Pictured: Mark Saxby and Martin Broadhurst
Two Derby trainers have been chosen to mentor students on the
UK's first BTEC Social Media for Business course.
Mark Saxby and Martin Broadhurst from Status Social Media
Marketing, which is based in Littleover, will start delivering the
part-time 100-hour course in February 2012.
The BTEC is aimed at people wanting to get a job in social
media, those in marketing who want to improve their skills, and
students who want to make themself more employable.
"Social media marketing is such a significant part of the
business world that this course could benefit anyone who wants to
pick up new customers and raise awareness of their brand," said Mr
Saxby.
Status Social Media Marketing set up in January this year and
has already trained more than 500 business people to use networks
like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. It also manages the social
media for the resort of Cleethorpes, and five international
magazines owned by the publishers of the Lancet medical
journal.