About this Course
This course lays the foundation of social media marketing. You’ll learn what social media marketing entails, including the history and the different social media channels that exist. You’ll learn how to select a social media channel that fits your needs, set goals and success metrics, and determine who your target audience is.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Understand the landscape of traditional, digital, and social media marketing
Understand how to become certified as a Digital Marketing Associate
Understand the major social media platforms, how they function, and what role they play in marketing
Create SMART goals and identify KPIs
Define your target audience and their customer journey
Choose the right social media platforms and learn how to create social media policies
Whatever level of knowledge you start with, this course will help you build a solid foundation for social media marketing and gain applicable skills that will allow you to make your social media marketing efforts more successful and noticeable.
Learners don’t need marketing experience, but should have basic internet navigation skills and be eager to participate and connect in social media. Learners must have a Facebook account and an Instagram account helps.
What you will learn
Understand the landscape of traditional, digital, and social media marketing
Understand the major social media platforms, how they function, and what role they play in marketing
Create SMART goals, identify KPIs, and define your target audience and their customer journey
Choose the right social media platforms and learn how to create social media policies
Skills you will gain
Social Media Marketing
Marketing
Digital Marketing
Social Media Marketing Strategy
Instructor
Anke Audenaert
CEO & Co-Founder Aptly, Adj. Professor, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Offered by
Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect with friends and family, find communities, and grow businesses. The Meta Professional Certificates create opportunities so that anyone regardless of education, background or experience can learn high-quality skills to land a high-growth career—no degree or experience required to get started. Meta also offers training courses on the metaverse to educate people, brands, businesses and professionals on the opportunities it presents and what it means for our world today and into the future.
Syllabus – What you will learn from this course
Week 1
The Social Media Landscape
This week you’ll get an introduction to the Meta Social Media Marketing Professional Certificate program, then you’ll dive into an introduction to marketing and social media marketing, learn about how businesses use social media and get a basic overview of the social media landscape.
Week 2
Social Media Platforms Overview
In week two, you’ll learn the ins and outs of some of the major social media platforms as well as the differences between how individuals and businesses can and do use them.
Week 3
Goals and Planning for Success
In week three, you’ll dig into two foundational skills for a marketer, defining SMART goals and key performance indicators. These are key components in building out a marketing campaign no matter what platform you operate on. At the end of the week you’ll complete your first project and apply your learning to a real life scenario.
Week 4
Understand Your Audience
This week, you’ll turn your focus to developing a target audience persona and a customer journey. This foundation to any marketing campaign builds off of what you learned last week on goals and key performance indicators. You’ll end the week with a project in which you will build your own target audience persona and customer journey.
Week 5
Choose Your Social Media Channels
This week, we will wrap up the course with a focus on carefully selecting the appropriate social media platform based on your target audience and you’ll learn how to create and manage a social media policy.
About the Meta Social Media Marketing Professional Certificate
Want to turn your passion for social media into a career? In this program, you’ll learn how to create a social media presence on Facebook and Instagram that people want to follow! Social media marketing jobs are amongst the most in-demand skills for organizations of all sizes. Whether you’re completely new to digital marketing or you’ve been tinkering with social media platforms for your own business, you’ve come to the right place. This six-course program designed by experts at Meta and Aptly will provide an introduction to digital marketing and all the major social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok and more to prepare you with the skills and tools needed to grow an engaging social community and run effective social media advertising.
Upon successful completion of the program, you’ll: Get exclusive access to the Meta Career Programs Job Board—a job search platform that connects you with 200+ employers who have committed to sourcing talent through Meta’s certificate programs, as well as career support resources to help you with your job search. Earn both a Professional Certificate and the Meta Digital Marketing Associate Certification, showcasing your skills in social media marketing and the use of Meta Ads Manager to potential employers. The Professional Certificate is now ACE recommended. You can learn more here. This specialization is also offered in Arabic, Portuguese, and Spanish.
