? Competing online is not an easy task these-days but having a strong web development team to work with is more than half the battle!

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I have noticed that many of the job advertisements are asking for a slew of qualifications that are often not found together. Many are asking for 5+ years of digital marketing experience along with expert knowledge of HTML, PHP, Photoshop and project management. This is like looking for an expert plumber but asking that they also be a professional electrician and have experience as an architect.

Digital marketing as a career is less than a decade old and has only been taught in most higher education settings for half that time. It takes a large commitment to become an expert and certainly leaves little time to conquer a programming language or two along the way. The PetValu position has been posted on and off for at least a year now, I had a gentleman from a recruiting agency try very hard to coax me into an interview. I asked some questions, really more curious than anything else and I found out that the job entailed a lot of responsibility – expert digital marketing and people management skills but only paid a maximum of $85k, while this is likely in the 70th percentile or higher of remuneration for this job title, it is certainly much lower than would be needed to find someone with the skills and experience to handle the job.

Actually, SEO job availability in general has been up! This is good news for newer graduates looking to break into the job market.

I guess only time will help but I would love to see human resource departments get a better handle on how to hire for this type of position and with competition this fierce I would expect salaries to rise.

Content creation is on the rise and everyone seems to be finally realizing that in order to rank in the search engines these days you not only need optimized content but it actually has to be interesting to read for human eyes! Thankfully the search engines are figuring out how to read past computer algorithm regurgitated junk content.

The secret of digital marketing is starting to filter down from the mega corporations.  Medium and small business are realizing if they don’t have their content optimized and move their advertising budget to the online arena they will be left behind.  It will be an upward swing in the years to come as the importance of digital marketing continues to rise.