Vocational training things on white: a hard hat, a toolbelt with hand tools, safety goggles, a first aid kit, a clipboard and a coil of cable along both edges
Use case

Marketing automation for vocational training providers

Career changers, school leavers and employers search for the right course long before they enrol: what it covers, how long it takes and where it leads. Maggie, your AI CMO, writes the course guides and posts that answer them, and you approve every one.

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Sound familiar?

Why vocational training providers struggle to keep their marketing going

Your trainers are in the workshop, your admin team is chasing paperwork and the next cohort starts on a fixed date whether the seats are full or not.

Empty seats on a fixed start date

A course runs with a trainer, a workshop and kit booked. If enquiries come too late, you either run it half full or move the date and let down the learners who did sign up.

Learners want to know where it leads

Someone thinking of retraining as an electrician or a care worker asks what the course involves, what they can do afterwards and whether it suits them. A course page with a price and a date doesn't answer that.

Two very different buyers

Individuals paying for themselves and employers training a team need different messages. One wants a new career, the other wants qualified staff without losing too many days on site.

Course aggregators get the click

Course listing sites rank for the searches you want and send learners to whoever pays most. Your own website rarely appears when someone searches for a course in their town.

A training centre office desk: a phone showing post cards waiting for approval beside a hard hat, safety goggles, a course folder and a multimeter
Your week with Maggie

The September intake is two months away, and your course guides are already going out.

It's early July. Your summer courses are running, the September intake for your electrical and plumbing courses still has spaces, and nobody has had time to post since Easter.

You paste your training centre's website into cmo.so. Maggie reads it and writes your brand profile: your electrical, plumbing and gas courses, your health and safety short courses for employers, your workshop with real kit, the career changers and local firms you train, and the straight-talking, encouraging way you speak to learners. You correct one thing: you've stopped running evening classes at the second site.

By Tuesday the drafts are waiting, each with a picture in your centre's look: a blog post on what a career change into electrical work involves, a guide to choosing between a full-time and a part-time course, a LinkedIn post for site managers about booking team training before the busy season, and a Google Business post about the September open evening with a button to book a place. Content Policy Guard has held one line that read like a promise of a job after the course, with a suggested rewrite. You approve three between workshop sessions and accept the rewrite.

The posts go out at the times you set for each channel and each one comes back with its link. While your trainers teach, Maggie is already planning the January posts for people starting the year with a career change, and Search Console in cmo.so shows which course guides people are finding.

What you get with Maggie

A marketing assistant who knows your intakes

Each of those problems has an answer, and you still decide what goes out under your centre's name.

Course guides that answer real questions

Posts on what each course covers, how long it takes, what learners can go on to do and how to prepare, written for Google and for AI answers. Published to your WordPress, Shopify, Wix or Webflow site, or any site through the cmo.so API.

Blog on autopilot

Planned around every start date

September and January intakes, open evenings and short courses through the year. Posts are written and queued weeks before each start, so seats fill while there is still time to enrol.

Intake schedule

LinkedIn for employers

Site managers, HR teams and business owners are on LinkedIn. Maggie writes posts about upskilling teams, refresher training and planning courses around the work calendar.

LinkedIn

Found in your town

Regular Google Business posts keep your centre visible when people search for a course nearby, with open evenings as events and a button to book or enquire.

Google Business

Education rules, checked before you read

Turn on Content Policy Guard and posts are checked against education rules or your own, such as never promising a job or a pass. A risky post is held as a draft with a suggested rewrite. These are AI suggestions, not legal or compliance advice.

Content Policy Guard

Approve between sessions

By default nothing goes out until you approve it. Swipe through drafts in the iPhone app or at app.cmo.so, edit a line, skip a post, or pause a channel when a course is full.

Approvals
Inside the app

Your marketing team, in your pocket

Real screens from the cmo.so app on iPhone.

The cmo.so app home screen: monthly posts, website health scores and an AI visibility chartAsk Maggie: a chat where Maggie reviews 30 days of SEO and AI visibilityConnect your social accounts: LinkedIn, Google Business, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTokMaggie prepared your plan: look, voice, writing style and posting frequencyWrite a post once for LinkedIn, Google Business, Facebook and Instagram
How it works

From your course website to a full intake plan in four steps

  1. Enter your website

    Maggie reads it and drafts your training centre's brand profile in minutes.

  2. Check your profile

    Correct your courses, sites and start dates, and say whether you train individuals, employers or both.

  3. Review the drafts

    Your first week of posts arrives with pictures. Approve, edit or skip each one.

  4. Let them go out

    Approved posts go out at each channel's times and every one comes back with its link.

Your other options

Why not just…

The usual ways vocational training providers fill courses, and where each one runs out.

…list courses on aggregator sites?

They bring enquiries, but often at a cost per lead, and learners compare you on price next to every other centre. Posts on your own website and Google Business bring people who enrol with you directly.

…ask trainers to post on social media?

Trainers are in the workshop all day, and posting falls away the moment a course starts. Maggie writes ahead and keeps your schedule going through every intake.

…pay a marketing agency?

SEO and content agencies often cost around £1,000 a month, and you would still need to explain every course to them. Maggie writes and publishes every week from £15 a month.

…write it with ChatGPT?

