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City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 3

City & Guilds Level 3 Certificate in Principles of Social Media Advertising and Promotion

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 3
  • Total credits17
  • Units in this qualification3

Awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute · on the Ofqual register

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Aimed at individuals in the marketing and sales sector, this Level 3 Certificate develops knowledge of social media advertising and promotion. Learners will explore social networking management, digital marketing communication, and the principles of social media advertising.

These are the units City and Guilds of London Institute registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

Communicating using digital marketing/sales channelsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
This unit develops learners' ability to plan, implement, and evaluate digital marketing and sales communications. You'll select appropriate digital channels, tailor messages to audiences, ensure message accessibility, and monitor campaign responses effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to plan the use of digital media for a specific message, audience and recipients.
  • Plan the use of digital media for a specific message, audience and recipients.
  • Check that the digital message can be accessed and/or delivered.
  • Monitor and evaluate the response to digital activity and take any corrective action.
Principles of Social Media Advertising and PromotionReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
You'll gain knowledge and skills to plan and implement social media advertising and promotional campaigns, including digital vouchers. The unit covers targeting audiences, measuring campaign effectiveness, and complying with relevant legal and ethical considerations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan how to use digital vouchers for marketing purposes.
  • Plan the implementation of Social Networking site advertising campaigns for marketing purposes.
  • Understand the use of promotional campaigns on social networking sites.
  • Understand current national and international legal and organisational guidelines for a social networking advertising/promotional campaign.
Social Networking Management for a BusinessReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
It teaches you to evaluate and use social networking tools for business purposes. You'll classify social networking audiences, manage social media activity, conduct risk analysis, and develop digital crisis management plans to support business objectives.

What you'll be able to do

  • Evaluate external social networking tools for a business.
  • Understand how to classify the social networking audience of a business.
  • Use social media management tools in relation to social networking.
  • Carry out a risk analysis and create a digital crisis management plan in relation to social networking for a business.
  • Use social networking measurement and monitoring tools for a business.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

Your passport

Every credit is a stamp you keep

Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.

Communicating using digital marketing/sales channelsPrinciples of Social Media Advertising and PromotionSocial Networking Management for a Business

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.

Where this can lead

Digital Communications Associate

Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We're committed to giving you the tools, support, and opportunities to build a really rewarding career in digital communications. Show us your drive, and we'll help you get there.

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Opens the roleDigital Communications AssociateOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Opens the roleDigital Communications CoordinatorOne of the jobs this qualification is a route intoSee the role →Future FluencyAll ten future skillsSee how every unit is contextualised by the tenExplore →

Skills it covers

What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

Engage audiences through digital, including social mediaUse digital channels or platforms and social networks to deliver marketing communications

How you’ll actually learn this

One-to-one, on your own real work

A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Communicating using digital marketing/sales channelsLevel 3

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Digital Communications AssociateDigital Communications Coordinator

This unit develops learners' ability to plan, implement, and evaluate digital marketing and sales communications. Learners will select appropriate digital channels, tailor messages to audiences, ensure message accessibility, and monitor campaign responses effectively.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for City & Guilds Level 3 Certificate in Principles of Social Media Advertising and Promotion

3 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.

  1. Communicating using digital marketing/sales channels
  2. Principles of Social Media Advertising and Promotion
  3. Social Networking Management for a Business
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

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Why it sticks

Most courses stop at remembering

There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

The value

Why the companion is worth £70 a month

You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.

That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.

Earned on your own work, taught to the top.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.

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