Join The Digital Marketing School

The ideal digital marketing programme for Irish businesses

Over 12 months you can transform your digital marketing, keep ahead of competitors and increase your sales. You will get…

✅1) A downloadable digital marketing plan that shows you step-by-step how to approach digital marketing to increase your sales

✅ 2) Instant access to 20 of our latest digital marketing courses so you can learn to master the key skills such as AI, SEO, video editing etc. at your own pace, any time that suits you.

✅ 3) 12 live training courses over Zoom – one each month for 12 months. These cover very popular topics and recent big changes on AI or social media platforms.   Attend and ask questions or watch a recording if you can’t make the session.

✅ 4) Evan’s 60 digital marketing prompts for AI – download 60 prompts you can use in Chat GPT or Gemini that will totally transform your digital marketing

You can join at any time of the year and you will receive those 4 things. Over 20,000 Irish businesses have attended the courses Evan delivers for 12 Local Enterprise Offices so you can trust the advice you will receive.

Watch a quick overview of the Digital Marketing School 

 

Can You Join the Digital Marketing School Anytime?

Yes.  People can join at any time during the year and new members join every month.  When someone joins they simply focus on the topics that are of interest to them and their business and they watch the courses at a pace and time that suits them.  One person might want to learn all about AI but another member might really want to focus on SEO.  Everything they need is on the members’ website and in the monthly Live Zoom sessions.

1. You get a Step by Step Digital Marketing plan

✅ Digital marketing can seem very complicated. This 6-step digital marketing plan simplifies digital marketing for members of the school. It helps you understand how the main areas of digital marketing fit together and explains step-by-step what you need to do.

✅ This plan is available as a download that you can print out and also an online course that you can watch at any time that suits you.

2. You can watch any of Evan's latest Digital Marketing courses that show you what to do to master each area of Digital Marketing

✅ Want to implement each area of your Digital Marketing Plan? There are courses that show you exactly what to do

✅ Or if you just want to improve your AI, SEO or video editing skills, you can watch the courses to transform your skills

✅ Watch these courses on our members only website at your own pace, as many times as you want, at any time that you want.

✅ Download very detailed notes for each course (approx 60 pages per course)

Want more detail about each course? Simply click on a training course below to see what is covered on the course

A step-by-step Digital Marketing Plan for your business in 2025

AI: Your AI toolbox for digital marketing

Key Sections of the course

If there is a specific section you would like to catch up on here are the timings within the video.

 

:00 Welcome and what we will cover

 

2:10 AI tools for planning and analysing

  • 3:05 You can get creative answers (Brainstorm, write, create a plans etc)
  • 3: 50 You can now get creative answers far more tailored to you (For Free)  by creating projects in Gemini (Gems). These include custom instructions and you can add files.
  • 8:35 Get up to date answers using AI search
  • 10:20 Get a deep research report on your industry including trends, pricing strategies, competitor analysis and recommendation on what you should be focusing on over the next 12 months (Gemini deep research)
  • 14:55 Get a highly detailed DM plan totally tailored to your business and your budget (Gemini Flash thinking experimental)

 

The Big Picture

  • 18:55 How to visualise when to use Chat GPT or Gemini Vs Deep research Vs Advanced reasoning Vs GPT search or Perplexity in your digital marketing. They are each brilliant at helping you with different areas of digital marketing.
  • 25:16 – A quick demo of Canvas within Gemini

 

Tools for analysing web pages or Youtube videos

  • 28:02 Analyse any webpage you are on using AI (Harpa)
  • 30:38 Get an AI agent to check other sites and notify you if there is a price change or offer change (Harpa)
  • 35:14 Get a summary and transcript for any YouTube video you don’t have time to watch (That Needle Gist)

 

AI Image Tools

  • 38:05 Create images by describing them – best free tool is now Gemini
  • 40:10 – Where this technology is going – you will be able to descrive the edits you want to make in your image and the Ai will edit your image
  • 43:00 Create images by describing them and then add an image that will act as the style –  Canva Dream Lab
  • 46:25 Go to Midjourney.com to see what prompts people used when creating images – it’s a good way to learn about prompts
  • 48:35 Four  very useful sites that have lots of AI image tools
  • 51:47 – Can you specify a location when asking dreamlab for an image
  • 53:50 Create a text graphic – Canva dream lab
  • 56:30 Create a text graphic using  Ideogram.ai
  • 59:50 How to correct misspellings in the graphics and AI creates
  • 1:05:10 Old photo restoration – CapCut desktop
  • 1:08:54 Remove the background from an image
  • 1:11:14 Remove the background from multiple images at once using Pixlr
  • 1:13:11 Erase something / someone from an image
  • 1:14:10 How to increase the resolution of an image – if you get a low res version from a free tool

 

AI Video Tools

  • 1:16:11 Create a video by attaching a product image  and create a video by describing what you want – Sora
  • 1:23: 05 One extra thing  – you can turn a deep research report in Gemini into an Ai podcast
  • 1:26:31 Create product videos simply by providing a url – CapCut desktop
  • 1:32:46 Increase the resolution of your video – CapCut desktop

AI: How to use Chat GPT (free version) to improve your digital marketing

Key Sections of the course

If there is a specific section you would like to catch up on here are the timings within the video.

