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Social Media Training

An effective social media strategy can completely transform your business’s brand, and is a useful tool in reputation management online too. However in order to take full advantage of social media marketing it is important to first educate yourself and your employees on how to make best use of it.

social media trainingWhether you are going to do the social media marketing for your business yourself, or are going to assign that responsibility to someone else in your company, you will need to have a basic understanding of social media, the various portals available and best practises for each.

At WSI Marketing Experts we offer a variety of different social media training options:

One-to-one training

For existing clients, once we have helped to create and implement a social media strategy, we provide one-to-one training on each of the relevant social media platforms so that we can gradually hand over to the client. This can be done in person or via Skype.

Social Media Taster Workshops

We also run workshops for those people who would like a basic introduction to social media, to find out whether it will be effective for their business and to discover which portals are most relevant to their industry. Find out more about our Social Media Taster Workshops.

Some feedback from those who have attended our Social Media Taster Workshop:

“Thank you so much for the enjoyable and informative talk yesterday.”

“I found the session extremely useful, as I have always tried to ignore SM in the past & now that I am self employed, I need to do what I can to push my company forward. I will definitely recommend this workshop to others.”

“I thought the workshop was excellent and packed a lot of information into 3 hours.”

Bespoke social media training solutions

We are also happy to discuss bespoke training solutions for companies that would like to train up groups of staff in a specific area. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.

If you are serious about using social media for your business, then it is well worth investing in the right training. With the right strategy in place, and the relevant knowledge to implement it effectively, there’s no limit to what social media can do for your business.

Fast Facts
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The number of adults who bought or ordered goods or services online in the UK within the last 12 months reached 31 million in 2010. These Internet shoppers represented 62 per cent of all adults. – ONS, Aug 2010

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Over 2/3 of UK consumers ages 14 and older—roughly 26 million people—bought goods, travel or other services online at least once per month in 2010 – eMarketer, Nov 2010

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83% of UK online shoppers use search engines to research a purchase. – eMarketer, Nov 2010

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Researching products and services is the second most popular online activity among Brits with 3 out of 4 UK internet users doing so – eMarketer, Sep 2010

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UK business to business ecommerce was worth £360 billion in 2009 – Boston Consulting Group, Oct 2010

Businesses dominated by inbound marketing have a 62% lower cost per lead than firms that do mostly outbound marketing – eMarketer, Mar 2011