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How To Use TIKTOK For Business (Beginner to Advanced)

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Overview

Effective TikTok strategies to get you more followers, connections and sales so you can grow your business

What you'll learn:
  • How to use the TikTok platform to market your business successfully
  • About businesses and organizations that have already leveraged the TikTok platform to get the word out
  • How to engage with your audience on TikTok
  • How to create viral videos and grow your TikTok account
  • How the platform works and how the users interact with each other
  • Tools, tips and resources to help you create better content, and grow your audience faster
  • How to design content specifically for TikTok's algorithm
  • How to create and post the right type of content, at the right time, for maximum exposure
  • How to design and scale effective TikTok ad campaigns
  • The secrets to the TikTok Algorithm and how to get millions of views for your videos

Requirements

  • Desire to use TikTok and social media to promote your business

Description

Effective TikTok marketing to get you more traffic, followers, likes (hearts), shares, sales and conversions so you can grow your business.

The TikTok social media platform has seen explosive growth over the last two years.

It now has 800 million users that are desperate for fun and exciting content and this is a massive opportunity for you to promote your business.

To be successful with TikTok marketing you need to know how the platform works and how the users interact with each other.


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WHAT YOU WILL ACCOMPLISH BY THE END OF THE COURSE

By the end of this TikTok marketing course you will be able to promote your business, personal brand, or products on TikTok, and get an increase in growth and engagement.

TikTok is a powerful, “short & sweet” social broadcasting platform that can play a very significant and positive role in any business’ online marketing strategy.

Advertising on TikTok could be one of the most impactful decisions you make in your business’ online marketing strategy. You will learn TikTok marketing fundamentals and many advanced strategies that professional marketers use to promote their business on TikTok. These strategies will get you more followers, shares, engagement, and people clicking on whatever you are promoting.


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WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR

If almost no one is clicking on things you post, or you have no idea how to get the most out of TikTok to promote your business, this course is for you. This course is also for long-time TikTok users who want to take their TikTok marketing to a new level.

After taking the course, you should be comfortable using TikTok to promote your business, and be able to grow your TikTok following and effectively promote your business on TikTok.


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HOW THE COURSE IS STRUCTURED

The course first gives you solid TikTok marketing fundamentals. After that, the course discusses various TikTok marketing strategies.

Learn the in's-and-out's of TikTok.

  • What Is TikTok all about?

  • Signing Up For TikTok

  • TikTok Walkthrough

  • Switching Your TikTok Personal Account Into a TikTok Pro Account

  • Branding Your TikTok Profile For Business

  • Creating Your First TikTok Video

  • Using “Discover” as a Powerful Marketing Tool

  • Creating A Hashtag Challenge

  • Increasing Reach By Cross Promoting Your TikTok Content On Other Social Platforms

  • How Businesses Use TikTok In the Real World

  • Tips For Setting Up A Profitable Influencer Marketing Campaign For TikTok

  • Best TikTok Video Ideas To Boost Your Brand

  • Encouraging TikTok Users To Generate Content For Your Brand

  • Running A Contest or Sweepstakes On TikTok The Right Way

  • Best TikTok Marketing Strategies To Increase Followers

  • TikTok Marketing Do’s And Don’ts

  • TikTok Marketing Premium Tools And Services To Consider

  • TikTok Marketing Success Stories

  • TikTok Marketing Frequently Asked Questions

  • Campaign objectives

  • Ad groups & targeting

  • Campaign setup

  • Campaign editing and optimization

  • TikTok Ads policies & best practices

  • Measurement and analytics

  • Best Practices For Using TikTok


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CLASS PROJECT


Project #1

  • Assess whether TikTok is the right platform for your business Download and install the TikTok app for your Android or iOS device

  • Think about a good username that reflects your brand

  • Write a compelling profile description

  • Switch your account to Pro for accessing TikTok Analytics

  • Learn how the app works and how users interact with each other Start watching videos and liking (hearts) if you enjoy them Follow other TikTok users each day so they will follow you back

Goal: Get yourself setup on TikTok and learn how the app works and the best way to interact with other users. Start getting followers by following others


Project #2

  • Identify the most popular TikTok videos and determine why they are popular

  • Learn how to use all of the special effects

  • Learn how to create a video “on the fly” from within the TikTok app

  • Learn how to edit your video and add special effects

  • Learn how to add a music clip to your video

  • Look at videos suitable for Duets and come up with your own ideas

  • Look at successful hashtag challenge videos and come up with your own ideas

  • Identify and use an app to schedule your video creation and posting

Goal: Familiarize yourself with the different types of content on TikTok and learn how to create these yourself.


Project #3

  • Find out everything you can about your audience and the hashtags they search for

  • Identify successful influencers and look at the hashtags they use for their popular posts

  • Identify your competitors and look at the hashtags they use for their popular posts

  • Checkout Seekmetrics and All Hashtag for additional hashtag suggestions

Goal: You need to identify the right hashtags to use with your video posts. They must be related to the content you are posting.


Project #4

  • Think about how you can start a hashtag challenge for user engagement

  • Come up with ideas that are suitable for videos that encourage user Duets

  • Identify those influencers you believe are a right fit for your brand and contact them for a potential collaboration

  • Add time limits to all of your challenges to encourage participation

  • Create a voice for your brand so that your content comes across as authentic

  • Look at ways to build your community on TikTok

  • Look at other brands to see how they have used TikTok to successfully market themselves

  • Check out to see if you can use TikTok ads in your country

  • Change your account to Pro so that you can check how you are doing using TikTok Analytics

Goal: Create a marketing strategy for TikTok to get the best results from the platform


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YOUR TEACHER - SCOTT D. CLARY

As a career sales and marketing executive & leader, I've worked with a wide variety of organizations and peers, training thousands of individuals on both the hard and soft skills required to excel in their career.

On a professional level, I've worked within all size companies, and I've sold and marketed (as well as lead teams that have sold and marketed) to some of the most iconic F500 / F100 brands throughout my career.

I'm fortunate to have over 100+ of my thoughts and insights on sales, marketing, technology, business and entrepreneurship published in outlets such as Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Hackernoon, The Startup and others.

I'm the host of the Success Story Podcast (1m+ downloads), author of the ROI Overload Newsletter (with 30k subs and counting), founder of ROI Overload, a Sales & Marketing Community. (250k Followers) Newsletter, Publication & Startup Resource and a career Sales & Marketing exec.

I talk about sales, marketing, growth and startups on Twitter or LinkedIn @scottdclary

Taught by

Scott D. Clary, MBA

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