How I Found The Right Direction Towards Success? | Digital Pratik

I realized in my college days itself

that I was not made for engineering

that's where I dropped off I only had

300 rupees in my bank account on my knee

no money no Direction no clue about what

to do in my life I realized that without

a degree

who will give me a job that's where I

thought chance and Nicola had when I was

younger to say one thing which has made

my life right now and it's going to make

even 10x times to move days

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hello everyone my name is Prateek since

rajma a name which a lot of people don't

know a name which you need my family and

friends people know why because the way

I have lived my life over the past eight

years have manifested a life where

people now have started calling me as

digital pratik yes that's my identity

that's something which I own I'm a

digital marketer digital marketing

consultant social media communicator and

a hardcore practitioner of all the

social media platforms which work in the

now I'm here standing as digital pratik

to share my journey with all of you guys

the way I started my journey was back in

the state of Gujarat city and the one

where my dad used to own a smaller

business of printing and he used to

print visiting cards he used to have

hard-earned money every single month

save the little bit of money every

single month and did all the best

possible thing which he could for my

education that's where I realized that

yes I have to study well I was a good

student that's where I took engineering

after scoring good but slowly and

steadily I realized in my college days

itself that I was not made for

engineering that's where I dropped off

but I had this thing that I have to make

money now because when you are dropped

out and when you are actually in a good

path you are thinking of how you can

survive in the state city or in your

life that's where I realized that

without a degree who will give me a job

a couple of my friends while I was

having a talk to survive myself and to

make money told me that back on those

days because call center was booming

they told me and asked me to give an

interview at one of the companies I've

worked in for an interview at e-tech

Gandhinagar and there were seven

interviewed rounds but you have to work

very formal formals were compulsory for

this kind of interviews so because I

didn't have money because I had never

had formals I borrowed it from one of my

friends and then I took this interview

rounds alright I cleared all these seven

rounds and that's where I took this

first ever job where I got this 9702

Pease job for the first ever time now

just to mention while I'm doing this

only had 300 rupees in my bank account

on my name no money

no Direction no clue about what to do in

my life why because I didn't have degree

I just had one thing in my mind that I

have to make money to survive and then

just move further and further because at

that point in time I saw one of the

videos of Jack Canfield on YouTube where

he mentioned something in one of the

webinars that when you don't have any

direction just imagine as if you are

driving a car imagine that is a

headlight and you are driving in the

night it will only show you 100 to 200

meters ahead of you but you still go

forward you move further and that's

where you just have faith in yourself

and you keep moving further and further

and further in your process that's the

exact thing which I do did and now I

realized that I have to score well so in

my call centre days I used to do well

scored well in my NPS in my sales number

and I went in two years I was a customer

service head during this journey because

I wanted to make more money because the

money which I was making as a customer

service head was also very very less I

wanted to make more that's what that was

my mindset like how to make money quick

and fast and more so I saw this banner

somewhere while I was internet surf a

viral surfing internet and I saw this

banner how to make $5,000 to $10,000

extra in 30 days and the hats were like

okay fine I have to click this button I

have to click this banner and I'll be

making money $5,000 and I'll be rich as

other people in 30 days I click that

banner

I had to invest $25 at that point in

time that's what I thought I didn't have

any money and just a call center a guy I

only have in my savings a couple of

3,000 rupees where I have to survive

every single month and that's where I

realized okay fine let me just borrow my

friends credit card pulled it up swiped

up and I entered that in the feeling

that just by doing affiliate marketing

and everything I will be making more and

more money but as you know if you are

into digital ocean if you are into this

digital marketing space for a little

while you know nothing happens over the

night so that's where I lost $25 because

I realized

if I want to do a Fiat marketing more

into that particular network marketing

company I have to be a part of a system

which will now charge me $19 additional

