Doing Business Online

Doing Business Online

How to get more business from your website in the social media age.

Date Speakers Location Price
30 May, 2012
9:00 - 5:00
David Taylor
David Miles
Farringdon, EC1, London
  • £129.00 £149.00
  • (until 23 May, 2012 )
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Course Overview

  • Design a successful website
  • Optimise your website for search engines
  • Drive traffic to your website
  • Understand analytics
  • Make the most of social media
  • Plan an online marketing strategy

Who Should Attend?

If you want to build a successful online marketing presence - then this introductory course is for you.

The course is particularly relevant for:

  • Small business owners
  • Anyone looking to understand the basics of doing business online successfully
  • Anyone wanting to master practical internet marketing skills

A look at the day

Morning

Why Do Business Online?

  • Why having an online presence is essential
  • Typical ways businesses are using the internet
  • Developing an internet strategy
  • Making the internet work for you
  • Attracting new customers
  • Educating and communicating
  • Developing your brand online

Afternoon

Marketing Your Company Online

  • Basic SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
  • Setting up an Adwords account
  • An Introduction to Google Analytics
  • Identifying the key performance indicators – visitors/page views/bounce rates/time on site…
  • Online and offline – ‘joining up’ your marketing activity

Fundamentals for a Successful Website

  • Must haves for a successful website
  • Optional features
  • Capturing contact details
  • Importance of design and fonts
  • Fundamentals of navigation
  • Optimising content and layout
  • Bounce rates – and how to minimise them

Social Media Explained

  • What is social media?
  • Why is it important for business?
  • A brief review of the social media landscape including Blogging, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr...
  • Examples of how businesses use social media for: Promotion and sales, Customer service, Building brand loyalty, Monitoring the competition, Increasing traffic, Networking, Customer feedback, Increasing search engine optimisation

Online Marketing Explained

SEO, AdWords, Analytics

  • Cutting through the jargon.
  • Driving traffic to your website
  • A look at search engines and how they work
  • What is Search Engine Optimisation?
  • Using sponsored online ads and pay per click
  • Using Google analytics to see what is happening on your website

Making the Most of Social Media

  • An introduction to Blogging including Wordpress, Blogger, what to say, when, and how
  • Setting up a Twitter account and how to use it
  • Using Facebook in business
  • Integrating your social media

Your Online Strategy and Next Steps

  • How to apply what you’ve learnt to your company
  • Bringing together all the components from the day to provide you with an online marketing strategy for your company
  • How all the online components you’ve learned about interact to draw traffic to your website
  • A practical action plan to implement straight away
 

Video Testimonials

Roland Mann

Gary Bollock

Tags

Social Media Analytics Websites E-commerce Online Strategy Doing Business Online

Recommended Courses

Social Media for Business - Introduction , How to Master Google Adwords , Twitter - 2 Day Course (Practical & Strategy) , How to Use Google Analytics to Increase Your Profits

This training course is accredited by:

cpd

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You get

Comprehensive 1 Day Course
From 9am to 5pm

Lunch & Refreshments
Provided throughout the day

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