 

 

0:00 What is Chat GPT

2:00 Examples of how to use Chat GPT for everyday things

7:40 Context – When did Chat GPT launch and who is behind it?

10:55 Free versus paid version

12:15 Six prompts you should use to get the most out of an AI tool like Chat GPT

  • 14:20 Teach me
  • 18:35 Act like an expert
  • 23:20 What does the popup – “You have hit the free limit” mean?
  • 25:50 Brainstorm
  • 30:40 Summarise
  • 33:16 Write and How to get Chat GPT to write like me
  • 39:35 Converse

41:50 My view on how you should use the text that the AI writes for you

43:41 What you need to know about copyright

47:33 Memory – What you need to know about the memory feature

50:35 How to protect your privacy when using Chat GPT

54:50 How to tailor it to you using Custom Instructions

1:04:40 Chat GPT isn’t 100% accurate. It can hallucinate

1:05:50 How to use it for creating content for your website & how to use a Chat GPT detector

1:14:44 How to use Search GPT which is like perplexity.ai

1:31:55 Mobile app – how to use Chat GPT on your phone, including how to speak your prompts

AI: How to use Chat GPT (Paid version) including all the new features such as Sora (text to video)

Key Sections of the course

If there is a specific section you would like to catch up on here are the timings within the video.

 

0:00 Welcome

0:30  Attach images – and how to use this for your marketing

06:16  Attach files – and how you can use this

08:50 Enhanced voice on mobile app and desktop

11:50 Enhanced voice with video (it can see though your video camera)

18:15  Image creation – How to create images by describing them

20:37  Custom GPTs – what are they and how to create one for your digital marketing

26:45 Scheduled tasks

30:18 Deep research

34:00 Projects

38:50 Sora – how to create videos based on text and image prompts

AI: How to use Google Gemini and Microsoft CoPilot

0:00 Welcome

0:40 Context – how does Google  Gemini and Microsoft CoPilot fit within the bigger scheme of things

4:40 Gemini – demonstration of how it works

20:15 Useful chart – how Gemini compares to Chat GPT

24:45 Micosoft CoPilot – demonstration of how it works

37:18 Useful chart – how Gemini compares to Chat GPT

AI for SEO: How to use Chat GPT and Gemini to improve your SEO

0:00 Welcome and what we will cover

4:05 Recap on some SEO fundamentals – what is involved?

17:30  How to get an SEO plan tailored to your business and website

22:34  Keyword research

  • How to use Chat GPT or Gemini for Keyword research

47:01  Tagging and draft content

  • Prompts you can use to write Meta titles and descriptions – an OK way and a much better way.
  • 1:01:44 Prompts you can use to write headlines focused on your main search term.
  • 1:02:58 Prompts you can use to write draft text for sales pages
  • 1:08:24 Prompts you can use to write image alt tags and descriptions

1:17:39 Blog post / Article ideas

  • Generate a list of blog posts / articles based on common questions people ask

1:32:29 Backlinks

  • How to generate ideas for backlinks tailored to your business
  • How to then use an AI tool to drill deeper into each idea.

AI search engines - How to get found high up in perplexity, GPT search and Google SGE

0:00 Welcome and what we will cover

3:45 Poll question – Do you use Perplexity?

 

Perplexity.ai

  • 5:10 What is Perplexity
  • 6:00 How to use it – examples of personal and Digital marketing searches
  • 14:40 How to use it – explanation of the menu structure and how it works
  • 20:02 How image attachment works
  • 22:00 What is in the Pro version and do you need it?
  • 25:45 They have introduced deep research. How does it work?
  • 34:10 Important privacy and customisation settings
  • 37:35 How does Perplexity get it’s answers
  • 42:18 What ways can you get found in perplexity
  • 51:37 What should you do to get found

Search GPT on Chat GPT

  • 1:08:20 What is Search GPT & how to use it
  • 1:11:00 What ways can you get found in Search GPT
  • 1:13:25 What should you do to get found

Google Gemini

  • 1:14:00 It now has a search GPT that it just launched in February 2025. How does it work?

Google SGE / AI Overviews

  • 1:20:40 What is Google SGE / AI overviews
  • 1:30:40 What are the implications for SEO

 

How to advertise on Facebook & Instagram Level 1

You will be able to watch video lessons on the following topics:

Introduction to Facebook & Instagram ads

The difference between boost post and the Ad creation tool

How to target people geographically

How to target based on demographics

How to target based on behaviours

How to target based on interests

How to target your page followers

How to target by language

How to combine audiences when targeting

How to save an audience

Overview of how retargeting works

How to create a custom audience based on your website visitors

How to add the Facebook pixel to your website

How to select your retargeting audience when running a campaign

What is a lookalike audience?

