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This diploma covers how best to use all key social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn from a businesses perspective. You’ll look at strategy, effective communication and marketing essentials to give you a rounded skillset.
Enquire nowOur Social Media for Business Diploma covers they key areas of how to utilise social media for business purposes, and helps you see how you can make it a part of your everyday marketing. It is designed for anyone interested in marketing, event organising, for PAs developing a career or owners of small businesses.
Awarded 135 CPD points upon successful completion
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Our Social Media for Business Diploma covers the key areas of how to utilise social media for business purposes, and helps you see how you can make it a part of your everyday marketing. It is designed for anyone interested in marketing: event organising, for PAs developing a career, or owners of small businesses.
As a result of completing this diploma, we want you to be social media savvy, and confident when it comes to online marketing. Whether this is a part of your role, or is the main focus of your job, it’s never been more crucial that you can communicate well online. This diploma makes sure you’re on the top of your game, and don’t get left behind by the online world.
With the study of this diploma you’ll understand all they key social media platforms, and start to appreciate their benefits. As part of this training programme you can also tap into web design, time management and marketing skills, to really ensure you’re stepping up a gear in your career. A diverse diploma, there is huge value in mastering the elements covered in this course.
Getting familiar with key platforms, as well as topping up your communication skills, you’ll become much more confident in the results you can create.
Team your online skills with event management and time management skills, as well as learning some basics of web design and there’ll be no stopping you!
Gain the skills required to confidently manage the social media presence of a business.
Learn how to use Facebook to promote and market your organisation. This course looks at how businesses can maximise their social media presence on this social media platform.
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This course will bring you up to speed in using LinkedIn in a business environment. You’ll learn how to get the most out of the platform, helping you capitalise on the millions of professional contacts within arm’s reach.
Social media is no longer just for keeping in touch with people on the other side of the world. It’s now very much recognised as a crucial business tool and powerful method of communication, no matter what sector you work in.
This short course takes you through the basics of how to get started with this popular social media platform, enabling you to make effective use of it for a number of different purposes.
This course walks you through the technical aspects you need to know to create professional business videos and to understand how video content fits into the wider marketing mix.
This is a short online course that starts to take the mystery out of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) so you can understand how you can use it to your advantage.
Over four lessons you’ll cover topics such as understanding what a marketing plan is, how to carry out appropriate research, how websites are designed to market a company, effective advertising and the four P’s of marketing products.
This excellent course will raise your game when it comes to business communication skills, which is often top of the list of qualities demanded by employers.Â
This course is designed will help you learn how to leverage the tools available from Google that will maximise the impact of your business’ website. We will explore Google My Business, Google Search Console, and Google Analytics.
In addition to the core courses, you also choose two additional elective courses. Below is a list of recommended courses but there is a wider list available. Please speak to a Course Advisor for full details of how best to tailor this Diploma to your requirements.
This course will teach you what you need to know about Instagram, the popular image-sharing platform, and how it can help your business with its marketing.
This course will give you a good understanding of how best to use this visual, image-sharing platform from a business perspective.
Time management training increases your productivity and efficiency. This is the ideal course for anyone who wants to get more done in less time.
If you’re looking to maximise your reach and extend your network while searching for a new role, this course will provide valuable guidance on making sure you’re using LinkedIn to its fullest.
This course is specifically designed for those wishing to learn how to create a business-focused website. You’ll learn about designing the site and how to develop and enhance it.
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If you’re working towards a career as a web designer, then our Photoshop CC course will give you a great foundation and allow you to fully utilise the features of this highly versatile Adobe image and photo editing software.
Learn some tricks of the trade and really get to grips with event project management to ensure your events are always ones people are talking about for all the right reasons.
The Adobe Animate CC course will help you learn how to create online animations. Such animations are found all over the internet on websites, online videos, video games, advertisements, cartoons etc. It is an essential program for anyone wanting to work in a creative online animation role.
There are no specific pre-requisites required before starting this diploma.
Wherever possible our training is tailored to your needs. The cost of our training programmes depend on the course(s) you choose and varies according to duration and breadth. Rest assured we have a number of payment options available to ensure the cost of training is affordable and can be worked alongside your other financial commitments. Common ways people fund their training include: -Â
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Requesting funding from your employers needn’t be a daunting task. Many employers support and encourage their employees with their professional development and consider it a worthwhile investment to fund any training required.
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There may be the opportunity to apply for funded grants that can help towards the cost of training. These include the Skills Development Scotland ITAs and the ReAct programme in Wales. All schemes will have different terms and conditions that will need to be met in order to qualify for a grant and these are managed by each individual centre.
We’d recommend you speak to a Course Advisor in your local centre to find out whether they are registered to offer any such schemes and discuss your requirements further.
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With this diploma you can look towards jobs such as Social Media Assistant, Social Media Executive, Social Media Manager, Content Executive, Marketing Executive and more.
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