How to start and grow your digital marketing skills instantly
How to start and grow your digital marketing skills instantly
This is Destined Boy – Digital Marketing
Do you want to start and grow your digital marketing skills? I believe the answer is YES! Then, let’s begin with:
What is Digital Marketing?
Digital marketing is just a fancy name of promoting a product or service through different campaign channels for your business to be more visible to the searchers.
A man once said, ” The easiest way to become a billionaire is on internet”Destined Boy
Who are Digital Marketers?
Digital marketers are people with sellable and creative ideas they don’t believe nothing is achievable. Digital marketers are problem solvers, well equipped with strategies, ideal machine. They simplify the company’s problem and difficulty in a profitable format.
To kick-start or advance your skills in digital marketing, you must learn and unlearn. There is protocol governing a successful digital marketer, your fundamental approach to things will determine how well you could go in the digital marketing industry. Let’s begin with some steps:
- Eagerness
The digital marketing industry is incredibly competitive, with more expertise in different areas. This industry requires passion, determination, patience and a desire to succeed. The competition keeps us on our toes and increases our drive to success. Before you can be an author in any field, the desire to grow your digital marketing capacity is much needed.
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2. Keep Learning
After going through training with an institute or you getting ready to start. You don’t have to depend on what was taught in the class, keep learning as the world doesn’t stop teaching you. Aim to get a brand understanding of the industry. Attend a marketing seminar or conference, visit blogs or forums related to your discipline for better clarity. Try to build on existing skills while still learning new ones.
Starting from:
- SEO – SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION
- SEM – SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING
- PPC – PAY-PER-CLICK
- SEM -SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING
- CONTENT MARKETING
- SMM – SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING
- WEB ANALYTIC
- AFFILIATE MARKETING
- CONVERSION RATE OPTIMIZATION, ETC
The decision is yours to choose which area you want to specialize in.
3. Stay updates
The only way you can stay relevant in the industry is to keep yourself update to the latest changes in the Google algorithm and by following major digital marketing sites and influential people. Marketing landscape and scope are always changing and if you want to get ahead, you need to change with it.
4. Peer to Peers
- Surround with people more talented and with a clearer vision than yourself. The only way you can keep moving is when you move with intellectual and influential people. Remember, “you have to dig deep if you want to build high” As they say, ‘birds of the same feather flock together’ and great minds think alike.
Don’t allow negative peers to blur your vision start to pursue a daily growth and walk with positive people. Remember that human minds are like rubber bands, begin to stretch your imagination and creativity, think out of the box, invest more in personal development, improve your digital marketing capacity and you will surely become a dictator and author in your respective field.
5. Build your personal ability
According to Albert Einstein, he said: ” The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level we were at when we created them”.Albert Einstein
These significant problems means that, if you are at level one and you create a problem at level one and continue to stay at level one, you won’t be able to solve the problem of level one. If truly you want to succeed in the digital marketing industry, you must be voracious in reading, ferocious in learning with continuous self-improvement through practicals.
Prove yourself as a digital marketing guru. If you want to show an employer in Nigeria that you can build their company’s visibility online is to show that you can firstly build your own personal brand.
What will set you apart in an interview is the ability to showcase your potential, a strong digital presence could potentially be the deciding factor between two candidates who have applied for the same position.
6. Acronyms
Digital marketers are more comfortable with acronyms such as:
- GSC – GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE
- GWT – GOOGLE WEBMASTER TOOL
- SEM – SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING
- SMM – SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING
- GA – GOOGLE ANALYTICS, ETC
Knowing all the acronyms will show you’re not a learner or fresher in the digital marketing field. While a misunderstanding of them shows a clear sign that you have a beginner’s skill.
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7. Start your own blog
Start your blog to showcase your digital marketing knowledge and begin to test the accountability of your success and failure.
Bloggers are an ideal machine that simplifies a complex situation in an easy format.
Consistent practice makes perfection, a basic knowledge of HTML would help to make you stand out among the less technically minded candidates. Familiarize yourself with the WordPress backend system and how to install and paste some codes.
8. Certification
If you really want to stand out from your peers in the industry, completing a certified digital marketing course will give you an edge in an interview.
There’re many institutes in Nigeria that offers training in digital marketing. Starting a digital marketing career today is the only way you can keep building the momentum of your skill.
Conclusion
You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.Destined Boy
Digital marketing is a career that has been in the spotlight for the past few years. As companies in Nigeria and the world at large have realized that digital marketing is the essential ingredient of their business strategy and growth.
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Before you embark on your digital assignment, find out what the most in-demand digital marketing skills are, by figuring out which of the field best suits your career.
To advance your career in digital marketing, it’s good to think about getting trained in at least one or two specialties for a better understanding of the industry.
I hope you found the article helpful? Please kindly comment and share it.
I am Destined Boy, a Certified Digital Marketer.
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