5 Tips to Kick-Start Your Digital Marketing Career
Looking to start a career in challenging and exciting digital marketing industry? Follow the tips to get ahead.
- Start Your Own Website
Starting your own website by writing about your ideas and understanding of this industry. It is a great way to apply digital marketing concepts and solidify your own understanding of digital marketing in the real world, and also demonstrates your commitment to potential employers that might help you secure a job.
2. Develop Key Skills
- Marketing: Knowledge of key digital marketing concepts and techniques including SEO, social media, content marketing…
- Data analysis: Master of analytics programs like Google Analytics to interpret marketing data.
- Copywriting: Ability to write content across various digital platforms.
- Web development: Basic understanding of web and graphic design software.
- Communication: Excellent communication skills to deal with multiple teams and contacts.
3. Get Experience
Find yourself the latest marketing internship, marketing graduate scheme or an entry level job through company official websites, job-hunting portals like indeed, social media. Remember to frequently updated your online profiles!
4. Build up Your Network
Networking is a great opportunity to build relationships with other digital marketers and give you connections that can help you throughout your career.
- Attend industry events: Attending digital marketing conferences, exhibitions and meet-ups regularly.
- Use social media: Connect on LinkedIn and Facebook with digital marketing professionals.
5. Keep Learning
Keep learning digital marketing and let it become part of your daily activities: reading about industry news, listening to podcast, attending online courses, learning new tools and techniques.
