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Digital Marketing Career – Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

Absolutely, and here is why.

Especially during this pandemic, we ourselves experienced everything going online from Grocery to telemedicine to Consult Doctors online. 

  1. For the first time, Doctors are learning how to be active on Social Media. We have been training Doctor for the last few months: Deccan Herald wrote a story about our Training for Doctors, titled: These Doctors are Killing it on Social Media
  2. The way we communicate, interact, transact, work, live our lives has changed. Google has published a new in-depth white paper with a lot of takeaways and examples: Rethinking Readiness. Link
  3. Google says——- ” , ’ ’ “———-

So My answer is absolutely, here is why now is the right time to be in the Digital Marketing space.

How good is a career in Digital Marketing in India

 

Average Salary for Digital Marketers across Indian Metros

Job Roles Average Yearly Salary in INR
Digital Marketing/SEO/PPC/Social Media Fresher (0-1 year experience) 2,50,000 – 4,00,000
Digital Marketing/SEO/PPC/Social Media Specialist (1-4 years experience) 4,00,000 – 6,00,000
Digital Marketing/SEO/PPC/Social Media Team Lead (4-6 years experience) 6,00,000 – 8,00,000
Digital Marketing/SEO/PPC/Social Media Manager(6-8 years experience) 8,00,000 – 10,00,000
Digital Marketing Manager(8-10 years experience) 10,00,000 – 12,00,000
Digital Marketing Manager with Marketing Background(10-12 years experience) 16,00,000 – 19,00,000
Digital Marketing Manager Non Marketing Background(10-12 years experience) 12,00,000 – 15,00,000
Head of Marketing online/offline Marketing Background(10-12 years experience) 35,00,000 – 50,00,000

The Opportunities:  According to ET, Digital advertising to grow at 32% CAGR to reach Rs 19,000 crore by 2020: Report 

(UPDATED) Included New – Latest Trends, Resources, Links & Advice to anyone about to start their Digital Marketing Career. Originally published here: http://qr.ae/TUG6Lx


How Good is a Career in Digital Marketing? Can I start a Career in Digital Marketing? What is the scope of Digital Marketing? These are some of the most common questions asked in Quora, Google suggests.

Digital Marketing Trends to watch 

  1. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning is transforming the way business run today
  2. Voice Search, Voice Assistants like Amazon Alexa, Google Home is growing at a rapid phase
  3. Voice shopping is changing the way we shop: Imagine ordering a product without seeing it. It’s unbelievable. That’s possible now! Your #alexa does all the shopping without you seeing it. Take a look at this video:
  4. Technical skills are one of the most wanted skills for Digital marketing
  5. Recently Google announced major changes to its advertising platform. Google Ads now adds AI artificial intelligence to its ad platform
  6. We are living in a mobile-first to the mobile-only world, where people expect your websites to load faster and they want information whenever and wherever they are. AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages)project from Google designed to make really fast mobile pages
  7. Voice assistants like Alexa, Google Home, Cortana. Alexa skills, Google Actions are part of Digital Marketing
  8. Customer-Centric Approach, Customer-centric marketing backed with Data/Insights will help understand the customers better
  9. Social Media is already part of our day to day life
  10. User experience, the design is something every marketer should know
  11. Personalized Searches will dominate as our mobile, assistance are all integrated with our personal devices. Every experience to be tailored just for them. Mobile searches for “——– for me” has grown over 60 % in the last 2 years: Source: Think with Google
  12. Content is the core of digital marketer in 2018, and moving forward Customized Personalized Content will dominate

Digital Marketing Skills required today

Today’s Modern Digital Marketers should constantly sharpen their skill sets. In the early days, it was the world-wide-web, then social media, then mobile, and now Artificial Intelligence AI and machine learning.

The rise of Voice Search: “Half of all searches will be voice searches by 2020 according to Comscore while 30% of web browsing sessions will take place without a screen by that time according to Gartner. And smart speakers are set to be the fastest-growing consumer technology this year” – Source: eConsultancy

Free Resources for you to get started:

  1. AMP
  2. Alexa skills kit
  3. Google Actions
  4. Understanding user behavior – Think with Google

Let’s look at some trends:

Growth of Digital Marketing In India

 

A Google trend shows the growth of key terms: Digital marketing. In the last 2 years, it has skyrocketed similarly the term social media has equally hiked.

Today Digital marketing requires a lot of skills than how it was a few years back. When I started my career in 2002, it was completely different.

Scroll down to see the list of skills required with accompanying free resources & tools.

The competition is high. Everyone wants to get into digital marketing. From our internal data (students at web marketing academy) HR professional, sales & marketing, customer support, IT professionals, developers, web designers, entrepreneurs, bloggers, content writers, stay at home parents, fresh graduates.