You still brief it, check it, find the picture and post it yourself, and it doesn't know your courses or start dates. Maggie remembers your centre and puts posts out on schedule.

Pricing

Cut the £5,900/mo marketing bill to £15/mo

Everything a marketing team does, done by Maggie.

What needs doingWithout cmo.soWith cmo.so
Full-time marketing hire£3,000/moIncluded
SEO and AI search (GEO) agency£1,000/moIncluded
Content writer, AI-assisted£500/moIncluded
Social media manager, freelance£800/moIncluded
Designed pictures for every post£300/moIncluded
SEO and GEO softwareRank tracking, site audits, AI visibility£250/moIncluded
AI writing and image tools£50/moIncluded
Working hoursOffice hours24/7
Total per month£5,900+From £15/mo

Typical UK costs for a small business in 2026, with AI already cutting freelance rates. Estimates only; your own quotes will vary.

Founding member pricingLock in these prices for good.For the first 500 members, until 1 January 2027.
72days left
FreeTry it out
£0forever
No card needed
  • 5 social posts, 30 once verified
  • 15 Maggie messages a day
  • Upgrade any time
Start free
AirGetting started
£15/mo
Lowest paid plan
  • 2 posts a day
  • 60 Maggie messages a day
  • All channels
Choose Air
MaxSeveral channels
£45/mo
£75Save 40%
  • 24 posts a day
  • 300 Maggie messages a day
  • All channels
Choose Max
UltraBusy teams
£65/mo
£115Save 43%
  • 48 posts a day
  • 600 Maggie messages a day
  • All channels
Choose Ultra
EliteAgencies, many brands
£105/mo
£195Save 46%
  • 96 posts a day
  • 1,000 Maggie messages a day
  • All channels
Choose Elite

Per website, billed monthly. Blog and social posts share one allowance; your best plan sets how much you can talk to Maggie across all your websites.

Questions training providers ask

Marketing automation for vocational training providers: your questions

Still unsure?

What is marketing automation for vocational training providers?

It's software that does the repeating work of marketing a training centre: planning posts around your intakes, writing blog and social posts, making pictures and publishing them on schedule.

With cmo.so, Maggie does all of it from your centre's website, and nothing goes out until you approve it.

How do vocational training providers get more learners online?

Vocational training providers get more learners online by answering what people ask before they enrol, such as what a course involves and where it leads, and by being visible in local search when someone looks for a course nearby.

Maggie writes those guides and posts every week, queues them ahead of each start date, and Search Console in cmo.so shows which ones bring people to your site.

How much does marketing automation cost for a training provider?

There's a free plan with no card needed. Paid plans are per website and billed monthly: Air at £15 a month covers two posts a day, which suits a single training centre, and Pro at £45 a month suits a provider posting on several channels for learners and employers.

Founding members get lower prices for good on every plan until 1 January 2027. You can cancel any time.

Which channels should vocational training providers start with?

Most start with Google Business and their own blog, because people searching for a course in their area decide there, plus LinkedIn if employers book training for their teams.

Facebook and Instagram are in beta and suit school leavers and career changers, and YouTube is in beta for workshop videos. Each channel has its own posting times and queue.

Is it safe to use AI for course marketing?

It is safe when you review every post before it goes out, and approvals are on by default. You can also turn on Content Policy Guard to check posts against education rules or your own, such as never promising a job, a pass or a salary.

These are AI suggestions, not legal or compliance advice; a qualified person should still review your posts, and your centre stays responsible for what it publishes.

Can it write about funding for courses?

It can write general posts explaining that funding may be available and pointing people to your own funding page. Funding rules change and depend on the learner, so add the details you are sure of to your brand profile.

You review every post, and Content Policy Guard can hold anything that reads like a promise of free or funded places, with a suggested rewrite.

Can posts promote our open evenings?

They can. Google Business posts can carry events, such as an open evening or a taster day, with a button to book a place or get in touch.

Maggie also writes blog and social posts in the weeks before, so people hear about it on more than one channel.

We train both individuals and employers. Can cmo.so handle both?

It can, from one brand profile that knows both audiences. Maggie plans posts for career changers on your blog and Google Business, and posts for site managers and HR teams on LinkedIn.

One idea, such as a new short course, can become a post for each channel in its own style.

Does it connect to our enrolment system?

It doesn't. cmo.so writes and publishes posts; it does not connect to enrolment, learner record or booking systems, and it does not send email newsletters.

Your posts link to your course pages and enquiry forms, and your admin team handles enrolment as usual.

Which websites does it work with?

cmo.so publishes to WordPress, Shopify, Wix and Webflow, and to any other website through the cmo.so API.

Each post is reported back with its link once it is live.

We have several training centres. Can cmo.so handle each one?

It can. If each centre has its own website, add them all to one account and each gets its own brand profile, channels, schedule and approvals.

If they share one website, Maggie can still write posts for each location's learners from the same brand profile.

Can our course leaders approve posts?

Yes, they can. In Me → Team you can add people and choose what each can see or change, using presets such as editor or manager.

So the head of electrical courses can check those posts while you look after the overall schedule.

Ready when you are

Fill your next intake before the start date arrives

Enter your website. Your brand profile and first week of posts are ready in minutes, and nothing goes out until you approve it.

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  • You approve every post
  • Cancel any time

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