Why Social Progress
We are a social media agency specialising in digital marketing. Whether you’re looking to outsource your social media marketing to us or train yourself or your employees to manage social media in-house, we’re here to help you get to grips with social media for YOUR business.
Every member of the Social Progress Team actively manages social media for clients, ensuring that we are up to speed with the latest platform updates and highly familiar with Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, Twitter, as well as TikTok, Pinterest, Google My Business and YouTube.
Social Progress offers a variety of other services too, including the delivery of strategic digital marketing, website development, photography, video production, drone imagery and creation of social media graphics. We provide professional and tailored packages to suit each business.
As a digital marketing agency, we also support you with social media advertising, including Facebook Advertising and Instagram Advertising. If you already have a strong digital presence and you’re looking to take your social media to the next level, why not have a chat with us about social media campaigns or adding an advertising budget to your Content Management Package.
What makes us different from the other “digital marketing experts”? Well, Social Progress started out initially as a social media training company in 2011 and has developed into a team offering social media management as well as training. We aim for “quality over quantity” so you can be assured that whether you come to us for training or to outsource your social media marketing to us, we will endeavour to get to know you and your business well and tailor the delivery of the service to compliment your marketing plan.
Our team work hard to support each and every client and our Managing Director, Janet, has been recognised not once but twice as one of the Top 50 Business Advisers in the UK by Enterprise Nation in 2015 and again in 2021.
If you’d like to find out more about us, read on or drop us an email – info@socialprogress.co.uk or call us on 01484 506336 to book an appointment for a chat and a brew, to see how we can help you.
Facebook Blueprint Lead Trainer & Facebook Business Partner Agency
Social Progress are also a Meta Business Partner with access to tools and resources exclusively for agencies including a basic customer support from Facebook, agency analytics reports, and listing on the Partner Directory.
Janet is a Facebook Certified Lead Trainer and a Facebook Certified Media Planning Professional. The Lead Trainer badge enables the holder to deliver training to people within their respective communities, covering Facebook’s advertising products across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp.
The Certified Media Planning Professional badge is awarded to professionals who have demonstrated advanced proficiency in Facebook marketing, end-to-end Facebook marketing strategy that aligns to business goals and complements a holistic marketing plan.
Skills Bank
Would upskilling your employees help your business to grow? South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) is inviting applications for Skills Bank, a project that provides employers in the region with funding for training that will help develop workforce and boost business.
Social Progress are part of this network of training providers able to offer employer led training through this programme.
Skills Bank is a flexible pot of funding that can provide bespoke, tailored training which directly meets the needs of employers and enabling them to choose the training provider they use.
If training for you or your employees would help your business to grow, you may be eligible for funding towards the cost. Their Skills Advisors will work with you to understand how an investment in training can support plans for growth, to apply for funding, and will connect you with high-quality training providers such as ourselves.
We have a range of workshops available through this programme which can be found in the Training Category of Sales and Marketing on the Skills Bank website – https://skillsbankscr.co.uk/sales-and-marketing/
To find out more, visit https://skillsbankscr.co.uk
Or call 03330 00 0039.
Facebook she means business
Janet Bebb was invited to become one of only eight official Accredited Facebook She Means Business Trainer in 2017 and has delivered various training events on behalf of the programme since then until very recently when the programme concluded using a toolkit provided exclusively by Meta.
The Facebook She Means Business Programme consisted of hand-picked #DigitalMarketing specialists from across the UK who were trained specifically by Facebook to deliver Training Events and Meet Ups on their behalf to achieve their ambitious target of training 50,000 female entrepreneurs per year.
Although the She Means Business programme has now finished, Janet is still delivering Facebook and Instagram training as an accredited Meta Lead Trainer, and she continues to have access to a network of UK based digital marketing specialists.
Digital Enterprise Top 100
We’re delighted to be recognised as a Digital Enterprise TOP 100 Digital Tech Innovators for three years in 2019, 2020 and 2022.
You can find a list of all TOP 100 businesses for 2022, including Social Progress, on the Digital Enterprise TOP 100 website.
The Digital Enterprise Top 100 is part of the Digital Enterprise Programme, which was an ERDF business support initiative brought to you by UMi.
We’ve been delighted to work on the Digital Enterprise programme for a number of years. Supporting local businesses through our social media training and mentoring.
Digital Enterprise Digital Growth Vouchers and Digital Knowledge Exchange:
Following the success of the programme from 2014 to 2020, Digital Enterprise 2.0 was launched and is available to businesses right across the Leeds City Region.
Find out more about the Digital Enterprise and Digital Knowledge Exchange programme as and when it becomes available on their website – www.digitalenterprise.co.uk