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I want to teach Online Marketing for free
3 points by timoconnor 4765 days ago
Marcademy.com is thinking about creating a Fellowship program to teach for free Online Marketing and Growth Hacking to 20 - 40 SFO/Bay Area college Seniors during their senior year. Program would be 8 months (Sept '13 - April '14) and include monthly in-person weekend immersion events teaching them to become a Growth Hacker and Online Marketer. There would be no cost to the students. We'd get paid by an employer if we got them a job when they graduated. There would be no obligation that students would have to take a job from one of our sources. So for the student it would be entirely free. Would like thoughts on this.
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timoconnor 4765 days ago
BTW this post is about a new program, not the one on our website. The one on the website is about an 8-week paid program. What I am looking for is feedback on creating a new 8 month free Fellowship for college seniors to help them build skills to increase their chance of getting a job.
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orangethirty 4765 days ago
You mention it takes 8 months in this post, yet in the website it says 8 weeks. Which one is it? It also is an awful short time to learn of the subjects you mention. Copywriting itself takes years to learn properly.
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timoconnor 4765 days ago
The current website is about our 8 week program. What this post is about is getting feedback on creating a longer Fellowship program for seniors in college to help increase their chances of getting a good job upon graduating, and making the fellowships free. Totally agree to become a world class marketer and in your example a world class copywriter takes years. But what I am thinking about is giving these students a jump start since what they learn in College isn't skills. So you could say we are wanting to create world class beginners. Does that make sense? Would like your thoughts.
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orangethirty 4764 days ago
Oh ok. It was a bit confusing. I think this looks like a good project for people to check out. By no way was I being pedantic. It is good to have informed beginners. It does make. Big improvement. Marketing is a lot about testing.
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