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Where to Learn Essential Skills For Today's Job Market.



The ability to cultivate & incorporate new habits in our lives begins with having the right mindset. New habits are formed by reading, spending time with different minded people or a new place, learning or upgrading a skill. Learning not only improves our lives professionally but also individually thus impacting out output.

Amongst many people all over the world setting the goal ~learn a new skill~ at the start of a new year or every new month is top on their planner. Getting better at a skill s one of the most rewarding feelings for any individual/business owner. Learning/improving a skill ranks you higher, you get paid better, is a chance for a job at a bigger company. What skill have you set out to learn or upgrade?

The current job market is looking for people skillful in; content & article writing, web & graphic design, photo & video editing, digital marketing. How about setting aside a few hours of your day to learn one of this skills. The skills are profitable as you can work as a freelancer or employee in a company. There are many online learning platforms both paid & free that you will discover; Fiverr, Skillshare, Google, Coursera, HubSpot.

Fiverr offers a great learning platform with different tutors & a variety of courses to choose from;

  • Graphic Design
  • Video & Photography
  • Business
  • Writing
  • Websites

There’s no monthly subscription, you get to pay for the course only, learn more.

All skills as mentioned above work simultaneously and are necessary for any business to succeed. Content writing is a component of digital marketing that involves creating copy written captions/graphic format for blogs, social media posts, for email & website. Digital marketing entails;

Social Media Management- managing multiple social media accounts, responding to comments & inquiries, schedule posts, perform analytics & reporting of weekly/monthly activities across the different platforms.

Search Engine Optimization-is when your content ranks higher on search results. Do your research on what content formats accompanied with good copy of well spread keywords will get your brand known.

Email Marketing-is a one-on-one marketing channel for businesses that have newsletters, coaching sessions, educational material, seminars as part of their service.  

Media Buying- running paid campaigns to achieve a specific target i.e. increase sales, increase site traffic, create brand awareness. You can use Google AdWords or individual Social Media ad channels.

Creating & Editing of video and photos-every Social platform requires a form of graphics either in photo/video format, quality always wins the day. Create & capture content that will always catch the eye, it’s the best way to achieve brand identity.

Don’t slack, start that course today & make sure you get to the very end. Your future self will be grateful for the decisions you make today.

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