Training

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The world is evolving rather rapidly and to keep up is nearly impossible, but I can help!

I have designed several training sessions to help you run that small business, blog, website, Facebook Page or Facebook advertising.

I know where you are coming from, and what you need, I am a small business myself, just like you.

 

My training will save you time for two reasons: you will get this right the first time (lots of things you don’t think about if this is not your specialty), and all my training ensures you can actually work on your OWN website, OWN Facebook PAGE or Own Facebook ADS, right there and then (talk about a great takeaway!

So if your after full training, a small introduction, training broken down over a couple of days, morning, afternoon or evening sessions, I can help you.

Training Overview

Social Media Presence Training

  • Design your Social Media Presence Workshop – More…
  • Setup Your Facebook Business Page Workshop – More…
  • Advertise Your Business on Facebook Workshop – More…
  • Website in a Weekend Workshop – More…

Website Development Training

  • Introduction To WordPress Workshop – More..
  • Build Your Own WordPress Website Workshop – More…
  • Optimise A WordPress Website Workshop – More…

Social Media Presence Training

There is no doubt Social Media has changed the world, so don’t get stuck behind the times, or your competitor.

Design your Social Media Presence Workshop – 2 hours (with homework)
  • Why?
    • This workshop is designed to make you think about your Social Media presence for your small business and be prepared BEFORE you take the plunge.
  • What?
    • This workshop will save you time and ensure you think about the right things to ensure all is in place to ensure a smooth roll out.
    • You will end up with a well thought out plan to roll out your Social Media Presence (after you completed your homework). I will provide well thought out templates to guide you through the design process and ensure you have long lasting value of this workshop.
  • Topics include:
    • Why do you actually want to use Social Media for your businesses?
    • How do you connect to YOUR audience, and who are they anyway?
    • What Social Media tools should I be using for my business?
    • What do I need to be successful?
  • How much?
    • A$ 120 per person
    • Bring your own laptop is suggested but not required

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Setup Your Facebook Business Page Workshop – 2 hours
  • Why?
    • Have all your need but still a bit hesitant to actually dive in “do it”, in this workshop I will help you step by step create your Social Media presence.
  • What?
    • In this half a day course we will actually setup of your Social Media Presence for your business!
    • Step by step we will create your online presence IN CLASS and ensure you are ready to engage with your customers on Social Media.
    • We will test your setup and ensure it is complete (most common mistake that its is not) and attractive.
    • You will end up with your business completely setup on Social Media and ready to engage with customers.
  • Topics include:
    • What do I need to create my Social Media presence?
    • How do I set this up COMPLETELY?
    • How do I begin building a online presence?
  • How much?
    • A$ 150 per person
    • Bring your own laptop
  • Please note:
    • Bring your own laptop
    • Some homework prior to course is required unless you have completed the previous training

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Advertise Your Business on Facebook Workshop – 4 hours
  • Why?
    • Do I have to answer this (and STOP boosting now)?
    • Nearly 1.5 billion potential customers, or 75% of YOUR customers are on Facebook TODAY.
    • Its CHEAP to advertise, you can do this yourself (if you know what you are doing).
    • Its measurable, flexible, fast and clear what you are doing.
  • What?
    • In this half a day course I will run through a complete Facebook sales funnel, which tools you need (all of them are FREE), and how you set them up.
    • The workshop includes how to setup your Ads Manager or Power Editor
    • What the difference is between a campaign, set and ad
    • What should be in an ad to make it effective
    • How yo measure your success, what numbers to look for
    • You will end up with a fully completed ad campaign ready to be run when you want.
  • Topics include:
    • What do I need to create my Social Media presence?
    • How do I set up my environment?
    • Which tools should I use?
    • How can I design ads which work effectively?
    • How do I begin to measure effectiveness?
  • How much?
    • A$ 250 per person
  • Please note:
    • Bring your own laptop
    • You need to have a Business Facebook page
    • Some homework prior to class in required unless you have completed the previous training

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wordpress-loveWebsite Development Training

Have a website however would like to manage the content yourself? Just love blogging and share your knowledge to the world (and potentially make a buck)?

The following training will help you get up and running with your website.

