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Social Media Marketing Online Short Course

Social Media Marketing Online Short Course | Online
Craft effective social media marketing strategies. Discover expert tools to increase engagement and attract new audiences.

Next start months
February 2026
May 2026
July 2026
Tutor(s)
Tom Crookston
Kalina Pulit
Price
From £620.00

Course description

Course overview

Social media has made marketing your business more accessible than ever. You may have already set up the relevant accounts, but what's the best next step to get the most out of the platforms? Join this short course to learn how to create awareness of your brand, reach new audiences, and increase engagement.

In this course, you will gain knowledge about the different factors that drive social media marketing. You will be introduced to key digital marketing knowledge about copyright and social media policies but most importantly develop skills to create a successful social media strategy and campaigns. In addition to strategy and campaigns, you'll learn how to measure your results.

Through weekly online classes, you will gain insight into how social media executives manage social media accounts to promote their brand. There will be an emphasis on developing consistent content and narrative and you will be encouraged to create your social media marketing strategy at the end of the course.

Who this course is for

This course is for anyone who would like to learn more about social media strategy to grow brand audience and engagement. You may apply what you learn in a professional role or to your own business.

You will learn how social media marketing can be useful to a professional social media strategist. If you would like to learn how to get the most out of social media and create engaging content across all platforms, whether it's for your professional role or your own business, this course is for you.

Key information

Topics covered

  • An overview of popular social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube
  • Traditional marketing vs social media marketing
  • Scheduling and creating consistent content and voice across platforms
  • Increasing engagement with your target market
  • Capturing and analysing metrics to segment and target your market
  • Measuring a campaign's return on investment (ROI)
  • Successful social media campaign case studies
  • Best practice in social media marketing strategies
  • Overview of copyright and social media policies

Learning outcomes

  • By the end of the course, you should understand how to:
  • Establish a sustainable presence on the social media platforms relevant to your business
  • Schedule and create content across platforms with a consistent narrative and tone of voice
  • Increase engagement with your target market across social media platforms
  • Execute a social media strategy or a campaign and measure its impact using metrics
  • Understand online copyright and social media policies and best practice for social media
  • Receive a digital badge and certificate of attendance

Materials

Please have the following materials to hand for the first lesson:

  • Pen and notebook

Please see our Guide to taking online short courses.

Tutor

Tom Crookston

Tom Crookston is a digital content specialist with over 15 years' experience in Higher Education communications. Through his consultancy work, he has advised on social media, web and branding strategies for clients in the fields of education, sport and the creative industries.

Kalina Pulit

Kalina has been working in the creative industry for the past thirteen years with her practice exploring fields of Creative Direction, Fashion Styling, Photography and Filmmaking.

Having graduated from BA (Hons) Fashion Styling and Photography at London College of Fashion, Kalina went on to assist fashion industry's top Stylists and Creative Directors such as Edward Enninful, Karen Langley, Lucia Liu and Yeyoung Kim to name a few. Kalina then moved on to work as a freelance Creative Director and Fashion Stylist, producing work for multiple magazines and brands.

As the ever-evolving creative industry shifts towards online spaces, so too has Kalina’s practice. Now, predominantly working with photo and video-based media, she creates and curates a variety of content that communicates brand narratives and stories across multiple digital channels.

Kalina's list of clients includes The Guardian, Dazed & Confused, i-D Online, Harper's Bazaar China, T Magazine, ASOS Magazine, Southbank Centre, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Polydor, Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Awful Records, Fendi, New Balance, Nike, Reebok, River Island, Selfridges, Vivienne Westwood and University of the Arts London among others.

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