How to create a Lookalike audience based on your website visitors

How to create a lookalike audience based on your Facebook page followers

How to create a custom audience based on engagement with your Facebook page

How to design eye catching Facebook ads

What you cannot put in an ad

3 ways to use the Facebook ads library for your campaigns

Understand how a campaign is structured

Why it’s best to target warm audiences first

How to watch videos of your website visitors after they click on your ad

How to run the ad campaign from start to finish

How to use Instagram for Marketing

Part 1: How to use Instagram for marketing

Introduction and overview

Poll – What % have switched to a biz or creator Ac

How to setup your profile correctly from a marketing point of view

How to create a second account or practice account

How to switch to a Business or Creator account

How to make a practice account private

How to protect your account from hackers

How to connect to your Facebook business page

Overview of the secondary menu

How Instagram shopping works

Why Instagram Reels are so important

How to create a Reel

Examples of Reels by Irish businesses

How to use Reel templates

How to find examples of relevant Reels

How to search and get found in search results

 

Part 2:

Welcome and introduction

About the Feed – Like comment share and save

The Algorithm, new feeds and big changes coming

How to post an image, add hashtags, Tag accounts

How to post videos plus changes coming

How to post Carousels and why you should

How to schedule

How to post to Instagram from your PC or laptop

How to create Instagram Stories

How to schedule your Stories

How to create Story highlights

How to get more reach including reach stats

How to check your reach for posts stories & Reels

How collaborator posts work

How to use TikTok for Marketing

Step 1: Understand How Tik Tok Works

Welcome and introduction

Poll results – how many of you use Tiktok and also make Reels

An overview of the main areas in the app – The For You Page, Friends, Create, Inbox, Profile

How does a typical person use TikTok?

How does Tik Tok compare to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter when using it as a person?

 

Step 2: Getting started as a business

How to signup for a TikTok Account

How to edit and brand your profile correctly

Some key settings such as privacy

The difference between personal and business accounts and should you switch?

Can you add a clickable website link to your profile?

How to turn on “Analytics” and why you should do this straight away

How the Algorithm works in the For You Page

How to search and get found

How does Tiktok compare to Facebook and Instagram as a marketing tool

 

Step 3: Understand what type of videos are created on TikTok

What type of videos do People tend to make

What type of videos do Businesses tend to make

 

Step 4: How to make and post videos

How to make a video with video clips, music and text

How to make a video with someone speaking to camera

 

Step 5: How to get more views for your videos

Tactics for getting into the For You Page and getting discovered.

 

Step 6: Is Tiktok for you? And how could you grow your followers?

How to weigh up whether TikTok is a suitable marketing tool for you

Tips for growing your TikTok followers

How to use YouTube for marketing

0:00 Welcome and what we will cover

4:38   What are the different ways a business can use  YouTube for marketing

  • Use it to host promotional videos or use it to grow an audience and sales

 

14:52  How to setup your YouTube Channel

  • Essential settings and configurations
  • Branding your channel (profile picture, banner, descriptions, etc.)

25:45  Understand the different areas videos appear on YouTube

  • Landscape videos – Search, recommended for you, recently watched
  • Shorts – search and feed

 

37:00  Understanding YouTube’s “Algorithm”

  • How YouTube’s search and discovery systems works
  • Importance of watch time, engagement, and relevance

 

52:28  What type of content could you / should you create?

  • Identifying your target audience and content niche
  • Types of content that work best on YouTube (tutorials, vlogs, product reviews, etc.)

 

1:14:35  YouTube videos – How to upload your video

 

1:26:35 Tips for increasing views: More views = more search / recommendation reach = more subscribers = more views etc.

  • Keyword research for YouTube
  • SEO for videos (titles, descriptions, tags)
  • Using thumbnails and closed captions effectively
  • Using polls, cards, and end screens for engagement
  • Cross promoting video email, your website, social media

1:45:44  Shorts –  How to upload shorts

1:53:00  Tips for driving traffic and growing your email list

2:00:00  Analytics and Performance Tracking

How to use LinkedIn for Marketing

0:50 Overview of all the main sections on LinkedIn and how they fit together

  • Your profile, Your Network,  Feed, Groups, Pages, Search, Ads

 

19:45 How to use LinkedIn for marketing – a 4-step approach

21:03 Step 1 – Optimise your profile – how to create an excellent LinkedIn profile Important privacy settings you should be aware of such as How to prevent people knowing that you checked their profile How to ensure your connections are not told when you update things on your profile How to choose what strangers are shown when they see your profile   26:55 Best practice tips for completing the key sections of your profile

  • Be laser focused on what 1-2 key products or services you want to promote
  • Brand your profile with a cover and image
  • The importance of your headline and what to include
  • Add a prominent link driving people to one of your key product/ service pages
  • Add links to your key products / services in the featured section
  • Add links to your key products / services in your services page
  • How to approach the about section and the employment sections
  • How to approach getting Recommendations  / Testimonials

 

43:20  Step 2 –  Grow your connections and network

  • Why you benefit from a larger network
  • Tactics for growing your connections and network

 

57:05 Step 3. Increase awareness of your business on LinkedIn

  • Best practice for posting on LinkedIn (image and video posts
  • How hashtags help you
  • How to create a Carousel post using Canva
  • How to create and post and article
  • How to create and post a newsletter
  • How to create an audio event and how you benefit from these
  • How to create a live event
  • What are Company pages and why create one
  • How to create a company page and how to grow your followers
  • SEO – what you need to do to get your profile, content and page found high up in search results.

