Pakistan first Google™ Adwords Certified Partner

Mudassar Saeed Khan, a young online marketing professional from Islamabad, has become Google’s first certified advertising partner in Pakistan – a prestigious international status in the field of global internet marketing. Earlier, there was no individual or company in Pakistan with this status. The Google™ Adwords Certified Partner status is awarded by Google™ (world’s number one search engine) to an individual or company which has individually passed a minimum of two
Google certification exams or have an employee who has passed this exam illustrating practical expertise in managing accounts. In addition to this, individual or company must have managed at least a US $10,000 advertising spend over 90 days period.

This specialized status gives an individual or company international recognition and demonstrates in-depth knowledge and command over using Google’s advertising platform “Adwords”. By now, there was no Google Adwords Certified Partner in Pakistan. In October last year 28 years old Mudassar, became individually qualified by passing google certification exams. Today he has become Pakistan’s first and only Google Adwords certified partner in the country. In India there are 21 certified partners whereas there are hundreds of them globally. Now as Pakistan has also got one Google certified advertising partner, it will help the local IT industry in the field of Internet Marketing. This can foster local online advertising spending as well as foreign exchange through winning international projects in the field of internet advertising.
Analysts are terming this development as a major breakthrough in Pakistan’s Internet Marketing industry. This can further increase advertising spending on Internet particularly on search engines and social networks. “This can bring some good international projects as well to the country in addition to local business in the field of online marketing.