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Digital Marketing - Building A WordPress Site For Conversion

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  • This module is part of Professional Certificate in Digital Marketing

This programme is conducted on-campus.

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Fee
SGD1,744* (as low as SGD203.20 after maximum funding) Learn More
Duration

2 days
Weekdays (9am - 6pm)

Level
Basic

Who Should Attend

  • Marketing/ Communication professionals
  • Entrepreneurs and business owners
  • Managers/ Leaders of strategic communication functions
  • Content strategists
  • Social media specialists

Overview

WordPress has emerged as the de-facto standard for digital marketers as a cost-effective way to design, setup and hosting of a proprietary internet website for engaging online marketing content. Effective blogs and websites are often responsible for enhancing mindshare and shape the opinions of the masses. Understanding how this can be achieved will serve as another tool to achieve an omni-channel presence to serve marketing objectives. 

Participants can expect to acquire a well-distilled skill set that includes the ability to construct, deploy and manage a completely new website with strategies and techniques to optimise visitor traffic, rouse visitor experience and enhance possibilities of purchase decisions. 

Learning Objectives

  • Host and publish a site, customise it to reflect one’s brand and marketing objectives
  • Manage a website with strategies and techniques to optimise visitor traffic, customer experience and purchase decisions

Topic/Structure

  • Optimising websites for mobile space, and work with plugins to boost site’s performance and usability
  • Techniques to optimise landing pages for effective conversion into qualified leads and to increase Return on Investment (ROI)
  • Techniques of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) on the site to get it organically ranked on search engine portals

Assessment

  • Classroom exercises
  • Group assignment
     

CERTIFICATION

Upon meeting the attendance and assessment criteria, participants will be awarded a digital certificate for participating in each module. Please refer to our course policies to view the attendance and assessment criteria. 

Upon completion of all modules required for this programme within a maximum duration of 3 years, participants will be awarded a digital certificate.

Calculate Programme Fee

Click here for more infomation about SkillsFuture Credits (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)
For PSEA - Available only for Singapore Citizen below 31 (Not applicable for Company-sponsored participants)

Total Program Fee: SGD0.00

Fee Table

COMPANY-SPONSORED

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

SELF-SPONSORED

SME

NON-SME

Singapore Citizen < 40 years old

Permanent Resident

LTVP+

$523.20

(After SSG Funding 70%)

$203.20

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$523.20

(After SSG Funding 70%)

Singapore Citizen ≥ 40 years old

$203.20

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

$203.20

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$203.20

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

International Participant

$1,744

(No Funding)

$1,744

(No Funding)

$1,744

(No Funding)

All prices include 9% GST

Please note that the programme fees are subject to change without prior notice.

Post Secondary Education Account (PSEA)
PSEA can be utilised for subsidised programmes eligible for SkillsFuture Credit support. Click here to find out more.

Self Sponsored

SkillsFuture Credit

Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for the course fees. The credits may be used on top of existing course fee funding.

This is only applicable to self-sponsored participants. Application to utilise SkillsFuture Credits can be submitted when making payment for the course via the SMU Academy TMS Portal, and can only be made within 60 days of course start date.

Please click here for more information on the SkillsFuture Credit. For help in submitting an SFC claim, you may wish to refer to our step-by-step guide on claiming SkillsFuture Credits (Individual).

Workfare Skills Support Scheme

From 1 July 2023, the Workfare Skills Support (WSS) scheme has been enhanced. Please click here for more details.

Company Sponsored

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)

  • Organisation must be registered or incorporated in Singapore
  • Employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
  • Trainees must be hired in accordance with the Employment Act and fully sponsored by their employers for the course
  • Trainees must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
  • Trainees must not be a full-time national serviceman
  • Trainees are eligible for ETSS funding only if their company's SME status is approved prior to the course commencement date. To verify your SME's status, please click here. 

Please click here for more information on ETSS.

Absentee Payroll

Companies who sponsor their employees for the course may apply for Absentee Payroll here. For more information, please refer to:

AP Guide (Non-SME Companies)
Declaration Guide (SME Companies)

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Trainers

Andrea Tan
Project Director & Digital Marketer
Mediafreaks Group
Andrea Tan
Project Director & Digital Marketer
Mediafreaks Group
Andrea Tan holds an Honours Degree in Accountancy and Business (Marketing Specialisation) from NTU. With over 8 years of experience, she spearheads digital marketing campaigns for various brands at the award-winning tech entertainment company. Andrea is certified in Facebook and Google, specialising in Ads, Analytics, Search, Display, and Video.
Nicole Loh
Project Director & Digital Marketer
Mediafreaks Group
Nicole Loh
Project Director & Digital Marketer
Mediafreaks Group
Nicole graduated from NTU as a Nanyang Scholar with an Honours Degree in Communications, with a specialisation in Advertising. She is currently a Project Director and Digital Strategist at Mediafreaks Group, The entire Group is an award-winning tech new media entertainment company focusing on digital marketing, e-commerce, content creation and animation products and services. She works with clients in over 8 industries to build digital marketing campaigns that convert. In her day-to-day, she forms overarching digital strategies tailored for her brands, conceptualises content that cuts through clutter, carries out media planning, ad optimisation, copywriting and other aspects of campaign execution. She is also certified in Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Google Video Advertising, Google Display Advertising and Facebook Blueprint.
Song Lili
Project Director & Digital Marketer
Mediafreaks Group
Song Lili
Project Director & Digital Marketer
Mediafreaks Group
Lili, a Project Director & Digital Marketer at Mediafreaks Group, holds a Master's in Innovation from Singapore Management University and a Bachelor's in Business Administration (Marketing) from Nanyang Technological University. She's certified in Google Adwords, Analytics, Video Advertising, and Facebook Blueprint. Mediafreaks Group, an award-winning tech entertainment company, specialises in digital marketing, e-commerce, content creation, and animation.

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