So you want to know how good is a career in Digital Marketing? Buckle up!

FREE Resources for you to get started below

Here are a few steps to help you get started:

1. Build your base/foundation:

Option a) To acquire any new professional skill set, you need 2 things Time and or Money. It’s an investment for yourself. You can take up a course like our 3-month professional digital marketing course. Ideally, you need at least 2-3 months to get at new skills for the foundation + your experience + Practical implementation

Option b) There are few blogs, websites, videos, podcasts you can listen and learn on your own. Attending meetups, webinars are good to start.

Free Resources to get started in Digital Marketing:

* Google Free Certificate course: https://learndigital.withgoogle….

* Google Free YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/lea…

* Hubspot academy: http://academy.hubspot.com/certi…

* Moz Blog: https://moz.com/blog

* Search engine land: http://searchengineland.com/

* Podcast: Neil Patel : http://neilpatel.com/podcast/

* Web Marketing Academy Blog: http://bit.ly/1O2c9uy

* Digital India Podcast: http://bit.ly/2r3fPM8

2. Practicing what you learn

Digital marketing is dynamic and constantly upgrading, to keep up to date you have to practice what you learned.

Study: Brain Science: The Forgetting Curve–the Dirty Secret of Corporate Training: http://bit.ly/2rb3FNo You have 24 hours to practice. This study shows that within one hour, people will have forgotten an average of 50 percent of the information you presented. Within 24 hours, they have forgotten an average of 70 percent of new information, and within a week, forgetting claims an average of 90 percent of it – Brain Science, author: Professor Art Kohn

3. Build your personal brand

What does that mean? You have to allocate at least 1 hour to practice in the initial stage. If you are learning about content for blogs, you have to create a blog, start to write content for that blog that is relevant, useful for the readers packed with stats, image, etc, or practice while you are learning even better.

Resources:

Medium, WordPress, LinkedIn Post are free to start a blog

* Canva, Pixabay are sites where you can create images in a few minutes

* Facebook live videos you can just aim and shoot with your phone. Show your expertise to build your personal brand. It’s Free

4. Opportunity within your team/organization

The challenge is to implement what you have learned in your organization. Think about how to convince the upper management. Anything you talk about the competition will help. So do some research and come up with how well the competitors are doing in the Digital/Social media space. Take screenshots and present it to the management.

Anything to increase the sales, revenue, ROI works well to convince the management.

Prove, show them what you have done and what you can do for the organization. Example. If you tell them, by implementing digital strategies, you can show an increase of even 1 % of the revenue you might get a chance. Don’t just tell, you really have to back it up with specific goals

5. What additional skills do you require to become a Digital Marketer?

a) Creativity – Why? If you want to stand out creativity is the key, be it an ad copy, image, video, blog post, email subject line. All of the activities you do in digital marketing requires creativity apart from an understanding of each channel, platform.

Resource: https://greatist.com/happiness/w…

b) Writing – Why? Writing a blog post, emails will be part of digital marketing. Learn how to write, the process of writing, ideas for writing, editing, spell check, fact check

Resource: www.answerthepublic.com

c) Content – Why? Just like writing content is one of the most important parts of digital marketing, the reason goes to social media or the internet is to consume content. You have to give what people are looking for with context. Content is not just text. Your status update, Facebook post, Images, videos, PPT’s, podcasts, Case studies, ebooks are all part of the content. So start developing content in multiple formats.

Resources: QuikApp: http://help.quik.gopro.com/ Canva Design school: https://designschool.canva.com/

d) Learn basic code – Why? Knowing how to code simple HTML will make the job of a digital marketer easier so that you don’t have to rely on the IT person all the time and takes a lot of time to finish. In today’s world speed matters.

Resource: Code Academy: https://www.codecademy.com/

e) Willingness to change – Why? The advantage of digital marketing is that you can always test and if something doesn’t work you can easily make changes. Learn to adapt.

Want to work on Facebook? Facebook 5 core values 1. Be bold 2. Focus on Impact 3. Move fast 4. Be open 5. Build social values

f) Number – Why? To measure the success or failure of a campaign you need to have a basic understanding of number, analytics, excel skills.

g) Socializing – why? If you know how to socialize offline, it’s the same online, Social media being an important topic in Digital marketing, you should know how to socialize both online and offline.

h) Ongoing learning – why? Digital, social media is dynamic and it’s updated on a regular basis, you have to keep yourself up to date on the latest changes across the platform

Here’s how much a digital marketer will get paid approximately (Web marketing academy Internal data)

The average package for Digital Marketers in Metros across India

Average salary for Digital Marketers in India

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