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If you want to grow any business in this current age and time, then you can't do without digital marketing to succeed.

Checkout the facts

Email Marketing

In the last 6 months email opened by mobile devices increased 80% worldwide.

Emails with no subject line were 8% more likely to be opened than those with.

Average yield for email marketing is $44.25 on the dollar.

85% would prefer leaving their email address for an e-book than a tweet.

42% of consumers say familiarity with the senders name influences whether or not they will open a promotional email.

Blogs and Content Marketing

Blogs have 63% more influence over purchasing decisions than the newspaper.

Companies that blog more than 15 times per month get 5 times the traffic.

The average length of a top ten page has 2000 words.

If a post is longer than 1,500 words it will likely have 68.1% more tweets and 22.6% more Facebook likes.

Posts with 10-18 word titles receive more likes.

Articles with photographs receive 94% more views.

Infographics allow companies to grow by 12% on average.

After increasing the number of pages on their site from 10-15, companies saw an average increase in sales leads of 55%.

47% of Americans say that Facebook is the number one influence over their purchases (social media today).

78% of CMO’s believe that custom content is the future of marketing.

Video

Using video on landing pages increases conversions by 86%.

Videos receive 267% more links than other posts.

58% of people will stop watching a video within the first 90 seconds.

20% of visitors read text on your page, 80% will watch a video.

A prospective customer is 144% more likely to buy when there’s a product video featured.

Mobile

50% of all searches begin on a mobile device.

88% of mobile searches are for local businesses.

46% of adults prefer to use their mobile devices to search for items before purchasing them over their desktops or laptops.

Mobile traffic has a growth rate of 125%, desktop traffic is growing at a rate of 12%.

By 2018 6.2 million people will have mobile devices.

173 million US consumers have a smartphone.

81% of smartphone users research products or services on their devices.

74% of mobile users make internet searches before making a purchase


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If your aim is to become a better digital marketer, there are two basic things you need to acquire. These are Skills and Work Experience. I will show you how you can easily acquire both below.

To acquire skills and knowledge in the field of Digital Marketing, you will need to take some courses which can either be done online or offline. Some sites where you can take such online courses in Digital Marketing are:

* GenM
* Google Digital Skills for Africa Platform
* Simplilearn
* Hootsuite
* Udemy, etc

Most of these platforms are paid platforms. However the Google platform is free as well as GenM. The GenM platform however offers not just Free digital marketing courses. They also offer Apprenticeships that will give you the opportunity to work with businesses from all over the world while strengthening your skills and building your portfolio. This leads us to the second basic thing you will need to acquire to become a full fledged digital marketer. Work Experience.

After acquiring digital marketing skills, you will need a platform where you can practice. Because when it comes to digital marketing, whether you have a ton of certificates does not matter. What matters is that you are able to deliver. This is why you need to practice what you have learnt. At this stage, you might want to consider taking internships or working for free or at low rates for friends who own businesses in order to have some proof for your portfolio.

If you can get these two basic things on hand, not only will you be better equipped to get reasonable jobs in Nigeria, you will also be better equipped to land freelance gigs and international jobs in the field of digital marketing.

For the opportunity to learn digital marketing for free and practice your skills while doing so, register with GenM.

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Do you know that over 80% of Corper that lands a job after service year earn less than or equal to 50k a month?

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Lovely article.

Thanks

You can also start up a freelancing career working from home and earning huge along the line while making yourself employ able.

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I sympathize with you.


But that is one of the problems of a 9-5 job.

If you are interested in working remotely like me either to earn more cash or as a full time job, then follow the link on my signature to get started.


Best wishes

I agree with you.

I am currently working freelancing too as a digital marketer and its way better than a 9-5 job.

Follow the link on my signature to start your own freelancing career in digital marketing.