Course Name: Social Media Strategy and Planning for Business Growth
Suitable for: Founders/Owners/Directors of  Startups / High Growth Companies
Course Summary:
Growing a business takes alot of time, energy and skills. Social Media is fast becoming the most cost effective way to accelerate the growth of your own business and raising your online presence.  If you are starting up your own business or planning to grow your business over the next 12 months then you will need to consider using social media as part of your overall marketing and promotions plan. During this course we will help you write and plan your own social media strategy for your organisation within the resources you currently have.  There are no quick wins with social media. A good business will shine brightly online and your customers will help you spread the word online.

What will we do on this course?

• -Understand the full impact of social media on your business environment
• -Help you to find the return on investment for your business
• -Look at case studies for business use across the most popular social networking sites such as Linkedin.com, Twitter.com, Facebook.com and other specialists sites
• -How to combine all these activities in a co-ordinated strategy and plan
• -Set realistic commercial objectives for using social media to grow your business
• -How to integrate your social media plan with your other sales and marketing activities you currently do
• -Research social media sites for competitive information and tracking conversation topics to suit your products or services
• -Focus your social media activity on reaching your target audience
• -Help you plan your content for sharing such as blog articles, video, audio and other content resources for social media sites

How is this course delivered?

Option 1: “give it to me in 1 day please”

You will join a very small group of peers at University of Reading , Earley Gate Campus in Reading and experience a 1 day intensive course. It will start at 9.30am and finish at 5pm. During this day you will have opportunities to write your own social media strategy and leave with a good idea on how best to use your finite resources to grow your business. You will be given  case studies and a high level of  personal support.

1 day intensive course for small group is £425.00 per person
(this includes buffet lunch and refreshments through out the day in a comfortable University environment).

1 day session date: July 15th 2011

To book: please call us now on 0118 935 7212 or email us office@socialnetit.com.
Payments and Terms: All places must be paid for in full prior to the course start date, cancellation terms apply for last minute cancellations or non attendance.

Option 2: “haven’t got time for a 1 day course can we do it in stages please?”

We do offer a very personal bespoke one to one service. This course would be spread over a 5 hourly sessions in our private board room at the Reading Enterprise Centre in Reading. We meet up each session and run through the main areas of developing your social media strategy . We would typically deliver this over a 5 week period.  We can also come to your office, subject to travel costs for a rolls royce premium service.  During each session we will focus on your business exclusively and show you how to write your own social media strategy.

Our one to one programme is proving very popular for business owners and directors of start up or fast growth companies.

If you would like to book on our one to one programme – please call us now for a quotation on 0118 935 7212 or email us office@socialnetit.com

Option 3: “can you train just my staff please as a bespoke training service?”

If you want us to put together a bespoke training programme for your staff then please call us now on 0118 935 7212 to discuss your training requirements and we can put together a bespoke proposal for you.