Amplify your brand awareness and engage your audience through effective content, social media strategies and campaigns.

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Future Skills Short CourseProject Management for ProfessionalsDuration 6 weeks, 8 hours per weekNext start 11 Aug 2025Future Skills Short CourseContent and Social Media MarketingDuration 6 weeks, 8 - 10 hours per weekNext start 11 Aug 2025
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With the amount of content that each of us are bombarded with increasing each day, how do you cut through the noise and stand out from the crowd?
Content and social media marketing is at the heart of how many entrepreneurs and businesses connect with their customers. Through owned and earned channels such as blogs, Facebook, or PR, business owners and marketers can create brand awareness, generate leads and drive revenue. But working through a myriad of content pieces, calendars, plans, and tools can be difficult and confusing.
Our Content and Social Media Marketing course is ideal for:
- Small to medium business owners and entrepreneurs looking to gain the practical skills, tools, and tactics to launch and scale successful startups and businesses
- Junior marketers aiming to maximise their social and content marketing efforts and upskill to stay relevant in this fast - evolving industry.
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
- Design, implement and deliver a content and social media plan that leverages the appropriate channels and tactics to develop brand awareness and increase business
- Create, distribute and manage content through owned channels to grow and manage audiences and earnings
- Critically analyse content and asset selection and justify its use in a content and social media plan.
Through our Content and Social Media Marketing course, you’ll walk away with a comprehensive content and social media marketing plan and calendar. Kickstart your marketing strategy and cement your learning by producing three pieces such as a blog, video plan, or social media ad that you'll distribute and optimise.
This course can be taken as standalone but has been designed to be taken as part of a two-course Graphic Design + Content marketing bundle (with a saving of 10% across both courses). For a more comprehensive understanding of Graphic Design and Content Marketing, we recommend that you also complete Digital Graphic Design.
This course has also been designed to be taken as part of the Brand + Content Marketing bundle (with a saving of 10% across both courses). For a more comprehensive understanding of Brand + Content Marketing, we recommend that you also complete Brand Experience.
Course Overview
Learn more about our Content and Social Media Marketing course in the video below.
The future of work is really interesting - you can't just learn one skill now and have a career out of that. You need to move and adapt over time so courses like RMIT online are giving the ability to get into those skills really quickly and and fill those gaps and change as needed.
Many of our customers were undertaking digital transformations and I often found myself sitting in meetings with Chief Marketing Officers, Chief, Information Officers, CEOs not really understanding what they were talking about so I really wanted to get a feel for exactly what was going on so that, not only could I lead my team more effectively, but actually could sit in some of these meetings and have a meaningful conversation with some of these clients
Our vision is to build a community of lifelong learners successfully navigating the world of work. We find in addition to our world-class academics, working with companies like Adobe Salesforce realestate.com,
Accenture, really brings relevance in the skills that were taking to our students, in using new technologies and business approaches.
So in terms of the experience of studying online, it was terrific it was flexible it was convenient, the tools were easy to use, the way that courses are structured, the way the contents are delivered gives you the flexibility of effectively logging in and learning on a schedule that suits suits you.
This is a great opportunity to help build those skills that can actually feed our future employee pipeline so we we can actually solve these problems for our clients going forward
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Course Structure
Learn more about Content and Social Media MarketingModule 1: Introduction to content marketing
+- An introduction to content marketing strategies and models
- Explore business goals, the role of content, and mission statements
- Identify customer needs and pain points
Module 2: Getting to know the marketing landscape
+- Explore content audits, gap analysis, and identify opportunities
- Examine social listening tactics, tools and benefits for content creation
- Perform landscape analysis including competitors and other factors affecting your business
Module 3: Content ideation
+- Identify content themes from user needs and landscape insights
- Understand content ideation and turn insights into ideas
- Analyse different channels and the role they play in different strategies along the customer journey
Module 4: Content distribution, SEO and influencers
+- Interpret content distribution and publishing methods and tactics for a digital hub and multiple channels
- Incorporate best practice SEO in writing online blogs and articles
- Explore influencer marketing and the ways it can improve the content and distribution process
Module 5: Social content distribution
+- Understand social media content distribution, including content types and best practice
- Learn engagement tactics including building a following and content frequency
- Foster a community through community management techniques, ownership and top fans
Module 6: Final project
+- Understand how to brief in production partners and manage content workflow
- Explore content plans, briefing templates, free and paid tools
- Optimise content-based performance through effective content and campaign management metrics
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Expert industry mentor
RMIT Online has built our courses in partnership with industry, providing you with the latest industry insights and best practices from the real world of work. Our subject matter experts on this course include people like Martin Carlill, who is a digital marketing specialist with over 20 years experience...
RMIT Online has built our courses in partnership with industry, providing you with the latest industry insights and best practices from the real world of work. Our subject matter experts on this course include people like Martin Carlill, who is a digital marketing specialist with over 20 years experience in inbound marketing strategy, eCommerce, digital strategy, social media, SEO & SEM, and content marketing.

Subject matter expert
RMIT Online has built our courses in partnership with industry, providing you with the latest industry insights and best practices from the real world of work. Our subject matter experts on this course include people like Natalia Traldi. Natalia is a digital and marketing strategist and currently the Strategy...
RMIT Online has built our courses in partnership with industry, providing you with the latest industry insights and best practices from the real world of work. Our subject matter experts on this course include people like Natalia Traldi. Natalia is a digital and marketing strategist and currently the Strategy Director at Isobar. She has over a dozen years of experience working with some of Latin America and Australia’s biggest brands on digital and media strategies, campaigns, automation, e-commerce, conversion rate optimisation, data and analytics.

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