Looking for Work & Guidance - SEO or Digital Marketing

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Angel7

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#119465 2-Jun-2013 12:09

Hi

I have 6 years of experience in SEO, Internet marketing where 3.5 years experience is in NZ.
Recently SEO is well known as Digital Marketing and SEO became part of it.

SKILLS:
HTML, Wordpress, CMS, use of online code editing like php edit, Dreamweaver, etc.

SEO, Social Media Marketing, Internet Marketing, Email Marketing, Youtube Promotion, Facebook-social bookmarking-Articles-Blogs Promotion.

Tools:

Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools, SEO Quake, SEOmoz, Photoshop, Filezilla and much more.

Result:

Ranking of many competitive business on Google First page for different keywords.

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When I look for jobs on Trademe, Seek most of the jobs need SEO with jave and .net OR with Networking.
Thats out of my understanding how one person can mix hardware and software techs.

Anyways, I belive I am good at what i do so please suggest if i can do something more about this career boost.

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#829662 2-Jun-2013 15:15

I have met a few people in the digital marketing area, but none specifically SEO. My impression is the technical aspects of DM are becoming more aligned with traditional development (the .net and javascript requirement) and the marketing aspects are becoming more aligned with marketing type people. Web design with specialist designers.

If that is really the way the world is turning then you would look at choosing one of those three areas to specialise in. Adding .net and javascript to your existing skills would work well, but marketing degree or formalising your web design experience would work also.

Also consider thinking about where your skills might be useful and contacting potential companies to see what their requirements are. You may not find a quick match but gain knowledge of the market which helps focus effort.

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#829697 2-Jun-2013 17:03

My wife has been in Marketing for a similar number or years, and those skills above are exactly what she's been getting into (no programming though, just web coding etc), there's most certainly jobs out there, I know as she's currently going to interviews for ones closer to home.

She graduated from a marketing degree with honors and went straight into FMCG with an agency, sounds like you've taken the other route and started on the technical side and now wanting to get more into the marketing strategy side of things.

You can join the marketing association, they have courses you can take