As a Digital Marketer follow these things in the lockdown period
April 10, 2020
It’s been almost a month that coronavirus has spread to most of the countries. This is one of the most dangerous viruses in history which has infected in the whole world, this is not country-specific, this has spread all over the world.
In this critical time, the government of most of the countries has ordered Lockdown in their countries in order to save the people from getting infected from the global coronavirus.
As there is Lockdown in all the major countries, businesses are facing huge losses in their field, consumers are facing difficulties in getting the essential goods and other facilities.
But, we are all together in this pandemic situation. It has become more important to save the lives of the people living in the world, saving businesses and economy comes at the later stage. If we starting getting panic and take stress about our loss in the business, it won’t work, so instead invest n doing something positive for yourself, because we are in this together. We will win soon!
If we take this Lockdown period in a positive way, we can learn many new things that can empower not only empower ourselves but our businesses too!
Let’s see what people in the field of Website Development and Digital Marketing can do in this Lockdown period. I am listing below a few things developers and marketers can invest in in order to improve themselves.
1. Be Grateful:
You are a website designer, You are a website developer or you are a Digital Marketer, whatever you are among all these, be grateful for it. Why?
Because as a website designer/ developer and digital marketer, you have the ease to work from home as compared with others. Imagine the people of construction, on-field industry or the people whose work demands them to be physically available. These people can’t work from home as you can, we can still run our business all the way from our home and earn our living. So be grateful and happy for your profession. This is the first step, as it can make you feel good about yourself and encourage you to work efficiently with the comfort of your home.
2.Learn new skills:
With the number of people getting infected, the lockdown period can be extended by the government of your country. As it is difficult to stop the virus and cure people without a vaccine, we only have the option to Stay at Home. Apart from doing your work, what else you can do?
As you are working from home, the time which got utilized in traveling is now saved. Your daily routine is changed as you are working from home, basically, you have more time in your hand which usually got wasted in traveling, getting ready, etc. Now that you have free time, instead of wasting it by watching entertainment videos or do any other stuff which consumes your time and does not improve anything in your life, start learning new skills.
There are many online education portals which have thousand of learning video content, to be named, you can learn new skills or update your skills from Udemy, Skillshare, Linked-in Learning, etc.
Start being Proactive, Join a Course and empower yourself.
3. Help your Clients in need:
Your client or any other person you know who runs a business/ company is in stress due to the lockdown. Businesses like restaurants, food ventures, Garage, Service-related businesses are facing huge losses in this pandemic as the government has ordered to shut down and stay at home. Being a Website designer & developer or a Digital Marketer, you have the right powers to help your clients and other business owners. Help them by providing your services at a discounted price, suggest to them what to do in this lockdown period which can help their business to grow after this lockdown is lifted. Those people will trust you if you help them in this huge crisis and this can lead to more business ending up in your hand as they will give your reference to their known person. Hence, help them grow, they will help you too.
4. Increase your Network on Social Media:
As we already know, people are spending their time on social media in this lockdown period. Be it Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok or Youtube, people are active on all the major social media platforms. This is a great time to connect with people over social media and grow your business or build your own brand on these platforms. Try to connect with people by posting informative content in the ways of images, videos or podcasts. The more you share information with the people, the more the people trust you for investing their money in your services or business products. This is an era of Content, as they say, Content is the King, so you need to learn new things, read books, watch information videos of your mentors who are professional in their field. This way you can make your own content in your own way, and if you are good at communication, people will surely get attracted to your business.