Career in Digital Marketing
Career in Digital Marketing
Career in Digital Marketing
India, a densely populated country with a population of 1,339,180,127 (as of July 2017)
ranks second in the world.There are ample opportunities that are created every minute
for the people. And when we say digital marketing, then note that the future of digital
marketing in India and the scope of digital marketing in future is going to get brighter in
the coming years. A mobile phone has become the basic need for everyone.
Even if your mother wants to try out a new recipe, she definitely uses YouTube to take
the jot down what is needed and how it is to be done. And when it comes down to the
business, no doubt the trend of digital marketing is on the boom.
Everyone wants to market their products and services through the internet to increase
the reach. Compared to traditional marketing these are some key benefits which make
this marketing strategy more effective and affordable.
According to a survey (by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)), India will
have around 500 million internet users by June 2018. This will create a fascinating
business opportunity to sell services and products to a growing population of tech-savvy
internet users.
For the growth of the digital business, there are various Digital Marketing strategies,
which are –
• Digital Advertising
• Email Marketing
Since both large and small organizations are heading towards digitalizing for better
competition, survival, and growth, demands for experts in the field of digital marketing
has increased. Looking at the pace of digitalization, it can be expected that future digital
promotions will exceed all conventional marketing techniques.
Digital marketing students are trained to promote brands through websites, social
media, emails, and other digital mediums.
• Budding Entrepreneurs
Online work platform Elance conducted research that showed the number of UK
employers seeking digital marketers increased by 79 per cent between 2012 and 2013,
but claimed that the majority of roles were taken by overseas freelancers in Asia, India.
The data showed that the most in-demand digital marketing skills sought by employers
were social media marketing, affiliate marketing, email marketing, SEO, Google
AdWords and SEM, while the top five skills on offer were content writing, article writing,
graphic design, PHP and Adobe Illustrator.
As a freelancer you can start with a $ 5 project to $ 10000 project or Rs 500 to Rs 5000.
As per the report, 30% of business started as freelancers and expanded to small and big
business.
Examples of freelancer portals :
• freelancer
• odesk
• elance.
• peopleperhour
• fiverr