Top digital skills to learn in 2021: Make money online

 

In this modern age of technology, the importance of digital learning cannot be denied. Millions of people all over the world are earning on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis by providing their services online. One of the major benefits of online jobs and services is that it does not require a person to travel from one place to another and saves a lot of time and resources. You can provide your services and connect to the client from anywhere. You just need a reliable laptop or smartphone and a stable internet connection. Especially, in this pandemic situation, a lot of people who were running businesses physically, have shifted to the online mode. Moreover, the rate of unemployment has also increased due to major lockdowns. Those people who lost their jobs are looking for something that provides them earning. Besides that, people with jobs can also learn digital skills and provide services as their part-time job. This article is all about the skills which have a wide scope in 2021 and further coming years. Learning these skills can highly beneficial if you want to earn online.

• Virtual Assistant

Right now, this is one of the most demanding skills on different freelance marketplaces including Fiverr, UpWork, Guru, etc. Two tools that you need to master necessarily to become a virtual assistant are Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. Microsoft Powerpoint is a plus. Since there is a lot of competition for this skill, so you have to be perfect and fully trained. Don't preassume that typing and data entry are simple tasks and can be done easily. No, there are smart ways you need to learn that make you able to perform lengthy tasks in less time. YouTube is the best platform to learn it. Start taking tutorials and practice it side by side.

• Graphic Designing

Due to the positive increasing trend of entrepreneurship, new startups and ventures have started establishing themselves. Every new startup needs to have a brand identity so they require a graphic designer to make logos and visiting cards for them. This skill has really a vast scope right now and in the future as well. There are different tools for graphic designing including Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Vector, Canva, etc. The simplest of them is Canva and it is recommended to start learning on Canva and then to upgrade yourself on some other tool.

• Project Management

Project management is the technique to keep track of different project deliverables, their dependencies, sequence, time and cost estimation, etc. Many internationally reputed companies are hiring project managers remotely so that they can keep track of their project activities. You need to learn and master project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Podio, ProofHub, etc.

• Search Engine Optimization

  Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the technique to improve the ranking of the websites on the search engines. Using this technique, you can rank your website or pages among top searches so that you may attract more visitors.

With the increasing trend of online businesses, most startups have their own website. So those who have a website, definitely require an SEO expert. This skill is really in-demand and has a broad scope in the future.

• Video Editing

      Every business or venture needs means and ways to introduce and endorse themselves. Video ads are the most common way to advertise your products or services. So companies are in search of professional video makers who can convert their written ideas to motion graphics. This is also a highly demanding skill and has a bright future.

To summarize, learning new and trending skills is highly important especially for those who are struggling financially. You are not limited to these five skills only. There are many others. But I find these five with broad scope and a bright future. 

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Sequence Activities : Project Management

 

Project Scheduling is creating the lists of activities, deliverables, and milestones within a project. These activities and deliverables need to be in a certain format and sequence in order to correctly estimate the time and resources required to complete a project. 

Sequence Activities help us in identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities. The main advantage of this activity is that it defines the logical sequence of work to obtain the highest possible product within the scope of the project. The major techniques and tools which are used to apply this process include the Precedence Diagraming Method (PDM). Sequence activities are usually of four major types:

Start to Finish:

In this dependency, there is a definite association between the start of one activity and the end date of a successor activity.

Example: Consider a scenario where you have to conduct a cricket match. Before the start of actual play, a coin is tossed to decide which team is going to bat first.

Activity A: Tossing of a coin

Activity B: Start of the play

You cannot start the actual match before the toss. So when activity ‘A’ (toss) is finished then activity ‘B’ would start.

Start to Start:

There is a distinct connection between the starting of both the activities. However, the completion of both activities is independent.

Example: In Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), as the software team is gathering requirements from the client, the graphic designer or frontend developer starts developing wireframes and prototypes.

Activity A: Requirement gathering

Activity B: Development of wireframes and prototypes

Both the activities go side by side.

Finish to Start:

Finish-start dependency means an activity ‘B’ cannot be started before the previously started activity ‘A’ has ended.

