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Marketing, Sales & Communication

Paid Social and Search Advertising

Learn to plan, build and improve paid campaigns that bring real results.

7 daysIntermediate11 modules
Overview

About this course

Learn to plan, build and improve paid campaigns that bring real results. Over seven days you will set clear objectives, research audiences, structure accounts and create search, display, video and social campaigns on Google and Meta platforms.

You will also set up conversion tracking, choose bidding strategies, test creative and read the data to decide where your budget works hardest. The course ends with a workshop in which you plan a complete campaign and present it as you would to a manager or client.

What you'll learn

What you'll learn

  • Set campaign objectives that connect advertising spend to business goals
  • Plan audiences, budgets and bidding strategies for Meta and Google campaigns
  • Build structured search campaigns with keywords, match types and responsive ads
  • Create paid social campaigns with effective targeting, placements and creative
  • Install and use conversion tracking to measure results accurately
  • Analyse campaign data and optimise for cost, reach and conversions
  • Report campaign performance clearly to managers and clients
Curriculum

Curriculum

11 modules
  • How paid search and paid social differ
  • The customer journey and the marketing funnel
  • Choosing campaign objectives
  • Key metrics: impressions, clicks, CTR, CPC, CPA and ROAS
  • Defining goals and success measures
  • Audience research and personas
  • Setting budgets and forecasting results
  • Building a media plan across platforms
  • Business accounts, ad accounts and access roles
  • Campaign, ad set and ad group structure
  • Naming conventions and organisation
  • Billing and spending limits
  • Keyword research and planning
  • Match types and negative keywords
  • Writing responsive search ads
  • Ad assets and extensions
  • Quality Score and ad rank
  • Display network targeting options
  • Video campaigns on YouTube
  • Performance Max campaign basics
  • Audience signals and creative assets
  • Campaign objectives in Meta Ads Manager
  • Core, custom and lookalike audiences
  • Placements across Facebook, Instagram and Messenger
  • Advantage+ options and automated delivery
  • Ad formats: image, video, carousel and collection
  • Writing headlines and calls to action
  • Designing for mobile and short attention spans
  • Testing creative variations
  • Manual and automated bidding
  • Campaign and ad set budgets
  • Learning phases and delivery stability
  • Scaling successful campaigns
  • Conversion tracking with Google tags and the Meta Pixel
  • Conversions API and server-side tracking concepts
  • UTM parameters and Google Analytics
  • Attribution models and their limits
  • Reading performance reports
  • A/B testing and experiments
  • Diagnosing low performance
  • Retargeting and remarketing strategies
  • Building a performance dashboard
  • Presenting results to stakeholders
  • Planning a full campaign for a real brand
  • Peer review and feedback
Who it's for

Who it's for

Marketers, business owners and communication staff who manage or plan to manage paid advertising budgets.

Before you start

  • Basic familiarity with social media platforms and web browsing
  • An understanding of general marketing concepts is helpful
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