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Social Media Marketing
By the end of this course you will have a working social media system for your business: one platform you own, a content calendar you can actually keep up with, and a repeatable way to turn followers into paying customers.
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You're posting into the void and calling it marketing. Six modules to turn that around — platform strategy, content that earns attention, a system you can sustain. Followers are vanity. Customers are the point.
What you'll learn
- Set a real strategy before posting — pick platforms and goals instead of spraying everywhere.
- Build content pillars and formats you can sustain week after week without burning out.
- Grow an audience from zero with tactics that compound instead of chasing viral luck.
- Turn followers into customers with offers and calls to action that don't feel desperate.
Is this for me?
Who is this course for?
Business owners doing social by gut feeling — posting randomly, getting nothing back. Also anyone starting from zero accounts.
What do I need before starting?
Accounts on at least one platform, which are free, and a phone that takes decent photos. That's genuinely the whole list.
How long does it take?
Six modules at 30–45 minutes each. The system takes about a month of consistent posting to show real results.
Start here
Module 0: Start Here
Orientation: what you'll build, how the course works, and how to get the most out of every module. Start here before Module 1.
Module 1
Module 1: Start With Strategy, Not Posting
Most businesses fail at social media before they post a single thing — they spread themselves across five platforms with no goal and no audience in mind. This module fixes that. You will pick one platform, define what success looks like, and get specific about who you are talking to.
Module 2
Module 2: Content Pillars and Formats
Random posting burns you out and confuses your audience. Content pillars — three or four repeating themes — give you an endless supply of ideas and teach followers what to expect from you. This module builds your pillars, matches them to formats, and turns them into a calendar you can sustain.
Module 3
Module 3: Creating Content That Holds Attention
Good strategy dies with weak execution. This module is the craft: hooks that stop the scroll, phone-shot video that looks professional enough, and captions structured so people read to the end. None of this requires expensive gear — it requires technique.
Module 4
Module 4: Growing an Audience From Zero
Growth is not luck — it is a set of repeatable behaviors. This module covers the engagement-first method that works for new accounts, how to borrow other people's audiences ethically through collaboration, and how to stay consistent when business gets busy.
Module 5
Module 5: Turning Followers Into Customers
Attention without revenue is a hobby. This module connects content to cash: how often to sell without alienating your audience, how to use stories and DMs as a soft sales channel, and how to track which content actually drives business.
Module 6
Module 6: Measure, Learn, Repeat
The final module turns social media from a guessing game into a system: the four metrics worth watching, a 30-minute monthly review that actually changes what you do, and how to tell the difference between a strategy that needs patience and one that needs replacing.
Choose your track
Two ways through this course — pick the one that fits where you are.
Starter track
Modules 1–3. Pick your platform and strategy (Module 1), define your content pillars (Module 2), and start creating (Module 3). Post consistently for 30 days before touching growth tactics — you need a body of content first.
Advanced track
All six modules, then the teardown and exam. If you're already posting, run Module 6's 30-minute review on your last month before changing anything — most experienced posters find they're measuring the wrong things. Then rebuild your pillars with Module 2's framework.
Your build brief
Everything you write in the build brief prompts across this course's modules collects here. Download it as a designed PDF — and we keep a copy too, so when you're ready for us to build it for you, we already know exactly what you want.
Your answers save automatically as you type — on this device and to your signup email.
Teardown: The Restaurant Posting Into the Void
A family restaurant posts daily on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and X — the same food photo everywhere, captioned "Come try our specials!" Followers: 400–900 per platform, flat for a year. Engagement: a handful of likes from staff. Zero trackable customers.
The core mistake (Module 1): Four platforms, no strategy. Following the course's framework, they'd pick ONE — Instagram, where food decisions get made — and go deep. The hours spent cross-posting to X would become hours engaging with local food accounts, which is what actually grows a local following.
The content problem (Modules 2–3): Every post is an ad. The pillars framework would give them four content types: behind-the-scenes (the chef choosing produce), customer moments, useful (a 30-second recipe), and the occasional offer. Three of four posts give value; one asks for the sale. Right now it's four asks out of four.
The missing link (Module 5): No path from follower to customer. A simple "show this post for free dessert" offer, tracked at the register, would connect social effort to revenue for the first time — and tell them within a month whether the whole thing is worth the hours.
Course extras
Glossary — 15 key terms Final exam — 10 questions, 15 minutes
Want this done for you?
Rather do it with us? Our Social Management ($3,000/mo) — content planning, posting, and engagement handled under our Growth retainer.
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