How to get a high paying digital
marketing job?
Set aside all the job portals. Getting a digital marketing job takes more than a certificate; you’ve got to prove that you can get your employers the results they’re looking for.
I’ve worked as a digital marketing manager in more than five hot startups in India. I have helped many companies set up digital marketing funnels that turn traffic into customers at a profit.
I am not allowed to reveal the exact salary I got paid in these companies, but I was still able to save 50 percent or more of my salary every month.
A lot of people ask me how to get a good digital marketing job. I have given counterintuitive advice to many of my friends, advice that I have found works. I now want to share that time-tested method with you, to help you get a high paying digital marketing job in a company that you desire to work for.
Note: By now, your BS radar is on full alert, I know, but do not worry, I am not going to promote any digital marketing institute or ask you to spend your hard earned money in a fancy digital marketing course with certification. You don’t need to do that. What you are going to get here is counterintuitive advice. So brace yourself!
First, become a digital marketing expert
Without having expertise in digital marketing, you are not going to get a good job in digital marketing. So, the first order of business is to become a digital marketing expert by any means available to you, right now.
Also note that once you become an expert, you cannot expect companies to knock at your door to give you job offers. No one knows you are an expert yet. So there is a lot of work to be done to get the right job, even if you have become an expert. That, we will discuss in the second part of this article. First, let's become a self-made digital marketing expert.
How digital marketing is different from other subjects??
Many subjects cannot be self-learned. If you want to learn medicine, you need to join a medical college, one which also runs a hospital, so that you can experiment, legally, with humans.
If you want to become a mechanical engineer, you need to join a college that has enough infrastructure to teach you, or intern at a manufacturing company. You cannot buy a lathe machine and learn mechanical engineering from your home through trial and error.
But digital marketing is different. You can have a computer and an internet connection and have access to all the tools that the CMOs of multi-billion dollar companies have. Even enterprise-level solutions are available for free 14-day or 30-day trials, and you can play around with them. Tools like SEMRush, Moz, Google Analytics, OptinChat, and MailChimp are available to you just as much as they are to big companies. Most of these companies provide excellent customer support, and help you learn even before you become a paid customer. And tons of tutorials are available on YouTube for free.
You can start your own website and compete on a level playing field with the biggest internet giants. You don't need to pay anyone to come to your website instead of a big competitor's website. If you have better content on your site than your competitors, your traffic will scale (as long as Net Neutrality is maintained!). And you can learn digital marketing through practice.
How to get your dream job??
Now that you have become an expert in digital marketing, the next job is to get a good offer from a company. But by the time you become a digital marketing expert, it is highly likely that you would have figured out how to make money from the web, and you might not need a job at all.
There are plenty of ways to make money online with blogging, affiliate marketing, information product sales, and so on. If you can start your own business and scale it via digital marketing, then that is the ultimate dream. But not everyone can become a successful entrepreneur. There are so many challenges involved in it. You might want to get a good job, and there is nothing wrong with that.
How to be perceived as an expert??
To get a good digital marketing job, you need to be perceived as a digital marketing expert first. You need to build industry connections and be known as someone who knows digital marketing.
Do not look for digital marketing job openings on job portals and send your resumes to the HR department. In most cases, good jobs are first filled from referral networks, and only if the HR department cannot find talent do they make their way to job portals.
Consider this: If you run your own company and need a marketer, you will only post a job opening on job portals if you do not know someone from your network that can do the job. So forget resumes and job portals. Focus on personal branding.
Brand yourself and be helpful
You should be known as a digital marketing expert in front of potential employers. You can do this by blogging, writing columns on well-known publications, or even by self publishing a book on the subject of digital marketing on Amazon Kindle.
Or go out and help companies with digital marketing for free. You can find out the top 10 companies that you would like to work for and look at their website or app for possibilities of improvement.
There are so many digital marketing tasks that you can do without having access to a website. You can do a pagespeed audit, SEO audit, or come up with ideas to improve landing page conversions. You can use tools like UsabilityHub to do user testing and find out which headline copy or design layout performs better.
Compile these ideas into a document and send it to the CEO of the company. I am sure that they would take notice of it. And this can be done even before the company needs a digital marketing manager.
If they find your tips useful, they are going to hire you when they grow and need a digital marketer. They wouldn't even look for someone else. The digital marketing position would be filled up by you even before it is put up as an opening on the careers page.
Have a giving mindset
You need to think from the angle of "What value can I provide for other companies with my expertise". With this mindset, companies will not hesitate to pay you. But if you have the attitude of "What can I get in return for knowing so much about Subject X", your employers will be able to smell it from a mile away!
This is not just for digital marketing. Most of the candidates in interviews get rejected because they are needy and only focus on what they can get, rather than on what they can give.
Your attitude to add value for others first becomes proven if you work for free and provide value even before you are hired.
I have spent several weekends at coffee shops with early-stage startup CEOs who cannot hire full-time digital marketers. Some of the startups have grown in the past few years and have raised millions of dollars of funding. I can get hired in their company over a WhatsApp message to the CEO, if I want to. That’s the benefit of the good karma that I have built over the years.
Let's Get Started !!!!
So, get started learning digital marketing right away. Open a website of your own, and learn all the digital marketing modules by yourself. Learn about SEO, content, social media,e-mail and so on
Become a self-made digital marketing expert and follow the above tips to grab a fun and rewarding job.
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