 

1:48:50 Step 4. Generate leads and sales

  • Free / Organic tactics
  • How to boost a post in order to advertise on LinkedIn
  • What is the difference between Boost post and the Ads Tool. How does the ad tool work?

 

2:05:31 What is in the premium version of LinkedIn and do you need it?

 

2:08:00 Recap: What type of a marketing tool is LinkedIn?

Canva Level 1: How to use Canva to design eye catching marketing graphics

Welcome and overview of what we will cover

Exercise 1:

How to choose a canvas size

How to add your image, logo and text

How to match the text colour to your brand colour

How to add effects to your text

 

Exercise 2:

How to create a colour background, including how to match to your brand colours

How to graduate the colours in the background (add a gradient)

How to add transparent images to your background

How to add text within a shape or container

How to animate the text, including multiple text blocks

 

Exercise 3:

How to design a portrait graphic for Stories or IGTV  / Reels covers

How to add pre-formatted / grouped text

 

 Exercise 4:

How to design a video thumbnail

How to add text into multiple background shapes with various colours

How to add a keyline white border around a person or object

 

Exercise 5:

How to add graphics / illustrations – including animated graphics

How to add multiple pages to your design in order to create a video

 

Exercise 6:

What are frames

How to add images to frames

How to animate the images and text in order to make a video

 

Exercise 7:

How to add a landscape or portrait video to a frame

 

Exercise 8:

How to add a video to a square or portrait canvas

How to add text that appears above and below the video throughout.

Canva AI tools

0:00 Welcome and what we will cover

1:50 Poll – Do you use Canva?

4:50 Poll – Do you have the Pro or Free version of Canva?

4:30 Canva’s AI features

5:50 Magic design for images – upload an image and it will auto populate templates

9:40 Magic design for videos – Upload 3+ videos / images and Canva will generate a video

23:09 Magic grab – isolate and move anything within an image

25:41 Magic media – Text to image generator

34:40 Magic Media – Text to video generator

38:30 Grab text – isolate and manipulate any text that is in an image

43:05 Magic expand – ask Canva to recreate parts of an image to make it wider or taller

49:14 Magic edit – Highlight part of an image and type what you want to replace it with

51:42 Magic eraser – Highlight people or objects in an image and it will erase it

54:46 Magic write – generate initial drafts of text and alternative copy options

57:51 Magic morph – use AI to turn graphic and text elements into something more eye catching

1:01:50 Magic switch – an upgrade to the resize feature for Pro users

 

Other new features

1:06:38 How to easily upload images / videos from your phone

1:10:58 How to use the new Canva Assistant

1:13:54 How to use the new Modal image editor

1:17:36 How to use the new colour gradient tool

1:20:40 How to use the photo outline feature

1:22:30 How to use the new layers feature

1:23:41 Overview of the new Apps area and what you need to know about apps

  • Demo of the new Mockups app
  • Demo of the translate app
  • Demo of Instagram app

Canva Apps - How to use apps from the Canva App store

0:00 Welcome and what we will cover

 

Canva “Glowed up” – What is in the new layout of Canva

2:35 Updates to the design and layout

9:30 Improvements to the magic grab app

11:25 The new Blend app – blend one image into another

 

Canva apps you should know about and try

15:50 What are Canva apps and 2 ways to find apps

 

Image & Video related apps

18:10 Import image from a webpage app

23:00 Speed painter app – turn an image into a video of a hand painting the image

25:54 Image animating app – turn an image into a video.  Ideal for product videos

29:35 Pixel Enhance app – make pixellated images much sharper looking

32:10 Coloriz App – turn B& W images into colour images

33:50 Easy Reflections app – add a high quality reflection to your images

42:33 Transform Image – present your images at an angle

47:00 Image to frame app – create your own frame design based on an image

51:48 Update to Mockups app  – add your image into a bus shelter sign, t shirt, mug etc.

55:26 Video mockups – add your image into a predesigned video

57:44 Claymify – turn an image of a person or anything  into a claymotion image (like Wallace & Gromit)

1:00:28 Brand fetch app – find logos for most companies in order to put them into a design

1:03:40 How to search or and find lots of other apps

 

Text and Font related apps

1:05:12 Font frame app – insert an image into your text

1:10:20 Type gradient app – add gradient colours to your text

1:13:40 Text maker app – Choose form hundreds of professional  font combination and easily manipulate them

1:17:05 Type craft – manipulate your text by dragging any area of it

 

New Video editing features in Canva

1:20:15 Highlights – An AI will scan your video and identify the best bits so you can create a highlights video

1:23:30 Trim – an AI will suggest which bit should be trimmed out of your video

1:24:35 enhance Voice – The AI “will enhance your voice if you don’t have a mic” (I don’t  think this works very well and I show you why I think that)

Video Marketing: Canva video editing - How to edit marketing videos using Canva

Welcome and what we will cover

2 ways to create a video in Canva and when you should use each

What resources can you put in your videos and where you find them in Canva?

Demo 1 – A video using 1 clip, add text, music  and your logo

This demo shows you all the main video editing options. Watch this demo if  you are new to Canva video editing.

