Upcoming Courses from Quirk Education
Welcome to Quirk Education's course home page. Quirk offers a range of courses in eMarketing.
Mobile Marketing
Mobile phones connect people with each other and with businesses in ways both useful and filled with potential. It is important to know how to use mobile technology to communicate with consumers, and incorporate this into your overall digital strategy. This course runs for six weeks and will teach students the basics of Mobile Marketing and how it can be integrated into an overall digital strategy.
| Cost: | R5900/ $670 / £454 |
| Start Date: | 30 August 2010 |
| Registration close: | 31 August 2010 |
Search Engine Optimisation
Every day, millions of people use search engines to find information, goods and services. It is therefore very important, from a marketing perspective, to ensure that your product, service or website can be easily found by potential customers who are using search engines to find what they're looking for. Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the process by which you try to get the highest possible ranking in the search engine results for your website. SEO involves understanding how search engines work, and what tactics you can use to optimise your site so that it ranks highly when someone conducts a particular search. Learning how to do this is key to the success of your site and achieving a high ranking on search engines.
| Cost: | R5900/ $670 / £454 |
| Start Date: | 30 August 2010 |
| Registration close: | 31 August 2010 |
WebPR for Professionals
Online PR, or WebPR, is creating quite a stir in the PR landscape. The Internet has changed the way in which we do things, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with these trends. The traditional tools of PR still apply – it's only the medium and methodology that are changing. The four-week part-time course teaches professionals working in a PR capacity about the basics of online PR and its tactics. The course is divided into four modules which cover how to write for the Web, Press Release Distribution, Online Reputation Management, and Goal Setting and Measurement of online PR campaigns.
| Cost: | R3990/ $454 / £307 |
| Start Date: | 04 October 2010 |
| Registration close: | 01 October 2010 |
Quirk Certificate Course in eMarketing
The Quirk Certificate Course in eMarketing is designed to give professionals and students the opportunity to learn how to practically apply holistic online marketing tactics to their business. The course is completed online over a period of 8 weeks and covers a full range of eMarketing tactics.
| Cost: | R6950/ $790 / £534 |
| Start Date: | 18 October 2010 |
| Registration close: | 15 October 2010 |
Applying Social Media to Business Challenges
As an eMarketing agency with real hands-on Social Media experience and the awards to prove it, who better to teach you how to use the social media tools available to you? Knowing how to successfully use Social Media for your business is key to providing your customers with an interactive brand experience and growing strong customer-brand relationships. The content of this online distance learning course will focus on case studies that illustrate how the tools of Social Media have provided solutions and opportunities for dealing with real business challenges.
| Cost: | R5900/ $670 / £454 |
| Start Date: | 25 October 2010 |
| Registration close: | 22 October 2010 |
Testimonials
I am excited about the growth of the e-Marketing industry in South Africa and your tutoring has certainly equipped many more of us to enjoy it's success. I have started my own business and needed these skills to better equip me to offer advice to clients.Carike Laroque
I love what I have learned from the eMarketing course and use it to great extent at work. Thank you for offering such a useful and practical course.Mathilda Bekaardt, Stellenbosch University
Thank you also for all your time and assistance during the course - it was thoroughly enjoyable and will prove absolutely invaluable as we develop and grow our internet presence. Quirk does some amazing work and that you guys are so "open-sourced" about your knowledge and expertise, and so willing to share it through the course is firstly very rare and just simply amazing!Vincent Noel, Marketing Director, Crabtree & Evelyn






