Online marketing for yoga teachers

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How to advertise yourself

as a Yoga Teacher Ana Paula Coelho

What are we going to learn together?

Self-presentations that matter;

How to make the best copyrighting for business and events;

Keywords that matter to Google (basic SEO concepts);

Easily creating websites and e-mail marketing;

Building References online (link building);

Social Media Marketing;

How to make proper content (photos, videos) using what you have in hand;

Basic skills on editing photos;

How to build a basic poster;

Tracking goals;

Design Thinking.

Day 1 Day 2

Hours:

13:30 – 16:30

17:00 – 20:00

Who am I?

Advertisement degree

MBA on Entrepreneurship in Digital Marketing

12 years of experience in IT/Marketing Communications

1 year of Yoga

Hackschooler

Who are you? It’s also a fundamental marketing question

Exercise

The yoga teacher worksheet

Who are you? It’s also a fundamental marketing question

Write your presentation

Short (500 characters – better 240) and long (300

words).

Short: name, what’s your speciality, where do you teach

(or formation), how many years of yoga, styles and side

knowledge.

Long: tell your story telling what you love to do and

why and pointing out your strenghts.

Break

What’s your Dharma?

What do you sell?

When people look for this type of product or service,

how they ask for it?

First level intensive course

4 weeks yoga intensive course in Thailand

Agama Yoga Level 1

28 days yoga retreat Thailand

One Month Yoga Ko Phangan

What’s your Dharma?

What do you sell?

When people look for this type of product or service,

how they ask for it?

First level intensive course

4 weeks yoga intensive course in Thailand

Agama Yoga Level 1

28 days yoga retreat inThailand

One Month Yoga Ko Phangan

SEO

Search Engine Optimization

Search terms

Keyword Planner

Original copyright (different than for your website)

Image names

Image size

References

Mobile friendly

Use a Seo Checklist (before and after publishing your site)

Long tail

Exercise

The spiritual event/product

Content Images, Videos, Posters and flyers

Photos To have professional: use one of the many travellers

photographers around;

If not, know the basic of photography and use a fairly good camera and do it (iPhone 4 or up will do the trick);

Use nature ambiance and sunlight (better about 1,5 hours before sunset);

One yours (face – not selfies), 2 of your main product and 2-3 of your auxiliary products.

Let’s do it together?

Exercise: pair up and use your equipment

Making good photos with iPhone + Photoshop

Short lesson on images for web

Size – Kilobytes (Kb) or Megabytes (Mb);

Dimensions – How many pixels of width and height (e.g:1240x800px);

Resolution – How many pixels (dots) per inch;

High quality – printing (300dpi);

Optimized quality – web (72dpi);

Filetype – Jpeg(jpg) or PNG

Acceptable, but need work: PDF, PSD, RAW, ...

Not acceptable: gif, doc, cdr...

For edition: Photoshop (print) or Fireworks (web)

Break

A small lesson on Photoshop

Filters (and layers)

Brightness

Contrast

Captions

Save for web

How to make a killer poster

Yoga poster templates

Canva

Or hire someone

Upwork

Fiverr

Break

Facebook images

Template for images on facebook

Canva, Upwork, Fiverr...

Videos

Testimonials

Nature background, good light, good audio

Name, country, service bought

Satyama Testimonials

Showing your product/service

Shibari Healing

Manee

Fluxonomia 4d

Exercise

Make and edit a video (group exercise)

Where are you? Digital presence matters

Have your own place

yournameandspeciality.com

www.yogitantra.com or www.shibarihealing.com

Platforms:

Wordpress

Tumblr

Squarespace

Wix

Yogi Sites

What needs to be on your website?

Home

Your picture, your primary service and your diferential value proposition

Testimonial

How to book your service/buy your product/get in touch

E-mail subscription (for retreats/workshops)

Other pages

Services/products (one landing page for each)

About (big personal presentation)

Testimonials/reviews (preferably in video or with photos)

Contact/where to find you

What is a good Landing Page?

Example of good landing page

Reaching people

Mailing

Subscription (opt in)

Opt out link (all e-mails)

E-mail Marketing Tool (Mailchimp)

Sent day and time and subject

Followers

Blog

Third parties websites (Yogatrail, for instance)

Which information you need organized?

Presentation and photos and video of the school/teacher

Titles, dates, prices and descriptions on each product

Different optimized good photos for each product

Videos/testimonials for each product

Yoga websites

1. Yoga Trail

2. Book Yoga Retreats (8 weeks before – accommodation needed)

3. Book Retreats (accommodation needed)

4. Let’s Glo

5. Yoganonymous

6. Vydya

7. Retreat Guru

8. Retreat Network

Exercise

Build your profile on Yoga Trail

Ask for reviews (importing mailing list)

Break

Be popular How to use Social Media wisely

Facebook

Page (1% reach)

Events (invite properly – use city and/or past events)

Communities (know the rules)

Videos (uploaded on fb – song copyrights)

Ads

Most important: correct targeting, timing and budget (low).

Test and adapt.

Instagram

Hashtags

Look for popular hashtags in your field (#yoga #om ...) and use

them on every post

Mentions

@yourschool, @influencers, @customers, @partners.

Program your posts

Hootsuite

Facebook itself

Videos

Snapchat and/or Periscope

Youtube or Vimeo

Hangouts on air – webinars

Video-courses

Udemy

Excercise

Communication Plan

Break

Tracking

Google Analytics

Facebook Insights

Wordpress Analytics

Youtube Analytics

Track and measure

Tracking sheet

Reach Enlightenment Meditate upon it

Golden Circle

Golden Circle

Empathy Map

Maslow Hierarchy of Needs

Business Model Canvas

Exercise

Empathy Map

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