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Professional Diploma in Social Media Marketing
Develop a detailed understanding of key social media specialisms including content marketing, and platforms on which you can promote your content.
This course is suitable for people who are responsible for the planning, execution and management of social media campaigns, social media specialists, enthusiasts, executives or anyone who would like to enhance their digital marketing knowledge base in this area.
The Social Research module will introduce you to the key social media concepts and equip you with the research tools and techniques needed to discover everything you need to know about your audience, competitors, cultural and industry trends.
The Content Creation module equips you with the knowledge and skills to resource a content management function, to target your audience, select your platform and make use of social listening and competitor analysis.
You’ll be introduced to the concept of content seeding and how to use content effectively over multiple social platforms. You will acquire an understanding of how to promote content and the importance of paid promotion for relevant, highly shareable content.
The Facebook module provides you with a comprehensive understanding of how Facebook works as a platform for community building, content marketing and brand promotion.
The LinkedIn module gives you a comprehensive understanding of the benefits of using LinkedIn for marketing purposes. You will learn LinkedIn-specific features which will help you to facilitate campaign objectives.
Going beyond basic features and vanity metrics, you will learn how to navigate app-based platforms; Instagram and Snapchat, and discover the features that can be leveraged to deliver real measurable results in unique, creative and interactive ways.
The Social Video module will introduce you to the concept of social video marketing. Focusing on YouTube, you will learn how to leverage the creative life cycle for audience development and advertising in order to build sustainable communities for lead generation.
The Marketing Automation module aims to empower digital marketers to automate their marketing processes in the areas of lead management, lead generation, lead nurturing, sales enablement, social media marketing automation and customer evangelism.
Through the Strategy & Planning module you will learn how planning, researching, setting objectives, preparation, execution and learning are the key components of a successful social media strategy and ROI.