LinkedIn Marketing: LinkedIn Essentials and Content Creation
Learn how LinkedIn works and how to create effective and engaging content.
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LinkedIn Marketing: LinkedIn Essentials and Content Creation
This course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles. Find out more.
Understand how LinkedIn works and how to design effective and engaging content.
This is part 1 of a 4 part series which will teach you how to succeed with LinkedIn. LinkedIn is more than a social media platform. It can give you the chance to build useful network connections and present many job opportunities. Your LinkedIn profile is your first impression. Done right, and it can be the key to help you build trust and credibility, and stand out from the millions of users online.
In Part 1, you’ll learn the best practices for optimising your personal or business profile to ensure it gets noticed for the right reasons.
You’ll identify the key features of LinkedIn and learn from experts who have conducted extensive research to find out exactly what it takes to be successful.
Explore discoverability strategies
With over 630 million users on LinkedIn, one of your top challenges is standing out.
On the course, you’ll learn effective strategies for discoverability as well as ways to build and convey authority on your page.
Grow and engage your network alongside industry experts
Learning from the experts at Social Media College, Australia, you’ll identify ways to grow and engage your network as well as assessing the benefits of LinkedIn premium services.
You’ll understand how to leverage group memberships and how to match LinkedIn content types to different buyer stages to ensure you’re pushing out effective content.
What topics will you cover?
- Understanding the LinkedIn landscape
- Benefits and value of using LinkedIn
- LinkedIn content and page types
- Using LinkedIn search and algorithm
- Building a LinkedIn content strategy
- Effective content creation
Who is this accredited by?
The CPD Certification Service was established in 1996 and is the leading independent CPD accreditation institution operating across industry sectors to complement the CPD policies of professional and academic bodies.
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Learning on this course
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What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Define the key features of LinkedIn as a professional network
- Identify which types of people and businesses can benefit from marketing on LinkedIn
- Describe the different types of content presented on LinkedIn
- Explain the key features of LinkedIn search functionality and how the algorithm works
Who is the course for?
Professionals wanting to learn how to use LinkedIn effectively for their personal brand and organisation marketing. This course is not specifically for marketers, it is a useful starting point for anyone looking to harness the opportunities available through LinkedIn.
What software or tools do you need?
You’ll need to have a LinkedIn account for this course.
Who developed the course?
Social Media College
Social Media College is the market leader for social media education. They work with the world’s top social media experts who use all the social platforms every day to deliver real life education that will help accelerate your business and career.
They are all about providing their students with the best possible outcomes and applicable skills - not just irrelevant theory.
Established
2013Location
Sydney, Australia
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Choose the best way to learn for you!
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$349.99 for one year
Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
- Access to this course
- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
Cancel for free anytime
Buy this course
$109/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
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Sample the course materials
- Access expires 11 May 2024
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