Social Advertising

Develop effective social advertising campaigns for Facebook and Instagram and reach your desired target audiences. You’ll learn how to strategically plan ads, create compelling content, and optimize campaigns based on relevant metrics. Along the way, you’ll use AI to efficiently develop ideas, copy, creative assets, and analytics.

  • Certificates: "Social Advertising" Certificate
  • Examination: Praxisbezogene Projektarbeit mit Abschlusspräsentation
  • Teaching Times: Full-time
    Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. (in weeks with public holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:10 p.m.)
  • Language of Instruction: German
  • Duration: 2 Weeks

Paid Social Basics and Strategy (approx. 2 days)

Social Ads and How They Differ from Social Posts 

Role in the Marketing Mix: Awareness, Consideration, Leads, Sales 

Paid Social vs. Search: Push/Discovery vs. Intent Funnel and Campaign Logic (TOFU/MOFU/BOFU), Offer and Messaging Architecture

KPI Basics and Interpretation in a Social Context (CPM, CTR, CPC, CVR, CPA, ROAS)

Target Audience and Platform Selection


Meta Ads Manager: Setup, Campaigns, Retargeting, Automation (approx. 3 days)

Asset and Account Management, Roles and Access, Interface and Structure

Objectives, Budgeting, Placements, and Formats

Audiences: Core, Custom, Lookalikes

Creating, publishing, and monitoring ads

Retargeting Basics in the Meta Ecosystem

AI-powered campaign planning and creating a campaign structure


Creatives, Copywriting, and AI for Social Ads (approx. 2 days)

Creative-First: Hooks, Value Propositions, Proof, CTAs

Best Practices for Images, Videos, Carousels, and Reels

Production Workflow

AI-powered creation and optimization of copy, creatives, and variations

Ad Policies and Brand Safety


Tracking and Reporting: From Measurement to Optimization (approx. 2 days)

Pixels/Events, Conversions, Attribution (Click/View)

Conversions API – Basics and Options

UTM Parameters and Reporting Basics

Conversion Logic: Landing Pages, Instant Forms, Lead Quality, and CRM Integration

Optimization and Testing: Creative Fatigue

KPI Metrics: Interpretation, Data Quality, Diagnostic Questions

Reporting: Storyline, Recommendations, Next Steps

AI in Reporting


Project Work (approx. 1 day)

To reinforce what has been learned

Presentation of the project



Changes are possible, the course content is updated regularly.

Basic knowledge of social media or marketing, as well as your own social media account (e.g., Facebook or Instagram), is recommended.

Upon completing the course, you’ll be able to integrate social advertising as an integral part of the marketing mix and plan, implement, and optimize advertising campaigns on Facebook and Instagram in a targeted manner. You’ll develop a clear campaign strategy based on your offering, target audience, and message; create compelling ad variations; and use metrics and reporting to communicate results clearly and inform decision-making. You’ll make effective use of artificial intelligence to more quickly generate ideas, creative assets, text variations, and analytics.

Specialists and executives in online marketing, social media, branding, e-commerce, and communications, as well as anyone who wants to get started in social advertising or deepen their knowledge of the field.

With in-depth knowledge of social advertising, you’ll expand your career opportunities. You’ll be able to strategically plan digital advertising campaigns, implement them in a way that’s tailored to specific target audiences, and optimize them based on data—for example, in marketing departments, agencies, or e-commerce companies, as well as working as an independent social advertising consultant. Even as a career starter, you’ll gain a practical foundation to establish yourself in this dynamic field.

Your meaningful certificate provides a detailed insight into the qualifications you have acquired and improves your career prospects.

Didactic concept

Your lecturers are highly qualified both professionally and didactically and will teach you from the first to the last day (no self-study system).

You will learn in effective small groups. The courses usually consist of 6 to 25 participants. The general lessons are supplemented by numerous practical exercises in all course modules. The practice phase is an important part of the course, as it is during this time that you process what you have just learned and gain confidence and routine in its application. The final section of the course involves a project, a case study or a final exam.

 

Virtual classroom alfaview®

Lessons take place using modern alfaview® video technology - either from the comfort of your own home or at our premises at Bildungszentrum. The entire course can see each other face-to-face via alfaview®, communicate with each other in lip-sync voice quality and work on joint projects. Of course, you can also see and talk to your connected trainers live at any time and you will be taught by your lecturers in real time for the entire duration of the course. The lessons are not e-learning, but real live face-to-face lessons via video technology.

 

The courses at alfatraining are funded by Agentur für Arbeit and are certified in accordance with the AZAV approval regulation. When submitting a Bildungsgutscheinor Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein, the entire course costs are usually covered by your funding body.
Funding is also possible via Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF), Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) or regional funding programs. As a regular soldier, you have the option of attending further training courses via Berufsförderungsdienst (BFD). Companies can also have their employees qualified via funding from Agentur für Arbeit (Qualifizierungschancengesetz).

We will gladly advise you free of charge.

0800 3456-500 Mon. - Fri. from 8 am to 5 pm
free of charge from all German networks.

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We will gladly advise you free of charge. 0800 3456-500 Mon. - Fri. from 8 am to 5 pm free of charge from all German networks.