If you are not making money online in Nigeria, then you are losing out on a lot of free money. This blog post will help you optimize your skills and land yourself an online paying job in digital marketing.

Digital marketing is the new money tree. Anywhere you are, if you have an internet-enabled device and access to the internet, you can become a digital marketer and begin to mint money from the internet.

The flexibility of digital marketing makes it so that anybody can engage in it; from students to stay-at-home moms, to busy businessmen, virtually anybody with a mobile internet-enabled device and internet can become a digital marketer.

Digital Marketing also known as online marketing simply means using digital technology and platform to publicize a product or service.

FORMS OF DIGITAL MARKETING IN NIGERIA
Depending on your personal marketing needs or the type of marketing services you render, you can start from any of the seven forms of digital marketing, which are:

Content marketing,
Email marketing,
Search engine optimization,
pay-per-click,
Mobile marketing,
social media marketing, and
Marketing Analytics.
You can be sure that every category mentioned above, when developed well, can send millions into your bank account every month no matter where you are in Nigeria. Armed with the skillset any of the categories require, you can then set up a business around your digital marketing career.



Here are the eight most effective things you can do with one or more of the skills mentioned above:

● Affiliate marketing

● Content writing

● SEO

● eCommerce

● YouTube advertising partner

● Start blogging and allow for ads on your blog

● Social media management

● Sell digital assets



Affiliate marketing:
Affiliate Marketing is a form of digital marketing in Nigeria that involves a third-party advertising a product using digital platforms to make money by earning commissions. An affiliate marketer advertises a product that links a buyer to a company in return for a commission. With affiliate marketing, you do not need to have a product or capital, and an affiliate marketer can earn up to N150,000/day. All you need to do is to refer people to a product and be consistent with it. You must not interact directly with the customer or with the seller. Once you sign up for an affiliate program, you will get a referral link, which you will advertise the product. Anything someone buys the product using your link, you will earn a commission. It’s that simple.

To start, you will need to get your niche-specific website, where you will launch product campaigns and also seal or manage affiliate partnerships from. And before you get into any affiliate program, make sure you drive massive daily traffic to your website, that’s the only way you can make money; when people see and buy what you are marketing. You will require nearly all digital marketing categories to succeed as an affiliate marketer. But just in case you couldn’t cover all, here are the basic ones you need;

Search engine optimization (especially with Keyword research)
Mobile Marketing
Marketing Analytics.
Once can master these skills, you will do exceptionally well in Affiliate marketing.

Content writing:
There is no marketing without content. Every kind of marketing you can think of is hinged on content in one way or another. This aspect of digital marketing relies so much on your ability to plan, research, create, and publish written works to push an idea, product, or brand. Different marketing mediums require different kinds of content purposed to produce respectively for each.

Content writing spans various kinds of writing including creative writing, technical writing, storytelling, web copy, and email copy, just to mention a few.

You need to start by building a portfolio for yourself. This is not easy to come by since you are a beginner, but you can start by:

Taking free jobs and asking for ratings
Getting content writing certifications
Starting your blog or writing series
When your portfolio is built, you can start attracting premium clientele, some of who even pay up to $1 per word for your written jobs; all depending on your expertise, delivery time, and proficiency. A rough estimation shows that content writers earn over $80,000/year. Digital marketing skills you can leverage to start a career in content writing are:


1. Content marketing
2. Email marketing (optional)
3. Search engine optimization
If writing is your forte, then you need to consider content writing.

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