The digital marketing industry is still in it’s infancy and if you are new to the industry or have been doing digital for a few years, chances are you still have a long career ahead of you.
Here are thirty three tips to help you build a long lasting career that you will look back on with pride.
- Work really hard.
- Develop a portfolio of your own work to demonstrate your skills and abilities.
- Promote your own work or projects.
- Don’t settle for a single skill or discipline, develop a range of skills.
- Aim high and think about the big picture. Real leaders are attracted to people that do big things.
- Understand that the client is always right and to win their confidence you have to deliver results. Real results.
- Know that marketing is about selling things but that doesn’t have to include your soul.
- Practice.
- Never hesitate to leave a job if it is not rewarding.
- Learn how to stimulate your creativity. Whether by exercise, socialising, drinking herbal teas….or whatever works for you.
- Question authority.
- Blaze your own trail. Don’t follow the pack.
- Spend some time working in the corporate world and some time working for smaller organisations. There are things to be learned in both environments.
- Know that sometimes the highest paying job isn’t the best one. But sometimes it is.
- Take a break from it all sometimes.
- Give more to your colleagues than you ask of them.
- Be progressive. Your focus in every role or project should be to move forward even when sometimes it feels like other people have different motives.
- Climb to the top. Jump. Climb again.
- Change jobs sometimes. Staying in one place can only give you so much experience.
- Find the people who share your values and gravitate toward them.
- Keep a record of success stories and publish them so other people can see the impact you have made.
- Succeed with your own skills and abilities. Not through manoeuvring.
- Be honest always, even if you are encouraged to be otherwise.
- Believe in the unbelievable. Don’t constrain your potential with a narrow mind.
- Let the negative people be negative. You ain’t got time fo dat.
- Don’t just understand technology, understand people.
- Pay no mind to cronies or cliques. They are usually not as influential as they think they are.
- Learn to code. It doesn’t matter what you do in Digital, code will get you further.
- Always speak your own truth.
- Take inspiration from the real world. Not just the computer.
- Understand the next generation. They are the future and they are coming faster than you realise.
- Adopt a good cause aside from your main career objectives. Saving the whales. Or something like that. Service to others can be just as rewarding as service to self.
- Follow DigitalMarketing.TV on Facebook or Linkedin
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