You will be able to watch video lessons on the following topics:

Introduction to Facebook & Instagram ads

The difference between boost post and the Ad creation tool

How to target people geographically

How to target based on demographics

How to target based on behaviours

How to target based on interests

How to target your page followers

How to target by language

How to combine audiences when targeting

How to save an audience

Overview of how retargeting works

How to create a custom audience based on your website visitors

How to add the Facebook pixel to your website

How to select your retargeting audience when running a campaign

What is a lookalike audience?

How to create a Lookalike audience based on your website visitors

How to create a lookalike audience based on your Facebook page followers

How to create a custom audience based on engagement with your Facebook page

How to design eye catching Facebook ads

What you cannot put in an ad

3 ways to use the Facebook ads library for your campaigns

Understand how a campaign is structured

Why it’s best to target warm audiences first

How to watch videos of your website visitors after they click on your ad

How to run the ad campaign from start to finish

• How to turn a post into an ad using the Ads tool – step by step.
• How to get to the ads tool since the recent redesign on Facebook
• What objective should you choose
• Overview of Budget, targeting and placement
• However, rather than just run one ad, you should create mini campaigns (adsets)
• Why you should target distinct audiences rather than one large audience
• Why you should prioritise warm audiences and then move to cold
• How do you then add more “adsets” to your campaign
• Overview of how a campaign is structured (Campaign / Adsets / Ads)
• How to duplicate an existing adset to easily create 2-3 more adsets targeting new audiences
• How do you then monitor your campaign to see how each adset is preforming
• How to check which audience (adset) is performing the best

• Growing your followers (Final points)
• Overview of Apps and tools you can use to create eye catching posts & stories that will get engagement
• How to post to the Newsfeed, Stories & IGTV – best practice and pitfalls to avoid
• Tactics to get your posts & stories seen by more people
• How to drive people from Instagram to your website

What type of marketing tool is Stories? How does it compare to Posts & Reels on Instagram

How does the reach of Stories compare to posts?

How to post images to your story

• How to post an image that you take when using the app
• How many Story elements do brands tend to post per day
• Location tags and hashtags don’t get your story found anymore
• How to post an image from your camera’s gallery and how to  add Text, Gifs, music, mentions

How to use  Canva to create eye catching images for your Stories

How to post videos to your story

• How to post videos up to 60 seconds including major pitfall to avoid
• How to add captions to your videos using the Caption sticker
• How to post a video longer than 60 seconds to your story (An IGTV video)
• Editors you can use to create videos for your stories.

How to create videos for your Story

• How to use the Inshot App to edit a video for your Stories

How to use Polls & Question stickers for more engagement

• Why these stickers will benefit your marketing
• How to create a Poll and how do users experience it
• How to use the Slider sticker and how do users experience it
• How to create a Quiz and how do users experience it

How to share your posts and Reels to your Story

• How to share your post to your Story including pitfalls to avoid
• How to share your Reel to your Story including pitfalls to avoid

How to schedule your Stories using the Business Suite app

What are Story Highlights and how to get the most freom them

• How to add Stories to your profile as “Highlights”
• How to design Highlight covers that match your brand

How to interpret Story Insights (Analytics)

• How to view insights for your current Story
• What each of the metrics mean and what are the benchmarks you are aiming for
• How to view insights for your Stories over 1 month to 2 year period

Examples of ways to use Stories for marketing

Part 1:

1. Quick initial demo of how to create a Reel
2. Why businesses are seeing significantly more reach and engagement with Reels
3. How to find examples of Reels for your industry or by similar businesses to yours
4. How to ensure you get the full music library
5. How to save and use music from other Reels that you like
6. Reels that showcase a product
7. Reels that showcase a service
8. Educational Reels from coaches / trainers / consultants
9. Tourism Reels that showcase a location
10. Reels that are part of a theme
11. Behind the scenes Reels
12. Fun Reels

Demo 1 How to create a Reel that involves just video clips, music and text

1. How to edit clips within your Reel
2. How to add text

Demo 2: How to create a Reel by speaking to the camera

Part 2:

