7 Most On-Demand Digital Marketing Skills.
Do you want to be a digital marketing expert?
Well, you’re going to need specific skills to become one.
Today in this article we will read about seven digital marketing skills to master this in this year.
The first skill you need is data science.
You don’t have to be a crazy data scientist, but you need to learn how to look at Google Analytics.
There’s so many videos and articles out there that teach you how to read a report, because Google Analytics isn’t just about,
“Hey, how many visitors am I getting?”
It’s more about:-
- How many visitors am I getting,
- Where are they coming from
- What’s the conversion rate
- What’s the ROI
- Where’s the drop-off in my funnel?
All these little things will help you figure out how to maximize the traffic that you’re getting.
If you don’t know to look at the data, you won’t know where to focus your energy to maximize your results.
The second skill to learn is content strategy.
Writing content doesn’t guarantee you any traffic anymore.
There’s over a billion blogs on the web.
There’s roughly seven billion people, so that means roughly one blog for every seven people.
That’s too much content. So, if you want to do well, you need a strategy.
Without a strategy, there’s no guarantee that people are going to read your content.
You need to follow up with a promotion.
I spend twenty percent of my time writing the article, eighty percent promoting it. You need a content strategy.
The third tip you need is you need to learn how to leverage video.
Video is up-and-coming as one of the most popular channels out there.
When I say “video,” I’m not talking about just pulling out your iPhone and saying,
“Hey, check out me,” you know, “Check out all these campaigns.”
I’m talking about stuff like going live.
I’m talking about filming videos like evergreen content, on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, you need to do a ton of video stuff.
Because you’ll find it’ll build a much more engaging community than almost any other channel out there.
The fourth skill you need to learn is storytelling.
I don’t know why, but I’m seeing less and less people use storytelling, but storytelling is still as effective as it used to be two, three, five, ten years ago.
You need to integrate stories into your marketing.
When you do that, you’ll find that more people relate to you.
They’ll identify with the characters in your story, and you’ll notice that your conversion rate goes up.
The reason this is important is ad costs continue to rise and rise, and that’s not going to change in the future, so you better get good at storytelling.
The fifth skill that you need to learn is email marketing.
And I’m not talking about just basic email marketing, like sending out emails every time you release a blog post, but more complicated emails.
I’m talking more so marketing automation.
Well, if someone goes through your funnel, they don’t open up one email, what should they do next?
If they open up that email, what should they get?
You don’t want to send everyone the same emails.
When someone’s super engaged, you want to send them emails that mainly sell products and services.
When someone’s not engaged, you don’t want to sell them anything they’re not going to buy.
You want to get them engaged first, and then sell them. That’s what marketing automation is all about.
The sixth skill is funnels.
There’s tools like ClickFunnels out there that can help you build a funnel faster and easier, and funnels are really important because ad costs keep rising.
You need to learn how to do upsells and downsells. You may not be thinking, “Oh, that’s not related “to marketing, why do I need to learn that?”
Well, if you can’t figure out upsells and downsells, eventually, you’re not going to be able to afford your paid ads.
That’ll help improve your margin so you can keep selling.
The seventh skill that you need to learn is podcasting.
Podcasting hasn’t taken off in the U.S. as much as it has in Asia, like places like China.
But podcasting is growing at a very rapid pace, and people are listening to podcasts on the go.
Plus, the people who listen to podcasts are super engaged, and they typically have a higher income percentage-wise, from a medium-household-income perspective, than other marketing channels out there.
And that’s why you need to get into podcasting now.
It’ll be much more competitive in three, four years. Then it’s going to be hard. And when you do podcasting, don’t expect to get results right away.
It’ll take years before you see the fruit from your labor.
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