According to Yahoo Finance, Global Digital Advertising and Marketing will be a $786.2 billion industry by 2026. With the immense growth of this industry especially in the post-pandemic world, a career in digital marketing has become an extremely lucrative option for all teenagers and youngsters. However, with the dynamic nature of the industry, there is a lot of confusion among aspiring professionals regarding the skills and expertise required, to make it big in this industry. In this blog, the team at ‘The Social Lions’ has compiled several years of its experience to provide the best insights and tips that will help you achieve great things in this field.
Here are ‘5 Tips on How to Kickstart Your Digital Marketing Career’:-
- Improve your soft skills:- While applying for a job, one obviously needs to have the required skills to fulfill all the expectations as per the job profile. However, what will set you apart from the pack is your command over your soft skills such as speaking skills, strategic planning, email-writing, time management etc.
- Try creating content:- Creating content on your own social media accounts can help you gain valuable insights and take you on a journey of self-exploration and learning. Posting content on social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook will make you undergo several processes of digital marketing like content writing, video editing and social media managing. This will not only help you gain invaluable experience but also help you discover what you like in digital marketing and wish to specialize in. Almost all the members of the team at ‘The Social Lions’ has some experience in the field of content creation.
- Accept criticism gracefully:- Being receptive and taking learnings from mistakes is perhaps the most important quality of any digital marketer. Your content on the internet is open for people to view and hence is subject to a lot of feedback and negative reviews from the audience. Being humble and learning how to accept criticism is an essential part of being a digital marketer.
- Stay up-to-date with latest trends:- In order to up your digital marketing game, one must stay updated with the latest social media trends. To achieve that you regularly keep a tab on the top digital marketing sites and influencers in social media. Catching on to trending topics will help you get more traffic and thereby increase discoverability of your content.
- Expanding your circle:- Build your circle and try to pick the brains of people who have an interest and are knowledgeable about the field. Staying in touch with and interacting with people in the same industry on social media can be beneficial. Nurturing such relationships can help you find resolve problems and provide a smooth entry-level career path by assisting in finding internships and job opportunities.
With this we conclude our list of ‘5 Tips on How To Kickstart Your Digital Marketing Career’. These tips have been compiled after picking the brains of the members of ‘The Social Lions’, a digital marketing agency in Mumbai, all of who have many years of experience in the industry
