How do I Get Started with Digital Marketing?

Before we get started with the topic at hand, it’s important to know about all the digital marketing assets at your disposal. It’s easy to miss such assets if you don’t understand their value in digital marketing. Like your website, branded assets (logos, icons, acronyms and slogans), video content (video ads, product demos), images (infographics, product shots, company photos, etc), written content (blog posts, eBooks, product descriptions, testimonials), reviews and social media pages.

As discussed in a previous article, What is digital marketing exactly? there are many different channels through which the value of your digital assets can be exploited. In addition to one’s website, there are Pay-Per Click advertising, Search Engine Optimisation, Social Media Marketing, and MANY more.

Get started with digital marketing

Before anything can happen, you’ll need the desire to learn more about digital marketing, purely for your own good. If you stumble on an automated app’s website about to purchase a package ‘best suited’ to your marketing needs, you’ll have to know what your marketing goal is, and exactly how the technology and trends may assist you most effectively. Once you’re sure what medium and channels suits your business’ digital marketing purposes, you’ll be able to decide on a tailored strategy.

Stay In-tune

Be updated about the latest news of the digital marketing industry by following the major sites, influencers and trends. The frontrunners of the industry – like Google, Facebook and Twitter – constantly find and fix programming bugs or hindrances that limit algorithms and user-friendliness. It’ll be a challenge to blindly approach the industry if you don’t know the groundwork.

Don’t limit your experience to Internet sources only. It proves helpful to attend seminars, Q&A webinars, tech-expos, online digital marketing courses or have any contact with experts in the field. You’ll be able to meet entrepreneurs and marketers, alike. Once you have a network of like-minded professionals nearby, they’ll be able to give you references to digital marketing strategies and agencies, or potentially offer helpful tips.

Digital DIY

Approaching a digital industry with a business endeavour over the Internet is INTIMIDATING. Why not start-up a personal side-project to dip your toes in and test the waters? Whether it is to sign up for your self-hosted blogging platform or boosting ads on Facebook, try to understand the mechanisms of online marketing by testing it with something simple. If you immediately start-off with a business pursuit in digital marketing, the added pressure can make it harder to process and remain objective when failing or struggling to learn the complexity of the digital sphere. If you understand it better and yield results from a personal side-project, you’ll have more confidence and know-how to digitally transform your business’ marketing strategy.

The Digital School of Marketing offers your business customised courses that’ll get you started with digital marketing.

Get in touch with the Digital School of Marketing

The Digital School of Marketing’s Digital Marketing Course is the perfect course to get you started with digital marketing. It is a unique educational offering in the digital marketing space and provides the most comprehensive tuition on all aspects of digital marketing and will allow you to use this exciting medium for your own business. For more information about this and our other online digital marketing courses, visit our website.