By Mohamed Bah · Kolonell, a digital agency in Dakar
Campaigns managed on cost per customer, for your own business or billed to your clients every month
75,000 FCFA · 115 €
Programme
and 1 more module
Wave / Orange Money payment, access within 24 business hours
For your own business, the first gain is the money you stop wasting: in the cases worked through in the course, moving from boosting to a campaign managed on cost per customer often cuts a third of wasted spend. As a service, campaign management is billed in Dakar and Abidjan at 50,000 to 150,000 FCFA (about $87 to $260) per client per month, plus the ad budget; with three clients, that is 150,000 to 450,000 FCFA (about $260 to $781) a month (2026 market rates; income depends on the sectors you serve and your ability to prove results, and is not guaranteed).
Indicative estimate, depending on your market, pace and work. No income is guaranteed.
Your instructor
Founder of Kolonell, a digital agency in Dakar. He designs websites, business applications and customer acquisition systems for SMEs in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire and Dubai, and manages their Meta and TikTok campaigns on cost per customer.
See Kolonell’s work →Level 2 has you launch a first Meta campaign to WhatsApp, in one module, as part of a complete acquisition system. This level 3 is entirely about advertising: cost-per-customer calculation, clean account and tracking setup, advanced audiences including the diaspora, creatives, TikTok, testing, scaling and selling the service. You can take it directly if you already have an active Page and WhatsApp Business.
Modules 1 to 5 require no ad spend. The final project ideally calls for a real campaign: plan 20,000 to 40,000 FCFA (about $35 to $69) over 7 to 14 days. Without a budget, you submit the campaign fully built but unpublished, with a review based on the results dataset provided; the project is then graded on preparation and analysis.
Module 2 compares the payment methods accepted in 2026: bank-issued Visa or Mastercard, prepaid and virtual cards offered by some banks and mobile operators, as well as the pitfalls of account currency (in September 2026, most Meta ad accounts opened from West Africa are billed in euros or dollars, with conversion fees; check the list of currencies offered when you create the account) and billing thresholds. TikTok Ads Manager bills in dollars, and opening a self-service account from Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire or Mali is not guaranteed: the course gives the fallback options (partner agency, organic content and Meta Reels). The rules change often, so the lesson gives you a checklist of what to verify before paying.
Yes for prevention, partly for recovery. Module 2 covers the structure that limits restrictions (real profiles, two-factor authentication, backup admins) and advertising policies; module 4 details the content that gets an ad rejected. The appeal process is explained, with no guarantee of outcome since the decision belongs to the platform.
About 20 hours: a little over eleven hours of lessons, including six hands-on workshops, nearly five hours of exercises and the two projects (a little over an hour for the campaign plan, two and a half hours for the final project, not counting the time the ads run). At four hours a week, allow five weeks, campaign included.
You pay with Wave or Orange Money. When you enroll, you receive a pro forma invoice with the amount and the number to send it to. Once payment is received, your access is activated within 24 hours, often in under an hour during business hours. Module 1 is free to preview before you pay, and access is for life, updates included.
Via Wave or Orange Money. After enrolling you receive a pro forma invoice by email with the number to pay. Send the proof on WhatsApp: your access is activated within 24 business hours.
For life, updates included. Learn at your own pace and revisit lessons as often as you need.
Complete the lessons, pass each module quiz with at least 70% and submit your final project: an instructor reviews and approves it (feedback within 5 working days). The certificate is then generated, with a unique number and a public verification page.
You have clicked "Boost post" before. A few thousand FCFA went out, some likes came in, and not one customer you can trace. This course is for SME owners, marketers, community managers and freelancers who want to master Meta and TikTok ads: campaigns managed on cost per customer, with 3,000 to 20,000 FCFA a day, for your own business or billed to clients.
You start from average order, margin and repeat purchase to set a maximum cost per customer and a test budget. You set up a clean Meta business portfolio, a payment method that works from West Africa, conversion tracking and TikTok Ads Manager, then build local, customer and diaspora audiences and compliant creatives that convert. You finish with management: reading results, testing, scaling and selling the service.
What you get: 6 modules, 20 hours of training, 96 graded exercises and 6 workshops on fictional cases with figures in FCFA, a quiz and a PDF handout for each module, and 2 graded projects: your costed campaign plan, then a complete campaign launched, read and optimized. A certificate anyone can verify online validates the course.
You leave with a cost-per-customer calculator, documented Meta and TikTok accounts, three ready audiences, six creatives across three angles, a live campaign with its 7-day review sheet, and an ad management offer in two packages. In the course cases, moving from boosting to managed campaigns often cuts a third of wasted spend. As a service, campaign management bills at 50,000 to 150,000 FCFA per client per month in Dakar and Abidjan, plus the ad budget: 150,000 to 450,000 FCFA a month with three clients (2026 rates, income not guaranteed).
Level 3 of the Digital marketing and social media track, it follows level 2, "Digital marketing for SMEs", and leads to level 4, "Freelance community manager", which builds advertising into a full monthly service.
Who it is for: SME owners, marketing managers, community managers and freelancers in Dakar, Thiès, Abidjan, Bamako or Cotonou who have already posted or boosted a few posts and want to turn paid advertising into a skill they master, for their own business or as a service billed to clients.
A module-by-module path: lessons, exercises, quizzes and projects to submit.
Module 1· 16 exercises
Decide the most a customer can cost, which offer to push and where to send the click, before you spend a single franc.
Module 2· 16 exercises
Put in place a solid account structure, a payment method that works from West Africa and reliable conversion tracking.
Module 3· 16 exercises
Build the audiences that fit the offer, from your local catchment area to the diaspora, and know when to let the algorithm do the searching.
Module 4· 16 exercises
Produce ads that stop the scroll and trigger a message, without breaking the rules that get an ad rejected.
Module 5· 16 exercises
Know when TikTok beats Meta for your audience, boost a video that is already working and build a campaign in TikTok Ads Manager.
Module 6· 16 exercises
Read results down to cost per customer, test with method, scale the budget without breaking the campaign, and bill for this work.
Certificate included
A numbered certificate with your validated skills, a public page and a verification QR code. Add it to LinkedIn in one click.
Certificate of skills
Your name
has completed and validated the course
Online advertising: Meta and TikTok on a small budget
Skills developed
Number KOL-CERT-2026-XXXXX
Mohamed Bah
Founder, Kolonell Academy
After the course
Each certificate has a number anyone can verify online, and you can add it to your LinkedIn profile in one click.
Upload your CV from your profile: our team reviews it and helps you make it clearer and more convincing.
Learners who complete the course can join the Kolonell talent pool. Entry is earned: course completed, exercises submitted. Kolonell also draws on it for its own hiring.
Optional services, free for learners. This is not a promise of employment.
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This course is part of the track
Level 3 of 5 · Advanced
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The full job, with a portfolio
Your first SME client signed and invoiced, with a monthly retainer and a report that gets it renewed
100,000 FCFA 34 h
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