 

Website in a Weekend – 2 days
  • Why?
    • You, or your business need a website or blog,
    • you want to save time and money AND have a fully working PROFESSIONAL website,
    • you want to be trained by industry professionals,
    • AND have a fully working website by the end of the weekend?
    • Then this course is for you.
  • What?
    • In this 2 day course you will learn:
      • What a website is, and how the internet works
      • What is important to put on your website
      • What text to write and which pages and imagery you should have
      • How WordPress works to make a website
      • How to create your own website
      • How to market your website and submit it to Google to be found
      • BONUS – introduction to Social Media
      • BONUS – introduction to professional Marketing
      • OPTIONAL
        • Professional Photography done on the weekend
        • Massive discount on your hosting (and no hassle setting it up)
  • Topics include:
    • Saturday
      • Session 1 – Introduction to websites and the internet
      • Session 2 – Marketing
      • Session 3 – Imagery
      • Session 4 – WordPress Training
    • Sunday
      • Session 5 – Site layout design
      • Session 6 – Creating your website
      • Session 7 – Enhancing your website
      • Session 8 – Marketing your website
    • Bonus Session – Social Media integration
  • How much?
    • A$ 795 per person (Christmas special – A$ 595!!!)
    • Bring your own laptop
  • Please note:
    • Bring your own laptop
    • Some homework prior to course is required unless you have completed the previous training

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Introduction To WordPress Workshop – 2 hour
  • Why?
    • An estimate of nearly 35% of all websites run on WordPress. Thats because its easy to use and super extendable with groovy and cool themes and extra functionality called plugins galore.
    • You can easily manage your own website and blog with just a little bit of knowledge.
    • Word press is free, did I say FREE?
  • What?
    • This workshop will explain the basics of a WordPress website. It will discuss the basic structure and components, and how to set this up yourself.
    • At the end of the workshop you will have a basic website setup, and enough knowledge to extend it to an awesome website for your business or blog.
  • Topics include:
    • Who delivers WordPress and why is it free?
    • Where can I get it and how do I start using it?
    • Basic screen layout and main components like Pages, Posts.
    • How do I make it look pretty with beautiful designs, for free…
  • How much?
    • A$ 120 per person
    • Bring your own laptop
    • If you do not have a WordPress website I can supply one to practise on for free.

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Build Your Own WordPress Website Workshop – 4 hours
  • Why?
    • Being able to build your own website is awesome, cheap, and fun as well!
    • You do however need the right tools to do this, this course will go through the  tools required to setup your blog or business website.
  • What?
    • This workshop will explain the crucial components of building a full website using WordPress.
    • I will discuss the best plugins, themes and tools you can use for a professional looking website. Topics covered will be Performance, Search Engine Optimization, Maintenance and Backups (you do backup don’t you?).
    • At the end of the workshop you will have a complete website setup, and enough knowledge to extend it to an awesome website for your business or blog.
  • Topics include:
    • How to “install” a wordpress website?
    • What are pages, posts, categories and tags.
    • What are plugins and how can we use them?
    • What are themes and how can we use them?
  • How much?
    • A$ 250 per person
    • Bring your own laptop
    • If you do not have a WordPress website I can supply one to practise on for free.

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Optimise A WordPress Website Workshop – 2 hours
  • Why?
    • Too many websites are sloooooow.
    • Too many websites are simply not found in Google (SEO)…
    • Way too many websites are simply not appealing…
  • What?
    • This workshop will explain the crucial components you can use to optimize your WordPress website to be found on Google SEO = Search Engine Optimisation.
    • This workshop will show you how you can performance tune your WordPress website into reasonable performance (and whats that anyway?).
    • At the end of the workshop we have reviewed a example website which neither runs appropriately, nor would ever be found. We will endeavor to look at YOUR website however as this is a rather time consuming process this might not be guaranteed.
  • Topics include:
    • Why websites fail on Google searches (the three main components)?
    • What a good website should DO?
    • How can you see what delays your web site delivery?
    • How you get more hits on your website…
  • How much?
    • A$ 150 per person
    • Bring your own laptop and/or website
    • If you can send through your website BEFORE the training we can make it even more relevant to your business

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I setup ALL my training in either small hour blocks (if you want spread lets say an hour a week) or we can do day blocks of morning, afternoon or even evening, the Wizard is oh-so flexible..

Who is The Website Wizard Of Oz Trainer?

MeThe Website Wizard is a certified trainer (Cert IV), with tons of real life training experience, making his training engaging, exciting, and valuable. He can help you with:

  • Training in house (or in your house)
  • Training in your workplace
  • Creation of on-line training packages including videos
  • Design and development of all training materials (including videos)

The Website Wizard can set-up ANY training for you, for example:

  • Induction training
  • Process and procedure training (simple videos are great!)
  • Certification of Government “Units of Competency”

I am totally flexible in any of these services, why not let me give you a call and discuss options, I’d be delighted to have a chat and see how I can help.