The Questions Nobody Asks Before Paying for a Course
Every few months, someone comes to a new institute with the same story.
They paid. They showed up. And then slowly, class by class, they realised that the course was not what they had been told it would be.
The trainer had not run a live campaign in years. The placement support was a shared job-links folder. The certificate looked official but meant very little to actual employers. And the refund window had closed before they had enough information to know they wanted one.
The part that stings most is that none of it was hidden. They just never asked.
Here is the thing about digital marketing training — the industry has grown incredibly fast in India, and that growth has not been evenly distributed across quality. There are genuinely good programmes run by practitioners who care about student outcomes. And there are programmes that are primarily good at one thing: enrolling students.
The only reliable way to tell the difference before you pay is to ask specific questions and notice how they land.
Ask for the full syllabus in writing. Ask to see the trainer's LinkedIn profile. Ask for the names of specific companies that hired graduates from recent batches. Ask what placement support actually includes, step by step. Ask for the refund policy before signing.
These are not complicated questions. But they cut through a lot of noise very quickly.
An institute that answers all of them clearly and without pressure is showing you something real. One that deflects, rushes you, or gets vague — that is also showing you something real.
Someone I know described their experience at Impact Digital Marketing Institute in Hyderabad as the first time an institute had proactively shared all of this before they had even asked. Syllabus, trainer background, recent placement data — all of it, before any payment.
That should be normal. It is not, everywhere. But it is what to look for.
If you are currently evaluating a course, or know someone who is, the full checklist of what to ask is here: https://impactdigitalmarketinginstitute.in/questions-to-ask-before-joining-any-course/
