This document outlines the details of a 5-week digital marketing course taught by Keith Feighery. The course will cover topics like social media platforms, blogging, email marketing and search engine marketing through presentations, demos, class discussions and homework. Students are expected to actively participate in class each week from 2:30-4:30 PM and read assigned materials to implement the strategies covered. The document also provides an overview of Keith Feighery's experience and background in digital marketing and examples of key online marketing tactics and case studies that will be discussed over the 5 weeks.
2. Course Details
• 5 week course
• Presentations & Demos, Class Discussions, Class Work
• Class Participation Crucial – ask Qs
• Read as much material as possible and implement what
we cover on the course
• Come on time – class starts at 2.30 exactly
• 2 Hour Session – No Break
3. Time Table
Dates Times Activity
Nov 16th
2.30 – 4.30 Class
Nov 23rd
2.30 – 4.30 Class
Nov 30th
2.30 – 4.30 Class
Dec 7th
2.30 – 4.30 Class
Oct 14th
2.30 – 4.30 Class
5. Career Summary
• Director of Digital Strategy with Digital Insights
• 14 Years experience developing and marketing web
and digital applications
• Lecturer with DIT on MA in Digital Media Technologies
• Lecturer with Dublin Business School, Griffith College,
Champlain College & IBAT in Online Marketing and
Digital Strategy
6. Course Overview
• Week 1: Introductions and Overview of Digital
Marketing
• Week 2: Social Media Platforms
• Week 3: Blogging
• Week 4: Email Marketing
• Week 5: Search Engine Marketing
8. Irish Online Stats to Consider
• 77% of all Irish Internet Users use Facebook (approx 2M)
• Tops 2 sites visited are Google (38%), Facebook (19%)
• Average Irish person spends 18 Hrs+ online each month
– 4 hours 10 mins Facebook
– 2 hours 51 mins Google
• 13% Facebook Users Aged 13-17; 55% Aged 18-35;
• 90% of 15-24 YO active on Facebook
• 47% of all Facebook Users login Daily
• 2.1 M Unique Visitors Each Month to YouTube (400M views)
• 400K Twitter Accounts – 80K Daily Users
• 480K Users on LinkedIn – 31% login weekly (9% Daily)
19. Elements of a social media campaign
• Essentials of a successful campaign
– Know your target audience
– Plan goals and aims of campaign and channel
– Think about the tone, voice and personality to adopt
– Choose your platforms carefully
– Think about the type of content to use on each platform
– Take risks – not everything will work
– Connect to other channels