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The Social Media Marketing Workshop
This workshop is a must for anyone working in media, marketing and public relations. It is tailored especially for those who need to communicate with clients, employees, suppliers, partners, readers, listeners, or any kind of audience.
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Date: 05 Feb 2010
21 May 2010
24 Sep 2010
Time: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Fee: $548
Enquiries: Tel: 6720 3333
OR email
To ensure maintain the quality of the Master Class, enrolment is capped at 25 participants per session.

Registrations are processed on a first-come, first-served basis.

Practical And Professional Knowledge

Before we discuss anything else, it is important to understand that the internet is a great medium for promoting even a brick and mortar business that has nothing to do with the internet. So, you could be running a pet-shop, or a hair salon or maybe you are distributing milk powder in Africa, the power of the internet could still provide a leg up for your business - in an extremely cost effective manner! Social media has become a rapidly growing marketing tool for the business world.

Adding social media into the marketing mix is increasingly important for marketers who want to establish an online presence for their businesses. If you are trying to understand why Social Media has become such a buzzword and what your organization should be doing about it, you should learn from someone who can combine the rigour and knowledge of traditional marketing with technical skills, creativity and brazenness of the New Social Media. With his unique experience, (see above) Shalu fits the bill perfectly.

Who Must Attend

This workshop is a must for professionals working in media, marketing and public relations. It is tailored especially for those who need to communicate with clients, employees, suppliers, partners, readers, listeners, or any kind of audience.
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Key Takeaways

  • Properly use and leverage on-line social networks, consumer generated content, blogs, podcasts, wikis, video, RSS feeds and virtual worlds to better deliver your message
  • Implement a social marketing program on a very limited budget
  • Ensure you are visible to all major search engines through the latest SEO tactics and social media optimization techniques
  • Generate lots of great, quality, relevant links, which will help your site perform better in search results
  • Improve Customer Service
  • Use social media sites like twitter, facebook, linkedin, and youtube to extend your brand’s awareness and increase sales!
  • Reduce Customer Retention Costs
  • Optimize social media platforms to increase your organization’s website exposure via blogs, Twitter, YouTube, Google, and Facebook
  • Utilize online video, pictures and audio to generate brand exposure and uplift on YouTube, Flickr, and Podcasts
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Course Outline

What is social media?
  • Examples of popular web 2.0 applications and social media web sites/tools
  • Benefits of using social media.
  • What to do and what to avoid.
Using social media
  • Social media case studies
Business blogging
  • What is Blogging
  • Who is Blogging? (Blogging case studies)
  • Getting started.
  • A blog as a centrepiece of the Social Media Strategy
  • Developing a blogging strategy
Social news
  • What is social news, and who uses it?
  • The usefulness and benefits of using social news sites.
  • Getting started.
Social networking
  • What are Social Networking sites
  • Usefulness of Social Networking sites
  • Getting started with Social networking sites.
Social bookmarking
  • What are Social bookmarking sites
  • Usefulness of Social Networking sites
  • Getting started with a social bookmarking sites
Forums and message boards
  • What are Forums & Message Boards
  • Benefits of using Forums & Message Boards
  • Use Forums & Message Boards effectively
Rating and review sites
  • Other forms of social media
  • usefulness of other forms of social media
  • Getting started with rating and review sites.
Overview of Other Social Media Sites ( Wikipedia, Yahoo! Answers, etc.)
  • What are Other Social Media Sites
  • Who uses these Other Social Media Sites
  • How do I use these Other Social Media Sites effectively
Putting it all together
  • Creating a Social Media Strategy as a component of your marketing mix
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Master Trainer

Shalu is a top blogger and runs a wildly popular blog - www.tickledbylife.com Shalu started www.tickledbylife.com in late 2008 and in a very short time it has won the hearts of thousands of subscribers and casual readers who visit the site for their daily dose of ‘tickles’! Shalu leverages social media effectively to promote his training and consulting business as well as his blog! (You can connect with Shalu on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin.)

With an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (1999), Shalu became the youngest ever regional head at NIIT in 2003 (at age 26) heading a team of 150 and also the youngest ever Country Manager at Polaroid in 2005 (at age 28) heading operations for ASEAN and India.

Shalu also conceptualized and ran successful joint promotional campaigns with some of the biggest brands in the world including Microsoft, Coca Cola, Reebok, Intel and Samsung, thus stretching the marketing dollar for his company. One of the sales promotion campaigns also won the best promotion award at the India Promo Power Awards(2002-2003), competing against 450 other entries. Shalu’s creativity in finding workable solutions to intractable business problems earned him the sobriquet ‘ideas man’. In acknowledgment of his contributions, the ‘ideas man’ was specially picked up as ‘Pathfinder’ to work closely with the chairman of the company for major strategic projects.

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Comprehensive Material

All participants will received a set of Aventis Proprietary Course Manual: comprehensive material tailored for professionals notes. Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be awarded a Certificate of Participation by Aventis School of Management, a recognition of professional excellence.

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Registration Details

To ensure maintain the quality of the Master Class, enrolment is capped at 25 participants per session. Registrations are processed on a first-come, first-served basis.


Date 05 Feb 2010
21 May 2010
24 September 2010
Venue Concorde Hotel, Orchard Road
Time 9.00am to 5.00pm
Fee $548
Enquiries Tel: 6720 3333 or Email: training@aventisgroup.com.sg

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In House Customized Training

We deliver customized designed courses that are tailored to your organizational needs. Our professional trainers are domain experts with extensive international experience. Do contact us today @ 6720 3333 / training@aventisgroup.com.sg for no-obligation training needs assessment, we will work in partnership with you to identify needs, develop training and find instructors that best fit your business environment

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