Digital Marketing Beginners

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Digital Strategy & Planning & Search Engine Optimisation

 

  • What is Digital Marketing? What elements make up a digital marketing plan?
  • Setting your Digital Marketing Goals
  • What makes a good website? – A look at UX, speed and mobile responsiveness.
  • What is SEO – 5 SEO tips you can execute today.
  • An overview of Google Analytics
  • How to improve your search engine ranking
  • How to maximise your conversion of visitors to customers
  • How to maintain search engine visibility
  • Google and Facebook Ads - How to create ads online.
  • Email Marketing – What is email marketing and how can it benefit your business?
  • Business blogging – How great content can drive traffic to your website and even generate sales.
  • Social Media – How to use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest and Snapchat in your business.
  • Digital Video - A look at Facebook video and YouTube for Business
  • Creating your Digital Marketing plan.

10th April

2

Content Marketing


 
  • What exactly is Content Marketing?
  • Different types of Content Marketing.
  • 5 Future Content Marketing trends happening now.
  • How to plan your Social Media content
  • How to come up with great content ideas and how to avoid writers block.
  • How to create a Content Calendar. Attendees will create a 3 month blog calendar for their business or personal brand.
  • How to create great content. A look at what content works best online.
  • Content creation and promotion tactics being used by the experts.
  • How to craft a great headline.
  • How to format your content.
  • Using the right imagery and/or video in your content.
  • How to SEO (optimise your visibility on google) your content and drive organic traffic to our website.
  • How to promote your content organically through Social Media and by using targeted social ads.
  • 5 Tools Content Marketing tools and plugins that will help you create great content and save you time.
  • What Companies are leading the way when it comes to Content Marketing. What are they doing well and what is their Content Marketing strategy.
  • How great Content Marketing can help generate sales.

17th April

3

Online Advertising & Promotions

 

  • How to run a successful promotional campaign on Social Media and how to get your client/customer to buy into your offering.
  • Social Media listening and scheduling tools.
  • Promotion Tools – building a targeted email database through Social Media Promotional campaigns.
  • Competition apps for Facebook and Twitter. Which platforms to use and how to use them.
  • Advanced Facebook Advertising. (to include – remarketing, conversion pixels, list ads, lookalike audiences, audience insights, lead generation ads, unpublished posts, video and slideshow ads, advanced targeting ads). Facebook Ad reporting. 3rd party Ad campaign tools.
  • Instagram Ads.
  • Twitter Ads and other twitter tools. (listening, hashtags, generating automated business leads)
  • LinkedIn Ads.
  • Using Slideshare.net to promote your business and generate “concrete” sales leads.
  • Promoted Pins on Pinterest.
  • Digital video – what type of video works best in each platform? Creating inexpensive video to story tell, promote current deals and encourage call to action. Building a video audience on YouTube and Facebook through low cost ads.

24th April

4

Facebook & Twitter

  • How Social Media and digital marketing can assist with customer relationship management
  • Principles of Social Media in Business
  • Facebook – setting up your business page
  • Facebook features and tools – step by step approach of setting up the account and completing the business profile
  • Increasing likes on your business Facebook page
  • Running competitions to grow your Likes – Facebook promotions and most popular applications for running competitions
  • How to use Facebook to project your brand
  • Managing social media activity and accessing reports to demonstrate effectiveness
  • Twitter – Getting started and the basics
  • Twitter quick chat and connections with potential clients
  • Exploring the range of option for tweets, direct messaging, tagging and re-tweeting.
  • How to avail of the latest addition to Twitter- Twitter Moments
  • Building a Twitter following with regular growth
  • Developing Twitter add campaigns, target audience and budgeting
  • Video streaming using Audience Manager
  • Hootsuite – Scheduling and publishing content
  • How to engage with influencers and advocates


 

1st May

5

Email & LinkedIn Marketing

 

  • Using LinkedIn as a marketing tool – who is using it?
  • Account levels and the range of tools available
  • Defining a strategy – setting goals for achievement
  • Profiling your company to complement the marketing of your business
  • Creating a business page on LinkedIn
  • Using groups on LinkedIn to advance your business goals and increase sales leads
  • What is Email Marketing?
  • What is Spam? What are the rules?
  • Building an Email list.
  • Designing a Newsletter.
  • Simple Design Tools and free images.
  • Executing your campaign.
  • How to measure my email marketing campaign.

8th May