Resources on Advertising

User Personas

User personas are fictional characters that represent a brand's ideal customer. They are used in marketing to help businesses better understand and target their audience. By creating detailed profiles of these personas, businesses can tailor their messaging, product offerings, and overall marketing strategy to better appeal to their target customer.

Fundamentals of Digital Marketing

A free, self-paced online course offered by Google that covers various aspects of digital marketing, including SEO, SEM, display advertising, social media marketing, mobile marketing, email marketing, and analytics. The course is divided into 26 modules and is estimated to take approximately 40 hours to complete. Upon completion, participants receive a certificate from Google.

Get a Business Online

Google's free course in discovering what it takes to start and run a successful business online. You'll also learn how to build a digital presence, use e-commerce, keep a business safe from hackers, and get noticed locally.

Google Ads Certification

The Google Ads certification is a professional accreditation that Google offers to individuals who demonstrate proficiency in basic and advanced aspects of Google Ads. A Google Ads certification allows individuals to demonstrate that Google recognizes them as an expert in online advertising. You can earn the certification through Skillshop, Google's online training program.

Microsoft Advertising Certified Professional

You’re a business leader who stays ahead of the curve. Take that strategy even further with Microsoft Advertising certifications to demonstrate your digital advertising knowledge and skills.

How to Enhance and Protect Your Online Campaign

Whether you need help with managing your campaign's online presence or keeping its information safe, we have tools and resources to support you. In these videos, we explore how to use online platforms to reach and connect with your audience and how to measure and maintain a successful and safe campaign online.

Promote a Business With Online Advertising

We'll tell you how to create a successful advertising and marketing strategy, and explain how email marketing, video and display ads can help you reach and attract more of the right customers.

Reporting and Analytics for LinkedIn Ads

Are you struggling each time you face the numbers? Wondering how to base your decisions on metrics? This course is great if you’re new to LinkedIn reporting tools or you want to improve your campaign analytics skills with tips and best practices. The course's main goal is to help you get the most ROI for your ad spend.

Using LinkedIn's Ad Targeting

In this course, you'll learn how LinkedIn Targeting works — and how to get the most of it. You'll explore LinkedIn’s unique targeting and the important steps and best practices to tailor your ad targeting strategy for your LinkedIn campaign.

Introduction to LinkedIn Ads

This course can help you better understand LinkedIn Marketing Solutions’ paid products. When you're done, you'll be able to create an ad campaign using LinkedIn’s native targeting, measure your success in Campaign Manager, and optimize your advertising goals.

How to advertise on LinkedIn

Connect your brand with the world’s largest audience of active, influential professionals. These five steps demonstrate how to run a self-service ad campaign on LinkedIn using Sponsored Content, Message Ads, Dynamic Ads, and Text Ads.

Understand Customers Needs and Online Behaviors

With just some basic web analytics skills, businesses can easily measure how well their online marketing is working and get even better results. Start our free course to find out how you can easily measure your activity and understand customer needs and their online behaviours.

Make Sure Customers Find You Online

Start our free course to discover just some of the ways businesses can reach and connect with more customers online. Plus, learn how to improve your search engine performance (SEO), and use online advertising (SEM) to boost sales and awareness.

Introduction to Amazon Advertising

In this course, you learn about Amazon Advertising’s full range of ad solutions, including ad types and placements, and the campaign goals you can reach with Amazon.

The CRO Course: Win on Mobile

Get ready to win on mobile. Most companies get more visitors from mobile than desktop, but many mobile sites are still not optimized to perfection. The result is suffering conversion rates and missed revenue.

Meta Certified Media Buying Professional

Meta Certified Media Buying Professionals can optimize, report on and harness tools needed to activate ad campaigns with Meta.

Meta Marketing Developer Certification

Meta Certified Marketing Developers can implement marketing solutions using Business Manager, Meta Pixel, product catalogs and advanced matching.

Facebook Ads Library

The ad library provides advertising transparency by offering a comprehensive, searchable collection of all ads currently running from across Facebook apps and services, including Instagram.

LinkedIn Ads Guide

Find the format and specifications that fit your needs

Ogilvy on Advertising

"Ogilvy on Advertising" is a book written by David Ogilvy, published in 1983. The book is a collection of essays and articles written by Ogilvy, one of the most influential figures in the history of advertising.

Hooked

"Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" is a book written by Nir Eyal, published in 2014. Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

"Contagious: Why Things Catch On" is a book written by Jonah Berger, published in 2013. The book is a comprehensive guide to understanding why some ideas and products become popular and how to create content that is more likely to spread.

The Advertising Effect: How to Change Behaviour

"The Advertising Effect: How to Change Behaviour" is a book written by Adam Ferrier, published in 2015. The book is a comprehensive guide to the psychology of advertising and how it can be used to influence consumer behavior.

Hegarty on Advertising

"Hegarty on Advertising" is a book written by Sir John Hegarty, a renowned advertising executive and co-founder of Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), one of the world's most successful and influential advertising agencies.

Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: The Classic Guide to Creating Great Ads

"Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: The Classic Guide to Creating Great Ads" is a book written by Luke Sullivan, published in 2002. The book is a comprehensive guide to advertising, covering a wide range of topics including strategy, creative development, media planning, and execution.

How to Write a Good Advertisement

"How to Write a Good Advertisement" is a book written by Victor O. Schwab, published in 1952. The book is a practical guide for anyone looking to improve their advertising copywriting skills.

Scientific Advertising

"Scientific Advertising" is a book written by Claude C. Hopkins, published in 1923. The book is considered a classic in the field of advertising and has influenced the way advertising has been practiced for nearly a century.

My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising

"My Life in Advertising" and "Scientific Advertising" are two classic books written by Claude C. Hopkins, a pioneering advertiser and marketing expert. "My Life in Advertising" is a memoir that chronicles Hopkins' career in the advertising industry, including his successful campaigns for brands such as Quaker Oats and Gold Dust Washing Powder.