Advanced Social Media Marketing Course:
Social Media Marketing II Certification: Take Your Social Media Strategy to the Next-Level
Learn advanced social media techniques to build your audience in HubSpot Academy’s Social Media Marketing II Certification Course. Grow brand-specific social communities and leverage social media e-commerce to boost sales. Enhance your content marketing, storytelling, and video creation skills!
Who is this for?
- Small business owners looking to enhance their social media strategy and presence
- Marketing managers looking to level up their expertise through advanced social media training
- Influencers and social media marketers looking to develop better social media storytelling and community-building skills
What you'll learn
- Explore advanced social media marketing and advertising tactics
- Develop next-level storytelling and short-form video skills to increase reach and conversions across your social communities
- Embrace social commerce to reach a wider audience, improve customer engagement, and boost your sales
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Instructors

Crystal King is a Senior Professor for HubSpot Academy with a focus on social media strategy. Crystal has led global social media and community programs for companies such as Pegasystems, Keurig, CA Technologies and Sybase. She has taught classes in writing, creativity and social media at Harvard Extension School, Boston University, Mass College of Art, UMass Boston and GrubStreet, one of the leading creative writing centers in the US. Crystal received her masters in critical and creative…

Andrew Worob
Andrew Worob works in Digital Strategy at Boehringer Ingelheim and is also the Board Chair for Socialmedia.org. For more than a decade, Andrew Worob has led digital marketing, communications, and omnichannel programs for private, public, and global organizations with a successful track record of developing and evolving programs to become best-in-class.

Christina Garnett
Award-winning community builder and advocacy strategist Christina Garnett uses audience intelligence and social listening to learn more about audiences and determine needs and behaviors. Her work serves to help brands better connect with their current customers, potential customers, and fans. Christina is featured in HubSpot Academy's Social Media Certification course and social listening courses, Semrush Academy's social listening course, and is a partner for On Deck's Community Builder Progra…

Kate Bradley Chernis
Kate Bradley Chernis is the Founder & CEO of Lately.AI, an AI-powered content repurposing engine and a social media management, employee advocacy and sales enablement syndication platform. Thanks to nine years of its own proprietary machine learning and natural language processing data, Lately is able to pinpoint the ideas, words and phrases that will get any target audience to click, like or share. It also learns the unique voice of any brand or individual and transfers the style of that voice…

Matt Felser
Matt Felser is a digital marketing technology expert with over a decade of experience in the industry. As the Head of Business Engineering for Global Advertising Partnerships at Meta, he leads an organization of engineers and technical consultants responsible for business development and industry partnerships for Meta's marketing products. He is focused on helping businesses of all sizes adapt to the evolving digital marketing ecosystem.

Molly Mitchell
Molly is currently leading product marketing efforts for identity solutions and privacy for LinkedIn’s Marketing Solutions. Through her keen understanding of the challenges faced by marketers in an increasingly privacy-focused landscape, she leads efforts to help them understand how to succeed while keeping user privacy at the forefront.

Evan Hamilton
Evan Hamilton has been building community professionally for over 15 years at companies like HubSpot, Reddit, and UserVoice. His focus on marrying business goals with member goals has helped companies save huge sums, drive revenue, and retain customers.

Nicole O'Donnell
Nicole O'Donnell, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. Her research explores media psychology, social influence, and the significance of role models in shaping attitudes and behavior. She is affiliated with the Media Mind Lab and the Murrow Center for Media and Health Promotion.

Jenny Li Fowler
Jenny Li Fowler is the director of social media strategy at MIT. She is in charge of developing and executing Institute-wide social media initiatives and campaigns. She provides social media consultation and direction for more than 200 departments, labs, and centers; and manages the Institute’s flagship Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn accounts. Prior to coming to MIT, Jenny was the web editor and social media manager at Harvard Kennedy School.

Jamal Meneide
Jamal is a video producer, cinematographer, and on camera talent at HubSpot (you can see him on the HubSpot YouTube channel right now)! Outside of work, Jamal loves taking on creative side projects, dances hip hop, and is a huge gamer.
Curriculum

Advanced Social Media Strategies
Lesson - 36 min
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Lesson instructor: Crystal King Business leaders and marketing professionals may be employing the social media basics, but with an ever-changing landscape, it’s important to keep your strategy fresh. This lesson explores advanced social media tactics to drive engagement, increase revenue, and help keep your social media marketing plan aligned with business goals.
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Social Media Advertising in a Cookieless World
Lesson - 32 min
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Lesson instructor: Crystal King In the past, marketing to your customers meant you needed to rely on cookies to target and reach your audience. Today, with search engines no longer relying on third-party data, marketers — especially B2B marketers — need to implement alternative strategies to ensure they're reaching new audiences and connecting with existing customers.
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Social Media Community- Led Growth
Lesson - 38 min
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Lesson instructor: Crystal King In today’s online world, digital fatigue and distrust are at an all-time high. HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan has described this as a “crisis of disconnection”. With new restrictions and regulations on tracking cookies and consumer privacy, marketers need a different strategy to market their products and services. Learn what a social community is, how they can help your business, and how you should weigh an investment in community.
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Improving Your Social Storytelling
Lesson - 37 min
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Lesson instructor: Crystal King The best social media posts tell a story. A great story sets vibrant brands apart from simple businesses and loyal consumers from one-time shoppers. Discover how to develop engaging social media stories to turn your customers and prospects into passionate followers and champions of your brand.
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From Likes to Sales: Social Commerce
Lesson - 23 min
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Lesson instructor: Crystal King In 2022, over 2.71 billion people bought something through a social media site like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. With the rise of this type of commerce, social platforms are implementing new tools to help brands ease the transition to selling their goods and services. Learn how you can take advantage of these tools and develop a social commerce strategy that will boost your bottom line.
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Transforming Your Social Strategy With Short-Form Video
Lesson - 30 min
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Lesson instructor: Crystal King A 2022 HubSpot survey found that short-form video has the highest return on investment for brands compared to any other marketing strategy. It’s no wonder that nearly every social platform is now highlighting short-form video over other types of content. Learn how to make your videos stand out using this format.
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Social Media Marketing Certification II Next Steps
Lesson - 5 min
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