Why a Digital Farmer Took up the Udacity Digital Marketing NanoDegree.
Most of us have hobbies those that you know and those that you don’t know. How valuable these hobbies are to us depends on how they make us feel after engaging in them.
Well for me my most exciting hobbies are playing golf and farming… Yes Farming, I enjoy the peace of mind I get from going to the farm and getting the fresh air and enjoying nature. Seeing seeds germinate and growing into plants and then harvested…
This is just the perfect hobby. When I am called to give inspirational talks, I introduce myself as a farmer and most people don’t believe it but it’s true.
Hobbies
I enjoyed this hobby without any interruption until when I met two of my colleagues who decided to positively interrupt my hobby by making it even more exciting. We started looking at how we can help other farmers to get better results from their farms and not only in the actual farming but by helping the farmers create market profiles and getting market linkage.
I was so sure this was going to be the easiest and most adventurous thing in my life, until I realized I could only visit a few farmers every day. The reality dawned on me that there must be another way to reach out to farmers. I had done some marketing having been a founder member of a marketing and advertising agency. I mean working with computers and farming are two things I can do perfectly well but how do you use that knowledge to get to attention of your users?
‘The Udacity Call’
Then there came a very interesting comment during our weekly company Slack calls: “Noah have you seen the DMND course from Udacity?” I had just watched the Udacity’s Intersect 2017 conference and so when they mentioned it I was super excited and ready to start.
Putting in mind I am not very young with some good energetic young boys in the house as well a very busy daily schedule. But I tell you I could not resist joining the DMND course. Its uniqueness which is highlighted from the very experienced industry-trained instructors to the course content to the flexibility it gives you and not to mention the World-Class well designed Online Classroom which by the way is available on mobile platforms as well and you it allows you to download and it updates where you have reached once you are back online. All these plus first hand expert content partners represent the entire digital marketing ecosystem.
Real-world projects
With all these digital marketing tools at my disposal, together with the Real-world Projects for sure this course is transforming a digital farmer into a Digital Marketing professional who will have a 360-degree understanding of the digital marketing field. This together with different components of Big Data is going to help me not only create the solutions farmers need to succeed but it also make me and my team @Farm.ink to communicate the same effectively.What More!!!
With a personalized mentor, skilled instructors and experts partners in a world-class state of the art online classroom, for sure I am proud to say #IamDMND
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