Learn A New Skill In 2009
December 17, 2008 by Reba
Filed under Blog, Goal Setting, Hot Topics
This is Day 10 of 10 of my tips to help you increase your online business profits in 2009. Yes, this is the LAST tip.
By making just a few changes in the ways you handle a few little things each day, you can grow your business and increase your profits substantially.
Stay tuned over the next ten days and I will share ten important ideas that can help you increase your business and grow your profits in 2009.
Day 10 -
LEARN A NEW SKILL IN 2009
By learning a new ‘in demand’ skill it will most certainly help you grow your business and increase your profits in the coming months and years. Personally, I think copywriting is the best skill you could possibly learn and it’s worth the monetary investment to take a class or course. The ability to write effective sales copy, not only helps you write your own sales letters to promote your own products and affiliate promotions, but you can also charge a high price for your sales copywriting services.
If copywriting just isn’t for you or is too time consuming to pursue, there are many other skills you can learn. Watch internet marketing forums or sites like e-Lance to see what skills you can learn to enhance your business in 2009. Here’s a short list:
- Web design
- Article writing
- Graphic design
- SEO Techniques
- LSI Techniques
- Time Management skills
- .PHP, MySQL, HTML, Java, Flash, Ruby on Rails, or any of these related skills are highly sought after and pay very well
- How to create your own product
- How to land a joint venture (JV)
- Basically, anything creative that you can come up with!
Whether you learn the new skill to use solely for your own business or so you can sell your services — you will profit highly from acquiring one of these skills. If you learn the skill to use for yourself, you will save money on outsourcing adding straight to your bottom line. If you learn the skill in order to sell your services you will also (obviously) profit greatly from that route as well.
Take article writing for example. If you learn how to do this simple skill, you can profit in at least 3 ways:
- Writing articles for yourself to promote your products/services, etc.
- Saving money by not having to outsource
- Selling your article writing services for even more profit
You will leave money on the table if you don’t learn a new skill this year. Think about it. There are so many little nooks and crannies that can be squeezed to add profits and long term income streams to your business. Your efforts can really add up and make a significant difference in the success of your business.
CONCLUSION
It is clear that there are a lot of things we can do to grow our business and increase our profits, no matter how successful or unsuccessful we have been in the past. The past is done and gone. What matters is the present, which is what shapes the future. The future is important because it determines where we will be in a year, two years, five and ten years.
Will you be happy? Healthy? Wealthy? It’s really all up to you.
Implementing even ONE of the tips I’ve outlined over the last ten days will help you grow your business and increase your profits during 2009 and beyond. Taking action is always the most important factor in the end, no matter how great of an idea or plan you have in mind.
I wish you all the best of success!
Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!
P.S. Be sure to check out Gary Ryan Blair’s (you know, The Goals Guy) new program called “Got Resolutions?“. “Got Resolutions?” is a personal leadership program that provides a step-by-step system for setting and achieving your New Year’s resolutions. If you want to implement one of the strategies in my tips but know you have trouble staying focused and on target with your goals, this program might be just the thing you need to make your goals a reality in 2009. Just click the link to see what I mean.
Ciao!
Reba
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It is not an easy task to learn all that in a night or in a few days. I read a lot of blogs daily just to know that what other bloggers have discovered and what they are doing. I think blogs are not less than blessings because we always able to grab a lot of knowledge even without paying a dime. Regarding changes in 2009, I think we are going to enter in very fast and modern era which can change our life within a few days. We should know all those tasks.
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Your short list can be a curriculum for full 2-3 years for me and I am seriously planning to learn all that. I know it will take time but I’ll take the time to learn all that. If we are going to join internet marketing then we can’t survive without that.
I think you’ve basically narrowed down the skills necessary to succeed in internet marketing. While you can easily outsource some of it later after you’ve had some success its important to be a somewhat jack-of-all-trades in the beginning.
Certainly an awesome list. it has most of the stuff I want to learn this year too. mainly it would be php and SEO techniques. Something else not in the list I would like to learn is AJAX. Anyway all the best. Cheers
To my mind such skills should be ossessed by quality internet marketing guy. If not then he should learn and learn it fast – else one day no organisation hire him
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Learning is always a good thing. Especially learning new skills are very much important. The article was really good. Keep it up. hope to see more posts from you guys.
As I said earlier this can be very long learning, I think we can prioritize all those tasks according to our needs. If someone would be involved in SEO, SEO skills can be developed first. Then we can move on to other subjects.
I was reading your advices from the beginning yet i was waiting for you to finish the whole series in order to give my comment. Quite frankly your advices are very productive and practical in order to develop you online business. Thanks a lot for sharing with us.
As per your instruction, I am just starting off one of my sites myself to design and I know it is going to be very outstanding experience. I was always excited to start something similar and you motivate me very well.
I started it many months ago and now I am expert at it. It is just like a goodness inside because I can remove all the graphical errors without any problem.
I am expert at it. It is just like a goodness inside because I can remove all the graphical errors without any problem.
It has always been my habit to learn a new skill every year. And boy has it thought me so many things. The first few years you wouldn’t feel much. Keep it going for another few years and when you reflect back on the things you have learned, then you would see the difference.
Learning something new has always amazed me. It really is a great thing to learn something and it need not only be in the new year. Whenever you get the chance you should learn.
It amazes me how much their is to learn! I plan to invest in learning to write better copy – if i can find the time. Thanks for your advice, it has been very helpful. Continually learning new skills can only be a good thing.
i love learing new things … it is very good to expand your knowledge as much as you possibly can.
Great post, everyone should learn a new skill – maybe even every 6 months! Social media is definitely a skill and function that would be beneficial to learn – for everyone, not just businesses. So many people are focusing on social media it’s scary, and it’s a great way to get out there and learn TONS of information on the different networks, bookmarking sites, etc. It doesn’t (and shouldn’t) stop with just Facebook and Twitter, and social media will continue to boom for the next few years.
i love learing new things … it is very good to expand your knowledge as much as you possibly can.
First , thank you ! It helped me . I always enjoy reading such posts which provides knowledge
i love learing new things … it is very good to expand your knowledge as much as you possibly can.
The list of things given in the article are not so easy to learn but the article is a very useful one and by following the information provided the business will definitely be improved a lot.
This is really cool much different from the other blog articles that I have read this article is very unique in content. Though others are more specific I would likely vote on this one for its uniqueness.
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So far by reading this post. I have enhanced my SEO skills. Thanks for the post!
You need all the new skills you can acquire to be a success on the internet today.
Learning new internet skills has certainly been rewarding for me. Initially, mastering the various online marketing strategies was daunting but with perserverance I made it through the learninng curve. As a result, I’m now a full time internet marketer. By the way, I’m also a ‘boomer!
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For anyone wanting to be in the IM business for long term success, you’ll want to stay up to date on the changes Google makes. Trial and erro is the best way to find out what works and what doesn’t. I am an Article Rewriter for an SEO company.
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thanks for this post. i was in london last year and was wonderful, i hope to repeat it this year.