Demo 2 – A video made up of multiple clips,  add  text, music and graphics / effects

This demo shows you some additional techniques and workarounds

Demo 3 – A video where someone is speaking and you want to add footage, music, text

Reasons to use Canva to edit videos rather than Filmora or Inshot

Areas where Canva is not as good as Filmora or Inshot

How to record your screen using Canva

Video marketing : How to edit videos on your phone using CapCut App

You will be able to watch video lessons on the following topics:

 

Welcome and what we will cover

Polls – Have you previously attended a video editing course & have you used Capcut

About the app

  • How to get it? How does it compare to Inshot?
  • What is the difference between the free and Pro version?

Overview of the main navigation

  • Where to find all the main features in the start screen
  • How to get started editing a video
  • Overview of the menu in the editor

Demo 1 : How to edit a video (multiple clips plus voiceover)

  • How to add multiple video clips and cut out the parts you don’t want
  • Remove the Capcut logo at the end
  • Adjust the volume in the video clips
  • Add a voiceover
  • How to add music – overview of all the main music options
  • How to export the final video

Demo 2: How to edit a video where someone is speaking to camera

  • How to cut out parts of the clip where someone is speaking
  • How to overlay footage
  • How to add music and adjust the volume

 

Extra features that will improve your videos

How to change a portrait video (9:16)  to landscape (16:9) – including “autoframe”

How to permanently remove the capcut logo

How to add text and very eye catching text using text templates

How to add a sound effect when your text appears / disappears

How to add captions using very eye catching effects

How to add bilingual captions

How to add transitions between clips

How to have captions appear only in parts of your video

You can overlay their free stock videos as footage on your video

How to add  some zoom using keyframes

How to add jumpcuts to your video

You can draw on your video (to circle or point to something)

You can remove the background of your video

You can retouch (improve the look) of  the person  speaking

You can add effects to the person speaking

How to create a free  Brand Kit that you can use

Try video templates

Try the free teleprompter

Try video montage

Video marketing : How to edit videos on your desktop using Capcut

0:00 Welcome and what we will cover

 There are 2 desktop versions

3:00 What is the difference and which should you use and when?

6:20 Overview of the software downloadable editor

7:15 Overview of the online web based editor – this course shows you the web based editor

 

 Overview of the main Navigation

10:50 Overview of the start screen and the main options

13:55 Overview of the editor area

15:33 How to get started editing a video

 

Demonstration of all the features within the editor

15:50 You can edit simply by deleting words from a transcript of the video

19:50 Elements – Use their stock video / image library

20:26 – How to use the stock music library

22:42 How to add text to the video

25:00 How to add captions including translations

30:02 How to easily remove “filler words “ such as ehm  or ahm

30:19 How to add effects on top of your video eg. Snow or confetti

33:00 How to add transitions in between clips

36:36 Select your logo from the brand kit and how to add your logo to the video

38:42 How to reverse a clip

39:40 How to crop out part of your video

40:10 How to flip your video if you shot it in selfie mode on your camera

40:50 How to freeze frame – so you have an image of what is on the playback screen

41:40 How to quickly split one long video into different clips for each scene

43:20 How to add a voiceover on top of your video

46:50 How to overlay footage on top of your video and 2 ways to do it

48:25 How to make a clip fill the screen using Fill

49:05 How to add someone speaking an as overlay in the corner of a video

51:41 How to “photoshop” a person in the video using Retouch

52:48 How to remove the background from a video (to isolate a person or product)

54:25 How to adjust the volume in your video

55:20 How to animate the start and end of a video clip to make it more eye catching

56:08 How to adjust the speed of a clip (slow motion or faster)

 

56:50 How to edit a video where someone is speaking to camera

 

1:10:30 Extra features that will improve your videos

1:10:50   How to upload videos from your phone into the desktop area

1:15:40 Your Space area – allows you to manage files and synch your content with the mobile app

1:19:40 The video templates area

1:31:00 The AI tools area

1:31:30 Remove background tool

1:32:37 Text to speech tool – create a voiceover for your video

1:43:00 Voice changer tool – change a persons voice in a video

1:36:02 Long video to shorts – the AI will create short videos out of a long one

1:37:35 One click video creation – provide a web address for your product and it will create lots of marketing videos about that product

 

1:43:50 Extra tip: How to use Capcut as a screen recorder

 

Website marketing: How to generate more enquiries and sales (using AI tools)

0:00 Welcome

1:10  A marketing framework that you should follow

 

8:24 Middle of the funnel: Increase engagement

12:19 Don’t immediately scare or frustrate

  • Ensure you have an SSL cert
  • Ensure the page loads quickly – how to check

16:15 Immediately resonate

  • Write compelling headlines that quickly engage visitors who land and how to use AI for this
  • Bullet point key features / benefits – and how to use AA for this
  • Embed Videos that will engage visitors – How to use Ai for ideas

27:51 Build credibility & Trust

  • Highlight any media coverage you have received.
  • Use statistics for number of customers, years in business etc.
  • Highlight blog posts on key pages to engage and build trust

31:19 Encourage Browsing

  • Have image and text links to tempt visitors to browse around
  • Make it easy for visitors to find what they want – Have a simple navigation
  • Make it easy for visitors to find what they want  Have site search