1. Recap on Reels that are simply speaking to camera – and how today’s lessons will make your Reel more interesting than these.
2. Examples of Reels with voiceover – How to add a voiceover to a Reel (Using the inbuilt tool in Reels)
3. Examples of Reels with footage – How to overlay footage onto your Reel video in order to make it very impactful –  using Filmora Editor
4. How to download any Reel to your PC in order to then use the music in a Reel (that you are going to edit in an external editor like Filmora)
5. Examples of Reels with green screen – How to create a Reel using the inbuilt green screen effect
6. The best way to share your Reel to your Story
7. How to get the embed code if you want to put your Reel onto your Website
8. How to choose a cover  for your Reel – to ensure it works as a square and vertical cover image  (In your notes I have also included slides showing you how to design a cover in Canva)

Part 1: Ways to drive traffic to your website from Instagram and Facebook

• Recap on why links don’t work in posts
• Why Linkin.bio could be a better tool for you than LinkTree to drive traffic to your site
• How to setup and use Linkin.bio
• How to add a link to your web pages from your Story
• Demonstration of the main issues you can experience when linking to your website from Facebook posts and how to fix them.

Part 2: Organic Reach of posts on Instagram and Facebook

• What % organic reach are businesses now getting on Facebook for posts
• What % reach are businesses getting on Instagram for posts?
• Why has  reach declined on Instagram recently?
• How to check the reach of your Posts on Instagram, in particular your recent ones.

How do the Feed algorithms work in 2022?

• How the Instagram feed Algorithm works
• New feature: How the new chronological feed and favourites feed on Instagram works
• How the Facebook feed algorithm has changed over time and the main elements in 2022

Based on third party studies what tactics could you focus on for getting more reach and engagement in 2022?

• Recap on getting the fundamentals right
• New feature – How collaborator posts on Instagram work. How to create one
• Why carousels work well on Instagram and how to approach creating one.
• Reels – recap on the the main points to get right
• How to run a competition on both Facebook and Instagram and how to choose a winner
• What type of videos tend to perform poorly for reach
• Wrap up and what’s coming next month

Part 1: An Overview of Linkedin

10 Video Lessons ( 53 mins of lessons)

It’s best to start with this course as it gives you an overview of Linkedin and explains how the various parts fit together. It explains what you need to know about your Profile, Connections, Newsfeed, Groups, Company Pages and Linkedin Ads. The lessons include:-

• An overview of the course and Linkedin
• How to signup for a Linkedin account
• Overview of the key areas of Linkedin
• About your profile
• My Network and how to connect with others on Linkedin
• About Home – your newsfeed
• About Groups
• About Jobs
• About Company Pages
• About Linkedin Ads

Part 2: How to use Linkedin for Marketing

32 Video Lessons (3 hours 20 mins of lessons)

Then move onto the second course which takes you through a 4 step process for using Linkedin for marketing and goes into detail on how to use your Linkedin profile for marketing, Company Page, Groups and Linkedin Ads (There are 55 mins of lessons covering Linkedin Ads)

The lessons cover:-

• Overview of how to use Linkedin for marketing – how to visualise it as a 4 step process

Step 1: Optimise your personal profile.

• Understand important settings for your privacy
• Decide if you want your connections to be told when you update your profile
• Decide what strangers will see when they visit your profile
• Decide whether you want people to know that you have viewed their profile
• Decide whether you want your connections to see who you are connected to
• Add a profile header and profile image
• How to fill in the Open To section
• Fill in the intro section
• Add services and posts to the featured section of your profile
• Fill in the About and Background sections
• About the Skills section and Endorsements
• Fill in your contact details and customise your profile url
• How to approach getting recommendations for your profile

Step 2:  Grow your network of connections on Linkedin

• The benefits of having a lot of first level connections
• Tips on how to grow your 1st level connections

Step 3: Increase awareness of your business within your network (including creating a company page)

• Increase brand awareness by posting – An overview of how to post
• Increase awareness by using hashtags and mentioning other profiles or pages
• How to send out an image post
• How to send out a video post including a thumbnail and captions
• Increase brand awareness – consider creating a company page
• How to create a Linkedin company page
• How staff can share your page posts
• How to post from your company page
• How to invite your connections to follow your page

