Powerful Social Media Marketing: From Beginner to Advanced (Udemy.com)
Master Social Media Management in 2026 Including Meta Ads, Canva Creation, AI Tools, Strategy And More!
Created by: Maggie Stara
Last updated July 2026
What you will learn
- Understand your own purpose within your career as a social media marketing professional
- Create captivating graphics, GIFs and videos for various social media platforms
- Leverage automation tools to optimise your workflow and save your client previous time and money!
- Conduct an audit and create an impressive social media strategy, specific to individual client needs
- Understand how to analyse your performance and make adjustments to your strategy
- Learn about the latest AI tools and how to use them for social media
- Go from being a complete beginner in the world of social media to a professional social media manager, ready to take on any client!
How it compares
Against the other 314 rated Udemy courses in Social Media Marketing on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 83% of them
- Reviews6,454#11 of 315 by number of reviews
- Length12.5 hourslonger than 89% of them
- Last updatedJuly 2026more recently than 89% of them
Course Description
Exceptional social media marketing is a key aspect of succeeding online for any business. So whether you're looking to learn this as a skill to grow your own business or to become a social media manager and work for businesses worldwide - this course is for you!
In this course, you will see me go through the exact process of setting up my fake brand - Mags Realty - on all the various social networks. Together, we will write a bio for Mags Realty, and also create captivating graphics, videos and simple animations. We will then write complementary captions and research hashtags so that we can publish powerful social media content in our lessons on X, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok and YouTube.
You will also learn how to create a powerful brand, a winning social media strategy, a captivating content calendar and more. We will leverage various AI tools throughout the course to help us create strategies, captions, images and videos so that by the end of the course you feel confident in your understanding of the AI for social media space.
This course is designed to take you from being a complete beginner in the world of social media to a professional social media manager using only free online tools. But some tools we cover will have handy paid features which we’ll discuss.
All of the content you will find here is based on the exact tips and techniques I wish I had known about when I first began working online as a social media manager, combined with the latest knowledge of the rapidly moving social media world.
This is a longer course so I have divided it into the following main sections to make it easier for you to break your learning down into chunks:
Setting Up for Success
By the end of this section, you’ll have the confidence that no matter what your current skill level is in this area, you absolutely CAN succeed in becoming an exceptional social media marketer.
Branding and Content Marketing
Here, you’ll discover how to develop powerful brands, design beautiful graphics, create captivating videos and write compelling content. You will also learn how to leverage the power of AI for social media.
Social Media Platforms
This is where we’ll cover how to use each of the main social platforms for business instead of for personal use and how to get the most out of your time spent on each platform.
Paid Ads
In this section of the course we’ll be diving into the world of Facebook and Instagram Ads as well as how you can easily advertise on other social platforms like LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google and YouTube.
Social Media Strategy
You will learn the importance of having a strategy in place and how to develop an invaluable strategy for any business.
Optimise Your Workflow
Get to know handy scheduling tools, project management systems and automation tools like ManyChat which will help you generate more leads for your clients on autopilot.
Measuring Success
This is where you’ll learn how to measure the success of your efforts and make adjustments going forward based on what’s working and what isn’t.
The Wider Business
In the last section of the course, we’ll dive into understanding your client’s business outside of just their social media content. This is where you’ll supercharge your knowledge and start thinking about how everything fits together in the business and marketing space.
And of course, you’ll have your handy course guide with links to all the tools and resources we’ll be using throughout the course and a few additional ones I thought might be helpful.
Thank you for wanting to learn from me and I can’t wait to see you on the inside!
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
6,454 Reviews
Maggie Stara
Hey I’m Maggie - your creative instructor!
I was first introduced to the world of social media marketing in 2016. I was SO excited about the possibility of working online but I was really struggling with the lack of honest, authentic, and high-quality information out there for beginners. So before I even began working in this world, I knew one day I'd want to create the kind of high-quality resources for aspiring marketers that I felt were missing in this space.
Why my courses
My online skills have led to working with an exciting range of talented people, from sole traders to multi-million dollar businesses. And in addition to working as a freelancer, I've also worked in a digital marketing agency and an in-house corporate role. With this wide range of hands-on experiences, I am now able to teach impactful marketing courses designed with other creative overachievers in mind. So you can feel confident that my courses are made by someone who knows exactly how intimidating it can be to be trying to master 20 tools at once and stay on top of constant updates with each of them. And I hope to take away some of the overwhelm and make you feel like you're not alone in this.
Why I love what I do:
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Reviews
By Hajar Haddadi on 8/29/2026
I’m really enjoying this course so far! It’s helping me redefine my personal brand strategy and deepen my understanding of content, strategy, and marketing myths. I gave it this rating because I haven’t finished the course yet, but so far, I’m super satisfied with it!
By Markus Sax on 8/13/2026
I really like the course so far, Maggie brings it across so wonderfully likeable and experienced. 1 star reduction just for the AI part being pretty outdated (not saying the workflow isn't usable, but ChatGPT 3.5 was a long time ago and perhaps image creation with Gemini oder ChatGPT is nowadays superio to Leonardo.ai etc.). Will update rating at the end of the course!
By Lisa Wright on 7/31/2026
Loved it all! At times a bit complex, but I'm happy I have lifetime access to go back and review. There were some new twists to learn that I very much appreciated. WOW so many ways to market with social channels these days. Thanks Maggie for making it fun!
By Alex Holloway on 7/6/2026
Loving this course so far! It's been a mix of expanding my digital marketing knowledge from previously completing a level 3 Apprenticeship and gaining new knowledge on how to leverage multimedia platforms to market myself as an artist/graphic designer for personal and professional use.
By Paulina Siriūtė on 6/18/2026
This course was amazing!!! It was so involving and make me smile so often. All the course I was thinking I want Maggie could be my BFF. Normally for me it is difficult to keep attention (because ADHD), but here was easy. I am going to search another course with you, so see you soon!!!
By Wendy Cockrell on 5/19/2026
Maggie Stara is a STAR! Thanks for this course and thanks for sharing your knowledge. First I was a little overwhelmed choosing a course and lecture. I'm so happy I went with Maggie's course. So much knowledge shared, tips and tricks- I've already implemented what I've learned into client work. The course guide is something to keep and always run back to if you stuck- such a useful doc Maggie! Lots of love from South Africa!
By James Tutty on 5/3/2026
Fantastic course. I did the course to help me with my own advertising and social media marketing for my Snake Rescue business. I dreaded all this stuff, however after going on this course I have found this to be fun and I can see how my social media posts have improved dramatically.
By Agastya Chaudhari on 4/26/2026
A Social Media Marketing (SMM) course is designed to teach how businesses use platforms like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube to build brand awareness, engage audiences, and drive sales. It combines strategy, creativity, and analytics to create effective marketing campaigns.
By Lame Sharon Montshiwa on 3/29/2026
I thoroughly enjoyed this course. Maggie is such an amazing instructor, made learning very easy with some very useful and practical examples to allow us to understand the material even more. Looking forward to using what I've learnt in my career path.
By Hennery rose Cadag on 1/3/2026
All of the content that i need to understand what is Social media marketing is already been discussed. Good job and its well-informative.
By Erica on 11/22/2020
Really loving the simple to follow and straight forward videos.
By Kirby Smith on 11/22/2020
Thank you so much Maggie! I really loved how honest & helpful your advice was- in addition to being super informative! This gave me so many great insights & lots of topics to continue growing in! I am so glad I took this course.
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