33:00 Research how you compare with competitors and continually refine your site

37:30 Measure whether people are engaging or not

40:00 Bottom of the funnel: Tactics to increase conversions

42:14 Entice visitors to purchase or enquire

  • Test different offers – how to use AI to generate ideas
  • Psychology – use limited time offers
  • Psychology – use a countdown timer for your offers and a tool you can use
  • Psychology – scarcity can increase conversions and how Ai can help with ideas

51:26  Reassure them that they are making a good decision

  • Aim to get visitors to read testimonials – ways to best present testimonials
  • Explain what makes you different – and how AI can help with this
  • Consider offering  a satisfaction guarantee
  • Consider offering a money back guarantee – and how AI can help with ideas
  • Ensure returns policy is better than competitors
  • Create product / service videos that will convert visitors

1:17:33  Encourage Action right now

  • Ensure you have call to action buttons on all key pages
  • Add  Request a Call back buttons (if offering a srvice)
  • Optimise your enquiry forms

1:21:40 Try to convert the 97% again in the future

  • Send cart abandonment emails
  • Encourage visitors to signup for your newsletter
  • Encourage visitors to download lead magnet
  • Encourage visitors to Follow you on social media

1:28:00 Research and refine

  • Compare what your competitors are doing to convert visitors
  • Talk to your customers – ask them why they purchased

Google Ads - How to advertise in Google search results

You will be able to watch video lessons on the following topics:

Welcome & what we will cover

 

1) Understanding Google Ads

Introduction to Google Ads – The basics of how Google Search ads work

 

2)  Plan your campaign

Understand how Google Ad campaigns are structured

Understand how Google chooses the best ads – Quality score

Now – Plan out your campaign , Adgroups and keywords for each campaign

Research and choose the keywords you are targeting using Keyword Planner Tool

 

3) Setup your account and create your first campaign on the search network

Create your account – and how to bypass Google forcing you to create a campaign straight away.

Set up your billing details

Step 1: Create your first campaign & adgroup –

Step 2: Add campaign settings (Location, Language, Bidding type)

Step 3: Add your keywords and Choose your Match type

Step 4: Write Up to 15 headlines for your ads

Step 5: Write up to 4 descriptions for your ads

Step 6: Add extensions eg. Sitelinks and Call Outs

Step 7: Set your daily budget and publish your campaign

 

 

4) Managing your campaign

Make a copy of an adgroup to quickly add more to your campaign

Add negative keywords

Monitor your campaign performance

Recap – What are the main pitfalls to avoid

How to get Google’s €400 credit to run ad campaigns

SEO - How to get your site found high up in Google search results

You will be able to watch video lessons on the following topics:

An overview of SEO – how it works

How to go about doing keyword research

How to do Keyword research using Google Suggest

How to do Keyword research by looking at competitors websites

How to do keyword research  using Keyword Planner tool

How to do keyword research  using Answer the Public

How to choose a final list of Keywords / search terms

Overview of onsite optimisation

How to create a meta titles and description working document

How to update your page meta titles in wordpress

How to update a page meta description

How to tag your images

Overview of technical optimisation of your website

How to test whether Google sees your site as mobile friendly

Why you should add internal links

Why you should ensure there is no canonicalisation

How to check your page load speed

Why you need an SSL cert

How to verify your site with Google search console

How to check the domain authority of your site (and competitors)

Why backlinks are important

How to quickly check where you appear on Google for lots of search terms

How to check how much traffic your getting from search engines

How to check how many sales you are getting from search traffic

 

SEO: How to get your Google business profile found in the local map results

You will be able to watch video lessons on the following topics:

Why you need a Google My Business profile

What does Google look for in a profile?

How to check if there is already a Google My Business profile for your business

How to create a profile

How to fill in your business and contact details correctly

How to fill in details of your services and business

How to upload photos and videos to your listing

How to generate a link to the reviews section of your listing

How to use Google Analytics 4 to analyse your digital marketing

What is in the complete Google Analytics 4 course?

 

Welcome & what we will cover

Why you should have Google Analytics on your website in order to understand what is working / not working in your digital marketing

What is Google Analytics 4?

What is different about Google Analytics 4

 

Using Google Analytics

How to access the demo account that I am using in this course

Overview of the main Navigation in GA4

How to get answers to these key questions in GA4

  • How many people visited my website in the last week or month?
  • How engaged are my website visitors?
  • How engaged is my traffic from search versus Social Media?
  • How much do visitors engage with each page?
  • What is my engagement rate?
  • What is the age and gender of my website visitors?
  • Where geographically are my visitors from – and how engaged are they from each country?
  • What languages do my visitors speak?
  • Are my website visitors using a PC or Mobile?
  • What % of our mobile visitors use an iPhone or Android – this impacts your Facebook ads
  • How are my visitors getting to the site? e.g. Search, Social Media
  • Which pages are viewed the most?
  • Which pages are people landing on the most?
  • What is involved in tracking ecommerce sales in GA4?
  • How much sales revenue did we get last week or month?
  • How many sales came from search or social media traffic?
  • Which countries are my sales coming from?

How to use the Explore section to find more detailed breakdowns eg. A detailed  breakdown of traffic engagement and sales from each social media  channel.

