I think of training as the filling in a marketing sandwich. Training itself should be part of an company’s or organization’s overall marketing plan. But you also need to have a marketing plan to ensure the success of your training. E-Learning or online training/education ensures the online channel is open to your prospective students and, thus, can play a tactical role in delivering marketing messages. This presentation discusses the necessity of having a solid marketing plan for your training deployment and some tactical implementations we\'ve used successfully.

1. Marketing Your eLearning Programs Vicky Frank, Executive Director, Seward Inc. Recently traveled to the Sultanate of Oman to conduct a seminar on using social media tools in teaching.

2. You can call it “marketing,” but what do you really mean?

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6. Training itself should be part of an organization’s overall marketing plan. But you also need to have a marketing plan to ensure the success of your training.

7. Training is like the filling in a marketing sandwich.

8. If you want your training product to be used, you need to let people know about it and build their expectations about what it will do for them.

9. Elevate the eLearning experience from that of a set of isolated training events to an integral part of the work environment.

13. So what can you do to make your training suitable for consumption?

16. Divisional CEO video (and printed alternative) message of how the training ties into strategic objectives of the company. Sales Executive video introduces training to sales force. Training coincides with new sales structure. Email from executive highlighting the purpose, timeline, and desired outcomes of the training. Contact information provided. Scenarios Executive Endorsement

17. Point of sale props set up at cafeteria entrance to promote training. Develop special web pages (blog, intranet, extranet, website, webinar) with announcements, progress reports and sample lessons. Scenarios Communications For mandatory training, staged email communications that alert learners of approaching deadline. Posters and newsletters that promote consistent visual and message theme of why training is important.

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20. Seward Websites: http://www.sewardinc.com http://international.sewardinc.com Seward blog: http://blog.sewardinc.com LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/vickyfrank Twitter: @vickyfrank Vicky Frank Executive Director Director of Digital Strategies Seward Inc.