Content Marketing: The Complete Guide
Learn how to use content marketing to engage with your customers and improve results. Understand the elements of a successful content marketing strategy, and how to track and measure its success. Identify the best channels and how to distribute content effectively.
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You will learn to:
- Understand why content marketing is important and what its key benefits are.
- Understand the elements of a successful content marketing strategy.
- Understand the importance of personas in content marketing.
- Identify what qualifies as valuable content.
- Learn how to track and measure the success of your content marketing strategy.
Ways you can learn with us
Virtual Classroom: Tutor led, live, online classroom environments, find out more here: Virtual Classroom
Online: Self Study, via an always-on, always open portal, providing an engaging multimedia learning experience, find out more here: Online Learning
In person: face-to-face, tutor-led classroom training. To ensure everyone’s safety while attending courses at our training centre, we’re taking a range of precautionary measures. You can find the full list, here
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- 2 days (14 CPD hours)
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Course Information
Introducing content marketing
- Learn why content marketing is important
- Understand the consumer challenge content marketers face
Creating a content strategy
- Learn why you need a content strategy
- Discover what your content strategy should cover and deliver
- Advance your content plans into content strategies
Setting objectives and KPIs
- Learn how to set SMART objectives and KPIs to achieve
Using insights to understand your audience
- Understand who a content marketing audience includes
- Understand the importance of personas and how to create them
- Understand how content marketing fits in the customer journey
Getting creative
- Learn how brands create great stories
- Understand what a content “sweet spot” is
- Apply the hero, hub, and hygiene model to your content creation
Identifying the channels best suited to your content
- Understand how to use the converged media model
- Know what to question when content planning
- Assess the best channels to use for both B2B and B2C content marketing
- Learn about the importance of using a content calendar
Managing your strategy
- Effectively manage the delivery of your content strategy
- Learn about the content lifecycle
- Understand the importance of a Content Management System (CMS)
Curating and optimising your content
- Learn about content curation
- Understand the amplification of content
- Understand how to measure and test your content marketing activities
You can upgrade to an Award for just £375 + VAT.
Our Award in Content marketing is the equivalent to a QCF level 5 i.e. a Foundation degree.
In order to upgrade, you will need to complete two 1 hour online exams. Both exams will be multiple choice.
If you are interested in upgrading, or would like some more information, please contact IDM Customer Services on 020 8614 0277.
This course is designed for marketers from junior executives to business leaders. The principles of valuable content marketing have resonance and application at all levels, in all industries.
If you want to learn how to harness the opportunities that content marketing offers, then this course is for you.
Once you enrol onto ‘Content Marketing: The Complete Guide’ course you will receive the ‘DMA Copywriting Guide’.
The guide has been devised by numerous marketing industry experts. It will help you understand how to do one-to-one marketing the right way.
Julie Atherton F IDM, Managing Director, Small Wonder
A business and marketing consultant with significant experience in B2B, B2C, commercial and not-for-profit organisations, and a particular specialism in the education sector. A strategist and trainer delivering leadership, business transformation, integrated marketing, and brand development projects, Julie’s expertise includes content marketing, brand engagement, recruitment, fundraising, CRM, digital and data, and social media.
Will Francis
Will is a digital and social media expert, creating swipe-stopping content and innovative digital experiences since his days as Editor at MySpace in the mid-late noughties. He has worked with global brands from Volkswagen to Net-a-Porter, Samsung to Penguin Books to engage their audiences in more memorable, meaningful ways. His digital innovation agency Vandal leverages emerging technology for brands, cutting through the saturated digital landscape with engaging content and campaigns. Will also writes and appears in the media to share his expertise on technology and media, which he does through training, talks and events.
London (W1W 8SS)
The course gave real practical examples that showed what we could practically do
Louise Haythornwaite,
Kingston College
Very useful, I learnt loads in just one day!
Joe Phillip,
Space Promotions
Really great course and tutor! Informative, insightful and filled me with interesting ideas and strategies which I'll be implementing in my role
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To discuss your options, please get in touch with one of our learning and development team: