Upskill in business analytics, health care, graphic design, management, digital marketing, and more.
digitaldefynd (marketing, Business, health, development, more!)
45,000+ free courses. Choose from thousands of free courses across domains and subjects of your choice. You can access programs from leading universities like Harvard, Stanford, MIT, as well as get to learn from the best minds from institutions like Google, IBM, and many others.
class central (it, development, design, marketing, more)
Discover free online courses from top universities, providers, and institutions like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Harvard, MIT, LinkedIn, and more!
Backlinko SEO Marketing Hub (SEO)
Whether you’re brand new to SEO, or want to learn advanced strategies, this is your hub for SEO knowledge.
UDemy (digital marketing)
Udemy is an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 130000 courses and 35 million students. Explore all the Udemy free digital marketing courses and tutorials taught by expert instructors.
amazon fba (ecommerce)
In these free courses learn proven and tested ways to launch, sell and grow a business with Amazon FBA (fulfillment by Amazon).
Click here to visit the free How To Build A Successful Profitable Amazon FBA Business course
Click here to visit the free Amazon FBA Course For Beginners (Private Label)
Click here to visit the free How to Sell on Amazon FBA Step by Step course
Click here to visit the free How to Sell on Amazon FBA For Beginners course
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