Ensure your Instagram content is high quality, engaging, and delivered consistently and strategically.
Duration
2 weeksWeekly study
4 hours100% online
How it worksIncluded in an ExpertTrack
Course 2 of 4
Content Planning and Creation
Develop your content creation and scheduling skills
By focusing on engagement and high-quality storytelling, you can ensure your Instagram account remains relevant to your audience’s goals, using a scheduled calendar of content delivery.
On this two-week course, you’ll learn to optimise your content through scheduling, layout planning, and editing. Using these skills, your account will showcase your brand’s aesthetic and whilst staying current and fresh.
Post high quality images using Canva
Canva is an invaluable tool for social media marketers, allowing you to edit your images and videos to a professional standard.
Through hands-on activities, you’ll learn how to use a range of Canva features and discover how to improve your output quality and layout, guaranteeing you deliver great content with every post.
Improve your data analysis with Instagram Insights
Instagram Business Accounts come equipped with a range of tools to improve your reach and optimise your content.
You’ll learn how to interpret content data, exploring impressions, account activity, top posts, and reach, giving you valuable insights into what content best resonates with your audience. You’ll also learn how to use planning tools to track your feed and keep your content varied.
With this knowledge, you’ll be able to adapt your content strategy and monitor the success of your changes.
Design a content brief for outsourcing your social media content
By using freelancers, you can increase the level of output on your account and help your brand grow.
You’ll be guided through the hiring process and learn how to develop a content brief to ensure their work aligns with your brand.
By the end of this course, you’ll have learned how content schedules can improve reach and engagement and have gained new skills in content editing.
Syllabus
Week 1
Create Great Content
Welcome to Week 1
A quick welcome to the week and an outline of key learning outcomes
Design Your Feed
Creating content is not enough – you have to create GREAT content! It’s the lifeblood of social media and at the heart of success on Instagram.
Great Photo Posts
'What do my customers want?'. It's not just about a great-looking grid, each individual post needs to deliver value to your audience and spark engagement.
Other Content Types
In this activity, we'll be looking at Instagram Video, Reels, Stories, and Live.
Let's Review
There's a quiz at the end of each week. Going through the quiz questions will revisit the main ideas that you've just looked at and strengthen your learning.
Week 2
Plan and Schedule
Welcome to Week 2
Welcome and learning outcomes
Understanding Instagram Insights
A top benefit of business profiles on Instagram is receiving Instagram Insights! This feature provides easy-to-understand data about your content performance – helping you make better-informed decisions on your strategy.
Plan Your Content Calendar
Creating the right content for your business starts with clarifying what it is you want to accomplish.
Content Briefs and Freelancers
Freelancers play a pivotal role in a social media marketer's career. There is a constant need for editors, proofreaders, content creators, video editors, and much more.
Let's Review
There's a quiz at the end of each week. Going through the quiz questions will revisit the main ideas that you've just looked at and strengthen your learning.
Prove you're job ready
Highlight the new, job-relevant skills you’ve gained and supplement existing qualifications with a hard-earned, industry-specific digital certificate – plus one for every course within your ExpertTrack.
- Learn the latest in your chosen industry or subject.
- Complete each course and pass assessments.
- Receive certificates validated by the educating organisation.
- Impress employers with learning outcomes you can add to your CV.
- Make your career dreams a reality.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Identify characteristics and qualities of ‘great visual content’
- Produce your own great content in both photo and video formats
- Practice editing your photos in 3rd party editing software
- Create your own grid layout in Canva
- Create Stories that are optimised for engagement
- Create and post an IG live that maximises follower reach
- Collect data from Instagram Insights and Post Insights, including: Reach, Impressions, Account Activity, Top Posts, Top Videos, Top Stories
- Create a monthly Content Calendar
- Evaluate the best freelancer by identifying necessary characteristics
- Produce an effective content brief (with an example)
Who is the course for?
This course is for social media influencers, marketers, and advertisers who want to improve their audience reach and develop their Instagram planning and scheduling skills.
It is particularly suited to business owners who want to ramp up Instagram engagement to build brand loyalty and turn followers into customers, as well as marketing professionals who want to up their social game.
What software or tools do you need?
You’ll need to have the Instagram app on your phone, and set up a free Canva account.
Who will you learn with?
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Social Media College. Passionate about all things digital marketing and love working with our students to help them achieve their success using the power of social media.
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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