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Understanding Social Media Strategy 

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Overview

Discover how to create a social media strategy in this digital marketing course for social media managers.

Duration

4 weeks

Mode of learning

Online

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Credential

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Understanding Social Media Strategy
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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate from Institute of Data & Marketing
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Understanding Social Media Strategy
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Course details

Who should do this course?

This digital marketing course is aimed at current or aspiring social media managers.

What are the course deliverables?
Describe how to gain visibility on social media
 
Explain the role of social media in people's lives
 
Summarise the benefits of social media to an organisation
 
Explore the opportunities that social listening creates
 
Design your own SMART objectives
 
Explain how social planning should be integrated with business strategy
 
Assess which social channels to focus on
 
Develop a framework for all social media activity and campaigns to work from
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More about this course
  • Over the past decade, social media has come to play an increasingly central role in the digital marketing mix. With the last year forcing more of our lives online, getting your social media strategy right is more important than ever.
  • After exploring the foundations of creating a social media strategy, you'll learn why social engagement is so important and why you should always keep your customers at the heart of your strategy
  • You'll also learn how to set KPIs and how to use the SMART Objective Framework to set and meet your social media goals.
  • One of the objectives of any social media strategy is to get people talking about your brand. Social listening is the process of monitoring various social channels to assess if people are talking about your brand, and what they're saying
  • You'll discover the key components of a social listening strategy and which tools are available to help you listen to what people are saying about your brand.
  • By the end of this four-week course, you'll be ready to draw up and execute a social media strategy aligned with your brand, helping you to better engage with your customers.
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Understanding Social Media Strategy
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Curriculum

Week 1

Why is social media engagement important?

Creating a customer-centric social media strategy

Exemplary brands in social media

 

Week 2

Setting objectives and KPIs

Choosing the right metrics to measure success

Using the SMART Objective Framework

 

Week 3

Social media listening

How to build a social listening strategy

Components of a social listening strategy

Tools for social listening

 

Week 4

Developing a social media strategy

Developing a social media channel strategy

Developing a social media campaign strategy

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Faculty details

Will Francis
In-company and public courses on digital marketing. Social media, content creation, copywriting, video, SEO and AI.

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