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Digital Marketing: What is a better skill to learn for budding entrepreneurs: Sales or Digital Marketing?
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John Doherty, Founder of Credo, Growth and SEO consultant answered:

Both. As an entrepreneur, you'll fill all sorts of roles so the more varied your background and skillset, the better.

I've always been a bit of an entrepreneur, but I have a very varied past - technical support specialist, web developer, inhouse SEO, SEO consultant, marketing consultant, head of marketing, head of growth. I also did a summer selling Cutco knives (that was an experience, let me tell you), and I've written software documentation, press releases, done press outreach, and more.

All of those skills come in use when building a business, as I am doing now.

So my best advice is to get the most varied experience you can, find what you are good at and understand the rest so that you can hire smart people who do it better than you.

Want to chat more? I have all the free time in the world.

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