Social Media & Digital Marketing Specialist

SOCIAL MEDIA & DIGITAL MARKETING SPECIALIST

Course Description

Digital marketing is the way to the future of marketing. With everything going digital, it is a necessary skill today to possess. This course aims to lay the foundation for students to understand how the online marketing methods work. Students will learn not only the terms and concepts used in the industry but also how they are applied in the practical world. The assignments and projects will expose the students to the way digital marketing industry operates.

Course Objectives:

Understand the differences between traditional and digital marketing
Define “Brand” and understand the importance of brand in the digital world
Define and create USP for your business
Understand the concept of audience, segmentation, targeting, positioning
Use tools to determine the target audience for your business
Create S.M.A.R.T goals and identify KPIs to measure
Learn to use Google Analytics
Learn to optimize your website for search engines
Understand the importance of on-page and off-page SEO
Be able to write engaging website copy, identify high performing keywords
Become familiar with Pay Per Click (PPC)
Be able to distinguish between various social media channels, and how they are utilized for marketing purpose – Study different social media platforms
Learn how to create advertisements on social platforms
Become familiar with the email marketing composition process, analytics and metrics to measure the email marketing campaign success
Gain an understanding of the key categories of a marketing budget