every single month as a recurring fee

which I didn't have I have to invest in

more products which I couldn't but now I

have to return this $25 again in the

next month itself to my friend whom I

here is my swipe card so at this point

in time when I have 3000 rupees a month

in savings all the time I used to take

two meals a day which is like 60 rupees

per meal that is like used to cost me

100 220 rupees a day so if you calculate

all my savings or all my money is going

into my food expense that's where I

thought let me just break that and save

a little bit more

that's where pani puri Kedavra that's

rupiah pani puri in one meal 20 rupees

okay 50 UPF cuts off and that's where

100 rupees hundred rupees I used to save

I just give it back to my friends

so that's where $25 can looks on the

world I can probably hoagie but only I

know I know how hard it was to give back

that money but this is where I

understood one thing I have to have

consistency hardwork in learning digital

marketing and applying the strategies

without even having money so because I

didn't have money I could apply a

certain strategies which are SEO now if

I have to apply SEO all I need to do is

invest in my time investing my learning

and then apply applying all the

strategies so I always used to do on

page SEO off page SEO then comes

affiliate marketing where I figured out

that okay fine there are websites like

Clickbank jvzoo and CJ dot-com where I

could go pick up a couple of products

build WordPress websites or

wordpress.com websites and figure out

slowly and steadily that yes I can do

blogging and blogging doesn't require

any money if you don't want to invest in

hosting and domain so I started my free

blogs on wordpress.com blog spot.com

and this is where I understood okay fine

even though I didn't have money I can

always learn and apply that's the key if

you don't have money don't worry money

is not the problem the problem is our

execution and individuals efforts so

keep just executing and be resourceful

with all the resources which you

once it is done now this is where I was

just surfing internet more and more I

saw this advertisement from one of the

Indian Digital Marketing Institute and

that's where I got fantasized that ok

fine in India as well Digital Marketing

Institute's are there because throughout

my these to four years while I was doing

call center jobs and learning internet

marketing online marketing digital

marketing by myself I used to come in

touch with like international coaches

foreigners who used to teach online

marketing but this Institute named D s

I'm back in those days

used to run offline courses online

courses workshops so I clicked their ad

had a talk and that's where I got to

know that their five month program was

approximately 60,000 rupees at that

point in time I took that course but as

I said I didn't have money so once again

I had to borrow money from my friends I

convinced the sales representative of

the assignment to give me some EMI

options and that's where one of the EMS

was close to 13 thousand rupees I

borrowed that money from my friends now

I paid that but in one month I was

rejected from that program why you know

because I didn't have money for the

second EMI now that's where I thought

chance and Nicola hey vapor was younger

to say I now started saving more money

as a digital marketing executive guy

because this is where now because I had

experience of a free ad marketing SEO

blogging in the side hustle I got my

first ever job as well of digital

marketing of seventeen thousand rupees

so now I was earning a little bit more

so I could save a little bit more so in

three months I could save enough and

then once again I enrolled at the S I am

the same digital marketing course and

this time it was me time this time it

was like I have to do it and I will do

it and I did it I did it so well I did

it so well as a practitioner that they

offered me a job of digital marketing

trainer just imagine a guy who has no

clue about digital marketing is being

rejected by a Digital Marketing

Institute because he is not able to pay

that EMI because he's not able to pay

the fee

he's being offered a digital marketing

trainer job

if I wouldn't have if I would have

stopped at that point in time when they

got like they cut me out of the

Institute I would have never got this

job the twisting point in my career of

digital marketing now I have to move out

of the state being a digital marketing

trainer job which I am getting now I

have to move out of the state which is

Gujarat I have to go to Delhi and I have

never been outside Gujarat this is the

first of a time I'm gonna fly in the

flight and to mention while I am going

to embark on this journey now in my bank

account just like those 300 rupees back

in those days now I only have 10,000

rupees my last 10,000 rupees

which I had and I have to go to Delhi

now this is the point in time I cannot

go back I just have to move keep moving

further further further without any

direction further further further

because I have to do this job this was

