Guides, tutorials & career advice
Guides, tutorials, and career advice for breaking into martech and tech — from the CodingPhase team.
How to Get Into Digital Marketing With No Experience (The Side Door)
Most people try to get into digital marketing through the most crowded door there is. Here's the technical side door, the skills t...
Coursera vs Udemy: Which One Is Worth Your Money in 2026?
Coursera and Udemy are now owned by the same company, and they still solve two different problems. Here's the honest head-to-head...
How to Learn Coding Online (Without Quitting in Week Three)
Learning to code online is mostly free and mostly unfinished. Here's how to actually structure self-study at a kitchen table at 10...
Coding Certificate Online: What It's Worth and Which Ones Are Real
An online coding certificate will not get you hired on its own. It can still be worth doing, for reasons nobody explains properly....
The Best Coding Platforms for Beginners, Sorted by How You Learn
Most beginner platform roundups rank the same eight sites by price. The better question is which one fits the way your brain actua...
Marketing Job Titles: 70+ Names for the Same Email, Web, and Ecommerce Work
Most people search one job title, see 40 listings, and decide the market is dead. The same job gets posted under a dozen names. He...
Web Content Manager Resume: What to Put On It When You've Never Had the Title
Most people applying for these jobs are coming from something else, and they write their resume as if they're apologizing for it....
Web Content Manager Job Description (With the Subtext Included)
A complete job description you can use if you're hiring, and a translation of what each line really means if you're the one decidi...
Technical SEO Specialist: The Best Paid Corner of SEO and the Least Crowded
Most SEO people avoid the technical half because it looks like engineering. That avoidance is exactly why this specialty pays the...