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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.

What is Digital Marketing?


All marketing endeavors that use an electronic medium such as search engines, social
media, email, websites to connect with their customers comes under the Digital
marketing umbrella. In other words, Digital Marketing can be defined by the digital
strategies and mediums used to connect with customers.

For the growth of the digital business, there are various Digital Marketing strategies,
which are –

• Digital Advertising

• Email Marketing

• Online Brochures and more


Why should we learn Digital Marketing?
Today, the world is conveniently getting digital i.e. both individuals and the business are
beginning to modify their marketing techniques with digital marketing methods. It can
be agreed that the new strategies are quicker, more realistic and flexible than the
conventional ones.

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.

Growth Rate of Digital Marketing:


Other industries are struggling with a growth rate of 5 to 10 %, Internet marketing
Industry is booming high with 30% Growth rate. But the most remarkable point is that
this growth rate is not going to be stagnant in the coming years. Scope for Digital
Marketers in India will only get bigger & better in the coming years.

Jobs in Digital Marketing


Almost Every Company is Hiring Internet marketing Experts. Moreover its important for
all marketing professionals, Manager and entrepreneurs to learn Digital Marketing.

What are the Learning Components in Digital Marketing

• Google Advertising Social media

• Content writing Email marketing

• SEO/SEM Data Analysis

• Pay Per Click Freelance project

• Affiliate Marketing E commerce Marketing


• Mobile Marketing SMS Marketing

Salary Packages in Digital Marketing: 10K to 4L per month


Is Digital Marketing Is Important For Me?
• Fresher’s from any domain willing to make career in Digital Industry

• Budding MBA sales / Marketing professionals

• Professionals, who want to add Digital Marketing skills to their resume

• Part Time Job Seekers

• Budding Entrepreneurs

• Professionals, who already working in the industry

• Housewives ( Just give 1 hour a day)

• Small business who wants to generate more leads at minimum cost

Freelance Opportunity in Digital Marketing :


Digital marketers looking overseas for freelancers as UK, USA and Europe fails to meet
demand, says report.

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.

How much you can earn as a freelancer ?

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

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