Class Central is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Coursera

Introduction to Social Media Marketing

Facebook and Meta via Coursera

Overview

Prepare for a new career with $100 off Coursera Plus
Gear up for jobs in high-demand fields: data analytics, digital marketing, and more.
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.

Syllabus

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Taught by

Anke Audenaert

Reviews

5.0 rating, based on 1 Class Central review

4.8 rating at Coursera based on 12934 ratings

Start your review of Introduction to Social Media Marketing

  • Kai
    Good introduction to
    - various social media platforms from a user and business perspective
    - creating SMART goal, KPIs
    - target audience persona, customer journey through the 5 phases (awareness, interest, desire, conversion, advocacy)

Never Stop Learning.

Get personalized course recommendations, track subjects and courses with reminders, and more.

Someone learning on their laptop while sitting on the floor.