How to see what is currently happening on your website – Real Time report

How to setup your GA4 account

  • A helicopter view of how Google Analytics is structured
  • If you already have a GA account how do you switch over to GA4?
  • If you are new to GA, how to setup a new GA4 account
  • Overview of your Admin section
  • How to filter out internal traffic from your staff working at home or office
  • How to have your data stored for longer in GA4
  • How to adjust the time length for an engaged user

How to use email for marketing your products and services

Welcome and what we will cover

Understand where email fits within your digital marketing plan

 

You need to use an email marketing service

Overview of the main options

Typical features that you need

The service I recommend – Mailer Lite

How to signup for a Mailer Lite account

 

How to grow your Prospect email  list

What you need to know about GDPR and email marketing

How to entice website visitors to leave their email addresses – 5 tactics

How to entice your social media followers to provide their email addresses – 4 tactics

How to entice Cold prospects who see your ads to leave their email addresses – 3 tactics

 

Tips on how to grow your customer email list

 

What types of email marketing campaigns could you run for prospects and customers

 

Best practice tips & checklist for running email marketing campaigns

Tips for increasing the deliverability of your email

Tips for increasing open rate and Click through rate

Tips for decreasing unsubscribe and spam complaint rate

Measuring your campaigns and metrics you should be aware of

Local Digital Marketing - how to market your business around your town or county

0:00 Welcome and what we will cover

 

Get found when people are searching for local businesses and products on

Google, Social Media, YouTube

2:14  Where in Google do you want to get found for local searches

5:50 How to use your Google Business Profile to get found in Google’s 3 local map results

17:30 What you need to do to get your website found on page 1 of organic results  for local searches:

 

Ensure Google sees that you are a business within your target location

25:04 Add a Google map with your location as a pin to the contact us page of your website

31:52 Get listed in some online directory websites which have your business name, address and tel number

32:53 Try to get backlinks from other businesses within the town / county

 

36:00 How to get found for local image search results:

43:57  Get listed on directory sites that appear on page 1

46:50 Get found when people search for local accounts on social media

1:01:10 Get found when people search for local related content on social media

1:15:20 Get found when people search for local related content on YouTube

 

Put your business in front of people who might be interested in your Local product or service using social media

1:17:50 On Facebook & Instagram ads: How to target people who live within a few miles of your town or within your county – update  on a big recent change

1:24:20 Free Social Media Tactic – Join and post to local town or county groups

3. Members Can Also Join A Monthly Live Digital Marketing Training Session With Evan

 Behind the scenes: See where Evan delivers the training courses  

✅ One Live Training session every month for 12 months: Attend a 90-minute digital marketing session on Zoom from your home or office.
Deep Dive Topics: Each session covers popular topics that Evan frequently gets asked about.
Live Q&A: Ask Evan your own questions during the session.
Interactive Format: Similar to Evan’s Local Enterprise Office training—lots of questions and discussions.
✅ Session Recording: Can’t make it live? Rewatch anytime with the recorded session.

Dates For Your Diary - Upcoming Live Zoom Training Courses for members

 

You can join Evan on a live on Zoom once a month or catch up with recordings at your convenience. An annual membership covers all these live Zoom courses:

These courses start at 10 am and typically run for 90 mins. For bigger topics it can be 120 minutes.

 

April 30th, 2025

The new “Edits” app from Instagram – how to create Reels using this video editor

May 28th  2025

Facebook and Instagram Ads – how to create Instant experience ads that stand out in the feeds.

 June 25th  2025

The best affordable equipment to make professional looking marketing videos

July 30th 2025

How to design like a Pro using the Canva mobile app

August 27th   2025

How to use Google Analytics to improve your website marketing

September 24th   2025

How to use Social Media marketing to increase your sales

October 29th 2025

Posting your digital marketing videos online – Top tips and pitfalls to avoid

November 26th  2025

Update on all the recent changes that impact your digital marketing

December 10th   2025

Canva – Update on all the latest features and tools

January 28th  2026

A digital marketing plan for your business in 2026

February 25th 2026

SEO in 2026 – How to get found high up in search engines

 

Please note: This schedule will be reviewed every few months. It is possible that we will add a new topic that we think should be covered sooner for members and therefore some topics might get moved forward or backwards in the schedule.

4. You get Evan’s 60 Digital Marketing prompts for AI

✅ Evan has created 60 digital marketing prompts that you can use in Chat GPT or Gemini that he has used for many businesses and these will transform your digital marketing. (A prompt is the term used for asking an AI a question)

✅ These prompts cover SEO, website marketing, optimising your Google profile, social media marketing, Instagram, Facebook, video marketing and much more

✅ Simply copy and paste the prompt into Chat GPT and tailor some of it to your business.

Join Now And Get Immediate Access

12 months membership for just  €240 + VAT 

 

 

Members get 12 months access to a members only website which contains  a Digital Marketing Plan, more than 20 of our latest digital marketing courses which you can stream at any time  and can attend a monthly live training course over Zoom with Evan (for 12 months)

Members can easily cancel their annual  membership at any time if they do not want to renew it after 12 months

Risk-Free:  You can join risk free with our 7-day money back guarantee

You can join risk free. If within 7 days you think it wasn’t what you expected or that it won’t be useful for your business we will give you a no quibble refund. Simply email us to let us know and we will issue a refund.

