Are you having a problem making money online as a Nigerian?

If your answer is yes, then this article is for you. We will talk extensively about how to make money online in Nigeria.

If you have zero interest in making money online, then you can close this online guide. There is no need to waste each other time 

Making money online as a digital marketer is neither simple nor hard. It is hard if you do not know the right strategies to use. It is simple when you have the right strategies and you use them.

Along with the strategies, you need to know the fundamentals of marketing. Digital marketing is just a branch of marketing. It is marketing through digital channels. If you have great fundamentals about marketing, you will easily make money from digital marketing.

None of the ways to make money online in this post will work if you do have strong fundamentals in marketing.

One key fundamental in digital marketing is to know your customer. There are seven billion people in the world, definitely, some people need your product or service more than others. 

There might also be some people who do not need your products. The first step in getting your digital marketing right is to have a clear and perfect understanding of people who need your product or service.

In marketing terms, It is called creating your customer avatar. 

You must know the set of people who need your product.  There are other details about them that you must know. What is their age range? What social media channel do they use? What type of similar product do they use? 

The answer to questions forms the basis of a customer avatar.

When we take on any marketing gig, we never do anything until we have a well-detailed customer avatar. It is always our first step.  The success of digital marketing depends on having a well detailed and descriptive customer avatar.

Now that you have a well-defined customer avatar, let me show you ways to money online from digital marketing.

Make money as Content Writer in Nigeria.

You must have heard of content marketing right? Well, someone needs to write the content for content marketing. That person could be you. You can earn money online as a content writer

Without any content, It is pretty clear there isn’t going to be any content marketing to engage in. And content marketing is one of the major areas in digital marketing.

Content writing is creating great articles to educate prospects about a product or service. Content writing aims to persuade prospects in buying a product. It also has to be entertaining too.

The attention span of a typical online prospect is short. If your content is not entertaining, the chances you will lose the prospect are higher.

Content writing involves researching about the product or services you seek to promote, planning how to structure the advantages of the product, then finally coming up with engaging content.

The content can be in the form of email copy, landing pages copy, blog post, business proposals, social media posts, press releases. In general terms, any medium that uses written words.

To make good money from content writing, the type that charges well, you need to have some skills.

• Storytelling skills 

 It is not only kids that love stories. We all do. Our brain is powerless against powerful stories.

To get your prospects to purchase what you’re selling. Your storytelling skill can hook them to the buy button. 

The ability to tell powerful stories with written words is a vital skill for a content writer that wants to earn money online.

• Research skills 

Apart from the fact that your content must be entertaining, your content must add value to your prospect. It must help them solve problems or answer a problem. 

To achieve this, you need to research your targeted prospect and understand their pain point. Then, you can research how the product or service seeks to help them.

How the product or service you are promoting will help them achieve their goals. The other benefits the product has, should be listed and well explained.

This is only possible if you have great research skills.

There are several skills needed, for example, Search engine optimization skills, writing skills etc.

If you have got those skills. Sign up on Fiverr or Upwork. There are thousands of people who need your skill.

Go ahead and make money online as a content writer even if you reside in Nigeria. You will get clients anywhere in the world from Fiverr or Upwork.

Make money as Affiliate Marketer in Nigeria.

Affiliate marketing is one of the oldest forms of marketing. It has been around even before the advent of the Internet.

The amount of money to be made from affiliate marketing is limitless. The amount of money you can make from affiliate marketing is not capped. Majorly because you are not limited to a single product or to sell for a single individual.

The way affiliate marketing works is really simple. You sell my product or services for me, I pay you some commission on every single product sold

In the digital space, It is not limited to selling products alone. You can get paid from everyone that sign-up for a service. You can get paid for everyone that successfully fills up a form. Affiliate marketing is one of the great ways to make money online even as a Nigerian.

You might ask, how do I get started?

There are several ways to get started on affiliate marketing, but one way we often recommend at Rockfort Digital is to build your own audience. Build your audience and be seen as an authority in your niche.

The first step is to find a particular area you have a great amount of knowledge about. It could be soccer, fashion or any niche you know very well. The reason being, you have to be seen as an authority. People must trust your judgement in the particular niche.

When you recommend a product or service, It should not be perceived like you are selling. The prospect should be convinced that the product will help them. It will achieve all that you said the product will achieve. All these are only possible if you are seen as an authority.

To be seen as an authority, you need to have your own digital space. It could a website, blog or email list. You need a medium to communicate your level of expertise to your prospect.

We do not recommend building your audience on social media alone. You can be bounced off social media at any time without any prior warning. We have had clients who lost a considerable amount of followers on Instagram.

You should have your blog. You can never be bounced off your blog. Social media should just complement your blog. The strategy is to convert your social media followers to your ardent blog visitors.

After the creation of your blog, you should put out as enough content as much as you can. The more content – videos, written articles etc, the better the chance of being noticed.  

Now that you have got your website or blog, your content, the next thing is to drive traffic to your blog. Social media – Twitter, Facebook, Linkedln all act as avenues to post your links that direct back to your blog.

You can take it a step higher, run Google ads or Facebook ads to boost the visibility of your content.

Once you have got some considerable traffic, start promoting other people goods and services. Ensure you do it organically. Do not slam various ads in front of your readers. You risk losing them. The right way is to put your affiliate links in your blog post, caption in your pictures and videos.

Doing affiliate marketing well can make your financial dreams come through. You can make money.

If you are looking to start your niche in the sports industry, you can be a bet9ja affiliate marketer. Also, Jumia have a program for affiliate marketers

Make money as a digital marketer in Nigeria.

Have you got skills in digital marketing?  

I don’t know what your answer is, but if you are sure you have some skill in digital marketing, you should be making money online.

Learning how to profitable sell online is one of the most profitable skills on this planet.

As long as products and services are sold online, there will always be a need for digital marketers.

The entrepreneurs who created the products and services need digital marketers who know run digital ads. And, that’s is where you come in as a digital marketer.

There are several entrepreneurs who do not have the slightest of idea how to run digital ads. Some entrepreneurs do but have no idea how to profitable run digital ads.

There are several areas in digital marketing you can focus on. You may specialize as a Facebook marketing expert. Being a Facebook expert means you can lead Facebook users from Facebook to your client landing page and ultimately make them buy the product.

An average Facebook marketer can redirect people from Facebook to a landing page, but converting the user to the customer can be challenging.

The lack of good conversion of the ads most often stem from not picking the right audience. As a good digital marketer, you understand that and you sell that expertise to the entrepreneur.

You may also specialize in Google ads.