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The Landing hosts free Social Media Strategy course

Digital enterprise hub The Landing has just announced that a final few places remain on free courses and workshops aimed at helping small firms and start-ups in Manchester maximise their potential through improved social media skills.

Delivered at The Landing’s training facilities in the heart of MediaCityUK by some of the North West’s best business training providers, the social media strategy course is set to inform and educate qualifying businesses.

At full commercial rates it could cost a small business £1,000-£2,000 to attend. However through The Landing’s support from the European Regional Development Fund and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, the course is free to attend for qualifying businesses*.

The three part course – running on 13th, 20th and 27th May - is focused on equipping SMEs with hands-on knowledge and information to assist the growth plans of the business through adopting social strategies.

Modules include: understanding social media marketing and defining a strategy; creating an effective content marketing plan; using paid advertising on social channels; social media monitoring and measuring ROI of social media marketing.

For more details of these courses, events and other opportunities at The Landing call +44 (0)161 686 5555.

*To qualify for ERDF and BIS funding your company:

• Must be fewer than 249 employees
• Annual turnover must be less than €50 million
• Balance sheet must be less than €50 million
• No other organisation may own more than 25% of the SME
• Each business must complete a minimum of 12 hours training (i.e. two days). Organisations can send different attendees to each day but the days must be booked together.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by The Landing .