Learn to design impactful social media strategies tailored for platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and TikTok. This program gives you the skills to grow your online presence, engage your audience, and drive business results through targeted social media marketing.
This is the recommended order, but some courses may be taken in a different order.
Unit 1 6 Hours
Learn how to market your business on LinkedIn by optimizing your profile, using search features, and implementing paid advertising. This workshop covers the benefits of LinkedIn, how to leverage a personal profile, creating a company page, and measuring marketing success.
Unit 2 6 Hours
In this hands-on training workshop, learn how to effectively use YouTube for social media marketing and develop a successful business content strategy. This workshop covers all aspects of video-based social media marketing, from creating a channel and editing content to monetization and using Shopify with YouTube.
Unit 3 6 Hours
Learn how to use TikTok for video-based marketing campaigns and create attention-grabbing content that drives sales and builds your following. This accelerated workshop explores the commercial side of TikTok and helps students develop a marketing strategy that works for them.
Unit 4 6 Hours
Unit 5 12 Hours
Unit 6 12 Hours
Discover how to create and manage effective Facebook ad campaigns. Learn about business pages, Facebook groups, targeted ads, and audience targeting. Explore the Facebook algorithm, Meta Business Manager, and more in this workshop.
Unit 7 6 Hours
Social media today has a variety of ways to showcase yourself or your brand to a wide audience, including streaming. Streaming has been a key component of social media content for over a decade. Now, content creators can use applications such as OBS to create an interactive experience for their audience. In this class, you’ll learn about the main streaming platforms, including Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok, as well as the fundamentals of setting up your stream using the free application OBS.
Unit 8 18 Hours
In this capstone course, discover social media marketing opportunities and how to optimize your online presence for job success. Topics include brand research, campaign development, networking strategies for LinkedIn, and more. Prepare for a career in social media management and content creation.
Unit 9
Throughout this program, you will complete a capstone project to showcase in your portfolio:
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You can also access recordings of each session in your student portal within one business day of the session’s end. Recordings are available for one month after the session.
Learn practical skills by working on real projects with instructor guidance and lectures to strengthen and improve your skill.
Since 1921, Graduate School USA has partnered with over 125 federal agencies and trained more than one million federal employees. Led by instructors with deep, real-world knowledge of federal regulations, policies, and practices, our private group programs are practical, mission-driven, and tailored to your agency’s objectives. We offer expertise across key federal domains—including human resources, financial management, acquisition and contracting, leadership, and more—to deliver training where and how your team needs it.
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