Step 4: Generate leads within your network, groups and by trying Linkedin Ads

• Share valuable content that users need to give their email address for
• Post in groups linking to content that requires an email signup
• Consider Linkedin ads to generate leads
• Linkedin Ads part 1 – Setting up an ad account
• Linkedin Ads Step 2 – How to target – choose a format and set a budget
• Linkedin Ads step 3 – How to created the ad and send it out
• Course close and summary

30 Video Lessons (2 hours 20 mins of lessons)

There are 2 course on the members website covering Twitter marketing

1. The first course is Twitter Marketing – The Fundamentals. The course explains what type of marketing tool Twitter is, how it compares to Facebook and how to use Twitter, in particular Twitter lists. In the lessons I demonstrate what to do on both the Twitter app and the Twitter.com website.

2. The second course is  “How to tweet and how to grow your followers”. In this course I cover how to send out tweets with images, video, link to your website, hashtags, polls and how to mention another account and how to retweet. I also explain how to grow your followers on Twitter

Welcome and overview of what we will cover

Exercise 1:

How to choose a canvas size

How to add your image, logo and text

How to match the text colour to your brand colour

How to add effects to your text

Exercise 2:

How to create a colour background, including how to match to your brand colours

How to graduate the colours in the background (add a gradient)

How to add transparent images to your background

How to add text within a shape or container

How to animate the text, including multiple text blocks

Exercise 3:

How to design a portrait graphic for Stories or IGTV  / Reels covers

How to add pre-formatted / grouped text

 Exercise 4:

How to design a video thumbnail

How to add text into multiple background shapes with various colours

How to add a keyline white border around a person or object

Exercise 5:

How to add graphics / illustrations – including animated graphics

How to add multiple pages to your design in order to create a video

Exercise 6:

What are frames

How to add images to frames

How to animate the images and text in order to make a video

Exercise 7:

How to add a landscape or portrait video to a frame

Exercise 8:

How to add a video to a square or portrait canvas

How to add text that appears above and below the video throughout.

You will be able to watch video lessons on the following topics:

How a lapel microphone will improve your videos

How a directional microphone is alternative

Demonstration of a tripod and tripod adjuster mount

Demonstration of a Ring light

Tips for making a company promo video by interviewing staff

Tips for making a company promo video using a voice over

Tips for making a testimonial video

Tips for making a “How To” video

Tips for making a product video

How to get used speaking directly to camera

How to get your logo animated to use in your videos

Where to get free stock videos

Where to get high quality stock music

How to transfer videos from your phone to your PC

Video ediitng courses:

1) How to edit a marketing video using Filmora on your PC  / Mac

*How to add music, text, footage, transitions, your logo)

*5 different video editing exervices and you can download the files used in the demos so you can practice editing

2) How to edit marketing videos on your phone using Inshot app (90 minute course)

Step 1: Decide on whether your videos should be landscape, portrait or square.

• Why did you create the video?
• If for social media, which is your most important social network?

Step 2: Share your video on the main social networks

Decide whether you want to use your phone or desktop because lots of things differ depending on which you choose

How to share your video on Instagram

• How to share your video as an Instagram Reel
• How to share your video as a post
• How to share your video to your Instagram story

How to post your video on Facebook

How to post your video on Twitter.

How to post your video on LinkedIn

You will be able to watch video lessons on the following topics:

You will be able to watch video lessons on the following topics:

An overview of how to generate more enquiries and sales

What is Google Analytics

How to signup for Google analytics

How to setup ecommerce tracking

How to setup bot filtering

Ensure you have an SSL cert so visitors are not scared off

How to check how quickly your page loads

How to watch videos of your website visitors browsing your site (2 videos)

How you can tell how far down your page visitors are scrolling

How to tell what people are clicking on in your pages

Why should your web visitors choose you?

