Warc, 27 August 2013
LAGOS: Nigeria represents a "cauldron of
opportunities" for businesses when it comes to digital marketing,
according to a leading marketing executive.
Abasiama Idaresit, founder of Wild Fusion, a digital
marketing agency, told How We Made It In Africa there were prospects across all
sectors, "from the service industry to agriculture to banking to consumer
goods".
His comments were echoed by Edirin Abamwa, chief executive
of WSI West Africa, a digital consulting firm, who said, in remarks reported by
the Nigerian Guardian, that "digital media offers incredible revenue
potential". He felt, however, that many local businesses had not yet fully
realised this, and added that even those which were aware often felt lost about
how best to proceed.
The sector is also proving strong enough to attract back
Nigerians who had moved aboard. Remi Dada, a digital marketing professional at
Google Nigeria, told the website movebacktonigeria.com: "It is a very
exciting time to be in Nigeria because our internet revolution is coming very
late."
He also pointed to "a lot of monotony in the Nigerian
marketing space", adding that he hoped to introduce "crazy out-of-the
box internet solutions that would excite our Nigerian brands".
The scale of the opportunities claimed by Idaresit are
demonstrated in the meteoric growth of his own company. Wild Fusion has grown
from nothing to a $1m business in a few years and is on course to double that
in 2013.
It has also expanded beyond Nigeria, where its client list
includes Pepsi and Unilever, to include Ghana and Kenya.
In addition, the company is building proprietary technology,
which will give small businesses a simple interface for deploying online
advertising. This, said Idaresit, would "enable Africa to compete in the
global marketing technology space".
His advice to small businesses includes having a simple,
mobile-friendly website and a social media presence, before moving on to
experiment with different types of advertising.
Data sourced from How We Made It In Africa, Huffington Post,
Move Back to Nigeria.com, The Nigerian Guardian; additional content by Warc
staff
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