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Digital marketing training for teams from ProfileTree teaches your own staff to run organic social media, video, email, conversion work and Google Analytics 4, using your website and social profiles as the training material. Sessions run at the McSweeney Centre in Belfast, at your premises or online, and training starts from £350 plus VAT.

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Who the Marketing Training is For and What Changes Afterwards

The courses suit businesses that already have someone posting, filming or reporting and want that person to work with a plan and a way of measuring results. Often this is an owner who handles marketing alongside everything else, or a small marketing team that inherited the website and social profiles without much handover. Public bodies and membership organisations whose staff produce content as part of a wider role also book with us.

ProfileTree is a Belfast web design and digital marketing agency, founded in 2011 and based at the McSweeney Centre. The people who build websites, run SEO and produce video for clients are the people who deliver the sessions, so what you learn reflects work we do on live projects every week. This page covers marketing skills channel by channel; if you need a wider programme that also takes in websites, SEO and general digital skills, our page ondigital training for business teams describes the full range.

The change to expect is practical. By the end of a session, your staff should have made at least one real improvement to the business’s own site or profiles and should know which numbers to check each month to see whether it worked. A course that leaves people with notes and good intentions has not done its job.

Training Modules by Marketing Channel

Modules can be booked individually or combined into a longer plan for one group. Most businesses start with the channel that already takes up the most staff time, or with SEO where the website brings in few enquiries because better habits there pay back fastest.

SEO Training for Your Own Website

SEO is the work of helping your pages appear when customers search for what you sell. The training starts with the fundamentals: how search engines find and rank pages, how to choose the phrases your customers actually type, and how to write titles, headings and page copy around them. From there, it moves into the areas that matter for your business, which may be technical SEO, content SEO, or local SEO for businesses that serve a particular town or region.

Corporate SEO training uses the organisation’s own keywords and competitors, so a group leaves knowing which pages to improve first and how to check progress in Google Search Console. If you would like a sense of the ground covered before booking, read ourcomplete SEO training guide.

Content Marketing and Strategy Training

Content marketing is the practice of publishing useful articles, guides and pages that answer your customers’ questions and bring them to your website. This module covers planning what to write and in what order, writing around the phrases people search, on-page SEO for each article, and measuring which pieces lead to enquiries.

Your staff know the products, the customers and the questions that come up on calls far better than any outside writer, which is why content suits in-house work once the method is in place. The session uses your existing pages as the starting point, so the group finishes with a content plan of its own and at least one page improved. Our article oncontent marketing training for SMEs goes into the approach in more detail.

Social Media Training for Organic Channels

This module covers organic activity, meaning posts, comments and profiles that you do not pay to promote. We work across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok and X, and help you decide which two or three platforms your customers actually use, since running all five well is beyond most small businesses.

The session moves from planning to measurement. Participants build a simple content plan, agree on a consistent voice for the business, practice replying to comments and messages, and read the platform statistics that show whether posts send people to the website. ProfileTree does not sell paid advertising, so paid social campaigns sit outside this module. For a longer look at the subject, see our guide tosocial media marketing training for SMEs.

Video Marketing Training

Video marketing training covers scripting, filming and getting video found. Staff learn to plan a short script, film usable footage on the equipment they already have, and adapt one recording for YouTube, LinkedIn and short vertical formats.

A large part of the module is YouTube SEO and distribution: titling, describing and tagging each video the way a customer would search, and sharing it where your audience will see it. ProfileTree runs its own YouTube channels from Belfast, and the trainers bring that everyday experience to the session. Product demonstrations, answers to common customer questions and introductions to your team usually do more for a small business than polished promotional pieces, and we help you plan a list of videos worth making.

Google Analytics 4 Training

Google Analytics 4 is the free analytics platform Google provides for websites and apps. Many businesses have it installed and rarely open it because the reports look unfamiliar to anyone who learned the older version.

The training covers GA4 setup, event tracking, report building and connecting the figures to business decisions. Participants find the pages people land on, the channels that send them, and the key events, which are the actions you mark as important, such as a form submission or a tap on a phone number.Google’s own help article on GA4 events explains how events and key events are collected, and we use it as the reference during the session. There is alsoa practical GA4 training guide on our site if you would like to read ahead.

Marketing Automation and Email Training

Marketing automation means using software to send the right message at the right point without someone doing it by hand each time, and email is where most small businesses start. The module covers:

  • email workflows such as welcome and follow-up sequences;
  • connecting your email platform to your CRM (customer relationship management system, where enquiries and customer records are kept);
  • lead scoring, which ranks contacts by how ready they appear to buy;
  • reporting on what each workflow produces.

The legal side forms part of the session. Marketing emails in the UK are governed by the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, usually shortened to PECR, alongside data protection law. TheInformation Commissioner’s Office guidance on direct marketing by electronic mail explains what a business must do, including when consent is needed and when the narrower “soft opt-in” for existing customers applies. We go through that guidance with your sign-up forms on screen, although the training is not legal advice.

