Blog Author Mellissah Smith - Page 8

So, you have graduated. Congratulations! Now, you have to find a job – or do you?

As a professional services firm, customer experience is in part about relationships and how well a marketing consultant listens to the customer’s needs, deciphers it, and executes on providing a solution to a problem.

Competition is rife for all businesses especially due to the impact of COVID. With an increasing number of people unemployed, the marketing profession has especially been affected by lay-offs and changing working conditions.

As more and more people buy online it is becoming abundantly clear that performance marketing is one of the most successful ways e-commerce sites are winning new customers.

On January 7 this year, I opened by diary for the first time in 2020. It was a remarkable moment, one that was so full of promise. Like any entrepreneur on the rise (or at least I thought that was to be the case), I had written down the goals I had set out for the year ahead in my diary in December. 

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

Anais Nin

To have a job today, we are amongst the more fortunate. With devastating effects of COVID causing recession in many economies, the employment market has fallen to the lowest in many years. Some of the latest statistics on just how high unemployment will be in 2021 can send anyone into a negative space, so how do those who are employed, stay positive.