Example: Consider the example of a metro bus service. In the beginning, the tracks and bridges are constructed. In order to test the bus service, the construction of tracks needs to be finished.

Activity A: Construction of tracks

Activity B: Testing of buses

Finish to Finish:

In this type of dependency, both the activities are ending at the same time however starting time of these activities can be different.

Example: As we know, unit testing is performed by the developer. During the unit test phase, if a bug is found, the developer fixes that bug and performs a test for it. This process is continued as long as the last bug is removed. As there is no bug, the process of testing is ultimately stopped.

Activity A: Bug identification

Activity B: Testing

 

Stakeholders involved in Uber/Careem services

Stakeholder is an entity that shows an interest in a business or company and directly or indirectly can influence that particular company. It goes other way true as well. A stakeholder might be the one who is influenced directly or directly by a company or business. Typical stakeholders are investors, employees, customers, suppliers, communities, governments, or trade associations. Stakeholders can be categorized in different ways. Following are some major categories of stakeholders:

·         Primary and Secondary Stakeholders:  Primary stakeholders are the one who are directly affected by the outcome of a project. That’s why they are the most concerned about the success of project. On the other hand, secondary stakeholders play their part in building and development of the project but their role and impact is comparatively limited. For example, in a goods manufacturing factory, the owner is the primary stakeholder and the labor is the secondary stakeholder.

·         Internal and External Stakeholders: Project manager and other staff are considered as internal stakeholders because they are directly involved in developing the project. They have authority to manage the project by handling responsibility of work performance. External stakeholders include vendors, suppliers, competitors etc.

·          Direct and Indirect Stakeholders: Direct stakeholders are the one who are influenced by day to day activities. This might includes the staff or labor force you have applied for the project. Indirect stakeholders are the one who are interested only in final product i-e end users and customers.

                               

                                                Now we have our pre-requirements done, we can easily dive into our main task which is to elaborate the stakeholders of a ride booking application. Following is the list of possible stakeholders with brief description:

 

1.     Project Team: The team which has planned and implemented whole business idea is one of the main stakeholders. This includes the manager, staff, and captains.

2.      Competitors: Both Uber and Careem are business competitors and get influenced directly by each other. For example, if Uber has relatively low fares, people who use Careem normally, would have switched to uber. So change in operating activity of one entity is directly affecting the other.

3.      End User: The end user or customer is one of the important stakeholders as the whole idea and its success relies upon user experience. If the user is not satisfied by the services, the project might have not progressed.

4.      Software Companies: Software development companies and digital business ideas go hands-in hands. User’s satisfaction is directly depends upon interface of the application. If user is unhappy about functionalities of application, he may quit using the services.

5.     Advertising Agencies: Advertisement and marketing are necessary for the brand recognition. For this purpose, you have to purchase services from advertisement agencies. They put your offer with brand name in a presentable way and display it to the targeting audience through different medium. Brand’s success is very much dependent on successful marketing.

6.     Advertising Channels: For advertisement, a medium is required. This may include social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube Gmail etc. Careem also used billboards to display their offers.

7.     Conventional Drivers: Since the success of online ride booking, there is a significant decline in booking vehicles through conventional method. As a result, those drivers whose vehicles are not registered to Uber or Careem have suffered a lot.

8.      Partner Brands: Recently, Careem has introduced food delivery service. Many food brands have registered their food delivery through Careem. If those brands are putting attractive offers, then their customers are using Careem services to get their food delivered. In this way, both the entities are directly affecting each other.

              Uber Buying Careem:-

           Social and environmental factors play an important part in establishment of a brand in a particular geographical region. In the recent past, Careem had to sell a big portion of their shares to Uber just because they ignored these factors. What actually happened was that Careem displayed a controversial advertisement which was against the custom and norms of the society. As a result, they had to suffer a huge loss in their well-established business.

                          To summarize, stakeholders play a vital role among them and have great impact. Therefore, it is necessary to identify and understand all the possible stakeholders and make the strategies and policies accordingly.