the golden opportunity in my life a

twisting point in my career

that's where after having those 10,000

rupees three thousand in fly 2500 for

this additional luggage I'm at Delhi

Airport now like I'm almost exhausted in

my budget the last 10,000 rupees which I

have I'm almost gone and in the morning

I have to find a room for myself because

I have to stay in Delhi when you are

only left with a couple of hundreds of

rupees in your bank account once again

this is the stage where you have to pay

thousands of rupees again that's what I

call a couple of friends nobody helped

me only I know how I figured out one of

my mentors who hired me for this job at

digital marketing institute as a digital

marketing trainer helped me

I borrowed thirty thousand rupees from

him and that's where I returned I

returned the money back every single

month from that point onwards for the

next three months now moving forward

while I'm at this job I realize I have

to do hard work I used to take five

batches I also take thousands of

professionals I used to like talk in

front of MacBooks camera for 10 long

hours 9:00 to 12:00 p.m. batch 12:30 to

4:30 four to seven five to seven five to

eight all these batches have taken and

why I am taking this I am doing the hard

work I'm not just doing Joe

while I'm going back to night I'm side

hustling all this digital pratik never

would have happened I have to work hard

after coming to my place at night so I

used to record back in those days in

2015/16 YouTube was booming Instagram

was just coming out as a video platform

so YouTube was there so I started

recording gratitude videos every single

day screen recording videos as well

digital marketing tips and tricks here

and there if you go to 2015 16 videos of

mine you'll see screen recording videos

on YouTube off like 2:00 a.m. 4:00 a.m.

so I vogue hard SuperDuper hard and

that's where slowly and steadily now I'm

getting a direction now I am getting a

direction of patience consistency hard

work and making a little bit more money

and more money as a freelancer as well

I'm starting getting job I'm doing this

digital marketing training job I got

promoted twice in this job in nine

months

I got awarded as the awesome trainer by

one of the batches I still remember the

batch 14th April 2016 batch the entire

batch took me to a bar we celebrated and

now I feel after 9 months I have

something on my own as well

still digital pratik is not there it was

all about I had a website called

protects each horas motto my real name

comm and that's where I was doing here

in their insider self doing good but I

thought let me do it myself now so I

left the job once again hustling hard in

the night and scored myself very well

and positioned myself now as digital

pratik so from July 2017 onwards I am

hardcore into all these things and

finally I left all the job on August

2018 since then and purely into digital

marketing as digital pratik a name who

people call me and respect me for a name

where people don't even know who

protects each Aurasma is and that's

where I feel proud about myself I feel

proud about having my own marketing

clients now whopping lakhs of rupees I

feel proud about the support unity of

people calling me and having this

opportunity and so grateful to talk in

front of this audience who is watching

me millions of people I

know where it is gonna go but if one

single person of listening to me has

there's difference in his life and has

this goal keoki fine if this guy who had

no clue who had no direction who had all

these drops who had all the struggles

who never had money is able to make this

much money now every single month and

standing at this Josh stocks platform

then I also can be at this platform

speak in front of millions of people and

can make a difference in life just

remember one thing

as I said in that webinar of Jack

Canfield if I wouldn't have heard that

if I was driving in the night and if I

wouldn't have faith in myself by going

forward and forward and forward

imagining that yes I am able to see 200

meters 200 meters of my life my process

my destination then you will never ever

reach the destination I just want to

tell you one thing one thing which has

made my life right now and it's gonna

make even 10x times more is every single

day I learned something new in my life

every single day I apply that something

new which I have learned in my life and

every single day I share that something

new which I have learned in my life and

applied in my life with other people I

have always believed that if I want to

empower myself I have to empower million

people over here millions of people over

here gazillion people over here that's

the only focus which I have give more

and I'm telling you you will get more

the more you give the more you get

blessed so if you have no direction

right now if you have no money right now

if you have no clue about what to do in

your life if you are not self-aware sit

relax and don't worry just keep moving

further because if I can do it you guys

can thank you