Social Media Marketing Certification

This certification-style course builds the broad, hands-on skillset a working social media marketer needs day to day. You will learn platform-specific tactics across major networks, how community management and customer care work at scale, and the fundamentals of paid social advertising including budgeting across a multi-platform portfolio. The course also covers how to read core performance metrics, build a professional reporting deliverable, and handle the practitioner-level responsibilities of crisis response and platform policy compliance. By the end, you will have the tactical and analytical foundation to operate as a competent, well-rounded social media marketing practitioner across platforms.

Course content (3 modules, 9 lessons)

Platform-Specific Tactics Across the Social Landscape

  • Instagram and Facebook Tactics: Feed, Stories, Reels
  • TikTok, X (Twitter), and LinkedIn Tactics
  • Community Management and Customer Care at Scale

Paid Social Advertising Fundamentals

  • Paid Social Advertising Models and Platforms Compared
  • Writing Ad Copy and Selecting Creative for Paid Campaigns
  • Budget Allocation Across a Paid Social Portfolio

Analytics, Reporting, and Professional Practice

  • Core Social Media Metrics and What They Mean
  • Building a Social Media Performance Report
  • Crisis Management, Compliance, and Platform Policies