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“Marketing’s job is never done. It is about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.”

It’s common knowledge that internships are an essential rite of passage for any professional looking to go somewhere in their career. Most students understand the value of getting into a good internship program and its benefit towards understanding where your interests lie and securing your dream role.

Twitter is often the forgotten social media platform and it’s the most important one. Twitter has 6,000 Tweets every second which reflects how active users are on Twitter and why your business should make an account today (if you don’t already have one).

With competition in the job market rising every day, the value of getting experience in the industry has never been more crucial to a marketer’s career. Learning from textbooks and reciting endless amounts of theory is all well and good, but working in a team and under pressure for real-life clients is a very different deal.

It’s been one month since I’ve entered the marketing industry as a Marketing Graduate. Overwhelmed is the frequent feeling of the day, but excitement is what’s keeping me going.  I will be honest; my marketing degree was a breeze in comparison to my first few weeks as a Graduate. Yes, difficult in some respects (namely group projects and catching peak hour public transport), however, learning on paper the aspects of marketing and its cultural influence meant that completing the work was far more above the surface than I had realised.

The digital world of e-commerce through to social media is the new frontier when it comes to marketing. Ensuring you have a digital presence across multiple channels is the make or break of any marketing campaign of the 21st century. The new breadth of knowledge marketers carry in today's world can be applied to bring about new success levels only dreamt about.

In a world saturated with mass advertising, it’s hard to stand out amongst the crowd. Everywhere you look you are met with out-of-home displays, television advertisements, social media promotions – it is integrated in our every-day life! As a consumer, it’s also sometime difficult to recognise and digest every marketing attempt and therefore only the ones that stand out are absorbed. 

If you are struggling to make your mark in your respective industry and are looking for some helpful tips to outshine the competition, have a read of my following 5 suggestions.

If you’re using any kind of digital platform, you’ve definitely heard of data analytics and why it’s a big deal, but 2021 is already presenting several massive challenges for businesses globally. 

Following increasing regulation around usage of user data and political concerns surrounding the power of big tech, many businesses are struggling to develop, measure and optimise their strategies to develop sophisticated and data rich strategies like they used to.

Marketing strategies are bland and not generating a satisfactory ROI? We hear you. Have a read on what we believe are 10 initiatives that will provide results.

The marketing strategy that worked well in 2018/2019, may not be the best course of action in 2021. For a start, the world has changed, buyer habits have become more savvy and the economy has a major influence. As a marketing professional, it is more important than ever to better read the market and all of its dynamics to ensure that previous marketing strategies are challenged and B2B businesses build-out marketing strategies that are going to better connect them with their target audience.

In December I was introduced to Clubhouse. The latest "hot" social media site that everyone is talking about that uses audio-only to connect you and your brand with others and build relationships. The Clubhouse social media platform mimics real-life interactions with no recording of conversations allowed, no option to "save" and once the conversation is done, it's literally gone forever.