Trade Skills For More Skills

Summary

• I discovered that talking to experts is the quickest way to learn new things because they've already organized the information for you.
• When I wanted to learn Facebook ads, I sought out experts and was willing to pay them for one-on-one help.
• As I improved my skills, I found I could trade my skills for others, especially in areas I wasn't as confident in.
• Early on, I had to learn how to sell since it was essential for my business.
• Once I became good at sales, I could teach others and learn different skills in exchange.
• Over time, I traded skills with other business owners, enhancing my abilities.
• Initially, sometimes you just need to pay people to gain their knowledge.

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How To Take Action

I would suggest implementing the idea of learning from experts. It’s the fastest way to gain new knowledge since they've organized the information already. If you want to learn a new skill like Facebook ads, find someone who excels at it. You don’t always have to pay a huge amount. Sometimes, offering a small fee for their time or buying them coffee for a chat can go a long way.

A good way of doing this is by seeking out local networking events or online forums where these experts hang out. Be genuinely interested and build relationships. This way, you might even find opportunities for skill exchanges, which can be low-cost but high-value learning experiences.

Start applying this by identifying the one skill you most need to learn right now. Reach out to someone who is doing it well and propose a trade. Maybe you’re good at writing and they need help crafting emails. That could be your ticket to learning from them.

Also, focus on growing foundational skills like sales. Once you get good at it, you can trade your sales expertise with others who can offer new skills you want to learn. This approach saves money and builds a strong network, leading to personal and business growth. Seek out these barter opportunities—they can be gold for small business owners and entrepreneurs.

Full Transcript

I learned from my Consulting days that the fastest way to learn stuff was to talk to experts because experts have already Consolidated the information if I want to learn how to run Facebook ads then I'm going to try and find anybody who knows how to run Facebook ads and pay them whatever I can to get one-on-one tutoring from them this is where it gets more valuable because the the better you get at skills the more you can barter for other skills and so in the very early days I learned how to sell because that was what I had to learn how to do and then once I learned how to sell then I could go to any other business owner who wasn't as good at sales and say I'll show you all the stuff I know in sales if you can show me how you do this product stuff housing style content and then once I had those skills then I could have more and better things that I could barter with other people for but in the beginning sometimes you just have to give people money