Course Information
Move away from brand storytelling and into crucial brand conversations by creating an effective, distinctive brand presence online with relevant content that caters to your audience’s search demand.
Learning Outcomes
Through the course, participants will be able to:
- Identify your target audience persona and their information needs
- Craft a brand persona that your target audience can relate to
- Present your brand/product/service effectively for conversions
- Create and facilitate crucial conversations between your brand and your target audiences online
- Identify relevant topics of interest with search traffic and search trends research on Google Ads Keyword Planner and Google Trends
- Plan relevant, converting website landing pages based on high search traffic content topics
Course
Schedule
Public Run
Course Dates: TBC
Application Period: TBC
Duration: 2 days
Delivery Mode: Synchronous e-learning
Run for Real Estate Agents
Course Dates: TBC
Application Period: TBC
Delivery Mode: Synchronous e-learning
Ngee Ann Polytechnic reserves the right to reschedule / cancel any programme, modify the fees and amend information without prior notice.
Lesson Plan
A. Search Traffic Research (3 Hours)
● Importance of keywords in Search & Website User Experience
● Identify high search traffic keywords through search traffic and search trends
research on Google Ads Keyword Planner and Google Trends
● Export high search traffic keywords and organise by theme
B. Create Website Landing Pages (5 Hours)
● Propose landing page content based on relevant topics of interest identified on
Google Ads Keyword Planner and Google Trends
● Plan for crucial decision-making content
● Propose relevant calls-to-action for each landing page based on marketing
objectives
● Plan website content hierarchy
C. Content as a Conversation, Not a Story (4 Hours)
● Distilling your target audience persona
● Crafting your brand persona to converse with your target audience persona
● Strategise marketing message content, presentation and delivery
D. Inbound Marketing Strategy (3 hours)
● Use high traffic keywords to plan for search engine friendly content
● Understand various channels and methods to create inbound links
● Identify key website landing pages to link content to / from
● Plan a content calendar including:
- Topic
- Timeliness
- Target Audience
- Media Used
- Placement(s)
- Target Action(s)
Trainer's Profile
On the back of 10 years of experience in writing and digital marketing both in-house and for agencies, Cheak Hong Ian founded Council Consulting, a digital marketing training consultancy that helps companies build sustainable, scalable online ecosystems to reach their audiences with useful, engaging and decision-making content.
Cheak has worked with various organisations from SMEs to MNCs, including brands like BMW, Emerson, Bata, Julie’s Biscuits, NCS, The Golden Duck and Trinity Medical, initiating campaigns reaching tens of millions of people within Singapore and throughout the Asia Pacific region, managing over S$5 million in digital advertising budget to-date.
Cheak holds a Bachelor of Communication (Mass Communication) degree from RMIT University and the WDA Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA).
Certification
Entry Requirements
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Should preferably be Existing / Potential Brand Managers / Owners
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Should preferably have existing marketing, branding or advertising background
Course Fees
Funding period for this course is till 31 Dec 2024.
SkillsFuture Credit
All Singaporeans aged 25 and above can use their $500 SkillsFuture Credit from the government to pay for a wide range of approved skills-related courses. Visit the SkillsFuture Credit website to choose from the courses available on the Training Exchange course directory.
Union Training Assistance Programme (UTAP)
NTUC members enjoy 50% unfunded course fee support for up to $250 each year (or up to $500 for NTUC members aged 40 years old and above) when you sign up for courses supported under UTAP (Union Training Assistance Programme). Please visit e2i’s website to find out more.
Enhanced training support for SMEs
For enhanced training support for SMEs, enter SME in the promo code during course application.
Long Term Visit Pass Plus (LTVP+) holders, please furnish the following documents to the course administrator to qualify for SSG funding:
Self-sponsored learner (**LTVP+): Copy of your green visit pass card, with the word ‘PLUS’ on the back of the card.
Co-sponsored learner (##LTVP+): Copy of valid and current Letter of Consent (LOC) from MOM
GST Increment in 2024
Please note that the GST rate will be revised to 9% with effect from 1 Jan 2024, as such any payable course fees will be subjected to the new GST rate adjustments in 2024.
Note:
- The fees below are determined based on prevailing funding policies and subject to review and revision.
- Please refer to our FAQs for more information.
Ngee Ann Polytechnic reserves the right to reschedule/cancel any programme, modify the fees and amend information without prior notice.
| Applicants / Eligibility | Fees |
|---|---|
| Full course fee | $348.80 |
| Singaporeans aged below 40 qualified for SkillsFuture Funding | $104.64 |
| Singaporeans aged 40 & above qualified for SkillsFuture Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy | $40.64 |
| Singaporeans qualified for Enhanced Training Support for SMEs | $40.64 |
| Singapore Permanent Residents & **LTVP+ qualified for SkillsFuture Funding | $104.64 |
| Singapore Permanent Residents & ##LTVP+ qualified for Enhanced Training Support for SMEs | $40.64 |
| Others (and Repeat Students) | $348.80 |