Wondering if joining the School will improve your Digital Marketing? Click here to read what our members say

You can trust the advice you receive from your trainer, Evan Mangan

Eva Mangan - The Marketing Crowd

Evan Mangan

He has trained over 20,000 Irish Businesses:
Evan has delivered Digital Marketing courses to more than 20,000 businesses across Ireland, earning over 200 Five-Star Facebook reviews and over 100 Five Star Google reviews.

Has been chosen as a Trainer for 12 Local Enterprise Offices:
Evan is a trusted expert delivering digital marketing training for 12 Local Enterprise Offices, including Kerry, Limerick, South Cork, Clare, Galway, Kilkenny, and more.

Has real marketing expertise developed at major brands
Before founding The Marketing Crowd, Evan spent 15 years in London as:

  • Head of Direct Marketing at BT
  • Head of European Marketing for Yahoo! Mobile
  • Head of Customer and New Media Marketing at Orange

With business qualifications:
Evan holds a Master’s Degree in Business Studies (1st Class Honours) from UCD.

Wondering what happens when you purchase?

In less than 90 seconds see what you get in the Digital Marketing School 

Try Before You Buy - You can attend a live Zoom course each month and you can watch a replay of all previous courses. Watch 2 examples from recent Monthly Live Zoom courses

Try Before You Buy - One of the benefits of the Digital Marketing School is that you can download very detailed notes for each course in order to refer back to them when implementing your marketing. View an example below from a Live Zoom course

Please note: Most courses on the members website have on average 60 pages of step by step slides that you can download. In total there are over 1,000 pages of step by step notes across all courses. No need to print these out. Simply download them and go to the section you would like to refresh your memory.

 

Try Before You Buy - Watch some examples of lessons that are on the members website

The Digital Marketing School is suitable for ...

  • Anyone who would like a digital marketing plan for their business and step by step instructions on ``How To`` implement it

  • Business owners who want to ensure their digital marketing is in good shape heading into a slowing economy.

  • Anyone who has previously attended one of Evan's digital marketing courses and would like the latest versions - you can watch the video lessons and learn at your own pace.

  • Anyone who wants to keep up with the latest Digital Marketing tactics by attending Evan's LIVE monthly courses using Zoom

  • Anyone who wants to learn digital marketing at their own pace at a time that suits them

  • If you have a colleague or employee who is doing the social media marketing but needs to be trained on how to do it well.

100% Risk FREE - you have nothing to lose

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I get in the Digital Marketing School?

You will be able to login to a members only website where you can access

  1. A digital marketing plan that you can implement for your business. This will be explained in a video and a printable document.
  2. Over 25 of our latest Digital Marketing courses which you can watch at a pace that suits when you need it. (Over 40 hours of on demand lessons)
  3. You can download detailed notes for each training course (Typically 35 – 70 pages per course)
  4. Join Evan on a live Zoom training course each month which will cover very popular topics in detail (Minimum of 12 courses a year)

Why is it an annual membership?

When you sign up you receive 12 months access to our members only website.

The school is designed to provide you with detailed courses that you can watch at your own pace covering a wide range of Digital Marketing topics plus monthly live training courses via Zoom. However, the nature of digital marketing is that things are constantly changing and we will be keeping the content up to date. This means that a lot of the content that will be on the site in 6-9 months time will be quite different to what you see when you initially join.  An annual membership gives you ongoing access to this content.

You do not have to renew your annual membership. If you do not wish to renew simply let us know.

Can I cancel my membership?

Yes – if you do not wish to renew your membership you can easily cancel it. When a member logs into the membership site there are details within the Your Account section explaining how you can cancel. When a member cancels the membership will expire at the end of the 12 month period.

Can I get my money back if it wasn't useful?

Yes. We offer a no quibble money back guarantee.

You can join the Digital Marketing School  ‘Risk free’.  We know you’ll find the online courses and ongoing digital marketing updates  very beneficial but we want you to have peace of mind when ordering it.  If, within 7 days of purchase you think the  Digital Marketing School  isn’t useful for you just let us know and we will give you a no quibble refund.

What happens after I order this?

When you click the “join” button and then order the service using your credit or debit card, the next steps are;

  • Within a few minutes you will receive an email with your login details
  • You will then have access to all of the content in the “members only” Digital Marketing School website.
  • You will also start receiving  emails each month about upcoming courses for members plus updates on recent changes in Digital Marketing that could impact you.

Can I pay by credit card?

Yes. You can pay securely using Visa or Mastercard through  Stripe.

Join Now And Get Immediate Access

12 months membership for just  €240 + VAT 

 

 

Members get 12 months access to a members only website which contains  a Digital Marketing Plan, more than 20 of our latest digital marketing courses which you can stream at any time  and can attend a monthly live training course over Zoom with Evan (for 12 months)

Members can easily cancel their annual  membership at any time if they do not want to renew it after 12 months

Risk-Free:  You can join risk free with our 7-day money back guarantee

You can join risk free. If within 7 days you think it wasn’t what you expected or that it won’t be useful for your business we will give you a no quibble refund. Simply email us to let us know and we will issue a refund.

Wondering if joining the School will improve your Digital Marketing? Click here to read what our members say