Social Media Marketing Training
A course has expired on 04/25/2024
Marketing / Social Media Marketing

Social Media Marketing Training

Did you know how much exactly social media can affect consumers? According to the data provided by PwC, reading or writing social media comments and reviews affects 67% of consumers, greatly influencing their shopping behavior. So it isn’t surprising that companies invest so much time and money into marketing specialists and their education.

However, even if you aren’t an employee working for a company that is willing to invest in your skills, you can still learn. The internet offers plenty of opportunities to do so these days, granting you access to some top social media marketing courses.

Perhaps, there’s even too much of them for an inexperienced person to pick easily. So if you did your research and are confused by the number of options available, we are here to help you. Here are top free social media marketing courses that can boost your marketing and social media skills, even if you are a beginner.

Curriculum content

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    The What Is Social? MOOC is for marketing professionals who want to significantly improve their abilities to grow their social strategy using effective, proven methodologies. This hands on, how to program won’t just tell you how to grow your professional persona using social – you will actually do it! This course is the first in the six-course specialization, Social Media Marketing: How to Profit in a Digital World.

    • Lesson What is Social?

      This session will give you a chance to explore social media marketing at a first glance and give you the chance to ask as many questions as you need. 

  • About the CourseThis course will go deep into the Big Data of social and gain a more complete picture of what can be learned from interactions on social sites. In completing this course you will develop a fuller understanding of the data and will be able to increase the effectiveness of your content strategy by making better decisions and spotting crises before they happen!

  • About the CourseYou will learn two of the most effective social strategies used by organizations today. You'll see real-world best practice examples and learn what metrics they use to gauge success. You will also learn the importance of infographics and the impact a well-designed landing page can have on your bottom line. All of the social skills you have learned thus far will be put into action with a multimedia filter and focus blog that you will create to demonstrate how social can enable real-time marketing results.

  • About the CourseWant your content to go viral? Who doesn't! It takes a thoughtful, integrated approach to make content that stands out in our increasingly oversaturated world. In this course you will learn how marketers are successfully navigating today's media landscape. You will learn why developing engaging content for your audience is an essential component in effective social marketing. A panel of experts will unlock the paid/owned/earned media riddle and replace it with an integrated who/what/where approach that utilizes platform-specific messaging to grow your market share.

  • Want your content to go viral? Who doesn't! It takes a thoughtful, integrated approach to make content that stands out in our increasingly oversaturated world. In this course you will learn how marketers are successfully navigating today's media landscape. You will learn why developing engaging content for your audience is an essential component in effective social marketing. A panel of experts will unlock the paid/owned/earned media riddle and replace it with an integrated who/what/where approach that utilizes platform-specific messaging to grow your market share.

  • Do you want to understand the science and art of Social Media Marketing?Do you get frustrated with all the confusing advice on the internet?Maybe you have tried Social Media Marketing and Online Marketing including SEO in the past and failed?

  • In a 2014 study of CEOs and CMOs, IBM found 63% wanted social strategies which generate business metrics while only 20% of businesses worldwide actually have them. This means strategies which not only grow your company’s social footprint but link to your sales and marketing systems. With this critical linkage, your social and mobile strategies will provide you with the ability to engage consumers at a 1-to-1 level and measure your social investments in terms of costs, revenues, profits and ROI. In this fifth MOOC of the Social Marketing Specialization - "The Business of Social" - you will learn how to transform your organization's social marketing from an untracked investment to an integral part of your company’s marketing strategy. You will learn the legal considerations involved as well as proven performance metrics and management tactics for success.

  • Your markets are on social and you need to be there. However, your social strategy needs to be based on the business metrics which define your success. This final Capstone Project in the Social Marketing Specialization will put the methodologies, tools, and insights you have learned to the test as you create a multifaceted plan to assure effective social marketing is an integral part of your business strategy. Whether your company has a sophisticated Engagement Strategy or you are a new start-up, you will learn to harness the full power of social marketing to grow provable market share and build stronger relationships with your high value markets. For success in today's digital world, you must have a plan to integrate your social and mobile marketing strategies into your business strategy. In this Capstone you will use the practical skills that you’ve mastered through the Specialization to demonstrate your ability to integrate social and mobile marketing strategies into a company’s business strategy.