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📅 Week 9 · Tuesday
day-50
What is Clarigital?.
Today you'll learn: what Clarigital is and why businesses pay for it — explained so clearly you could teach it to your parents by tonight.
⏱ ~20 mins
📖 Read + Quiz + Submit
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Week
Week 9 of 8
Day
50 of 56
Program
2-Month Program
📖 Read This First — About 8 Minutes
The practitioner who stops learning today will be outcompeted by the platform update that launches tomorrow.
Digital marketing is one of the fastest-changing professional fields in existence. Google's algorithm updates its core signals multiple times per year. Meta's advertising platform evolves quarterly. New AI tools, new tracking regulations, new social platforms, and new consumer behaviour patterns continuously reshape the effectiveness of existing practices. A practitioner who learned digital marketing 2 years ago and hasn't continued learning is already behind in several significant ways.
The expert learning system is not about consuming every piece of content available — that leads to information overwhelm and shallow pattern recognition. It's about a curated, systematic approach to staying current in your specific specialisation areas while maintaining awareness of the broader landscape. Depth in your specialisation + breadth awareness of adjacent areas = expert positioning.
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Professional development is like swimming in a moving river. Standing still means being swept backward relative to the current. Swimming against the current means exhausting yourself on too many things. The expert swims with the current in their specialisation — following the flow of the field's development — while maintaining awareness of the riverbanks (adjacent areas). Swim with precision, not desperation.
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Curated Information Sources
Platform official blogs (Google Ads blog, Meta Business blog) for authoritative updates. Industry newsletters (Search Engine Journal, Marketing Brew). Peer community (digital marketing Slack groups, LinkedIn connections). Weekly: 30 minutes.
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Learning by Doing
The most effective learning is the experiment you run yourself. A hypothesis tested on your own accounts produces more durable knowledge than a blog post read passively. Maintain a personal test account for experiments.
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Teaching as Learning
Writing a case study about what you did forces you to understand why it worked. Teaching a concept to a junior forces you to know it deeply. LinkedIn posts about your expertise reveal gaps in your understanding.
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The T-Shaped Practitioner
Deep expertise in one specialisation (the vertical bar of the T) + broad awareness across all digital marketing disciplines (the horizontal bar). This combination is what most senior practitioners and CMOs aim for.
🔮 The 70-20-10 learning model: 70% of professional learning comes from real work experience (running campaigns, solving real problems). 20% comes from social learning (discussions with peers, mentors, communities). 10% comes from formal training (courses, certifications). Most practitioners over-index on the 10% (courses) and under-invest in the 70% (actual work experience) and 20% (community). The Clarigital 2ME programme is an investment in the 70% — learning by doing, not learning about doing.
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Read the reference page below before taking the quiz.
What distinguishes an expert learning system from passive content consumption?
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A: Experts read more articles than beginners
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B: A curated, systematic approach focused on depth in a specialisation plus breadth awareness - prioritising active experimentation and application over passive consumption
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C: Experts only read official platform documentation
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D: Expert learning requires a paid subscription to premium newsletters
OK Expert learning: curated sources + active experimentation + teaching. Passive consumption of every piece of content available produces information overwhelm and shallow knowledge. Active application (running the experiment, writing the case study) produces durable expertise.
NO Expert learning = curated + active + applied. Not passive consumption of everything available. Depth through experimentation and application, breadth through curated sources, not through reading everything.
Question 2 of 5
Why is teaching (writing case studies, publishing LinkedIn posts) an effective learning method for practitioners?
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A: Teaching generates more social media followers
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B: Explaining a concept forces deeper understanding - gaps in knowledge become apparent when you try to articulate something clearly to someone else
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C: Teaching reduces the time available for other learning
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D: Teaching is required for senior professional certifications
OK Explaining forces understanding. You can read an article about attribution modelling and think you understand it. When you try to write a LinkedIn post explaining it clearly to someone else, the gaps become obvious. Teaching is the highest-fidelity test of whether you actually understand something.
NO Teaching forces deep understanding. Gaps become visible when you try to explain something clearly. Writing case studies and LinkedIn posts about your expertise tests and deepens your knowledge simultaneously.
Question 3 of 5
What is the '70-20-10' learning model and what does it imply about how professionals should allocate their learning time?
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A: 70% formal courses, 20% books, 10% practice
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B: 70% from real work experience, 20% from social learning (peers, mentors, community), 10% from formal training - implying most learning should come from actually doing work, not from courses
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C: 70% digital channels, 20% traditional, 10% emerging
OK 70% work experience + 20% social learning + 10% formal training. Most practitioners over-invest in the 10% (courses) while under-investing in the 70% (real campaign ownership) and 20% (community and mentorship). The Clarigital 2ME programme is structured around the 70% - learning by actually doing.
NO 70% real work, 20% social learning, 10% formal training. Over-indexing on courses (10%) while neglecting real experience (70%) produces practitioners who know about things but can't do them.
Question 4 of 5
What is a 'T-shaped practitioner' and why is this the target career profile for senior digital marketers?
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A: A practitioner who has worked for two companies (shaped like two vertical bars)
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B: Deep expertise in one specialisation (the vertical bar) + broad awareness of all digital marketing disciplines (the horizontal bar)
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C: A practitioner who splits time equally between strategy and execution
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D: A practitioner who manages both agency and brand accounts simultaneously
OK T-shaped: deep in one area (performance marketing, SEO, analytics) + broadly aware of all areas (enough to coordinate across disciplines, evaluate proposals, and understand how specialisations interact). This combination is what CMOs are looking for: a specialist who can also think at system level.
NO T-shaped: deep specialisation (vertical bar) + broad awareness (horizontal bar). Deep enough to do expert work in your specialisation, broad enough to coordinate across disciplines and think at system level.
Question 5 of 5
What is the most important source of professional learning according to the 70-20-10 model?
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A: Formal courses and certifications
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B: Real work experience - running actual campaigns, solving real problems, and documenting what works
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C: Industry conferences and events
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D: Reading industry blogs and newsletters
OK Real work experience (70%) is the dominant learning source. You learn more by running a Google Ads campaign for a year and diagnosing what went wrong than by completing 10 Google Ads certifications. The certification validates; the experience creates. Maximising ownership and responsibility in your roles maximises learning.
NO Real work experience (70%) is the primary learning source. Campaign ownership, problem-solving, and results documentation produce more durable knowledge than any formal training. Maximise ownership and responsibility to maximise learning rate.
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🎉 Day 50 — done!
Day 51 opens Wednesday.
📝 Today's Task
Someone in your family runs a small business. In 3–4 sentences, explain Clarigital to them like you're actually WhatsApp-ing them right now. Your own words — not copied from the page.
Start like this: "So there's this platform I was reading about — it's basically for businesses that get too many WhatsApp messages to handle manually. It lets them..."
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Week 9 · Coming Tomorrow
Day 51 — Month 2 Review - Advanced Channels IntegrationOpens Wednesday on your assigned date.