Social Media Marketing
(SMM)
Training Course
How to Create Sustainable Social Media Campaigns
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Social Media Marketing Course | Overview
M
ore than 58% of Singaporeans are on Social Media each day and spend an average of 2.2 hours a day on all Social Media channels. This is more than double the global average of 26% and slightly more than the world average of 2.0 hours spent a day.From Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube, to Instagram, Pinterest and SnapChat, Social Media networks have dominated our cultural landscape. What can businesses and professionals do to tap on to this growing trend? How can one leverage on the power of Social to grow a business?
This intensive 2-day Social Media Marketing workshop provides a realistic hands-on setting for beginners to embark on a Social Media Marketing journey. Peppered with case studies and practical both local and international, role-play-ing scenarios, and hands-on activities, students will learn how to create, grow, and measure Social Media Marketrole-play-ing campaigns.
Throughout the course, students will also be equipped with a rigorous step-by-step process in creating, managing, sustaining and measuring their Social Media Marketing efforts.
By the end of this course, participants will:
• Understand how Social Media works, both in local and international contexts.
• Learn how to reach out to and influence potential customers on Social Media to try out a product or service.
• Learn how to engage a company’s Social Media audience and grow its Social Media following.
• Be able to create and manage Social Media profiles on various Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and more.
• Be objective-oriented in developing and executing Social Media Marketing strategies.
• Learn how to create, grow, and manage Social Media Marketing campaigns, measuring the whole process and refining it where necessary.
Objectives
Introduction
Key Features
Up-to-date course modules
Hands-on with lots of case studies
and practical examples
Structured curriculum
B2C & B2B Social Media strategies
Developed by experts with
exten-sive experience in the Asia region
Understanding Social Media
• Why social media is no longer new
• Social media in Singapore (statistics and trends) • Social media’s impact on society
• Social media’s impact on business
• LinkedIn marketing
• LinkedIn connections
• LinkedIn Pulse and blog articles • LinkedIn influencers
• LinkedIn Communities
• LinkedIn advertising and sponsored posts
• Pop Quiz
Creating Social Media Accounts
• Developing a social brand identity
• Using tools like Canva and other designer tools • Facebook - World’s largest social network • LinkedIn - More than just a rolodex
• Twitter - Making magic with 140 characters • YouTube - Rise of user-generated videos • Instagram - Fastest growing social network for
youths
• Pinterest - Electronic eye candy • Google Plus - Hello? Anybody there?
Analyzing, Defining, & Developing a
Social Media Marketing Strategy
• Identify marketing problem
• Establish social media marketing objective • Customer analysis and profiles
• Social media marketing channels • Social media marketing team • Content creation and curation
• Content calendar
• Community management plan
• Measurements and KPIs
What is Social Media Marketing?
• Defining social media marketing
• A 6-step social media marketing process (Analyze, Define, Develop, Execute, Measure, Repeat)
• Facebook marketing
• Understanding your newsfeed
• Facebook messages
• Facebook content types
• Facebook Pages and Groups
• Facebook advertising and sponsored posts
Who’s Your Customer?
• Demographics
• Psychographics
• Social Media Analytics
• Social listening tools and techniques
• Customer research strategies
Exercise - Start a Brand Social Media Account
• Hands-on exercise on starting a Social Media ac-count (Facebook page, LinkedIn acac-count) • Developing a unique profile and identity • Use of free image resources and tools
Exercise - Craft Your Social Media Plan
• Identify marketing problem
• Establish social media marketing objectives
Exercise - Craft Your Social Media Marketing Plan
• Develop customer persona
• Craft Facebook community management plan
Social Media Marketing Course | Outline
Managing Social Media Communities
• Facebook profile, Facebook group or Facebook fan page?
