If you’re looking to break into the digital marketing industry, there’s no better time than now. According to research, the digital economy is growing at triple the pace of U.S. GDP with employees working in the digital economy earning on average $114,275 a year, more than 72% of workers in the country. We’ve compiled our top tips for aspiring digital marketers who wish to kick-start their digital marketing career today. 1) Eagerness to learn The digital marketing industry is both fast growing and incredibly competitive. It’s easy for businesses to differentiate between candidates who have the willingness to learn, and who are along [...]

Digital marketing is arguably one of the most challenging, creative, fulfilling, rewarding and ever-changing career paths available in today's world. Not only will a job in digital marketing provide you with a wealth of opportunities, but the earning potential is great and you will never stop learning or pushing your professional boundaries. But, like any discipline worth its salt, to progress up the ladder, move into a niche and enjoy a long, enduring and rewarding career in digital marketing, you’ve got to land your first entry-level job - and here are the essential skills you need to do so. Analytics and Advertising We live [...]

Attracting new customers—and keeping them—has always been an essential part of maintaining any successful business. Growth with new people engaging in a product or service is always good, but what's even better is when they come and then decide to stay. And with repeat business, they might even bring others to the fold by being an advocate for your products or services. In our 20/20 Vision: A Marketing Leader's View of Digital's Future report, we interviewed 200+ global marketing leaders to find out what they thought the future held for digital marketing. From this research, we discovered 61% of the organizations interviewed believe social customer service is [...]

The rise of the internet and the proliferation of digital, not just as a technology, but as a media format, have had some profound and unexpected effects on 21st-century life. While everyone expected that digital technology would make things faster what few people correctly predicted was the social impact that digital media, combined with online connectivity, would have. When it comes to marketing, going digital has had massive consequences. Now properties of digital media such as more accurate metrics, combined with interactivity, have created whole new marketing opportunities. So, there’s no doubt that digital technology can play a powerful role as [...]

There's a saying that "content is king." That applies to all industries, not just entertainment, but to any business trying to reach and inform their customers. For advertising to work on a targeted audience, there must be something there that initially draws them in. In the old days of pre-digital marketing, that content was entertainment. People didn't normally enjoy commercials on TV for their own sake but viewed them because they were interspersed with the content that really engaged them, such as dramatic TV series, documentaries, or even news broadcasts. In the digital world of the internet, content has a similar [...]

We're now at a point in business, specifically marketing, where the customers of the world always look to an internet-enabled computer first in order to conduct their searches. Making sure that your business is listed in the local "Yellow Pages" of your city is no longer the safest bet to be found, especially when your business can, potentially, serve the entire world. But in order to make the most of marketing yourself and your products or services on the internet, you've got to be proactive. Google Ads is one of the ways that you can invest in a more aggressive form [...]