AI in Everyday Marketing Work

AI now runs through every module, from drafting first versions of articles and emails to summarising analytics, and we show where it goes wrong as well as where it saves time. Organisations that want a dedicated programme on AI across the whole business can book AI training Belfast workshops, which go much further than the marketing modules here.

How a Marketing Training Session Runs

Every session centres on your business. Beforehand, we review your website, your social profiles and, where you give access, your analytics, so that the examples on screen belong to you and not to a textbook. Exercises are then carried out on your own site and profiles, which means the work begins during the session.

Sessions can take place at the McSweeney Centre in Belfast, at your premises anywhere in Northern Ireland, or by video call for organisations in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland. Marketing training can be one-to-one for an owner, or for a group where several people share responsibility for marketing. If you are based in the city and want to combine marketing skills with wider digital topics, we also offerdigital training in Belfast.

The level is set by the people taking part. A beginner who has never opened GA4 and a marketing manager who wants to tidy up their reporting need different sessions, and we adjust pace and depth to match. Afterwards, everyone keeps the notes, the plans and the changes made on the day.

Marketing Training Prices and What Affects Them

Marketing training from ProfileTree starts from £350 plus VAT. The final price for a programme depends on the number of modules, how many people take part, where the sessions are held, and how much preparation your website and accounts need. Programmes longer than a single session are quoted on request.

When a whole group attends together, we price per session, not per seat, because the preparation on your website is the same whether two or six people are in the room. Each quote lists exactly which modules are included and what participants will have completed by the end.

Deciding Between Training Your Staff and Hiring an Agency

Marketing training makes sense where the knowledge needed sits inside the business and the task recurs every week. Your people know your customers, products and tone better than any outside firm, so channels that rely on that knowledge usually work best in house once the skills are there. Tasks that need specialist depth, or happen only occasionally, are often better handed to a specialist.

TaskUsually better kept in-house after trainingUsually better handed to an agency
Updating page titles, copy and local listings for SEOYes, because it relies on knowing the products and customersTechnical SEO audits and site migrations
Planning and writing articles and guidesYes, once there is a content plan to followLarge content programmes with tight deadlines
Daily social media and LinkedIn postingYes, because it relies on knowing the audienceOnly where nobody has the time
Short videos for YouTube and social platformsYes, with a simple routineHigher production pieces such as brand films
Email workflows and monthly GA4 reportingYes, once tracking and templates are in placeInitial tracking setup and complex automation across several systems
Website rebuilds and developmentRarelyYes, because the work is specialist and infrequent

Many businesses end up with a mix, with their own staff running the weekly channels and outside help on larger projects. Marketing training also improves that relationship because people who understand the basics can brief a supplier clearly and judge what comes back.

Ciaran Connolly, founder of ProfileTree, puts it this way: “Training only works if someone does the thing afterwards. That is why ProfileTree’s digital marketing training is built around the business’s own website and accounts, and people leave the McSweeney Centre in Belfast with the changes already made on their own site.”

For a broader view of what small businesses tend to need from a programme, our article onwhat SME teams need from a course lists the questions to put to any training provider before you book.

Book Digital Marketing Training for Your Team

The quickest way to start is to tell us which channel takes up most of your staff’s time and which result matters most to the business, whether that is more enquiries, better use of social media or clearer reporting. We will suggest the module or combination that fits and send a quote. ProfileTree has more than 500 Google reviews with a 5.0 rating, and you can see every course we run on our page fordigital training for business teams.

Marketing Training FAQs

Can the marketing training use our own website and social accounts?

We recommend it because every exercise then produces a change your business can keep. With your permission, we prepare the session around your website, social profiles and analytics. Where you would prefer not to share access, we work from public pages, and your staff apply the steps afterwards.

Is the marketing training suitable for complete beginners?

The sessions suit complete beginners as well as experienced marketers. Each one is set at the level of the people attending, from owners who have never opened GA4 to marketing staff who want to sharpen existing skills. We ask about experience in advance so that nobody spends time on material they already know.

How long does a marketing training programme take?

The length depends on how many modules you choose and how many people take part. A single module can be delivered as one session, and longer programmes are spread out so participants can put each step into practice before the next one. We confirm the schedule when we quote.

Can you train our team on site or online?

We deliver sessions in both formats: at the McSweeney Centre in Belfast, on your own premises across Northern Ireland, and online for organisations elsewhere in the UK and in Ireland. The content is identical in each case, although in-person sessions make it easier to work on several people’s accounts at once.

Does the training cover AI tools for marketing?

Every module includes the AI assistants that suit that channel, along with the checks a person needs to make before anything is published. For training focused entirely on AI, our separate AI programmes go into far more depth.

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