• Engaging with friends and fans
• Getting Facebook fans to create content • Dealing with negative comments or reviews
• Facebook contests
• Facebook advertising
• Building a LinkedIn interest group • Developing your topic of influence • Writing and publishing on LinkedIn • Building your LinkedIn presence
• Soliciting for and giving LinkedIn endorsements • Interacting with LinkedIn influencers
Why Content is King on Social
• Branded storytelling
• The art and science of writing socially • Visual storytelling through photos and videos • Why infographics go viral
• Serious stuff: slideshare, whitepapers, eBooks • Creation versus curation
• Developing a content calendar
Measuring and Monitoring
• Being SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound)
• Types of measurements (brand awareness, engagement, participation, community growth, revenue, etc)
• Frequency of measurements
• Social Media Marketing reports • Feedback loops and iterations
• A/B testing
• URL builder tool by Google Analytics
Action Planning and Management
• Integrating Social, Digital, SEO, and PR • Native advertising on Social Media
• Manpower and teams
• Outsourcing versus insourcing • Roles and responsibilities
• Budgeting, Timelines and Monitoring
• Working with agencies (briefs, scope of work, KPIs, timelines)
Exercise - Craft Your Social Media Marketing Plan
• Developing a Social Media content calendar • Create four different forms of Social Media content
(one per person)
• Identify suitable Social Media KPIs & measurements
Exercise - Crafting Your Social Media Marketing
Plan
• Outlining resources, manpower and roles
Understanding Influence & Social PR
• Robert Cialdini’s 6 weapons of influence (commit-ment/consistency, reciprocity, social proof, liking, authority, scarcity)
• How influencers can jump start your Social Media Marketing
• Native advertising on social media • Brand advocacy on social media • Social Media influencers in Singapore • Celebrity bloggers → boon or bane? • Cyberbullies, trolls, and attackers
• Social media policies/ rules of engagement
Exercise - Crafting Your Social Media Marketing
Plan
• Identifying and shortlisting suitable Social Media influencers
• Developing a social media policy
Creating Campaign Buzz & Virality
• How to be contagious (Jonah Berger) • Social and psychological triggers
• Facebook social movements
• LinkedIn article marketing • Process for viral marketing • Viral marketing case studies
Rolling Out SMM Campaigns
• A 6-step social media marketing process (Analyze, Define, Develop, Execute, Measure, Repeat) • Analyzing customers, competitors, channels, and
current practices
• Defining target audiences, channels, advertisements and partners
• Developing campaign materials, promotional mate-rials
• Execution of campaign
• Measuring success
• Iterate, Iterate, Iterate!
• Differences between plan and campaign
Social Media Marketing Course | Outline
Exercise - Crafting Your Social Media Marketing
Plan
• Using the information you have gathered in your Social Media Marketing research, create a Social Media Marketing campaign. Your campaign should include the “X factor” to motivate your audience and trigger action.
• Share your campaign outline with the class and explain why it works.
Who Should Take This Course
VPs and Marketing directors, PR directors, Mar-com directors, social media managers, Mar-community managers, bloggers, digital marketing executives, PR executives, account managers, account execu-tives, and anybody who needs to use social media to attract customers and prospects, cultivate leads, deepen customer relationships, increase brand awareness, improve public perception and drive sales.
Prerequisite
Basic computer knowledge.
Walter Lim
Corporate storyteller, influencer, strategist, people developer, and change agent, Walter has 20 years of experience in brand development, content marketing, PR, social media marketing, strategic planning, industry development, and organisational management.
Director of Cooler Insights, a bespoke content marketing, PR and social influence consultancy, Walter is an avid busi-ness and marketing blogger at his website coolerinsights.com.
Appointed by SPH to be a judge for the Singapore Blog Awards for 6 years (2010-2015), he has spoken and trained at multiple workshops and conferences on social media marketing, public relations, citizen engagement and branding.
Course Duration
2 Days (10am - 6pm)Certificate
Upon completion of the course, students will be awarded a Certificate of Completion.
Training Method
Instructor-led trainingOther Information
Instructor
*Register 30 days before course date to enjoy 10% early bird discount. * Register 2 or more pax to enjoy 10% off the total course fees.
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- Defer the course to the next intake at no extra charges.
- Withdraw from the course and obtain 100% refund of all course fees paid.
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