How to highlight key features and benefits of your products

How to make your own product video

How to make your own testimonial videos

How to embed Facebook reviews on your website

Why you need Call To Action buttons

How to integrate Facebook messenger on your website to generate enquiries

How to check the conversion rate on your site

How to check how many sales we generated on the site last week / month

How to check where your sales are coming from eg Search or social media

You will be able to watch video lessons on the following topics:

An overview of SEO – how it works

How to go about doing keyword research

How to do Keyword research using Google Suggest

How to do Keyword research by looking at competitors websites

How to do keyword research  using Keyword Planner tool

How to do keyword research  using Answer the Public

How to choose a final list of Keywords / search terms

Overview of onsite optimisation

How to create a meta titles and description working document

How to update your page meta titles in wordpress

How to update a page meta description

How to tag your images

Overview of technical optimisation of your website

How to test whether Google sees your site as mobile friendly

Why you should add internal links

Why you should ensure there is no canonicalisation

How to check your page load speed

Why you need an SSL cert

How to verify your site with Google search console

How to check the domain authority of your site (and competitors)

Why backlinks are important

How to quickly check where you appear on Google for lots of search terms

How to check how much traffic your getting from search engines

How to check how many sales you are getting from search traffic

In 2022, Google is a lot more than just 10 organic search results and 3 map results per page.

• Overview of the main elements of the Search Engine Results Page (SERP)
• What you need to know about “Featured Snippets” section in order to get found high up
• What you need to know about “People Also Ask” section in order to get found
• What you need to know about “Image Search” in order to get found
• What has changed with Google My Business for 2022 – what you need to know
• Any big changes to organic search in 2022?

You will be able to watch video lessons on the following topics:

Why you need a Google My Business listing

What does Google look for in a listing?

How to check if there is already a Google My Business listing for your business

How to create a listing

How to fill in your business and contact details correctly

How to fill in details of your services and business

How to upload photos and videos to your listing

How to generate a link to the reviews section of your listing

• Why is Google making this big update?
• What feeds into Page Experience?
• How to check whether Google sees your site as mobile friendly
• Why Google wants your site needs to be secure
• What are Core Web Vitals?
• How to check your Core web vitals
• Next steps – what you need to do
• What if your web designer can’t speed up your site?
• Some questions regarding protecting images and optimising images on your site

• How to get your Google My Business listing found in Google’s 3 local map results
• What you need to do to get your website found on page 1 of organic results  for local searches:
• How to get found for local image search results:
• Get listed on directory sites that appear on page 1
• How to use Facebook & Instagram ads to target people who live within a few miles of your town or within your county
• Organic social media tactics to get you discovered

• Tips for deciding which “selling events” you are going to target with special offers (Including Black Friday & Christmas)
• How to go about turning your service or product into a “Gift” that can be marketed including pitfalls to avoid.
• SEO – How to optimise your “Gift” or “Special offer” pages to get found in Google and when to do it before it is too late.
• Tips for creating social media posts to promote your “Gifts” and “Special Offers”
• Tips and pitfalls to avoid when Creating Facebook & Instagram ad campaigns to promote your “Gifts” and “special offers”

You will be able to login to a members only website where you can access

1. A digital marketing plan that you can implement for your business. This will be explained in a video and a printable document.
2. 12 of our latest Digital Marketing courses which you can watch at a pace that suits when you need it. (16.5 hours of on demand lessons)
3. Join Evan on live digital marketing training course each month which will cover very popular topics in detail (Minimum of 12 courses a year)

When you sign up you receive a membership subscription which automatically renews each year.

The school is designed to provide you with detailed Action plans and video lessons covering a wide range of Digital Marketing topics plus monthly live training courses via Zoom. However, the nature of digital marketing is that things are constantly changing and we will be keeping the content up to date. This means that a lot of the content that will be on the site next year will be quite different to what you see when you initially join.  An annual membership gives you ongoing access to this content.

Yes – if you do not wish to renew your membership you can easily cancel it. When a member logs into the membership site there are details within the Your Account section explaining how you can cancel. When a member cancels the membership will expire at the end of the 12 month period.

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You can join the Digital Marketing School  ‘Risk free’.  We know you’ll find the action plans, video lessons and ongoing digital marketing updates  very beneficial but we want you to have peace of mind when ordering it.  If, within 7 days of purchase you think the  Digital Marketing School  isn’t useful for you just let us know and we will give you a no quibble refund.

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• You will then have access to all of the content in the “members only” Digital Marketing School website.

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