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Digital Marketing Fundamentals: Social Media Strategy (Udemy.com)

Learn the basics of a successful Social Media Marketing Strategy

Created by: Timothy Meixner

Last updated March 2022

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What you will learn

  • Learn about Social Proof and how to build a community on Social Networkds
  • Understand the fundamentals of Social Media Marketing
  • The difference between Earned, Owned and Paid Media
  • How to create Personas
  • Branding Fundamentals
  • SMART Goalsetting on Social Media

How it compares

Against the other 314 rated Udemy courses in Social Media Marketing on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 66% of them
  • Reviews1,866#35 of 315 by number of reviews
  • Length2.2 hoursshorter than 63% of them
  • Last updatedMarch 2022earlier than 69% of them

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Course Description

This crash course is based on the best-selling german Social Media Marketing course of all time and will teach you all you need to know about creating a Social Media Marketing Strategy.

After learning the fundamentals, we'll take a deep dive into Social Proof, which allows you to gain more trust with your customers and prospect. After I teach you this essential concept, we'll look at how you can create more of it for your company or yourself.

This course will help you set the right goals for your social media marketing campaign by teaching you about SMART Goals and the importance of tracking the right metrics to know if your efforts are working.

You will also learn how to do a competitive analysis on Social media to know who your competition is and how you can learn from their mistakes and incorporate their learnings into your strategy.

Finally, we'll talk about the different types of media on social networks and how we can efficiently use different kinds of content. This is where we get to know the difference between earned, owned and paid media.

This course is meant for everyone that wants to learn the basics of successful social media marketing and is based on our best-selling german marketing courses, which have sold more than 50.000 times. So if you want to learn how social media marketing works while avoiding rookie mistakes, then this course is the right one.

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Instructor Details

Timothy Meixner

English version below


Hi, mein Name ist Timothy.

Zusammen mit Johannes Ruof bin ich seit 2015 auf Udemy als Dozent vertreten und gehöre zu den erfolgreichsten deutschen Dozenten der Plattform. 

Als offizieller Partner von Udemy konnten wir in dieser Zeit einige Erfolge verbuchen.

Unter anderem:

Den erfolgreichsten deutschsprachigen Digital Marketing Kurs aller Zeiten

Den erfolgreichsten deutschsprachigen Social Media Marketing Kurs aller Zeiten

Den erfolgreichsten deutschsprachigen Instagram Marketing Kurs aller Zeiten

Den erfolgreichsten deutschsprachigen SEO Kurs aller Zeiten

Den erfolgreichsten deutschsprachigen iOS Development Kurs aller Zeiten

Zusammen mit Johannes den offiziellen Udemy Instructor Award für das beste Dozententeam auf der gesamten Plattform erhalten.

Seit 2019 sind wir außerdem Partner der Google Zukunftswerkstatt. Auf dieser kostenfreien Plattform unterrichten wir drei Kurse und möchten so Menschen dabei helfen, die Herausforderungen des digitalen Wandels zu bewältigen.

Wir konnten bereits mehr als 78.000 Menschen dabei helfen, ihre Ziele zu erreichen und ich würde mich freuen dich in einem unserer Kurse begrüßen zu dürfen. 


Hi, I'm Timothy.

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Reviews

4.5

1,866 ratings on Udemy

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By Ankit Tiwari on 9/3/2026

Learning oriented

By Suraj Shaw on 7/17/2026

good learning things

By Diane Atienza on 6/25/2026

very informative

By Marco Heinemann on 4/10/2026

Sehr interessant und gut aufgebaut

By Alberto Jimenez Mejia on 3/3/2026

Good training course. Now I'm getting aware how Marketing using social network, can support, no only my business, but other important things like social support.

By Sabitha Shyam Kumar on 2/24/2026

Very detailed explanation.

By Dhanush S on 2/18/2026

Good knowledge improvement

By Neelam Kishore on 2/9/2026

Amazing, above expectations !!

By Shikha Rani on 2/5/2026

Very lengthy courses and time consuming though. Content is good.

By Murat Deveci on 12/11/2025

Good structured training with a versified/knowlegable tutor. A copy/documentation on this topic/course is missing and would be much appreciated.

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Overall Score : 90 / 100