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TikTok Marketing

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Explore how TikTok fits into a marketing strategy in Noble Desktop's course. The curriculum considers the platform's content format, audience, and business uses, connecting creative choices with marketing objectives. You work on how short-form content can serve a brand and how its role differs from other social channels.

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  • Free course retake within one year to refresh the material and gain practice.
  • Class recordings

Overview

Social media marketing is a powerful and essential digital marketing tool. By understanding the landscape of social media and developing an effective strategy, you can drive the growth of your online presence. Successful social media marketing is increasingly crucial to a business's position within the competitive marketplace.

This one-day workshop closely examines one of the most popular content categories—video. In addition to the content, the workshop explores the platform giant TikTok. Students will be introduced to current social media marketing trends and will develop a strategy that works for them. Get started by learning about the benefits of social media marketing on our blog.

This workshop is a comprehensive look at all aspects of video-based social media marketing. For more information about the topics covered in class, please refer to the syllabus below.

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$325
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Self-paced tuition & enrollment

Learn through recorded lessons on your own schedule.

Tuition
$325
Course length
6 hours
Format
Self-paced online

This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.

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Curriculum

What you'll learn

  • Learn about the history of TikTok and its social impact
  • Develop a successful social media marketing strategy
  • Create visually engaging content that drives sales and increases engagement
  • Learn how to build a following and expand your reach

Course syllabus

TikTok Marketing

  • Introduction to TikTok
  • What’s New to TikTok
  • Understanding the algorithm and FYP
  • Creating a TikTok account
  • Research trends and topics

Developing a Strategy for Business-Based Content

  • Establish goals
  • Define success metrics
  • Analyze the competition
  • Develop target audience
  • Understanding TikTok SEO

Determining Your Brand Image

  • Importance of quality video production
  • Trending video content
  • Storyboard development
  • Audience engagement

Creating Successful Content for TikTok

  • Find a theme for your content
  • Using songs and filters to increase engagement
  • Story building and development
  • Editing content through TikTok

Paid Advertising and Shopify

  • Ad creation best practices
  • Ad optimization
  • Ad analytics
  • Reasons to use Shopify
  • Introduction to Shopify

Self-paced course

Learn through recorded lessons on your own schedule.

This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.

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Social media marketing is one of the most effective ways to grow an online presence and connect with audiences. Understanding each platform’s landscape and developing a strong strategy are essential to standing out in today’s competitive marketplace.

This self-paced workshop focuses on video-based content, highlighting TikTok as a leading platform for creative and business growth. Participants will explore current trends in social media marketing and design a personalized strategy for producing impactful short-form video content. To learn more about the advantages of social media marketing, visit our blog.

Self-paced curriculum

What you'll learn self-paced

  • Learn about the history of TikTok and its social impact
  • Develop a successful social media marketing strategy
  • Create visually engaging content that drives sales and increases engagement
  • Learn how to build a following and expand your reach
Self-paced syllabus

TikTok Marketing

  • Introduction to TikTok
  • What’s New to TikTok
  • Understanding the algorithm and FYP
  • Creating a TikTok account
  • Research trends and topics

Developing a Strategy for Business-Based Content

  • Establish goals
  • Define success metrics
  • Analyze the competition
  • Develop target audience
  • Understanding TikTok SEO

Determining Your Brand Image

  • Importance of quality video production
  • Trending video content
  • Storyboard development
  • Audience engagement

Creating Successful Content for TikTok

  • Find a theme for your content
  • Using songs and filters to increase engagement
  • Story building and development
  • Editing content through TikTok

Paid Advertising and Shopify

  • Ad creation best practices
  • Ad optimization
  • Ad analytics
  • Reasons to use Shopify
  • Introduction to Shopify

What's included with self-paced

  • Self-paced video lessons

Self-paced lessons

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TikTok Marketing (Self-Paced)

  • Introduction to TikTok

    Lesson 1: TikTok Fundamentals

    10:00

    Trace TikTok's path from ByteDance's 2012 founding through the Musical.ly merger to its 2026 US divestiture, and review its scale at nearly 2 billion monthly users.

  • The Algorithm and the For You Page

    Lesson 1: TikTok Fundamentals

    9:45

    Rank the three signal groups behind the For You Page—user interactions, video information, and account settings—and explore niche "subculture" communities.

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    Content Tips and Creating Your Account

    Lesson 1: TikTok Fundamentals

    8:37

    Apply content habits like hooking viewers fast and posting sound-on with captions, illustrated by the Doggface208 UGC case study, and set up a TikTok Business account.

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    TikTok Navigation, SEO, and Hashtags 101

    Lesson 1: TikTok Fundamentals

    13:22

    Navigate the For You Page, Discover, and Following feeds, and place keywords across captions, on-screen text, audio, and hashtags to improve searchability.

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    Hashtag Strategy Exercise: Setup

    Lesson 1: TikTok Fundamentals

    1:43

    Choose five hashtags for a sample video by starting broad and narrowing to distinctive traits.

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    Hashtag Strategy Exercise: Walkthrough

    Lesson 1: TikTok Fundamentals

    6:42

    Review a worked hashtag strategy that mixes high- and low-density tags, and apply the same approach to a realtor example.

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  • Creating Successful Content: Themes

    Lesson 2: Content Strategy and Paid Advertising

    10:00

    Match four content themes—UGC, people and culture, thought leadership, and inspiring stories—to real examples like Bailey Sarian's true-crime makeup tutorials.

  • Storyboards, Sound, and Storytelling

    Lesson 2: Content Strategy and Paid Advertising

    6:23

    Follow a five-step storyboard process, and choose between TikTok's Commercial Music Library and standard audio library based on ad-use copyright rules.

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    Setting Goals and Success Metrics

    Lesson 2: Content Strategy and Paid Advertising

    0:06

    Apply the five SMART criteria to a real goal like gaining 1,000 followers in three months, and use proxy metrics to measure brand awareness.

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    Engagement Signals and Analyzing the Competition

    Lesson 2: Content Strategy and Paid Advertising

    5:17

    Rank TikTok's engagement signals from favorites and shares down to likes, and run a five-step competitor analysis using engagement rate.

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    Setting Up TikTok Ads

    Lesson 2: Content Strategy and Paid Advertising

    11:20

    Set up a Business account and Ads Manager, install the TikTok Pixel, and structure campaigns across Campaign, Ad Group, and Ad levels.

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    Targeting, Budgeting, and Publishing Ads

    Lesson 2: Content Strategy and Paid Advertising

    7:24

    Layer audience targeting by demographics, custom audiences, and interests, and weigh broad versus narrow targeting against a roughly $20 minimum daily budget.

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    Ad Best Practices and Formats

    Lesson 2: Content Strategy and Paid Advertising

    13:13

    Iterate on ad creative using cost-per-result and engagement data, and choose from nine ad formats including In-Feed, Spark Ads, and TopView.

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