My CDM AP Experience

I just need to breath for a while to take moment to mince my thoughts. Hmmm...yes I've been out for so long that I feel like I don't know how to write a blog anymore. Right now, I'm using my phone to write so forgive me if I have a few typos here and there. I promise to edit it later. Anyway, just need to share with you what's keeping me busy these days. Ofcourse you don't know that I have like 20 people on my team in the office. Heck you don't even know where I work now. Well, I really don't think that's important for now. What I really want to share with you now is my recent journey. I have recently enrolled myself to the Certified Digital Marketer Accelarated Program. Well I've already finished the 6 sessions including the youtube session but I have yet to get my official certification. Our final papers have yet to be graded according to the organizers but no rush naman. More important is the experience of attending the workshops. How do I find it? Well, I have indeed learned a lot, and I mean a lot from the sessions but at the end of it all, it's still a riddle at least for me on how best to implement plans. But at least we know how to plan! At this point I really feel that analysis paralysis is real! I have this huge amount of information that I already know how to organize and yet I just don't know how to start! I'm so glad our company for this and that I don't have to worry about getting my ROI or anything like most of my classmates. But the pressure to deliver is still the same. I'm glad that the expectations from the company is limited to that of just cascading the knowledge to the rest of the company or at least with marketing and sales. But I really feel frustrated or at the very least challanged with the potential of doing professional and well-thought of digital marketing programs. Hay, I'm not even sure what else we need to get things rolling. I think I just need a break from all these information and then come back with a refreshed mind. Problem is the more relax, the more I think of ways to do something! Damn!

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