SEO & Social Media Marketing Training Suite

Our suite of video based online courses is designed for business people who need to understand how SEO and social media techniques can be used as effective marketing tools.

The objective is to provide sufficient information to enable the development of a SEO and social media strategy for a business and implement that strategy either directly or by the informed engagement with our team.


Courses Included in this Bundle:

• Social Media for Business Training
• SEO for Business Training
• Facebook for Business
• LinkedIn for Business Training
• Twitter for Business

Course Benefits:

• Develop a social media strategy
• Run your own SEO
• How to get the best out of Facebook
• LinkedIn as part of your social media strategy
• Twitter in conjunction with other platforms
• Blogging to create customer interest

Social Media for Business Training

The Internet has changed our lives both personally and commercially. The boundaries between personal and business communication are now much less defined. Three quarters of us in the developed world use the internet and Social media has become a serious business marketing technique with over 90% of businesses with an in‐house marketing department using social media for marketing and committing up to 20% of marketers time in that direction. So far as your social media audience in concerned, 43% of people aged 20‐29 spend more than 10 hours a week on social media sites.

This course is designed to assist people in business to understand how social media techniques can be used as an effective business marketing tool. The object is to provide sufficient information to enable you to develop a social media strategy for a business and implement that strategy personally or through the informed engagement of third party specialists.

The starting point in any social media activity for business is your website or microsite and your social media activities will invariably be referencing this site so the first measurement of success in your social media activity will be the traffic you’re generating for your site through social media channels.



SEO for Business Training


This course focuses on the anchor point of your digital marketing strategy which is your website or micro-site. Here we’ll explore search engine optimisation ‘SEO’ and how you can use this to drive traffic to your website.

Right now, potential customers will be searching for your products and services ‐ and if they don’t find their way to your site, you could be deferring them to a competitor. Imagine if your website could rank above your competitors’, using the kind of search terms that turn your visitor traffic into revenue.

When it’s done well, search engine marketing can give search engines exactly what they need to put your website in a prime position on Search Engine Results Pages. The key is understanding what search engines need ‐ and since 90% of all searches in the UK are via Google, this pretty much means understanding Google. We're going to explain the proven techniques that will help you reach and maintain the number one results spot. We do this using free techniques – it’s called natural, or organic, searching. In most markets today, this will yield thousands of additional visitors and produce increased leads and business.



Facebook for Business

Facebook is the world’s largest social network. With over a billion users it’s very likely that a proportion of your target customer audience will have a Facebook account. In the ‘Social Media for Business’ course you’ll have been encouraged to research and investigate the preferred social media platforms used by your target audience, so you should have a good idea at this point if Facebook is one of the right platforms for you.

Using Facebook in your business is about providing an effective means for your customers to interact with you and connect their friends to your business. Recommendation is the most powerful way a potential customer can be connected to a business, particularly when it’s being recommended by a friend. So if you know that a trusted friend likes a particular brand, you’re much more likely to engage with that brand.

Facebook is essentially a platform designed to facilitate social interaction between people with whom you’ve already established some mutual recognition. These forms of recognition are referred to on Facebook business pages as “likes” this is similar to “friends” on your personal Facebook account. It’s possible to communicate with your friends on your personal Facebook account and invite them to “like” your Facebook brand page. This is similar to adding them as a “friend” on your personal account. You can and should also use other marketing techniques….. e mail marketing, advertising, printed materials and so on to establish that vital initial recognition in an effort to build your community of interest.

The challenge is how we go about finding these people; ….so how do we actually direct them to our business and how do we then convert this connection and traffic into leads and sales?
This course should give you a better understanding of how you can use Facebook to engage with your target customer base and use it to start achieving some of these objectives.


LinkedIn for Business Training

Linkedin is a very well established and respected social network with over 259 million users in more than 200 countries. It’s known as “Facebook in a Suit” or the most professional level of Social networking for businesses.

Linkedin is a very valuable tool to find the key decision makers within certain companies. It’s used for finding the best point of contact, gaining familiarity with their background before a call or sales pitch, making such contact much more effective.

It’s a social network for professional people. Normally a person would create a Linkedin profile that would include career details and would update their information periodically as to their current appointment. It would often include a personal statement, personal web address and possibly testimonials from employers and members of staff. If the person has particular interests both professionally and personally they may subscribe to one or more interest groups to receive updates and discussion opportunities.

You must always remember that LinkedIn is about you. Adding your business name and the company logo as your photograph is not well received. Just remember; people buy from people so keep it personal.


Twitter for Business

Twitter is a social media platform that is used by a wide range of people, from celebrities, who use it to communicate with their fans to companies and brands who can use it to engage their customers and attract new ones. It is also used by people for the social aspect – to chat and share information with friends. In fact, there is no restriction to who or what can have a Twitter account and often a larger company such as Starbucks will also have individual accounts for each product such as frappuccinos and even individual store locations.

Using Twitter successfully requires a significant commitment of time – being active is key to your success. It’s all about the image you create, and the best‐viewed companies are the
responsive ones.

Twitter is a real‐time information sharing network where users can share messages, news, images, opinions and links via short bursts of information called ‘tweets’ – these tweets have a character limit of 140 including spaces, which may sound very short but you might be surprised at how much you can get into a little space and how much influence that can have. Even though Twitter is a fairly simple service, it’s still important to understand the mechanics of it thoroughly.